On December 11, the Santa Barbara Unified School Board will vote on a “Housekeeping” power grab that would quietly strip its highly qualified community representative Finance Committee chair of their elected position and give it to a board trustee.
Resolution 2024‑25‑32A would require that the chair be chosen only from the two board representatives on the committee. Community members, educators, classified staff, and site leaders would no longer be allowed to serve as chair, no matter how qualified or trusted they are. The current chair is a community‑based finance expert and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), elected by the committee.
This is not how the Finance Committee was sold to the public.