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Angela Greenough on Thursday called for mending bridges and strengthening collaboration between employees, administrators and elected officials as outlined in Del Norte Unified School District’s Board Governance Handbook.
But the DNUSD Board President didn’t address a formal complaint against her colleague, Frank Magarino, directly except to say she discussed the issue with him and blamed California’s Ralph M. Brown Act for hindering transparency.
“I have been in discussion with Frank about this,” Greenough told her colleagues and the public. “I cannot always address all the emails that go back and forth between board members because of Brown Act violations, but we will discuss some of those, hopefully solutions, when we discuss our board governance handbook.”
Updated Dec. 19 to elaborate on whether to test school staff for Covid-19 on their return to school after a 14-day quarantine.
School districts say they now have another reason to be skittish about planning to reopen schools in the spring: new statewide emergency temporary regulations on protecting workers from exposure to Covid-19.
School officials are complaining that the new rules, which went into effect Nov. 30 after adoption by Cal/OSHA earlier in the month, are creating confusion and could significantly raise school districts’ costs. This applies particularly to Covid testing expenses, which districts and county offices of education are responsible for.