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The Board is adjourning from close session where the following items permitted by law were considered.

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Item 1 be public employee appointment, employment evaluation, pursuant to government code 54957, title assistant, superintendent, instructional services and principles.

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Bill Gorbach made the motion to approve the appointment of Veronica Johnston as Assistant Superintendent Instructional Services, seconded by Karen Sylvester, Motion Carried 5-0.

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Cindy Goldberg made the motion to approve the appointment of Carla D. Damizio, as principal

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Sequoia Middle School seconded by Bill Gorbach, motion carried 5-0. Bill Gorbach made the

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motion to approve the appointment of Michael Namchak as principal Wesley Kill's elementary school

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seconded by Cindy Goldberg, motion carried 5-0. I don't want to see conference with legal counsel

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existing litigation, pursuant to government code 54956.9.

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Senegalberg made the motion to approve the settlement agreement for case OAH-202020263.

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Seconded by Karen Sylvester, motion carried 5-0.

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Item 1D Labor Negotiations, pursuant to government code 54957.6.

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The agency negotiator is Gini Valentine, Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources, Employment

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organization, California School Employees Association.

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I would like to welcome everyone to the meeting and make the following announcements.

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As there are COVID-19 restrictions in place, we understand it's critically important for people

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to limit in person interaction. Education is an essential function and we value your input

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on the important education matters we face. Therefore, the district is providing appropriate opportunities

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for public participation. Members of the public, desiring to address the board by submitting

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a written comment on a topic in lieu of a public comment, we're provided the option to submit

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their comment by email to sfellman at kenehousd.org by 2pm today Tuesday, May 18, 2021.

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Board members were provided these written comments prior to the board meeting.

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In addition to the written comment opportunities, the district will also permit members of

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the public to address the board through the following options.

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By telephone members of the public, desiring to speak on an agenda item, we're provided

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the option to contact the district by 5 p.m. on the day before the meeting Monday, May 17th,

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2021, and submit their request to speak by email to us, film, and it can echo usd.org,

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or by calling the superintendent's office at 805-497-9511 extension 1101-01. Members of the

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public were required to provide the district with a telephone number where they can be reached

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to address the governing board when the item is being discussed during the governing board

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meeting.

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In person, members of the public deciding to speak on an agenda item in person should fill out a blue speaker's card and hand it to Ms. Fomin at the Secretary's desk.

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If you wish to speak on an agenda item, please turn in your card prior to that item section of the agenda.

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If you wish to speak on an agenda item that is not on the agenda, please turn in your card before the public comment section of the agenda.

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All speakers have three minutes at the podium.

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However, speaker times may be reduced when they're a large number of public comments submitted

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for an item.

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Because these meetings will be held in public, we ask all speakers to show sensitivity and

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respect for our students' equal rights of privacy.

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If you wish to register your concern, but not speak at the podium, please fill out a yellow

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public statement form and turn it in at the secretary's desk.

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Smoking is not prohibited in this building or anywhere else on district property and police

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and all cell phones.

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Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? President Fitzgerald. Yes, Ms. Goldberg. I move that we approve the agenda with the following items pulled from the consent agenda. Item B, item G, item H, item I, and item G, G.

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Is there a second?

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Second.

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session. Okay, seeing none, please vote. Trustee Sylvester? Yes. Trustee Gil? Yes.

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Trustee Goldberg? Yes. I'm a yes. Trustee Gorbache? Yes.

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Trustee Craig? Yes. Motion carries 5-0 with an honorary yes vote by Trustee Craig.

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We're going to move to item 2E report from parent support organization and tonight it's the district advisory council and we will be joining Zoom for this portion of the meeting.

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So can I make a quick announcement? Because of feedback through our sound system, those that are in the audience, the TV out in the lobby is available for you to hear the conversation we can't have the sound in here because of that loop.

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So, if you're interested in the DAC report,

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we would ask you to step out in the lobby to hear that

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and then you're welcome to come back in

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once we're done with Zoom.

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We're just waiting to get everyone on,

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so give us just a couple minutes.

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We're still just getting everyone lined in just so those

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who aren't in the room, no it's still not.

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Okay, we've got everyone on the joys of our virtual world.

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So we, I see, are back better than in Heather Stelly.

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Thanks for joining us.

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and we're ready for your report if you'd like to share.

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Thank you so much.

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I feel like I need a mask on, seeing all y'all and masks.

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It's very strange.

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Today's main secret intended board members and CVUSD staff.

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Thank you so much for inviting me to speak with you guys tonight.

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Coming into the role of DAC chair person this year,

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of leading the largest parent representative group

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in the district and its significance in this moment

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was not lost on me.

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DAC was uniquely placed to be a conduit of information, but to the district and back from the

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district to school sites.

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So let's get into it.

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What a year.

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DAC executive board met early in August to make one of the biggest changes to DACs inside

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served.

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In order to accommodate persistently changing schedules as we headed into the unknown of

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the pandemic school year, we decided to move our meaning times from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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This change, while difficult for many families with young children who need to feed them

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dinner and get them off to bed, had some surprising results.

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We had the highest attendance in DACA in the years.

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And while engagement was difficult in the Zoom format, accessibility.

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To the meetings improved. This year, we were able to work on LCAP goals, talk about remote teaching, student progress, learning loss mitigation, blended programming, shine, independent study, and century academy school models.

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We had presentations on the breakthrough program, and the California Health Healthy Youth Act, which resulted in the formation of an ad hoc committee, who worked vigorously on proposed health education curriculums in child compliance.

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The presentation by the ad hoc committee at our April meeting led to thoughtful discussion about how best to meet the needs of our students.

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Jack members were able to discuss what has been successful this school year and should continue and what didn't work.

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Our last meeting of the year we were so lucky to have a presentation on the equity task force by Dr Miller and several members.

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This sparked active engagement from members on diversity equity and inclusion.

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Moving into next year, DEI will remain an important topic for DAC. DEI will be considered as we make important decisions such as meaning dates and times next year.

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As we look forward to next year, we have formed a new ad hoc committee to look at health education in elementary ages.

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And at our last executive board meeting, there was some discussion about a committee where parents and teachers can connect.

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At this time, I would like to take just a brief moment to thank Alexandra Kichel, who is served on

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DAF, but this school site rep and on the executive board for seven years. Her reports and input

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will be missed. But I would also like to thank Ann Marie Paglia for her time on our executive board

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and we are hopeful she'll be able to continue to serve on DAF as a site rep next year.

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Also, I would like to link Mr. Lulittal. Your patience and your guidance throughout this unusual time was greatly appreciated.

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On behalf of DAC members, I would also like to thank the district for its open communication and transparency through this pandemic year.

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The emails and invitations for input webinars and surveys, let us parents know our voice is very important and heard. Thank you.

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Thank you so much for joining us and for that helpful report.

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We appreciate it.

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So we are now at item 2f public comments.

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We have one public comment. Okay, so I'm going to read a statement before our public comment. The CVLSD Board of Education respects and wants to hear from students, parents and employees in our community regarding the important education matters we face. Individuals have the right to make public comments during our school board meeting. Comments are granting specific items listed on the agenda must be made when that agenda item is called. Please be advised that our meetings are held in public.

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each speaker will have three minutes and because they're held in public your comments may be heard by those who are present in this room and those watching a broad cast of this meeting

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Please remember to make your comments factual and to offer them in a respectful manner that provides a good model for students and meets the expectation of our community

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And an effort to maintain order during our meeting and in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws the governing board strives to respect the privacy rights of students and employees during our meetings

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We ask that all speakers show sensitivity and respect for our students' privacy rights, including the right in many situations for their identities to remain confidential.

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We also ask that speakers be sensitive to our employees' legal rights to privacy and confidentiality.

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At this time, I would like to highlight that anyone who makes a defamatory statement during the board's meeting is out of order.

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Defamation is the intentional publication of a statement of fact that its false unprivileged

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and has a natural tendency to injure, or which causes special damage.

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Defamatory statements may subject the speaker to civil liability.

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No action or discussion shall be undertaken on any item not appearing on the post to the

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agenda, except that members of the board or at staff may briefly respond to statements made

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or questions posed by persons exercising their right to provide public comment under government

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code section 54954.3. In addition on their own initiative or in response to questions posed

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by the public a member of the Board or staff may ask a question for clarification make a

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brief announcement or make a brief report on their own board-related activities. Please be assured

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that the school board members value your input, your active and respectful participation in

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our meeting process is appreciated.

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We have one speaker at this time, Liz Pierce, and you're

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to go to the podium for your time. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Hi, my name is Liz Pierce and I have a son who is a junior at

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Newbury Park High School and a daughter who is a seventh grader

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whom I am homeschooling right now.

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I'm here to address the new dress code which I'm very

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uncomfortable with.

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I'm trying to understand the reasons in an objective way

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and I'm going from the Acorns article about the dress code. The first reason they list is

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shaming. If this is happening, I agree. This definitely shouldn't be done and is an administrative

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issue and would be addressed through training. The second reason the article list is that discrimination

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by race. And honestly, I think the dress code is more of a size of your body issue than the color

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your skin. So I see this is not a rational argument. Just still trying to understand this.

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The third reason it lists is discrimination by socioeconomic status. And I also don't

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see that at all because like a crop top that a girl is wearing costs more than a t-shirt.

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So I don't understand why that is discriminating by socioeconomics. It does not make sense.

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The fourth reason is that the oldest code is exclusive due to its vagueness. And I do agree with

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it. I read it and it is vague. It doesn't give enough specifics. So I do agree that that should be clarified.

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And I will hide consistently across the district. The fifth reason that it lists is that the old dress code inhibits learning.

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I don't see this at all because a girl or boy gets up in the morning gets their clothes on and they think about it then and they shouldn't have to think about it at the rest of the day.

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If they do, that's their choice and their responsibility.

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But there's no reason to.

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And then the last reason that the article list is that the old dress code

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is not inclusive, does not provide for equality and diversity.

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And I know that those are three popular words of the day.

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But of course, if you apply the dress code consistently, it does include everyone

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because everyone has to follow it.

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It does have equal application, as long as the administrators all do it.

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properly and it does allow for diversity because you can wear anything you want as long as

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a falls into the code. So I don't see how those apply either. So honestly trying to find the

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reasons for the new dress code is my objective and I would really like to ask all of you that

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of present if you would truly send your son or daughter to school under a dress code that only is

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to cover nipples, genitals and buttocks, is according to the article.

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Truly, this is embarrassing.

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I think schools should be taken seriously,

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and you should be wearing something similar to what you would wear to a work meeting

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and a nice dinner or an educational seminar.

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Private schools require uniforms,

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where color, style and measurements are specified.

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Are we that different?

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You can wear your more relaxed casual closet school after school and at home.

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Thank you. You're welcome.

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Your time's up. Thank you for your comment.

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I did just want to mention on any of our topics that are covered in our board meetings.

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You can go back on our videos, or post it on our website if you're interested in any topic and kind of the discussion that went on.

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You can go and find them and you can watch them there on anything on any of our topics.

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Just so folks know at home as well.

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Thank you.

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And we will move at this time on to item 2G, comments by the Board of Education. And we'll start with Trustee Gorbache.

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Good evening. This month is a lot of recognitions and solutes. The first one I want to do is this is classified employees week. And we know that our classified employees are a

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The glue that holds our district together, it serves all of our students and I just want

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to congratulate them and let them know that we certainly recognize the good that they

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do and the benefit they provide our students.

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Second, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Recognition Month.

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We need to recognize the contributions that these Americans have made to our country and do

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Everything we can to eliminate the rash of crimes directed against these peoples, instigate by ignorance, comments against them.

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So, May is also recognition of our indigenous peoples' month, that we're here when we are of various immigrants,

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when we are of various immigrant backgrounds came and minimize those who were indigenous when we got here.

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The values of borrowing the earth to make better, to pass on to those left behind, would be a great value had we learned from them.

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May is also Jewish American heritage month.

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Finally, as far as recognition, may is mental health awareness month.

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I will refer back to the importance of this awareness in a couple minutes as I discuss concerns universally brought up in various stack meetings that I observed.

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Since our last meeting, the next evening, the next evening, after our last meeting, on

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SyncoDemio, I virtually attended the presentation at Canahoe Elementary with County Superintendent

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Dr. Morales. Many of the parents attending express their emotions of having this great leader

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as a person for their children to look up to and Dr. Morales shared some of his family and personal

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history as to how his parents inspired him.

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The importance of all parents taking the time to talk and read

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with their children could not be emphasized enough.

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I attended our reopen and redesigned committee.

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It appears, correct me, if I say anything wrong here.

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It appears that there may be slight regulations and restrictions,

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but overall we are getting close to the ability to reopen the year

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and party like it was 2019.

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Last Tuesday, I virtually attended the DAC meeting.

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You heard from our DAC leader, but again, I want to salute Mrs. Kichel, who will be leaving

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after seven years of service.

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And I do want to appreciate Mrs. Skelle, who you heard just recently, for her strong leadership

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of DAC this year.

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They also acknowledge the importance of emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion as

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a priority for the next year.

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Dr. Miller gave a great presentation of the E.I.

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They also discussed the Wednesday middle school counselor talks for students as part of the addressing

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student mental health needs after many are anxious about the social and emotional aspects

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of returning to campus live and in person.

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Another concern that was brought up was also mentioned in mail that I received this week was

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the inequity between some of our campuses, athletic programs, and resuming live and many

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of our performing arts programs, not and how that has affected them both socially and financially.

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So we need to think about funding these programs more and certainly, certainly, when the

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participants of performance arts come to you and ask for donations, please donate graciously.

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Additionally, there was questions for those parents who still chose to have their student

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participate in distance learning.

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Will we be able to accommodate them starting next year?

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and for the general welfare of the students and families on the social

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and mental health of students returning to campus.

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concerns were expressed about kids ressocializing with their peers and adults face the face.

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There seems to be universal recognition that at all times and particularly this year,

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the importance of including mental health aspects into the regular school day

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is the foundation upon which the academics are built.

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the academic building will not endure.

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There was recognition that through this year there was greater parent awareness of what was happening and being presented to kids in class and questions about how better presentations from teachers to parents about what is being presented could in some way continue from what we did this year.

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There are questions whether funds, funds from e-log, could be directed toward mental health.

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And I hope on quoting this as was said, there were strong sentiment that kids are adults.

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see that person for limited sessions and then know that they will be passed on to the next.

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One more sentence I heard that I'd like to bring up is as stated earlier, mental health is important to deliver as part of their instructional day, not an elementary for out.

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And again, doctors, doctors, doctors, Miller and Chamberlain gave great presentations on diversity, equity and inclusion. Thank you.

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Thank you, Trustee Gorbach. Next we'll go to Trustee Sylvester.

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Thank you. It's been a busy two weeks, but I do know we have a full agenda. So I'm going

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to try to focus my remarks and build Mr. Grabback to cover some of it. First, I would

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like to thank Heather Skelly, not just for the report. You gave tonight, but your leadership

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up back throughout this crazy year. You've done an amazing job, and you should feel good about

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that. Let's see. I attended the monthly Chamber of Commerce Education Committee meeting.

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where Matt trouts from Athens services was the featured speaker. Athens is the provider who's taking

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over waste services in Thousand Oaks next year. He talked about their sustainability center,

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which is at 2251, Thousand Oaks Boulevard, where you can see all of the innovative work

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his company is doing in terms of recycling, composting and education.

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And in that vein, he had mentioned he is willing and happy to work with our schools,

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including arranging field trips to their facility in Sun Valley.

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So this to me, Sun's like it could be a great opportunity for all grades up to and including

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our high school environmental classes.

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Also, as part of the Chamber of Education Committee, just a few short hours ago, I, along

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with many of my fellow trustees, attended the teacher of the year presentation.

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We're a brin Hutchinson of Banyan and Shine, was recognized as a very deserving recipient.

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This is a big deal.

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Just getting chosen, teacher, the month, is a tremendous honor.

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And then being called out as teacher of the year, is even more so.

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So what an honor to...

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To be recognized as a teacher of the year during such a challenging and demanding time.

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I was fortunate to attend a two-day Master's in governance training class on school finance,

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which was sponsored by the CSBA, which is the California School Board Association.

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And while I recognize that this isn't a ways the most exciting or sexiest topic,

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I really appreciate the time and attention all of my fellow trustees as well as Dr. McLaughlin,

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to the subject.

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Financial stewardship is just a vital role of the school board, so the better we can understand

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the complexities of school finance and our role in managing expenditures, the better

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we will be able to responsibly navigate through tough times when money is very tight.

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I know we've seen that in prior years.

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As well as times like now where we seem to have or we do have an influx of funds, both one

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time stimulus dollars and potentially, if you look at the governor's revised budget, potentially

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some more ongoing state money.

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So again, our top priority has to be offering the bus programs to our students, so they

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can achieve their best outcomes, but this really requires us to remain financially solvent

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and wise about our spending.

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So I thought the training class was excellent, well done, and important.

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And I'm going to echo both, Heather Schelley's comments as well as Mr. Garbax.

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The DAC meeting, they're final one of the year.

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Dr. Miller did just a wonderful job presenting on all of the diversity equity and inclusion

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initiatives that are taking place within the district, as well as the work of the equity

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task force.

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And I really felt she was able to truly capture the breadth and depth of all of the work

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accomplishments that the district and many of the parent and community groups have been

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undertaking on behalf of our various student groups. I would like to thank all of the members

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of the equity task force who showed up and attended the meeting and shared from their heart,

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their personal stories, their own experiences with this group, the bonds and trust that they are

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developing and all of the important work that they see beginning. And then furthermore, as a trust

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He was really gratifying to hear the reaction of the DAC parents to this presentation, because

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across the board, their feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and their comments reaffirmed

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that the direction the district has taken on this work, that it is the right path, and it

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is in brief by our parent leaders.

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And this morning at the CDAC meeting, I was too shared that all of the DAC chairs actually

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did get together and have committed to the work of diversity, equity, of inclusion, and

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to have this as a priority, and jointly support each other's efforts.

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And then, finally, I was going to go much more into detail with this, but we're not covered

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I haven't reached out to by several parents regarding the performing arts programs.

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Since all three of my kids were former theater kids, it's something I understand, I understand

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how important that experiences in terms of the connections to your school sites and the connections

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and finding your own community.

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And for many, it's really the reason they show up and go to school.

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So I know we may not have many of the answers right now in terms of guidelines, but I'm

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hopeful that we will let them sing and let them drum, and that we can perhaps find some

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money somewhere to help address the inequities that exist across campus in terms of booster

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club funding, because that's a primary source of funds.

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So, and then finally, Happy Classified School Employee Week and a shout-out to all the absolutely critical work that our classified staff has done over the past year and the vital role they played in getting our students' back to campus and keeping the CVSD humming a lot.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Trustee Slevester and next we'll turn to Trustee Gill.

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Thank you.

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I'd like to say thank you to our public commenter tonight and to all those who took time to communicate directly with us.

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I appreciate the engagement.

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I appreciate the time it takes to share personal experiences, concerns, and insights.

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I want to second the comments of my fellow trustees, Mr. Gorbak and Ms. Sylvester, and

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I won't repeat a rundown of the sessions that we all participated in together.

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I'll just add that, Mr. Sylvester spoke about the school finance learning that we did

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last week and coming up this week. Some of us are engaged in sessions on human resources

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and collective bargaining. And I'm really appreciative of the commitment to professional development

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I'm learning a ton and I think it's just a great experience for us. We are at a very emotional

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hinge point in the years we approach the final days. Still the trauma and suffering of a pandemic

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year is close by and we feel it. But we're also going through process of taking stock of just

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how much we've learned about what works and what doesn't. And we're looking forward to the

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graduations and the promotions, celebrations that mark the extraordinary accomplishments

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of our students in what is an unprecedented year. I want to thank Heather Skelly, Chair of

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and the thank all of the district advisory committees for their dedicated engagement communication and collaboration through this extraordinary year.

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I learned so much.

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I think it's a model of distributed leadership and engagement in this very caring school community and I'm deeply appreciative.

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Thank you, Trustee Gill. Next up we have Trustee Craig.

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Thank you. I also want to start off by thanking our public commenter and thanking Mrs.

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Skelly, not only just for her work within the DAF, but being able to know as an individual,

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this pastures you the collaborative DAF, PTA meetings, it was just such a great experience,

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and everyone involved in that district advisory committee. I really just appreciate everything that they do.

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I also want to say happy classified staff week. We really appreciate you speaking on behalf of all

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students you really make our campuses amazing in welcoming places. So we appreciate all your work.

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I'm happy to announce that we finally have the lectern results from our student district advisory

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executive team for the 2021-2022 school year. So I'm happy to announce that our S-DAC recorder

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and Westside High School member at large is Yenelle Mendoza, our Century Academy member at

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is Camille Oleski, our 1000 Oaks high school member at large is Gabby Lopez, our new

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very park high school member at large and vice chairperson is Michael Lingerath and our

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S-DAC chairperson is Catherine Juve from Westlife high school.

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So thank you again to everyone who has involved with that process in the election and I

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really look forward to seeing what they have to do for the next year.

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Speaking of S-DAC, we have our last meeting, next Monday, May 24th at 330 will where you

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executive board, as well as updating our bylaws. I'm also happy to announce that we're going

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to be introducing the position of student representative to the Bond Oversight Committee,

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as well as selecting a student representative for the Kenejo School's Foundation stakeholder

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group. So I'm looking forward to that process. Within S-DAC, we've had a couple more

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subcommittee meeting.

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As well as we wrap up this school year, we had another meeting with the 1,000 Oaks Chief of Police Chief

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Fryhoff this past week. Previously we had a discussion with them at our last S.Dak meeting, but

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we opened up this meeting to all affinity clubs in CVSD and we had a really great conversation

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about student resource officers as well as policing in general in our community. So I want to thank

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him for his time and willingness to discuss this as well as looking forward to the continued

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conversation and collaboration that we intend on having more meetings next year to expand

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of these conversations.

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Our reopen redesign subcommittee meeting has also met to discuss the use of stimulus funds,

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as well as an overall discussion about our past experiences this year and what we want

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to see in education moving forward, which was a really great conversation, and we also

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intend on continuing these meetings over the summer as policy regarding school next year changes.

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Our mental health subcommittee has been working to put together a project, featuring our

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CVSD high school counselors on our Instagram page, which is at CVSD

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underscore student DAC if you want to check it out, just really

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appreciating all our counselors during mental health awareness

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month and sharing what they do to celebrate mental health.

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I also want to give a shout out to the wellness classroom on campus,

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and this is available for all middle schoolers and high schoolers.

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They've been hosting webinars every Wednesday at noon.

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The one tomorrow is building a stress management plan, which we can all use

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after this year, I'm sure, so be sure to register via Canvas on your classrooms.

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So to check that out, I've also attended a lot of the meetings.

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Other board members have attended the Reap and Re-Design, C-DAC.

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I was also fortunate to attend a curricula meeting with all the other DAC, ETF, and stakeholder

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group members, and had a really great conversation about curriculum overall in the district

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moving forward.

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So I want to thank everyone that was involved in that, and last but not least, I also

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I want to praise Brian Hutchington, teacher of the year, I know that every single teacher this year has worked so hard, especially in this environment, but it's really such an honor and I just want to congratulate them on everything that they've done this year.

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So with that, I conclude my comments. Thank you.

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Thank you, Trustee Craig, and our next report is from Trustee Goldberg.

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So, the beauty of going to all the same meetings is, I can just say, dido to a lot of what was just said.

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I do want to highlight a couple of things.

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One is at the program, the outreach program that Mr. Gorbache spoke of with says on Marales.

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He had a couple of things that he wanted parents to know, and I thought they were really important.

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He said that parents, his parents modeled the importance of going to school, and he said

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it's always better to ask questions, and there's no shame in not knowing things, and I

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thought that was a really good takeaway because sometimes we think we have to have all the answers

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and we don't, but you always have to ask the question, he said fight to learn, to open up

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options. He said you have to support a child's spirit as well as their mind. He also said

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that it's really really hard in a world of instant gratification to remember that sometimes

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things take time. And he was talking about reading in particular and the importance of reading,

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He also said specifically to our English learner families that sometimes you may not feel like you have a place in school offices or in conferences with teachers.

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But you should never miss those opportunities to advocate to teachers for your child.

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You should get involved. It raises your own self-esteem as well as it teaches your kids how to advocate for themselves.

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And he said that you should demand that schools create programs that are good for your children.

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We all have to help each other.

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And I thought that was so very important.

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He said we multiply our successes when we do things like this.

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And then our families are the people who make our district stronger.

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And I can't echo his sentiments enough.

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At the DAC meeting, Alice Chu shared that the Living Resources Center offers services like ASL interpreting and peer support, assistive technology, transition opportunities, housing advocacy, and more, and they're looking to connect students, 14 to 24, and I guess all students, and you should contact a Sandy Quitsberg at the independent living association,

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it for deaf and independent living resource center.

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Like everybody else, I was deeply appreciative of Dr. Miller's presentation at

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DAC, on the equity task force, and it wasn't just Dr. Miller's presentation, which I

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really appreciated hearing the authentic voices of those task force members.

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It's really, really critical, I think, for everybody to see that there's a lot of work going on and a lot of hearts in the balance.

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And so I want to thank you for that.

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Like everyone said, that all of the debtors have done herculine efforts.

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Heather Skelly, Alice Chu, but Jay E. Claudia, who's the last name I will butcher, so I won't try.

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So, sorry Claudia, Carla, from D-Lack, and all the translators, Susie Stanziano, and everybody else who keeps me able to understand what's going on in those meetings, our own adi-creg, leading this year has been really hard, and all of your work has been so important and great, and I'm grateful.

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It's been mentioned that Alex Kichel is graduating out of Keneo Valley Unified School District and I can't say enough about her contributions to our schools and communities.

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I've spent a lot of years together on DAC with Alex and I appreciate her openness and willingness to share her perspectives and her expertise.

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Her sons have made an impact here as reporters from the very park high school as well as on their campuses.

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What is it they say about apples and trees?

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Alexandra is going to be missed.

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I told her please don't be shy that we still need her.

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Even though she's no longer parent in our district.

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She's part of us.

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I can't thank Dr. Chamberlain and Dr. Miller enough for that amazing presentation on mental health.

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You hear me say about that a lot and everybody else has touched on it.

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Bren Hutchinson, teacher of the year, it was the perfect pick for me, so if you don't know her, follow her on social media, you'll learn a lot.

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As it is classified and please, I would like to give a shout out to the IMT over at Los Doritos Middle School, Kerry Donoho, who of her own position taught a cooking club, or teaches a cooking club.

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Those students are lucky to have a reaction.

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Or she's an amazing cook, and it's joyful, mouthful learning, and so thank you, Mrs. Donahoe. And also, to Ruby Hernandez, a

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fantastic CSEA custodial staff at Banyan Elementary, there were some baby birds that were hiding

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and starving under the cubbies in the kindergarten yard, and Lori Marzelax kindergarten class

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by them and asked for help, Ruby fished out the birds, saved them, put them in a box under

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the tree for the mom to feed and take care of.

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So, other duties as a sign goes way beyond what we think of on the campuses.

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So, thank you very much to our CA folks who just get the job done.

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And lastly, completely unrelated and sort of note with the arts emphasis, because that's definitely a passion of mine.

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I cannot recommend highly enough the exhibit at the California Science Center.

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There is a Lego exhibit, which sounds kind of silly, but it's unbelievable.

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It's an art exhibit through Legos.

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So they've created the great masters out of Legos.

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So even if you're kids like mine or you weren't a Lego kid,

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it's unbelievable it's not to be missed.

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Make your time reservation and highly recommend it.

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And social distancing is observed.

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So thank you, Trustee Goldberg.

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I'll start just by saying I'm really God, the baby bird story, how to have the ending.

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I don't remember for a minute.

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I'm not going to tell a bad one.

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Okay, good.

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I want to just take a quick moment to think our school sites for all the work I've seen underway to celebrate

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our graduating seniors and our promoting fifth and eighth graders.

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I've seen so many yard signs around town and it's really nice to have that spirit of celebrating our students.

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again this year, so I appreciate all of the hard work I know is going into all of those plans.

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And I will echo our congrats to our teacher of the year, Brian Hutchinson, and our

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thank you to our doctor and our mental health providers for the support that you have provided

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to our students every year, but with this year being so critical as well. And also a huge thank you

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to our classified staff who have done a wonderful job keeping our schools running, especially again

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during this challenging year.

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And finally, congratulations to the new student DAC executive board members.

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We're excited to see what you have in store for us next year.

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I know there's a tough act to follow, but I'm sure that no question that you'll be able

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to do so and continue growing that program that's already doing so many amazing things.

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So, congratulations again.

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And with that, we'll move to comments from our superintendent.

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Good evening to our community. Just a couple of quick announcements. We are working on our latest

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and next survey that we'll be going out to families just in regards to possible selection

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of the different learning opportunities for next year. Obviously, the first choice would be

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would look like on our school campuses is a choice. Obviously the shine home school program,

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which is a TK through 12 program will be an option for families to select from

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century Academy, which is a 6 through 12 blended program that has been in place for many years

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in our district, will be available. And then the other program is the virtual learning program,

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which we're obviously still waiting for some language and verbiage about what it is that we

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and can't offer what it would look like.

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And so if we do, and you are interested in the virtual learning

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and we get more details, we may have you select as an option

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this go around with a follow-up, two-pronged survey with folks

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who select that just as more details come out from state legislature

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and the governor on that.

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With master's in governance, many of our board members have spoke about it.

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We all know in our community that our board here is engaged, along with

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Cabinet and myself, but now the whole state knows that our board is engaged as

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They were very engaged in in the first round of

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Training which we were working on budget and so I do appreciate our board members who

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Really shared the experiences that they were learning within their groups and I think

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It was definitely obvious to those who were participating in the training that we have an engaged board.

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So thank you for your engagement and we'll need us to go through the Masters in Governance.

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This Friday and Saturday will be on negotiations.

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So I look forward to being on that with many of our board members and texting back and forth and

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and learning together as I feel is the best way for us to continue to work as a full-fledged team.

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Congratulations to Carla D. D. Muzio, who was approved as Sequoia Middle School New

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Principal in Mike Nemchek, as the West Lake Hills Elementary School Principal, so

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congratulations to them to Bren Hutchins, fantastic teacher, well deserving of our teacher

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of the year for Canal Valley Unified School District, and just the work that she puts in and

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transition from a traditional setting to an independent study setting as a teacher was

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phenomenal. So thank her for her efforts and I know that her students both in the traditional

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setting and in the independent study setting has really, it's awesome really great growth

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and her ability to work with them has been fantastic. And then once again to all of our classified

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folks. Thank you for the work that you do. Making our campuses look great. Our offices run.

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The list goes on and on and on. So with that happy classified employee week. Thank you.

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Thank you, Dr. McLaughlin. And we'll move on to item two eye business services measure

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oversight committee and overport an update. Are we logging on to Zoom for this one? Yes, okay.

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So give us just a minute.

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You may be able to hear some old conversation.

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We have everybody on Zoom, and I'm going to go ahead and hand this over to Dr. Hayek.

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Thank you, Mr. Gerald.

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The citizens,

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well, the citizens bond oversight committee.

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Meet regularly throughout the course of the year, part of their responsibilities to present an annual report to the Board of Education.

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And I'm going to introduce Mr. Tony Geth, the chair for the committee for the 2020-21

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school year, and he'll go over the highlights and information regarding the Bondo

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or State Committee's work for this past year.

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Mr. Geth?

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Good evening, President, Fitzgerald, Dr. McLaughlin, members of the Board of Education and

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District staff.

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That most importantly fellow citizens, my name is Tony again, and I'm the chairperson of the bond oversight committee, and tonight I want to talk to you about our annual report.

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Can we go to the next slide, Victor, please?

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The members of the bond oversight committee are shown here.

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The Cindy Lu is our parent representative, Kelli Goble is our community.

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A large representative, Melanie Nizzabikian is the community, a large representative.

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Marshall Denniger is the taxpayer Association representative.

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Andrew Fletcher is the business organization representative.

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And Melissa Cannon is our parent, PTA representative.

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Go to the next slide, please.

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The measure I bond oversight committee responsibilities are to provide oversight and the following ways to inform the public concerning the district's measure I expenditures, review expenditures, especially the district reports to ensure that the bond proceeds are spent only for measure I purposes and ensure that no bond proceeds are used for teacher or administrator salary salaries.

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We prepare and present, we prepare and present a written report each year on what we're doing.

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And we review the audit that is done, the independent audit next slide please.

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We normally need every other month, although we can meet more often.

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And we did that in December.

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We had a special meeting to review the audit.

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So you can see the dates that we met here.

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next slide, please. Just a little background for those of them might have not been here in November of 2014.

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The voters of the Canale Valley overwhelmingly approved measure I, $197 million general bond obligation to support the school renovation and modernization products in the Canale Valley Unified School District.

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The district currently operates 31 sites with total buildings and excess of 2 million square feet and California state law requires an independent bond oversight committee be established to monitor the expenditures in view of what was promised to the voters next slide please.

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The language on the ballot that the voters approved starts out with to upgrade, maintain the

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Canadian Valley schools with funding that cannot be taken by the state.

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That was really important because in 2008 after the recession, a lot of the state funding

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to the schools was cut.

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And so the question was, shall the Canadian Valley Unified School District upgrade all

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science career training labs update maintain classroom technology and network infrastructure

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provides safe well maintained classrooms repair replace electrical plumbing roofing repair

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construct acquire equipment sites and facilities and improved school safety security by

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issuing $197 million in bonds at legal rates with citizen oversight and annual audits

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no money for administrators and without increasing the tax rates. Next slide, please.

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So the $197 million worth of bonds is divided into two care areas.

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The capital or infrastructure portion, which is the largest is $146 million in the technology,

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which has to do computer and digital learning is $51 million.

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The first bond issued in 2015 for $37 million in 2018 for $50 million and the district was actually able to improve the rating in 2018 by making presentations to the bond and underwriters about how greatly canal valley school district is in 2020 the third issue of the bond was for $50 million.

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And in 2023, the fourth and last issue of the bond will be for $60 million.

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Up until now, the low interest rates have been favorable to the bonds.

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And so the rates that the citizens pay are reduced.

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We would expect if things go as they're planned, these days that the rates will be up by 2023.

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three and so the district may want to consider going a little earlier than that if they can figure

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out how to spend money faster next slide, please.

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Some highlights from the committee this year, first of all, were required to certify the annual

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audit per a bylaws and so we year by affirm that the district is in compliance with the state

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requirements. A little background on the audit. In previous audit, so we had hoped to be able

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see the items that the auditors selected in the previous auditors didn't

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were interested in doing that. The district contracted with a new auditor

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starting this last year and so we decided that the committee would meet

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with the auditor and we did that on May 13th to talk about what we would like

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to see in the audit in addition to all the normal things. The auditor told us

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there's requirements for a bond oversight audit.

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And when we asked about whether we could see the what was in fact actually audited,

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they said that's not one of the requirements, but as a concession to the district,

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they would give us a separate report through that. And they did. And that proved very

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interesting. We were able to see which items were audited. And we were also able to see a list of the sample

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a labor charge is that we're audited because there is some labor being charged for

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program management and other activities to the bonds.

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Not, not labor for teachers or administrators. So it was a successful audit next slide, please.

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The committee decided that in looking at the new West Lake High School STEM building, which is the largest measure I program undertaken at $14.4 million that we wanted to pay a special attention to that, especially since the district is acting as its own general contractor.

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And so in every meeting we regularly look at the bid schedules, the construction schedules, and the construction cost estimating reports, and I'm happy to report to you that the district is doing an outstanding job and measure in enacting this or carrying out this project.

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They are on schedule and the cost remain as projected. I'll show you some pictures and a little while of what's going on there if you haven't been out to look at the site.

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We're also looking at adding a student representative to the board.

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Just as the Board of Education has a student representative, we think it would be a good idea to have a student representative.

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And so we're looking at what's required to do that.

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One of the things is that we'll probably have to change the bylaws a little bit because the bylaws limit people to be 18 and over.

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and we'll also have to look at other requirements but we think it's a good idea and we're going

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to continue with that. Next slide that shows the typical expenditure summary if you want to know

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what your school site is getting in terms of measure I you can look at the expenditure summary on

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our website and it will show by school what the budget is, how much has been spent, how much remains

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to be spent. And the next slide goes into even more detail. So if you want to know what the

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construction or capital portion of these penetrors are and what the technology portion of the

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expenditures are, and I know you can't read this slide, but this is just a typical example.

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Every school has a detailed report from the beginning of the bonds funding back in 2015 to

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in this case up to March 31st of this year of what's been spent on a cumulative basis by detail.

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The next chart, I want to talk about the capital portion of the bond. As I mentioned before,

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the $197 million has $146 million in capital money. That's divided by high schools,

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$52 and a half million dollars middle schools, 30 million elementary schools, 41 million

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other sites, 14 million and a contingency of $7 million.

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Next slide, please.

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I won't try to read the slide to you, but this shows how the each school, what the funding

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is or the allocation is for each school, the elementary schools, at $41.6 million dollars,

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the middle schools at $30 million, the high schools at $52.5 million and other sites at $21.9 million.

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Next slide, please.

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So, a graphical format, if you look on the left, you can see that the elementary schools have an allocation of $41.6 million.

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And to date through March 31st, $17 and half million dollars has been extended in the middle

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schools of $30 million allocation, $10 million has been expanded.

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The high schools of $52.5 million and rupt to $31 million expenditures in the other areas

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and the contingency 5.8 million of the $21.9 million has been spent next slide, please.

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The capital budget is divided into several categories in the instructional technology and network infrastructure, the science mathematics and career preparation labs, the modernization, maintenance and repairs, and safety and security and program management. Next slide, please.

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So if you look at the total expenditures of $64 million, $64.9 million through March 31 from inception,

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you can see that the modernization, the MMOR portion of the bar is the biggest portion at $48.4 million.

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If you go down to the next slide, we'll talk about the technology allocation.

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Whoops, I missed a slide here, sorry.

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So in 2021, these were the way the monies were spent out of the elementary schools,

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the middle schools, the high schools, and the other sites.

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And again, the MMR, the modernization activity is taking the balance,

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the bulk of the money. Next slide, please. On the technology side, it's broken the $51 million

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is broken into two portions.

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The $38 million goes to technology equipment or what we call

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the endowment and the program management takes $13 million. The important statistic here is that

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The goal here is to spend $100 per student per year at each of the schools and sites.

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Next slide, please.

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Again, this slide shows the breakdown by elementary schools, 15.5 million dollars of bond allocation,

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the middle schools, 7.8.

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The high schools at $13 million dollars and the other sites at $13.5 million dollars.

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Next slide, please.

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There are many more categories in the technology area, computers, tablets, laptops, audio

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visual, printers, and print accessories, software, installation services, charging stations,

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miscellaneous, electrical engineering equipment, the general and civil engineering equipment,

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robotic equipment, science equipment and accessories, next slide, please,

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another chart

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before that lecture.

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Yes, that one.

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Um, so in terms of the technology expenditures, you

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can see that the, um, category V the tablets and the laptops are the biggest expenditure

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category A of the computers on the top is also big and then the program management, which we'll

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and you can see that the total through March 31st to 16.8 million that's been spent today.

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The way the technology works is the site.

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So, figure out what they would like in their technology-indowment allocation for the year. And then the district

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commonizes them by putting all of the same kind of equipment into one type. So it's easier for the district to administer and maintain them. And they issue a catalog so that the sites can order from the catalog. And this is updated every year.

619
01:06:46,222 --> 01:06:57,302
Next slide. One of the big things that has been added now is the Permitian Active Panel, which is interactive technology for the classroom.

620
01:06:58,182 --> 01:07:10,062
It's touchscreen enable and mirrors mobile devices that are in the room and also wireless share capabilities and of course laptops and tablets are a big item.

621
01:07:11,692 --> 01:07:13,812
So for technology,

622
01:07:15,972 --> 01:07:21,432
the program management activities include providing technology input to

623
01:07:21,432 --> 01:07:25,892
the schools, initiating and receiving the technology orders, working with the vendors

624
01:07:25,892 --> 01:07:30,672
on pricing, receiving the orders, setting up the devices and deploying them at the school

625
01:07:30,672 --> 01:07:33,292
sites, and providing continuous support.

626
01:07:34,192 --> 01:07:37,132
So, in a lot of activity that goes on to support all of this.

627
01:07:37,132 --> 01:07:45,812
Since we're on program management, I also want to talk about the program management for the infrastructure or the capital expenditures.

628
01:07:47,432 --> 01:07:55,472
The planning and facilities department meets with the principles annually to review their site project priorities.

629
01:07:55,472 --> 01:08:04,632
programs. The projects start based on budget availability and priority of the projects project that require

630
01:08:04,632 --> 01:08:11,992
architectural designs follow the design bid and build process laid out by the state. All of the capital

631
01:08:13,452 --> 01:08:25,452
projects program management is handled by department staff. Some years ago that used to be

632
01:08:25,452 --> 01:08:31,952
little money by doing it by in-house personnel who are deeply committed and individually understand

633
01:08:31,952 --> 01:08:39,432
the details of what's going on at each site. The staff develops cost estimates for each project

634
01:08:39,432 --> 01:08:46,212
in the scope of work, they develop a master schedule, they provide contract management, including

635
01:08:46,212 --> 01:08:52,252
bid and award for public contract code, they oversee projects, conduct final inspections and close

636
01:08:52,252 --> 01:08:59,812
projects, they conduct internal project audits, and they liais with the California division

637
01:08:59,812 --> 01:09:07,512
of state architecture, DSA, because DSA must approve all of the changes or new structures

638
01:09:07,512 --> 01:09:17,732
that are being installed or done. Next slide, please talk just briefly about the COVID-19 impacts.

639
01:09:17,732 --> 01:09:28,772
The word no direct impacts on measure I projects do the pandemic actually when the students were not on campus, it allowed the continuation of construction without impacting other activities.

640
01:09:29,772 --> 01:09:35,032
It did prevent the committee from visiting sites and that's understandable.

641
01:09:35,032 --> 01:09:41,512
So, one impact is that the demand for building materials increased as material availability

642
01:09:41,512 --> 01:09:47,772
decreased and the increased material costs caused an increase in expected project budgets.

643
01:09:48,052 --> 01:09:52,472
So, the district is working on that to try to see how we can stay within the budgets.

644
01:09:52,732 --> 01:09:57,992
We do have a small contingency in the West Lake High School.

645
01:09:58,032 --> 01:10:04,132
The district is acting as its own main contractor and that helped to save overall costs

646
01:10:04,132 --> 01:10:07,072
to meet the goal of the $14.4 million.

647
01:10:08,552 --> 01:10:11,972
And one other comment is that measure iPhones

648
01:10:11,972 --> 01:10:16,412
were not used for laptops and other devices.

649
01:10:16,532 --> 01:10:20,692
The devices that the district need were funded by other funds

650
01:10:20,692 --> 01:10:23,712
and not measure I. Next chart, please.

651
01:10:24,412 --> 01:10:27,392
So I want to talk about some planned activities.

652
01:10:28,892 --> 01:10:33,332
The Aspen Elementary School may entrance modernization.

653
01:10:33,332 --> 01:10:40,412
It will be a single point of entry, reconfiguration, public access to campus will be modified

654
01:10:40,412 --> 01:10:45,952
and private students and staff access to the nurse's office will be provided, and this

655
01:10:45,952 --> 01:10:49,052
is a $1 million budget next slide please.

656
01:10:50,472 --> 01:10:56,272
The Collinor Middle School has some unique things based on its location.

657
01:10:56,272 --> 01:11:15,332
You know that as you go up and down, he'll crest you, the entrance to the middle school was right at the bottom of the hill and so cars often pick up some speed and then as the crossing guard crosses they have to slam on the brakes.

658
01:11:15,332 --> 01:11:20,632
So we're doing, we're doing a couple of things that's here to try to improve that situation.

659
01:11:21,272 --> 01:11:26,472
One is the music building, which is located up near Hillcrest is being moved to the back of the campus,

660
01:11:28,252 --> 01:11:32,052
and also we're going to modernize the science classrooms as part of that.

661
01:11:33,492 --> 01:11:38,072
But there's being designed a new drop-off and pick-up pathway.

662
01:11:38,172 --> 01:11:45,212
You can't really see it in this picture very well, but there's a pathway to the left on Hillcrest that will come around

663
01:11:45,212 --> 01:11:51,852
circle around so that's pickup and drop-off will be much easier. But most importantly,

664
01:11:54,132 --> 01:11:59,432
the district is working with the city and they're going to put a light at the bottom of the hill

665
01:11:59,432 --> 01:12:07,072
there and that should improve things directly immensely. The budget for this is $5.5 million and

666
01:12:07,072 --> 01:12:10,532
It will also rebuild and modernize the locker rooms.

667
01:12:11,212 --> 01:12:11,972
Next slide, please.

668
01:12:13,652 --> 01:12:19,452
Close the Redo's middle school campus modernization will

669
01:12:19,452 --> 01:12:23,032
exit will include exterior building facade improvements.

670
01:12:23,692 --> 01:12:27,232
New out to our student plaza and assembly area window

671
01:12:27,792 --> 01:12:33,792
additions in the student stairwell and the budget is 1.3.2 million dollars.

672
01:12:33,792 --> 01:12:36,852
And this construction was supposed to start in April.

673
01:12:39,432 --> 01:12:43,112
The Redwood Middle School campus modernization

674
01:12:43,772 --> 01:12:46,532
knew how to do our student plaza, including assembly

675
01:12:46,532 --> 01:12:50,612
areas, modernization of all classrooms, upgraded music

676
01:12:50,612 --> 01:12:54,672
and science classroom amenities, and the budget is $5 million.

677
01:12:57,892 --> 01:13:03,092
The Sequoia Middle School art and music modernization

678
01:13:03,772 --> 01:13:06,632
will include a remodel of the music and science

679
01:13:06,632 --> 01:13:13,372
classrooms upgrading furnishings and lab amenities exterior building facade modernization

680
01:13:13,372 --> 01:13:15,492
and the budget is $4.8 million.

681
01:13:17,512 --> 01:13:26,312
The century Academy campus modification will look at the exterior of the buildings, campus

682
01:13:26,312 --> 01:13:32,612
separation from the rise in the circular driveway that had been planned has been reduced

683
01:13:32,612 --> 01:13:35,412
that has been eliminated because of the scope cost,

684
01:13:35,872 --> 01:13:37,152
but the budget is $3 million.

685
01:13:40,082 --> 01:13:43,822
At Nubari Park High School, there's a plan for a new stem building.

686
01:13:44,182 --> 01:13:48,482
It will have 12 new stem classrooms, a center courtyard.

687
01:13:49,292 --> 01:14:02,912
There'll be exclusive all-gender restroom stalls. And the budget for this is $10 million. There's been a lot of learning injected into this design based on the learning from the West-like high school stem building.

688
01:14:03,392 --> 01:14:12,492
And the cost is significantly reduced because there's more land available. So we don't have to go up three stories. It can all be single stories. And the budget for this is $10 million.

689
01:14:12,492 --> 01:14:24,702
The Numerary Park High School Softball Athletic Field included a remodel and upgrade new

690
01:14:24,702 --> 01:14:31,422
dugouts and scoreboard of parking lot expansion and budget for that was $1.2 million.

691
01:14:34,672 --> 01:14:38,232
And finally, I want to talk about the West Lake High School STEM building.

692
01:14:39,152 --> 01:14:44,652
It's a three-story building, it has seven science classrooms, four laboratory classrooms

693
01:14:44,652 --> 01:14:47,712
in the budget, as I mentioned, is $14.4 million.

694
01:14:50,032 --> 01:14:56,532
This is a picture taken in the last August where the site was prepared

695
01:14:59,862 --> 01:15:03,782
in the next, can you

696
01:15:03,782 --> 01:15:10,082
pop down another two charts, Victor, when were you going to go to the next chart, please?

697
01:15:12,382 --> 01:15:12,442
Yes.

698
01:15:12,662 --> 01:15:17,782
So this is the concrete slab laying, which happened in December.

699
01:15:17,782 --> 01:15:29,142
next chart, please. This is the steel structure in January and the next slide, please.

700
01:15:32,522 --> 01:15:32,542
One

701
01:15:32,542 --> 01:15:38,222
more slide. Nope. Yeah, that one. This was taken in April and there's been a lot of progress

702
01:15:38,222 --> 01:15:44,502
since then, but the construction is moving right along. If you haven't seen the structure

703
01:15:44,502 --> 01:15:50,742
you can drive through the upper parking lot on at West Lake High and look down on it and it's

704
01:15:50,742 --> 01:15:52,122
going to be magnificent building.

705
01:15:55,622 --> 01:15:59,982
So I want to make sure that everybody knows that anything that's

706
01:15:59,982 --> 01:16:06,182
going on on measure I can be found on the measure I portion of the district website. The detailed

707
01:16:06,182 --> 01:16:11,782
expenditures that I showed earlier are there, the living document, which is updated quarterly

708
01:16:11,782 --> 01:16:20,642
has every detailed expenditure by site, and there are the master plans, site surveys, and

709
01:16:20,642 --> 01:16:23,302
other work that went into developing all of these plans.

710
01:16:24,042 --> 01:16:25,142
Next slide, please.

711
01:16:27,122 --> 01:16:33,302
You can find us on Twitter and, of course, on the Measure I Web site.

712
01:16:33,302 --> 01:16:41,122
In conclusion, I want to read a better for the excellent works you get in putting these charts together.

713
01:16:41,842 --> 01:16:46,302
I want to thank the voters for proving measure I.

714
01:16:47,002 --> 01:16:51,602
And I now served three terms on the measure I committee.

715
01:16:51,982 --> 01:16:54,762
And so my turn ten years up based on the bylaws.

716
01:16:54,962 --> 01:17:00,742
And I want to thank the district for all the support they have given to the.

717
01:17:00,742 --> 01:17:06,682
as your eye committee, basically everything that we could have wanted, we asked for the district

718
01:17:06,682 --> 01:17:09,102
supported us that have done an outstanding job.

719
01:17:09,802 --> 01:17:12,962
So thank you very much and I'm glad that's your any questions.

720
01:17:16,142 --> 01:17:21,522
Thank you, Mr. Kitt, for that really thorough and excellent presentation and I do agree

721
01:17:21,522 --> 01:17:25,162
the slides are very helpful and just digesting all of that information.

722
01:17:25,762 --> 01:17:32,522
I do want to echo that thank you to our community for supporting all of these amazing improvements

723
01:17:32,522 --> 01:17:38,182
through the bond measure and also thank you to all of the committee members for all of your work on our

724
01:17:38,182 --> 01:17:43,842
measure committee. I'm going to open it up now to questions or comments from the Board of Education

725
01:17:44,742 --> 01:17:49,862
and if you'll just unmute yourself, so I can see you on the screen if you have a question or

726
01:17:49,862 --> 01:17:50,542
comment.

727
01:17:53,412 --> 01:17:54,212
Trustee Solvester?

728
01:17:56,932 --> 01:18:01,052
I thank you. Mr. Gip, that was an excellent report and I know first

729
01:18:01,052 --> 01:18:06,672
just how much work goes into being on the committee and putting together this annual report.

730
01:18:06,852 --> 01:18:11,812
And it was very thorough and easy to understand. So that's sometimes hard to achieve.

731
01:18:12,792 --> 01:18:16,692
I was happy to see all the slides and the progress on the West Side High School STEM building

732
01:18:16,692 --> 01:18:22,572
because I do know initially there were some concerns about the district being the general contractor

733
01:18:22,572 --> 01:18:28,032
on this project, but it seems to have worked out not good, really, really well.

734
01:18:28,032 --> 01:18:30,872
So it was only happy to hear the progress on that.

735
01:18:31,112 --> 01:18:33,432
And I am very happy to hear about the stop light at Kalina,

736
01:18:33,692 --> 01:18:37,352
because that is definitely an issue.

737
01:18:38,452 --> 01:18:41,392
One of the questions I do have,

738
01:18:42,112 --> 01:18:44,512
and this has actually been a question I've asked,

739
01:18:44,652 --> 01:18:46,152
since I've been on the BuzzRight committee,

740
01:18:46,552 --> 01:18:48,492
and that is the outreach to the community,

741
01:18:48,952 --> 01:18:52,352
because one of the responsibilities is to inform the public.

742
01:18:52,692 --> 01:18:55,192
So I feel very well-informed now,

743
01:18:55,312 --> 01:18:57,452
and I've been on the website and we all have,

744
01:18:57,452 --> 01:18:59,712
There's a ton of information there.

745
01:18:59,792 --> 01:19:01,472
So this isn't really about transparency.

746
01:19:02,292 --> 01:19:05,232
This is about broadcasting and promoting all of the great work

747
01:19:05,232 --> 01:19:09,332
that's been done at our school sites to the public at large.

748
01:19:09,432 --> 01:19:11,492
People who are not necessarily on the school sites

749
01:19:11,492 --> 01:19:13,892
or are not necessarily watching the board meeting.

750
01:19:13,952 --> 01:19:16,072
So I see some tweets on Twitter.

751
01:19:16,872 --> 01:19:18,372
But if someone from our community goes,

752
01:19:18,372 --> 01:19:21,632
hey, what's up, building, rising up behind West Lake High School?

753
01:19:21,652 --> 01:19:23,632
What is it, and they get on the West Lake High School?

754
01:19:23,632 --> 01:19:30,112
website. It doesn't mention Medcharide. And none of our school websites acknowledge the work

755
01:19:30,112 --> 01:19:35,432
that's been done through Medcharide. So I mean this is a long comment and I've mentioned this

756
01:19:35,432 --> 01:19:40,812
before so it's not in the news. But I do want us to think about ways we can think outside the box

757
01:19:40,812 --> 01:19:50,832
and to really inform our community of all the wonderful projects we've undertaken. So we may need to

758
01:19:50,832 --> 01:19:55,992
back out to the community in a few years, if we think we need to issue another bond, and the more

759
01:19:55,992 --> 01:20:00,092
that we can kind of lead them along and show them all the work that's been told, and I think the better.

760
01:20:01,172 --> 01:20:05,792
So, I don't expect to hear a great answer right now, but I do think it's something we need to discuss.

761
01:20:06,952 --> 01:20:11,972
We may want to consider more order to the world for hiking, I'm not sure if you can hear it.

762
01:20:13,832 --> 01:20:15,392
Can I say something?

763
01:20:15,672 --> 01:20:18,852
I have talked to our communication department frequently.

764
01:20:20,212 --> 01:20:32,172
They got through the concern and I know that they are working on ways in brainstorming ways to make sure that we are addressing more of a communication and a progression through the projects.

765
01:20:33,152 --> 01:20:39,472
So that is something that has been in conversation and something that they are brainstorming on.

766
01:20:39,472 --> 01:20:44,312
So. Thank you, Mr. Good. I think you also had a response.

767
01:20:44,612 --> 01:20:54,572
Yeah, I agree with Karen. And I think that one of the items that we might take better advantage of is to make more releases or press releases to the acorn.

768
01:20:55,052 --> 01:21:03,152
Because that is pretty widely read. And so we haven't really been giving reports that get published there. So that's a good idea.

769
01:21:03,152 --> 01:21:12,552
and anything else we can do mark obviously is would be appreciated so that the citizens know what's going on and how we're spending their money.

770
01:21:19,082 --> 01:21:49,062
I'm going to echo Trustee Sylvester's sentiments and also state. It's in keeping with the original when measure I was first passed, we put stickers. Thank you, measure I on everybody's website and we put we put it on things that were funded through measure I so that people would see it because when people see it, then they they know where that extra funding came from and then without that we wouldn't have all the computers or this year.

771
01:21:49,082 --> 01:21:56,642
new building or whatever it is. So it's important not to lose that momentum that we had when we

772
01:21:56,642 --> 01:22:03,462
started. I also want to thank you for whoever's great idea it was to partner with the city on

773
01:22:03,462 --> 01:22:08,782
that stoplight at Collina because that is pretty much one of the worst spots in the city.

774
01:22:09,382 --> 01:22:18,942
And I was incredibly grateful to see the new buildings for our arts and music on many of our campuses.

775
01:22:19,082 --> 01:22:21,442
And then that redwood thing is unrecognizable.

776
01:22:22,182 --> 01:22:24,182
So could those to that design as well?

777
01:22:24,482 --> 01:22:27,022
And then I want to thank you all for your hard work on this.

778
01:22:27,042 --> 01:22:32,622
I know, Norea Becker and Tim McCabe and that whole crew and Dr. Hayek.

779
01:22:33,242 --> 01:22:37,822
And the whole measure I committee have spent a lot of time on this.

780
01:22:37,882 --> 01:22:39,722
And it's deeply appreciated.

781
01:22:40,162 --> 01:22:42,402
So great report and Mr. Get it?

782
01:22:42,402 --> 01:22:43,462
It's been a long time.

783
01:22:43,702 --> 01:22:46,962
It's been with us in the beginning, but we'll talk about that in a bit.

784
01:22:46,962 --> 01:22:53,082
I do want to share that the sunlight is a working progress and we are going back from

785
01:22:53,082 --> 01:22:58,742
the birth of the city on figures, costs, just not all about the birth of the wind.

786
01:22:58,942 --> 01:23:00,742
You're partying with another governmental agency.

787
01:23:00,882 --> 01:23:02,902
I want to make sure that we're clear on that.

788
01:23:03,902 --> 01:23:05,662
It's still we're still working to that season.

789
01:23:05,922 --> 01:23:06,902
Am I correcting that?

790
01:23:06,962 --> 01:23:07,982
Dr. Hype?

791
01:23:10,542 --> 01:23:12,302
Yes, that's always been our intent.

792
01:23:12,742 --> 01:23:14,362
The next step was a traffic study.

793
01:23:14,522 --> 01:23:14,842
I was done.

794
01:23:14,942 --> 01:23:17,502
You might notice the hose going down across the coast.

795
01:23:17,502 --> 01:23:26,542
I'm trying to measure the traffic so we've been having ongoing discussions because there's a whole host of criteria that has to be established before a stop light is put in.

796
01:23:28,562 --> 01:23:30,442
I ask a follow up then yes.

797
01:23:31,042 --> 01:23:38,502
So it's interesting to me we're going to do a traffic study during COVID when our traffic patterns aren't the same is that.

798
01:23:38,502 --> 01:23:48,462
We're going to wait till we get you next year when it opens up because as much as I want that thought that I'd like to have accurate information because

799
01:23:48,462 --> 01:23:51,442
I feel like it would be skewed right about now.

800
01:23:52,062 --> 01:24:01,182
Yeah, we did have that conversation and we just asked them to do the traffic study now anyway we could do another one subsequently at a later time.

801
01:24:01,182 --> 01:24:07,222
It's not going to impact our design because we still think that the modified parking area

802
01:24:07,222 --> 01:24:11,922
and the pick up and drop off zone gets the car's off of Hillcrest while they're waiting

803
01:24:11,922 --> 01:24:17,422
and creates a safer space for students to walk through. So we are still planning on aligning

804
01:24:17,422 --> 01:24:25,022
the exit into that intersection. It's just a question of the the late piece of it that

805
01:24:25,022 --> 01:24:30,482
may come at a later time. But as we work through with the with the city and going over the

806
01:24:30,482 --> 01:24:37,862
those pieces that's that's essentially a separate project from what we're doing inside on the interior of the campus.

807
01:24:38,022 --> 01:24:39,482
I figured you had a plan.

808
01:24:40,882 --> 01:24:42,782
And I mentioned one more thing.

809
01:24:43,082 --> 01:24:46,262
Dr. I, it's being assigned to the traffic commission.

810
01:24:46,622 --> 01:24:50,722
We hope we'll have a big impact on doing that.

811
01:24:54,902 --> 01:25:15,662
I think we do look forward to that successful partnership outcome with the city as someone who's got a former little leader and has used that running across that straight there feeling like we're taking our life into our hands. I think there'll be a lot of families and kids that appreciate that.

812
01:25:17,882 --> 01:25:22,722
I think I saw a light off, Mr. Gorbeck.

813
01:25:23,162 --> 01:25:26,362
Yes, going along with what we were talking about about the light,

814
01:25:26,962 --> 01:25:29,782
I can see where that element.

815
01:25:30,562 --> 01:25:34,162
Having the drop off pattern on campus,

816
01:25:34,302 --> 01:25:36,842
eliminates those coming down, don't press.

817
01:25:37,742 --> 01:25:42,802
But my concern is the many people I've seen park on that side street

818
01:25:42,802 --> 01:25:50,822
the opposite Collina that park there and let their kids walk across the campus won't that be affected by the

819
01:25:50,822 --> 01:25:56,882
won't the traffic pattern of that impact the light that I mean that doesn't get counted in.

820
01:25:59,542 --> 01:26:02,462
Well, they started the cross field press at some point in time.

821
01:26:03,722 --> 01:26:11,642
So there is a crossing guard at the intersection right now and there there's no plans to discontinue that crossing guard at all.

822
01:26:12,522 --> 01:26:17,822
But yes, we'll have an impact on it, but also keep in mind that, you know,

823
01:26:17,922 --> 01:26:21,002
where our schools are still operating, they've been open.

824
01:26:21,602 --> 01:26:25,182
We do have the morning and you have a new chip that buses are running twice a day.

825
01:26:25,922 --> 01:26:31,102
And the last couple of last month or so, and it's speaking with the city.

826
01:26:31,182 --> 01:26:35,442
I mean, traffic has been has increased substantially over the last few months,

827
01:26:36,402 --> 01:26:38,802
as we come out of the COVID pandemic.

828
01:26:38,802 --> 01:26:44,742
So again, we, this is, this is the first traffic measurement that we can do.

829
01:26:44,882 --> 01:26:49,082
The city is really, really cooperative with us, and if we ask to do another one in a couple

830
01:26:49,082 --> 01:26:54,362
of months or at the beginning of the next school year, I'm sure that they'll work with us.

831
01:26:54,462 --> 01:26:57,002
So we've never had a problem working together with the city.

832
01:26:57,562 --> 01:26:59,622
So we'll see what the numbers bring.

833
01:27:00,462 --> 01:27:04,182
I believe this intersection was measured at some point in time in the past,

834
01:27:04,182 --> 01:27:28,002
So at least we have some comparison point to look at this latest study, but again, if we, if we have to and we can request or the city can on the wrong, just say they want to measure the intersection once again, but we're we're planning on still aligning the intersection and however the light pans out, we're just going to continue that conversation, we're working with the city council.

835
01:27:30,502 --> 01:27:39,142
Thank you. I noticed that the Newbury Park High School edition and the presentation noted that

836
01:27:39,142 --> 01:27:45,322
it would include all gender restaurants. I think that's also the case for the West Lake High School STEM building.

837
01:27:45,502 --> 01:27:47,222
Is that correct? I just wanted to confirm.

838
01:27:49,672 --> 01:27:54,612
The design and Newbury Park High School is actually it's it's

839
01:27:54,612 --> 01:28:00,992
when working with our architect and we met with some students and we ran a design by by staff in the administration

840
01:28:00,992 --> 01:28:09,992
And it is one of the first designs that we've done that have been done for first school in that nature here in California.

841
01:28:10,792 --> 01:28:19,432
Actually, we've had other school districts reach out to our architect and ask to see those plans and designs and they want to use them to model their future and renovations to bathrooms.

842
01:28:19,432 --> 01:28:43,432
The bathroom at the West Lake High School Stem Building was designed and stamped out of DSA prior to this design, but there are gender neutral bathrooms going in single soil bathroom going in at the West Lake I believe there's two that are being put in we did add one more after the fact that will be installed as well.

843
01:28:43,432 --> 01:28:48,452
But the style of the bathroom at the Newberry Park High School is the first of its time.

844
01:28:49,012 --> 01:28:49,052
And...

845
01:28:50,642 --> 01:29:18,222
That's what we're hoping to get the stamp out of the essay to an image all the requirements in such which I don't think we see any issues with that, but that is something that we are proud of to this day. And we can we can we'll share it at the, we're going to do an update or the response to the student concerns with the restrooms at the next board meeting and will include a layout and a picture of what that looks like into the design.

846
01:29:19,502 --> 01:29:21,862
Great. Thank you for that additional information.

847
01:29:23,002 --> 01:29:27,282
And I did want to clarify one other item as it relates to the student representative.

848
01:29:27,902 --> 01:29:33,082
I believe Trustee Craig mentioned earlier that that was moving forward.

849
01:29:33,082 --> 01:29:39,662
And Mr. Get I heard you mentioned that steps were taking place to get a student on there.

850
01:29:39,682 --> 01:29:48,882
I just wanted to find out are we still in the phase of determining whether that's possible or are we in the phase of taking the steps to enact that.

851
01:29:48,882 --> 01:29:57,162
So the board is in favor of doing it and at our next meeting at the end of May, we hope to

852
01:29:57,162 --> 01:30:03,422
an actor move authorize the steps to be taken. The bylaws have to be updated, I think, which you

853
01:30:03,422 --> 01:30:12,342
will have to approve. And there's a couple of other minor items, but Dr. Hyatt has been studying the

854
01:30:12,342 --> 01:30:17,242
issue, and I hope you'll present that us with the list of things we need to approve at the next meeting.

855
01:30:20,762 --> 01:30:21,722
Thank you.

856
01:30:22,262 --> 01:30:24,822
Are there any other questions or comments on this item?

857
01:30:25,582 --> 01:30:26,082
Trustee Craig.

858
01:30:26,582 --> 01:30:26,982
Thank you.

859
01:30:27,422 --> 01:30:28,402
Just want to apologize.

860
01:30:29,022 --> 01:30:30,142
In my board member comments.

861
01:30:30,422 --> 01:30:32,782
I'm a discussion at our next SAC meeting.

862
01:30:32,882 --> 01:30:33,442
We're Dr. Haydich.

863
01:30:33,662 --> 01:30:37,582
We'll be there and speaking to us about the introduction to your presentation.

864
01:30:38,162 --> 01:30:40,222
I apologize for the miscommunication.

865
01:30:41,042 --> 01:30:44,022
And I also just want to say thank you so much for the amazing presentation.

866
01:30:44,242 --> 01:30:46,562
I know when the agenda was released on Thursday.

867
01:30:46,562 --> 01:30:49,722
And I saw that low-streetest middle school would have windows.

868
01:30:50,342 --> 01:30:55,782
I shared that with my fellow alumni, and they were extremely grateful and happy.

869
01:30:56,242 --> 01:30:59,382
So the work that everything that this community has worked on,

870
01:30:59,542 --> 01:31:01,402
it's really appreciated by the students.

871
01:31:02,582 --> 01:31:07,082
And as Tresty Govug mentioned, the measure I stickers, we see them on all of our Chromebooks and the classroom.

872
01:31:08,642 --> 01:31:10,022
So that is effective.

873
01:31:10,522 --> 01:31:13,802
And I just want to thank you for all the work, Mr. Get and the entire committee.

874
01:31:15,302 --> 01:31:22,842
And trusty Craig, no apologies necessary. It's helpful to have the additional information just to kind of understand where we are.

875
01:31:23,222 --> 01:31:26,882
Excuse me in the process of a student representative on that committee.

876
01:31:27,142 --> 01:31:28,562
I appreciate that.

877
01:31:29,362 --> 01:31:30,502
Any other questions or comments?

878
01:31:33,742 --> 01:31:33,802
Okay.

879
01:31:34,062 --> 01:31:34,662
Seeing none.

880
01:31:35,142 --> 01:31:35,802
Thank you, Mr. Good.

881
01:31:35,802 --> 01:31:36,742
I know you're going to be.

882
01:31:36,742 --> 01:31:38,262
I think joining us for our next item.

883
01:31:38,842 --> 01:31:40,962
And I believe we're staying on zoom for that item.

884
01:31:41,642 --> 01:31:42,082
So we will go.

885
01:31:42,107 --> 01:31:50,687
Let's move on to item 2J recognition of Mr. Tony Gett and Marshall Deninger for their service to the community serving

886
01:31:50,687 --> 01:31:58,147
three full terms on the measure I independent citizens bond oversight committee. And I will hand this over to again Dr.

887
01:32:00,007 --> 01:32:16,927
Thank you, Mr. Get appreciate your time staying on. Mr. Marshall Deninger could have joined us this evening, but we wanted to take a few minutes and recognize Mr. Get and Mr. Deninger for all the time that they put into the bond oversight committee.

888
01:32:19,967 --> 01:32:32,967
In 2014, the measure I bond passed at the voters and as part of the requirement for any public bond for school district, a citizen's bond oversight committee has to be formed.

889
01:32:33,367 --> 01:32:41,807
Mr. Get and Mr. Deninger were two of the original members from the beginning from day one, the first meeting was June 3, 2015.

890
01:32:41,807 --> 01:32:47,647
It seems like not that long ago, but it's been, it'll be six years next week.

891
01:32:48,967 --> 01:32:58,447
Mr. Daninger was actually appointed the first chair of the committee and served as a chair for three years, 2015 through 2018.

892
01:32:59,887 --> 01:33:08,007
And actually that first year, that first meeting also Mr. Gorbache was the vice chair of the committee, appointed at that time.

893
01:33:08,887 --> 01:33:19,227
And then after the third year, Mr. Get assumed that was selected to be the chair of the committee and Mr. Good has been the chair of the committee for the last three years.

894
01:33:19,707 --> 01:33:27,927
So since at the inception of the citizens bond over site committee, we've had two chairs have both of you have done a tremendous job.

895
01:33:27,927 --> 01:33:35,087
We've met 35 times in six years and went back and counted and I will say that both of you

896
01:33:35,087 --> 01:33:41,467
have done an excellent job not only as a chair but representing the public and keeping us on

897
01:33:41,467 --> 01:33:52,027
our toes and keeping us making sure that we're addressing all the concerns brought up by our constituents

898
01:33:52,027 --> 01:33:57,587
and we just wanted to say thank you. We do have two certificates here that we will send out to

899
01:33:57,587 --> 01:34:11,047
you and Mr. Deninger acknowledging your time spent for the school district and for the residents of the community and overall just thank you and appreciate your time and we wish you well.

900
01:34:11,307 --> 01:34:13,587
Thank you.

901
01:34:15,447 --> 01:34:21,947
Yes, as Dr. Hayek mentioned, I worked with Tony and with Marshall at the beginning.

902
01:34:23,127 --> 01:34:32,387
Unless you're on the committee, you don't know the dedication that these two gentlemen have made the organization, the hard work, the everything.

903
01:34:33,427 --> 01:34:40,267
Mr. Get, I just want to thank you for your hard work over these years and just the work that you've done with the bond.

904
01:34:40,267 --> 01:34:57,607
And Mr. Deninger, I thank you also and just for these, I mean, I think tonight was a perfect example of the hard work of making these presentations so that our community gets to see what the bond committee is doing.

905
01:34:58,027 --> 01:35:04,267
So again, Tony, congratulations on your, on your hard work and I just appreciate it. Thank you.

906
01:35:04,967 --> 01:35:05,487
Thank you.

907
01:35:07,727 --> 01:35:10,247
Other comments from the board?

908
01:35:12,287 --> 01:35:15,107
Okay, thank you, Mr. Get and Mr. Dunnager,

909
01:35:16,047 --> 01:35:19,587
for your incredible service and impact you've had

910
01:35:19,587 --> 01:35:20,847
to our school community.

911
01:35:21,067 --> 01:35:22,007
It's very much appreciated.

912
01:35:22,307 --> 01:35:24,967
And I do see Trustee Goldberg's light office as well.

913
01:35:25,527 --> 01:35:28,487
I just want to thank Mr. Get and Mr. Dunnager

914
01:35:28,487 --> 01:35:30,567
because I can't really imagine this committee

915
01:35:30,567 --> 01:35:32,227
without the two of you.

916
01:35:33,567 --> 01:35:38,367
Mr. Dunnager was on measure I was actually a thing.

917
01:35:39,507 --> 01:35:58,387
And I'm not sure that we would have it without his efforts along with many people who got that past, but Marshall Deninger was highly instrumental in helping us pass, measure I, and stayed active and engaged ever since.

918
01:35:58,387 --> 01:36:04,327
And so it's going to be a loss of institutional memory for both of you.

919
01:36:04,687 --> 01:36:10,507
So I would hope you will stay watching and let us know when you see something.

920
01:36:11,287 --> 01:36:13,947
Because what does it basically say at schools when you see something say something?

921
01:36:14,427 --> 01:36:17,967
So please, and thank you both for your service.

922
01:36:21,357 --> 01:36:23,257
Thank you. Any other comments?

923
01:36:26,407 --> 01:36:29,637
Okay. Thank you, Mr. Good again for joining us for both items. We appreciate that.

924
01:36:30,867 --> 01:36:31,547
Thank you, everybody.

925
01:36:32,587 --> 01:36:39,607
And we're going to transition off Zoom again, you can stay in no Zoom will need to go in later in the meeting.

926
01:36:55,963 --> 01:37:02,083
Okay, moving to section 3 action items, beginning with item 3A, is there a motion?

927
01:37:05,673 --> 01:37:06,153
Ms. President.

928
01:37:06,653 --> 01:37:07,253
Trustee Gorak.

929
01:37:07,873 --> 01:37:16,633
I move that we approve the contract for assistant superintendent, that we approve the contract for assistant superintendent of instructional services.

930
01:37:17,553 --> 01:37:19,613
Is there a second? Trustee Gorak. Thank you.

931
01:37:20,033 --> 01:37:25,413
It's been moved and seconded. Hopefully we have any public comment, and I'll hand this over to Dr. McLaughlin.

932
01:37:28,533 --> 01:37:34,893
The board needs to take a vote first and then once the vote is taken, I will have Dr. Johnson

933
01:37:34,893 --> 01:37:39,393
come up and introduce herself to the community and address the board.

934
01:37:40,313 --> 01:37:40,713
Okay, thank you.

935
01:37:40,913 --> 01:37:44,493
And before that time, are there any comments or questions from Board members?

936
01:37:47,503 --> 01:37:52,103
Okay, I just did want to note before we vote.

937
01:37:52,603 --> 01:37:56,283
How excited I am for Dr. Johnson to join us.

938
01:37:56,283 --> 01:38:00,523
It's clear she brings such a wealth of knowledge and experience with her.

939
01:38:00,563 --> 01:38:04,363
I know she's excited to join the team here in our district

940
01:38:04,363 --> 01:38:10,763
and continue the work that's been started, especially as it relates to equity diversity inclusion.

941
01:38:11,823 --> 01:38:14,283
And I know she's already been engaged and I think we're

942
01:38:15,023 --> 01:38:19,363
pending a board vote going to be very lucky to have you as part of the district team.

943
01:38:20,463 --> 01:38:23,203
So before we vote, are there any other questions or comments?

944
01:38:23,203 --> 01:38:28,183
Okay, seeing none, please vote, Trustee Solvester?

945
01:38:29,143 --> 01:38:29,323
Yes.

946
01:38:30,483 --> 01:38:31,263
Trustee Gilbert?

947
01:38:31,983 --> 01:38:32,083
Yes.

948
01:38:32,383 --> 01:38:33,183
Trustee Gorbach?

949
01:38:33,703 --> 01:38:33,983
Yes.

950
01:38:34,263 --> 01:38:35,103
I am a guest.

951
01:38:35,523 --> 01:38:35,863
Trustee Gil?

952
01:38:36,463 --> 01:38:36,703
Yes.

953
01:38:37,003 --> 01:38:37,643
Trustee Craig?

954
01:38:38,163 --> 01:38:38,203
Yes.

955
01:38:38,643 --> 01:38:42,783
Motion carries 50 with an honorary yes vote by Trustee Craig.

956
01:38:43,523 --> 01:38:52,963
So with that, I would like to congratulate Dr. Johnson and ask her to come up to the podium to address our board and say hello to the community.

957
01:38:54,463 --> 01:38:59,063
Good evening, Dr. McLaughlin, Board of Education and Community.

958
01:38:59,323 --> 01:39:03,443
Thank you for the opportunity to join this outstanding team.

959
01:39:04,203 --> 01:39:09,823
The Kenejo Valley Unified School District has an outstanding reputation for excellence,

960
01:39:10,163 --> 01:39:14,123
but more importantly for providing an exceptional standard of student care.

961
01:39:15,183 --> 01:39:20,343
The district is engaged in the very important work of diversity, equity and inclusion,

962
01:39:20,343 --> 01:39:29,223
And I'm very excited about this next chapter and about supporting our students supporting our educators and becoming part of this community.

963
01:39:29,783 --> 01:39:30,783
Thank you.

964
01:39:32,063 --> 01:39:33,283
Thank you and welcome.

965
01:39:41,383 --> 01:39:48,603
Thank you again for coming tonight so that we can congratulate you and meet you officially here as part of our district.

966
01:39:49,748 --> 01:39:56,208
We'll move on now to item 3b. Approver, actually, do I have a motion on that item?

967
01:39:57,768 --> 01:40:04,668
I move that we approve the adoption of the expanded learning opportunity grant e-log plan as submitted.

968
01:40:06,088 --> 01:40:06,808
Is there a second?

969
01:40:10,708 --> 01:40:11,628
I second.

970
01:40:11,968 --> 01:40:16,108
It has been moved and seconded. There's no public comment on this item.

971
01:40:16,948 --> 01:40:19,688
And we are going to move to Dr. Miller.

972
01:40:22,418 --> 01:40:29,438
Yeah, good evening, everybody, this may take just a moment so that I can log on to show the brief PowerPoint that I have for this.

973
01:40:29,438 --> 01:40:37,978
Oh, got it. Okay, no problem. We'll just actually, we could, if it's going to be a few minutes, we could take a break.

974
01:40:38,458 --> 01:40:47,758
Yeah, I don't know if it'll be a few minutes. We are having some technical difficulties behind the law here, so that's why there's been some commotion floating around here this evening.

975
01:40:47,758 --> 01:40:50,478
My, you could discuss the plan.

976
01:40:50,558 --> 01:40:53,578
You have the plan, the PowerPoint, I don't know,

977
01:40:53,618 --> 01:40:55,618
provides much more additional information.

978
01:40:57,638 --> 01:40:59,478
Let's move forward with that.

979
01:41:17,778 --> 01:41:19,478
It's three, yeah, there you go.

980
01:41:24,608 --> 01:41:27,288
And we're just pulling up the attached documents in the agenda.

981
01:41:33,858 --> 01:41:35,338
Yeah, so thank you, everybody.

982
01:41:35,498 --> 01:41:36,898
Good evening, Board.

983
01:41:38,718 --> 01:41:41,798
So as was presented at our last meeting,

984
01:41:41,798 --> 01:41:48,658
And we, as a school district, are going to be in receipt of AB86 stimulus funds, also known

985
01:41:48,658 --> 01:41:55,778
as extended learning opportunity grant, we were required to go through a process in order

986
01:41:55,778 --> 01:42:00,118
to bring the grant proposal for two tonight, hopefully for a vote ever approval.

987
01:42:00,818 --> 01:42:01,758
So next slide.

988
01:42:02,338 --> 01:42:09,158
So this is just a very quick synopsis of what the next few slides will show, which is, again,

989
01:42:09,158 --> 01:42:12,438
What is the allocation breakdown of the funds?

990
01:42:12,658 --> 01:42:14,698
What stakeholder engagement did we do?

991
01:42:14,958 --> 01:42:17,798
You'll have an opportunity to review the plan, the proposed plan.

992
01:42:17,918 --> 01:42:19,698
And then if you have any feedback or questions,

993
01:42:19,918 --> 01:42:21,538
I'd be happy to try and answer those.

994
01:42:22,178 --> 01:42:24,978
So this is the same slide I brought forward,

995
01:42:25,598 --> 01:42:28,618
a previous meeting, which provides a breakdown of the funds.

996
01:42:28,658 --> 01:42:31,718
You'll see that there is some earmarking of the funds

997
01:42:31,718 --> 01:42:34,838
and those have been captured in the draft plan.

998
01:42:34,838 --> 01:42:44,858
We do want to share and make sure all of our community stakeholders know this is only one of the stimulus funds that we are receiving.

999
01:42:45,698 --> 01:42:53,718
We had already received ESSER-1, S1, we anticipate receiving S2 funds and S3 funds.

1000
01:42:54,718 --> 01:42:59,178
So again, this is just one of the layers. Additionally, we also have our LCAP.

1001
01:43:00,018 --> 01:43:03,358
So that is another document that we'll be talking about in the future.

1002
01:43:03,358 --> 01:43:07,158
So I don't want anybody to think it's all or nothing here.

1003
01:43:09,018 --> 01:43:11,538
So what engagement and input did we receive?

1004
01:43:12,218 --> 01:43:14,598
There were 26 school site council meetings.

1005
01:43:14,858 --> 01:43:18,838
We so appreciate the quick and fast work by our school site.

1006
01:43:18,958 --> 01:43:23,398
Administrators and the members of these meetings and the input they provided.

1007
01:43:23,398 --> 01:43:28,698
We received over 1,200 responses to the survey that was in English and Spanish.

1008
01:43:28,698 --> 01:43:37,338
We held facilitated to reopen and redesign meetings and received input there and then we

1009
01:43:37,338 --> 01:43:39,118
had communication with our labor partners.

1010
01:43:40,138 --> 01:43:43,118
So we gathered a lot of input.

1011
01:43:44,178 --> 01:43:49,498
In reviewing the input, there were a couple of themes that really stood out against the

1012
01:43:49,498 --> 01:43:56,418
others and these themes are connected to what the purposes were defined in the ELOG grant.

1013
01:43:56,418 --> 01:44:04,578
There were some recommendations brought forward that were inconsistent with the purpose of the grant so unfortunately we could not bring those forward.

1014
01:44:05,638 --> 01:44:11,218
The first one that really was most common was providing mental health services to our students.

1015
01:44:12,158 --> 01:44:16,178
Next was addressing learning loss through targeted supports and interventions.

1016
01:44:16,178 --> 01:44:25,038
increase staffing to allow and maintain smaller class sizes and to also provide some more individualized instruction in those classrooms.

1017
01:44:25,798 --> 01:44:32,358
If we can maintain smaller class sizes and lastly provide instruction and enrichment opportunities during the summer.

1018
01:44:34,578 --> 01:44:40,158
So those themes really did drive what we added into the ELOG plan.

1019
01:44:40,158 --> 01:44:52,738
So, the next steps would be Board of Education adoption tonight, that would allow us to send this to the County of Office of Education by June 1st, which is the date that it's required to do that.

1020
01:44:53,198 --> 01:44:58,738
Again, happy to receive your recommendations tonight or feedback and try to answer any questions.

1021
01:44:59,938 --> 01:45:01,098
Should we get it approved?

1022
01:45:01,638 --> 01:45:10,138
And VCU, we approved that we would be coming back to Board of Education meetings at the beginning of the year to share with you what we were able to do over the summer.

1023
01:45:10,138 --> 01:45:13,578
and what we have prepared for this school year.

1024
01:45:16,358 --> 01:45:18,318
With that, I'll take any questions or feedback.

1025
01:45:19,338 --> 01:45:20,278
Thank you, Dr. Melner.

1026
01:45:20,818 --> 01:45:22,058
Are there any questions?

1027
01:45:22,758 --> 01:45:23,318
Trustee Sivester?

1028
01:45:24,898 --> 01:45:27,098
A couple of specific ones, but broadly,

1029
01:45:27,458 --> 01:45:29,198
because I've seen the plan and it shows

1030
01:45:29,198 --> 01:45:30,638
what you're putting in each bucket.

1031
01:45:31,538 --> 01:45:32,398
And then I know at some point,

1032
01:45:32,498 --> 01:45:33,538
you have to then report back

1033
01:45:33,538 --> 01:45:34,718
because what was actually spent.

1034
01:45:35,418 --> 01:45:37,818
What if the district for whatever reason

1035
01:45:37,818 --> 01:45:40,378
doesn't spend in a particular categories?

1036
01:45:40,378 --> 01:45:43,778
I mean, does someone hit us or, you know,

1037
01:45:43,878 --> 01:45:44,638
so I'm just for a room?

1038
01:45:46,838 --> 01:45:48,658
I mean, I, like, you know, like, you know,

1039
01:45:48,858 --> 01:45:51,398
there's things in there for, you know, summer school

1040
01:45:51,398 --> 01:45:55,678
and we don't know how many people will actually want to do that.

1041
01:45:56,198 --> 01:45:57,538
So, you know, this is a pretty good gas,

1042
01:45:57,578 --> 01:45:59,018
and I'm very impressed at the quick turnaround.

1043
01:45:59,118 --> 01:45:59,998
I have to say.

1044
01:46:00,318 --> 01:46:01,998
I'm just wondering, like, what happens if we

1045
01:46:01,998 --> 01:46:04,578
are the actual numbers are very different?

1046
01:46:09,858 --> 01:46:12,738
So there's, of the way that the grant works,

1047
01:46:12,738 --> 01:46:17,558
There are only two required allocations.

1048
01:46:17,778 --> 01:46:23,218
One is four power professionals, which was 10% of the overall grant, which was roughly 1.1 million.

1049
01:46:23,938 --> 01:46:31,998
And the other was a rather just small allocation for our McKinney Ventil students, which was $157,000.

1050
01:46:33,378 --> 01:46:42,718
The rest of it was our supposed to be meet within those pots that were specified, but there's no specific restrictions saying that

1051
01:46:42,718 --> 01:46:48,778
you have to stay in one or the other. So it's incumbent upon us to monitor what we're

1052
01:46:48,778 --> 01:46:53,038
doing throughout the year. And if we're not going to do A, we would need to repurpose

1053
01:46:53,038 --> 01:47:00,438
those funds to do B. So this is the preliminary plan. Dr. Miller and her team instruction

1054
01:47:00,438 --> 01:47:05,818
started a great job putting it together. But it is just a plan and we're going to have to

1055
01:47:05,818 --> 01:47:10,938
monitor and just make adjustments as the year goes by to make sure that we'll spend

1056
01:47:10,938 --> 01:47:15,458
every, every last nickel by August 31st of 2022.

1057
01:47:16,238 --> 01:47:18,758
I am, yeah, clearly not worried about that.

1058
01:47:19,078 --> 01:47:19,358
One of the,

1059
01:47:19,378 --> 01:47:26,218
Our very specific questions, because I know mental health keeps coming up and included in the plan is eight additional mental health clinicians.

1060
01:47:26,918 --> 01:47:32,478
And I know we currently have five. Is this an increase of another eight, or are we going to cover some of the salary of the five?

1061
01:47:33,298 --> 01:47:35,658
This is an increase above the five.

1062
01:47:36,278 --> 01:47:38,378
Okay. Thank you.

1063
01:47:40,268 --> 01:47:44,808
I had a follow-up to Custys Lovester's question on the mental health clinicians.

1064
01:47:45,728 --> 01:47:54,868
Are they going to be assigned to specific schools or grades spans or is it across the district?

1065
01:47:57,148 --> 01:47:57,808
So,

1066
01:48:00,538 --> 01:48:06,918
we definitely are seeing a need for the mental health intervention across all grades and across all schools.

1067
01:48:07,818 --> 01:48:18,678
So we will be working closely with Dr. Chamberlain to identify how we structure these resources to maximize the support that's available to students.

1068
01:48:19,458 --> 01:48:24,038
I would be remiss to say an explicit example of what that structure would look like.

1069
01:48:27,758 --> 01:48:38,598
Okay, thank you. And I know I recognize it was a quick turnaround so some of those details probably still definitely need to be worked out by I appreciate the addition of those clinicians to support our students.

1070
01:48:39,238 --> 01:48:45,718
Trustee Goldberg. So first off I want to say thank you because this is so much work and so little time.

1071
01:48:50,238 --> 01:48:57,038
All the meetings gathering the information I can see that you, because I went to a lot of those meetings you put it all in here.

1072
01:48:57,138 --> 01:48:58,138
So I have a couple of questions.

1073
01:48:58,138 --> 01:49:09,058
The first one is one of the things that I had heard about was the parents and students

1074
01:49:09,058 --> 01:49:14,298
so that they were interested in was visual performing arts, extra and co-curriculars.

1075
01:49:14,858 --> 01:49:22,238
Is that, is the plan for that to be in some like other grant or other pot, or we just

1076
01:49:23,518 --> 01:49:31,438
because I get that this is just one space, but it was also, it also rose, so I just,

1077
01:49:31,638 --> 01:49:35,178
does it not fit? Or it's better serve somewhere else?

1078
01:49:36,938 --> 01:49:42,778
So that would be something for us as an overall district to discuss in terms of how we use the

1079
01:49:42,778 --> 01:49:52,218
subsequent stimulus funds. When looking at the purpose for this explicit grant and looking at

1080
01:49:52,218 --> 01:49:56,038
All the input, yeah, performing arts did come up.

1081
01:49:56,478 --> 01:50:02,018
It was a recommendation, but when we think about or review the students' needs, as a result

1082
01:50:02,018 --> 01:50:06,998
of learning loss, we quickly went way over budget, the 11 million.

1083
01:50:07,738 --> 01:50:08,218
Right.

1084
01:50:08,498 --> 01:50:13,378
In fact, we had a brief meeting on Friday at Cabinet to already trim another two million,

1085
01:50:13,378 --> 01:50:14,938
because I couldn't get it down enough.

1086
01:50:16,178 --> 01:50:20,378
So, gosh, we wish we could include all of that, and this is not meant to be a message

1087
01:50:20,378 --> 01:50:26,318
that we don't value and see the real importance and benefit of performing arts, but it did

1088
01:50:26,318 --> 01:50:30,498
not make the cut into this particular stimulus fund. That doesn't mean to say we won't

1089
01:50:30,498 --> 01:50:35,018
consider it and try to maximize that in subsequent stimulus funds.

1090
01:50:35,678 --> 01:50:40,458
So I appreciate the willingness to keep it on the table even if it's on the buffet table

1091
01:50:40,458 --> 01:50:48,478
over on the side of the room. And the other question I had was I had reached out to by a number

1092
01:50:48,478 --> 01:50:55,898
teachers who were excited as I was about the one-to-one with Chromebooks, but they were curious

1093
01:50:55,898 --> 01:51:01,598
because they have little's. And if there's, they said that developmentally the touch screen

1094
01:51:01,598 --> 01:51:10,058
doesn't really work for the little, so is there a, I mean, touch pad. Touch screen, what

1095
01:51:10,058 --> 01:51:17,258
hurts about the touch pad is, like, their motor skills don't handle that. So is there a plan for

1096
01:51:17,258 --> 01:51:22,398
for the youngest students or so

1097
01:51:24,448 --> 01:51:29,588
there is a trip shortage we've gone out to multiple vendors to

1098
01:51:29,588 --> 01:51:36,948
look at different types of Chromebooks. The in order to do a full one to one we're not able to

1099
01:51:36,948 --> 01:51:45,308
do touch screen Chromebooks. Touch screen Chromebooks are 30% higher in cost so at a cost of

1100
01:51:45,308 --> 01:51:51,328
$4 million in Chromebooks, if we decide to get touch screens, it would bump it up to

1101
01:51:51,328 --> 01:51:53,008
$6 million approximately.

1102
01:51:53,868 --> 01:52:00,808
There have been some ongoing discussions about that, but just even if we broke it apart and

1103
01:52:00,808 --> 01:52:06,028
only what a portion of them, it still puts us over the budget and we wouldn't be able to go

1104
01:52:06,028 --> 01:52:06,968
a full one-to-one.

1105
01:52:07,288 --> 01:52:10,648
It's not the initial cost that is the challenge.

1106
01:52:11,288 --> 01:52:16,108
it's next year we probably we have about 5,000 devices that are, quote unquote,

1107
01:52:16,388 --> 01:52:21,868
expiring because that's what Chromebooks do that we have to replenish. So we don't want to

1108
01:52:21,868 --> 01:52:26,908
put ourselves in a situation where we buy less and then we're not able to maintain it and then

1109
01:52:26,908 --> 01:52:31,768
next year you know you're asking or you know the public ask I mean what happened to the one to one

1110
01:52:31,768 --> 01:52:37,908
and we just didn't we weren't financially able to sustain it. So we took a long term approach

1111
01:52:37,908 --> 01:52:43,588
Yes, they are less expensive Chromebooks, but they don't have a touch screen.

1112
01:52:44,568 --> 01:52:47,928
So I guess my question is, what are we going to do for the youngest students?

1113
01:52:48,228 --> 01:52:54,728
Are they not going to be one to one, or are we going to just buy machines that are harder for them to use?

1114
01:52:54,728 --> 01:52:56,448
Or are we just not going to do that?

1115
01:52:56,508 --> 01:53:07,408
I'm going to jump in because I think this is the advantage of Dr. Johnston and being in a district that is a TKA district in which they've had a rollout of one to one.

1116
01:53:07,408 --> 01:53:15,408
and we will have some real good insights into how we can service our younger students and the best

1117
01:53:15,408 --> 01:53:19,248
match from a technology to a maturity wage level.

1118
01:53:19,268 --> 01:53:19,948
Oh, that's good.

1119
01:53:20,248 --> 01:53:21,868
I'll tell Mike and your teacher friends.

1120
01:53:24,698 --> 01:53:25,258
Trustee Gorbache?

1121
01:53:26,458 --> 01:53:27,378
Just an observation.

1122
01:53:27,518 --> 01:53:34,938
First of all, Dr. Miller, thank you so much for this report and the limited amount of time that you had and a lot of work that you did.

1123
01:53:35,658 --> 01:53:43,098
Just an observation, my concern is, as we've discussed before, these are limited time period grants,

1124
01:53:43,478 --> 01:53:44,158
is it two years?

1125
01:53:45,898 --> 01:53:49,598
It's August actually 2022, so it's just over a year.

1126
01:53:49,818 --> 01:53:59,558
That's just over a year, so I guess I see a conflict in what we need to do.

1127
01:54:00,318 --> 01:54:04,218
We talked about the additional needs of mental health.

1128
01:54:04,998 --> 01:54:16,398
On the other hand, the morning I heard at C-DAC, and I've expressed before too that the preference

1129
01:54:16,398 --> 01:54:23,818
not to have temporary resources that kids go to because they want to go to someone that

1130
01:54:23,818 --> 01:54:26,858
they know it's going to be there next year or maybe even the year after.

1131
01:54:26,858 --> 01:54:34,378
So we can't, we can't hire additional permanent people because the grant's going to run out

1132
01:54:34,378 --> 01:54:42,358
and yet temporary people don't, aren't as comfortable for the students as long term.

1133
01:54:43,078 --> 01:54:46,918
How do we talk about reconciling that difference?

1134
01:54:48,718 --> 01:54:49,338
a few things

1135
01:54:49,378 --> 01:55:01,758
This first, as much as I appreciate the praise, I was just a consolidator. There was so much work in input from so many other people, so I definitely need to share that with all my colleagues and other people who really helped here.

1136
01:55:02,018 --> 01:55:03,218
I thank you all.

1137
01:55:03,818 --> 01:55:17,338
Yeah. So, you know, one of the things that we're intending to do is, as we put these things in place next year, we're going to be evaluating the effectiveness of it and the access of it, and if it's proving to be something that we really shouldn't go without,

1138
01:55:17,338 --> 01:55:21,538
But then those are the conversations we need to have as a district when we're writing our

1139
01:55:21,538 --> 01:55:25,858
LCAP again for the subsequent year and looking at our resources and our priorities.

1140
01:55:26,938 --> 01:55:32,438
So, while these are one-time funds and we do need to go into that eyes wide open, you know,

1141
01:55:32,458 --> 01:55:38,178
that not all of these roles are guaranteed year over year, I think we'd be, you know, really

1142
01:55:38,178 --> 01:55:46,058
remiss to not closely evaluate the effectiveness of them, again, the access of them.

1143
01:55:46,058 --> 01:55:52,478
And if we believe as a district that this service is really necessary going forward, that we wouldn't

1144
01:55:52,478 --> 01:55:55,238
figure out our priorities and allocate the budget accordingly.

1145
01:55:57,058 --> 01:55:59,058
Thank you for considering it for that consideration.

1146
01:56:03,958 --> 01:56:04,618
Trustee Craig?

1147
01:56:05,198 --> 01:56:06,138
And then Trustee Solvester.

1148
01:56:06,598 --> 01:56:06,758
Thank you.

1149
01:56:06,858 --> 01:56:10,638
I also want to echo all of the other board members, and they can Dr. Miller and everyone who

1150
01:56:10,638 --> 01:56:12,098
is involved in the process.

1151
01:56:12,258 --> 01:56:17,818
I was able to attend several of the gathering input meetings and it really was organized so

1152
01:56:17,818 --> 01:56:21,678
and all of the information presented here was thoroughly discussed at the meetings.

1153
01:56:22,858 --> 01:56:28,078
I do want to touch back on the one-to-one district with the Chromebooks because some of the

1154
01:56:28,078 --> 01:56:34,098
meetings, this is brought up and I've discussed with other students, not only in Estac, but beyond that

1155
01:56:34,098 --> 01:56:40,918
is concerned over what exactly that looks like, how are we just immediately one-to-one for every student

1156
01:56:41,698 --> 01:56:46,658
CVUSD, constraints, students may not have the need to have an additional Chromebook.

1157
01:56:46,698 --> 01:56:51,498
I've also spoken to other members of the 1,000x high school class of a 2021, they're

1158
01:56:51,498 --> 01:56:52,038
freshmen here.

1159
01:56:52,138 --> 01:56:59,098
They introduced a one-to-one style where each of freshmen were given a Chromebook, and their

1160
01:56:59,098 --> 01:57:04,958
experience was that over time it eventually wasn't really used, you know, a certain teachers

1161
01:57:04,958 --> 01:57:09,818
didn't incorporate that into the lesson plans, some students used their own devices, and

1162
01:57:09,818 --> 01:57:15,408
My concern is moving forward with the two million spending on becoming a one-to-one technology where

1163
01:57:16,018 --> 01:57:20,798
That may not be necessary for some of our students. I'm

1164
01:57:20,798 --> 01:57:26,068
Just wondering how that process is it going to be an immediate one-to-one for each student or is there going to be some kind of survey as

1165
01:57:26,618 --> 01:57:28,258
Whether the technology is needed

1166
01:57:30,708 --> 01:57:37,488
So that's going to be a site by site decision. So and it's four million it shows us two million here on the ELL grant

1167
01:57:37,488 --> 01:57:40,428
but as Dr. Miller referred to earlier,

1168
01:57:40,948 --> 01:57:44,848
the two million we shaved off, we shaved off the one to one,

1169
01:57:45,088 --> 01:57:48,368
and we pulled it from the future coming S or two funds

1170
01:57:48,368 --> 01:57:49,928
to make up that difference.

1171
01:57:51,148 --> 01:57:53,348
So the discussions that I went back and forth

1172
01:57:53,348 --> 01:57:55,808
were that schools have flexibility.

1173
01:57:56,308 --> 01:57:59,248
So what we are providing is there'll be enough devices

1174
01:57:59,248 --> 01:58:02,748
to give to every student at the same time

1175
01:58:02,748 --> 01:58:03,868
throughout the whole district.

1176
01:58:04,528 --> 01:58:07,008
Now how the schools implement that would be up to them

1177
01:58:07,008 --> 01:58:09,748
whatever their instructional plan is going to be.

1178
01:58:10,088 --> 01:58:14,448
There will be some schools I'm sure that will keep them on campus

1179
01:58:14,448 --> 01:58:17,088
and have them accessible to teachers any time they want.

1180
01:58:17,428 --> 01:58:20,108
And there'll be some schools that may want to issue them as a one to one.

1181
01:58:20,248 --> 01:58:22,848
We do have a couple of schools now that are one to one.

1182
01:58:22,948 --> 01:58:24,628
I know that there is a one to one.

1183
01:58:27,268 --> 01:58:31,948
So also included in the plan, there's an additional technology

1184
01:58:31,948 --> 01:58:43,868
Tosa, right, and there are, there's additional supports from the, the portion of the grant that's that doesn't have to be included in this and isn't a part of this, which is the in person instruction grant.

1185
01:58:44,148 --> 01:58:53,768
We're hiring additional computer site text to make sure that the, the influx of that technology is supported and is functioning in the classroom when it has to be.

1186
01:58:53,768 --> 01:59:18,828
So, there are other pieces that are attached to it, but ultimately it's the teachers who decide how they want to use that technology and what the philosophy is on that campus, whether they're going to issue them to the students and have them take them home back and forth, or you want them in the classroom to be able to access them at any time, and you don't have to sign up to share a car or you don't have to wait until Thursday until the car is available.

1187
01:59:18,828 --> 01:59:25,748
If you want to use technology in the classroom, those devices will be available for you anytime that you want.

1188
01:59:26,648 --> 01:59:30,988
I would add that, now that we have our technology committee back up and running,

1189
01:59:31,708 --> 01:59:35,688
I would assume that we'd be working through some sort of level of expectation.

1190
01:59:36,708 --> 01:59:45,388
There are teachers and stakeholders on that committee on that level of use and the expectation of teachers continuing to incorporate

1191
01:59:46,288 --> 01:59:53,928
technology, Canvas, Zoom, all the pieces that we know turned out to be a great resource over

1192
01:59:53,928 --> 01:59:59,868
the course of the last 15 months. So that will be a piece of this as well. I think that expectation

1193
01:59:59,868 --> 02:00:07,448
pieces is going to be really important so that folks know that they, you know, the expectations are being used.

1194
02:00:09,128 --> 02:00:13,668
Thank you. I just wanted to clarify to make sure, and I know after this year, we're all much

1195
02:00:13,668 --> 02:00:18,808
better at using technology in the classroom, so making sure, you know, surveying students

1196
02:00:18,808 --> 02:00:23,088
and teachers and staff members in the classroom to make sure that's actually happening.

1197
02:00:23,588 --> 02:00:24,528
But thank you.

1198
02:00:25,968 --> 02:00:34,348
There's a saying, early on, when one to one became a hot thing,

1199
02:00:36,368 --> 02:00:37,688
there was a term called spray

1200
02:00:37,688 --> 02:00:38,128
and spray.

1201
02:00:38,128 --> 02:00:43,608
So what happened was school districts would just give the vices out or just buy a ton of devices

1202
02:00:43,608 --> 02:00:45,648
But then there was no support behind it

1203
02:00:46,368 --> 02:00:55,408
What COVID did was just accelerate everything and in our our reliance on that technology and I think there have been a lot of things done over the last

1204
02:00:56,028 --> 02:00:56,508
year

1205
02:00:56,508 --> 02:00:59,028
that have that have helped our students and

1206
02:01:00,928 --> 02:01:05,108
There has to be this bridge to be able to continue that because

1207
02:01:05,108 --> 02:01:12,748
Just because we're opening back to normal in August, it doesn't mean that everything that we've done to date is going to go away completely.

1208
02:01:13,368 --> 02:01:17,648
So there are still some elements and pieces that we are going to retain and we're going to keep.

1209
02:01:18,288 --> 02:01:29,028
And even within this plan, within our other stimulus dollars, there's still technology subscriptions, there's other things that have now are going to stay with us.

1210
02:01:29,028 --> 02:01:35,548
And the goal is really just to provide the accessibility to all kids at any time all the time.

1211
02:01:35,968 --> 02:01:40,948
And yes, you're absolutely right. There has to be some support behind it.

1212
02:01:41,508 --> 02:01:44,108
And we're moving quickly in a short period of time.

1213
02:01:45,328 --> 02:01:49,848
But there will be some thought behind and some plans behind that.

1214
02:01:50,088 --> 02:01:50,948
Thank you.

1215
02:01:50,948 --> 02:01:58,548
And I do want to emphasize and both Dr. Mike and Dr. Miller mentioned this that there are

1216
02:01:59,388 --> 02:02:04,928
actions and services in here that are split funded. So we know that we have additional dollars

1217
02:02:04,928 --> 02:02:11,648
coming in from either LCAP planning, general fund grants and or other stimulus dollars coming in,

1218
02:02:11,868 --> 02:02:18,328
that will complete the full funding of those services and actions. It's just a piece to the budgeting.

1219
02:02:20,708 --> 02:02:26,768
Thank you. Trustee Sylvester, thank you. I had a question. Just a couple. I was really glad to see the class

1220
02:02:26,768 --> 02:02:33,228
size reduction in there because I know that has emerged as a mantra for many parents and teachers

1221
02:02:33,228 --> 02:02:37,968
that students. So that's a good, that's almost, that's more than a quarter of this money

1222
02:02:37,968 --> 02:02:44,948
going toward that. So I appreciate that. And then my other question is on the summer programs, which I think is

1223
02:02:44,948 --> 02:02:50,508
rate and incredibly necessary. But do we have any idea of, first of all, the available interest

1224
02:02:50,508 --> 02:02:56,448
of teachers to teach those? Because I know that is a potentially an issue and then students

1225
02:02:56,448 --> 02:03:00,748
who, I mean this has been a year where everyone has burnt out students who are willing

1226
02:03:00,748 --> 02:03:03,288
and able to participate as well.

1227
02:03:04,948 --> 02:03:09,188
Should this get approved tonight? That will be the first thing we start doing tomorrow is

1228
02:03:09,188 --> 02:03:14,708
recruitment and trying to incentivize to have staff stay with us during the summer to

1229
02:03:14,708 --> 02:03:19,688
provide these important services. So I don't have a gauge, I don't know what the receptivity

1230
02:03:19,688 --> 02:03:26,428
or response rate will be to that, but we will make every effort to try and fulfill that with

1231
02:03:26,428 --> 02:03:33,888
the staff. I do think that we have been doing some recruiting for some of our summer programs,

1232
02:03:33,888 --> 02:03:40,488
not just at our traditional summer school, but also the site levels that are planning on running

1233
02:03:40,488 --> 02:03:44,368
some type of intervention. So I do think that some of those numbers are in a community in the

1234
02:03:44,368 --> 02:03:49,488
place, so maybe Ms. Valentine has an update on what rat was some of those the fillings of some

1235
02:03:49,488 --> 02:03:54,888
of those positions. I do know we have some hard to feel positions. I heard that today, but I think

1236
02:03:54,888 --> 02:04:02,848
better than we anticipated. Yes, and for the plan that Dr. Miller is talking about, we did

1237
02:04:03,888 --> 02:04:09,048
Dr. Wilson Elementary Education did send out a survey to teachers to gauge their interest

1238
02:04:09,048 --> 02:04:12,808
in wanting to do summer school and dates they would be available.

1239
02:04:13,068 --> 02:04:14,808
So she did get quite a bit of feedback from that.

1240
02:04:14,808 --> 02:04:18,508
That was positive that we felt like we would get quite a few teachers moving forward.

1241
02:04:19,228 --> 02:04:24,448
And as Dr. McLaughlin said, we are in the recruitment right now for a summer school

1242
02:04:24,448 --> 02:04:28,588
in for get ahead and for the charter.

1243
02:04:28,588 --> 02:04:36,648
So and those have been briskly recruited so we've been getting quite a few people for that and think we're covered there.

1244
02:04:37,048 --> 02:04:37,848
So that's good news.

1245
02:04:39,788 --> 02:04:44,668
I think the timing as well of when the actual site determines their intervention.

1246
02:04:44,668 --> 02:04:48,488
I think coming following right after school ends is tough.

1247
02:04:48,928 --> 02:04:52,908
But then once you get, you know, the, you know, some time in June and July,

1248
02:04:52,908 --> 02:04:55,508
the excitement of getting the school year up and running,

1249
02:04:56,088 --> 02:04:58,808
we tend to see more individuals who are willing to come back

1250
02:04:58,808 --> 02:05:03,008
for and like an early start, those type of programs.

1251
02:05:07,058 --> 02:05:08,998
Thank you, any other Trustee Gill?

1252
02:05:09,798 --> 02:05:13,078
I just want to say thank you for this plan,

1253
02:05:13,598 --> 02:05:15,498
which while it had to be prepared so quickly,

1254
02:05:16,358 --> 02:05:18,718
is so thorough and thoughtful.

1255
02:05:19,698 --> 02:05:23,458
It has certainly been difficult to hear about needs

1256
02:05:23,458 --> 02:05:30,498
And know that our resources were too constrained to meet all of them.

1257
02:05:31,498 --> 02:05:39,718
I know that we will have conversations going forward about how we measure and evaluate the impact of this investment.

1258
02:05:40,378 --> 02:05:43,038
And I look forward to that.

1259
02:05:43,518 --> 02:05:51,998
And as far as the prospect of these funds not continuing and what we, the situation will find ourselves in,

1260
02:05:51,998 --> 02:06:15,218
I think with the evidence of the impact of the investment in hand, it's incumbent upon all of us to be loud about the essential need to continue that investment in our people or students at a level that is commensurate with their needs and I pledge to do my part in that.

1261
02:06:18,288 --> 02:06:21,968
Thank you, any other questions or comments on this item.

1262
02:06:23,408 --> 02:06:25,748
Okay, seeing none, please vote.

1263
02:06:26,408 --> 02:06:27,068
Trustee Goldberg?

1264
02:06:27,608 --> 02:06:27,728
Yes.

1265
02:06:28,188 --> 02:06:28,948
Trustee Gorbach?

1266
02:06:29,148 --> 02:06:29,448
Yes.

1267
02:06:29,788 --> 02:06:31,188
I'm a yes, Trustee Gil.

1268
02:06:31,708 --> 02:06:31,928
Yes.

1269
02:06:32,128 --> 02:06:32,968
Trustee Sylvester?

1270
02:06:33,508 --> 02:06:33,628
Yes.

1271
02:06:33,808 --> 02:06:34,508
Trustee Craig?

1272
02:06:34,968 --> 02:06:35,088
Yes.

1273
02:06:35,448 --> 02:06:39,408
Motion carries 50 with an honorary yes vote by Trustee Craig.

1274
02:06:40,027 --> 02:06:43,147
Do we have a motion on the remainder of the consent agenda as amended?

1275
02:06:43,407 --> 02:06:45,647
Presidents, yes, you go for a back.

1276
02:06:45,967 --> 02:06:50,207
I move that we approve the remainder of the consent agenda as amended.

1277
02:06:50,447 --> 02:06:51,667
Second. Okay, it's been moved.

1278
02:06:51,907 --> 02:06:54,147
And second, did please vote? Trustee Goldberg?

1279
02:06:54,487 --> 02:06:55,547
Yes. Trustee Gorbach?

1280
02:06:55,827 --> 02:06:56,047
Yes.

1281
02:06:56,187 --> 02:06:57,587
M.A.S. Trustee Gil?

1282
02:06:57,927 --> 02:06:58,227
Yes.

1283
02:06:58,367 --> 02:06:59,147
Trustee Sylvester?

1284
02:06:59,687 --> 02:06:59,907
Yes.

1285
02:07:00,287 --> 02:07:01,107
Trustee Craig?

1286
02:07:01,607 --> 02:07:01,747
Yes.

1287
02:07:01,927 --> 02:07:05,707
Motion carries 50 with an honorary yes vote by Trustee Craig.

1288
02:07:06,427 --> 02:07:09,907
I do believe we are hopping on Zoom.

1289
02:07:11,327 --> 02:07:17,947
to have an introduction or reintroduction to Shane Craven, recently announced as the new principal of

1290
02:07:17,947 --> 02:07:19,267
Aspen Elementary School.

1291
02:07:19,507 --> 02:07:25,707
Yes, last board meeting, Mr. Craven was approved as the principal at Aspen Elementary School tonight.

1292
02:07:26,247 --> 02:07:34,907
In the P.A.O., his salary was approved, and so with both of those pieces taking place, we would like to have him

1293
02:07:35,567 --> 02:07:42,027
folks sign on to Zoom, so he could say hello to our board, introduce himself, and introduce

1294
02:07:42,027 --> 02:07:43,827
himself to the Canale community.

1295
02:08:12,887 --> 02:08:15,227
Okay, looks like we have everyone on.

1296
02:08:15,487 --> 02:08:17,267
I'm trying to document welcome.

1297
02:08:17,707 --> 02:08:20,507
Good evening, and thank you for your patience tonight.

1298
02:08:20,707 --> 02:08:21,127
It's fragrant.

1299
02:08:22,167 --> 02:08:27,467
With that, I just, when we'd like to congratulate you and welcome you to be in the principal

1300
02:08:27,467 --> 02:08:29,707
of Aspen Elementary School and in Cherokee,

1301
02:08:29,807 --> 02:08:32,107
just to say hello to the board

1302
02:08:32,107 --> 02:08:35,407
and put your infection to yourself to the community.

1303
02:08:36,787 --> 02:08:38,227
Good evening, President Fitzgerald,

1304
02:08:38,427 --> 02:08:40,027
talking about Glockman, members of the board

1305
02:08:40,027 --> 02:08:41,427
and members of executive cabinet.

1306
02:08:42,147 --> 02:08:43,027
Thank you for this opportunity

1307
02:08:43,027 --> 02:08:44,927
as I'm extremely grateful and honored

1308
02:08:44,927 --> 02:08:47,167
to be the next principal at Aspen Elementary School.

1309
02:08:47,707 --> 02:08:49,627
My work has been, as an educational leader,

1310
02:08:49,907 --> 02:08:51,587
has been rooted in equity, collaboration,

1311
02:08:52,047 --> 02:08:54,367
innovation, and student-centered decision making.

1312
02:08:54,907 --> 02:08:56,907
I look forward to continuing to employ these values

1313
02:08:56,907 --> 02:08:59,147
as I closely collaborate and support our incredible

1314
02:08:59,147 --> 02:09:02,167
ask and students, teachers, staff, and parents.

1315
02:09:02,907 --> 02:09:04,627
I would also like to thank Dr. Sony Wilson,

1316
02:09:04,967 --> 02:09:06,807
Ms. Mayteigen, and the Ask and Community for

1317
02:09:06,807 --> 02:09:08,727
the very warm welcome of last two weeks.

1318
02:09:09,187 --> 02:09:10,247
Thank you again for the opportunity

1319
02:09:10,247 --> 02:09:11,747
to lead this extraordinary school.

1320
02:09:16,507 --> 02:09:16,687
Great.

1321
02:09:17,047 --> 02:09:17,927
Thank you and congratulations.

1322
02:09:19,007 --> 02:09:21,727
Thank you for staying and joining us in congratulations.

1323
02:09:24,127 --> 02:09:27,607
We appreciate your hanging on so this time, sir.

1324
02:09:27,887 --> 02:09:28,607
No problem at all.

1325
02:09:29,467 --> 02:09:29,927
Thank you.

1326
02:09:30,347 --> 02:09:30,867
Thank you.

1327
02:09:33,257 --> 02:09:37,477
We do not need to sign off. We, I think, are the next item correct.

1328
02:09:42,067 --> 02:09:48,467
I'm going to see before we move on to the next item if there's any objection to taking a break.

1329
02:09:49,687 --> 02:09:56,287
Okay, seeing then, let's try to come back in in, you know, five minutes or as close as we can. Thank you.

1330
02:09:59,954 --> 02:10:14,454
We're now moving on to the consent agenda. We'll begin with the items that were pulled from the consent agenda. The first item is item 4b, and I believe we are joining Zoom again for that item. Is that correct?

1331
02:10:38,754 --> 02:10:44,054
Okay, I'm going to, I'm going to ask if there's a motion on this item, as it imputes

1332
02:10:44,054 --> 02:10:44,374
Cheryl.

1333
02:10:44,914 --> 02:10:49,254
I move that we approve the new contract with niche.com incorporated as submitted.

1334
02:10:49,954 --> 02:10:50,194
Thank you.

1335
02:10:50,314 --> 02:10:51,054
Is there a second?

1336
02:10:52,034 --> 02:10:52,474
Second.

1337
02:10:52,914 --> 02:10:53,154
Okay.

1338
02:10:53,154 --> 02:10:55,734
It has been moved and seconded.

1339
02:10:56,234 --> 02:10:59,674
And to give us a moment, we figure this piece out.

1340
02:11:25,464 --> 02:11:26,004
We have two.

1341
02:11:43,154 --> 02:11:43,854
First of all,

1342
02:11:45,884 --> 02:11:48,704
as a district, we've made a commitment to diversity.

1343
02:11:48,704 --> 02:11:54,104
equity and inclusion. I think it's reasonable for this board to scrutinize any potential partner

1344
02:11:54,104 --> 02:11:59,084
to ask whether they share our commitment. And in that regard, I have some questions about

1345
02:11:59,084 --> 02:11:59,844
niche.

1346
02:11:59,944 --> 02:12:03,924
Just once, I just want to make sure you're camping you here, board a number of go.

1347
02:12:13,254 --> 02:12:18,134
Okay, so we're going to go ahead and sign back into Zoom, and then we'll have a trusty girl

1348
02:12:18,134 --> 02:12:19,094
for your peer question.

1349
02:12:19,094 --> 02:12:19,934
I

1350
02:12:55,864 --> 02:13:02,484
didn't hear her through, I felt multiple screens happening, so I think that she said we're going to go ahead.

1351
02:13:02,724 --> 02:13:07,004
Okay, I got it. We'll just we're all on here, so we'll stay with it for a moment.

1352
02:13:07,304 --> 02:13:10,404
Thank you for letting us know as we trust us out of everything.

1353
02:13:13,224 --> 02:13:18,744
And we have a question, so I'm going to have a repeat it just everyone can hear it and we'll go from there.

1354
02:13:22,614 --> 02:13:25,794
As a district, we've made a commitment to diversity equity and inclusion.

1355
02:13:25,794 --> 02:13:31,574
I think it's reasonable for this board to scrutinize any potential partner to ask whether they share our commitment.

1356
02:13:32,154 --> 02:13:34,854
And it's in that regard that I have some questions about niche.

1357
02:13:35,774 --> 02:13:43,914
To arrive at its rankings, niche heavily weights standardized test scores like state assessments and SAT ACT scores.

1358
02:13:44,754 --> 02:13:49,554
Currently, hundreds of colleges and systems, like our own UC system,

1359
02:13:49,554 --> 02:13:57,074
are discontinuing their reliance on SAT, in favor of more holistic, inclusive admissions policies.

1360
02:13:58,214 --> 02:14:03,814
The reason for this shift is that evidence shows the SAT and ACT to be exclusionary and discriminatory.

1361
02:14:04,454 --> 02:14:12,054
If news continues to base its rankings on these instruments, we have to ask if they are encoding and perpetuating bias.

1362
02:14:13,194 --> 02:14:20,214
A search of K12 districts in Ventura County shows a pattern that disturbs me.

1363
02:14:21,054 --> 02:14:24,634
CBSD is given an excellent rating, which I totally agree with.

1364
02:14:25,314 --> 02:14:32,834
But some of our neighboring districts offering excellent learning environments are graded so harshly, and I struggle to understand why.

1365
02:14:34,894 --> 02:14:41,434
Where patterns of inequity and exclusion exist, they perpetuate unless we actively disrupt them.

1366
02:14:41,434 --> 02:14:45,654
We need to know if Niche will be a partner in this work with us.

1367
02:14:46,194 --> 02:14:56,014
I'd like to ask that we delay action on this contract and ask for more transparency from Niche on the methodology and philosophy behind its ranking system.

1368
02:14:57,334 --> 02:15:08,934
We have a small, but mighty communications team doing great work, reaching our existing and prospective families with stories about the extraordinary learning experiences happening every day in our district.

1369
02:15:08,934 --> 02:15:12,814
I completely support the intent to amplify those efforts.

1370
02:15:13,674 --> 02:15:19,174
I simply want us to be confident that any partner in that work is committed to our core values.

1371
02:15:24,654 --> 02:15:26,734
Thank you. Thank you for the comments and the engagement.

1372
02:15:26,914 --> 02:15:31,034
And I really appreciate the conversation on on this topic this evening.

1373
02:15:32,254 --> 02:15:34,514
I definitely understand your concerns.

1374
02:15:34,914 --> 02:15:42,434
And I think it's safe to say that there's not one perfect platform out there right now.

1375
02:15:42,434 --> 02:15:45,754
but there are some unique benefits to niche

1376
02:15:45,754 --> 02:15:48,634
and niches stated mission is, quote,

1377
02:15:48,934 --> 02:15:52,094
making research in schools easy, transparent, and free.

1378
02:15:52,614 --> 02:15:56,174
So the metrics that they use, they decide annually

1379
02:15:56,174 --> 02:15:59,194
and whatever metrics they decide upon

1380
02:15:59,194 --> 02:16:01,554
for that particular, they use across the board.

1381
02:16:02,114 --> 02:16:05,814
And what I found as a positive to niche

1382
02:16:05,814 --> 02:16:09,934
as opposed to other districts was they really do take

1383
02:16:09,934 --> 02:16:13,794
into account personal experiences more so than others.

1384
02:16:14,354 --> 02:16:16,874
And I hear the drum means, but they are great schools, right?

1385
02:16:17,254 --> 02:16:20,834
So great schools uses a zero to 10 ranking and we

1386
02:16:20,834 --> 02:16:25,614
use a regular grade ranking ABCs.

1387
02:16:25,794 --> 02:16:28,234
So I haven't looked at what are the

1388
02:16:28,234 --> 02:16:30,234
brain school districts ranking, sorry.

1389
02:16:30,234 --> 02:16:33,934
But I was focusing on what are our school rankings, right?

1390
02:16:33,934 --> 02:16:35,954
So our title one school, how are they

1391
02:16:35,954 --> 02:16:44,594
sharing on niche and, you know, I wasn't just pleased with what I saw. I thought it was a fair

1392
02:16:44,594 --> 02:16:49,934
evaluation of this school. So I'm not going to put out any names, but for for one particular

1393
02:16:49,934 --> 02:16:56,214
title in school that the lowest ranked title in school on niche has a B minus grade versus

1394
02:16:56,214 --> 02:17:02,614
on great schools. They have a four out of ten ranking. And I think what comes into play with niche

1395
02:17:02,614 --> 02:17:05,774
is that they are looking at to those comments,

1396
02:17:06,194 --> 02:17:08,274
those publicly reported experiences,

1397
02:17:09,614 --> 02:17:11,234
to help pull together their grades,

1398
02:17:11,294 --> 02:17:13,514
which, in my opinion, seem more fair

1399
02:17:13,514 --> 02:17:16,834
than other competitor websites.

1400
02:17:17,714 --> 02:17:20,574
And I think what's really important and valuable

1401
02:17:20,574 --> 02:17:22,894
with this partnership are the people

1402
02:17:22,894 --> 02:17:24,894
who find themselves on niche.

1403
02:17:25,374 --> 02:17:28,134
So these are individuals who are on the platform,

1404
02:17:28,294 --> 02:17:29,934
because they're researching...

1405
02:17:29,954 --> 02:17:57,634
Schools and our communities to live. And if you open a web browser and just search anything in the realm of best places to raise a family and venture or best schools north of Los Angeles, the beaches results are the top listing and that's something that we independently can't really compete with because that's such a cost prohibitive search engine marketing terms.

1406
02:17:57,634 --> 02:18:05,154
And that's where a niche I think goes about and beyond is they've really invested in owning that content.

1407
02:18:05,694 --> 02:18:09,114
And they want to be that place where prospective families land.

1408
02:18:09,914 --> 02:18:19,334
So over the last year, they said that 27 million families research chief K through 12 schools on their platform.

1409
02:18:20,014 --> 02:18:24,094
So at that in the LA area there were 1.7 million families.

1410
02:18:24,094 --> 02:18:31,834
And our particular profile had about 4,000 views over the last year, and 21% of them were

1411
02:18:31,834 --> 02:18:35,974
views from individuals who resided outside of California State.

1412
02:18:36,974 --> 02:18:41,874
And so to me, what's really fascinating and what could be a great opportunity is these

1413
02:18:41,874 --> 02:18:47,614
are families who are not necessarily familiar with the city of Thousand Oaks or Los Angeles,

1414
02:18:47,874 --> 02:18:52,314
and they're possibly relocating here and they're just looking at where do they want to live,

1415
02:18:52,314 --> 02:18:58,654
where would be a great fit for their school and that's where telling our stories can become enhanced

1416
02:18:58,654 --> 02:19:04,774
on the profile. We can work prominently place the links to the content that we want. We can create

1417
02:19:04,774 --> 02:19:10,334
our unique learning pages, have them, friends, and center. I'm really help guide these families who

1418
02:19:10,334 --> 02:19:16,434
are doing what we all do, which is googling for answers to help make their leg easier and I know

1419
02:19:16,434 --> 02:19:21,454
I am a victim of that all the time when I don't know the answer or trying to find something for

1420
02:19:21,454 --> 02:19:28,154
young children, what did I do? I Googled. And I think that that's really what helps that

1421
02:19:28,154 --> 02:19:34,994
this particular partnership apart and the timing of it all is what I think is so important

1422
02:19:34,994 --> 02:19:41,154
right now because we're at the juncture when a lot of families plan to move right before the

1423
02:19:41,154 --> 02:19:46,394
start of the new school year and with COVID and the recovering of the pandemic and changing

1424
02:19:46,394 --> 02:19:52,514
work styles. I think it's an opportunity where a lot of families based in Los Angeles might be

1425
02:19:52,514 --> 02:19:56,834
looking to move north and if they're going to make that move, they're going to do it now.

1426
02:19:57,394 --> 02:20:02,714
And if we could get a partnership like this, that sooner rather than later, it's advantageous for us

1427
02:20:02,714 --> 02:20:08,754
to get our face out in front of these families as soon as we can because again, if they're like me,

1428
02:20:09,034 --> 02:20:15,674
they're Googling. And unfortunately, I think many people know this video thousand else, which is a great thing,

1429
02:20:15,674 --> 02:20:17,934
But there don't necessarily know that can a whole value

1430
02:20:17,934 --> 02:20:21,694
unified school district is the public school district.

1431
02:20:21,754 --> 02:20:23,094
That serves that area.

1432
02:20:23,714 --> 02:20:25,774
And again, that's where that Google, I think, really

1433
02:20:25,774 --> 02:20:28,854
comes into playing and niche owning all those super valuable

1434
02:20:28,854 --> 02:20:30,414
key search terms.

1435
02:20:34,024 --> 02:20:35,864
And I just threw out a lot so I apologize.

1436
02:20:45,834 --> 02:20:46,834
Because they saw that stuff.

1437
02:20:47,314 --> 02:20:47,714
Oh, thank you.

1438
02:20:48,634 --> 02:20:51,634
I do hear the concerns of Trustee Gill.

1439
02:20:51,994 --> 02:20:55,594
But I do believe that we're in a world of declining

1440
02:20:55,594 --> 02:21:01,094
involvement. We're in a world where we receive revenue based on our enrollment and our ADA.

1441
02:21:01,734 --> 02:21:06,954
We're in a world where we know in a couple of years we have an enrollment cliff coming. I just believe

1442
02:21:06,954 --> 02:21:12,674
of district we've got to do what we can. We have a responsibility to do what we can to aggressively

1443
02:21:12,674 --> 02:21:18,054
market our schools and our programs to both retain existing students, bring back the ones maybe

1444
02:21:18,054 --> 02:21:24,474
who took off last year during COVID and get the word out to attract new students. And expanding

1445
02:21:24,474 --> 02:21:31,154
digital footprint, I think it's critical. So I did get on and Google some search terms and

1446
02:21:31,154 --> 02:21:37,094
niche.com comes up almost to me. Great schools is the other one but niche.com comes up

1447
02:21:37,094 --> 02:21:43,914
in almost every search that I could think of to do. So my only question and I'm a little unclear

1448
02:21:43,914 --> 02:21:49,354
because we do have a profile net and it ties directly to our website and our Roman page,

1449
02:21:50,214 --> 02:21:53,054
What does funding the extra money get us?

1450
02:21:53,214 --> 02:21:57,534
And I know a, a, a, a, a musical that you did talk to a Dondo Beach, because they have

1451
02:21:57,534 --> 02:22:00,754
used it, so you might have a little more clarity on that.

1452
02:22:02,054 --> 02:22:09,054
I, yeah, so there's obviously different partnerships you can do with them, and the foundation

1453
02:22:09,054 --> 02:22:12,554
of the partnership would be what's called a premium profile.

1454
02:22:13,374 --> 02:22:18,134
So, right now if you actually look at our clinical value unified school district profile on

1455
02:22:18,134 --> 02:22:26,374
It's temporarily elevated to that premium profile and I went in and I customized it and it's only been

1456
02:22:26,374 --> 02:22:33,114
active for about a week and one of the online inquiry forms which goes to one of our lesons.

1457
02:22:33,234 --> 02:22:37,894
Here it has received two submissions and that's a format that doesn't get too much traction.

1458
02:22:38,154 --> 02:22:40,034
Especially at an off time of year.

1459
02:22:40,034 --> 02:22:46,994
So I can't 100% say that they got to it from that profile, but that's my hunch.

1460
02:22:47,214 --> 02:22:51,014
So the premium profile allows you to have customized buttons on it.

1461
02:22:51,074 --> 02:22:51,974
It allows for photos.

1462
02:22:52,174 --> 02:22:56,954
It allows for videos and we have a wonderful promotional video about our district and that

1463
02:22:56,954 --> 02:22:58,234
can be front and center.

1464
02:22:58,474 --> 02:23:01,914
It allows for our Instagram account to be placed on the page as well.

1465
02:23:02,074 --> 02:23:05,594
I pulls from the feed and it allows for short write-ups.

1466
02:23:05,654 --> 02:23:10,014
So if you look at our profile and it's right now compared to like any of our surroundings

1467
02:23:10,014 --> 02:23:16,094
neighbor districts that don't have it, you'll see real quickly the start contrast of what that

1468
02:23:16,094 --> 02:23:22,674
premium profile looks like. And then in addition to that, it also has what they call a remarketing

1469
02:23:22,674 --> 02:23:28,314
campaign, which is more closely known as like a retargeting campaign, right? So if folks end up on

1470
02:23:28,314 --> 02:23:33,974
our page on niche, which means that they're hopefully they're interested in moving or relocating

1471
02:23:33,974 --> 02:23:39,694
to our area or interested in learning more schools, our content is going to start following them.

1472
02:23:39,694 --> 02:23:44,434
and it's going to follow them on their Google searches, it's going to follow them on social media,

1473
02:23:44,474 --> 02:23:50,034
on social media ads, and what I like about it too is that because they've been on niche,

1474
02:23:50,354 --> 02:23:55,074
so it's a brand that they recognize our content is going to show up, but it's going to be content

1475
02:23:55,074 --> 02:24:00,974
posted by niche, which is sort of like that third-party endorsement feeling, and, you know,

1476
02:24:01,094 --> 02:24:06,294
we do run our own Facebook campaigns with our own targeted reach, but I think that would be a

1477
02:24:06,294 --> 02:24:13,894
valuable addition as well. And as part of the partnership to it has the opportunity to promote

1478
02:24:13,894 --> 02:24:21,034
events. So we have like our TK and kindergarten enrollment and information night. So that's

1479
02:24:21,034 --> 02:24:25,874
something we could promote there. And if we end up not having a ton of events to promote,

1480
02:24:26,054 --> 02:24:31,334
we can of course throw those funds that go to that part of the campaign and you know retargeting.

1481
02:24:31,334 --> 02:24:37,354
and then hope would be that we would have, you know, 350,000 impressions. So our content is just

1482
02:24:37,354 --> 02:24:42,574
hopefully getting into these, into the faces of people who are just really considering us,

1483
02:24:42,634 --> 02:24:48,434
which is so valuable because when you run an ad with a different agency or like a newspaper,

1484
02:24:49,094 --> 02:24:54,834
yeah, it might have impressions of, you know, hundreds of thousands, but what percentage of that

1485
02:24:54,834 --> 02:24:59,794
hundreds of thousands are really interested in, you know, what you have to sell.

1486
02:24:59,974 --> 02:25:11,274
And then this particular partnership, it's really catered to individuals who are our have shown interest in moving or learning about a specific area, are particularly TQTK through 12 schools.

1487
02:25:11,474 --> 02:25:16,174
So that's kind of the big head of what this particular partnership does.

1488
02:25:16,394 --> 02:25:21,154
And I did have the opportunity to speak, actually, with the superintendent of Redondo Beach.

1489
02:25:21,754 --> 02:25:24,234
They do not have a communications person there.

1490
02:25:24,234 --> 02:25:32,554
I was surprised to hear from the superintendent himself, but he called me back really quickly and excited to talk to me about it.

1491
02:25:33,034 --> 02:25:40,794
So he, for Rodondo Beach, they are not in the exact same position where they've actually had enrollment increasing over the last several years.

1492
02:25:41,334 --> 02:25:47,134
But what they were really hoping to do with their partnership was to increase awareness about their programs.

1493
02:25:47,134 --> 02:25:52,294
they, he just felt like they weren't necessarily getting the boost that they needed from what

1494
02:25:52,294 --> 02:25:59,474
they had to test to what a great school district they were. And he felt very confidently that

1495
02:25:59,474 --> 02:26:05,114
it was worth it for them that he's heard back from families who landed on there and ended up coming

1496
02:26:05,114 --> 02:26:11,154
in to learn more. And this all happened during the time of COVID. So they started their partnership

1497
02:26:11,774 --> 02:26:29,414
And then the middle of the pandemic, if not right before, so even through that, he said that he recommended it, which I appreciated, because I just knew that they had it and I kind of called cold called them because I was curious what they would say and I was very thankful that they took the time to connect.

1498
02:26:31,394 --> 02:26:35,834
Thank you. That was a thorough response. And I do agree with your assertion that.

1499
02:26:36,234 --> 02:26:39,074
Now is the time to to market.

1500
02:26:41,734 --> 02:26:44,214
Chris, think we're back.

1501
02:26:45,374 --> 02:26:53,434
Yeah, I heard two kind of conflicting things that niche uses test scores as part of their evaluation.

1502
02:26:54,794 --> 02:27:01,534
But also that they use a lot of anecdotal information of people who have, in this case, experience the school district.

1503
02:27:02,054 --> 02:27:06,134
Do they wait these? How do they use them both?

1504
02:27:07,474 --> 02:27:15,214
Yeah, so they do actually have all of the housing tickets is broken down publicly available on their website.

1505
02:27:15,534 --> 02:27:27,434
I don't have it open right now, but it was like 50% of the score had to do with, you know, grades post secondary opportunities as AT scores.

1506
02:27:27,694 --> 02:27:32,034
So it's not 50% had to do with, you know, students cast scores.

1507
02:27:32,034 --> 02:27:39,074
course. I think it was closer to around 30% was those particular scores and then that was coupled

1508
02:27:39,074 --> 02:27:46,534
along with SAT scores and postsecondary destinations and then there was other percentages in

1509
02:27:46,534 --> 02:27:52,014
regards to like surveys and stakeholder feedbacks and that's something I can certainly send

1510
02:27:52,014 --> 02:27:58,634
to to everyone later on. How do you definitely can include the algorithm and one of our order

1511
02:27:58,634 --> 02:28:00,294
or it's just sort of a words of words.

1512
02:28:01,034 --> 02:28:04,934
And I know that the same formula for every single school

1513
02:28:04,934 --> 02:28:06,014
and school district.

1514
02:28:10,484 --> 02:28:14,884
And I do agree with you that this is the time that even,

1515
02:28:14,904 --> 02:28:16,784
even the two weeks or whatever it is

1516
02:28:16,784 --> 02:28:17,984
until our three weeks, I think,

1517
02:28:18,024 --> 02:28:22,004
until our next meeting would be a loss.

1518
02:28:23,664 --> 02:28:27,324
So I think it's important that we decide

1519
02:28:27,324 --> 02:28:29,684
to go in this direction that we do it now.

1520
02:28:37,184 --> 02:28:42,484
Other comments or questions? I have one, but I want to see if anyone else has any.

1521
02:28:43,764 --> 02:28:51,484
First. Okay. I do understand the timing piece. I think you explained that well.

1522
02:28:52,084 --> 02:29:02,914
And certainly we're in a difficult position in terms of enrollment just based on the impacts of COVID.

1523
02:29:02,914 --> 02:29:14,314
In general years we are, but I think particularly this year and we're not alone in that there's districts up and down the state that are working to recapture enrollment numbers for next year.

1524
02:29:14,934 --> 02:29:19,154
So I see that that's an opportunity. We don't want to miss on on the same.

1525
02:29:19,714 --> 02:29:30,894
And the same hand, I think that, hold on just a minute, Trustee Gorrett, can you put your mic on mute, it just echoes? Thank you so much.

1526
02:29:32,854 --> 02:29:45,634
I do understand Trustee Gill's point as well, though, that if we are as a district and as a board saying that we are committed to equity and diversity and inclusion, it's very simple to say those words.

1527
02:29:45,634 --> 02:29:51,514
but if we're truly committed, that means that our actions have to back those words, even when

1528
02:29:51,514 --> 02:29:58,714
it's difficult and inconvenient for us to do so. I see that this is a one-year contract. So,

1529
02:29:59,374 --> 02:30:07,854
for me, given the timing, I could see a provenness for one year. However, I think to be honest,

1530
02:30:09,294 --> 02:30:15,614
in my view, it should be standard operating procedure moving forward that we evaluate and look

1531
02:30:15,614 --> 02:30:21,754
or vendors through an equity lens. Now I'm not familiar off-hand with the concerns that

1532
02:30:21,754 --> 02:30:26,834
Trustee Gil erase, but I think they're important concerns. They're important questions that we

1533
02:30:26,834 --> 02:30:32,974
should be asking about all of our vendors that we work with in our district. So I would hope that

1534
02:30:33,574 --> 02:30:44,374
you know if this is something that comes back after a year should the order prove it that that's

1535
02:30:44,374 --> 02:30:50,734
me a broader conversation that we could have to as a board when we discuss schools and things like that,

1536
02:30:51,234 --> 02:30:58,694
but I do think the question of how our vendors look at things and approach things and whether they're

1537
02:30:58,694 --> 02:31:04,094
using an equity lens is important for us and as it relates to this specific vendor, what I'm hearing

1538
02:31:04,094 --> 02:31:12,154
is a question about whether this vendor is committed to following and adapting the racial and social

1539
02:31:12,154 --> 02:31:19,334
economic equity developments that have come up around standardized testing. They've existed for a

1540
02:31:19,334 --> 02:31:26,074
long time, but I certainly think COVID has highlighted them even more so over this past year,

1541
02:31:26,474 --> 02:31:34,214
and whether they are going to be adapting, willing to adapt their scores and the metrics they use

1542
02:31:34,214 --> 02:31:40,994
based on those developments, and also based on what colleges decide to do with this information

1543
02:31:40,994 --> 02:31:45,034
And that has been looked at more closely, I think, this past year.

1544
02:31:46,294 --> 02:31:53,414
So, and that was kind of a lot, but I really find validity in those concerns.

1545
02:31:53,914 --> 02:31:59,014
I do understand the timing, so again, you know, it's a one-year contract, but I think this

1546
02:31:59,014 --> 02:32:07,434
is something for my perspective, we should start coming to with that information just with

1547
02:32:07,434 --> 02:32:08,874
equity piece as well.

1548
02:32:13,204 --> 02:32:14,784
Other questions, comments?

1549
02:32:21,864 --> 02:32:28,044
Seeing none, I will move to a vote on this item.

1550
02:32:29,284 --> 02:32:29,924
Starting with...

1551
02:32:30,294 --> 02:32:31,814
Mr. Gorbach?

1552
02:32:32,494 --> 02:32:32,734
Yes.

1553
02:32:33,734 --> 02:32:35,214
Trustee Gil?

1554
02:32:35,574 --> 02:32:36,314
No.

1555
02:32:37,534 --> 02:32:39,294
I'm a guest, Trustee Sylvester?

1556
02:32:41,174 --> 02:32:41,994
Trustee Goldberg?

1557
02:32:42,414 --> 02:32:42,574
Yes.

1558
02:32:43,474 --> 02:32:44,774
Trustee Craig?

1559
02:32:45,154 --> 02:32:45,254
Yes.

1560
02:32:45,894 --> 02:32:49,054
Okay, motion carries 4-1.

1561
02:32:49,474 --> 02:32:50,634
Trustee Gil, voting no.

1562
02:32:50,814 --> 02:32:53,374
With an honorary guest vote by Trustee Craig?

1563
02:32:56,134 --> 02:32:58,534
Moving on to the next item, 4G.

1564
02:32:58,534 --> 02:33:04,954
And thank you, Miss Gold, for joining us and providing that information for your time this evening.

1565
02:33:05,354 --> 02:33:06,534
Thank you so much.

1566
02:33:07,434 --> 02:33:10,194
I think we are going to switch off of Zoom offices.

1567
02:33:22,114 --> 02:33:22,294
Okay.

1568
02:33:22,625 --> 02:33:29,005
As I said, moving on to item 4G, which was pulled from the consent agenda, is there a motion?

1569
02:33:29,585 --> 02:33:31,145
President Fitzgerald. Yes, Trustee Goldberg.

1570
02:33:31,425 --> 02:33:38,665
I move that we approve amendment to board policy and administrative regulations 5131.2 bullying.

1571
02:33:40,505 --> 02:33:47,865
Is there a second? Second. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. I don't have any public comments on this item.

1572
02:33:47,865 --> 02:33:57,685
I had one question on the board policy and I asked it in advance, but I think that the answer would benefit the community.

1573
02:33:58,665 --> 02:34:15,225
So on page 6 of the board policy, it talks about, in the middle in the bold, it talks about a victim of being able to transfer.

1574
02:34:16,025 --> 02:34:23,085
And it struck me about why are we talking about the victim transferring and not the perpetrator.

1575
02:34:27,225 --> 02:34:34,125
And I would like Dr. McLaughlin or somebody to please give that answer so that people can understand.

1576
02:34:34,125 --> 02:34:44,845
The interesting thing in it's coming through in our county agreement on transfers is that

1577
02:34:44,845 --> 02:34:49,945
if individual does feel that they have been bullied or it shows that they were bullied

1578
02:34:49,945 --> 02:34:57,225
that they do have the opportunity to transfer districts and I think that that just aligns

1579
02:34:57,225 --> 02:35:02,705
with the piece of this language that they do.

1580
02:35:04,185 --> 02:35:09,045
Now, student, we have other avenues on the individual

1581
02:35:09,045 --> 02:35:14,525
who is doing the bullying that may lead to some type

1582
02:35:14,525 --> 02:35:17,965
of a change in campus as well.

1583
02:35:18,305 --> 02:35:22,325
So this particular ed code is dealing with the bully

1584
02:35:22,325 --> 02:35:25,725
itself, but they're the victim.

1585
02:35:25,725 --> 02:35:33,225
But we have other board policies and avenues to handle the perpetrator itself.

1586
02:35:37,235 --> 02:35:37,915
Thank you for that.

1587
02:35:38,335 --> 02:35:41,835
I think I just think it's important to know that it's not just one sighted.

1588
02:35:42,255 --> 02:35:44,595
I don't know if we want to put a CF in here.

1589
02:35:45,175 --> 02:35:47,035
But I don't know if that's even appropriate.

1590
02:35:48,835 --> 02:35:50,875
But I just wanted to clarify.

1591
02:35:51,095 --> 02:35:51,795
Thank you.

1592
02:35:54,715 --> 02:35:56,375
Any other discussion on this item?

1593
02:35:56,375 --> 02:35:58,435
Okay, seeing none, please vote.

1594
02:35:58,735 --> 02:35:59,215
Trustee Gil.

1595
02:36:00,775 --> 02:36:00,935
Yes.

1596
02:36:01,515 --> 02:36:02,095
I mean, yes.

1597
02:36:02,235 --> 02:36:02,955
Trustee Sylvester?

1598
02:36:03,695 --> 02:36:03,835
Yes.

1599
02:36:04,135 --> 02:36:04,855
Trustee Goldberg?

1600
02:36:05,275 --> 02:36:05,495
Yes.

1601
02:36:05,895 --> 02:36:06,695
Trustee Gorbach?

1602
02:36:06,815 --> 02:36:07,155
Yes.

1603
02:36:07,275 --> 02:36:07,995
Trustee Craig?

1604
02:36:08,555 --> 02:36:08,795
Yes.

1605
02:36:09,015 --> 02:36:11,055
Motion carries 50 with an honorary

1606
02:36:11,055 --> 02:36:12,575
Yes, vote by Trustee Craig.

1607
02:36:13,013 --> 02:36:16,393
Next item is for each, is there a motion, Trustee Goldberg?

1608
02:36:16,993 --> 02:36:25,273
I move that we approve amendment to board policy and administrative regs 5145.3 non-discrimination and harassment.

1609
02:36:26,213 --> 02:36:27,113
Is there a second?

1610
02:36:27,233 --> 02:36:27,833
Second.

1611
02:36:28,133 --> 02:36:32,213
It's been moved and second did, no public comment, Trustee Goldberg.

1612
02:36:33,073 --> 02:36:38,493
So, um, bear with me, please, on the AR, there's a few things.

1613
02:36:40,993 --> 02:36:45,413
I'm trying to go in order on page

1614
02:36:50,853 --> 02:36:53,433
4, number 7.

1615
02:36:54,473 --> 02:36:59,133
I see that the word age-appropriate information has age-appropriate has been struck out, and

1616
02:36:59,133 --> 02:37:04,553
I'm curious as to why I personally know that we're not going to give students a handbook.

1617
02:37:04,953 --> 02:37:13,373
That's not age-appropriate, but I think that there are people who might wonder about the material

1618
02:37:13,373 --> 02:37:20,693
that we're going to give to students that are going to describe the policies, so I'm just curious.

1619
02:37:22,673 --> 02:37:33,733
If people would be willing to put age appropriate back in or why that particular piece is omitted.

1620
02:37:39,073 --> 02:37:43,233
Did that relate to our conversation during the last meeting about that term?

1621
02:37:43,393 --> 02:37:46,173
I'm not sure it was in this specific context.

1622
02:37:46,173 --> 02:37:53,673
But I would say most of, if not all, the appropriates and the policies were adjusted based on

1623
02:37:53,673 --> 02:37:54,033
direction.

1624
02:37:55,453 --> 02:38:00,793
So, but also, you know, now it's then identified that there may be some cases where that's

1625
02:38:00,793 --> 02:38:05,353
going to work and the description and it may need to be in there.

1626
02:38:07,333 --> 02:38:08,693
So, that's one.

1627
02:38:08,693 --> 02:38:13,653
And then I have a similar instance with number 10 on page 5.

1628
02:38:14,993 --> 02:38:16,113
Also, age appropriate.

1629
02:38:25,433 --> 02:38:27,153
Trustee Fitzgerald, if I may.

1630
02:38:28,193 --> 02:38:32,433
I'm looking at my notes, and I'll continue to look at previous documents.

1631
02:38:32,593 --> 02:38:37,213
But I think that might be a strike from gamut, which doesn't mean that we have to strike it.

1632
02:38:37,273 --> 02:38:38,673
It just for reference.

1633
02:38:39,853 --> 02:38:41,333
That may have been struck by gamut.

1634
02:38:41,613 --> 02:38:43,673
We can leave it in if we choose.

1635
02:38:45,523 --> 02:38:48,263
These are just questions on none of them,

1636
02:38:53,873 --> 02:38:56,373
although knowing if it's a gamut strike or if it's an

1637
02:38:56,373 --> 02:39:03,773
us strike would be beneficial to me. And then on page 7,

1638
02:39:05,813 --> 02:39:08,153
number 5,

1639
02:39:10,293 --> 02:39:13,713
there's a he-she in the last line.

1640
02:39:13,713 --> 02:39:22,893
But also, this one hits me when we say that it takes disciplinary action as permissible

1641
02:39:22,893 --> 02:39:29,393
by statute against perpetrators, it hit me, and maybe it's just me that we're only doing

1642
02:39:29,393 --> 02:39:35,013
this because of statutory reasons, not because it's good for kids, and I actually think

1643
02:39:35,013 --> 02:39:36,673
that it would be good for kids.

1644
02:39:38,973 --> 02:39:42,653
And maybe it's just the way I was reading it in the mood, I was in when I was reading it.

1645
02:39:47,263 --> 02:39:59,523
Also on that page, further down the paragraph 3 from the bottom, where it starts when a report of unlawful, the third line down has a hishie,

1646
02:40:03,173 --> 02:40:08,293
on page 8, just above the bold, again, is another hishie,

1647
02:40:11,253 --> 02:40:12,633
page 9,

1648
02:40:13,553 --> 02:40:16,493
Number three, another he-she,

1649
02:40:19,533 --> 02:40:22,393
page 10 in the first paragraph,

1650
02:40:25,653 --> 02:40:26,833
you'll see the word required

1651
02:40:26,833 --> 02:40:28,893
is sort of sticking out just before that.

1652
02:40:28,993 --> 02:40:30,113
There's a he-she,

1653
02:40:32,533 --> 02:40:44,113
number four, on page 11, again, he-she, and that's all my questions for the AR.

1654
02:40:46,453 --> 02:40:48,253
That's all I have on this one.

1655
02:40:49,433 --> 02:40:55,453
I do agree, I think it would be helpful to know those are gamut strikeouts on the disciplinary

1656
02:40:55,453 --> 02:40:56,573
action one.

1657
02:40:56,793 --> 02:41:04,273
And again, I can't recall if it was this specific AR or not, but taking appropriate disciplinary

1658
02:41:04,273 --> 02:41:09,653
action, I see that appropriate as struck out, which in this context I think is helpful

1659
02:41:09,653 --> 02:41:15,013
because that's fairly subjective and I think when we talk about disciplinary action, it should

1660
02:41:15,013 --> 02:41:21,573
be clear to everyone what action is going to be taken so that we know it's going to be applied

1661
02:41:21,573 --> 02:41:29,833
uniformly to students or anyone else based on particular actions and not that it's subjective

1662
02:41:30,453 --> 02:41:35,533
because I think that's where we get into things being applied differently. I think that

1663
02:41:35,533 --> 02:41:42,013
as permissible by statute the way I read that is just that and I may be wrong but the disciplinary

1664
02:41:42,013 --> 02:41:49,473
action that we take can't go beyond what is outlined in statute. Now, I don't know what statute

1665
02:41:49,473 --> 02:41:58,073
this is referring to. But. Education code. Right, but what statute within the education code.

1666
02:41:59,853 --> 02:41:59,853
So,

1667
02:42:03,743 --> 02:42:12,703
but again, I think it's, I think it's probably an outer barrier on the discipline action we can take,

1668
02:42:12,703 --> 02:42:18,863
But I do think that we need to be clear what

1669
02:42:18,863 --> 02:42:22,163
disciplinary action our district is going to take.

1670
02:42:22,343 --> 02:42:24,263
So that folks are on notice of that.

1671
02:42:24,263 --> 02:42:25,663
And it's applied uniformly.

1672
02:42:28,683 --> 02:42:30,283
Maybe we could say take consistent.

1673
02:42:32,103 --> 02:42:32,983
Is this a vulnerable action?

1674
02:42:33,423 --> 02:42:34,363
I don't know.

1675
02:42:34,563 --> 02:42:37,723
I just something about it struck me, and maybe again,

1676
02:42:37,743 --> 02:42:40,143
maybe it's moved, and I'm willing to just leave it.

1677
02:42:40,483 --> 02:42:44,483
But I just wanted to raise a question since this

1678
02:42:44,483 --> 02:42:45,323
is important.

1679
02:42:46,203 --> 02:42:46,243
Yeah.

1680
02:42:46,603 --> 02:42:51,603
I mean, I think it's about a point when we say we're going to take either appropriate or take

1681
02:42:51,603 --> 02:42:57,023
disciplinary action against anyone to turn into a engaged and wrongdoing and violation

1682
02:42:57,023 --> 02:43:03,943
of district policy, including a student who's found to have made a complaint of discrimination

1683
02:43:03,943 --> 02:43:05,743
that they knew was not true.

1684
02:43:06,203 --> 02:43:08,083
What is our policy for that discipline?

1685
02:43:08,303 --> 02:43:11,043
What discipline do we apply as a district in that situation?

1686
02:43:11,043 --> 02:43:14,623
I'm sorry to repeat this situation, I'm excited quite hear that.

1687
02:43:14,963 --> 02:43:22,903
Okay, so when it's saying taking disciplinary action against perpetrators and anyone

1688
02:43:22,903 --> 02:43:26,643
determined to have gaged in wrongdoing, in violation of district policy.

1689
02:43:27,563 --> 02:43:31,923
So what is the disciplinary action that we apply in this context?

1690
02:43:32,923 --> 02:43:39,003
Well, that could be a warning, it could be a restorative justice conference, it could be

1691
02:43:39,003 --> 02:43:42,983
of either detention or some kind of a Saturday school, it could.

1692
02:43:43,013 --> 02:43:56,033
We need to lead up to a suspension and an expulsion depending on the severity of the action, and based on the education code, typically 48900, which delineates the suspendable and expelable offenses.

1693
02:43:58,173 --> 02:43:58,593
So, you know,

1694
02:44:00,873 --> 02:44:14,273
the board policy delineates kind of our global action, if you will, and then, at the school sites, they create those practices and policies, at the school site, based on what we have

1695
02:44:14,273 --> 02:44:21,133
put forward and based on what the education code reads in order to provide you know

1696
02:44:21,133 --> 02:44:25,853
progressive discipline for students because we obviously don't want to suspend students

1697
02:44:25,853 --> 02:44:29,993
for something that the ad code doesn't sustain or doesn't approve of and that's why

1698
02:44:29,993 --> 02:44:35,873
the language in there per statute was put in there so that because you know the word

1699
02:44:35,873 --> 02:44:45,313
appropriate, it seems to be kind of a universally agreed upon code, if you will, that we

1700
02:44:45,313 --> 02:44:51,773
all agree, this is proper at school, this is proper comportment or behavior on campus.

1701
02:44:52,733 --> 02:44:57,673
So when we remove that word, I was kind of literally searching for, well, what should we

1702
02:44:57,673 --> 02:45:05,533
stand on if it's not what we typically all agree is appropriate, then in that case, I feel

1703
02:45:05,533 --> 02:45:08,113
back on the Ed Code, which is the language statute.

1704
02:45:09,073 --> 02:45:12,813
So it's really hard to say what we do for any particular case,

1705
02:45:13,333 --> 02:45:17,213
because it all should be individualized based on the circumstance

1706
02:45:18,333 --> 02:45:21,573
within reason, and it should be progressive in nature.

1707
02:45:22,833 --> 02:45:25,733
So I have to disagree that the word appropriate

1708
02:45:25,733 --> 02:45:29,313
is commonly has a common definition among individuals.

1709
02:45:29,533 --> 02:45:33,853
I think that's actually how we get into

1710
02:45:33,853 --> 02:45:40,353
to disciplinary actions that differ based on things that they should not differ on, whether

1711
02:45:40,353 --> 02:45:44,753
it's race or gender or socioeconomic status or whatnot.

1712
02:45:46,033 --> 02:45:51,573
And I think if you ask one person, my definition of what's appropriate is my guest likely

1713
02:45:51,573 --> 02:45:55,113
different than the definitions of others, even just in this room.

1714
02:45:56,053 --> 02:46:03,833
And so my other concern is that if we're saying that how what disciplinary actions are applied

1715
02:46:03,833 --> 02:46:09,153
where the statute gives us flexibility, varies by school site.

1716
02:46:09,633 --> 02:46:11,233
I'm very concerned about that too.

1717
02:46:11,553 --> 02:46:16,033
What discipline is applied to you, whether you're at elementary school X

1718
02:46:16,033 --> 02:46:19,293
or elementary school Y, should be the same.

1719
02:46:19,833 --> 02:46:24,893
I don't know what the basis of us having different disciplinary policies per school site is.

1720
02:46:25,573 --> 02:46:26,933
And if that's the case,

1721
02:46:28,793 --> 02:46:49,753
Honestly, I think that opens up a whole other kind of worms that we need to, I would hope we would want to look at as a board, as it relates to this policy, but this is the way we, one of the ways in which we minimize and hopefully stop differential discipline

1722
02:46:51,993 --> 02:46:58,093
is to have it clearly defined on what's going to be applied.

1723
02:46:58,093 --> 02:47:06,073
If you violate X, this is the discipline and if it's a progressive type of discipline, we need to spell that out.

1724
02:47:06,553 --> 02:47:10,933
There should be no guessing as to what action is going to happen.

1725
02:47:12,173 --> 02:47:18,953
And we also shouldn't have to guess based on whether it's, you know, you go to this middle school or that middle school in my opinion.

1726
02:47:19,713 --> 02:47:20,393
Mr. Gorbache.

1727
02:47:20,393 --> 02:47:28,993
Yeah, I tend to agree that appropriate is wide, I see a great difference between appropriate

1728
02:47:28,993 --> 02:47:33,593
in this setting versus the age of appropriate that we talked about a couple minutes

1729
02:47:33,593 --> 02:47:33,993
ago.

1730
02:47:34,473 --> 02:47:44,193
On the other hand, I don't know if it's our job as a board to hand cuff, whoever is handling

1731
02:47:44,193 --> 02:47:51,813
the situation because each case is an individual situation. Each case is the severity of it,

1732
02:47:53,433 --> 02:48:01,813
the frequency of it, the volume of it from one particular perpetrator. I'm not sure

1733
02:48:01,813 --> 02:48:11,153
that we here should handcuff the individual site. I definitely agree with you. It should not

1734
02:48:11,153 --> 02:48:16,733
be based on whether you go to Redwood versus whether you go to Kalina or something to that

1735
02:48:16,733 --> 02:48:17,193
effect.

1736
02:48:17,413 --> 02:48:24,913
But I think that we here in general can't determine the consequences for every situation

1737
02:48:24,913 --> 02:48:26,253
that may vary.

1738
02:48:28,023 --> 02:48:32,763
And just to clarify, I'm not suggesting that as board members we sit here and develop a list

1739
02:48:32,763 --> 02:48:38,943
of what we think the disciplinary actions should be for every potential issue that falls

1740
02:48:38,943 --> 02:48:39,903
under this policy.

1741
02:48:39,903 --> 02:48:43,523
But as a board, it is our job, one of our main jobs,

1742
02:48:45,863 --> 02:48:47,043
to pass policy.

1743
02:48:47,783 --> 02:48:52,563
And I view part of that responsibility, a major part of that responsibility, to ensure

1744
02:48:52,563 --> 02:48:56,203
that the policy is thorough and equitable.

1745
02:48:57,003 --> 02:49:05,703
And so what I would want to see is not from me, but what are the disciplinary actions?

1746
02:49:05,703 --> 02:49:11,063
is what is our district's policy under this AR in terms of discipline, district-wide?

1747
02:49:11,983 --> 02:49:17,103
And I also don't think that means that there's not, like, Mr. Lickville reference, there

1748
02:49:17,103 --> 02:49:18,343
is progressive discipline.

1749
02:49:19,003 --> 02:49:25,023
It doesn't mean that, you know, it has to be an exact thing for, and there's no wiggle room

1750
02:49:25,023 --> 02:49:25,563
for students.

1751
02:49:25,903 --> 02:49:29,803
But certainly, I mean, I've seen policies that build that in from an equity perspective.

1752
02:49:30,283 --> 02:49:34,043
And I think one of the things we had mentioned last time was, was seeing if there are other

1753
02:49:34,043 --> 02:49:41,683
districts who have boarded this policy or other similar policies where they address that appropriate

1754
02:49:41,683 --> 02:49:47,223
link that quote-unquote appropriate terminology and I'm wondering if there was research done

1755
02:49:47,223 --> 02:49:48,203
on that.

1756
02:49:48,743 --> 02:49:51,583
No, I don't recall that conversation as a matter of fact, other times when I've referenced

1757
02:49:51,583 --> 02:49:56,023
other districts I've been told that it's not really important what's happening to

1758
02:49:56,023 --> 02:49:57,803
the places we're concerned with that's happening here.

1759
02:49:57,863 --> 02:50:01,263
So if I miss that, I apologize and we're happy to double back and get back to you on

1760
02:50:01,263 --> 02:50:01,503
that.

1761
02:50:01,503 --> 02:50:07,323
Yeah, I think that I know I've certainly said that in certain context, but that's very context specific.

1762
02:50:07,743 --> 02:50:22,483
So for example, when we talked about other topics and we had differences in our district, certainly just mirroring another district out of context doesn't make sense, but I do recall that being asked at the last board meeting.

1763
02:50:22,483 --> 02:50:25,403
So I would personally like to see what alternatives

1764
02:50:25,403 --> 02:50:26,843
are to this language.

1765
02:50:27,823 --> 02:50:33,823
Again, if we're committing to being a district that puts equity

1766
02:50:33,823 --> 02:50:39,303
and inclusion in diversity first, our policies have

1767
02:50:39,303 --> 02:50:41,623
to demonstrate that.

1768
02:50:41,683 --> 02:50:43,423
Trustee Goldberg, I guess you're laying on that.

1769
02:50:43,443 --> 02:50:46,923
So I'm just going to, because I reckon we've

1770
02:50:46,923 --> 02:50:48,183
sent a lot of time on this.

1771
02:50:48,183 --> 02:50:51,363
So since I brought it up, I'm going to retrap some of it.

1772
02:50:51,363 --> 02:50:57,803
I would like to see, I would like to know, ultimately, if age-appropriate was struck out by

1773
02:50:57,803 --> 02:51:03,503
gamut or us and then potentially revisited at a point, but I'd like to see just the

1774
02:51:03,503 --> 02:51:12,803
she's turned into days and then adopt these policies with those adjustments and then

1775
02:51:15,593 --> 02:51:18,573
If we need to revisit, we will.

1776
02:51:22,413 --> 02:51:24,413
Okay, other comments or questions?

1777
02:51:27,493 --> 02:51:31,193
Okay, seeing none, we will vote on the amended motion.

1778
02:51:31,913 --> 02:51:32,593
Ms. Goldberg.

1779
02:51:33,893 --> 02:51:35,393
With the items that you referenced.

1780
02:51:36,353 --> 02:51:39,433
Okay, and is there a second to that amended motion?

1781
02:51:40,653 --> 02:51:40,913
Second.

1782
02:51:41,473 --> 02:51:42,173
Okay, thank you.

1783
02:51:43,533 --> 02:51:46,413
Please vote. I will begin with myself.

1784
02:51:46,573 --> 02:51:47,953
I'm a no, trustee semester.

1785
02:51:49,793 --> 02:51:50,193
Yes.

1786
02:51:51,413 --> 02:51:59,133
Trustee Goldberg? Yes. Trustee Gorbach? Yes. Trustee Gil? Yes. Trustee Crane? Yes.

1787
02:52:00,013 --> 02:52:05,613
Okay, motion passes for a zero with myself voting no and an honorary yes vote by Trustee Crane.

1788
02:52:09,713 --> 02:52:13,433
Did I say if I won? Oh, thank you. Okay, let me make a correction.

1789
02:52:13,593 --> 02:52:19,073
Motion carries for one with myself voting no and an honorary yes vote by Trustee Crane.

1790
02:52:19,233 --> 02:52:20,473
Thank you for correcting me.

1791
02:52:21,726 --> 02:52:36,566
We'll move on to item 4, aye. Is there a motion? President Goldberg. I mean, it's too low. Wow. It's been a long day. I never want to do that again. Please retract.

1792
02:52:37,206 --> 02:52:51,166
No. Yes. Trustee Goldberg. Oh my god. Who am I? I move that we approve amendment support policy and replacement of administrative regulations.

1793
02:52:51,166 --> 02:52:58,006
by one, work by 0.7, sexual harassment as, yes, sexual harassment.

1794
02:52:58,586 --> 02:52:59,586
Is there a second?

1795
02:53:00,366 --> 02:53:00,786
Second.

1796
02:53:02,066 --> 02:53:04,186
There's no public comment, Trustee Goldberg.

1797
02:53:04,986 --> 02:53:12,386
So in this one, in the AR, we, we, trying to keep everything the same, we added that

1798
02:53:12,386 --> 02:53:19,946
language that I will say, trust that we worked on with Trustee Gill on page 4, number

1799
02:53:19,946 --> 02:53:30,386
eight. It strikes me as it's as odd in that spacing because it's a copy of the district's

1800
02:53:30,386 --> 02:53:35,666
harassment policy and regulation shall and then there's a long list and then that just

1801
02:53:35,666 --> 02:53:41,286
doesn't seem to fit there with the heading. So if we could move that just to the end of the

1802
02:53:41,286 --> 02:53:45,546
or somewhere else, that would be, would read more smoothly.

1803
02:53:51,046 --> 02:53:53,286
Is there any objection to that?

1804
02:53:53,706 --> 02:53:55,026
Okay, see none.

1805
02:53:56,386 --> 02:53:56,586
Okay.

1806
02:53:58,386 --> 02:53:59,526
Any other discussion?

1807
02:54:04,046 --> 02:54:05,266
Do you want to...

1808
02:54:05,266 --> 02:54:07,346
So I move that we amend with...

1809
02:54:07,946 --> 02:54:17,546
I move that we approve Board Policy and Replacement AR-5145.7 sexual harassment as amended.

1810
02:54:17,546 --> 02:54:20,106
Is there a second?

1811
02:54:21,776 --> 02:54:22,276
Second.

1812
02:54:22,956 --> 02:54:23,496
Thank you.

1813
02:54:23,996 --> 02:54:24,676
Any discussion?

1814
02:54:25,576 --> 02:54:25,596
Okay.

1815
02:54:30,216 --> 02:54:31,496
Seeing none.

1816
02:54:31,736 --> 02:54:32,316
Please vote.

1817
02:54:32,596 --> 02:54:33,196
Trustee Sylvester?

1818
02:54:33,696 --> 02:54:33,936
Yes.

1819
02:54:34,336 --> 02:54:34,996
Trustee Goldberg?

1820
02:54:35,476 --> 02:54:35,576
Yes.

1821
02:54:36,076 --> 02:54:36,576
Trustee Gorbache?

1822
02:54:36,996 --> 02:54:37,296
Yes.

1823
02:54:37,556 --> 02:54:38,236
Trustee Gorbache?

1824
02:54:38,696 --> 02:54:38,996
Trustee Gorbache?

1825
02:54:41,376 --> 02:54:43,416
Motion carries 5-0 with an Honorary.

1826
02:54:43,516 --> 02:54:43,556
Yes.

1827
02:54:43,596 --> 02:54:44,536
Vote by Trustee Craig.

1828
02:54:45,156 --> 02:54:50,596
Moving on to item 4, gg, is there a motion?

1829
02:54:52,596 --> 02:55:00,676
Yes, I move that we approve child care approval of contracts. Is there a second?

1830
02:55:02,636 --> 02:55:09,356
Thank you, it's been moved in second. Did we have a public comment on this item? No, okay, thank you.

1831
02:55:09,356 --> 02:55:11,676
by way of. There's none submitted.

1832
02:55:11,876 --> 02:55:13,096
There's none. Okay. Great.

1833
02:55:13,856 --> 02:55:15,936
Is there any discussion on this item?

1834
02:55:15,956 --> 02:55:16,676
That's too good.

1835
02:55:16,976 --> 02:55:20,616
We did have a community member who was very

1836
02:55:20,616 --> 02:55:23,356
concerned it would like us to know that

1837
02:55:24,276 --> 02:55:26,236
these vendors do not necessarily

1838
02:55:26,236 --> 02:55:28,336
have their insurance in place.

1839
02:55:29,236 --> 02:55:33,116
A couple of them and that

1840
02:55:34,636 --> 02:55:36,536
that a couple of them have

1841
02:55:36,536 --> 02:55:41,296
opportunities in the contracts, and she wanted those things called out, and was curious whether

1842
02:55:41,296 --> 02:55:48,076
those were standard operating procedure, or she actually objected to those things and wanted

1843
02:55:48,076 --> 02:55:55,896
that for the record. My question would be if the insurance, if these vendors don't have

1844
02:55:55,896 --> 02:56:00,716
the required insurance, is there a plan? Are you just expecting it? And we're moving it forward

1845
02:56:00,716 --> 02:56:02,356
because we know they're getting it.

1846
02:56:05,206 --> 02:56:07,646
We follow a process when we review the contracts, so we don't

1847
02:56:07,646 --> 02:56:13,086
bring the contracts forward unless they have the proper insurance in place. Is there a particular

1848
02:56:13,646 --> 02:56:16,506
contract that was brought up about insurance?

1849
02:56:16,746 --> 02:56:29,286
She had two, one with wax creations and one with, I didn't catch the name of it, but it

1850
02:56:29,286 --> 02:56:31,986
talked about rockets 200 feet in the air.

1851
02:56:34,446 --> 02:56:38,826
It sounded like a science thing. And I have to

1852
02:56:38,826 --> 02:56:45,206
look at that I don't have it up because I was trying to decipher my notes. So let me go back

1853
02:56:45,206 --> 02:56:47,826
and see if I can figure that one out.

1854
02:56:48,826 --> 02:56:48,866
What?

1855
02:56:50,406 --> 02:56:54,486
Okay, but I'm just trying to remember, yeah, but I'm just trying to, and she also mentioned

1856
02:56:54,486 --> 02:56:58,286
that perhaps, oh, maybe it's mad science, is that it? Yeah, that's perhaps.

1857
02:56:58,606 --> 02:57:04,606
The wax creation one, there's a note in exhibit B, the statement of work. So it's

1858
02:57:04,606 --> 02:57:08,166
is in a process of renewing the insurance, so they have the insurance.

1859
02:57:08,486 --> 02:57:11,726
We wouldn't execute the contract until we get the insurance certificates.

1860
02:57:12,706 --> 02:57:20,126
The question about the rocket launch, I understand the concern,

1861
02:57:22,066 --> 02:57:27,086
and we're not, it's not a make or break on this.

1862
02:57:27,106 --> 02:57:31,566
So if there's a little bit of discomfort with doing these kinds of things,

1863
02:57:32,146 --> 02:57:42,566
that's fine, so we can we can see an alternative piece, but so there is a it's a science-based program that takes place at Earth's.

1864
02:57:43,366 --> 02:57:50,306
And then the culmination of that whole experience is they they launch a rocket and it's 200 feet in the air.

1865
02:57:51,106 --> 02:57:59,786
So from my understanding the concern is the issue with a potential fire or that it being an illegal activity.

1866
02:57:59,786 --> 02:58:02,886
I did search through the city of T.O. code.

1867
02:58:03,006 --> 02:58:04,686
I didn't find anything pertaining to rockets.

1868
02:58:05,326 --> 02:58:09,646
I did find something in the Ventura County Fire Department

1869
02:58:09,646 --> 02:58:11,306
website related to rockets.

1870
02:58:11,906 --> 02:58:18,626
But the statement in that, which it's letter V number 104.8,

1871
02:58:19,606 --> 02:58:23,786
defines it as rockets that are not to be launched in HFA's,

1872
02:58:23,786 --> 02:58:25,586
which are hazardous fire areas.

1873
02:58:26,766 --> 02:58:36,866
And those areas in particular, this is going to be at university preschool, I believe, I'm not, it might be at some of the other summer camps.

1874
02:58:37,866 --> 02:58:50,026
So, none of our schools are designated as a fire, fire areas, they do a but some open spaces, but similar to what we do with fireworks.

1875
02:58:50,866 --> 02:58:57,246
We do have fireworks that pre-COVID that we used to do for certain games and such.

1876
02:58:58,346 --> 02:59:02,666
This company in particular does have insurance and we've done this for the last couple

1877
02:59:02,666 --> 02:59:06,166
of years and the safety precautions are put in place.

1878
02:59:06,906 --> 02:59:11,086
So as far as compliance, we haven't found anything that says it's not permitted.

1879
02:59:11,486 --> 02:59:17,986
It's also been reviewed by our risk manager and he has signed off on it, which we abide

1880
02:59:17,986 --> 02:59:21,526
by whatever is stipulated by, you know,

1881
02:59:21,526 --> 02:59:23,726
and recommend that by our joint powers authority,

1882
02:59:24,026 --> 02:59:25,546
as far as for these types of activities.

1883
02:59:26,926 --> 02:59:29,266
Now again, it's not a deal breaker,

1884
02:59:29,546 --> 02:59:31,866
so if there's any level of discomfort,

1885
02:59:31,986 --> 02:59:33,206
we don't have to pursue this.

1886
02:59:33,546 --> 02:59:36,186
As you could see, what we try to do is give the kids

1887
02:59:36,186 --> 02:59:37,346
during the summer camps,

1888
02:59:38,086 --> 02:59:39,406
different kinds of experiences,

1889
02:59:39,706 --> 02:59:43,426
which entails bringing vendors in from the outside

1890
02:59:43,426 --> 02:59:45,726
to give these experiences to the kids.

1891
02:59:45,726 --> 02:59:53,326
And if this isn't something that we're comfortable with, we have no problem taking it off and then pursuing something different.

1892
02:59:54,206 --> 02:59:57,806
Yeah, I'm going to say it's just brought to me, I don't have a problem.

1893
02:59:58,546 --> 03:00:03,706
I remember those rockets at Earth, and they were safe.

1894
03:00:04,726 --> 03:00:10,846
And if they're permitted, and I would assume if they're doing business in this town, they are so.

1895
03:00:10,846 --> 03:00:17,746
And a lot of times those small rockets, there's a few that is like for two or three seconds only and then it launches the rockets.

1896
03:00:18,526 --> 03:00:23,586
So, and typically there's very little flammable things because the rockets are really very, very small.

1897
03:00:24,086 --> 03:00:32,086
So even when they do fall down, all the fuel is burned, the little bit of fuel that's in them is burned on the initial launch of it.

1898
03:00:32,306 --> 03:00:40,826
And by no means on the expert, but I'm just going over to-

1899
03:00:40,826 --> 03:00:53,326
and the kids love it, and it's all about gas and the effects of gases and such, and the part about the insurance pieces a lot of for some reason and I don't know why, frankly, a lot of people's insurance renews June 1st.

1900
03:00:53,686 --> 03:01:06,506
So what we do is we get, we have, we would get a, their current certificate, but we won't execute the contract until we get the new insurance that's dated June 1 and the insurance company won't send it to us until June 1.

1901
03:01:06,506 --> 03:01:10,606
So we do update our contracts and records there, that's it.

1902
03:01:10,806 --> 03:01:13,106
I just was, again, the messenger.

1903
03:01:14,026 --> 03:01:17,286
So I know we're not going to move forward without a contract.

1904
03:01:17,506 --> 03:01:19,526
I've seen too many times where we haven't moved forward.

1905
03:01:20,066 --> 03:01:21,526
Because the contract wasn't in place.

1906
03:01:22,406 --> 03:01:23,446
So I trust that.

1907
03:01:25,196 --> 03:01:27,336
Any further discussion on this item?

1908
03:01:28,376 --> 03:01:29,416
Casey, then, please vote.

1909
03:01:29,756 --> 03:01:30,256
Trustee Goldberg?

1910
03:01:30,676 --> 03:01:30,756
Yes.

1911
03:01:30,976 --> 03:01:31,816
Trustee Gorbach?

1912
03:01:32,096 --> 03:01:32,376
Yes.

1913
03:01:32,476 --> 03:01:33,036
Trustee Gil?

1914
03:01:33,616 --> 03:01:33,916
Yes.

1915
03:01:34,176 --> 03:01:34,796
I mean, yes.

1916
03:01:35,096 --> 03:01:35,536
Trustee Sylvester?

1917
03:01:36,056 --> 03:01:36,356
Yes.

1918
03:01:36,356 --> 03:01:42,156
Trustee Craig? Yes. Motion carries 5-0 with an honorary yes vote by Trustee Craig.

1919
03:01:43,066 --> 03:01:43,746
Okay.

1920
03:01:46,006 --> 03:01:55,066
So we are going to move to item 5A. Information discussion item, sure the Board of Education

1921
03:01:55,066 --> 03:02:00,826
recommend to staff to create an African American parent advisory council committee task force.

1922
03:02:00,946 --> 03:02:05,826
And we do have a public speaker on this item, Liz Allen, and if you thank you so much for

1923
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waiting. If you'd like to speak at the podium, thank you.

1924
03:02:20,166 --> 03:02:26,546
Good evening board of trustees and district personnel. I am Liz Allen and I live in the very park.

1925
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I am both an employee of the CVS-D as well as a single mother of two multiracial

1926
03:02:32,386 --> 03:02:38,186
sons. They are a beautiful blend of white African-American, Japanese, and Native American.

1927
03:02:38,826 --> 03:02:45,186
I have had the honor of meeting several other parents of byracial and multiracial

1928
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I come to you this evening to encourage the board, district leadership, and district personnel

1929
03:02:53,226 --> 03:02:58,606
to support our formation of an African American parent advisory committee.

1930
03:03:00,876 --> 03:03:06,036
There's so much work to do in our community regarding equity and racial sensitivity.

1931
03:03:06,816 --> 03:03:09,156
Tuning into the Thousand Oak City Council meetings.

1932
03:03:09,836 --> 03:03:11,196
You can hear people say

1933
03:03:13,276 --> 03:03:17,736
there's no racism here in the Canale Valley.

1934
03:03:17,736 --> 03:03:21,536
At least, none that I've seen, I beg to differ.

1935
03:03:22,556 --> 03:03:28,956
Kids of all ages currently experience racism first-hand, or in the form of microaggressions,

1936
03:03:29,396 --> 03:03:32,296
in and outside of our canoe schools.

1937
03:03:35,076 --> 03:03:40,336
I remember my oldest son personally experiencing racism at five years old,

1938
03:03:40,796 --> 03:03:43,076
at both bordered and pepper tree parks.

1939
03:03:43,736 --> 03:03:46,256
I was in shock and sick to my stomach.

1940
03:03:46,256 --> 03:03:52,596
No child at any age, especially one so young, should have to deal with this kind of pain.

1941
03:03:53,436 --> 03:03:55,596
As a result of our collective experiences,

1942
03:03:57,616 --> 03:04:01,896
several parents and I have been collaborating over the last few months

1943
03:04:01,896 --> 03:04:06,976
to form an African American parent advisory committee here in the Canadian Valley.

1944
03:04:07,576 --> 03:04:09,776
Since meeting these other parents,

1945
03:04:13,006 --> 03:04:17,506
I have been able to open up and discuss my fears, concerns,

1946
03:04:17,506 --> 03:04:34,906
and hopes for my sons. I finally feel I am no longer alone. Since the death of George Floyd, I had not slept through the night. I would wake up playing different scenarios in my head and fear for both my son.

1947
03:04:35,806 --> 03:04:40,686
For the first time, I have other parents who are going through the same thing.

1948
03:04:40,686 --> 03:04:45,746
Many other school districts have an APAC committee.

1949
03:04:46,286 --> 03:04:53,006
Please review the work of committees in Marietta Valley Palm Springs just to name a few.

1950
03:04:53,486 --> 03:04:59,866
We would like the opportunity to collaborate with CVUSD to create a discrimination free learning environment.

1951
03:05:00,526 --> 03:05:07,926
Our primary focus is to help create a safe space for Black families to collaborate and share resources

1952
03:05:07,926 --> 03:05:11,106
to enhance their children's educational experiences.

1953
03:05:12,986 --> 03:05:16,706
We want to raise awareness about our African-American communities.

1954
03:05:17,306 --> 03:05:21,486
You need cultural experiences and social emotional needs here in the Cano Valley.

1955
03:05:22,386 --> 03:05:24,086
Thank you.

1956
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Thank you for your comment and for waiting in order to be able to give it at this time.

1957
03:05:31,486 --> 03:05:33,586
We are going to Dr. Miller.

1958
03:05:33,626 --> 03:05:35,826
Are we going to hop on Zoom at this time?

1959
03:06:08,266 --> 03:06:12,266
Yes, Dr. Miller, if I can hand it over to you.

1960
03:06:13,186 --> 03:06:13,946
Yeah, good evening.

1961
03:06:16,846 --> 03:06:29,746
So we received a request from a parent for our district to consider the formation of an African-American parent advisory committee.

1962
03:06:30,826 --> 03:06:36,346
Several weeks ago, I did reach out to Dr. Latund who's on here with us. Thank you so much for waiting.

1963
03:06:38,026 --> 03:06:48,046
In our communication, she shared with me the purpose of an APAC, you know, how to form one,

1964
03:06:48,246 --> 03:06:54,186
some things to think about and tonight I just wanted to make sure that we heard it from the expert on this,

1965
03:06:54,546 --> 03:06:57,806
as the Board considers this item, so she's joining us via the Zoom.

1966
03:07:00,886 --> 03:07:01,906
Good evening, everyone.

1967
03:07:04,396 --> 03:07:07,096
Thank you so much for the invitation, Dr. Miller.

1968
03:07:07,096 --> 03:07:10,956
I appreciate you all for the space and time.

1969
03:07:11,316 --> 03:07:13,896
I can't imagine how long of a day you've had,

1970
03:07:15,256 --> 03:07:17,676
but I appreciate the work that you do every day

1971
03:07:17,676 --> 03:07:20,956
and I can't even imagine the decisions you've had

1972
03:07:20,956 --> 03:07:22,396
to make in this time period.

1973
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So hats off to you.

1974
03:07:24,556 --> 03:07:25,376
Thank you.

1975
03:07:25,716 --> 03:07:27,556
So I just wanted to share a little bit briefly

1976
03:07:27,556 --> 03:07:31,276
about African American parent advisory councils.

1977
03:07:32,096 --> 03:07:35,456
Sometimes they're also called Black Family Advisory Councils

1978
03:07:35,456 --> 03:07:45,756
depending on where it's situated. They are similarly situated like a

1979
03:07:45,756 --> 03:07:51,456
D-Lat, a district, English Language Advisory Committee would be or a special

1980
03:07:51,456 --> 03:07:58,456
education parent advisory committee would be. So some districts have used the data

1981
03:07:58,456 --> 03:08:04,636
about black student success and made the decision to use things like the White House

1982
03:08:04,636 --> 03:08:11,096
initiative for African American Academic Achievement, or the new initiative that is centering

1983
03:08:11,096 --> 03:08:19,156
racial equity, which really looks at working with communities that support Black students.

1984
03:08:19,316 --> 03:08:24,376
And a part of that community would be Black families, which are really closely connected

1985
03:08:24,376 --> 03:08:25,716
to Black communities.

1986
03:08:26,016 --> 03:08:33,276
So the purpose of their advisory council is basically to partner with schools, to engage

1987
03:08:33,276 --> 03:08:41,296
and empower families. It's really using a dual capacity building framework in which families

1988
03:08:41,296 --> 03:08:47,876
are looking at what the data says in the school and working as a council to increase those

1989
03:08:47,876 --> 03:08:55,146
families and communities, capacity to support learning based on the data, but also working with

1990
03:08:55,856 --> 03:09:02,656
district personnel to increase their capacity to save focus on mastery in the classroom or demonstrate

1991
03:09:02,656 --> 03:09:11,876
value on for students and care. So some of the training is basically set up like a

1992
03:09:11,876 --> 03:09:12,156
Thank you very much.

1993
03:09:13,296 --> 03:09:19,596
Developmental and Interactive Academy, because as you know, Black families tend to be very collective and relational.

1994
03:09:20,236 --> 03:09:27,696
And so what we do is use a lot of that cultural knowledge about what makes them feel safe and certain environments.

1995
03:09:29,036 --> 03:09:40,496
How to work with them. We use that to engage them, right? There's very nuanced strategic strategies that work with Black families, that don't work with other families.

1996
03:09:40,496 --> 03:09:47,016
And that's why some of the generic involvement strategies haven't worked with those families

1997
03:09:47,016 --> 03:09:51,976
because they have a different context and history and relationship with schools.

1998
03:09:52,416 --> 03:09:58,116
So it's really looking at using their own communities to engage with them and build their capacities.

1999
03:09:58,816 --> 03:10:04,556
And actually partnering with those communities, if there's an important information that we want to get to them,

2000
03:10:04,556 --> 03:10:11,416
we will work with those communities to help get that information to them.

2001
03:10:13,276 --> 03:10:17,816
One of the unique things about the academy is the team approach.

2002
03:10:18,536 --> 03:10:24,176
We recommend that we have assistant superintendent, principals, directors,

2003
03:10:25,096 --> 03:10:32,196
usually parent or two, a family liaison, they would come as a team to build background knowledge

2004
03:10:32,196 --> 03:10:38,076
and develop common language around what the literature says about African-American family engagement,

2005
03:10:38,856 --> 03:10:43,876
what's happening with Black students and evidence-based and culturally informed strategies

2006
03:10:43,876 --> 03:10:51,936
to change those narratives. So basically, that's kind of how the program is set up.

2007
03:10:57,756 --> 03:11:02,336
Thank you so much for that hopeful background. I know what I'll appreciate it.

2008
03:11:03,236 --> 03:11:08,436
Absolutely. And I'm glad we have you here for any questions for

2009
03:11:08,436 --> 03:11:12,536
members. Might have if you don't mind hanging out for a little bit. Okay.

2010
03:11:12,956 --> 03:11:15,576
Questions or comments from board members?

2011
03:11:19,486 --> 03:11:21,066
I'm not seeing any,

2012
03:11:21,066 --> 03:11:28,866
I'm not saying just wave at me if I am. I did want to just mention that

2013
03:11:28,866 --> 03:11:37,586
a parent, another parent had also reached out to me sometime back, requesting the creation of an

2014
03:11:37,586 --> 03:11:43,126
African American parent advisory council and walked through some of the things similar to what

2015
03:11:43,126 --> 03:11:48,686
you mentioned and described as well in the benefits to having one and also making sure that we

2016
03:11:48,686 --> 03:11:54,826
have supports for our African American families and students and it seemed like a really excellent idea.

2017
03:11:54,826 --> 03:12:03,926
There is one, this is a discussion item tonight, and there is one consideration I wanted to bring up with the board.

2018
03:12:04,486 --> 03:12:18,286
I know that I've spoken with Dr. Miller and Dr. Naglockland about the potential creation of this committee or task force or council for some time now.

2019
03:12:18,286 --> 03:12:30,886
And then doing so, there's been a lot of questions and considerations as to the form that this group should take and also some of the other groups that have been requested recently of our district.

2020
03:12:31,546 --> 03:12:43,346
And so I'm only going to speak to the consideration as it relates to the formation of an APAC since that's our agenda item and we can discuss it under another context with our next item.

2021
03:12:43,346 --> 03:13:01,266
But one thing I wanted to mention in that context is that, and it's some background that I learned to, just in speaking, with staff about our other committees, and they can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe we have one required doc, which is our English language.

2022
03:13:02,586 --> 03:13:05,366
but there's also previously a gate DAC and a special

2023
03:13:05,366 --> 03:13:07,306
DAC that we're established and more recently

2024
03:13:07,306 --> 03:13:09,166
a student DAC of course.

2025
03:13:09,666 --> 03:13:11,566
Additionally, we have an overarching DAC

2026
03:13:11,566 --> 03:13:13,386
made up of school site reps

2027
03:13:14,826 --> 03:13:17,426
and more recently an equity task force

2028
03:13:17,426 --> 03:13:21,446
that was established and a group also to work

2029
03:13:21,446 --> 03:13:23,666
on LGBTQ plus issues.

2030
03:13:24,426 --> 03:13:26,286
So some of the questions that have come up

2031
03:13:26,286 --> 03:13:28,466
in the context of talking about an APAC

2032
03:13:28,466 --> 03:13:30,826
and then some of the other requests that we've had

2033
03:13:30,826 --> 03:13:37,926
are one, how each of these groups were established and the differences between the format of the group.

2034
03:13:38,286 --> 03:13:41,606
So are they subject to the brown act or are they subject to the green act?

2035
03:13:42,006 --> 03:13:45,746
Are they not subject to any of it and they can have kind of more closed meetings?

2036
03:13:46,326 --> 03:13:50,466
And certainly there are benefits to different formats that should be considered.

2037
03:13:50,546 --> 03:13:55,046
And we want to make sure we have the right one for the purpose of any particular group.

2038
03:13:55,046 --> 03:14:06,806
Also, there's been some questions about whether groups are open if there's a broad application process and the formation of a group.

2039
03:14:07,506 --> 03:14:20,026
And then also concerns about hampering work of groups that have been established and making good progress balanced with wanting to ensure their options to meet the needs of our different populations of marginalized groups.

2040
03:14:20,026 --> 03:14:35,886
And so given this, what I'm finally getting out and I've holidays but is the two considerations I wanted to bring up and one is as this is a discussion item tonight and I want to personally be very clear that I'm in full support of establishing

2041
03:14:35,886 --> 03:14:43,906
and a pack, I clearly see the value in it and it's been requested and I think that we need to

2042
03:14:43,906 --> 03:14:50,386
really listen to those requests from our students and our parents about what's needed to support our

2043
03:14:50,386 --> 03:14:58,706
marginalized students, students from our marginalized groups as a district. So I'd like to throw out

2044
03:14:58,706 --> 03:15:06,866
setting up a working session for our board because I think it's important that we

2045
03:15:06,866 --> 03:15:13,806
delve into the current structure of all of our committees and groups that we have get some feedback

2046
03:15:13,806 --> 03:15:20,506
from stakeholders. I don't think there's a clear history of how each group has been established and

2047
03:15:20,506 --> 03:15:27,046
formed and why summer formed differently than others. And I think the goal for me would be to

2048
03:15:27,046 --> 03:15:33,166
establish a structure for our current groups and new groups that may be requested and serve

2049
03:15:33,166 --> 03:15:39,546
a need in our school community so that there's some longevity there because honestly I'm

2050
03:15:39,546 --> 03:15:45,606
hoping that we've had this request, there's another one we're going to talk about tonight and I would

2051
03:15:45,606 --> 03:15:52,126
imagine and hope that honestly there'll be requests from others as well as we're talking about equity

2052
03:15:52,126 --> 03:15:59,226
an inclusion and how we can support all of our students. So instead of kind of creating committees

2053
03:15:59,226 --> 03:16:05,526
and different formats in this piecemeal type of manner, I think if we can come up with a structure

2054
03:16:05,526 --> 03:16:13,986
that we believe will be the most effective at serving our students and can be utilized for

2055
03:16:13,986 --> 03:16:21,546
hopefully a long time to come. And the second consideration with that for me would be timing. Certainly

2056
03:16:21,546 --> 03:16:29,826
This request, for example, has been with us as a district with myself and with staff for a bit of time now.

2057
03:16:30,186 --> 03:16:38,286
And I don't want us to put off the creation of this for any real length of time because I think there is a need.

2058
03:16:38,686 --> 03:16:42,146
But I think that as a board we can ask staff.

2059
03:16:42,186 --> 03:16:56,866
Off to present information and options in a working session and a timely manner, so that we can look at the best structure to establish and get these groups up and running. Hopefully my hope will be for next school year.

2060
03:16:57,766 --> 03:17:08,086
I know that's been a request I've heard from a number of parents and I think that it's worth devoting an extra specific board session to this topic.

2061
03:17:08,086 --> 03:17:15,786
I think it really goes along with our equity and inclusion and diversity goals and making sure that we get it right.

2062
03:17:17,426 --> 03:17:17,946
Because

2063
03:17:20,476 --> 03:17:25,516
while all of these groups that I think in APAC certainly is going to serve a good purpose.

2064
03:17:25,716 --> 03:17:32,136
I want to make sure we're looking at the full structure of all of our equity groups, how they work together, what they serve separately.

2065
03:17:32,836 --> 03:17:39,596
and really have the ability for groups to come in and have a process that set up in place that's

2066
03:17:39,596 --> 03:17:46,456
uniformed and not just kind of like I said piecemeal. So again, I want to be clear and not my intent

2067
03:17:46,456 --> 03:17:53,036
is not to put this off. My intent is to devote a working session to it and get it right so that we can

2068
03:17:53,036 --> 03:17:58,286
move forward. I hope with this group but also have a process that's most effective for

2069
03:17:58,286 --> 03:18:00,766
or for the support that's been requested.

2070
03:18:02,166 --> 03:18:11,146
So with that, I want to open it up to any other questions or comments or feedback on that

2071
03:18:11,146 --> 03:18:11,906
idea.

2072
03:18:12,886 --> 03:18:14,466
Can I just make a quick cut?

2073
03:18:14,646 --> 03:18:14,946
Please.

2074
03:18:16,446 --> 03:18:24,426
So I think that's a great idea and I would just invite the board to work with the specifically

2075
03:18:24,426 --> 03:18:33,386
the culturally diverse and linguistic groups to understand how to structure it loosely because

2076
03:18:33,386 --> 03:18:40,926
there's a lot of research about how, like specifically with our families from Hispanic backgrounds

2077
03:18:40,926 --> 03:18:45,686
when things are overly structured, it might end their participation pretty early.

2078
03:18:45,986 --> 03:18:52,066
So it's just important that you know, get some input from those groups about how to structure

2079
03:18:52,066 --> 03:19:01,426
it in a way that still feels safe and where they can feel like they can be leaders and

2080
03:19:01,426 --> 03:19:08,186
the work as well. I also wanted to speak to the great concern about creating a bunch of

2081
03:19:08,186 --> 03:19:12,706
separate groups. So there's a lot of research about affinity groups, but one of the strategies

2082
03:19:12,706 --> 03:19:19,846
that we use in the way we format the African American family councils is there's a strategy

2083
03:19:19,846 --> 03:19:22,806
to actually integrate them into the school better.

2084
03:19:23,126 --> 03:19:25,406
So a part of the strategy is to build their capacity

2085
03:19:25,406 --> 03:19:27,606
to be a part of school side council,

2086
03:19:27,906 --> 03:19:31,706
to be a part of PTA, to be a part to support D-Lat

2087
03:19:31,706 --> 03:19:33,546
or the other organization.

2088
03:19:33,986 --> 03:19:37,806
So a part of that they have a leadership track

2089
03:19:37,806 --> 03:19:41,886
where they're building their capacity as a leader,

2090
03:19:42,846 --> 03:19:44,326
to actually lead their work, right?

2091
03:19:44,406 --> 03:19:47,106
How to facilitate meetings, how to negotiate

2092
03:19:47,106 --> 03:19:52,966
conflict resolution. At the same time, there's strategically saying, who's going out to

2093
03:19:52,966 --> 03:19:57,686
get information, who's bringing information in, right? And they're also sharing information

2094
03:19:57,686 --> 03:20:03,726
strategically with other entities on campus. So, a big part of it are partnerships with

2095
03:20:03,726 --> 03:20:09,966
in the school and then looking out to community partners, right? So, if African American students

2096
03:20:09,966 --> 03:20:16,086
and families attend church almost five times as much as others, how are we partnering with

2097
03:20:16,086 --> 03:20:25,446
those entities to give advanced support with math, right, by direct supports and those kind of services, so that's a part of the strategy.

2098
03:20:28,106 --> 03:20:38,706
Those are great points, thank you. And I think that goes to some of what the balance needs to be in terms of creating a structure like you mentioned, that's not.

2099
03:20:38,706 --> 03:20:42,586
So, prohibitive that folks can't have the conversations

2100
03:20:42,586 --> 03:20:45,086
to hard conversations that need to happen also.

2101
03:20:45,526 --> 03:20:48,586
But then balancing the request that it really be

2102
03:20:48,586 --> 03:20:51,106
some kind of group that's more formally tied

2103
03:20:51,106 --> 03:20:52,626
to our district as well.

2104
03:20:53,746 --> 03:20:55,606
Mr. Gorbache, I saw your light on.

2105
03:20:56,106 --> 03:20:56,886
Just thank you.

2106
03:20:56,906 --> 03:20:58,866
First of all, thank you Dr. Luchund.

2107
03:21:00,026 --> 03:21:01,106
You know, I just want to thank you

2108
03:21:01,106 --> 03:21:04,226
for the information of bringing to,

2109
03:21:05,506 --> 03:21:06,446
I get an echo.

2110
03:21:06,446 --> 03:21:16,886
bring to us how to integrate the culture into the schools and to make sure it's integrated instead of separate.

2111
03:21:17,906 --> 03:21:22,026
I also want to go back to our speakers first line, Ms. Allen.

2112
03:21:23,106 --> 03:21:30,826
And the fact that she said that she is running into people that have said that there's no racism.

2113
03:21:30,826 --> 03:21:40,486
that what you said. No racism. The fact that people who aren't involved in the racism,

2114
03:21:41,126 --> 03:21:49,086
think that there's no racism is exactly why we need a group like this because that's part

2115
03:21:49,086 --> 03:21:55,086
of the problem is the ignorance of what exists for kids like your like Ms. Zalem's own and

2116
03:21:55,086 --> 03:21:56,686
and black all the other kids.

2117
03:21:57,386 --> 03:22:00,886
So, yes, I think this is a great,

2118
03:22:00,906 --> 03:22:03,146
I think it'll be great learning experience for us,

2119
03:22:03,486 --> 03:22:04,886
for the district as a whole,

2120
03:22:05,086 --> 03:22:09,466
and certainly increase the learning experience

2121
03:22:09,466 --> 03:22:10,586
for the kids.

2122
03:22:11,306 --> 03:22:12,246
So, thank you.

2123
03:22:14,756 --> 03:22:15,056
My pleasure.

2124
03:22:16,116 --> 03:22:16,956
Just people, Burke.

2125
03:22:17,476 --> 03:22:21,076
So, I like the idea of looking at the whole thing

2126
03:22:21,076 --> 03:22:23,856
holistically and seeing how everything fits.

2127
03:22:23,856 --> 03:22:33,556
And the point that you may, Dr. Lieutenant, about building leadership and building capacity.

2128
03:22:34,016 --> 03:22:39,616
I've seen that be tremendously effective here with our English learner families.

2129
03:22:40,256 --> 03:22:46,196
There were programs put in place and we will gave them the tools and watch and it's been amazing.

2130
03:22:46,196 --> 03:22:53,156
So, I think that it just, it builds capacity all over the place.

2131
03:22:54,136 --> 03:23:02,696
So, I'd like to keep that in mind as we look at the best ways and the culturally appropriate ways to have everybody get involved.

2132
03:23:22,266 --> 03:23:27,666
Really quickly, I'd love to just quickly add some of the benefits that we've seen for students.

2133
03:23:28,406 --> 03:23:32,866
Some districts that have that are well-oiled and have been doing it for a while.

2134
03:23:32,866 --> 03:23:38,706
And our very collaborative, again, it's supposed to be integrated in schools and not some separate entity.

2135
03:23:40,486 --> 03:23:45,646
What we've seen is the teams that come a lot of the conflict that was there.

2136
03:23:46,206 --> 03:23:57,366
I watch the conflict resolve in some of these processes as they are learning material together and building common knowledge and developing common language.

2137
03:23:57,366 --> 03:24:05,606
So when they use the time, they all know what it means and what the context is and even having them in the same room to hear other people's stories

2138
03:24:05,606 --> 03:24:07,626
And have a better context

2139
03:24:07,626 --> 03:24:12,146
It has changed the way that the teams are operating and some of the teams came

2140
03:24:12,186 --> 03:24:21,946
I mean, with pretty hostile interactions between one another, between some of the family members, and some of the, let's say, school leaders and principals.

2141
03:24:23,306 --> 03:24:28,246
Another thing that we're seeing is what was mentioned is a leadership development.

2142
03:24:28,886 --> 03:24:41,346
So now you have a development of leaders, which are helping more in schools and communities, and able to better support not only their children, but other people's children, which we find in African American communities.

2143
03:24:41,346 --> 03:24:49,946
They are really eager to advocate and help with not only their child education, but others as well.

2144
03:24:50,546 --> 03:24:54,066
We've also seen an increase in the number of evidence-based strategies

2145
03:24:54,066 --> 03:24:56,326
actually being used in the classroom.

2146
03:24:57,046 --> 03:25:03,646
So a lot of the research I look to are come from the National Urban Center for School Transformation

2147
03:25:03,646 --> 03:25:10,006
out of San Diego State University where they have identified 300 schools that have no achievement

2148
03:25:10,006 --> 03:25:14,406
gaps based on race, gender, economics or abilities.

2149
03:25:15,346 --> 03:25:20,446
And they have identified eight teaching practices and eight leadership practices.

2150
03:25:21,086 --> 03:25:26,506
So what we do is we look at dual capacity building and go, okay, everyone's struggling with

2151
03:25:26,506 --> 03:25:27,706
advanced math.

2152
03:25:27,706 --> 03:25:31,306
What would capacity building look like for families?

2153
03:25:31,746 --> 03:25:37,746
Perhaps we're teaching them three specific learning strategies to use with their child for that grade level.

2154
03:25:38,106 --> 03:25:43,866
What would that look like for teachers to build their capacity around advanced math?

2155
03:25:44,106 --> 03:25:51,386
Maybe it will be helping them to focus on mastery and to teach vocabulary and engaging in culturally appropriate ways.

2156
03:25:51,926 --> 03:25:57,426
So it's using the dual capacity around one thing that's related to research.

2157
03:26:01,236 --> 03:26:02,996
Thank you so much.

2158
03:26:03,376 --> 03:26:07,556
And thank you for saving me because I was talking on mute before you thankfully jumped in.

2159
03:26:08,216 --> 03:26:10,876
No, I appreciate it. Thank you.

2160
03:26:11,536 --> 03:26:17,216
Okay, so I wanted to see also, and I'm just going to repeat it because I think I was on mute.

2161
03:26:17,356 --> 03:26:20,876
If there's interest by the board and if you can just kind of nod your head.

2162
03:26:20,876 --> 03:26:25,876
So I can see you in setting up a working session on the topic.

2163
03:26:26,896 --> 03:26:41,016
Okay, so it looks like yes, and so we will work to get that on the calendar in a timely manner, and I do want to thank the parents who brought this idea to our attention.

2164
03:26:41,616 --> 03:26:50,396
It's really important that I appreciate that you did that, and I also want to thank Dr. Lichon for your time and sharing your expertise with us on this topic.

2165
03:26:50,556 --> 03:26:51,876
We really appreciate it.

2166
03:26:52,856 --> 03:26:55,856
Thank you so much for your time. You all have a good evening.

2167
03:26:56,436 --> 03:26:57,476
Thank you, you too.

2168
03:27:23,086 --> 03:27:25,166
Okay, so we are switching off soon.

2169
03:27:26,266 --> 03:27:27,146
And we're going to go...

2170
03:27:27,172 --> 03:27:42,312
To item 5B, which is should the Board of Education recommend to staff to create a unity, district, advisory council committee task force, and Dr. Miller or Dr. McGlockland, did you want to start with some background on this or any comments?

2171
03:27:43,212 --> 03:27:52,412
No, okay. Well, I will quickly mention that again, this is certainly a request that I've received.

2172
03:27:52,412 --> 03:28:16,452
I think it's a request that the board in general and our district has received and for my perspective, there is clearly a need to continue and develop even, you know, more further supports as well.

2173
03:28:16,452 --> 03:28:22,932
for a CVUSD LGBTQ plus community and my note would be,

2174
03:28:23,272 --> 03:28:27,652
I would ask that we include this in that working session

2175
03:28:27,652 --> 03:28:31,332
because, again, I think it will allow us to find the format

2176
03:28:31,332 --> 03:28:36,572
that's going to most effectively serve what has been requested

2177
03:28:36,572 --> 03:28:40,372
and just as Dr. Lichun mentioned in the last item,

2178
03:28:40,752 --> 03:28:45,612
I do think it's important that we do get the input

2179
03:28:45,612 --> 03:28:54,092
of students and parents in this community so that we can kind of figure out the best, the

2180
03:28:54,092 --> 03:28:58,932
best way to move forward with this. Again, in a timely manner, but also establishing

2181
03:28:58,932 --> 03:29:06,672
something that's going to have longevity and going to be effective with the goals of these

2182
03:29:06,672 --> 03:29:11,792
groups. So I'll open it up to questions or comments from the board.

2183
03:29:17,612 --> 03:29:19,932
Okay. So seeing nine, I'm going

2184
03:29:19,932 --> 03:29:29,612
ask just by nods of heads. Again, if you're on board with, including this in our working session as well.

2185
03:29:30,072 --> 03:29:43,492
Okay. And I just, again, I want to be, since I'm putting it out there, I want to be clear that this is something I personally support and it's more just about figuring out the right method to go about it. So any other comments? Okay.

2186
03:29:43,492 --> 03:29:45,952
With that we will

2187
03:29:46,161 --> 03:30:01,301
Move on to item 5C, business services, child care enrollment update, and Dr. Hight, did you have anything you wanted to mention on this?

2188
03:30:01,581 --> 03:30:12,201
We promised to come back in May after the registration for child care program. We wanted to share the numbers with the board here.

2189
03:30:12,201 --> 03:30:19,521
You can see the comparison on the table where we're roughly just over 800 students enrolled for next year.

2190
03:30:19,981 --> 03:30:22,421
We're still getting enrollments coming in every single day.

2191
03:30:23,321 --> 03:30:26,961
We see and expect a number to continue increasing.

2192
03:30:27,721 --> 03:30:34,521
We do have wait lists that several of the schools, and that's mostly because of the spacing requirement right now.

2193
03:30:34,521 --> 03:30:47,881
We are expecting some changes sometime in June, whether we June 15 or June 30th in relation to some updated guidance related to spacing and if that does take effect for the beginning of the school year.

2194
03:30:49,541 --> 03:30:52,261
We will, we will be able to clear those waiting lists.

2195
03:30:53,101 --> 03:31:03,901
So we were kind of up in the year before whether or how to what extent we would run childcare next year, but we will be we plan on and would like to continue operating childcare

2196
03:31:03,901 --> 03:31:11,221
back to a normal capacity of we've done in years past. We would obviously maintain the level

2197
03:31:11,221 --> 03:31:17,141
of staffing required and as a number of students in enrollment increase, we would add staffing

2198
03:31:17,141 --> 03:31:25,121
accordingly and move forward in the most normal way possible to provide services to the community.

2199
03:31:29,061 --> 03:31:31,621
Thank you. Questions or comments on this item?

2200
03:31:34,661 --> 03:31:44,181
Do you have a question coming in from a board member on the wait list and it dawned on me like 20 minutes ago that I didn't send out a response?

2201
03:31:45,561 --> 03:31:59,301
So you can't see it very well out there and I usually don't do this, but I'm usually good and I know Dr. Hayek's department put together this information so I do have a little guilt that I didn't actually send it out for the request.

2202
03:31:59,301 --> 03:32:02,341
But so Banyan has two on their weightless kindergarten

2203
03:32:02,341 --> 03:32:03,041
enrichment.

2204
03:32:03,561 --> 03:32:06,161
Earth has three on their weightless for kindergarten

2205
03:32:06,161 --> 03:32:07,301
enrichment only.

2206
03:32:07,761 --> 03:32:10,421
LaDara has one on the weightless for AMPM.

2207
03:32:10,981 --> 03:32:14,041
Lang Ranch has three on the weightless for kindergarten and six

2208
03:32:14,041 --> 03:32:16,101
on the weightless for AMPM.

2209
03:32:16,281 --> 03:32:20,221
Weatherfield has three on the weightless for kindergarten and four

2210
03:32:20,221 --> 03:32:22,481
on the weightless for AMPM.

2211
03:32:22,741 --> 03:32:25,701
West Lake two on the weightless for kindergarten enrichment,

2212
03:32:25,701 --> 03:32:30,781
wildwood seven on the wait list for a Kinder Enrichment and 14 on the wait list for

2213
03:32:30,781 --> 03:32:40,621
AIM and PM. That's a large number. So I want to make sure I provided that information since it was requested and I didn't send it out.

2214
03:32:41,121 --> 03:32:46,521
Thank you. I appreciate that. Any other questions or comments?

2215
03:32:46,521 --> 03:32:47,801
It's a quick question.

2216
03:32:48,841 --> 03:32:52,501
Would the distancing is it based on six feet or three feet?

2217
03:32:53,781 --> 03:32:56,281
So it's a weightless based on three feet.

2218
03:32:56,781 --> 03:33:00,741
Yeah, if you look at our numbers, I mean, as we reported in the past,

2219
03:33:00,901 --> 03:33:06,181
with a six-foot distancing, we're barely above 300 students.

2220
03:33:07,221 --> 03:33:09,501
But the staffing remains the same for supervision.

2221
03:33:10,161 --> 03:33:12,961
So when we're looking forward and we're able to change

2222
03:33:12,961 --> 03:33:15,901
and adjust that to three feet, we do have limitations

2223
03:33:15,901 --> 03:33:18,721
in some of the rooms because they can, they're only so big.

2224
03:33:19,481 --> 03:33:21,681
And in a school like, which was at Wildwood,

2225
03:33:21,921 --> 03:33:24,301
what's so many on a wait list that I'm assuming there's

2226
03:33:24,301 --> 03:33:28,981
no other classrooms that could be co-op did or that's a lot of students.

2227
03:33:30,041 --> 03:33:31,681
And it's a pretty essential service.

2228
03:33:32,641 --> 03:33:36,961
Yeah, we, we have not been in the practice of using teacher classrooms for childcare.

2229
03:33:37,121 --> 03:33:40,801
There are dedicated childcare spaces on the campuses.

2230
03:33:41,441 --> 03:33:44,341
That is a discussion we could have moving forward.

2231
03:33:44,341 --> 03:33:57,241
If the spacing requirements don't change, and we're not able to clear those, then we can have a conversation closer to when school starts as to possibly utilizing additional spaces on those campuses.

2232
03:34:01,421 --> 03:34:03,841
Thank you. Other questions in the comments?

2233
03:34:05,441 --> 03:34:05,561
Okay.

2234
03:34:05,841 --> 03:34:06,481
Seeing that, we'll...

2235
03:34:06,509 --> 03:34:12,529
We move to item 5D instructional services, California Health Youth Act, Material Selection.

2236
03:34:13,629 --> 03:34:19,689
Was there a public comment on this item? No, okay. Thank you.

2237
03:34:20,049 --> 03:34:25,829
And I believe Mr. Liu is going to speak to us about this topic.

2238
03:34:48,109 --> 03:34:53,289
Is it there? I'm also wondering, I assume this works.

2239
03:34:53,289 --> 03:34:54,609
Alright.

2240
03:34:58,649 --> 03:35:11,629
Well, good evening everyone. Thank you so much and happy to provide just a review of the materials that we shared with our Board of Education and with our public.

2241
03:35:12,449 --> 03:35:18,349
So I do want to share that the document here that I'm going to kind of just do a quick overview on.

2242
03:35:18,349 --> 03:35:23,969
really is a reflection of the input from many of our stakeholder groups, including our teachers,

2243
03:35:24,989 --> 03:35:30,669
parents, and guardians that sit on our C-DAC, DAC, as well as all of our advisory councils

2244
03:35:30,669 --> 03:35:33,989
in the district, as well as students from S-DAC.

2245
03:35:34,309 --> 03:35:40,469
And so the materials here really do provide a foundation for our recommendation of team talk

2246
03:35:40,469 --> 03:35:45,229
to be implemented at the middle school and high school levels for students for comprehensive

2247
03:35:45,229 --> 03:35:48,329
of sexual health pursuance of the California Health

2248
03:35:48,329 --> 03:35:48,849
that you've backed.

2249
03:35:51,589 --> 03:35:54,949
So this is just a brief summary,

2250
03:35:55,349 --> 03:35:58,709
and I believe we've provided this information in the past

2251
03:35:58,709 --> 03:35:59,529
in many formats.

2252
03:35:59,709 --> 03:36:02,649
I do just want to highlight for rights respect responsibility

2253
03:36:02,649 --> 03:36:06,129
that is K through 12, the cost is free

2254
03:36:06,129 --> 03:36:09,449
because the all the materials are online and for free.

2255
03:36:10,149 --> 03:36:11,989
There is not a modified curriculum

2256
03:36:11,989 --> 03:36:13,429
for rights respect responsibility,

2257
03:36:13,429 --> 03:36:20,349
modified curriculum in this sense is specifically referring to a designated curriculum for

2258
03:36:20,349 --> 03:36:25,889
students with disabilities who receive modified curriculum pursuant to their IEP.

2259
03:36:27,009 --> 03:36:31,189
And you can see team talk and positive prevention plus there are costs associated with

2260
03:36:31,189 --> 03:36:35,549
that and those are just at this time 6 through 12.

2261
03:36:39,069 --> 03:36:45,769
So the brunt of the information that really is very new is we wanted to share with you the

2262
03:36:45,769 --> 03:36:52,949
results from the Adolescent Sexual Health Orc group, and as stated there, the CDE does

2263
03:36:52,949 --> 03:36:58,869
not explicitly provide adopted or recommended sets of materials to be in compliant with

2264
03:36:58,869 --> 03:37:04,449
the California Health or Youth Act. They do however reference Ashwig or the Adolescent

2265
03:37:04,449 --> 03:37:09,229
Sexual Health Orc group for curriculum guidance on implementing the California Health

2266
03:37:09,229 --> 03:37:16,749
the Youth Act. You can see a description of Ashwick, but really they are the experts in terms

2267
03:37:16,749 --> 03:37:22,409
of public health as well as Department of Education and medical experts that are reviewing

2268
03:37:22,409 --> 03:37:27,729
the materials specifically to look to see how compliant each of the curriculum are with

2269
03:37:27,729 --> 03:37:32,749
the California Health Youth Act. We were able to receive the information from Ashwick

2270
03:37:33,589 --> 03:37:38,969
on the Friday, the last Friday, I believe, the 14th in the morning, and a big thanks to

2271
03:37:38,969 --> 03:37:42,889
them, they actually provided our district this information in advance of the public release

2272
03:37:42,889 --> 03:37:48,589
of information, because of perhaps our persistence in requesting the materials.

2273
03:37:48,869 --> 03:37:49,309
So we're grateful.

2274
03:37:49,509 --> 03:37:54,389
We weren't able to include the actual full reports because they've not been released, but

2275
03:37:54,389 --> 03:37:57,509
they did allow us to provide the information that I'll share.

2276
03:37:58,989 --> 03:38:06,929
So, just to kind of talk a little bit about kind of the format, you can see that the adolescent sexual health

2277
03:38:06,929 --> 03:38:14,629
of work group looked at each of the criteria and instructional objectives that's required by the California Health

2278
03:38:14,629 --> 03:38:26,829
Youth Act and that's in education codes 51933 and 51934 and so for each of those specific what they describe as criteria or in our case really the law.

2279
03:38:26,829 --> 03:38:37,909
They provided a score of compliant or green needs minor adaptions, which means that a district could provide

2280
03:38:37,909 --> 03:38:46,689
make small changes, and those small changes may be, you know, adding some small additional pieces of information to be in full compliance.

2281
03:38:47,409 --> 03:38:50,469
Red indicates major adaptations would be required.

2282
03:38:50,469 --> 03:39:03,129
This would perhaps be in the case of a particular topic that is totally left out of a possible curriculum and that would need a major adjustment, which a district could make.

2283
03:39:03,689 --> 03:39:09,589
The gray and you can see that for D1, D2 and D3.

2284
03:39:09,589 --> 03:39:15,869
Actually, it was really clear in their report out that it is the districts where the LEA's

2285
03:39:15,869 --> 03:39:22,189
responsibility to be in compliance with those particular codes.

2286
03:39:22,869 --> 03:39:27,949
And the reason for that, and if you look more specifically, those three codes specifically

2287
03:39:27,949 --> 03:39:33,409
address really making sure that the curriculum, and more important to the curriculum, that

2288
03:39:33,409 --> 03:39:39,969
the instruction is accessible for students with disabilities, English learners, and all student

2289
03:39:39,969 --> 03:39:40,509
groups.

2290
03:39:41,369 --> 03:39:47,809
And that releasing comment of course upon the district and through instruction to, for instance,

2291
03:39:47,869 --> 03:39:54,709
make sure that IEP accommodations and modifications are provided or that we're providing adequate

2292
03:39:54,709 --> 03:39:56,629
language support for English learners.

2293
03:39:56,629 --> 03:40:02,389
that is, as Ashwig, you know, wants us to note is, is our district's responsibility.

2294
03:40:04,169 --> 03:40:09,889
And so they do, however, and you can see the notes that are within here, they do provide

2295
03:40:09,889 --> 03:40:17,229
comments about the materials. So the instruction kind of one way to think about it is on us as a

2296
03:40:17,229 --> 03:40:23,109
district to make sure that it's accessible, but the materials, they do provide feedback on whether

2297
03:40:23,109 --> 03:40:27,049
They feel like the materials are, in the case of D1,

2298
03:40:27,469 --> 03:40:30,349
inclusive and appropriate, and indeed too,

2299
03:40:30,509 --> 03:40:33,429
if they're appropriate for an accessible for English learners,

2300
03:40:34,129 --> 03:40:37,869
and D3 if they are appropriate and accessible for students with disabilities.

2301
03:40:39,069 --> 03:40:41,549
So although they don't say necessarily,

2302
03:40:42,629 --> 03:40:45,449
you know, green, yellow, or red,

2303
03:40:45,729 --> 03:40:50,229
they do provide some information in an assessment on the materials themselves.

2304
03:40:51,909 --> 03:41:08,229
And so moving through, again, if you look to the top, this is just for high school, so we're looking just at high school right now, and it goes on, this is specific to the 51934, which are the specific instructional topics.

2305
03:41:08,229 --> 03:41:13,469
If you look here, I do want to highlight that in eight for 51934.

2306
03:41:14,729 --> 03:41:19,529
This also is the LA's responsibilities specifically because it calls out the district's

2307
03:41:19,529 --> 03:41:24,669
responsibility to provide information about local resources and how to access those local

2308
03:41:24,669 --> 03:41:25,329
resources.

2309
03:41:27,029 --> 03:41:34,869
The CDE and Ashwig do provide separate guidance to districts on how to do this, but that is

2310
03:41:34,869 --> 03:41:36,469
included in the 3P.

2311
03:41:37,409 --> 03:41:41,689
So again, that is our district's responsibility outside of the curriculum.

2312
03:41:45,339 --> 03:41:47,579
And then we move on into middle school.

2313
03:41:51,489 --> 03:42:11,049
And certainly, I'll be able to answer questions at the end. But just to give you all a sense. And then this is for the modified curriculum. Again, just to reiterate rights, respect, responsibility. They do not provide a specific curriculum for students with disabilities who receive a modified curriculum.

2314
03:42:15,879 --> 03:42:24,179
The next part are our teacher recommendations, and you can see here a description of the 15

2315
03:42:24,179 --> 03:42:28,179
secondary teachers that we reviewed all three of the curriculum.

2316
03:42:29,059 --> 03:42:34,199
We're really happy and proud to have a very inclusive group of educators that represented

2317
03:42:34,199 --> 03:42:38,579
our English language development teachers, special education teachers, as well of course,

2318
03:42:38,679 --> 03:42:41,879
as our health teachers at the high school level and our seventh grade science teachers.

2319
03:42:41,879 --> 03:42:50,019
You can see there overall responses to the question about whether or not they would recommend

2320
03:42:50,979 --> 03:42:53,319
the or would use the curriculum.

2321
03:42:54,039 --> 03:42:59,999
You can see for rights respect responsibility, about 40% indicated that they would use the curriculum

2322
03:42:59,999 --> 03:43:02,019
but with some reservations.

2323
03:43:02,979 --> 03:43:09,759
100% teachers said that they would use positive prevention plus but with 35% having some reservations

2324
03:43:09,759 --> 03:43:16,579
and for teen talk, a total of 92%, would use the curriculum, but with 61% having some reservations.

2325
03:43:19,839 --> 03:43:25,339
If the, so Ashley provides a review of how compliant each of the curriculum are,

2326
03:43:25,419 --> 03:43:32,999
it doesn't necessarily provide an educator's view on how accessible the materials are for diverse students.

2327
03:43:32,999 --> 03:43:40,399
And so, when we work with our teachers, we really wanted to get a better understanding of

2328
03:43:40,399 --> 03:43:43,759
in their view how accessible each of the curriculum were.

2329
03:43:44,619 --> 03:43:51,859
And so, we created, in partnership with our teachers, a particular instructional rating criteria

2330
03:43:51,859 --> 03:43:54,159
that was completed for each of the three.

2331
03:43:54,639 --> 03:43:58,819
This criteria was based off of the organizing principles of UDL.

2332
03:43:58,819 --> 03:44:11,899
The universal access criteria and sections in the current California Health Education Framework as well as taking some of the materials from the California Adoption Toolkit for ELA.

2333
03:44:12,619 --> 03:44:16,919
And so you can see the rating scale for being strong evidence, one being no evidence.

2334
03:44:17,799 --> 03:44:28,499
The way to interpret this is that there are individual criteria on the left side and the results are disaggregated with any box.

2335
03:44:28,499 --> 03:44:35,459
So we did want to see what the overall average score was, but wanted to also note if there were any

2336
03:44:35,459 --> 03:44:40,719
differences, significant differences from our special education teachers and ELD teachers.

2337
03:44:41,859 --> 03:44:51,439
And then we went ahead and just highlighted in yellow, the, essentially, the curriculum that scored the highest for the overall for each of the rows.

2338
03:44:51,459 --> 03:44:52,599
So just as a visual.

2339
03:44:54,519 --> 03:44:56,399
And so you can see that there.

2340
03:44:56,399 --> 03:45:03,939
Just in terms of totals, rights, respect, responsibility, had four in the yellow, which is sort of that top score.

2341
03:45:04,659 --> 03:45:10,199
Positive prevention plus had eight in teen talk, had seven of those yellow highlights.

2342
03:45:14,999 --> 03:45:16,879
The next is the stakeholder feedback section.

2343
03:45:17,759 --> 03:45:30,159
And again, a huge thanks to not just our staff, but also the students on S-DAC, as well as members of our district advisory council, that provided specific feedback on each of those

2344
03:45:30,159 --> 03:45:35,719
of the three curriculum. And you can see it here. I will say that it's not inclusive, of course,

2345
03:45:35,919 --> 03:45:42,379
all the feedback. We did our best to, you know, summarize and fit us much as we could into a

2346
03:45:42,379 --> 03:45:48,539
single chart. And so you can see some of the wise and way not from each of those various groups.

2347
03:45:50,709 --> 03:45:57,289
And then we were also given a lot of great just general feedback when we look at, you know, providing

2348
03:45:57,289 --> 03:45:59,989
comprehensive sexual education in our district overall.

2349
03:46:00,869 --> 03:46:05,929
And so our special education district advisory council provided a strong recommendation

2350
03:46:05,929 --> 03:46:13,809
for a more comprehensive approach that really goes beyond the California Health

2351
03:46:13,809 --> 03:46:17,929
of the Youth Act and to really, you know, not just meet the needs of students with disabilities

2352
03:46:17,929 --> 03:46:24,869
but to provide a more robust approach within our district and they also provided nine key

2353
03:46:24,869 --> 03:46:26,889
takeaways that are listed there.

2354
03:46:27,429 --> 03:46:33,429
We also had the opportunity to provide an update and send a survey to all of our advisory

2355
03:46:33,429 --> 03:46:37,789
councils and some of the feedback is listed there as well.

2356
03:46:41,019 --> 03:46:46,579
And then the very last page is sort of a kind of just a description of what each of the very

2357
03:46:46,579 --> 03:46:54,039
stakeholders did and their sort of methodology in terms of who was involved and how that involvement

2358
03:46:54,039 --> 03:46:59,059
worked, and then we've linked all the presentations that they've provided in the past sort

2359
03:46:59,059 --> 03:47:05,799
of just in one place. So that's just a brief overview of the document. I'm certainly

2360
03:47:05,799 --> 03:47:07,459
happy to answer any questions.

2361
03:47:10,329 --> 03:47:14,229
Thank you, Mr. Lily. I appreciate that thorough presentation

2362
03:47:14,229 --> 03:47:19,269
in the slides as well. I'll open it up to discussion from the board.

2363
03:47:22,689 --> 03:47:24,049
Any questions or comments?

2364
03:47:25,709 --> 03:47:27,589
Okay, I have a couple.

2365
03:47:29,749 --> 03:47:34,869
Thank you for the explanation about the difference between what Ashwig evaluates and what

2366
03:47:34,869 --> 03:47:39,469
our teachers evaluated, because I didn't see that going through that there was some discrepancy

2367
03:47:39,469 --> 03:47:43,489
in the feedback on the three different curriculums, so that was really helpful.

2368
03:47:44,649 --> 03:47:50,929
I wanted to, I think it is hard though, because if Ashwig is saying that one is not compliant,

2369
03:47:50,929 --> 03:47:57,809
It creates a barrier from the get-go, but it doesn't really let us get to the point of evaluating

2370
03:47:58,409 --> 03:48:03,149
necessarily how accessible it is if we aren't even at the compliance standpoint.

2371
03:48:05,529 --> 03:48:13,669
One thing I noticed in the information that was attached was that there was a notation by CDAC,

2372
03:48:13,669 --> 03:48:19,769
And also, I think, perhaps, parents just through

2373
03:48:19,769 --> 03:48:24,529
DAC and general, that there was a comprehensive approach

2374
03:48:24,529 --> 03:48:27,349
needed of build up from younger grades.

2375
03:48:28,389 --> 03:48:32,209
And I did note that somewhere in here, it said that

2376
03:48:32,209 --> 03:48:37,869
teen talk and positive prevention plus are 6 through 12,

2377
03:48:38,289 --> 03:48:42,509
but there seemed to be indication that there was material for younger grades

2378
03:48:42,509 --> 03:48:47,989
available. Can you just expand on that a little bit and if that's something potentially we could

2379
03:48:47,989 --> 03:48:49,689
incorporate and what that includes?

2380
03:48:50,609 --> 03:48:56,989
Absolutely. So for Team Talk and Positive Prevention Plus, there are materials for fourth

2381
03:48:56,989 --> 03:49:03,589
and fifth grade that specifically, you know, provide an introduction to some of the materials

2382
03:49:03,589 --> 03:49:06,469
in middle school. We have not reviewed those materials.

2383
03:49:06,509 --> 03:49:13,369
But those materials do exist. Again, for teen talk, positive prevention plus, for grades 4 and 5. Whereas,

2384
03:49:13,469 --> 03:49:20,169
the rights or security responsibility, they go to the, I think, believe, at the kindergarten level and

2385
03:49:20,169 --> 03:49:21,549
provide materials there.

2386
03:49:23,789 --> 03:49:26,909
Okay, and then I do think it would be helpful for us just to have some

2387
03:49:26,909 --> 03:49:34,889
information on those options and it relates to another question, which is, are we able, if teen talk, being

2388
03:49:34,889 --> 03:49:40,789
what's recommended and kind of the obvious one that doesn't have the same compliance issues

2389
03:49:40,789 --> 03:49:46,569
from Ashwig and given that our purposes were trying to come into compliance, at least

2390
03:49:46,569 --> 03:49:53,529
one of the main purposes, are we able to supplement lacking areas or format so one would

2391
03:49:53,529 --> 03:50:01,329
be that buildup that's needed for at least some of our student population but potentially more,

2392
03:50:01,329 --> 03:50:13,209
And then also there are references to multimedia resources that we're potentially lacking topics that we're lacking like sexing and pornography that parents felt were important.

2393
03:50:13,409 --> 03:50:19,229
So are there supplements that we could add that would be compliant to teen talk?

2394
03:50:21,249 --> 03:50:27,729
We could certainly add supplements, you know, I think that go beyond and above, you know,

2395
03:50:27,789 --> 03:50:33,329
what the California Health, California Health, the Youth Act require, and that also

2396
03:50:33,329 --> 03:50:36,589
goes, you know, of course, looking at the elementary level as well.

2397
03:50:38,909 --> 03:50:44,709
The, you know, rights respect responsibility, for example, you know, if we wanted to look at

2398
03:50:44,709 --> 03:50:46,869
that for some of the lower grades,

2399
03:50:47,529 --> 03:50:50,649
we certainly could because, as I've had conversations before,

2400
03:50:51,189 --> 03:50:53,169
it's not necessarily that we're looking,

2401
03:50:54,289 --> 03:50:56,249
and this is specific at the elementary level,

2402
03:50:57,649 --> 03:50:58,929
that each of the curriculum,

2403
03:50:59,429 --> 03:51:02,149
like if we adopted something for a middle school in high school,

2404
03:51:02,649 --> 03:51:04,309
that if we don't have something in the elementary,

2405
03:51:04,569 --> 03:51:06,349
like we couldn't move forward with it,

2406
03:51:07,269 --> 03:51:09,169
each of the curriculum really are dressing the same set

2407
03:51:09,169 --> 03:51:11,369
of objectives, and you could think of it kind of like

2408
03:51:11,369 --> 03:51:13,649
as standards, and so there would be alignment

2409
03:51:13,649 --> 03:51:17,569
and parity between, you know, similar definitions and concepts,

2410
03:51:17,649 --> 03:51:20,289
even if we were using a different sort of like supplemental

2411
03:51:21,089 --> 03:51:22,669
or another type of a curriculum.

2412
03:51:25,789 --> 03:51:26,609
Okay, that's really helpful.

2413
03:51:27,609 --> 03:51:32,629
And then do all three weave LGBTQ plus topics throughout each lesson,

2414
03:51:32,809 --> 03:51:36,109
or do any of them have standalone lessons on those topics?

2415
03:51:36,149 --> 03:51:38,029
Do you know off-hand and if not, that's okay.

2416
03:51:38,409 --> 03:51:41,329
I don't know off-hand, but I can certainly get that to you.

2417
03:51:41,329 --> 03:51:44,869
I do know that there are, I think, one or two of them,

2418
03:51:44,869 --> 03:51:53,049
and I'll provide the details in a communication that do provide a stand-alone lesson or

2419
03:51:53,049 --> 03:51:58,509
section, specific for LGBTQ, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're also not weaving

2420
03:51:58,509 --> 03:52:03,849
in that specific criteria throughout all the lessons, too, but I can certainly follow up.

2421
03:52:04,149 --> 03:52:04,829
Okay, thank you.

2422
03:52:05,789 --> 03:52:12,969
And last question I had was the agenda description said that there have been steps taken to pilot

2423
03:52:12,969 --> 03:52:18,789
the programs. Have there been steps taken to pilot all three programs or is it one program that

2424
03:52:18,789 --> 03:52:25,229
our teachers have piloted today? We have looked at all three of them. Our teachers have

2425
03:52:25,229 --> 03:52:32,789
looked to have reviewed them. I am not aware for instance of any of these materials been provided

2426
03:52:32,789 --> 03:52:34,589
specifically to our students in the classroom.

2427
03:52:37,279 --> 03:52:40,879
Okay, so it's more of the all three have been reviewed

2428
03:52:40,879 --> 03:52:41,899
or about that.

2429
03:52:44,819 --> 03:52:49,239
Other questions or comments from the board on this topic?

2430
03:52:51,729 --> 03:52:52,569
Thank you again.

2431
03:52:52,709 --> 03:52:52,789
Wait.

2432
03:52:52,929 --> 03:52:53,509
What are your questions?

2433
03:52:54,249 --> 03:52:57,189
So, next steps would be what?

2434
03:53:00,279 --> 03:53:01,019
Tonight's discussion.

2435
03:53:01,519 --> 03:53:05,439
Are we bringing the materials just for a team talk to for parent review?

2436
03:53:05,939 --> 03:53:07,279
I mean, I know that we're not voting tonight.

2437
03:53:07,479 --> 03:53:08,179
We're just...

2438
03:53:11,309 --> 03:53:16,089
Well, I guess part of, I mean, we've had the materials out for parent review already.

2439
03:53:16,089 --> 03:53:24,369
So it's, I mean, we could add another, I mean, it's hard to say that we would bring one out

2440
03:53:24,369 --> 03:53:29,169
versus the other if we don't have, you know, action hasn't taken on, team talk itself.

2441
03:53:29,709 --> 03:53:37,869
So I anticipated us moving forward with an action item and the board taking action on either

2442
03:53:37,869 --> 03:53:42,969
recommendation or a different avenue based on.

2443
03:53:42,969 --> 03:53:48,229
I think I'm confused because I thought what I read was once we made a decision so I guess I'm confused

2444
03:53:48,229 --> 03:53:54,989
Then we would make because we don't have the materials in very easy format because we haven't bought the contract

2445
03:53:54,989 --> 03:54:00,489
Then there would be a parent review session of the materials that their kids would be teaching right and that's that is

2446
03:54:00,489 --> 03:54:08,389
Okay, so the board takes action to select the materials and then we make we start making that material available. Okay. I was confused

2447
03:54:09,509 --> 03:54:12,889
Yes, and I should ask

2448
03:54:12,889 --> 03:54:16,069
And just, you know, if you can give me some signal,

2449
03:54:16,069 --> 03:54:20,089
if the supplemental information that we were discussing

2450
03:54:20,089 --> 03:54:22,609
in my questions kind of about fourth and fifth grade

2451
03:54:22,609 --> 03:54:25,729
and some of these additional items that were noted

2452
03:54:25,729 --> 03:54:28,329
as lacking is information that other board members

2453
03:54:28,329 --> 03:54:32,889
would want presented when this comes back as an item.

2454
03:54:34,589 --> 03:54:37,549
And yes, okay, I see two, three, okay, thank you.

2455
03:54:40,189 --> 03:54:42,249
Okay, other questions or comments?

2456
03:54:43,209 --> 03:54:44,429
Trustee Craig, did you have one?

2457
03:54:45,149 --> 03:54:52,009
Yes, it just came to me, but one of the topics that I know we discussed frequently in the focus

2458
03:54:52,009 --> 03:54:56,749
group that we had led by a student doc, and it was students beyond student district advisor

2459
03:54:56,749 --> 03:54:57,069
committee.

2460
03:54:57,309 --> 03:55:02,569
We were just facilitating the discussion, but also in some of the notes of the parent groups

2461
03:55:02,569 --> 03:55:05,209
and the presentation as well was concerns about specific.

2462
03:55:06,529 --> 03:55:35,189
I don't want to say lessons, but specific activities that were in some of the curricums that we were able to review and I was just curious as to what the process is, you know, if we do adopt a certain curriculum, you know, excluding certain parts of that curriculum or certain activities not an entire lesson, if that's doable, because I noticed that throughout the notes and in discussion with the other stakeholder groups, there were similarities between like specific activities that we thought they were concerned.

2463
03:55:35,209 --> 03:55:38,249
if that's possible removing those areas?

2464
03:55:41,229 --> 03:55:44,209
I would guess that once the material is selected,

2465
03:55:44,609 --> 03:55:46,509
we would have our teachers come back together

2466
03:55:46,509 --> 03:55:51,109
basically create the pacing guide for when those lessons are taught

2467
03:55:51,109 --> 03:55:52,609
within the pacing guide itself.

2468
03:55:52,829 --> 03:55:56,169
It should identify what particular activities

2469
03:55:59,929 --> 03:56:04,889
or either worksheets or just, I guess,

2470
03:56:05,049 --> 03:56:07,349
the different engagement pieces that are built within.

2471
03:56:07,349 --> 03:56:15,649
I think it would be identified through some type of a pacing guide on what the suggested suggestions would be from an instructional standpoint.

2472
03:56:15,929 --> 03:56:18,129
Mr. Louis, would you agree or just agree with that?

2473
03:56:18,169 --> 03:56:18,789
Yeah, I would agree.

2474
03:56:19,109 --> 03:56:20,329
That would be our common practice.

2475
03:56:20,489 --> 03:56:25,469
Once we adopt new materials would be to work with our teachers to identify that common course of study.

2476
03:56:25,629 --> 03:56:29,809
I will also share trustee Craig that some of the teachers also shared.

2477
03:56:29,809 --> 03:56:31,149
I think some of those similar concerns.

2478
03:56:32,149 --> 03:56:35,769
So those concerns being that some of the activities, you know,

2479
03:56:35,769 --> 03:56:36,469
actually resulted.

2480
03:56:36,509 --> 03:56:46,349
And some disengagement, for instance, asking students to very publicly share personal views or ideas.

2481
03:56:46,649 --> 03:56:51,649
And certainly there's a time and a place for that, but I think our teachers are really focused on making sure

2482
03:56:51,649 --> 03:57:00,449
that there's high quality engagement and that we're providing that really safe space for students to learn and also share.

2483
03:57:00,449 --> 03:57:05,329
And I role-playing was that I was thinking of, because there are some pieces in some of these

2484
03:57:05,329 --> 03:57:06,029
worthy activities.

2485
03:57:06,429 --> 03:57:12,769
That's what my mind became to me as a concern, so that's where I think we would be identifying

2486
03:57:12,769 --> 03:57:16,029
those activities through the curriculum, guys.

2487
03:57:16,469 --> 03:57:23,649
And that would be district wide, and then one more follow-up question was, once we do adopt

2488
03:57:23,649 --> 03:57:28,409
the curriculum, I know we'll go through the process of piloting and all that sort of stuff.

2489
03:57:28,409 --> 03:57:34,529
Maybe this is asking a question to far ahead, but the process of gathering the teacher, staff,

2490
03:57:34,609 --> 03:57:37,609
and student input after this has been in place for a year.

2491
03:57:37,689 --> 03:57:41,569
I know we'll obviously gather input from that piloting program, but what would that exactly

2492
03:57:41,569 --> 03:57:45,409
look like, or is that to far ahead down the timeline?

2493
03:57:46,729 --> 03:57:49,349
No, I don't think that's too far ahead down the timeline at all.

2494
03:57:49,949 --> 03:57:55,089
In fact, when I think Cardi services provided that review for us, one of the really important

2495
03:57:55,089 --> 03:57:59,409
things at the end, which engages us in that cycle of continues to improve and is that I'm

2496
03:57:59,409 --> 03:58:04,809
going monitoring and I would be really, especially for this particular curriculum.

2497
03:58:05,189 --> 03:58:11,069
We ought to continue to survey our teachers and our students who are going through the curriculum

2498
03:58:11,069 --> 03:58:18,249
and then hopefully continue to hold meetings with perhaps S stack and other students as

2499
03:58:18,249 --> 03:58:23,789
of their teachers to look at that course of study that we've identified and then continue to

2500
03:58:23,789 --> 03:58:24,469
make some good changes.

2501
03:58:25,569 --> 03:58:31,329
I think, especially with the first year rollout, if the recommendation is to hold with

2502
03:58:31,329 --> 03:58:36,909
the team talk, there's a minimal cost, obviously if we were with something else, there's a higher

2503
03:58:36,909 --> 03:58:44,829
level cost to the implementation of the workbooks and then the teacher material, so that's

2504
03:58:44,829 --> 03:58:50,989
I do think that we're probably going down the right path of being able to have some quality

2505
03:58:50,989 --> 03:58:58,749
implementation and then quality survey and feedback backed to really make some determination

2506
03:58:58,749 --> 03:58:59,889
in another year.

2507
03:59:00,129 --> 03:59:04,269
Are we on the right track and is this the material we want to continue with and how do our

2508
03:59:04,269 --> 03:59:05,869
teachers feel about it?

2509
03:59:06,389 --> 03:59:07,649
Thank you.

2510
03:59:08,329 --> 03:59:09,049
Trustee Goldberg.

2511
03:59:09,809 --> 03:59:15,649
And in that feedback loop, I would really like it to like to see that our parents and

2512
03:59:15,649 --> 03:59:20,629
community have the opportunity to see the student facing materials, not the teacher books,

2513
03:59:21,289 --> 03:59:26,329
but what the students are actually seeing, because I think that's really important.

2514
03:59:26,909 --> 03:59:29,049
I totally support that 1,000%.

2515
03:59:32,869 --> 03:59:33,769
Okay, thank you.

2516
03:59:34,389 --> 03:59:36,669
Any other questions or comments on this topic?

2517
03:59:38,709 --> 03:59:39,929
Okay, thank you, Mr. Lowe.

2518
03:59:40,169 --> 03:59:40,729
Thank you.

2519
03:59:42,412 --> 03:59:50,392
Good evening, the Keneha Valley Unified School District Board of Education, regular board meeting of May 18, 2021. We'll please come to order.

2520
03:59:50,992 --> 03:59:59,892
Pursuant to the Ralph M. Brown Act, this is a meeting of the Board of Education and Public, and only items on the agenda will be discussed this evening. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance.

2521
04:00:24,796 --> 04:00:34,216
Next up, we have item 5E Instructional Services Approval of New Middle School Court Literature Title Hatchet. Are there, oh, go ahead, Dr. Buffer.

2522
04:00:34,296 --> 04:00:43,966
I just can say Mr. Lou Rahn, a session last week. In regards to this, and another one scheduled, scheduled in the next week.

2523
04:00:47,276 --> 04:00:50,216
So, any feedback from last week's meeting?

2524
04:00:50,216 --> 04:00:54,156
I did, yes, we held a preview for Hatchit.

2525
04:00:54,236 --> 04:00:59,676
I believe last Wednesday, we had 15 participants join me.

2526
04:01:01,216 --> 04:01:03,116
And I didn't receive any questions about Hatchit.

2527
04:01:03,176 --> 04:01:06,416
There were lots of questions about comprehensive sexual health.

2528
04:01:06,736 --> 04:01:08,036
So I was able to answer some of those questions.

2529
04:01:08,456 --> 04:01:09,916
But I received no feedback.

2530
04:01:11,676 --> 04:01:15,196
We also, I provided a Google form for some anonymous feedback

2531
04:01:15,196 --> 04:01:18,316
and have yet to receive any feedback from families.

2532
04:01:20,216 --> 04:01:22,836
Thank you. Any questions or comments?

2533
04:01:24,376 --> 04:01:25,016
Okay, thank you.

2534
04:01:26,356 --> 04:01:30,976
And I didn't say a future board topic, so you can see on our agenda, we have quite a few.

2535
04:01:31,616 --> 04:01:36,476
On there, the board study session on proposed district goals and objectives was scheduled.

2536
04:01:36,756 --> 04:01:46,436
And I think that's also hopefully going to include a discussion around the budget committee recommendations that were previously presented to the board.

2537
04:01:46,436 --> 04:01:53,396
And we'll add the working session discussed tonight to include discussion about the most

2538
04:01:53,396 --> 04:01:59,376
effective ways of creating groups such as APAC, Unity, District Advisory Council, and

2539
04:01:59,376 --> 04:02:08,716
door and LGBTQ plus council and just overall the district structure of groups and the format

2540
04:02:08,716 --> 04:02:10,016
we can use going forward.

2541
04:02:10,016 --> 04:02:14,016
Are there any others that folks would like add in?

2542
04:02:15,396 --> 04:02:15,976
Trustee Craig.

2543
04:02:17,616 --> 04:02:24,656
I would like to say just an update to the Board by law for the student board member position.

2544
04:02:25,056 --> 04:02:26,996
That's number 9150.

2545
04:02:32,986 --> 04:02:36,586
Is it just a specific update that you want to suggest?

2546
04:02:37,126 --> 04:02:39,546
Yeah, there were just reviewing the ed code.

2547
04:02:40,326 --> 04:02:43,666
The appointment of the student board member to committees that other board members are

2548
04:02:43,666 --> 04:02:52,966
on so the ad hoc. Okay, that sounds good. Is there any objection to adding that? No, okay, so we'll put that on a future agenda. Thank you.

2549
04:02:55,196 --> 04:03:00,956
Any others? Okay. Seeing none, our meeting is adjourned. Thank you.