WATSONVILLE—In what is expected to be another contentious chapter in a saga that has rocked the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, the Board of Trustees will meet Sunday at 3pm with a three-item agenda that includes reinstating ousted Superintendent Michelle Rodriguez.
The trustees will also discuss removing Chico-based attorney Matthew Paul Juhl-Darlington, who board president Georgia Acosta brought in Friday to serve as legal counsel when the trustees met to consider hiring an interim superintendent.
If successful, that vote will allow Monterey-based attorney Lou Lozano, whose law firm, Lozano Smith, has long represented the district, to return as legal counsel.
In addition, the trustees will consider removing Acosta as board president and trustee Oscar Soto as vice-president. This item will almost certainly be controversial. Many community members have asked Acosta to resign, or have suggested that she be recalled, after she made the announcement Wednesday night that the board voted 4-3 in favor of ending Rodriguez’s contract.
The Sunday special meeting comes after a six-hour meeting Friday night, which was punctuated with 200 public comments, most of them ripping the board for firing Rodriguez and demanding that she be reinstated.
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To watch the Sunday meeting at 3pm, click here or visit youtube.com/c/pvusdstreaming/live. To make a public comment, click here or visit http://bit.ly/BoardGoogleForm01-31
