A California school board president was reprimanded this week for swigging beer during a public board meeting conducted via Zoom video conference.

“I didn’t give any thought to it,” Charter Oak Unified school board president Brian Akers told the Los Angeles Daily News. “I’ll apologize to anyone. It wasn’t intentional.”

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It was difficult to determine if the bottle Akers swigged from about an hour and 20 minutes into the May 7 meeting was an alcoholic beverage, but the board president confirmed it was. Akers said he brought the already open beer from his dinner to the meeting, and did not intend to offend.

“While at home during the Charter Oak School Board Zoom meeting, I drank a bottle of beer during the meeting, not thinking anything of it,” he wrote in a statement to NBC Los Angeles. “I apologize to anyone offended by that action.”

And plenty of folks were offended, including some who are now calling on Akers to resign.

“First it was shock. No way could that have been a beer, maybe a root beer,” school psychologist Gregg Platto told the news site. “Then we look back on the live and yup, that’s a Pacifico!”

“What kind of decision is he making for our school and our kids drinking alcohol on the job?” former district employee Mechell Knight questioned.

Dyane Langis, a parent in the district, described the ordeal as “unacceptable.”

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“There is no way I could be in a job and have that same Zoom conference and take a swig of a drink,” she said.

“Kids are watching us,” Platto told the Daily News. “The whole community is watching him.”

John Sitz, a Charter Oak graduate and parent of three children who also graduated in the district, thinks Akers should have set a better example.

“I was appalled when I saw it,” he said. “Being the governing board president, he should know that’s not allowed.”

Sitz told NBC Los Angeles Akers should lose his board seat.

“I would like to see him resign due to the fact that if it was anybody else caught drinking on the job, you would be walked off the premises at that point in time,” he said.

Knight agrees.

“If it’s not important for him to be sober while he’s making a decision he should resign and let somebody take his seat,” he said.

The Charter Oak Unified school board ultimately reprimanded Akers for violating the board’s alcohol and drug-free workplace policy, according to a Wednesday news release.

“This is an isolated and unfortunate incident that was quickly addressed by members of our governing board, once it was brought to our attention,” Vice President Gregg Peterson said. “As elected officials, we need to be transparent and hold ourselves accountable for our actions.”

It’s unclear what, if any, punishment the reprimand entails.

“When we’re making decisions associated with the education of our children, we have to ensure we’re fully engaged with the conversation and not distracted by anything,” Peterson said.