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The Yolo County Board of Education held its remaining assembly of 2021, with an agenda that included deciding on new officers, figuring out a process for filling a trustee vacancy, and holding a public listening to on redistricting.
The Tuesday evening assembly opened with the board recognizing outgoing Trustee Matt Taylor of West Sacramento, who introduced his resignation earlier this week. Taylor is in his second time period representing Trustee Area 1 and has served on the board since his election in November 2014.
“It has been one of the greatest pleasures in my professional life to serve the community where I live and the students of Yolo County,” Taylor mentioned.
He was supplied with an honorary decision from Assemblymember Kevin McCarty.
The board additionally acknowledged the 2021-22 Yolo County Teacher of the Year. This yr’s recipient is Betsy Erickson, a bodily training instructor, assistant swim coach, and AVID web site coordinator at River City High School in West Sacramento.
Erikson was current to obtain recognition, flowers and a $250 examine award supplied by Travis Credit Union.
Tuesday’s assembly was additionally the board’s annual organizational assembly. Trustee Melissa Moreno of Davis was elected president. Moreno was elected to her first time period in November 2018 and represents Trustee Area 2.
Trustee Tico Zendejas of Woodland was elected vp. Zendejas has served on the board since October 2019, when he was appointed to an open trustee seat. In November 2020, he ran unopposed for the seat and was elected to a four-year time period.
During the assembly, the board additionally decided the vacancy for Trustee Area 1 can be crammed by appointment. Trustee Area 1 covers the bulk of West Sacramento, excluding parts of the Broderick and Bryte neighborhoods.
A provisional appointment should be made inside 60 days of Taylor’s written discover of resignation, which grew to become efficient Tuesday.
The software to use for the open trustee seat is on the market on-line at ycoe.org or in-person on the Yolo County Office of Education throughout common enterprise hours. Applications should be acquired by e-mail, in-person, or postal mail by midnight on Feb. 1, 2022.
Interested individuals are inspired to use for the vacant place. They might be eligible to be provisionally appointed to the board so long as they’re 18 years of age or older, a citizen of California, a resident of Trustee Area 1, a registered voter, and free of any disqualification from holding civil workplace.
The board is anticipated to fulfill in an open session on Feb. 8, 2022, to assessment the acquired purposes and interview the candidates. The appointment will change into efficient upon the board’s approval in the course of the assembly.
After the appointment turns into remaining, the board member will serve till December 2022, at which period she or he might run for election for a new four-year time period in Trustee Area 1.
On Tuesday, the Yolo County Committee on School District Organization additionally held a public listening to on redistricting of the trustee areas for the Board of Education. Every 10 years, native governments use census knowledge to redraw their trustee space maps to replicate inhabitants change.
The county committee reviewed 4 proposed trustee maps and requested an extra map that may incorporate Winters into one trustee space. Currently, Winters is cut up between two trustee areas.
The county committee will maintain one other public listening to on Jan. 11, 2022, at 6 p.m. At the conclusion of the general public listening to, the county committee might take motion on the adoption of the redistricting plan for the trustee areas. Redistricting should be accomplished by the tip of February.
Additional info on the trustee vacancy or redistricting could be positioned on the Yolo County Office of Education web site at ycoe.org.
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