The Cotati Rohnert Park Unified School District held a special board meeting on February 1, at Technology Middle School Library, 7165 Burton Avenue in Rohnert Park. Listed as a study
By: Cassandra May Albaugh
June 25, 2021
The Cotati Rohnert Park Unified School District held their final board meeting for the 2020-21 school year on June 22. It was a noticeably short meeting with mostly routine items on the agenda. The next regular meeting won’t occur until August 17, 2021. Only three trustees were present. Trustees Leffler Brown and Joe Cimino were not in attendance. They again met in-person at the Rancho Cotate High School TAG building.
There was a closed session held prior to the open session. Three items were discussed. One was continuing discussion on labor negotiations with a district’s bargaining unit. Another was a discussion of Superintendent Mayra Perez’s performance evaluation. The third was concerning a confidential special education settlement agreement. The only action taken in closed session was approval of the settlement agreement as reported out by Board President Chrissa Gillies.
By: Cassandra May Albaugh
April 23, 2021
The Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District board held their regular meeting on April 20. It was a hybrid meeting. The board and staff were in-person at the Technology Middle School Library while the public was still online via the district’s YouTube channel. Before and after the open session, the board met in closed session. This was to discuss the performance evaluation of a public employee – specifically that of Dr. Mayra Perez, the Superintendent.
Public comments continued to be critical of Perez, the board, the teachers’ unions, and the pace of reopening schools for in-person instruction. While some praised her leadership, many saw her as moving too slowly to reopen schools given the changing guidelines from the state and county. Some thought her delays in action “combined with what appears to be more concern for teachers’ unions than our students” showed poor leadership of the district. April Garcia urged “the boar