TVUSD June 10 General Meeting Report

Meeting features Komrosky quitting subcommittee, Wiersma and Komrosky voting against parental notification revisions

1TVPAC Team 

TEMECULA — Every June, TVUSD holds two regular board meetings as the fiscal year closes June 30 and there are legal requirements to close out one budget and approve the new budget, including holding public hearings. 

However, the first meeting in June was dominated by trustee bickering, verbally attacking and insulting each other, and unprofessional conduct.

Tuckman’s well-known stages of group development are forming-storming-norming-performing-adjourning. This group of trustees has a minimum of two years working together and after six months, they won’t move past storming. 

This community deserves a school board that is performing. Specifically, board members Komrosky and Wiersma frequently instigate verbal attacks and name-calling, despite previously engaging in the same behavior that they seem so offended by now. 

Fiscal responsibility and legal focus

A highlight of this meeting was a frequent focus on the budget shortfall and need to restrict non-essential spending, said by many board members. 

Many of the consent calendar items were pulled for discussion, when typically this section of the agenda is voted on as a group with little to no discussion as these items are standard and regular. Those items pulled for discussion were typically to question the expenditure in an attempt to cut back spending. 

The need for this focus was apparent during the budget presentation as Nicole Lash, head of TVUSD  fiscal stated: “We are spending more than we are bringing in, to the tune of 25 to 30 million dollars each year in this budget … our true savings account … is going down at a rapid rate." 

The budget presented was conservative and Lash presented a realistic and grim future, stating some of the numbers “make me nervous."

Prior boards did a great job of reserving funds and giving this board a large rainy day fund. And as Lash succinctly said, “The rainy day is here." 

Unfortunately the prior board majority of Gonzalez, Komrosky and Wiersma wasted almost a million dollars, decreasing the safety next for that district. 

Unlike Komrosky, Anderson is unwilling to waste taxpayer dollars on legal fees, stating early in the meeting, “my practice is to not have legal look at anything until we’ve discussed it as a board, amended it as a board. I believe it’s a waste of time," communicating a process that is also fiscally responsible.

Later in the meeting, when discussing action item 19, adopting a handful of policies under the umbrella of parental notification, Anderson reiterated this process “there is a list of 15 items … there is so much to do…with attorney review, it takes time, so what we’re doing is looking at the board policy, amending the language the way we want it to be amended then we’re sending that to the attorney for review and then we’ll be putting it on the agenda for action." 

Despite a clearly explained process-only the initial group of parental policies on this agenda with more in future meetings-plus Anderson meeting with Wiersma and Komrosky for hours to elicit feedback, they refused to vote to approve the parental notification policies. For reasons unclear to the public, Komrosky and Wiersma require all 15 policies completed first vs approve them in groups as they are revised and vetted by legal. 

A Legacy of Hypocrisy

Komrosky was the first trustee to begin the attacks, passive aggressive comments and rudely picking at Anderson’s performance as board president, with Wiersma quickly joining in. It came across as mean-spirited and disingenuous, as even Anderson asked him directly why he didn’t speak up early and help versus complain after the fact. 

Given that Komrosky could barely make it through a meeting as board president without violating the Brown Act or infringing on the rights of the public, it’s petty to attack someone doing a better job. 

Wiersma again started off the meeting requesting public comments be moved to the start of the meeting versus at the end, an issue the board has voted on therefore it’s inappropriate for her to bring it back to a vote. 

Yet, she puts her personal wants and needs ahead of her job duties every meeting. She claims it’s about letting the public participate however she supported then-president Komrosky removing entire sections of meeting attendees, illegally, stifling the public’s first amendment rights. 

Wiersma, Komrosky vote against revised parental notification policies

Trustees Jen Wiersma and Joseph Komrosky voted against two revised parental rights measures during the meeting — despite having campaigned heavily on a platform of promoting greater parental involvement and transparency.

The board considered and ultimately passed a revised version of its former parental notification policy, previously known as BP 5020.1, which had been rescinded after being declared legally unenforceable under state law. The new version, along with a companion resolution affirming the board’s commitment to parent engagement, was designed to align with AB 1955 — legislation signed in 2024 that explicitly bans policies deemed discriminatory toward LGBTQ+ students.

Despite the revisions, Wiersma and Komrosky opposed both measures.

Their “no” votes come as a surprise to some in the community, as both trustees had made “parental rights” a central theme of their campaigns and public commentary. In 2023, they were key backers of the original version of the notification policy.

That version of the policy was later challenged by the California Department of Education, which labeled it discriminatory, and ruled by the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) to have violated bargaining rights with employee unions. The district ultimately rescinded the policy after state law made such mandates illegal.

“I thought it would be unanimous,” Anderson said in her board comments. “So that's my only board comments is that I am actually kind of shocked right now that two members did not grant religious accommodation for students that want privacy when they change their clothes.”

Komrosky quits anti-CRT subcommittee

Komrosky again showed a lack of character and commitment toward working with the entire board in favor of advancing his personal political agendas without compromise. The behavior was on display again during discussion regarding the Anti-CRT subcommittee formed after the board voted to end the lawsuit Mae v. Komrosky last month.

“I'm very disappointed at the second decision to stop Advocates for Faith and Freedom potentially advancing the lawsuit, especially to the Supreme Court.,” Komrosky said. “Everybody knows that. I'm very disappointed in that. And so, after the last meeting, events have transpired to where I don't even want to be a part of this subcommittee.

“I don't have full faith and confidence that you (Anderson) and Emil (Barham) will do anything to advance what me, Danny, and Jen have already done,” he said. “I hereby officially remove myself from the subcommittee, and I wipe my hands clean.”

A rough ending to a disappointing meeting

After the trustees closing comments devolved into name-calling, insults and bickering, including Wiersma storming out, Superintendent Woods closed out the meeting with an end of school year video. 

It celebrated the students, schools and various graduations and promotions held the week before. Woods narrating the video ended with the district mission statement “elevating experiences, opportunities, and each other." 

Too bad the school board as a collective doesn’t understand or live their own mission, choosing to tear each other down instead, largely due to the disruptive and damaging behavior of Komrosky and Wiersma. 

Watch the board meeting in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3kcZE-TXlc