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All right, good evening, everyone. We're going to go ahead and get started. We do have an announcement coming out of closed session.

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So the board took action and closed session by unanimous votes of all trustees present to authorize and direct the administration to share and post a classified negotiations update.

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addressing any misinformation in the community regarding the district's revised last

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best and final offer, including salary, grievance, and progressive discipline proposals

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presented to SCIU. In furtherance of this action and direction, I have asked Superintendent

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Barley to share the negotiations update tonight with copies now available for those

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in attendance, which will also be posted on the district's website with supplemental information.

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Let's see that there are members of SCIU in attendance this evening. This will be the only statement

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the board will make on the state of the negotiations tonight.

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We direct everyone to the copies provided and look forward to a resolution with S.C.I.U.

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as soon as possible.

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Mr. Superintendent.

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Thank you.

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At the behest of the board, I provide the following classified negotiations update on February

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11th, 2026, the district presented S.C.I.U. a compensation proposal that includes a 9.67%

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increase in pay for the 25, 26, and for the 26, 27 school years.

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Four employee groups all have already reached agreement on this pay increase as of April 16,

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20, 26, those employees are now being paid under those newly agreed to salary schedules.

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The other four employee groups receive their retro pay for the first year of the agreement

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in June.

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If an agreement is reached with SCIU, members can expect a retro paycheck in approximately

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60 days.

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The district also proposed minor revisions to the grievance procedure to give busy, slight

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administrators additional time to investigate and respond to unit member grievances.

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This proposal also makes grievance timelines more consistent district wide.

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DTA and SCIU currently operate on two different timelines.

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The district's proposal would align the SCIU timeline with the existing timeline for DTA.

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Lastly, the district proposed minor revisions to the progressive discipline article to give busy

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sight administrators a digital time to monitor and ensure employee compliance with

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corrective interventions and to allow bypassing those intervention steps in situations involving

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serious misconduct. The district's proposal would include physical violence as a cause for discipline.

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physical violence is not currently included as a separate cause for discipline.

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For eight substantiated severe infractions, like physical violence, or being intoxicated

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at work, the proposal would allow the district to begin at a higher step and move more quickly

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through the discipline process.

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The district provided SCIU with five possible models, any of which would be acceptable to the

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district.

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These include models from four local districts that were included in the SCIU Compensation

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study, Travis, Thakavill, Winters, and Woodland, which all have similar language in their contracts.

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This proposal does not affect any other rights or protections provided to employees in the

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progressive discipline article.

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After meeting with SCIU on May 15, May 29, August 21, September 22, October 27, November 17,

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December 12th of 2025 and January 22nd February 11, March 10, March 16th and April 17th

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of 2026, as well as two side-bar discussions on March 24th and March 27th.

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Today, SCIU has not accepted the district's proposal.

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Accordingly, it was necessary for the district to declare in-pass to obtain the assistance

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of a state mediator to help the district and SCIU reach an agreement.

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The district began asking for assistance of a mediator on March 30, 2026.

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That mediation is scheduled for September 23rd and 24th of 2026, and we are hopeful

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that process will result in a new three-year contract.

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Mr. Ford President,

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thank you, Mr. Superintendent.

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There are no other announcements that have coming out of close session.

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So up next is we have the pledge of allegiance.

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If you are able, please stand.

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of

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the United States of America, and to the Green Audit for Rochist Dance Foundation, and

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another ballot in the end of this vote, which would continue in justice for all of them.

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All right, roll call.

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We have all board members present except for Trustee John.

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Gabby this evening, are there any board announcements tonight?

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Yeah, I just wanted to say that a great time at the Dixon High School, back to school.

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Good night. It's also people there who have a ball practice try to make it my way through. And that's for some help. If you guys see athletes out there right now, they're doing a lot of fundraisers, so it's try to make sure you support your local athletes, knocking on doors. Thanks. Thank you.

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Yes, I was able to attend the parent meeting and a tree month, and it was very well attended at least 20 or 30 people there,

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and they talked about their plans for the coming year.

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I also attended the back-to-school nights at Main Prairie and at Tremont, and then most exciting to me is the article that I saw in the paper that talks about this article actually rapes the 32 high schools in Solano County.

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For example, we have one high school in one alternative high school, but other other districts have three high schools, two high schools.

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So there are 32 in all, and we didn't make number one or two, but Dixon high school out of the 32 ranks seven.

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And I'm very, very happy about that, because we are just a small district and two out-rank

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schools from other districts. It gives me great pleasure.

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So I just wanted to give a quick shout out. There were a few schools I attended some

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that just school nights for, which were all great,

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had different showcases as part of them.

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So Dickson High School, John Knight, as well as Tremod,

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and at Tremod, I was able to also take a small tour

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of the library refresh that I know has been going on.

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So TPA, Admin, staff there.

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I know has been working really hard, and it shows.

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I have to say it looks amazing.

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These campuses looked so good.

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So congratulations to you.

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And I know we're going to spend some time on this here

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in just a moment, but just want to do a quick shout out

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on all the folks that participated

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with the back to school festival.

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It is our fourth annual event, the largest yet.

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We were able to receive over 1,500 backpacks,

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which I think is about 1,000 more than we received last year.

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We had more nonprofits and community organizations

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participate than ever before.

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I think this was the first year that every single PTO

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and school site participated simultaneously, which was beautiful.

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Yeah, I just, we're going to do some recognition at just a moment, but I just love seeing

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how big this event continues to grow and how much the community keeps wanting to step up

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and be a part of it.

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We keep joking that we might grow out of Party Plaza sooner than later, and I think that's

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a good problem to have given all the love and support that our community is giving.

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Okay, so moving on to the notice to the public, persons wishing to speak to agenda items may present their written request at this time.

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While the written request is optional, those making a written request will be recognized first.

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Persons wishing to introduce a subject not on the agenda may also present their request at this time.

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The board president will recognize you for the discussion at the appropriate time.

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Non-scheduled agenda items will be introduced under Section 9 on the agenda.

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Speakers may be limited to three minutes per topic at the discretion of the board president.

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All right, moving on to a recognition of guests and presentations.

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Let's go ahead and I'll hand it back over to our superintendent to start with the back-to-school festival.

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Great.

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I have the privilege of handing it over to Executive Director Fierrelli to talk about our back-to-school festival and the back-to-school celebrations.

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All right, well, as President Quay was just shared, we are so proud to have had such a successful

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back to school celebration. We had all six of our schools, our PTOs and many of our Dixon unified

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administration and many many community organizations, some of whom are present tonight, and we're very

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happy to recognize them. So I have the pleasure of acknowledging all six of our schools, the administrative

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and staff who were there setting up tables early and engaging with our...

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Students and handing out supplies and backpacks. If any of you are here, please please come up and accept our certificate of appreciation.

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As in one from the team.

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I know Angelina is Bob.

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All right.

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Mr. Lagolsky.

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We will call them separately.

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Thank you.

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And thank you both so much.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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We also want to acknowledge the amazing PTOs who were out there.

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We saw every PTO out there.

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So, if any of you are here this evening,

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I think I've seen several, please, please come up.

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So, you can be recognized.

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You made it a great day.

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Hello, John.

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PTO, thank you all so much.

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Great.

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Yes, let's get a picture at the end.

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Yes, for sure.

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And then several from our Dixon Unified team were there.

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Of course, our cabinet, our superintendent.

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We also want to acknowledge nutrition services

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were out there providing snacks and ice-pops

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to students and families.

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Maintenance and operations had a tremendous amount

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to do to support the effort.

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And then we also had our special education department out there.

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And so I'd like to invite Dr. Walker up.

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Thank you for being there.

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We appreciate you.

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Thank you for being here in the South America.

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All right.

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And now for the many, many community organizations that were there.

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I want to be sure to name them all and several are here.

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And we just appreciate them so much.

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They've done a lot to partner with us over a long time,

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including the donation of so many backpacks for the festival.

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We are deeply appreciative of Dixon Library,

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and I believe their team is here tonight.

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Thank you so much for joining us.

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Thank you for your time.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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We also have our partners at Catalyst after school program.

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We're out there.

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Thank you, Catalyst team after a long day.

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You all are here.

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Thank you, Catalyst.

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Yes, we are very, very pleased to have you there.

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Thank you.

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Our partners at Dixon Police Department, Sergeant Roverson and Browning, our SRO over there.

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So, Dixon PD, thank you for being out there.

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I don't know if I'd be willing to do that.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Brown.

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Oh, he's going to take your picture.

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Thank you so much.

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Wonderful.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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We had the Women's Improvement Club out there.

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So we have our own dual thing here.

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We have to acknowledge the wonderful work the women's improvement club does.

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And then of course our partners and friends at Lions Club.

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Kiwana's club.

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Thank you.

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And rotary club, of course, was out in force, as well as the Dixon Chamber.

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All right.

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We also had Solano Cares, the Teen Center, and Dixon Family Services and Attendance, with

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booths. If I'm missing anyone, please shout yours out. As well as Grocery Outlet, the Dixon

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Fire Department was there in AT&T. So it was a huge success and we look forward to it again next

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year already. And I also want to make sure I give a great thanks to you President Quivas who led a lot

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those efforts because it was a large success.

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Thank you for your leadership.

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Executive director, would you mind just going to be forward one slide here? President Quay,

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have mentioned this earlier in his board announcements.

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But as you can see there, from some of our service organizations, the district was able to

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distribute over one, well, collected over 1,500 backpacks to distribute to families.

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Many of those backpacks already filled with school supplies so that kids could start

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the school year fully equipped for school.

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This was the first year that we have not run out of backbacks.

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In years past, we have had about 500 backbacks to distribute the groups that participated

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that you just recognize together were able to collect three times that this year.

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So just an incredible feat and we were even able to have a few leftover and send some back

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to school sites.

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So as we have kids across the school year that have need,

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each school site is equipped to try to meet that need.

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So again, huge thank you to all of those different organizations

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for your contributions.

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Thank you so much.

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All right, moving on to back to school celebrations,

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Mr. Superintendent.

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Great, happy to do it.

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OK, this is going to be a little bit embarrassing,

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but it's becoming one of my favorite traditions.

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each year we have the back-to-school breakfast and I get to wear a hair net early in the morning while providing breakfast to staff.

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This year was especially exciting because our whole team across the district got to have the same breakfast that our kids get to have every morning.

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And so each staff member that came through the line got things like yogurt with granola,

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cinnamon swirl pancakes, breakfast burritos, breakfast sandwiches, fruit, yogurt parfait with

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strawberries on them.

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All things that our kids have the ability to eat now for breakfast in Dixie andified.

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a huge hat tip to all of the district office team members and school site administrators who

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served breakfast to the hundreds of staff members that we have across the district.

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This is a tradition on the Monday before the first day of school.

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It's a really joyful event.

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And it's just such a nice opportunity to be together with our amazing team members and

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just a small token of appreciation for everything that they do.

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So, thank you for everybody for that support and for our food services team for making that possible for us this year.

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And then, of course, a couple days after that, we had our first day of school.

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So, you can see that there. That's Wednesday. Each school had welcome signs out for kids.

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Everybody was excited to be back all of our staff.

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We're just so pleased to be greeting families again.

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It's a day full smiles from kids who are meeting their new teachers and their new classmates.

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It's a day of smiles from parents as they pull out of the parking lots at breakneck speed after dropping their kids back off with us after having them for the summer.

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But it's really one of my favorite days of the year and it's just such a joyful time across the entire district.

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So, and it doesn't happen overnight.

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Everybody works incredibly hard over the summer to make this possible,

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whether it's less than planning or helping to prepare our facilities

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to receive kids and students again on the first day of school.

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So, just many thanks to all of you involved who made the first day of school

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and the beginning of the school year possible.

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Okay, that covers our recognitions tonight.

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All right, thank you, sir.

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Next up we have correspondence, we have the Sloan County Office of Education review of the 2627 budget, Mr. Superintendent.

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Yeah, so this is our annual letter from the County Office of Education where they approve our LCAP.

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So we can close the book on last year's LCAP approved by the county and we'll begin the work of our next brand new LCAP.

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last year was the third year of the three year LCAP, and now pivot our attention to writing

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a brand new LCAP for the next three years, so a longer process this year as we develop

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entirely new goals for our LCAP.

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Thank you, sir.

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All right.

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Moving on to the consent agenda.

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Are there any comments or questions from the board regarding the consent agenda?

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Seeing none, any public comment?

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Seeing none closing public.

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Second,

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aye. Aye, aye. Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, as well, not motion carries. There are no items move in the consent agenda. So we'll go ahead and move on to the stakeholder communications.

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An opportunity is provided for employee and parent association reports.

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Speakers may be limited to five minutes at the discretion of the Board President consistent with Board bylaws,

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I'm here today to speak on behalf of Dixon classified school employees, the people who show up every day to make sure our school's confunction.

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Okay, I'm going to move this, this is okay, sorry, it's my way, okay.

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We are the people in the front offices, welcoming families.

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We are the parent educators supporting children in the classroom, some of your children in

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the classroom.

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We are the custodians keeping schools clean and safe.

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We are the crossing guards and campus monitors getting your children safely across the street,

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making sure they are safe on campuses.

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We are the food service workers making sure your students have meals.

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We are the maintenance, tech department, and support staff who keep everything moving behind the scenes.

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Classified workers are the backbone of our schools.

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If we do not show up for work, the schools cannot open properly.

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We have many different job titles, but we have something important in common, our work matters.

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And right now, our contract remains unsettled.

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We are not asking for special treatment.

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We are asking to be heard, respected, and valued for the jobs that we do.

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Every single day for our students, for your students, for your grandchildren.

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When we talk about wages, benefits, working conditions, staffing, and job security, we are not

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just talking about numbers on a piece of paper.

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We are talking about whether experienced employees can afford to stay at Dixon Unified

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School District.

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We are talking about whether Dixon Schools can attract quality workers.

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We are talking about whether students can continue to receive the support they deserve.

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A strong school system depends on classified employees.

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Not contracted employees making twice our pay.

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Our schools are not fully staffed.

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Contractor workers are currently feeling classified positions today.

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We care about the students we support.

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We care about our co-workers.

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We care about our community.

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And the majority of the Dixon unified school district employees live here in town.

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That's exactly why we're standing together.

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Our message is simple.

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We deserve a fair contract.

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We deserve compensation that recognizes the work we perform.

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We deserve safe and reasonable working conditions.

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We deserve respect at the bargain table.

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And we deserve a contract that recognizes that classified employees

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are a central part of education, not and afterthought.

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We want to reach an agreement.

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But reaching an agreement requires both sides to listen,

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Negotiate in good faith and recognize the contributions, the people who keep Dixon school's

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running.

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Instead, we are being met with not interested at the negotiation table.

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Our work matters, our families matter, our students matter, your students matter, classified

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workers matter, and our voices matter.

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We will stand together, we will stay united, and we will keep fighting for a fair contract

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that the Dixon classified employees deserve.

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And it's always remember there's no class without the classified.

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Thank you.

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Good evening Mr. Quavus, members of the Board, Superintendent Barley, and all stakeholders.

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My name is Anthony Badrugas, I'm an English teacher at Dixon High, and a co-vice president

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at DTA, and I'm here tonight to speak.

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For the teachers union on some concerns, which have arisen over the first few weeks of the year.

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During our last round of negotiations, DTA agreed upon an increase in our secondary staffing ratio

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from 29 to 1 to 30 to 1 students to teachers. This agreement was a compromise to fund our newly

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approved salary schedule and to work toward a more competitive way to fix it. As a teacher and

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department chair at DHS, I can say first hand that the district and site level roll out of

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change has been deeply flawed and caused serious disruption.

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First scheduling choices have been made which combine cohorts of different subject levels

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into the same class periods.

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These include the combination of ceramics classes, child development, food science, multimedia,

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avid and PE classes, many of which have differing curricula which do not remotely overlap.

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These choices starve some wonderful programs of the focus and specialization that they need

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flourish and they overload teachers with a near-impossible task of teaching two classes

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effectively at the same exact time. No matter the quality of the teacher in the room,

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these double classes necessarily degrade the experiences of both student cohorts, by splitting

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teacher attention and standing in the way of cohesive classroom culture. These choices

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have especially impacted the courses on our campus that are not core classes and are often

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smaller and more specialized.

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These non-core pathways are often touted by our district and community as the jewels in our

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crown.

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The things that make us unique in which make our district desirable over a host of other options.

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Why then are we actively undermining the quality of these pathways?

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When it comes time for the students in these pathways to show their learning and prove it

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out in the real world, who will have failed them?

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We hold that they will have been failed by a system, which has counted them as numbers and dollar signs, before it counts them as individuals.

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Furthermore, class sizes across our campus have ballooned far beyond the one-persection implied by our staffing ratio change.

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Some effort has been made at the site level to rebalance these sizes over the first 10 days of school, but it has been abundantly clear that Master Scheduling was not done properly at our campus.

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I was a part of the Master Scheduling Team last year, and I can attest to that the process

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lacked guidance and operated under a district directive to pack classes as close to the maximum as possible.

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The plan was to pack them full, and to add more sections later.

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But it's clear to me that the second half of that step was not handled at all over the summer,

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and instead, blood into the actual start of the school year.

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This haphazard scheduling process left hundreds of students in awkward schedules that didn't match their requests and even resulted in the creation of new sections after school had already started just to release some pressure.

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Throughout this process, it has been abundantly clear that at the district planning levels students at GHS are being treated as numbers on a spreadsheet, not individual students with unique needs and agency.

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Another major concern I'd like to share tonight concerns elementary teachers, elementary teachers in our district have been true heroes as they take on curriculum after curriculum and new program after new program.

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For this reason, DTA is deeply frustrated by the recent changes to elementary teacher prep time.

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Due to yet another cut to be arts in Dixon, elementary teachers find themselves down in art teacher, which has resulted in a loss of a standard prep time.

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and the reworking of their entire schedule to maintain proper amounts of time.

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Though work has been done to give them time, multiple situations of already required or elementary

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colleagues to lose some of this owed prep time throughout the week, and teachers are left without

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what they were owed.

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It seems the stance has been taken to asking teachers to do more with less is a reasonable approach

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to planning at every level, and these choices will impact our students.

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teacher preparation creates the spaces that make our children flourish and our children deserve the best.

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As a final note, I remain deeply concerned by the change in access to mental health services from last year to this one.

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I know that the district employees mental health clinicians, but the choice to cut their number after last year's events,

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still makes me question our commitment to our students in Dixon.

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I know I don't need to remind you, but as far as mental health, the worst case scenario has already happened.

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Our Dixon student community has lost a member that will not return to us.

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A decrease in mental health services, following this,

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communicates a clear message that support can be removed if it's fair as expense to do so.

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The minds of our children are equal parts, beautiful, and fragile.

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We must care for them, and I urge all stakeholders to consider how support can be increased in all of the areas I mentioned tonight.

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Thank you.

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Thank you. Okay, we're going to move on to public comments. Persons wishing to introduce a topic within the subject matter jurisdiction of the district, not on the agenda, may do so at this time.

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By law subjects, not on the agenda cannot be acted upon by the Board, except to briefly respond, clarify, or refer to staff for review and presentation at a future meeting.

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Comments may be limited to three minutes per person to a maximum of 25 minutes per topic, unless extended by the board president.

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Comments are to be directed exclusively to the governing board and the governing board president shall determine who, if anyone, may respond to the comments or question of the speaker.

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Are there any public comment this evening?

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Yes, sir.

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School Board and Superintendent Barley, Dan Skuduro.

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How are you, Superintendent?

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I'm the 15th supervisor for the Education Team of SCIU Local 1021.

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I'm also currently the Chief Negotiator for the negotiations that are underway

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for which the school board in its, what do I say,

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campaign in the community. We will be responding to this in time. And I speak with a fair

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amount of experience.

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I have been doing this work for about 30 years. I have been doing

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this work in education for about over 60 years at this point with the CIO. I am well-known

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school districts up and down northern California, be it Sacramento Unified School District,

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be it Oakland Unified School District, most recently, and previously even at Dixon Unified

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School District where I came in and helped the parties reach a settlement when the parties

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were at an intractable position, and with who is the district council of Scott. So I'm known

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to Scott from a time previous. It was a short to the session, and we resolved matters.

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I am short about where we are, and I'm going to state it for what it is, because that's

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Now I know what needs to be done.

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I will say this that what I see the school district is that the situation that we are in

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is there are public officials who are acting in public interest as we understand it.

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Let me just try and illustrate it in one part.

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Negotiations are truly an opportunity for employees to try and better their lot.

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For employers to try and take away provisions of the contract that have been there historically,

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is understood to be in the wide world, a takeaway, or union musting, that is precisely

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what Dan Skridoro is attempting to do. And clearly, the bold president and those of you

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who are supporting them are intending here.

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It is in line with the anti-union animus

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that is dominant in the US of A.

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Thank you, sir.

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I will, I just wrap up.

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So I really ask you, we have made a fair offer.

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We are asking you to really rethink your position.

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We have made fair offers to settle the contract in which we will settle the wages for the first two years.

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Thank you, sir.

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And settle the contract as is.

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Thank you, sir.

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Thank you very much.

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Sir, I have another public comment.

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Seeing none, closing public comment.

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Sorry, public comments officially closed.

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So we're moving on to information.

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Okay.

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Let's take a look at that.

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I asked twice if there was any other public comment.

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Would you like to come up and take your three minutes, sir?

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All right, three minutes. Go for it.

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And I've actually get close to 15 minutes.

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By my accommodations, as I've let Sicily know what's going on. So you is not 15 minutes, it's five minutes, sir.

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Is it five minutes?

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You did use the military request in advance for that accommodation.

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You want to ask, is it six minutes or seven minutes?

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Do you want to ask, is it six minutes or seven minutes?

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You're not getting 15 minutes.

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Let me say what I'm going to say.

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One moment.

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I will let you speak when we're ready for you.

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I don't know.

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Mr. Capito's specific accommodations.

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Unfortunately, Mr. Bernhardt is not here today.

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We have provided accommodations to other members of the public, the number that sticks out in my

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memory is five, but I don't have information to confirm or not confirm Mr. Capito's statement.

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So without that information, we'll go ahead and accommodate the five minutes for you, sir.

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And you can begin.

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Where is the timer for me to see with who she's not here today?

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So we're all off of working off timers here on our end.

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We'll give you time, please.

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And let me know when I can start.

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Not that I don't trust anybody else in this room,

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but you guys?

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I got it.

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Hello, I'm Gary Dean Capito, Jr.

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That's my full name.

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I just felt like saying it, because we have so many doctors

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in this place that you can't throw a rocket any one of them.

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I am the Chief Shopster.

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I've been the Chief Shopster at Alfonon

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for almost 20 years in the school district.

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I've worked here for 23 years, and I'm now

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in the network engineer.

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I started as a computer tech, worked my way up to this position, and I'm 100% disabled combat veteran,

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which means I was fighting in wars where a lot of you weren't even out of school yet,

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because I am that much older than you. Some of you, yes, some of you know. Sorry about that,

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turned off again.

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I suffer from any mental and physical ailments because of my time in the service

460
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:22,720
and time out of the service. If I was a student, Dr. Walker would have the largest IEP ever

461
00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:25,200
written about anybody in the school district.

462
00:37:26,740 --> 00:37:29,820
We have 160 employees at work here.

463
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,600
More than 80 or 90 percent, I would even guess,

464
00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:36,640
are your constituents.

465
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,940
We are the people that voted you in, or will vote you out.

466
00:37:43,620 --> 00:37:44,340
Thank you.

467
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,920
I know I'm going to say things that the district keeps refusing to divulge

468
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,080
in our negotiations, and when that's done,

469
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:56,060
They'll make some comment preventing any rebuttal on my part.

470
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,960
Several meetings were pushed back or changed because the district was not ready, including

471
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:06,920
not lately that the June 15th meeting, the July meeting, to the August meetings because

472
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:07,880
they couldn't attend.

473
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:14,240
So our negotiation, our mediation, that they want to have so bad, is not worth their time

474
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,920
to come back in four months.

475
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:27,920
The district, sorry, discipline, they want to change, so they can fire anybody any time they feel like it because they can't follow five steps of progressive discipline.

476
00:38:28,460 --> 00:38:36,940
They can't follow it. They don't follow it. They're employees that walk around that they say, oh, we're going to write them up, but they don't ever get written up.

477
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:45,280
That's on management's fault. That's not on our employees' fault. If they don't learn from their mistakes, it's because management's not teaching them that they're making them mistake.

478
00:38:47,050 --> 00:38:49,770
There you go.

479
00:38:50,790 --> 00:38:53,570
You guys did not bring up our compromises when it comes to discipline.

480
00:38:54,470 --> 00:38:56,610
We were allowing you guys to skip steps.

481
00:38:56,870 --> 00:38:58,650
All we asked for is a foot in the game.

482
00:38:59,030 --> 00:39:04,730
We said we wanted to have a committee of SCIU employees,

483
00:39:06,030 --> 00:39:08,730
and it could have been including teachers and made a reasonable

484
00:39:08,730 --> 00:39:10,550
accommodation for stuff going on.

485
00:39:10,790 --> 00:39:13,730
But the words that came out of that man's mouth was,

486
00:39:13,730 --> 00:39:18,270
we don't want you guys to have that power, we want it ourselves.

487
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,780
We gave more than 15 proposals and not one was negotiated.

488
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,420
We were met with not interested.

489
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:30,240
Not interested.

490
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,240
Didn't bring them back.

491
00:39:32,580 --> 00:39:36,880
Negotiations is not a demand because that's a whole different word.

492
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:42,020
You can't sit there and make demands at us in an negotiation and not negotiate.

493
00:39:44,060 --> 00:39:55,760
I did want to point out the district here keeps refusing to meet with members, classified staff, teaching staff.

494
00:39:56,340 --> 00:39:59,720
You guys especially aren't meeting with us and talking with us.

495
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:13,660
I've never seen hardly any of you around. I've seen you twice in the years you've been here in the district office, and I work there every day. I've seen you all the most, and I'm glad she's being at Main Prairie, which is great, because that school needs.

496
00:40:14,820 --> 00:40:15,340
She was?

497
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,100
No, I'm saying that's a school, right? Yes.

498
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:26,020
I know on campus meeting the people, talking to the people. In my office alone, we have almost 100 years of experience in this district.

499
00:40:26,020 --> 00:40:33,380
In this district, for three people, we've seen more people than you come and go than you

500
00:40:33,380 --> 00:40:38,360
guys have been hearing years and we've gotten through that and we know how this district

501
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,620
needs to be run and nobody listens to us.

502
00:40:44,690 --> 00:40:50,510
All I have heard from this administration is that they want to work collaboratively and I'm

503
00:40:50,510 --> 00:40:55,230
going to end this on a note that there has been many meetings in the last couple weeks that

504
00:40:55,230 --> 00:40:59,410
have helped come to some agreements and changes that are going on.

505
00:41:00,430 --> 00:41:05,950
But keep forgetting that you can't make changes without negotiating.

506
00:41:06,670 --> 00:41:08,250
It's called the status code doctrine.

507
00:41:08,630 --> 00:41:13,630
It's federal and state law that mandates when an expired contract comes on, you're supposed

508
00:41:13,630 --> 00:41:15,210
to negotiate any changes.

509
00:41:16,290 --> 00:41:18,890
Not, oh, we're adding something you do your job duties.

510
00:41:19,210 --> 00:41:22,510
It's when you move from one duty or change it around.

511
00:41:22,950 --> 00:41:23,590
I'm almost done.

512
00:41:23,590 --> 00:41:24,790
We've got one more sentence.

513
00:41:28,430 --> 00:41:31,930
So I hope we can work more collaboratively on this.

514
00:41:32,890 --> 00:41:36,230
It really needs to happen and we really need to have a change.

515
00:41:37,170 --> 00:41:37,530
Thank you, sir.

516
00:41:37,910 --> 00:41:38,550
Thank you.

517
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,460
Is there any more public comment?

518
00:41:50,620 --> 00:41:51,120
Yes, sir.

519
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,260
President Quay was trustees, superintendent of Barley.

520
00:41:58,460 --> 00:42:02,200
My name is Phil Lockwood and I volunteered within the Dixon University of the

521
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:03,980
District for the last 11 years.

522
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,780
I've been on and off of these campuses multiple times.

523
00:42:06,780 --> 00:42:12,780
doing things like helping support the roadrunner vault, the Bulldog Vault, addiction, you know,

524
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,000
getting food for families and meeting services and helping walk the district through some

525
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,680
pretty tragic events that we faced over those years.

526
00:42:20,220 --> 00:42:25,380
And I have, every time, been met, I just want to encourage you guys to move forward in whatever

527
00:42:25,380 --> 00:42:30,620
way you can to support these people because I walk in and out of the offices, I meet people

528
00:42:30,620 --> 00:42:34,460
on these campuses, I see them working hard, I see them greeting kids, you know, and welcoming

529
00:42:34,460 --> 00:42:38,620
kids to school when kids are having a hard time. I know we're in some tight times when we're trying

530
00:42:38,620 --> 00:42:43,500
to get this budget balanced out again, but I would just say face this and move forward in this

531
00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:47,580
with a fervor that they deserve because of the work they do in the fact that they're the back

532
00:42:47,580 --> 00:42:54,080
bone in this district. They are, additionally. I watch, I walk on an office area and I watch the

533
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,480
niece run on the office in there and if it wasn't for her stuff it'd be out of control. You know,

534
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:02,720
it's these people doing it day after day after day and they deserve, you know, July,

535
00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:06,660
I see on campuses all the time, we run and each other a lot.

536
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:13,380
But I just, I want to encourage that and, you know, I think most of you know, my wife was one of the mental health clinicians that was cut.

537
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:24,060
And I just really encourage you at the same time to get the mental health back to where it needs to be because I work with Solana County off to education in a big way around mental health and doctor part and different.

538
00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:30,080
And we are seeing a wave of mental health issues moving forward because of COVID and other things.

539
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:40,360
And to have the kids come to school and face the stress of these people trying to figure out what they're going to do, you know, on top of what's going on is felt all the way through it.

540
00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:42,000
So I just encourage you to move forward.

541
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:43,820
And thank you guys for all you do.

542
00:43:44,060 --> 00:43:44,300
Thank you.

543
00:43:49,420 --> 00:43:50,840
I'm very into public comment

544
00:43:54,270 --> 00:43:55,370
seeing none.

545
00:43:55,410 --> 00:43:57,630
I am closing public comment.

546
00:43:58,510 --> 00:44:04,170
Moving on to the next section here under item A, Dr. Dan Skudera, our Assistant Superintendent of

547
00:44:04,170 --> 00:44:08,850
personnel with the approval of the submission of a bilingual waiver application to the California

548
00:44:08,850 --> 00:44:11,470
Commission on teacher credentialing Dr. Skudero.

549
00:44:16,450 --> 00:44:22,490
Did we, yeah, I apologize, can I pull that back?

550
00:44:24,690 --> 00:44:25,330
Okay,

551
00:44:35,290 --> 00:44:36,350
that sounds right.

552
00:44:41,260 --> 00:44:45,840
All right. So my apologies, we skipped over, I skipped over the

553
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,300
and association reports.

554
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:53,600
Now that we've already got down to sections, I'm going to have to ask for a motion from

555
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:58,200
the board for us to go back to the stakeholder communications so that we can actually hear from

556
00:44:58,200 --> 00:44:59,600
our PTOs who are present tonight.

557
00:44:59,800 --> 00:44:59,980
So is there-

558
00:45:00,540 --> 00:45:05,320
I would move that we cycle back to stakeholder communications, item B, parent association, report.

559
00:45:05,740 --> 00:45:08,100
Thank you, is there a second? All right, all those in favour?

560
00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:12,960
As well, that motion carries my apologies to all the PTO reps that are here tonight.

561
00:45:13,580 --> 00:45:16,220
We're going to go ahead and open that up and invite you down here.

562
00:45:16,380 --> 00:45:17,360
No particular order, please.

563
00:45:28,730 --> 00:45:33,370
I almost got out of public speaking, but thanks so much.

564
00:45:33,370 --> 00:45:45,830
So, good evening President, Trustee's superintendent and members of the community, my name is Ashley Alvarez, and I'm honored to introduce myself as the President this year of the Tremont Parents Association.

565
00:45:46,630 --> 00:45:53,910
We've already had a very busy start of the school year. You saw some of our photos there in the presentations earlier.

566
00:45:53,910 --> 00:46:11,270
Over the summer, our campus improvement committee completed two refresh projects, both the marquee landscaping and the black top repainting and some is fresh art from a local artist who volunteered her time to do that.

567
00:46:11,710 --> 00:46:15,490
So if you don't already follow us on social media, please do because the pictures are amazing.

568
00:46:16,090 --> 00:46:21,810
We also welcome families back with our pioneer yard live signs, balloons on the first day of school,

569
00:46:22,170 --> 00:46:27,430
brew crew, for staff and families, participation in the TK and Kinder meet and greet.

570
00:46:27,630 --> 00:46:33,970
So we put that sign out front of school before the first day so that we could take some pictures before the tears started.

571
00:46:34,390 --> 00:46:35,670
So that seemed to be a success.

572
00:46:36,390 --> 00:46:40,710
We had our Kinder orientation and the district's back to school festival.

573
00:46:40,710 --> 00:46:46,910
Our focus this year is really about creating a greater sense of community on campus and giving

574
00:46:46,910 --> 00:46:51,930
me families more opportunities to connect both with staff and each other.

575
00:46:52,290 --> 00:46:57,050
We're preparing for our first Pride Store in September and our fundraising committees

576
00:46:57,050 --> 00:47:00,430
already in full swing with our Apex fundraiser.

577
00:47:00,810 --> 00:47:01,850
It started on Tuesday.

578
00:47:01,910 --> 00:47:06,750
It runs for about two weeks and our fun run is on August 27th.

579
00:47:06,750 --> 00:47:12,030
So we've already committed a couple members to join and volunteer.

580
00:47:12,370 --> 00:47:16,030
So if you are up for it, you're welcome to join as well,

581
00:47:16,390 --> 00:47:18,110
marking shirts for the fund run.

582
00:47:20,090 --> 00:47:25,150
Our most recent membership meeting was also attended by Superintendent Barley,

583
00:47:25,270 --> 00:47:28,230
which we thank you for joining us and our families.

584
00:47:28,310 --> 00:47:33,810
We are grateful for the district's continued partnership on our campus and an increased

585
00:47:33,810 --> 00:47:36,650
present and present and support this year.

586
00:47:37,750 --> 00:47:42,670
And then finally I'd like to introduce, we have two new school board liaison, one is Ms. April

587
00:47:42,670 --> 00:47:48,310
here with me and Michelle and they will be helping to communicate with you all and with our

588
00:47:48,310 --> 00:47:54,070
board as well, what's been said in action taken at the board meeting.

589
00:47:54,610 --> 00:47:56,890
So thank you.

590
00:47:57,170 --> 00:47:57,650
Thank you.

591
00:48:02,100 --> 00:48:02,140
Thank you.

592
00:48:02,140 --> 00:48:02,380
Thank you.

593
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,100
Thank you.

594
00:48:10,540 --> 00:48:13,700
Yeah, and actually, I'll just speak on behalf of Tiffany.

595
00:48:13,900 --> 00:48:17,340
I know that she was here for Dixon High, PTO.

596
00:48:18,220 --> 00:48:20,660
They too have been really busy over the summer,

597
00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:21,840
beginning of school.

598
00:48:22,620 --> 00:48:26,120
They organized senior sunrise, light breakfast

599
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,420
for all of the seniors, as they watched the sun come up.

600
00:48:29,420 --> 00:48:33,120
And they did want to think there were several community

601
00:48:34,060 --> 00:48:35,960
businesses that donated for that.

602
00:48:35,980 --> 00:48:37,180
That was amazing.

603
00:48:37,180 --> 00:48:39,320
in Grocery Outlet, Dutch Rose, Starbucks.

604
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,060
The seniors definitely appreciated that.

605
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,880
They also took part in the back to school night,

606
00:48:45,020 --> 00:48:48,240
and together they're booth for their intermediate kind

607
00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:50,080
of club fair during that back to school night.

608
00:48:50,700 --> 00:48:53,860
They are doing the brick fundraiser again at the high schools.

609
00:48:54,540 --> 00:48:57,320
So if anybody is interested in purchasing those bricks

610
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,540
if they've done in the last couple of years,

611
00:49:00,140 --> 00:49:04,200
please go ahead and jump on to the Dixon High PTO

612
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:11,140
socials. All of that information is there as well. Also, they have now updated the schedule

613
00:49:11,140 --> 00:49:16,460
in terms of meetings for Dickson High PTO. They would love for anyone to come out and participate.

614
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,380
They are the first Monday of each month.

615
00:49:23,690 --> 00:49:29,790
Thank you for that. Any other PTOs tonight? My sincere apologies. That was an oversight on my

616
00:49:30,610 --> 00:49:40,050
Okay, we're going to move it back before we go into Dan's or Dr. Skudaro's piece because we technically haven't started that yet.

617
00:49:40,990 --> 00:49:47,250
I wanted to at least give a moment there was a couple of public comments particularly around mental health.

618
00:49:48,610 --> 00:49:52,430
I think there's an update that we should we'd love to share with you all.

619
00:49:52,430 --> 00:49:59,970
So Mr. Superintendent, if you wouldn't mind giving a little, maybe a little context first, you know, we as a board voted on approving

620
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:05,340
A job description at the end of last school year in anticipation of the budget that we was coming

621
00:50:05,340 --> 00:50:08,620
our way. Maybe just give a little color on that. Maybe we're at today.

622
00:50:08,980 --> 00:50:16,260
That's correct. Yeah. So in the governor's may revise proposal, the governor proposed an additional

623
00:50:16,260 --> 00:50:29,980
$1 billion for the community schools program. We have two community schools in the district

624
00:50:30,820 --> 00:50:37,080
The district applied for all six of its schools in the first round of community schools funding,

625
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,320
but we only received funding for two.

626
00:50:41,300 --> 00:50:50,220
The $1 billion that was set aside in the Governor's May revised proposal would allocate those dollars,

627
00:50:50,580 --> 00:50:56,320
not through a competitive process, but through a percentage of unduplicated student percentage,

628
00:50:56,320 --> 00:51:03,080
And it would fund schools essentially right down the list until it ran out of money and the CDE

629
00:51:03,540 --> 00:51:10,360
When this proposal came out calculated the unduplicated pupil percentage and I think 65%

630
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:17,320
Was the number was the percentage at schools that they would be able to fund when we saw this proposal in the

631
00:51:17,820 --> 00:51:18,960
Governors may revise

632
00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:21,300
We created a job description

633
00:51:21,300 --> 00:51:24,100
so that if by our calculations

634
00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:31,500
We're able to bring on additional schools, and we believe it would be two school, two additional

635
00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:37,420
schools in Dixon Unified, that if that his proposal was passed, we'd be able to move quickly

636
00:51:37,420 --> 00:51:43,700
to bring on board community schools, mental health, clinician roles in the future.

637
00:51:44,780 --> 00:51:49,180
Loan behold, the governor's budget did pass, and we've been receiving communications from

638
00:51:49,180 --> 00:51:56,220
CDE over the last several months, articulating the timeline for notifying schools of their

639
00:51:56,220 --> 00:52:01,380
eligibility and award of these funds, and it sounds like November is the time in which

640
00:52:01,380 --> 00:52:07,600
schools will be notified. We anticipate that we will be receiving some of these funds,

641
00:52:07,980 --> 00:52:15,580
but we need to wait and see exactly how that plays out and how those awards shake out through

642
00:52:15,580 --> 00:52:17,100
California Department of Education.

643
00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:22,900
But if our predictions come true and in November, we're notified that we have two additional

644
00:52:22,900 --> 00:52:28,360
community schools in the district, we'll have a job description ready to hire as quickly

645
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:33,340
as possible if that is the area in which these schools would like to spend their community

646
00:52:33,340 --> 00:52:34,000
schools funding.

647
00:52:37,390 --> 00:52:38,030
I hope that helps.

648
00:52:38,630 --> 00:52:39,030
That was a lot of it.

649
00:52:39,170 --> 00:52:39,550
That was a lot.

650
00:52:40,610 --> 00:52:41,510
I'm going to pause there.

651
00:52:41,510 --> 00:52:46,310
I normally don't open it up back up or back and forth, but I know it was a hot issue the last

652
00:52:46,310 --> 00:52:46,910
few months.

653
00:52:47,750 --> 00:52:52,090
And the board was really looking for ways to be innovative and finding additional resources.

654
00:52:54,190 --> 00:52:55,070
We found one.

655
00:52:55,290 --> 00:52:57,350
And now it's just a hurry up and wait.

656
00:52:57,970 --> 00:52:59,690
And we're hopeful that we'll get this in November.

657
00:53:00,430 --> 00:53:05,430
But any of the further clarity on that piece that we could provide at this juncture.

658
00:53:07,950 --> 00:53:08,430
Yeah, please.

659
00:53:09,170 --> 00:53:09,750
Yeah, that'd be great.

660
00:53:09,970 --> 00:53:10,250
Yeah, please.

661
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:16,060
There we go.

662
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,760
Hi, Becky Santini, fifth grade teacher at Tremont.

663
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:33,680
Just a question about that, if there is funding available and the schools do decide to use that funding to pay for a mental health clinician, that's not ongoing funding is it, or is it just funding to pay for mental health condition for one year?

664
00:53:34,220 --> 00:53:40,840
Yeah, it would be ongoing funding, so it's a permanent allocation to make to make permanent the community schools funding.

665
00:53:41,620 --> 00:53:46,640
by nature, community schools require convening a committee

666
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:50,960
at the school itself, and then that group develops a budget.

667
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:54,700
So I think it would be premature for me to say,

668
00:53:54,900 --> 00:53:57,980
oh, I'm confident, you know, 100% that the schools

669
00:53:57,980 --> 00:54:00,140
that would be awarded these dollars would want to use it

670
00:54:00,140 --> 00:54:00,780
in that fashion.

671
00:54:01,860 --> 00:54:05,440
But I think it's the probability is probably pretty high

672
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,180
that they would want to go in that direction,

673
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:08,640
but we'd have to go through the process

674
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,420
and receive that feedback from the school site.

675
00:54:11,620 --> 00:54:11,700
OK.

676
00:54:11,860 --> 00:54:12,740
Thank you.

677
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,320
Mm-hmm.

678
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:15,300
Any other questions?

679
00:54:17,060 --> 00:54:17,380
On that?

680
00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:18,500
OK.

681
00:54:19,780 --> 00:54:21,000
Thank you for doing that on the spot.

682
00:54:21,300 --> 00:54:21,600
Appreciate it.

683
00:54:21,980 --> 00:54:22,440
All right.

684
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:23,380
Dr. Skudero.

685
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:26,780
We have an item here.

686
00:54:26,820 --> 00:54:28,800
Approval of the submission of a bilingual waiver

687
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,040
application to the California Commission on Teacher,

688
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:33,140
Credentialing Dr. Skudero.

689
00:54:35,830 --> 00:54:36,590
This will be quick.

690
00:54:36,770 --> 00:54:38,430
We're requesting the approval to receive

691
00:54:38,430 --> 00:54:44,310
the submission of the bilingual waiver for application to the CCTC, the California Commission,

692
00:54:44,470 --> 00:54:50,290
and teacher credentialing for the identified candidates in this document and management recommends

693
00:54:50,290 --> 00:54:50,830
approval.

694
00:54:52,210 --> 00:54:52,750
Thank you, sir.

695
00:54:53,070 --> 00:54:54,510
Are there any comments or questions from the board?

696
00:54:55,950 --> 00:54:57,850
Seeing none, any comments or questions from the public?

697
00:54:59,730 --> 00:54:59,970
Seeing none.

698
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:08,740
On closing public comment, is there a motion to approve this application, excuse me, let me get this right, for the approval of the submission of a bilingual waiver application.

699
00:55:10,260 --> 00:55:11,140
So move, sir, second.

700
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:12,660
All those in favor.

701
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:13,580
Aye.

702
00:55:13,580 --> 00:55:13,640
Aye.

703
00:55:13,720 --> 00:55:14,960
As well, not motion carries.

704
00:55:15,340 --> 00:55:15,880
Thank you, sir.

705
00:55:17,060 --> 00:55:19,640
All right, Ms. Furelli, we have a couple items here.

706
00:55:19,740 --> 00:55:22,780
We have our Executive Director of Education Services, Kristen Furelli.

707
00:55:23,140 --> 00:55:25,700
The first up is the approval of the Williams Quarterly Reports.

708
00:55:26,220 --> 00:55:26,620
Ms. Furelli.

709
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:37,560
Thank you.

710
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:43,220
As a reminder to the Board in the public and the community, the Williams Act as a California

711
00:55:43,220 --> 00:55:49,720
Law designed to ensure that schools always have qualified teachers, sufficient instructional

712
00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:55,360
materials, and sufficient school facilities, and requires districts to have a monitoring

713
00:55:55,360 --> 00:56:00,320
process and a process to have formal complaints that can come in.

714
00:56:00,860 --> 00:56:05,540
And we are required every quarter to document whether there are complaints that have come in

715
00:56:05,540 --> 00:56:11,580
any of those three things get it approved by the board and submitted to our county if that's the case.

716
00:56:12,240 --> 00:56:19,000
And so I wanted to present that for the most recent quarter that included April, May and June,

717
00:56:19,140 --> 00:56:23,380
we did not receive any Williams related complaints on any of those three.

718
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:30,300
And asked the board to take action to approve that report so that we can then submit it to our county office.

719
00:56:30,780 --> 00:56:32,920
Thank you, any comments or questions from the board?

720
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,300
Seeing none any comments or questions from the public.

721
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:38,720
Seeing none, closing public comment.

722
00:56:38,820 --> 00:56:41,160
Is there a motion to approve the Williams Court report?

723
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:42,820
I still have.

724
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:43,700
Is there a second?

725
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:44,420
I second.

726
00:56:44,700 --> 00:56:45,260
All those in favor?

727
00:56:45,780 --> 00:56:46,200
All right.

728
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:47,620
As well in that motion carries.

729
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:49,380
Next item up.

730
00:56:49,620 --> 00:56:49,820
Oh yeah.

731
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,180
The mobile device policy implementation updates.

732
00:56:53,980 --> 00:56:55,080
We've all been waiting for.

733
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:56,300
The fan favorites.

734
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:56,820
This is really.

735
00:56:56,940 --> 00:56:57,820
Here we go.

736
00:56:58,780 --> 00:57:02,320
Well, I want to provide the update on the initial implementation

737
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,080
of the newly adopted mobile device policy.

738
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,320
So we are now in implementation phase,

739
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,420
and our early work is intentionally focused

740
00:57:11,420 --> 00:57:13,700
on making sure expectations for all

741
00:57:13,700 --> 00:57:17,000
or clear, predictable, fair, and consistent.

742
00:57:17,500 --> 00:57:20,160
And the consistency matters, as this board knows,

743
00:57:20,460 --> 00:57:22,420
because ultimately this is not just about devices,

744
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:24,260
that's about creating the conditions

745
00:57:24,260 --> 00:57:27,160
where our students can be more present and thrive.

746
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:31,460
So just to reground us and where we were,

747
00:57:31,460 --> 00:57:36,640
There was significant work leading up to the board adopting the new mobile device policy at the

748
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:37,640
June 18th meeting.

749
00:57:38,540 --> 00:57:44,420
The state established the requirement and locally we engage students, families and staff as well

750
00:57:44,420 --> 00:57:49,560
as the Wellness Committee before putting a proposed policy in front of the board in June.

751
00:57:50,420 --> 00:57:53,920
And then we know that adoption does not automatically produce implementation.

752
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:59,600
So we've organized the work around implementing this at our school sites around three stages.

753
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:05,860
First, clarity. Everyone has to know exactly what the policy means, specifically words like

754
00:58:05,860 --> 00:58:12,260
off and away, and from first bell to last bell. The second principle for us is consistency.

755
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:18,540
Students need to experience the same response, regardless of the adult or the setting.

756
00:58:19,220 --> 00:58:25,840
And third, culture. All of that leads up to the fact where when expectations are clear and consistently

757
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,460
reinforce over time, they just begin to become habits.

758
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:33,180
So that's ultimately where we want to go.

759
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:36,500
So I'll speak briefly to each of those.

760
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,060
Once we've made the expectation clear,

761
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:43,980
enough that a student can follow three on it.

762
00:58:44,700 --> 00:58:45,920
So how we made it clear.

763
00:58:46,380 --> 00:58:48,780
One of the easiest ways for a policy to feel unfair,

764
00:58:49,060 --> 00:58:51,700
we know, is for students to hear different interpretations

765
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:53,320
from different adults.

766
00:58:53,820 --> 00:58:55,580
So before focusing on the consequences,

767
00:58:55,580 --> 00:59:11,440
We focus on the definitions, so we've been very explicit in working with our school staff, our administrators, about what devices are covered, what off means, what a way means, and what bell to bell means.

768
00:59:12,020 --> 00:59:22,560
For example, a way does not mean face down on the desk. It doesn't mean in a pocket. It means stored inside the students backpack, closed zipped up.

769
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:26,360
Bell to Bell means from first Bell to last Bell,

770
00:59:26,740 --> 00:59:29,560
not just instructional time, it includes passing periods,

771
00:59:29,820 --> 00:59:30,080
et cetera.

772
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,540
We've also clarified exemptions.

773
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,900
The documented medical needs that are accommodated

774
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,400
things accommodated in a student's IEP.

775
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,680
And so the level of specificity that we spent time on with

776
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:47,360
our staff may seem operation, but it's actually an equity issue

777
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:51,460
in that we cannot expect consistent student behavior unless

778
00:59:51,460 --> 00:59:54,420
the adults are communicating one consistent expectation.

779
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:57,180
So then, second,

780
00:59:59,820 --> 00:59:59,980
we have,

781
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:05,680
We have to have a discipline system that is designed to be predictable, progressive, and corrective,

782
01:00:06,020 --> 01:00:12,680
not arbitrary, or based in emotions. So, the approach is in fact progressive. The purpose

783
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:19,540
is behavior correction, and not simply punishment. So, teachers and staff have one specific

784
01:00:19,540 --> 01:00:28,520
role, and that role is to redirect, document, and refer. Administration, and only administration,

785
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:35,640
and is whose handling confiscation, secure storage, return, and any escalation at that point.

786
01:00:35,940 --> 01:00:41,940
For example, if a student chooses not to follow policy, that role clarity is really important

787
01:00:41,940 --> 01:00:46,240
because it ensures that all students know and understand what happens next.

788
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:54,300
So the progression itself moves from a reminder to administrative confiscation,

789
01:00:58,500 --> 01:00:58,500
then

790
01:00:58,500 --> 01:01:04,000
to a collaborative meeting and ultimately to a daily device check-in.

791
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,260
So again, the point is predictability.

792
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:09,360
We want a student to know this is the expectation.

793
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:12,480
This is what happens when I don't meet it.

794
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:14,500
And that response is going to be the same tomorrow

795
01:01:14,500 --> 01:01:17,100
in another part of campus or with another adult.

796
01:01:21,460 --> 01:01:24,160
This may be the most important of the implementation pieces

797
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:27,740
because consistency is not something we can just announce

798
01:01:27,740 --> 01:01:30,300
so we have to build systems that produce it.

799
01:01:30,300 --> 01:01:35,920
So staff training information that's gone in front of staff has been focused on those shared definitions,

800
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:41,920
the role clarity, the common responses across classrooms, common areas.

801
01:01:42,340 --> 01:01:47,300
And now we're working on ensuring it is consistently documented in our student information system.

802
01:01:48,580 --> 01:01:53,840
And then we've also approached implementation as a communication effort, not just a discipline effort.

803
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:59,600
So, not only how our administrators training staff and putting it in front of staff but how

804
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:04,320
is it being reinforced in classrooms, our families receiving it through multiple different

805
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:08,020
channels through parents where reminders and updates from the school site.

806
01:02:08,380 --> 01:02:10,880
So the objective is just to eliminate surprises.

807
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:16,160
A student shouldn't first learn about the expectation one of the devices being confiscated and

808
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:20,380
a parent should not first learn about it when there being asked to pick up a device.

809
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:35,520
And then ultimately one of the things we want to move to is building a culture that is true

810
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:41,320
all across campus and we're in the early test of implementation with that.

811
01:02:41,660 --> 01:02:46,800
It's not the test for us is not how many phones are confiscated, how many devices are confiscated,

812
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,900
although those things are important for us to be tracking now.

813
01:02:49,900 --> 01:02:54,320
It's whether students encounter the same expectation everywhere.

814
01:02:56,040 --> 01:03:00,340
So we're certainly not declaring victory based on the first 12 days of school.

815
01:03:00,860 --> 01:03:05,100
But what we're looking at right now are the conditions that tell us,

816
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:09,700
can the policy become sustainable and can this become a habit over time?

817
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:15,080
So first, our students beginning to encounter the same expectation everywhere.

818
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:29,940
So we've been at sites, out at sites, myself, superintendent, barley, and then most importantly we've been collaborating regularly with our administrators, hate, like what are they hearing, what are they seeing, what's happening in classrooms and on campuses.

819
01:03:31,980 --> 01:03:44,540
What we are asking is through those three lenses, what evidence do you have that students understand the expectation that adults on campus are responding consistently and this is what we're hearing so far.

820
01:03:44,540 --> 01:03:53,200
We're hearing from specifically our secondary administrators that students are not pushing back.

821
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:56,180
This is the language our secondary administrators have seen.

822
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:01,340
I've seen it myself when myself in the superintendent and director of student services.

823
01:04:01,620 --> 01:04:09,440
Areas have been around at the campus as multiple times over the past several weeks specifically to look for how it's going.

824
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:13,900
That certainly, there may have been a few instances and

825
01:04:13,900 --> 01:04:17,840
groans and grumbles, but every time a reminder is given

826
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:21,820
for the most part, it's being followed.

827
01:04:23,100 --> 01:04:24,820
And that students are following through.

828
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:29,920
And equally as important to us that administrators have the

829
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:34,500
capacity to follow through, because this is predicated on the

830
01:04:34,500 --> 01:04:37,640
fact that a teacher reminds and then refers.

831
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:44,120
So, oppressing an important question to us was, will the infractions be so much in the beginning

832
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:52,240
that it simply won't be possible or sustainable for an administrator to get a call to go confiscate a phone, right?

833
01:04:52,660 --> 01:04:54,380
And that's not what we've been hearing.

834
01:04:55,340 --> 01:04:59,960
There have been systems that up both at Dixon High School, certainly at Maine Prayer.

835
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:07,940
And at John Night Middle School, such that the administrator is able to go and confiscate that device where necessary.

836
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:18,940
As of, gosh, as of Monday, we're seeing numbers from, you know, the middle school in the numbers of, you know, less than 20,

837
01:05:19,300 --> 01:05:25,020
over since the school of confiscation. So it was somewhere around between like 8 and 12, right?

838
01:05:25,020 --> 01:05:30,780
conversations of devices. So that's really exciting to hear for such a new policy.

839
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:39,200
We are hearing that at the high school that the number of conversations coming out of classrooms

840
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:45,260
are fewer than expected and are consistently being taken and that there's still some work to

841
01:05:45,260 --> 01:05:51,940
be done during passing periods in lunch because the numbers are so large and so the administration

842
01:05:51,940 --> 01:05:59,240
is working very collaboratively with the campus supervisors about where and how more supervising

843
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:06,020
so that we can consistently follow up on those. I will say that what we are hearing from

844
01:06:06,020 --> 01:06:11,060
administrators at the high school and what we're seeing with our own eyes is that every time

845
01:06:11,060 --> 01:06:16,940
our reminder is given including a second administrator walking by going, hey that's your second

846
01:06:16,940 --> 01:06:22,040
reminder so I need to compensate students are following through like and and making

847
01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:29,780
the change. So those are some of the early indicators that students are no one

848
01:06:29,780 --> 01:06:35,840
is surprised although we did encounter a student who arrived late to our schools on

849
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:42,820
day eight and told us it's actually my first day here it's my first day back so we

850
01:06:42,820 --> 01:06:44,160
said, oh gosh, that's right.

851
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:46,200
You didn't know, but now you know.

852
01:06:46,300 --> 01:06:47,280
So now here's the reminder.

853
01:06:49,660 --> 01:06:56,420
So ultimately, where we are is that the established expectation

854
01:06:56,420 --> 01:06:57,400
is there.

855
01:06:57,740 --> 01:07:02,080
The work is now to ensure that students and staff

856
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:06,840
can stay consistent over time and that we can begin to collect

857
01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:08,500
really usable data.

858
01:07:08,860 --> 01:07:12,740
It's hard to make big proclamations after two and a half

859
01:07:12,740 --> 01:07:19,700
weeks, right? The real work is in can we maintain this so that the expectation becomes ordinary,

860
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:26,140
students know it, adults reinforce it, there's consistency, every step, and then less energy

861
01:07:26,140 --> 01:07:32,520
is even needing to be spent on this because it's predictable. So I'm happy to pause there

862
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:40,500
and take any questions that you may have. Thank you. Any, you'll, okay, let's go. I'll

863
01:07:40,500 --> 01:07:45,100
today that I received my first email from one of my kids.

864
01:07:45,260 --> 01:07:48,220
We were resourceful because they couldn't use their phone.

865
01:07:48,420 --> 01:07:49,700
I was like, hey, that's it.

866
01:07:50,300 --> 01:07:51,180
That heck is this.

867
01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:53,100
So kids are resourceful.

868
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:55,940
That was good, because that told me that he was falling the rules,

869
01:07:56,420 --> 01:07:56,440
right?

870
01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:57,920
I don't have to hear, you know, from others.

871
01:07:59,220 --> 01:08:02,880
But I will say, so initially when we rolled this out,

872
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:04,500
the concern was how we're going to enforce it,

873
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:05,860
we really didn't have that developed yet.

874
01:08:05,860 --> 01:08:07,440
Now we do, which is great.

875
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:14,640
administrators, is that just like is there outline is just the principles? Is there a kind of a larger group that we're considering the administrators?

876
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:19,380
The desire so by definition it would be the principles and assistant principles.

877
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:25,500
The desire is our wonderful, you know, TPMs and campus monitors.

878
01:08:25,500 --> 01:08:30,700
The desire is to have them escort the student to the administrator.

879
01:08:30,700 --> 01:08:45,240
We simply don't want to put our staff in positions where they have to, although they're certainly capable of and have in the past, where they have to be responsible for a phone and then they're moving somewhere else and they get questioned or it gets lost.

880
01:08:45,660 --> 01:08:47,560
We don't want them to have to get in a power struggle.

881
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:52,800
We've trained administrators specifically on what to do if a student refuses to give up a device.

882
01:08:53,220 --> 01:08:57,400
Here's exactly what education code in the law says you can and can't do and here's the procedure.

883
01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:12,280
So, we don't want any of our staff to be in that position, so the guidelines were that, of course, you may need your campus supervisors to support, please have them go escort the student rather than escort the phone.

884
01:09:12,380 --> 01:09:19,240
It's important to us that the student has the face to face with the administrator that is part of the piece so they can reinforce.

885
01:09:20,140 --> 01:09:23,640
Okay, you've given it to me now, you'll get it back at the end of the day.

886
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:30,680
If this happens again, and you're in front of me and I take it, that means that we need to escalate this too.

887
01:09:30,940 --> 01:09:32,260
You may not have it after that.

888
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:34,220
And actually, that's my second question.

889
01:09:34,340 --> 01:09:37,920
It's going to be training and you're already answered that they did receive training, so which is awesome.

890
01:09:38,420 --> 01:09:40,600
And I think the check-ins are a big part of that, right?

891
01:09:40,900 --> 01:09:43,140
What we don't do is just train and then walk away.

892
01:09:43,380 --> 01:09:50,720
So we've been striving to really lean in with our administrators to understand where are the infractions coming from.

893
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:57,400
There may be newer teachers who need more support or when do we need to reiterate this and get this in front of folks again?

894
01:09:57,600 --> 01:09:59,500
What do you need? We've been trying to do that

895
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:05,600
So, it doesn't come in hot at the beginning and then just fade away and put our hands up.

896
01:10:07,180 --> 01:10:09,140
Thank you. Any other questions from the board?

897
01:10:10,860 --> 01:10:16,500
No, I actually think you covered them. The same ones that we asked of you the last time we talked about this.

898
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:23,720
You came up with the policy and then just informed us about how the training was going and then feedback in the first couple weeks,

899
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:28,380
which I grew with you it's so early and then there's just so much going on and especially

900
01:10:28,380 --> 01:10:31,500
at our secondary schools there's just so many kids.

901
01:10:32,060 --> 01:10:39,060
I think to monitor, I think I have heard that there is some usage kind of during passing period

902
01:10:39,060 --> 01:10:44,620
and I know that that's being enforced, I've also heard that and I've received the voice

903
01:10:44,620 --> 01:10:49,880
to text so all the phones in the bag they're like talking and so you can get the text out

904
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:56,180
So I'm like, well, great, you didn't touch your phone, that's amazing, it's in your bag, but it's on.

905
01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:03,160
So, I did here, and maybe this is, you know, junior senior, so upper class mentor went on at the high school.

906
01:11:03,580 --> 01:11:05,920
The feedback, there were some kids over and they were talking about it.

907
01:11:06,780 --> 01:11:11,620
And they were actually saying that it's so nice to not have their phone.

908
01:11:12,140 --> 01:11:15,700
I mean, they were like, oh, we totally forgot that we left it in the car.

909
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:18,280
Like, one of them was like, oh, I forgot, I left it in the car that day.

910
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:22,140
And I was like, oh, that's amazing that they're saying that.

911
01:11:22,440 --> 01:11:24,120
I haven't heard that from the younger ones,

912
01:11:24,540 --> 01:11:25,580
but at least from the older ones,

913
01:11:25,740 --> 01:11:26,920
that was the first kind of feedback

914
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:28,340
that took me by surprise.

915
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:31,620
I actually, thank you for sharing that.

916
01:11:31,980 --> 01:11:34,300
We did hear that from two administrators

917
01:11:34,300 --> 01:11:37,340
when we asked them most recently on Wednesday.

918
01:11:37,860 --> 01:11:38,900
Like, what's the vibe?

919
01:11:38,940 --> 01:11:39,660
How's it going?

920
01:11:40,020 --> 01:11:41,560
What feedback are you hearing from students

921
01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:43,700
and two of our secondary administrators said

922
01:11:43,700 --> 01:11:45,900
that they had heard that from a number of students?

923
01:11:45,900 --> 01:12:15,880
And in one case, one of our secondary administrators shared an instance where they did have to go into a classroom and, you know, confiscate a device and the student was a little less apt and was kind of publicly questioning the principal and the peers sort of put a little pressure on their peer and said come on like we don't that's the that's what we do now just give it, you know, give it to them like that's what we have to do it's okay, like really it's starting to become something that peer.

924
01:12:15,900 --> 01:12:19,600
And at least in that case, we're holding each other accountable too.

925
01:12:19,820 --> 01:12:20,300
That's great.

926
01:12:20,460 --> 01:12:22,300
It's one of the things when I'm on school campuses.

927
01:12:22,500 --> 01:12:25,620
I've been checking in with kids on to and just asking them how it's going.

928
01:12:26,820 --> 01:12:27,920
And kids are, they're great.

929
01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:31,280
They'll be so honest with you about how it's going.

930
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:36,500
And so I've heard some things like, you know, I didn't like it at first,

931
01:12:36,620 --> 01:12:39,300
but now it's okay and I'm getting used to it.

932
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:43,960
But even like some really exciting feedback from kids along the lines of,

933
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:59,040
I'm actually talking with kids at lunch now, but we're having great lunch conversations with each other, we're sharing stories, and so it's great to see that social interaction kind of slowly returning to kids as we step through this process.

934
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:06,460
Every month there's a 8 a.m. meeting at the county office of education with all the superintendents in the county.

935
01:13:06,460 --> 01:13:17,960
And it was this morning, and everybody's back in school now, and everybody in the county is implementing the phone free schools act, which went into effect on June 30th, right?

936
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:25,120
So we're all kind of going through this together, and the experiences that I was hearing from the other superintendents in the county was very similar.

937
01:13:25,620 --> 01:13:34,440
Lots of worry in the run up to the implementation, and then the implementation over the first few days and the realization that for the most part kids are pretty compliant,

938
01:13:34,440 --> 01:13:44,180
And they're doing the things that we're asking them of, and it's really just about consistency and enforcement and making sure that we're setting our teams up for success.

939
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:54,160
Some things that they're thinking about that we hadn't considered yet is one superintendent was talking about getting like board games to put out at lunch period, right?

940
01:13:54,560 --> 01:14:02,060
And some things to keep kids busy who have for years kind of just been glued to their screens during passing periods or lunch periods.

941
01:14:02,060 --> 01:14:06,380
And it's trying to think about how we can help to facilitate this

942
01:14:06,380 --> 01:14:09,900
re-socialization in the phone-free schools act world.

943
01:14:10,900 --> 01:14:11,820
That's awesome.

944
01:14:13,100 --> 01:14:13,480
All right.

945
01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:14,380
More to come.

946
01:14:14,380 --> 01:14:15,220
More to come.

947
01:14:15,660 --> 01:14:17,420
Are there any public comment on this item?

948
01:14:17,820 --> 01:14:18,120
Yes, sir.

949
01:14:22,890 --> 01:14:23,550
It's me again.

950
01:14:23,630 --> 01:14:27,530
And I just want to do, yeah, this policy is amazing.

951
01:14:27,790 --> 01:14:30,890
What I've observed over in just the implementation of it's been great.

952
01:14:31,050 --> 01:14:35,350
What I've observed over prayer, it's the only school I've been on since school started to see

953
01:14:35,350 --> 01:14:40,090
this fallacy in place. But I was there today and watched the young woman come up and talk

954
01:14:40,090 --> 01:14:43,430
to one of the teachers with a whole written list of stuff actually on a piece of paper

955
01:14:43,430 --> 01:14:46,710
that she wanted to share with them about ideas about the school and how to improve things.

956
01:14:47,710 --> 01:14:51,930
On Tuesday, I was over there and sat and had lunch and it was interesting to see all the kids

957
01:14:51,930 --> 01:14:55,390
talking to each other, you know, and not having their phones on and facing it down.

958
01:14:55,650 --> 01:14:59,970
I think as we talk about the mental health aspect of things, this is a huge step.

959
01:15:03,070 --> 01:15:28,190
So I just, you know, the roll out of this has been fantastic. All the feedback I've heard have talked to people from different schools. And just over Perry, with the administration and teacher setting the example of not getting their phones out either, you know, and it's that top down we're going to do it too. And I love the fact that our kids are learning that they can survive with other phones. You know, and I think it's a massive step.

960
01:15:28,950 --> 01:15:39,630
You know, district wide for us to be able to look at the kids and what they're going to be able to learn and and I think we're going to see comments since increase in those kinds of things as well.

961
01:15:40,010 --> 01:15:45,650
So thank you guys for sticking to this policy. I know it was, you know, tough implementation but yeah, great job on it.

962
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:54,640
All right. Any other public comment? All right. I'm a close public comment. This was just an information item.

963
01:15:54,640 --> 01:16:00,460
Thank you, Ms. Fairley. We appreciate you. All right, bringing it on home is Joanna

964
01:16:00,460 --> 01:16:06,880
Holdar, Chief Business Official with the 2026-27-45-day budget revision, Ms. Holdar.

965
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:14,040
Good evening, Superintendent Barley, Trustees, staff and guests. Tonight I have for you the 45-day

966
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:21,640
budget revision. Just as a reminder, this is where we are. We adopted our budget in June,

967
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:23,900
are the state adopted the budget in July.

968
01:16:24,480 --> 01:16:27,480
There were a number of proposals in the state budget

969
01:16:27,480 --> 01:16:29,940
that we did incorporate into the budget in June,

970
01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:34,260
but there was an item that we left out and waited

971
01:16:34,260 --> 01:16:35,860
to make sure that it would be included.

972
01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:38,500
And so that was what we'll talk about tonight.

973
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:42,240
And we'll walk you through what changes we've made to the budget.

974
01:16:43,180 --> 01:16:44,400
It's pretty straightforward.

975
01:16:44,940 --> 01:16:47,400
Essentially, we're going to see an increase in revenue,

976
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:50,520
one time, money of about 2.56 million.

977
01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:56,480
And this is specifically for the Student Support and Professional Development Disquestionary Block Grant,

978
01:16:57,420 --> 01:16:59,520
affectionately referred to as the Spudbug.

979
01:17:01,180 --> 01:17:05,760
So, that grant did come through into the budget and we're expecting about 2.56 million.

980
01:17:06,700 --> 01:17:10,540
In the 45-day revised, we also are expecting an increase in expenditures.

981
01:17:10,980 --> 01:17:17,940
What that is, is just assuming we're going to spend about 426,000 of that 2.56 million.

982
01:17:17,940 --> 01:17:22,120
That one-time funding needs to be spent within six years.

983
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:26,440
So at this time, we've just divided that award over six years

984
01:17:26,440 --> 01:17:29,920
and incorporated 426 of that into the budget.

985
01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:32,940
So that's what you're seeing here in this slide.

986
01:17:33,740 --> 01:17:37,600
What I'll add at the end there is the impact to the budget

987
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:40,900
is an increase in our ending fund balance of 2.08 million.

988
01:17:41,300 --> 01:17:42,500
Again, one-time funding.

989
01:17:42,500 --> 01:17:49,960
And this here is a chart that is also sharing what we just talked about, the increase in revenue

990
01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:57,480
of about 2.5 and increase in expenditures of 484 and ultimately an increase in our ending

991
01:17:57,480 --> 01:18:02,460
fund balance of about 2.8 or 2.1, excuse me, I have read that one.

992
01:18:03,660 --> 01:18:04,620
And that's it.

993
01:18:04,660 --> 01:18:06,620
I will leave it there for questions.

994
01:18:07,020 --> 01:18:08,160
That was the big thing to incorporate.

995
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:21,980
In the budget, as just as a reminder, there were a number of items that we included, which included the increase in the special education base rate, fully funding the learning recovery emergency block grant.

996
01:18:22,100 --> 01:18:29,000
Those were included in the state budget and included in the June adopted budget, so we didn't need to include that in the 45 day revised.

997
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:36,740
It also included the additional 1.44 percent in the increase in coal specifically designed to help

998
01:18:36,740 --> 01:18:39,000
districts pay for the pregnancy leave that was approved.

999
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:41,040
All of those had already been included.

1000
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:45,560
So, the 45-day revises focused on the discretionary background.

1001
01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:47,840
Open to questions.

1002
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:48,760
Thank you.

1003
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:50,060
Any comments or questions from the board?

1004
01:18:54,780 --> 01:18:56,680
I should just say one more thing that I just realized.

1005
01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:58,460
I think it's important to note out loud.

1006
01:18:58,660 --> 01:18:59,700
So, sorry about that.

1007
01:18:59,860 --> 01:19:00,400
President Quivas.

1008
01:19:00,940 --> 01:19:06,840
I do want to note the net increase decrease to the budget, so we originally were planning

1009
01:19:08,100 --> 01:19:12,980
to over-expend the budget by about 700,000, but because of the one-time funding, we're

1010
01:19:12,980 --> 01:19:16,900
now looking at a positive of 1.3 million, so I just wanted to call that out important to

1011
01:19:16,900 --> 01:19:17,760
say that.

1012
01:19:18,540 --> 01:19:19,260
That was easy.

1013
01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:22,760
I know that should have been the highlight, sorry about that.

1014
01:19:23,020 --> 01:19:25,720
That was literally what I was going to say, and then you just, you just took it.

1015
01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:26,680
I took your funder.

1016
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:30,160
I just, we have to call it out, man, because I think it was like three years ago.

1017
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:37,020
We were projecting like a six and a half million dollar deficit just to see us in the positive.

1018
01:19:37,300 --> 01:19:41,180
I mean, I believe if I'm not mistaken, when we started doing this process like two years ago,

1019
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:46,100
we were projecting to have a positive budget for at least like a two or three year out period

1020
01:19:46,100 --> 01:19:47,340
the fact that we could have.

1021
01:19:47,340 --> 01:19:52,600
I don't think we had a projection of a positive, it was, it was continued over spending

1022
01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:53,760
a little multi-year.

1023
01:19:53,900 --> 01:19:59,660
But then to finally say that this year, we are officially officially in the green, that's

1024
01:19:59,660 --> 01:19:59,900
Amazing.

1025
01:20:00,370 --> 01:20:06,150
I just want to pause it for it. That's a good place for the district to be, and we want to hope to maintain that.

1026
01:20:06,290 --> 01:20:14,870
Well, I think the exciting part about this too, just knowing who's in the room, is like, this gives us latitude now to start thinking about how we maintain competitiveness in our district.

1027
01:20:15,770 --> 01:20:22,110
It's not even a question, right? I mean, it was always part of the process. It was always part of the plan, but now to be able to see the numbers there, and hopefully that sticks.

1028
01:20:25,370 --> 01:20:29,470
We're not going to be pitching pennies, if you will, to try to figure out how we moved

1029
01:20:29,470 --> 01:20:31,830
dollars, we've had to do for the last two to three years.

1030
01:20:32,750 --> 01:20:33,450
It's just great.

1031
01:20:34,090 --> 01:20:35,650
Thank you for all the hard work and your team.

1032
01:20:35,870 --> 01:20:38,870
I know this was not an easy endeavor, but it's been a hell of a journey.

1033
01:20:39,230 --> 01:20:46,190
Yes, and I do want to commend really the district leadership and we all work together to make

1034
01:20:46,190 --> 01:20:50,570
sure that we were aligning the budget around the priorities and had to make some difficult

1035
01:20:50,570 --> 01:20:55,790
decisions and the board had to approve difficult decisions, so it's not to say that this

1036
01:20:55,790 --> 01:21:02,530
didn't come easy for sure. It certainly was a very intentional in how we got here.

1037
01:21:03,270 --> 01:21:03,970
So, glad to meet you.

1038
01:21:03,970 --> 01:21:05,830
So, James on you then, right? So we're celebrating you.

1039
01:21:05,890 --> 01:21:06,410
Sure.

1040
01:21:06,710 --> 01:21:06,850
Thank you.

1041
01:21:06,850 --> 01:21:07,830
We've got a little money now.

1042
01:21:08,750 --> 01:21:08,990
All right.

1043
01:21:09,650 --> 01:21:12,450
Any public comment on the budget item?

1044
01:21:14,870 --> 01:21:15,250
Seeing none.

1045
01:21:15,750 --> 01:21:15,970
All right.

1046
01:21:16,430 --> 01:21:17,130
Closing public comment.

1047
01:21:17,610 --> 01:21:19,930
Thank you so much, Mr. Hallow, we appreciate you.

1048
01:21:21,290 --> 01:21:21,530
All right.

1049
01:21:24,570 --> 01:21:26,570
I'm going to pause Mr. Ernest.

1050
01:21:26,830 --> 01:21:28,570
I see you're not expecting to speak tonight.

1051
01:21:31,510 --> 01:21:32,390
I don't believe you.

1052
01:21:33,230 --> 01:21:33,630
All right.

1053
01:21:34,070 --> 01:21:34,630
I saw your name.

1054
01:21:34,630 --> 01:21:35,570
I saw a lot of story on here.

1055
01:21:35,730 --> 01:21:36,950
Oh, I hope that wasn't in this.

1056
01:21:38,090 --> 01:21:39,350
Uh, agenda items for future meetings.

1057
01:21:39,830 --> 01:21:40,230
A couple items.

1058
01:21:40,530 --> 01:21:42,470
Dick's a Montessori with Mr. Ernest in the room tonight.

1059
01:21:43,810 --> 01:21:45,330
We're going to be talking about a couple things.

1060
01:21:45,450 --> 01:21:47,850
One is the chartered renewal public hearing.

1061
01:21:47,970 --> 01:21:49,290
That'll be happening in October,

1062
01:21:49,290 --> 01:21:54,850
just around the corner really, and then the consideration of Charter Renewal petition in November.

1063
01:21:55,690 --> 01:21:58,350
Are there any other agenda items that we should be flagging at this stage?

1064
01:21:59,230 --> 01:22:00,030
So those are the two.

1065
01:22:01,510 --> 01:22:09,770
The Dix of Montessori Charter Renewal, those two items are the ones that will be kind of out of our ordinary scope of practice,

1066
01:22:09,850 --> 01:22:15,930
because there were no only comes up at the end of their Charter Term, which could be 35 or 7.

1067
01:22:15,930 --> 01:22:23,010
And then they'll be pursuing a seven year charter term, so we might not see an agenda item like this again for another seven years after that.

1068
01:22:23,210 --> 01:22:27,290
In September, we'll have instructional materials and attendance update,

1069
01:22:28,050 --> 01:22:40,440
CASP and I ready results on audited actuals and early literacy implementation update and a developer fee report as well.

1070
01:22:40,440 --> 01:22:43,720
have all of those items on a cycle, which you're all

1071
01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:45,640
probably familiar with by now, but we wanted to call

1072
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:47,860
out the two Dixon Montessori ones,

1073
01:22:48,140 --> 01:22:50,940
because they're a little unusual for a regularly

1074
01:22:50,940 --> 01:22:51,900
scheduled programming.

1075
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:54,080
Yeah, cover.

1076
01:22:54,980 --> 01:22:57,000
Is there any way, and I don't know, obviously,

1077
01:22:57,440 --> 01:23:00,820
we're still drafting the agenda, but we will be,

1078
01:23:00,940 --> 01:23:03,320
it looks like at Tremont, right?

1079
01:23:03,620 --> 01:23:09,580
Is there any way to maybe move some of those to the next meeting

1080
01:23:09,580 --> 01:23:14,460
that we have here and leave some room free for the actual discussion at Tremont.

1081
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:18,920
I know that was one of the discussion items that we've had in the past is that some of

1082
01:23:19,480 --> 01:23:24,160
those kind of calm, away meetings, but some of our away meetings within the district are

1083
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:26,040
just really impacted for time.

1084
01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:33,680
The short answer, yes, long answer, there are some that have a deadline that we have to

1085
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:34,060
do.

1086
01:23:34,060 --> 01:23:40,780
So, for example, the un-honoured and actuals has a due date of September 15th, so we'll have to tackle that one.

1087
01:23:40,860 --> 01:23:47,740
But if the board is okay getting a belated, early literacy update, or a belated attendance update, we can easily move that to the next meeting.

1088
01:23:48,540 --> 01:23:53,020
Well, I just, since the continues are here, and this was one of the reasons why we actually...

1089
01:23:53,020 --> 01:23:59,080
Yeah, I'm pointing at you, brother. Yes. Well, just because you said it at every meeting, it made sense. And we were trying something different.

1090
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:02,920
that had been tried in a while, and it was, you know, you know, trial and error.

1091
01:24:03,900 --> 01:24:08,900
I think the concept in theory was great in practice, made it just really challenging,

1092
01:24:08,980 --> 01:24:11,040
particularly in negotiations here.

1093
01:24:12,140 --> 01:24:14,800
So this time around, we're pulling it way back.

1094
01:24:15,340 --> 01:24:19,060
Only doing, I think, two or three schools this year, then trying to intentionally,

1095
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:24,660
like, to the regionous point, is move the media items to, when we're back in the chambers,

1096
01:24:24,660 --> 01:24:29,040
so that we're not stuck in up the time that should be used on highlighting the schools.

1097
01:24:29,620 --> 01:24:33,820
Again, I don't think any of us anticipated those opinions to go for hours, but they did.

1098
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:40,520
So this time, we'll just do a better job of it, and to your point, I know we had already

1099
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:46,820
approved the calendar out for this year, but I know you and I've talked about this in our

1100
01:24:46,820 --> 01:24:49,960
one on ones, but I'm sure the board would be okay with this.

1101
01:24:50,040 --> 01:24:54,180
If there's ever a time where we feel like we need to call a special meeting, I would much

1102
01:24:54,180 --> 01:24:58,660
rather do that and get a majority of our board there

1103
01:24:58,660 --> 01:24:59,980
than trying to cram it into one of them.

1104
01:25:03,300 --> 01:25:22,340
We have to cram that in before you know it's not a clock at night and we're getting to the budget. So it was a rough one. But I enjoyed it. It was fun. So while the good news is that we'll have a couple of meetings to take a look at the agenda before we're at Tremont. So when we meet to review the agenda, let's look at it through that lens. Sounds great.

1105
01:25:23,940 --> 01:25:32,260
Okay, upcoming events, September 7th is a non school day, it's Labor Day, September 10th is our next board meeting.

1106
01:25:32,380 --> 01:25:37,100
It'll be at Trima Elementary School, October 12th is also a non school day.

1107
01:25:37,300 --> 01:25:38,580
I believe that is, what do you want?

1108
01:25:38,940 --> 01:25:42,320
Oh, these are indigenous people's day, indigenous people got it.

1109
01:25:42,540 --> 01:25:43,360
Thank you.

1110
01:25:46,470 --> 01:25:49,850
October 15th, the board meeting at Gretchen Higgins Elementary School.

1111
01:25:50,310 --> 01:25:54,450
I'm sure there's going to be a fall festival or carnival or something like it's done in there at some point.

1112
01:25:55,350 --> 01:25:58,450
We'll keep y'all opposed, not opposed.

1113
01:25:58,650 --> 01:26:00,010
What's what I'm looking for, appraised.

1114
01:26:00,210 --> 01:26:00,570
A prize.

1115
01:26:02,150 --> 01:26:02,770
Thank you all.

1116
01:26:03,030 --> 01:26:04,170
Have a great night.

1117
01:26:04,470 --> 01:26:06,010
Be kind to each other.

1118
01:26:06,270 --> 01:26:07,130
This meeting is adjourned.

1119
01:26:07,310 --> 01:26:07,950
Thank you.

1120
01:26:09,590 --> 01:26:10,610
What time is it you guys?