Nevada County Grand Jury • 2025-2026

2025-2026 Nevada County Grand Jury Final Report

Published: March 26, 2026 149 pages
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Findings and Recommendations 23 findings

F1
The District is complying with all State and Federal laws and codes regarding B&H.
No recommendations for this finding
F2
The District has provided anti-B&H training for staff in addition to that required by CEC.
No recommendations for this finding
F3
The information in this report indicates Bullying and harassment incidents are not decreasing within The District schools; they are increasing.
Related Recommendations (1)
R4
The District should establish a program like OBPP at NUHS. (F3,4,8)
F4
Students at NUHS feel the least safe amongst all the students within The District’s Schools.
No recommendations for this finding
F5
The District LCAP metrics do not effectively measure B&H within its schools.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
The District should modify its LCAP metrics to measure unreported B&H. (F5)
F6
The District LCAP survey lacks the safeguards required to ensure survey integrity.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
The District should implement safeguards in its LCAP survey to ensure accuracy. (F6)
F7
The District LCAP student survey participation rate for NUHS is far below that of other schools within The District.
Related Recommendations (1)
R7
The District should conduct a study to understand why NUHS LCAP survey participation rates are much lower than that of other schools and take corrective action. (F7)
F8
The District’s preventative efforts to reduce B&H have been primarily focused on district and school staff.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
The District Board should establish a resolution re-affirming its commitment to reduce B&H within The District. (F8)
F9
Schools within The District do not discipline equally for like offensives.
No recommendations for this finding
F10
Student Handbooks are either not available, out of date, or not easily accessible on school websites within The District.
Related Recommendations (3)
R5
The District should publish B&H policies prominently on each school’s website homepage. (F10)
R6
The District should ensure each school prominently displays their current student handbook on the school’s website homepage. (F10)
R8
The District should align the application of discipline within its schools. (F10)
F11
The District’ superintendent has publicly taken a strong stance against B&H within its schools.
Related Recommendations (1)
R9
The Jury commends the public stance against B&H by The District superintendent and recommends the NJHUSD Board to take a similar strong stance in its actions. (F11)
F12
In approving promotions and hires without a sufficient revenue stream to support them for more than a limited period, the Board has not fulfilled its fidu- ciary responsibility to the district.
No recommendations for this finding
F13
PVFD expended district money for the promotions and hires before its Board had approved the expenditure, the promotions, or the hires.
No recommendations for this finding
F14
That expenditure violated § 601 of PVFD’s bylaws.
No recommendations for this finding
F15
If the Board had already approved the promotions, hires, and expendi- tures, then the approval was not done in an open Board meeting and there- fore violated the Brown Act.
No recommendations for this finding
F16
PVFD is moving forward with consolidation with R&R, but it is not com- pleted.
No recommendations for this finding
F17
Increased fire tax revenue from consolidation with R&R may help to offset the anticipated funds shortfall to which F1 refers.
No recommendations for this finding
F18
The increased fire tax revenue from consolidation with R&R will be close to $1 million per year.
No recommendations for this finding
F19
The increased fire tax revenue from consolidation with R&R is not suffi- cient to cover the cost of PVFD’s November 2024 personnel changes over the long-term.
No recommendations for this finding
F20
The public would have been better served by consolidation of PVFD, NCC, R&R, and OH, as originally planned.
No recommendations for this finding
F21
Since FY 2019, the County general fund at the end of each fiscal year has had from $34.3 million to $47.0 million of unspent funds in the County’s Gen- eral Fund,
No recommendations for this finding
F22
Since FY 2019, the County has devoted $0 of that money to making vol- untary additional payments to reduce its total UPL.
No recommendations for this finding
F23
Given the County’s UPL position at the end of FY2024, if the County then began to pay an additional $5,000,000 each year, elimination of the 2024 UPL would occur in 2037 rather than 2044.18
No recommendations for this finding

Additional Recommendations 2

These recommendations are not explicitly linked to specific findings.