Several new developments with the Paso Robles school district. First, the board adds a new student member to the board of trustees. She is the current president of the high school student body, Malia Gaviola. Malia is the daughter of assistant superintendent Jennifer Gaviola. Her appointment made at the special meeting held Monday. She will not be able to vote with the board, but she can offer a student’s input beginning December 14th.
The board also discussed the new applicants to replace Jim Reed who resigned from the board. The applicants are identified as Thomas Blaine Baker, James Cogan, Kenneth Enney, Seth Fidalgo, Robert Foster, Adelita Hiteshew, Lim LaChance, Cristina Mathers, Claire Ida McClure, Christopher Prieto, Rex Thornhill, Frank Triggs, and Caitlin J. Vierra. They will be interviewed on December 7th. The board is developing a set of questions to ask them.
And another new development related to the COLA, the cost of living adjustment. The teachers asking for a 5% COLA adjustment. The districting offering a 1.5%, but the issue relates to the non teachers. The CSEA the California State Employees Association. These are the cooks, the janitors, the secretaries, the maintenance people. Jennifer Gaviola and Curt Dubost have told the union they do not have a me too clause which would give them a COLA increase if the teachers get one.
But a staff member has discovered there was a me too agreement in their contract, but it disappeared during Chris Williams administration. Although superintendent Chris Williams made reference to the me too agreement in a meeting held on September 26th 2017. That’s in the minutes of the meeting.
So, Gaviola and Dubost are either ignorant about the agreement or they are lying about it, but the CSEA members are asking questions about why that me too agreement disappeared from their contract 4-5 years ago, because it was clearly in the contract before that.
