to community complaints. cnn's omar jimenez has been monitoring the meeting tonight and he joins me now. omar, good evening to you. so tell us what went down tonight? what happened? >> reporter: yeah, don. so the school board basically voted to move forward with the non-renewal process of dr. whitfield's contract. it's step one of a two-step process. in this step one, they laid out their reasons, their accusations for why they believe his contract should not be renewed. in particular, they laid out six. and among them, they said that it was because of performance and communication concerns dating back to february. behavior to supervisors. dishonesty with media. failure to express concerns appropriately. dividing the community. and relationship with parents, community, and colleagues. now, after that dividing the community part, the entire hearing room, which was full of parents that had come out to support dr. whitfield and voice their concerns, that whole hearing room busted out in