Chaos Continues: TVUSD Special Board Meeting 7/21/25

Temecula City Council Member Jessica Alexander speaks at the TVUSD School Board meeting on Monday night. It is unusual, and considered by some to be an abuse of her elected seat to attempt to influence another board in her role as a city council member. (screenshot)

1TVPAC Team

TEMECULA — The recent Special TVUSD board meeting was an embarrassment to our community and a continuation of the chaos we’ve seen for two and a half years. The meeting was called to for one issue only: how to address the false sexual harassment claim by Trustee Wiersma and the resulting ~$40,000 cost to the district.

The meeting devolved into yelling, name-calling, violation of Robert’s rules of order, lack of adherence to proper procedure, Brown Act violations, and multiple audience members being removed. There are many ways this meeting could have been shorter, professional, and more productive; there is enough blame and responsibility to share. Many community members are focused on recently elected board president Dr. Anderson and her failure to manage the meeting. While her performance could and should have been better, let’s not forget who is causing this chaos, and has caused chaos at almost every meeting since December 2022: Jen Wiersma and Joseph Komrosky.

“(Wiersma’s and Komrosky’s) behavior and the impact on our community started long before Dr. Anderson even decided to run for office; Dr. Anderson did not bring the chaos. She has been trying to manage it since her swearing in December 2024, a difficult, if not impossible job.”

Here’s a helpful analogy: we’ve all been there, grocery shopping while a child is throwing the biggest, loudest temper tantrum, and it’s impacting everyone in the store. And the parent is trying every trick in the book to stop it, even handing the kid candy, but it doesn’t stop. Every strategy and intervention has little to no impact on the tantrum, and the child keeps having them every time they go to the store. We look at the parent with a mix of sympathy and frustration; why can’t they better manage their child?

That’s our school board. But instead of a child, it’s two adults throwing tantrums, and there is no parent to stop it. Dr. Anderson is board president, not the mother of Trustees Wiersma and Komrosky. She is their peer on the board, and every year a new president is elected by the five members of the board, for purposes of running the meetings and managing the agenda. That role is not the ‘boss’ or ‘parent’ of the remaining trustees, who are adults and have received countless hours of training on the role of trustee, how to behave in and outside of meetings, and the rules and laws that govern their conduct.To compound the problem, Komrosky and Wiersma invited agitators from all over Southern California—people who have no stake in our district and don't even live here. Their sole purpose was to disrupt the meeting, and their unruly behavior forced the board president to call multiple recesses.

Komrosky and Wiersma aren’t just acting like children throwing tantrums, they are acting like bullies and there is no principal’s office to send them. But they aren’t children, they have fully developed brains and know what they’re doing.They are adults who know the job, have attended taxpayer-funded training on how to do the job, and still fail to do the job. And their colleague is trying to manage their tantrums and get the board focused on the business of running the district. Compromise, listening, taking on their work for them, individual meetings, and other tactics employed by Dr. Anderson have failed. Wiersma and Komrosky keep throwing temper tantrums and bullying their fellow trustees.

While you may complain bitterly about Dr. Anderson's poor meeting management skills, look back at any meeting from 2023 and 2024 when Komrosky or Wiersma were at the helm, not any better. And both Komrosky and Wiersma have a responsibility that a child in the grocery store does not, to manage their own behavior, follow the rules, and do their job, regardless of what the board president does or doesn’t do.

Their behavior and the impact on our community started long before Dr. Anderson even decided to run for office; Dr. Anderson did not bring the chaos. She has been trying to manage it since her swearing in December 2024, a difficult, if not impossible job.

What happened Monday night is embarrassing, unethical, unprofessional, and 100% unacceptable. And it is caused by Wiersma, and to some extent, Komrosky. Wiersma’s false allegation against a trustee she just doesn’t like or agree with, plus demanding an additional, expensive investigation, is unethical and possibly illegal, given the referral to the legal system.

And it’s costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars and costing our students and the employees of TVUSD a heck of a lot more.

Watch the whole meeting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F7PS07sJzQ