[0:00] Good evening everyone and welcome to tonight's regular board meeting. Eric is not with us this evening and so we'll get me.

[0:09] First thing I need to do is tell you a few things that happened in closed session.

[0:20] We have a rather long list, so get comfortable. The first is we had a couple of resignations, Dolores.

[0:29] I'm sure about a lot of my apologies to her, and ELLA is resigning effective June 5th.

[0:35] And Jacqueline Warren's science teacher is resigning effective June 5th.

[0:40] In addition, we have a request for a student contract for next year and Matt Weber at 60 percent

[0:45] and Mary Erin 40 percent and we share in second grade eight at Argonaut Elementary.

[0:49] We have a number of new findings.

[0:51] Daniel Brenner is coming on board as a commentary teacher, affected August 10th, Megan Casey

[0:58] as a school psychologist, effective August 1st, Brianna Delgado, as a speech and language

[1:04] pharmacologist, effective August 10th, Catherine Prusneck, and a kind of apologies for mispronouncing

[1:10] the last name as a special education teacher, effective August 10th, Erica Montana's, as a science

[1:16] teacher, effective August 10th, Kayla Nez, as a kindergarten instruction aide, effective

[1:21] August 13th, and Peter Palomo, as a behavior tech effective August 12th. We are delighted

[1:26] that all of them are joining the district. All right. Moving on, we have a action consent.

[1:39] Sorry, that person, I'll leave a little for you, Jim.

[1:44] Sorry, action consent.

[1:49] I'm not

[1:50] consent. May I have a motion?

[1:57] Thank you all in favor. Thank you very much. Okay, moving on to

[2:05] communications. We will take comments from the community. First of all, though, I'd like to point

[2:10] you to the yellow cards that are over by the door. If you come here tonight to make a comment, I ask that

[2:15] you do a quick fill out one of those and pass it forward. Anybody here came to make a comment?

[2:20] Okay. I won't pause waiting for you to fill out the little cards. Moving on to comments

[2:27] from the Hawaii Groups. I think thank you. Comments from the Superintendent? Yes, and I'm

[2:31] in for my time to Moira, and she's going to give the statement about the investigation that

[2:36] was launched back in November, the website code. So the investigation that's covered about

[2:45] about six months, more than a time has been completed.

[2:49] The summary board reviewed the documents

[2:51] in the report in post-session.

[2:54] There will be a public notice announcement

[2:56] that will go out this week.

[2:59] We are planning for revised

[3:01] paragraph policies, protocols, hiring and clearance practices.

[3:07] We'll be working on that during the summer.

[3:10] Parents will be invited to review

[3:12] and give input in August

[3:14] before the finalized document is presented to the governing board for voting hopefully

[3:23] sometime in August.

[3:26] Personnel actions regarding this are always confidential and will be addressed in a closed

[3:32] session.

[3:35] Thank you.

[3:35] Anything else?

[3:36] Thank you.

[3:40] I just wanted to call out the end of school year.

[3:47] It's always a good time.

[3:50] As always, you know, she goes on board schools,

[3:55] which is always quite a scheduling fund.

[3:59] Scheduling, worrying.

[4:01] The business is very pleasure.

[4:03] So it should keep my soul.

[4:05] It gives me great pleasure.

[4:07] That's why I'm here.

[4:09] those students and programs and our schools that's by the year say there's going to be

[4:16] able to go and graduate from the students and the staff for the publishing.

[4:26] Thank you.

[4:26] No?

[4:30] Well, I do have some good share.

[4:33] First of all, I didn't mention end of the school year.

[4:37] I'm very grateful for the entire school year thanks to all the staff members and teachers

[4:42] and superintendent for a wonderful years this year.

[4:46] We've made a lot of progress and lots of things

[4:50] that we have piloted and looking forward

[4:53] for next year and I want to see what more on things

[4:57] we are going to bring into our school.

[5:00] And I just wanted to tell the community

[5:04] that I was unable to attend the elementary school,

[5:07] three elementary school graduations

[5:09] because I had a gas leak in my house and the owner has to be less than you call it PG&E.

[5:15] And so I had to let the executive secretary know last minute that I was

[5:19] I need to be there so apologies for that. I also wanted to add one more thing that I wanted

[5:26] I didn't know that I could have qualified at last for meaning. This is regarding the agenda item

[5:32] on the superintendents contract.

[5:36] There was an agenda item that went for approval,

[5:40] the seventh amendment to employee agreement

[5:42] for services as superintendents.

[5:44] I just wanted to clarify that I didn't know

[5:48] on the basis of the increase by 1.25% longevity.

[5:54] That was a convict part that I was unsure

[5:57] because I did not have enough data

[5:59] from the other school districts and neighborhood districts

[6:03] and more information on that.

[6:06] But I want to make it very clear to the community

[6:08] and the staff members that has nothing to do with this contract

[6:12] or his renewal or anything else on the agreement itself.

[6:17] It was just that 1.25% on giving.

[6:19] That's all I want to say.

[6:21] Thank you, thank you.

[6:22] Okay, moving on then, we move to a district operations update.

[6:27] Okay, lots of pictures for our end-of-the-year celebrations, thank

[6:45] you.

[6:48] So this is a picture of the rehearsal with students who are going into their promotion

[6:53] exercise at evening.

[6:55] Next time.

[6:58] We have a big class leading us to 232 eighth graders and I think next year is a little bit

[7:03] bigger class.

[7:04] I think it's 241 and that gets a little smaller after that.

[7:07] So that's the promotion from Friday night.

[7:11] And then of course, we always have our elementary promotion ceremonies and what I appreciate

[7:14] about our schools. We're trying to make our schools very similar and the academic expectations

[7:18] and the rigor and the expectations to behaviorally. But there's a lot of personality and uniqueness

[7:23] amongst our elementary schools, which is fun and it comes out, things like this. The promotions,

[7:27] the promotions are very distinctly different and have a different flavor and it makes it really fun,

[7:32] especially when you go to four of them. It's a nice variety.

[7:36] And our retirees who want to always

[7:38] congratulate and recognize the ad on handwork and a bourgeois camp retired after 30,

[7:43] 39 years? 39 years? 39 years?

[7:46] In structural labor, Tire, Sherry, Brian, our groundskeeper has been here for many years

[7:51] in Mount Ramona. He's retiring, and Nikki Jordan, she was a structure for many years at

[7:57] Hargo Elementary, so we've co-hosted with STA, a retirement celebration for all of the

[8:04] all units in our district.

[8:08] And a lot of traditions that we have, field days, there's a bike, quite a bike event,

[8:13] at the middle school. We have our new rhythm of moves, which are calling something else because

[8:19] there are teachers that they were hosting field days at all of the elementary sites, which

[8:23] are very popular in the food weather. And this is an annual event that PTA is sponsoring along

[8:31] with site principal to host new parents to the middle school. And they have a panel of students

[8:37] said, I think it's the third one that's been done. So, it's successful as a wildly- attended.

[8:43] Very well, isn't it? Good, great. So, that's a very positive thing people really want. I think it

[8:47] goes to show the effort we're putting behind the transitions, getting kids from 5th to 6th, being going

[8:52] comfortable, partially getting parents comfortable, right? So, this is a- we just keep layering on

[8:57] layering on efforts to make it like Swiss cheese, cover the holes against, just keep adding those

[9:02] until people are really comfortable with that transition.

[9:08] And in part of that, they had tried to mix up lunch and get

[9:12] people to get students to talk to another in a different way.

[9:14] So it was cool to care week.

[9:17] And for the LMGTK breakfast, which I think is an annual event.

[9:24] And volunteer appreciation, Saratoga at the end of the year.

[9:31] And it's just some facilities and maintenance.

[9:33] We do have quite a bit of activity happening.

[9:35] They're not as big as roof replacements.

[9:37] But we're getting some interior classroom paintings started

[9:39] organized.

[9:40] We don't think those are the things in sense we built.

[9:43] So that's great.

[9:44] A field trip replacement.

[9:45] It seems to field turf at Saratoga.

[9:48] Accessibility from pathways to the back top to the gardens.

[9:51] So students have with disabilities that have access.

[9:54] Redwood Middle School, the way the Keyless Access project.

[9:57] So treatment from fields.

[9:59] Trying to get the cafeteria server on and installed

[10:02] and renovation of music room flooring.

[10:05] And then foothill is where summer school is at. So it is not getting anything but lots of use this summer.

[10:11] I will clarify on the cafeteria. So we're going to need a fancy process. It's been so slow.

[10:16] And so we're just doing part of drumming today and I have to say get free. I don't know if it's in summer, but it's.

[10:23] It's in motion.

[10:25] And then lastly, just some school reminders. These are the dates for summer school. It's standard year tree house and jumpstart.

[10:33] and that's all occurring on foothill. Those are the hours. And then we do have a pretty robust

[10:37] treehouse extended care until 530 about each of students. And then school officers closed

[10:44] at the end of the month, except for foothill. Of course, we're open all summer at the district.

[10:49] We have Juneteenth off. And then for July 4th, we're kind of

[10:52] straddling the biggest July 4th visit Saturday. So it's a little strange this weekend. And then

[10:58] people are working all summer. So if two people do need appointments, two good business offices,

[11:02] This is what usually takes place for tax for a number of fees and things like that, but we're all here.

[11:09] Okay.

[11:12] Questions, comments?

[11:14] The public comment on this.

[11:17] Moving along, we have a contract to announce the architects for facility master plan preparation.

[11:26] call them key. And so I asked, I don't know how to say just a few things. It's a bit easier.

[11:33] It's like, okay. So, we work through a process of issuing an RFQ or a fee. It doesn't require

[11:41] a formal bid because it's a service contract. However, we should get stands and issue an RFP

[11:47] for that. We did get six responses as well as we had a quote from our current architect

[11:53] So we went through those reports, scored them, Joe and I individually scored them, I can review that or comment with that.

[12:02] We selected two of the vendors to come in for an interview, so we held online interviews with them.

[12:08] And they kind of got our field rules, and we felt it was a better fit for our district.

[12:12] and the team selected BKA for the facility master plan.

[12:19] So the goal is that they would start with this in July,

[12:22] but they should be hopefully by February 27th.

[12:26] So they really had a big focus on community involvement in the use.

[12:33] So they needed a lot of that and the proposal,

[12:36] and there's you can see that they have tried to keep the session still involved

[12:39] and all of the same positions to the A,

[12:43] wonderful mastermind.

[12:46] I'll answer questions from the board.

[12:51] I know this is something we've been talking about,

[12:53] just comment it.

[12:55] It is a bit on the expensive side,

[12:57] but they're all on the expensive side.

[13:01] Okay, comments from the community.

[13:05] Okay, then we will move.

[13:07] May I have a motion regarding this?

[13:10] I make a motion to give your work contract to QKA4, that's a please not.

[13:16] Thank you, Rami.

[13:17] May I have a second?

[13:21] Thank you all in favor?

[13:23] unanimous.

[13:24] Thank you very much.

[13:25] All right.

[13:26] Go to a gene.

[13:28] A.

[13:29] A.

[13:34] That's coming up next, so that was the facility.

[13:39] Okay, next I need to close the public here.

[13:42] Actually, first let me ask.

[13:44] Did we receive any comments at the district office regarding the LCAP?

[13:48] I did not.

[13:50] It's an exciting thing.

[13:52] It is an important thing.

[13:54] So at this point, I'm going to close the public hearing for the LCAP plan.

[14:00] and we need to say action on that motion.

[14:06] I'm

[14:08] going to hear a full of great comments each one.

[14:12] I'll cap.

[14:14] Thank you.

[14:14] You may have a second.

[14:17] Thank you.

[14:18] Thank you.

[14:19] All in favor.

[14:20] Thank you.

[14:20] Right.

[14:22] Moving on.

[14:23] We need.

[14:24] With regard to the adopted budget.

[14:27] And statement of excess reserves.

[14:28] If we have any comments to the district, I don't know who they will come to the floor.

[14:33] So there are any comments of the district office.

[14:35] No.

[14:35] We have any comments now on that.

[14:38] Okay.

[14:39] Then may I have a motion to close the public hearing on the adopted budget and statement of

[14:44] access reserves?

[14:46] I can move to close the public hearing and I'm going to move on to the 26th and 7th on

[14:51] the subject and state of access reserves.

[14:53] Thank you.

[14:54] May I have a second?

[14:55] Thank you very much.

[14:56] Paul in favor.

[14:57] Thank you, that's unanimous.

[15:00] Okay, we're just over. Yeah.

[15:06] Did I miss anything about this? Great. Okay. With regards to future agenda items. Well, based on more statement, we'll definitely August have a agenda item or a special meeting around the reforms and findings based on the interpretation.

[15:25] investigation and taking a dimple. Same to that one. Okay. Anything else that we want to go in there?

[15:35] On the matrix and the bottom, we have the stars. I don't know what we discussed exactly about the

[15:44] color in this hand. Oh, yes. And Grace had emailed Eric and I with a little dispute that was this,

[15:52] the current old one, or is this the current old one?

[15:55] So we don't need to have it.

[15:56] Okay.

[15:57] Right back.

[15:57] So I over and answer back.

[15:59] Oh, sure.

[15:59] This is the one that you.

[16:01] Yes.

[16:01] So we will we will do that first meeting in August.

[16:05] Okay.

[16:06] Anything else?

[16:07] And will this star.

[16:08] Can I go with grace for next year?

[16:11] Let's start on this side.

[16:12] Yes.

[16:13] Thank you.

[16:14] Okay.

[16:15] More activities.

[16:20] Summer.

[16:21] Summer.

[16:22] There's two summer schools.

[16:23] or a one for two member, and have a chat to see if that's there, okay?

[16:31] Okay.

[16:31] The two are excellent.

[16:33] I see.

[16:38] Okay.

[16:41] Okay.

[16:43] In that case, unless there's anything else, we are adjourned.

[16:47] Bye.

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