A Stockton Unified School District trustee voted to award district contracts worth more than $130,000 to a nonprofit where she’s an unpaid board member, according to SUSD board documents reviewed by Stocktonia.
Area 7 Trustee Kennetha Stevens voted “yes” alongside her six colleagues on the School Board to award the Amelia Ann Adams Whole Life Center, a Stockton nonprofit, two contracts to provide emotional support, mentorship and other services at four schools, records show.
A contract voted on in October for the center is worth up to $70,123, according to board documents. A November agreement is reported in SUSD documents as being valued at up to $60,000, but a copy of the contract lists a higher amount, saying the nonprofit’s total compensation shall not exceed $68,000…