- State Center Community College District trustees awarded a $161,000 contract to a close personal friend of Chancellor Carole Goldsmith.
- The union of instructors filed an ethics complaint, saying Goldsmith should have disclosed the relationship.
- Goldsmith’s friend — and possible goddaughter — does not have experience mediating between educational organizations, said union president Keith Ford.
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The faculty union for instructors at the State Center Community College District filed an ethics complaint in June after learning that a close, personal friend — and possible goddaughter — of Chancellor Carole Goldsmith received a contract from the district without disclosing their relationship.
In March, the district’s board of trustees approved two mediation contracts totaling $161,000 to Ashlee Hernandez of San Luis Obispo, whom Goldsmith frequently referred to as “goddaughter” on social media and online…