The Stockton Unified Board of Education has rectified any illegal actions trustees made when they approved a “resignation’ agreement several months ago with former District Superintendent John Ramirez Jr., according to the San Joaquin County Office of Education.
“We are glad this matter is resolved,” the district said in a statement to Stocktonia Friday afternoon.
However, the county wasn’t entirely satisfied with how trustees handled the issue.
Trustees originally approved Ramirez’s resignation agreement during closed session at a special meeting in June, but put the item back on the governing board’s agenda Tuesday to revote on the matter publicly.
Setting aside what were described as several “missteps,” County Superintendent of Schools Troy Brown said that the board ultimately corrected any violations it had previously committed when approving Ramirez’s “employment agreement.”
“(My) … letter to the SUSD Governing Board on this matter substantially accomplished the primary goal of ensuring the public’s business is conducted in public,” Brown said Thursday afternoon in a statement to Stocktonia News Service.
Brown accused the board in an official letter sent to the district last month of “substantial violations of central provisions” of California’s Brown Act, a state law requiring government meetings and decision making be open to the public, by illegally approving what was essentially a new “employment” contract behind closed doors. …
Cassie Dickman 