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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno Unified says quality sum astir a $162,000 resignation colony fixed to a erstwhile subordinate of unit was "misleading and inaccurate," stating that the agreement, which led to the payout, "did not interruption the Brown Act."
The schoolhouse territory adds that determination has been "no cover-up" successful its handling of this matter.
When YourCentralValley.com reported on the $162,000 payout fixed to Former Chief Communications Officer Nikki Henry, Fresno Unified Trustee Susan Wittrup said the determination to process the payout without a schoolhouse committee ballot "makes maine consciousness similar there’s thing shady going on."
The territory clarifies that assertion, stating that Chief of Human Resources David Chavez was fixed unanimous Board authorization to scope a colony with Nikki Henry.
The process undertaken successful this substance was accordant with Government Code conception 54957, the Brown Act conception that provides for the confidentiality of unit matters, arsenic good arsenic with Government Code conception 54957.1, which includes an objection to the “action-taken” report-out request when, arsenic here, a imaginable colony is babelike connected the statement of the different party. In accordance with this exception, the District released fully-executed copies of the Settlement Agreement upon request.
Therefore, the District did not interruption the Brown Act.
Fresno Unified School DistrictThe territory besides called retired the Fresno Teachers Association, saying they claimed connected societal media that the Settlement Agreement requires the territory to "indemnify" Henry; however, the territory says this is not correct, fixed that the statement does not see an indemnification provision.
They adhd that this is due to the fact that of Henry's statutory close arsenic a erstwhile nationalist worker to petition a defence and indemnification for "claims arising retired of the people and scope of her duties arsenic a nationalist employee."
