As December draws to a close next weekend, so too does 2023 become another year that was. Let s look back over the biggest storylines and photographs in the Tri-Valley in our Year in Review in the section below. Have fun!
Dublin school board members approved how to disperse $27.6 million in bond funds in a contentious conversation Oct. 10 after which Trustee Dan Cherrier left mid-meeting for the second time in a month.
Dublin Unified trustees last week narrowly decided against initiating an investigation into leadership staff to see if they have been fully implementing the board s directive earlier this summer to halt any standards-based grading.
Unfortunately the Pleasanton Weekly s candidate forum for Pleasanton Unified School District Board of Trustees, originally scheduled for this Tuesday (Oct. 4), has been canceled due to illness.
While some trustees called the $184 million shortfall a clear case of under-budgeting, the board unanimously called for an independent audit to get to the bottom of what happened at their next meeting in February. I don t want an audit to take away from moving ahead but at the same time it does appear there is a lot of public outcry for such, Trustee Dan Cherrier said during board discussion. We re asking for a forensic audit, Cherrier said, and explained that a forensic audit looks into a whole range of things. It s looking at what it is that we stated we were going to do and what decision led to what, what money was accrued and allocated, and was it spent in accordance with that, Cherrier said. It s a whole look at the entire operation. It goes beyond the financial audit we just had.