July 21, 2016 — Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education

A short summer meeting was dominated by personnel business: the board came out of closed session having appointed four new assistant principals, then ratified a new contract with the teachers' union and spent much of its comment period urging the district to do more to honor long-serving employees on their way out the door.

👔 Four New Assistant Principals

Coming out of closed session, the board reported that it had voted to appoint four assistant principals across the district, effective for the 2016–17 school year 23:

• Oak Ridge Elementary — effective August 1, 2016
• Cal Aero — effective August 1, 2016
• Townsend Junior High School — effective July 25, 2016
• Don Lugo High School — effective August 1, 2016

The closed session that preceded the meeting, held from 4:45 to 6:57 p.m., also covered existing litigation, student discipline and readmission matters, labor negotiations with the district's employee organizations, and a review of the superintendent's performance; no further action on those items was reported out 1.

The newly appointed administrators were invited to address the board briefly after the announcement. The transcript captures brief remarks of gratitude for the opportunity to continue serving the district, but because the recording is not broken out by individual speaker, this summary does not attribute those remarks to a specific appointee.

📝 Teachers' Contract Ratified

The board opened a public hearing at 7:12 p.m. on the tentative agreement between the district and the Associated Chino Teachers and then ratified it 4.

A representative of the classified employees' union, CSEA, addressed the board during the evening's employee-organizations comment period. The representative corrected a scheduling detail in the draft minutes — the tentative agreement was headed to the CSEA chapter for a vote on August 24, not July 24 as the minutes had reflected — and congratulated the four incoming assistant principals 5. No other requests to address the board on items outside the agenda were made.

🗣️ Board Reflects on School Culture

During board comments, one trustee spoke at length about school culture, prompted by a conversation with a longtime educator who said the biggest thing he'd like to see change was students showing more respect for teachers and adults on campus 7. The trustee suggested that culture around student-teacher respect has shifted over time and could be turned back through everyday conversations with students about respecting teachers and elders 8, then cited examples of community members who began feeding hungry students after noticing a need — a local restaurant owner and, separately, a neighbor who opened her home after being moved to act — as evidence that, in the trustee's words, "small things can change a big great monumental history" 910. The trustee also recounted an encounter with a teenager from the district's alternative learning academy who had voluntarily sought help at a rehabilitation center 11.

🎓 Richard Gerd Educational Hall of Fame Committee

The board approved three appointments to the Richard Gerd Educational Hall of Fame Committee 12, with the spelling of two of the three appointees' names corrected on the agenda that evening 6. Individual appointee names are not reproduced here: no agenda or minutes is on file for this meeting, and an unaided transcript is not a reliable source for the spelling of a person's name.

🙏 Recognizing Retiring Employees

The board's comment period also served as an occasion to recognize seven employees retiring this year, marking a combined 197 years of service to the district 13:

• 32 years — elementary teacher, Dickey Elementary
• 28 years — elementary teacher, Newman Elementary
• 25 years — social science teacher
• 19 years — math teacher, Don Lugo High School
• 22 years — child development coordinator, health services
• 31 years — health technician
• 40 years — district service

Individual names are not reproduced here: no agenda or minutes is on file for this meeting, and an unaided transcript is not a reliable source for the spelling of a person's name.

One trustee used the moment to push for a more formal recognition program, recalling that the district once held retirement events where employees received milestone-year pins, and called on the district and both employee organizations — the Associated Chino Teachers and CSEA — to work together on something more meaningful than a passing mention 14.

✅ Consent and Closing

The consent calendar, approved without discussion, included an amendment extending a full-semester placement at Chino Valley Learning Academy tied to a student expulsion case 6.

Closing comments touched on ACT and SAT results for the district's juniors, with a trustee saying scores came in above the county and state averages, and reflected on the complexity of labor negotiations: "both sides under one goal is what is good for students simple as that" 15. The meeting adjourned at 7:23 p.m. 15.

This is an independent, community-maintained summary of public records and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Chino Valley Unified School District. No official minutes or agenda are on file for this meeting, and the transcript is not broken out by individual speaker; per this archive's editorial policy, no comment, statement, or position from this meeting is attributed to a named individual, and personnel actions (appointments, committee appointments, and retirements) are described by position, effective date, and years of service only, since an unaided transcript cannot reliably confirm the spelling of a person's name.