[5:21] Okay. We are going

[5:25] to

[5:30] reconvene to open session at 7:31.

[5:35] We have our quorum here.

[5:38] Oh,

[5:40] man, I forgot everything that I'm supposed to report.

[5:44] There's no action.

[5:44] There's no action to report taken in closed session.

[5:48] So let's stand

[5:50] for the pledge.

[5:53] Ready. Salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of

[5:57] the United States of America and to the Republic for which it

[6:01] stands, one nation under God, indivisible,

[6:05] with liberty and justice for all.

[6:11] Okay.

[6:12] I have to grab my agenda.

[6:13] Yeah.

[6:18] Okay, our board norms.

[6:25] We'll start and end meetings on time as published in the agendas.

[6:28] We will prepare for meetings by researching topics and asking questions in advance.

[6:32] We will trust the expertise of district employees in implementing the mission and

[6:35] board policy. We will treat everyone in a respectful and fair manner and be

[6:39] open-minded to all points of view.

[6:41] We will create an environment where communication is accessible and audible for

[6:45] all. We will collectively support the authority of the board as a whole, not as

[6:48] individuals, and we will affirm the voices of the public while maintaining

[6:52] the structure under the Brown Act.

[6:55] Okay, this is to notify to the audience that open

[6:59] session will be audio taped and recorded.

[7:03] Do we have any public comment on non-agenda and open session items?

[7:07] Nope.

[7:07] We do not.

[7:08] No comments.

[7:11] We are going to go proceed with our reports, and we will start with

[7:15] our student trustee.

[7:17] Hello, everyone. I will start by apologizing.

[7:20] I'm going to have to leave a little bit early after reports because-

[7:23] Oh, okay

[7:24] ... I have senior summaries tomorrow, and-

[7:26] Woo

[7:26] ... I have Link Crew and I need to get sleep- ... to be able to function.

[7:30] That's okay.

[7:31] But I'm very excited for the new school year.

[7:33] Again, a new board Link Crew is tomorrow.

[7:35] We're going to do our annual freshman orientation.

[7:38] I've heard very good things about this group of freshmen, so I'm excited to work

[7:41] with them. And just excited in general

[7:45] for our leadership crew,

[7:49] Link Crew, and also just ASD in general.

[7:51] I think we're a really good group this year, and we're really excited.

[7:53] We're really excited to work with the principal.

[7:56] I've gotten to meet him a couple times, and he is a really nice guy.

[7:59] Okay.

[8:00] I keep telling people that, and it's true.

[8:03] And so yeah, I'm just very excited and very hopeful that I'll have a great

[8:06] senior year and be able to represent my constituents.

[8:11] Awesome. Thank you. We'll go ahead and start

[8:15] with Trustee

[8:17] O'Malley Solis. What?

[8:20] There's no union?

[8:21] No union.

[8:22] Oh.

[8:23] Seeing that there are no union representatives here, we will start with our board

[8:26] trustees, continuing with Trustee O'Malley Solis.

[8:30] Okay.

[8:31] I had the opportunity last night to participate

[8:35] by volunteering in the ice cream social, welcoming back the

[8:39] ninth graders with a couple of fellow Rotarians.

[8:41] That was fun to

[8:43] see the energy on campus. And as I was walking out, I

[8:47] got to see, I believe, a student-led tour,

[8:53] showing the ninth graders around, and that was cool to see as well.

[8:57] And that's it. That's my report.

[9:01] Thank you.

[9:02] Trustee

[9:04] Shaffer?

[9:05] Yeah, I just want to wish all the incoming students a really good start

[9:09] to the year. I'm super excited and looking forward to all

[9:13] the things that this year brings. So learning principals, I'm really excited to

[9:17] get to know you both and

[9:19] welcome.

[9:22] Okay. Trustee Powers?

[9:24] Yeah. Welcome back to students tomorrow. That's very exciting.

[9:28] And welcome to our new principals.

[9:30] And I don't think I've done anything in the last month board

[9:34] related.

[9:36] But I'm looking forward to the auction

[9:39] next month

[9:41] for our new principals. There is the Community

[9:45] Schools Foundation-

[9:47] Barn party

[9:49] ... barn party.

[9:49] Barn party.

[9:50] Where you drink too much wine, and then you buy things for

[9:53] the children.

[9:55] For the children.

[9:56] Not for yourself.

[9:56] You drink too much for the children, and then you buy things.

[9:59] You're right.

[10:00] And then the only other thing that I think I have to say is,

[10:04] it is election season. No one ran,

[10:08] guys, so we have two empty seats

[10:12] coming up on the board. And that will be

[10:16] for trustees' areas where Kristen is and where Anitra

[10:20] is. And so just sort of a solicitation to

[10:24] anyone who's out there who, for appointing,

[10:28] we need people from those two trustee areas.

[10:30] And I am hopeful that we will have strong candidates because we need

[10:34] people who really care about our district.

[10:38] Awesome.

[10:39] Thank you.

[10:41] Toaster.

[10:42] Trustee Clayton.

[10:46] Yeah. I echo everyone's welcome.

[10:50] Had a great summer that went by far too quickly

[10:53] and have no additional reports.

[10:56] Okay. Thank you.

[10:57] And my report just includes a big welcome back to our staff, our scholars, and

[11:01] our families. Very exciting at San Juan

[11:05] School. As I pass the school every

[11:09] morning as I go on my way to work, it's just exciting.

[11:13] I was a little

[11:15] sad about the Padre coverage, but that's because I'm

[11:19] class of '85.

[11:23] But

[11:25] we're moving forward, and

[11:26] I'm very confused by

[11:30] sometimes hearing from the community about,

[11:34] "What happened? Where-- I've just noticed-- What?" It's just a

[11:38] confusion. Must pay attention. Anyway, so, just to

[11:41] piggyback also on Trustee Powers, that we are looking for

[11:46] some community members to fill our seats.

[11:49] And

[11:51] we all work, and we don't have extra time to serve

[11:55] either, but this is something that is very doable.

[11:58] Guilty.

[11:59] And you have a good...

[12:02] Our fellow trustees will help anyone who's interested in answering any

[12:06] questions,

[12:08] all of that. So nothing else to report.

[12:12] And now we'll move to our superintendents.

[12:15] Okay.

[12:17] Don't have yet any reports on board committees.

[12:21] Those won't start till later this month.

[12:25] I want to welcome our two new principals.

[12:28] Shamoon's birthday is today.

[12:29] Yay.

[12:29] I almost feel like we should sing happy birthday.

[12:33] Happy birthday.

[12:34] And he's had a great start to the year.

[12:37] He's

[12:39] met probably more people in a couple of

[12:42] weeks than I did in the first three months.

[12:45] So he's out there, he's

[12:48] connecting with people,

[12:50] even rearranging the office.

[12:55] Shamoon, any words?

[12:57] Yes.

[12:59] I should-

[12:59] Just breathe.

[13:01] I'll make it relatively brief. It is my birthday after all.

[13:05] But I just want to say really thank you so much for welcoming me into

[13:09] this family in a very short amount of time.

[13:11] I've only been here since July 1st.

[13:15] It feels like I'm already a part of something really, really special.

[13:21] On my birthday today, so many people approached me wishing me well,

[13:25] and I had a chance to even meet with some of the link crew kids today, and

[13:29] I could feel the anticipation for the school year.

[13:32] And I'm extremely excited to be a part of this journey with all of you.

[13:35] So thank you for also giving me the chance to be a part of this.

[13:38] Appreciate it. On behalf of the entire Ebrahimi family, you have no idea

[13:43] how crazy this is, but this is amazing.

[13:46] Well, the question we really want to ask, though, is do you have curtains-

[13:48] Yeah

[13:49] ... in your office? Because it's very important this time.

[13:51] Yes. It's on the way.

[13:52] Okay, good.

[13:54] Yes. I have the remotes.

[13:55] Okay.

[13:55] The sheer curtains first, but the curtains are on the way.

[13:58] Okay. All right. That's what I need.

[14:00] Shamoon, can I ask you just to come up here and just stand here, and then we'll

[14:02] bring Miss Edith up here, so if anyone goes back to view our board meetings, they

[14:06] know who we're talking about.

[14:06] Sure. Yes.

[14:07] Yeah.

[14:08] Hello. Hello again. Shamoon Ebrahimi, straight out of the Chicago

[14:12] land area, now living in the San Juan Batista area

[14:16] in Morgan Hill, and happy to be the principal at Anzar High

[14:20] School. Thank you so much.

[14:22] You're welcome.

[14:22] Thanks for coming.

[14:23] Thank you.

[14:24] Happy birthday.

[14:25] Thank you so much.

[14:26] And Garcia. Who again,

[14:30] has just fit like hands in a glove into the

[14:34] position at Romus, and more meets and greets and

[14:37] popsicles and-

[14:40] ... whatever.

[14:41] We ran out of popsicles today.

[14:43] Oh.

[14:43] So that was amazing.

[14:45] Gave away over 100 popsicles, and everyone's so anxious

[14:49] to see their class lists, and so we're very excited.

[14:52] And we've been getting the campus ready, and so ready for tomorrow.

[14:57] Yay.

[14:57] Thank you for having me.

[14:59] Yay. Welcome.

[14:59] Welcome.

[15:06] So other things I might mention, we had an excellent new teacher

[15:10] academy. Very excited about our incoming class of new hires.

[15:14] Javon organized us all to do presentations, and I think we

[15:18] feel really good about everybody that's coming on board, so that's

[15:22] exciting.

[15:24] Following that, I don't know, this is a tough time of the year for you,

[15:28] Javon. She put together, again, with help from various team

[15:32] members, two days of professional development that

[15:36] are even more targeted and relevant to job-alike

[15:39] positions than ever before. And I've heard so many positive

[15:43] comments in the past couple of days about that.

[15:46] So thank you, Javon, for all those efforts.

[15:50] Many of us, and Anisa, you were there too, attended

[15:55] a county event

[15:57] a while ago on AI.

[15:59] Oh, forgot.

[16:00] You forgot?

[16:02] I don't think.

[16:03] Which I actually thought was pretty thought-provoking.

[16:06] Yeah.

[16:07] So we'll bring some of that to our AI task force.

[16:11] Again, I think some of

[16:15] us, I'm looking around to see who went. The Algebra Academy.

[16:19] Shamoon and Edith and I and Javon

[16:23] attended

[16:25] the Algebra Academy that's supported by Granite Rock.

[16:28] We had a number of our students either participate

[16:32] or be there as alumni and mentors, so that was pretty exciting.

[16:36] Really appreciate the work that one of our parents, Christy Sessions,

[16:40] does in organizing that event.

[16:43] So that was exciting. And then the last thing...

[16:46] Oh, Stuff the Bus.

[16:48] Mm-hmm.

[16:50] Many of us attended the event to put together

[16:53] backpacks for kiddos.

[16:56] And they need to be distributed, the extra ones that we brought back,

[17:01] when we find space to store them. But we had pretty good turnout, and

[17:05] it's always heartwarming to see

[17:07] the

[17:10] support to come out and fill the backpacks with supplies, and also the funding to

[17:15] provide those for families that need those.

[17:18] And the last thing I wanted to say is just the San Juan construction.

[17:23] This is a beautiful school.

[17:26] Everybody who

[17:30] has the pleasure, and you soon will, of walking through classrooms, I mean,

[17:34] it's sort of

[17:35] jaw-dropping gorgeous. We're still

[17:40] tying up some loose ends, and

[17:42] teachers have to figure out, do I need another bookshelf or this or that, but it's

[17:46] going to be wonderful for the kids.

[17:48] And I'm anxious tomorrow to get there early and just see the

[17:52] reaction of most of the students, because I think they'll just be amazed.

[17:56] They're putting in landscaping, putting in mulch around plants.

[18:00] So a lot of this work is going to continue for a little while here, and then,

[18:04] of course, we go into phase two, which is building the MPR

[18:08] and the library, preschool, kitchen, et cetera.

[18:12] But yeah. So a lot of us have been daily

[18:16] going over there and just keeping it up.

[18:20] So yeah, it's been a busy period of time, President.

[18:26] Thank you.

[18:29] Okay. We are going-

[18:31] Look at that.

[18:33] Oh, okay.

[18:34] All right. Well, we'll let Sam in. It's time now.

[18:37] Mighty senior. Have fun

[18:39] tomorrow.

[18:46] Okay, we are looking for a motion to approve consent

[18:50] agenda.

[18:50] I'll move to approve the consent agenda.

[18:52] Thank you, Trustee.

[18:53] Second.

[18:53] Thank you, Trustee Powers. All in favor?

[18:56] Aye.

[18:56] Any opposed?

[19:01] Okay. Information item. Our first is the launch of the

[19:04] district website.

[19:07] Okay. District website.

[19:09] Yes, sir.

[19:12] It's like weeks. Miranda goes, "Closer, closer."

[19:15] I go...

[19:18] Let's get...

[19:20] Squeeze on.

[19:20] Oh.

[19:29] So I don't know, everyone, did you get them?

[19:32] Yep.

[19:34] So,

[19:35] this is just while I'm talking. We are live

[19:39] finally now on Google and Apple. Apple just

[19:43] got approved today. So these are the QR codes to download the app.

[19:48] So basically, this is a new digital home for Roma San

[19:52] Juan, and I'm really excited to formally introduce this.

[19:55] I know the website's been out for several months.

[19:58] But this now, pretty much this past two weeks,

[20:02] everything is tied together now.

[20:05] So it's more than a new redesigned website.

[20:07] It's a digital home for the entire community.

[20:11] Our goal was to improve our families, students, and the community members

[20:15] find information and stay connected. You can go to the next one.

[20:20] Oh, it's right here. I have it, and I have a timer. I like that.

[20:24] So as you know, this was built for our community.

[20:27] This project began over a year ago with a committee.

[20:30] We did a lot of discussions. We looked at a lot of platforms.

[20:34] The goal was to improve the district-wide communication.

[20:39] We listened to what families and schools needed, and we reorganized

[20:43] and updated a lot of the information and content,

[20:47] so it would be easier to find and just more clear.

[20:51] And as everybody knows, a website is always a work in progress, and

[20:55] this will be updated all the time.

[20:58] I always tell people, too, if the navigation makes

[21:02] sense to me- ... in my head. So I always tell people if for some reason

[21:06] you're having a problem finding something or whatever, just let me know and we can

[21:10] rearrange things really easily on the menus.

[21:14] So basically, each site has their own identity,

[21:18] but they all look very similar, and so they have their own colors

[21:22] and everything else, but the layouts are similar,

[21:27] to keep everything consistent. So families will find familiar

[21:31] search tools, quick links, calendars, and directories on

[21:35] every website with allowing them to have their personality as

[21:38] well.

[21:40] And this is really helpful too for people who have more than one kid

[21:44] or more than one child at different schools.

[21:46] It helps the organization.

[21:51] So we did design this with families in mind.

[21:53] This is the parent/guardian resources page with easy icons,

[21:57] and so they can find each area. These are the

[22:01] areas that people go to the most that we're finding.

[22:04] So here they can quickly access enrollment, data confirmation,

[22:08] calendars, transportation, meals,

[22:12] ELOP, athletics, and the bullying reporting.

[22:15] And there's clear labels, short descriptions, so they know what they're going to

[22:19] find. And we're hoping it reduces the number of clicks, and

[22:23] people have to go searching through all different menu items to find things.

[22:30] So this just shows here,

[22:32] it actually translates on the fly.

[22:35] So on the bottom right-hand corner, there's a

[22:38] US flag, and you click it, and you can pick the flag of Mexico to go

[22:42] to Spanish. And it does

[22:45] translate everything. We've really made a point to not have

[22:49] PDFs on the website because those do not translate.

[22:53] So you'll find the parent notices and everything.

[22:56] They're all individual posts. And so each post will

[23:00] translate. So, it was a lot of work in the beginning to get each page,

[23:04] 100-page parent notifications into posts.

[23:08] But now that it's up, it's really easy to maintain.

[23:13] And this is just to show we finally have everything together.

[23:16] You should have gotten some emails this week.

[23:18] We're using Messenger XR now instead of

[23:21] ParentSquare. So we're able to target all those messages

[23:25] similar to ParentSquare by school, parents, staff,

[23:29] and it does automatically translate the message based on their language in Aeries.

[23:34] All the data is brought in from Aeries on a nightly basis,

[23:38] and is refreshed every night. And so all parent emails and

[23:42] staff emails, everything like that.

[23:44] What's nice for me is it actually updates our staff directory as well.

[23:48] That didn't happen with the old system.

[23:50] And so I do have to add pictures, but the staff directories are updated on the fly.

[23:55] Also here, which it shows you are the, is the mobile app.

[23:59] So that's the homepage in the middle that you'll see on the mobile app, and on the

[24:02] right is a page where you can select exactly what schools you want

[24:06] to follow. You don't have to follow every school. You can if you want.

[24:10] And as you select the schools, the calendars,

[24:14] it's based on the Google Calendar that the schools keep updated.

[24:18] And so you'll only see the calendar for that school

[24:21] And you can pick if you want to see the athletics calendar or the events calendar.

[24:24] Most schools have two calendars.

[24:27] And you can also select if you want to see the district calendar as well.

[24:31] Mm-hmm.

[24:32] And so that is kind of cool because it's reactive to whatever

[24:36] you need.

[24:38] And I wanted to thank Cesar.

[24:41] He helped out with these apps and getting all of the back end ready.

[24:45] It was a lot of work, especially with Apple.

[24:47] They have a lot of testing and things that they do on their side.

[24:52] And Jackie and Sam have been integral in getting Messenger and

[24:56] Composer, which is the website's

[24:59] platform integrated with Aeries.

[25:01] That's been a really long project for them and getting all the mapping and

[25:05] everything done correctly, and they've done a really great job with

[25:08] that.

[25:10] So anyway, that's it. That's our digital home. We're really excited.

[25:14] And if you have any questions about it?

[25:19] Any questions from the board?

[25:21] Yeah. I successfully-

[25:22] Yeah

[25:22] ... downloaded it.

[25:23] Me too.

[25:24] Yeah. Well, we did the... I downloaded it.

[25:26] Yeah.

[25:26] And it was really nice to be able to see.

[25:28] I really appreciate the calendars because I think that's always driven me crazy, is

[25:31] that I don't know when back to school night is, for example, and it's right there.

[25:35] Yeah.

[25:35] It's on there. So that's-

[25:36] And they're color-coded on the main website, like all of the schools, but they're

[25:40] all color-coded. And then there's a legend at the bottom of the

[25:44] calendar. So basically it all feeds from Google.

[25:47] Yeah.

[25:47] So, yes.

[25:48] Oh. Thank you. Thank you, Cesar.

[25:51] Yes.

[25:53] Okay. Our next-

[25:55] Good job, Cesar

[25:55] ... is the 45-day revised budget.

[25:58] So I didn't put together a presentation for it.

[26:01] It's pretty much our adopted budget and adding

[26:06] the Students of Color Professional Development Block Grant.

[26:09] It's about 883 grand.

[26:11] Adding the remaining Learning Recovery and Emergency Block Grants.

[26:15] I think those are the two main points.

[26:18] So there's not much.

[26:20] We have no one-time funds.

[26:25] Where do we find those? You just read out the...

[26:29] Are there line items on it?

[26:30] Oh, that's not-

[26:31] This is not-

[26:32] That's not the-

[26:33] This is Barb's favorite spreadsheet.

[26:34] Yeah, that's-

[26:35] Oh.

[26:35] Just wanted him to mention this.

[26:36] Okay.

[26:37] The revised budget's on the-

[26:40] In here

[26:40] ... clickable on the agenda.

[26:42] Okay. Sorry.

[26:43] It's two PDFs. One for unrestricted general funds-

[26:47] Unrestricted. Okay. Thank you

[26:49] It looked like just all the grants. Right?

[26:52] Yeah. There's two one-time funds.

[26:55] One of them has impacts to the unrestricted general fund

[26:59] because it gives us more time to spend down Learning

[27:03] Recovery and Emergency Block Grant, so we don't have to make a transfer from

[27:06] unrestricted to restricted this year.

[27:10] So

[27:11] it buys a little bit of time.

[27:13] Thank you.

[27:14] Any questions for David?

[27:17] Thank you, David.

[27:18] Thank you.

[27:20] Moving on to our action items. Action item A, the

[27:24] agreement College and Career Access Pathways Partnerships.

[27:28] This is the second College and Career Access Pathway Partnership

[27:32] agreement that we have had with Hartnell College.

[27:35] As you know, in our district, we are partnered with Gavilan, so we have to get

[27:38] special permission to partner with Hartnell.

[27:41] And I'd like to mention that we have expanded the courses that we

[27:45] are planning to offer in this agreement.

[27:48] Along with mechatronics, there is a course called Construction Management and

[27:51] Architecture, and this is a course that will follow our CTE pathways

[27:55] in a really nice sequence for our students.

[27:58] This is also a course that David Founds, our CTE instructor

[28:02] here at our school, can teach as dual enrollment on our

[28:06] campus. So our plan is to move forward with getting all of

[28:10] that

[28:12] process in place so that he can teach that course when we have students that are

[28:16] ready to fill that course, which will be, I hope, by next year.

[28:19] So that's really exciting. We've also added three new courses, Ag

[28:23] Business, Ag Plant Science, and Ag Production.

[28:26] These are three courses that our students, through our California

[28:30] Colleges Guidance Initiative assessments, have told us that they're very

[28:34] interested in some of these Ag courses.

[28:37] They're not offered at Gavilan, so we're allowed to offer them at Hartnell.

[28:40] In the past, we have had students transported to the Hartnell campus

[28:45] via van, so it's a small cohort of students that have been able to take

[28:49] courses there, and so we're trying to figure out which students, which

[28:53] courses, and the timing for that as we move forward with this agreement.

[28:58] Thank you so much.

[28:59] Any questions for this? And it's a multi-year, so we can

[29:03] amend and add classes as we see fit.

[29:05] I'm just really excited to see how we've been expanding the career

[29:09] pathway, and just, it's so wonderful.

[29:12] Not all kids are necessarily gonna-

[29:15] Do the traditional

[29:16] ... do a four-year university, and that's okay.

[29:18] And I think that having these options is so great, and I love having the dual

[29:21] enrollment. I just really appreciate all the efforts that you put in on this,

[29:25] Javon.

[29:26] Thank you.

[29:28] The one thing I'll add is, I was looking at the enrollments for

[29:32] certain courses at the high school, and he has five

[29:36] courses that are pretty full.

[29:38] Yeah.

[29:39] Up from when he started, maybe two.

[29:42] Mm-hmm.

[29:43] And so I talked with him today and he was like, "Yeah, you've got me now."

[29:48] I'm not leaving.

[29:49] Nice.

[29:50] And he is really a kid that,

[29:52] David Founds-

[29:54] Great teacher

[29:54] ... is doing a great job.

[29:55] That's great to hear. Well, I'm happy to make a motion to approve this.

[29:58] Yeah, I'll second.

[29:59] Thank you, Jamie. All in favor?

[30:02] Aye.

[30:02] Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Javon.

[30:07] The next is the job description for the Anzar High School

[30:10] clerk.

[30:12] So what we're doing here, this is a new job description.

[30:15] It's actually the office clerk and the library clerk.

[30:18] What we did, if you remember previously, is we had a

[30:22] four-hour office clerk position, which is in the front office here, and a

[30:26] four-hour library clerk position.

[30:29] And Mrs. Large had those both. So it was an eight-hour job.

[30:34] What we were finding is the hours in the library are very

[30:38] variable depending on when Mrs. Beske needs

[30:41] support. It's dependent on her prep.

[30:44] And so by combining these two positions, it gives us a lot more

[30:48] flexibility. And then we left it at the longer day, the

[30:52] 222-day calendar that a clerk is at.

[30:54] So as school is starting and ending, when the library

[30:58] position is not needed, that person can help focus in the office

[31:02] and get things ready for the school year or help close things down, and

[31:06] they have a full day to do that rather than just four hours.

[31:10] And we did work through with the ASJFCE

[31:14] and worked this out with them as well.

[31:18] Did you get any pushback with this?

[31:22] Well, it was more discussing equity

[31:25] among the sites, but part of the issue is if you have half the

[31:29] students here that they do at Aromas with a full-time clerk.

[31:33] And part of it too is the student need here for a

[31:37] clerk. They're not running in needing Band-Aids and

[31:40] ice packs and things like that. So there wasn't as much of a

[31:44] need for a full-time clerk in this position.

[31:48] Thank you. Any questions? I'll make a motion to approve. Thank you.

[31:52] Trustee Chalmers. Thank you. Trust-

[31:54] Jesse

[31:56] ... Jesse. All in favor?

[31:56] Aye.

[31:57] Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.

[32:00] Next item.

[32:00] And the next one is food service.

[32:02] So food service provider is a six-hour position, and

[32:06] we are asking to have it moved to a seven-hour position.

[32:10] This is the person who is in the cafeteria.

[32:14] They're in charge of their area, and then they have a cafeteria assistant who's

[32:17] five hours below them.

[32:20] With the San Juan construction and the kitchen being here now,

[32:24] they need additional time, but we're also offering an earlier breakfast here

[32:28] now at Anzar, so that's causing more time.

[32:32] And then also with construction at San Juan, we've had to

[32:35] change the recess schedules a little bit.

[32:38] And so how long they're serving lunch, we're trying to have the middle

[32:42] school students go a little later, not all at the same

[32:45] time because there's limited room and things like that.

[32:48] And so we did work with the union again on this. They were fine with it.

[32:52] The employees are fine. And we understand that once we change this to seven hours,

[32:56] it will stay seven hours.

[33:00] Any questions, Bran?

[33:02] Looking for a motion. I'll move to approve. Thank you, Trustee Jenny.

[33:06] Second. Jesse. Thank you, Jesse. All in favor?

[33:09] Aye.

[33:09] Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.

[33:13] Thank you.

[33:15] Next on the agenda is the second reading, the mobile

[33:18] communication devices.

[33:20] So I wanted to just point out the small differences

[33:24] between this version and the one that you saw at your first reading.

[33:29] As you requested under definitions,

[33:33] we added the phrase, "includes but is not limited to." I think

[33:36] that was a suggestion that Casey brought up.

[33:40] And that whole list of cell phones, smartphones,

[33:44] smartwatches, smart glasses, et cetera, that was in the original

[33:48] policy.

[33:50] It's interesting because we're watching all the area school

[33:54] districts

[33:55] go through this same process and put out policy

[33:59] revisions and procedures.

[34:03] I was looking at the hay balers, for example, and one of

[34:06] their communication pieces talked about devices.

[34:11] Any device that connects communicates with signals.

[34:14] And that's really what all of these are.

[34:17] And so the only other change under instructional

[34:21] time, there were

[34:24] four items there originally. We had an

[34:28] internal meeting with our administrators to talk through these,

[34:33] particularly our new principals and our high school

[34:37] principal. And it was decided that because

[34:41] at the high school it operates a little bit differently than K-8, and

[34:45] a high school student goes into a class, they deposit their

[34:49] cell phone into a

[34:53] shoe tree thing-

[34:54] Hotel

[34:55] ... hotel for their phone. And then when class is over, they pick it up and they

[34:59] go to the next one. So for us to say and/or student

[35:03] resource or break times,

[35:05] that would fly in the face of that, right?

[35:08] Because they're picking it up while they're moving to their class and they've been

[35:11] using it at break or recess. And we've not

[35:15] had any problems with it. So we're going to leave

[35:19] the current practice at the high school the same.

[35:22] And to be consistent with the policy, we simply, the

[35:25] period after wellness centers and deleted and/or

[35:30] for student recess or break times.

[35:34] At San Juan School,

[35:38] in the past, I think we probably mentioned the

[35:42] students

[35:43] were asked to keep their cell phones in their backpacks, and

[35:47] many of the backpacks were hanging outside on hooks.

[35:50] And so they weren't very secure that way.

[35:52] And we had some students who were violating that

[35:56] policy. So instead what we're doing is we purchased for them,

[36:00] because if you've seen the layout now, the L shape of the classrooms is quite a

[36:04] ways away from the admin center itself.

[36:08] We have these, which many school districts are getting, we have a secure

[36:12] lock box kind of thing where a cell phone can be deposited, and

[36:15] a teacher can pick it up if there's an emergency, can pick it up and take it

[36:19] with or open it, whatever. So they're going to remain in the

[36:23] classroom with the students. We're going to try those and see how

[36:27] they work. If they work, now at Aromas, they have a

[36:31] basket system that they use that's worked fine

[36:35] for ... several years, but I think they'd like to

[36:38] probably move to that same system too.

[36:40] We just want to see if this device works well, and then we'll bring that

[36:44] to a vote. So the only change in the wording

[36:48] is what you asked Casey to add, and then

[36:51] deleting that last phrase. Otherwise, both

[36:55] policies are as

[36:57] the first reading. And we've

[36:59] communicated this with information to parents,

[37:03] we've communicated it to all of our teachers.

[37:07] I think probably we'll generate an FAQ document,

[37:11] which many districts are supplementing with, but we have the

[37:14] information on our website, and we really had one or two questions.

[37:19] We are asking

[37:21] if a parent wants their kid to have the cell phone at school, to

[37:25] fill out a registration form to either

[37:29] say, "No, they're not bringing a cell phone," or "Yes, they are." Because in the

[37:33] past, we haven't known, for example, if the cell phone that they bring is actually

[37:36] one the parent knows that they have.

[37:39] So we want to make sure that

[37:41] this is a cell phone that the parent wants the kid to have, that they didn't get it

[37:45] from their boyfriend or girlfriend or someone else, and that it is

[37:49] actually going to be secured by us as their own cell phone.

[37:53] So parents are

[37:55] either saying, "No, they're not bringing anything," or "Yes, they are, and here's

[37:59] the cell phone number."

[38:02] And we're getting a lot of people stepping up and filling that out.

[38:09] Any questions?

[38:11] Can I make a motion to approve both

[38:14] of the policies at once?

[38:18] Is there anything in that one?

[38:20] No, the other one, there's no change in them.

[38:21] Okay. I'm going to make a motion to approve both policies.

[38:25] Okay, second.

[38:26] Thank you. All in favor?

[38:28] Aye.

[38:28] Opposed?

[38:30] This is second, Jesse?

[38:31] Yes.

[38:36] Okay.

[38:36] Okay. We are now in our

[38:39] recommendation for future meetings.

[38:46] Nothing right now.

[38:49] Well, oh, at a future meeting, we're going to need to

[38:53] do an approval of

[38:55] doing interviews and seating

[38:59] board trustees.

[39:00] Okay. We'll bring you some information about that process.

[39:03] So yeah. And getting it out and putting it-

[39:06] Yeah

[39:07] ... to the communities in our district.

[39:09] Thank you.

[39:10] Okay.

[39:13] Others?

[39:16] Okay. Upcoming meeting dates. Our next regular board meeting is

[39:20] September 9th.

[39:21] Do we have a-- We have a hold on September 2nd,

[39:25] but we don't have a confirmation for that yet.

[39:32] 6:00, here at Anzar High School. Our

[39:36] Facilities Committee meeting is August 26th at 4:30 at the

[39:40] district office studio.

[39:43] And feedback by Trustee O'Malley Solis.

[39:47] It was nice to have our two new principals here tonight,

[39:51] thank

[39:52] you for inviting them, and

[39:54] thank you to Truman for being down for thank yous.

[40:00] I was excited about getting

[40:04] to hear about the kids' experience, that

[40:07] the kids are about to experience being parts of the San Juan school, and I'm

[40:11] interested in hearing about how it goes.

[40:15] I really liked the new website, and I like the

[40:19] fact that there's

[40:21] immediate translation right there, as well as

[40:24] seeing Toaster as the star of the show at San Juan school on that

[40:28] tile.

[40:31] I really liked hearing about the new curriculum offered

[40:35] through Parkdale College. The construction management architecture

[40:39] class in particular is near and dear to my heart, because that's my

[40:43] field.

[40:44] So it's nice to see the Del Chino children having access to

[40:48] that before they're doing their graduate work.

[40:54] And then also the business science and ag production class.

[40:59] That's it. Great work. Excited for the new year.

[41:03] Thank you.

[41:05] Okay. Is there any public comment on our closed session

[41:09] items?

[41:10] No public comments on that.

[41:11] Public comment. Okay, we are going to adjourn to closed session at

[41:15] 8:06.

[41:16] I think I'd like-

[41:17] Can we take a-

[41:19] Like to mention what we're going to discuss.

[41:20] Oh, yes. We are going to be discussing the superintendent

[41:24] goals and the conference with labor

[41:26] negotiators.

[41:28] I move to adjourn us to closed session.

[41:31] Thank you. 8:07. Are we all-

[41:34] Aye

[41:35] ... in favor? Okay.

[41:36] Great. We're taking a break.

[41:37] We're going to take a-

[1:08:25] We're through.

[1:08:25] Standing. Pamela. We're done. You're ready now. Okay.

[1:08:29] And we are reconvening to open session

[1:08:33] at 8:34. There is no action to request.

[1:08:37] Yes, yes there was. Oh, yes. I'm sorry. There was.

[1:08:41] We are looking for a motion. No. Yes.

[1:08:44] You're reporting out on what we've approved in there.

[1:08:47] We approved in, during closed session, we approved

[1:08:51] the superintendent schools. Correct. There it is. There it is.

[1:08:55] Okay. And now I'm looking for a motion to adjourn. I move to adjourn.

[1:08:58] I'll second.

[1:08:59] Thank you. Wait, who? That was Kristen. Kristen and Stephanie.

[1:09:03] And then- Got it on the board ... at 8. All in favor?

[1:09:06] Aye.

[1:09:06] Aye. Okay, adjourned at 8:34. Thank you.

08/12/2026 Regular Board Meeting and Public Hearing

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