Chair opens Azusa Unified special board meeting; board approves agenda item 2.1 and moves to closed session

The Azusa Unified Board of Education convened a special meeting Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 7:01 p.m., when the chair called the session to order and welcomed "Azusa community students, parents, and staff," a district official announced.

The chair asked members to approve agenda item 2.1, saying, "Can I have a motion? Make a motion to approve 2.1." With no discussion offered, the chair instructed colleagues to vote and then announced that "the motion passes" and gave the board's tally as three in favor, zero opposed and two absent.

The board then reviewed public-comment procedures. The chair read the guidelines, saying the board "encourages public input" but that "board members are not permitted to respond to public comments" and that "maximum speaking time is 3 minutes." The chair also explained speaker-card and Zoom-hand requirements and that speakers must be present when called.

When the public-comment period opened for item 3.1, the chair reported there were no speaker cards and no hands raised on Zoom, so no members of the public spoke. The meeting then moved into closed session, the chair announced.

The transcript does not record the substance of agenda item 2.1; the motion is recorded only as an approval of "2.1" with the vote tally announced by the chair. No mover, seconder or roll-call vote by name for that motion appears in the public transcript.