Later in the thread, Kuo thanks Carey for the “direction and guidance.” Kuo also asked Carey to speak on the phone on Feb. For trustee boundary discussion tomorrow, the goal for tomorrow should be to get them to mock up different additional scenarios before next meeting.” He also told Kuo which type of maps to “specifically please request.” Politics does enter into the decision.”Ĭarey, in a text conversation with Kuo on Jan. In a text exchange between Cherrier and a resident identified in a screenshot as Ramya, Cherrier talked about how one of the maps “does get Megan in with Shafer Ranch and we can get people to run against her. On Jan 23, Carey appears to be texting in a group message that included Blackman, and he wrote, “… to me a small tweak like moving camp parks is good enough especially with the big picture outcome of putting Megan and Kristin in the same area.” When you don’t communicate and go rogue it is hard to get William, Gabi and the broader community aligned to anything in common.” In another text to Cherrier, Carey wrote, “Dan, Some feedback. (Image courtesy of Mary Washington/Dublin Unified School District) 22 text from Carey to Cherrier, Carey wrote, “Whatever path, we can have support line up.” The following message he sent said, “Need to decide is it more important to get Megan or Kristen out OR stenghen (sic) 3 east areas.” Screenshots of text messages from Dublin Unified School District board president Dan Cherrier’s phone in conversation with resident William Carey. Pelham and Rouse voted against the map, which expands Area 2, currently represented by Rouse, eastward beyond Dougherty Road, and encompasses what was previously a chunk of Area 1, currently represented by Pelham. 22 by the three members, puts the other two board members, Kristin Pelham and Megan Rouse, in the same district and could force them to later run against each other. The map, which was ultimately approved on Feb.
He said his children are currently in college, but they previously attended Dublin Unified schools. Carey, in a text message Friday, declined an interview, saying he has contracted COVID after a trip to Europe. She said the various messages, often involving discussion with resident William (Bill) Carey, show that he was “pulling strings” to influence the board members to choose a specific district voting map, referred to as Scenario 1.Ĭarey, according to his LinkedIn page, is a corporate controller at the Santa Clara company Couchbase. Washington obtained the screenshots from the district as part of its response to a public records request she filed. “We can no longer trust anything that you say going forward and these events have even made us question things you might have done in the past,” Catherine Brown, a teacher in the district, said to the three board members at a June 28 meeting, where she demanded they resign.Ī wave of controversy has washed over the district after Mary Washington, a parent and a district employee, posted on Facebook screenshots of text messages from the phones of Dublin Unified School District board president Dan Cherrier, and board members Gabi Blackman and William Kuo. Screenshots of text messages from Dublin Unified School District board president Dan Cherrier’s phone in conversation with resident William Carey. The school board plans to hold a meeting on July 12 during which the district’s legal counsel is expected to say that none of the three board members’ actions violated the Brown Act, the state law that governs public meetings, when they apparently were texting separately with the same resident about the redistricting plans, according to district reports.īut some critics say their faith in the three board members is already lost.
DUBLIN - Three school board members from Dublin’s east side are facing calls to resign over allegations they coordinated an effort to effectively oust another board member from the west side during a redistricting process earlier this year.
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