The meeting clearly showed how valuable city-school district coordination can be and how competent both city and district staff are. Unfortunately it also highlighted some elected officials’ lack of basic understanding and inability to stay on topic, as well as several missed opportunities for coordination.

It appears Wiersma has a general lack of respect for her fellow TVUSD board members and a clear objective to attempt to boost her political cache by misusing her elected position and misrepresenting the board and its policies for personal gain. 

This article explores the ideal role of trustees in committee and subcommittee work, the pitfalls of excessive involvement, and how the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s (TVUSD’s) current subcommittee structure works.

On several agenda items the trustees, especially Wiersma and Komrosky, strayed from the topic, bringing up issues that, while vaguely related, were not part of the item. This behavior disrupted the flow of the meeting and significantly extended the meeting time.

The Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) Board of Trustees on Tuesday, March 25 stretched over four and a half hours, but little progress was made on student-centered issues. Instead, the session was marked by infighting, accusations of mistrust, political posturing, and confusion over basic governance procedures.

Imagine all the critical threats that our students are currently facing on a daily basis right now — and this non-existent “threat” is what she is spending time and district resources on. 

What’s next on Wiersma’s agenda?

Banning UFOs from snow covered playgrounds?

While trustees found common ground on important labor agreements and salary adjustments, the meeting was also riddled with unnecessary distractions — namely, partisan grandstanding, religious justifications, and debates that have little to do with student success.

The two-hour meeting involved an hour and 40 minutes of public comments (many of them  student comments that were articulate and moving) and then 20 minutes of board trustees speaking and finally voting unanimously to keep Girls’ Field Hockey.