Redondo Beach School District explores separating from City
The RBUSD Board of Education student board member Madison Laster, Nd members Brad Waller, Michael Christensen, Brad Serkin and David Witkin. File Photo The Redondo Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education has directed district staff to explore withdrawing from the Redondo Beach City Charter. Should the district elect to sever itself from the City Charter, it would effectively complete a separation between the two bodies that seems to exist in all but a select few situations. “Under the current charter, the district is under certain purviews,” Board Member Brad Serkin, who initiated the direction to staff at last Tuesday’s school board meeting, said in an interview. “Changing selection dates, or anything related to city or state-wide issues, we have to go through the city. But the district budgets and our facilities are managed by us.” The school district is currently managed under Article XVI of the City Charter. Article XVI primarily deals with regulations for school board officers elections, vacancies and term limits, save for two items that outline the powers of the school board; and authorize the district with jurisdiction over Redondo’s schools. It is effectively…
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