The meeting originally had been scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12.
However, Superintendent Tim Gill told Lake County News that the meeting has been postponed until 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18.
“One of our board members is in Covid quarantine,” he wrote in an email. “With the vaccine mandate resolution on the agenda, we want all of our board members present.”
The Middletown Unified board is set to consider, for the second time, a resolution that asks that state not to mandate the COVID-19 vaccination for its students and staff.
It’s a resolution identical to those approved last month by the Lakeport Unified, Lucerne Elementary and Konocti Unified school boards.
Middletown Unified’s trustees originally had considered the resolution at its Dec. 15 meeting.
That was the first board meeting for new board members Annette Lee and Allison Berlogar, appointed Dec. 1 to fill two vacancies that resulted this fall from the resignations of LaTrease Walker and Thad Owens.
At that time, Lee suggested alternate language that emphasized choice, calling for the district to uphold California citizens’ rights to provide informed consent and to petition the state to ensure and maintain the personal belief exemption in any and all upcoming COVID-19 legislation.
The board ultimately didn’t accept that language and put off taking action on the resolution.
However, Lee’s attempt at taking all sides into account has made her the target of a petition to challenge her provisional appointment. Berlogar’s appointment has not been challenged and so has gone into effect.
The Lake County Office of Education is working with the Registrar of Voters Office to verify the signatures on the petitions, a process that must be completed by the end of this month.
In the meantime, the board is going to take up the resolution again. No changes have been made to it since it was considered last month.
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