"his four-year campaign as a critic of the district's leadership"

As a trustee, isn't he the one who hired the current leadership?

@Jean of Jackson Park Hiring. No one Trustee "is the one."

I did vote to hire Dr. Rudolph (3 yr contract), and would have voted to extend and increase the compensation of his first contract, if it had been for less than the suggested 8% increase after just the first year. Dr. Rudolph is a new administrator in California. This is his first job as a Superintendent.

SN is a Trustee of the MVWSD. *this designation is for identification purposes only
The opinion above does not express an official position of the MVWSD Board.

Steve Nelson truly has no shame.

It is unfortunate that he was elected into office in the first place. That he managed to stay in office was a tragedy.

Let us hope that whoever takes his place will be a marked improvement.

Sorry.. as nutty as Steve Nelson can be I have no problem with someone requesting public records.

If a member of the public requests something they should get it. Period.

It's sad that when Steve Nelson goes tilting at windmills, it's trees and underpaid district support staff who pay the price.

Yes there should be access to public records but seriously? 3,500 pages? This isn't LAUSD-- there should be reasonable limits, even if it's just the self-monitoring a normal human would be capable of, on paperwork requested.

Perhaps he will be beckoned to serve in Washington if Trump (Horrors!) wins! His persona would fit right in!

Nelson is another example of the district allowing (non-tenured) damaging people to remain in their posts at the expense of students' best interests. I admittedly don't know who has authority to lead an impeachment, but this should have happened years ago.
Steve Nelson, you should be ashamed of the time you are taking away from our children. You antics are abusive and ill-willed.

Unfortunately the District is not able to remove a trustee from office. Only the voters can do that through a recall, which is very expensive and time consuming.

Agreed that Nelson has been a huge distraction to the core work of the district - student achievement. Thank goodness his term is ending soon.

Believe me, there were many people looking into a recall. In the end, it does take a lot of time so it would have taken us right up until about the point of the election, so it would have been a wasted effort.

Luckily, he has decided not to run again.

I don't know the merits of one side vs. the other in this squabble, but I can be sure that printing out seven reams of paper is a gratuitously wasteful and intentionally uncooperative response. A thumb drive, CD or online zip file would work just fine if they weren't trying to drag their feet and be martyrs.

I am pretty sure all the info was sent to Steve in an email and the STEVE printed it all out wasting school board dollars to cause problems. [Portion removed due to disrespectful comment or offensive language]

@MV Mama - We shall see on what date the administration printed this out. I asked for a PDF file, as I did for LASD and the County Office of Education. At 3,500 pages, many two sided, MVWSD administrators probably spent $200 on printing - that I did not request.

You might review Government Code 6253.1 - if you care for details on the PRA as it exists today (some of it we voters put into the California Constitution in 2014).

SN is a Trustee of the MVWSD, and these are just his own observations and opinions

Steve: Do you just sit by your computer all day to answer those responding to this issue? Perhaps if you took some time to explore other facets of life you could come up with more productive, and even pleasurable uses of your time. After your term ends shortly you will have even more time on your hands, much to the pleasure of many.
So sad that you have made such a name for yourself courting the negative and controversial.

Here are the links to the statute that explains government responsibility to requestors, [primary source]

Web Link

and another by The League of California Cities (Councilman Kasperzak was once President) Committee on the Public Records Act [a secondary source]

Web Link

Otto Maddox: no, there is no absolute right to repeatedly indulge in bullying nonsense at the expense of the public dollar.

Poorly framed, vague requests, which his righteous, infallible Self refuses to refine, are within rights but have obviously been an ongoing burden on the responders.

Sure, we all have the rights to be all sorts of[Portion removed due to offensive language], but keep in mind that in the legal system per se there is such a thing as a frivolous lawsuit, for example, even with consequences for the initiator. At what point does the disruption of perennially wasting public employees' time leave the shelter of one's rights and become an ethical if not legal offense? Free speech and due process are critical protections; abuse is perhaps the price we pay. And abusive officials should be held to ethical standards as well.

Check out if a PDF is permitted, or if a printed response is required. There are reasons why document retrieval, review, and release use hard copies.