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our goal as parents and Educators is to ensure our children feel safe so they can learn we know that learning is challenging if you're stressed you're worried or scared for transgender youth those feelings of stress and fear are common even when we Parents try our best and do what we think is the right thing we make mistakes at the last meeting I spoke about my experience raising our youngest child who is transgender I spoke about the support we received from Chico Unified and how we work together to provide the safest School environment for her to learn to be to feel safe and comfortable like I said before Chico Unified stepped up and did not hesitate to communicate with me and my husband and listen to our questions and concerns there was no secrecy or lack of support for what our daughter needed honestly if my child went to a teacher or counselor or administrator to tell them about questioning their gender identity I would have a mixture of emotions and reactions I get why parents would have emotions about that but here is what I would ask myself why wouldn't my child come to me or my husband did they do they not feel safe talking with us about it or did they try and did I not hear them did I dismiss what they said about questioning their gender identity did I send a message that it was just a phase or that they were influenced by others or that their gender was their gender and that was that like I said we make mistakes we all make mistakes as parents but then I'd ask what do I do next and what would my child want and need to feel safe what's most important in this process when my husband and I attended a session at Chico State transgender Awareness Week the year after our daughter transitioned we spoke with many people but there was a young one there was one young woman who was transgender who was a keynote speaker a community activist and a writer and she woke me up she told me that the most important thing we could do is listen to our daughter and ask her what she needed my daughter has often questioned her safety because of others ignorance others discrimination and judgment she has had full support at home and I imagine the kids that are not sure of the support at home or a family members and or adults in their lives imagine not knowing if you would be accepted and supported by adults you think are there for you and this happens kids are rejected by the people in their lives they never thought would reject thank you that's your time thanks up next we have Dr Christine laistner I came to the board to speak about ab1266 anti-discrimination policy to protect trans kids we discussed at the last board meeting as you know I have a PhD in health education with a focus on human sexuality since my 30s I've identified as bisexual and before that I identified as sexually fluid all plurry sexual identities I'm now 41 years old and I've never come out to my parents I grew up in a household where I heard comments frequently such as being gay is a sin the most recent comment I heard was last year someone close to me stating that she was on the fence about gay marriage why would I come out to these people according to the Trevor Project 28 of all lgbtq youth report experiencing homelessness at some point studies show that 20 to 45 percent of home all homeless youth are lgbtq this is two to four times as many lgbtq that there are research shows that this is due to family rejection family is rejecting their children because of their sexual orientation or their gender identity and nationally representative survey of over a thousand lgbtq adults conducted by the Pew Institute reports that nearly 40 percent are rejected by their family members or close friends because of their sexual orientation or gender identity it is absolutely vital that these kids have a confidential place to discuss this issue with a trusted adult at school for their own Safety and Security if you take that away or require that counselors tell parents you will be causing harm to some of our kids I guarantee it a study from the Pew Institute reports that 34 percent report not telling their mother and 39 percent report not telling their father this is a safety choice I believe that most parents some parents many parents want what's best for their children I'm a parent but hundreds of thousands of lgbtq Youth across the country are homeless as we speak because their families rejected them some parents just straight up kick their kids out of the house and the family others are physically and emotionally abusive or neglectful protecting these kids is your job part of being trauma informed is giving the power of choice and control to the person who is traumatized or has the least power in this situation the kids deserve the right to choose whether or not to come out to their parents and how they need to be in control of this decision for their own autonomy and safety it is extremely important to uphold this policy regarding the idea that a teacher or a school counselor could somehow force a child to be transgender or gay is ridiculous so what research shows about sexual orientation development is that this is a process that takes years the study from the Pew Institute found that lgbtq folks have the first thought of their sexual orientation at around 10 to 13.
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we have had 11 160 events uh at the schools and those are non-uh classroom educational events could be Community Ed club sports chess clubs so on and so forth anything that's not part of the typical educational day it's tracked in that and there's been over 11 000 of those 4 200 of those have been the rentals and school events as 6960. that will probably go up in in the when we have a full year tracking the school events uh the 6960 was was only tracked since August of 22 so that has not been a full year since January of 22 we have invoiced for our rentals over 400 000 and to uh to bring some income into the District of the four hundred thousand thirty percent of the rental fees goes back to the individual schools uh goes into their budget and they can use for excuse me needed items um that they need at the school uh what rooms are rented uh we rent out the gyms the athletic fields cafeterias classrooms um what uh whatever uh people need if we have it available then we try to rent it to them who rents the rooms sporting teams clubs HOAs churches stuff groups like that this is a what a typical School event calendar looks like this shows the Reynolds School Events sports Fine Arts community events kids clubs at the bottom of uh of each one of the days that smaller number down there that tells the number of events that is happening on that day this is a a district-wide calendar it gets it's pretty busy um in their the each individual site has their own they can pull this up should they choose to use it but um this they um this one here is the whole District a couple of things that this tracking system does uh it uh keeps people from double booking so we don't have two events at the in the same room at the same time it also allows everybody at the school sites to know what's happening each day at the sites principles admin and stuff like that this has turned into a a very handy um and useful program you can thank Sherry Richards when I came here a few a couple years ago she had already had this in place and so she's the one that was brought this in and then we we took it on to bring it into uh play in The District um just a picture of uh start a little bit on the custodian custodial this is a picture of the uh the gym floor at Coronado Elementary and it was the work was performed by Rodney Mater uh our plant Foreman at um the uh Coronado School District or school and this is just part of 1.7 million square feet uh that our custodians try to maintain on a daily basis um with the with the custodial we've tried to upgrade the equipment by getting them some some workable equipment we've bought new vacuum cleaners burnishers so that floor in the preceding PowerPoint the shiny floors that's done with a burnisher new carpet extractor so we can shampoo our carpets and auto scrubbers so we can clean our polished concrete hallways keep them nice clean and shiny hiring we've hired 17 new custodians at our 11 sites we are now fully staffed at the sites except for the five that is outsourced and we are trying to hire we're 15 custodians positions that we're trying to hire when we when we hire those 15 we'll be able to take over and remove or take the the outsourced custodial cleaning crew and be able to have our own people uh which is a good thing uh you better buy in uh we are able to manage it better and clean our cleaner buildings more more Pride we're also trying to standardize some of our things uh our summer cleanings are making sure that we get everything cleaned and stuff like that we're standing right standardizing our chemicals so we're all using the same thing and also saving money uh trying to do that as well now we're going to touch into some major maintenance and Tim will be sharing some information on that so um uh Cortina Elementary weatherization new paint old paint Higley High School classroom Edition the new construction build over there as their three funding 1.3 million spent since January 2022 to improve air quality per Ezra 3 guidelines district-wide Global controller upgrade the energy management system equipment HVAC replacement and classroom buildings gyms locker rooms and kitchens Refrigeration replacement for walk-in cooler freezers cooling tower and Chiller replacement and repairs and then on the pictures there we have Santan we have new cooling towers that were put in and then Higley High School it's a new Chiller there we move on to the grounds excuse me we do have over 300 acres of um of grounds to maintain as well um along with the 300 ground 300 acres of grounds it's the first impression that uh you know for the students the parents staff and visitors when we come there so we try to keep everything maintained sometimes uh it they the weeds do get away from us but um we we try to maintain them uh weekly we are working on playground improvements we are improving our fall zones by adding wood chips and or the uh the rubber chips we are adding shade structures and like I mentioned uh keeping up with the sand uh sand wood and rubber chips we have purchased some new equipment to help maintain and do things more efficiently we've added a dump truck a tractor mowers and blowers are always needed with all of the grass that needs to be done and we do all of the um the athletic field painting for rentals and for our athletic games and so on uh so we've added some new field painting equipment as well um we control we are out there daily and then we are also working on the athletic fields uh the irrigation the field maintenance uh the painting as I mentioned and uh and any equipment maintenance uh that the athletic teams uh need uh we try to do as many of the repairs as possible future projects um one of one of the big ones that we have going we will be replacing all of the flooring at Power Ranch that will be starting uh next week during spring break so um and we will have that completed by mid-july we're also doing we do site capacity studies and walks each year we'd do a sidewalk is to be completed at each School this will help us review capacity of each of the rooms for future use and help us determine the needs for schools over the next five to ten years for our Capital plan um a goal to standardize uh once again we're trying to standardize our custodial procedures we are also bringing uh into uh into the district with the help of the fmx that we talked about earlier uh preventive maintenance that is required by the school facility oversight board they are very um very very picky it's probably picky's not a good word they're very enthusiastic about wanting to make sure that preventive maintenance is done which is a good thing the better we maintain it the longer it lasts the better the more money we save we're also trying to improve our work order efficiency and working on our landscape rotation in our five-year Capital plan we The Five-Year Capital plan has been created and I have created a cycle of schools for the years more more than that we're modifying and adjusting the uh the uh The Five-Year Plan that we have developed and the major categories for that Five-Year Plan is playgrounds flooring HVAC weatherization which is a new word for we're painting the buildings and Safety and Security Roofing and building additions as needed for student growth and that concludes everything and thank you very much and we'd be happy to try and answer any of your questions should you have any thank you very much gentlemen it sounds like you're extremely busy and I love that we're bringing the custodial Services back in-house I know that it was a need during covet but to save money and take in control of our custodial Services questions I just wanted to make a comment um first of all thank you I'm an educator and I know that teachers we can go outside and teach under a tree but it wouldn't be the same experience so you keep us going your team keeps us safe Keeps Us cool absolutely healthy and I I just want to make it known out there and everybody knows this I don't need to say it but I just want to publicly state that your team and everything you do you guys are truly the foundation to our district and we really appreciate you and thank you very much those are very kind words and I will relay that to the guys that are actually out there doing the work Tim and I we get to offer suggestions and uh and stuff like that uh there's a wonderful team out there that actually do the work they deserve all the credit but thank you very much thank you Mrs Anderson I agree and thank you gentlemen I appreciate it very much thank you have a wonderful evening [Applause] we are moving on to 7.2 strategic Plan update Mrs Richards yes president Schultz tonight I have the honor of introducing Dr Chris treat he is a key player as you well know in the school district and we've been working very closely for the past couple of years but we're not done and there's a great future ahead of us so I'm going to turn it over to Dr treat members of the board it's my pleasure to give you an update on where we are with portion of the Strategic plan uh specifically the portrait of her graduate portion um if you'll recall a few years ago the portrait of a graduate portion of this was was undertaken and approved by the board uh you can see here in this slide it encompassed many of the same types of ideas that we have now but uh honestly it needed it needed updating it needed refinement it needed a little bit of simplification as well which is why over the past two years as many of you are aware we've put a lot of effort in not just working with small groups of people but rather involving large representative groups from everyone from students through community members through teachers and other staff members in all departments and this is our current portrait of a graduate you can see it focuses on the ideas of a responsible citizen your College and Career ready Scholars and Innovative Learners and a portrait of graduate is simply a set of goal goals it's a way for a large organization like this to be able to Envision what is it we really want for our students it's a way for everyone to find their role within this process to help students develop these skills and these attributes so that they truly can take on those Limitless possibilities that we hope that they're able to after being in our care and so as we move forward a little bit I want to talk a little bit about some of the tangible things that we have been done that we're in the middle of doing to help bring these ideas to life for example with College and Career ready Scholars we're working very hard to bring together our curriculum and to align our instruction to standards I'm going to show you a little bit about some of the details that goes with that for responsible citizens this is really undertaken differently on different campuses and the different types of clubs whether it's best buddies or link crew the way that they connect our Veterans Day connections it really has the opportunity to look different in different campuses but connecting our students with the people around them so that it's not just the school Community but truly the Higley town community and Innovative Learners I'm going to show you one of the ways that we're going to approach this is through thoughtful professional development to make certain that our teachers have all the tools and all the learning and not just from our perspective but but from their perspective to make certain that we're incorporating feedback and requests so that when teachers Express needs or administrators Express needs or others who are closely associated the when they observe training gaps that were able to help provide that much needed support for teachers so that they can help our students become those Innovative learners so I want to start off by kind of diving right in here with those District instructional Maps this is something that we're working on uh and have been working on throughout the entire school year and the idea is if we're truly wanting our students to be those College and Career ready Scholars we need to make sure that they have the academic preparation the knowledge and the skills and those come from the state standards that's our our our mission that's that's where our our home base with this and so the better our teachers are supported in knowing what those standards are then the better able they're going to be able to provide that direct support to students so throughout this entire year facilitated by our outstanding instructional coaches fantastic teams of teachers have come in and and put hours and hours of work on this in every grade band in every content area they've contributed to these instructional maps to take the standards which are Broad and oftentimes overwhelming but rather than to prioritize those standards so that we understand a logical sequence so that we truly understand what are the Knowledge and Skills embedded in a particular standard and when teachers have the power to have a say about how that instruction takes place they're able to truly take ownership and and be the leaders in developing those College and Career ready Scholars and so that work it takes a long time we've been going this entire year we have a Target gather date of June 1st for us to pull together all those maps that we have been putting together in all grade levels and then the idea is to make those available to teachers so that they can as they go through that planning process that collaborative team process they have their ideas in front of them and not just the standards prioritize but the relative resources that we have we have adopted outstanding curricular materials and we have great supplementals available but they do you no good if you don't know where they are or how they relate to the standards that you're being asked to teach and so the idea of these Maps is to try to create a simplified form so that teachers can very easily work together to plan the best lessons that they can this is truly something done with teachers for teachers and not done at them or or something to try to enforce or prescribe any type of teaching so we really value those Partnerships and know that these are living documents and that they are always under review and always under consideration you know we always talk about it's important to give your best answer give it a shot take good notes and then adjust it as you go from there and that's where we encourage our teachers to do is to say hey maybe we need to resequence this maybe we have better resources available to us and that ongoing dialogue across the campuses helps connect the instructional side of things for for our kids if you think about the instructional cycle it's plan teach measure adjust and this is what teachers do in the classroom well we feel that instructional Maps such as this that are aligned to current standards help them in that process and make it so that they're not having to hunt around and search around and hope that they have something that they can pull out that might work but rather to build on the strength of all of their peers who have come together in this process and see their voices there and so it's really important that we relate exactly what it is we want to teach to the materials that we have available so we can best utilize the resources that we have so that's one of the ways that we've been kind of working toward that is to make sure our instruction leads us in that direction of College and Career ready Scholars I've got an example here of a map this is I believe a sixth grade math MAP that you can see so you can see kind of some of the elements that our teachers have been working to make sure are on there so that they understand what the various learning targets are or maybe essential questions which drive that instruction along with those prioritized focused standards and the those available resources and the goal is to have those resources which are in our collection of approved supplementals or adopted curriculum when possible to be hyperlinked so that a teacher can go right from this map to the tool and be able to put those resources into play and so these are just kind of a sampling of what it is that our folks are putting together you know an important question and function of an instructional map such as this is it really answers that question how do I know what to teach because you might be an experienced teacher you might have been doing something for a long time but how do I know what I'm doing tomorrow on a Thursday morning how do I know what's expected of me and what sequence to what degree using what materials focusing on what key vocabulary an instructional map that's been created by expert peers is a great first step to help make sure that we aren't wondering what it is that we're supposed to teach but we're able to align our instruction to not just the standards but to the best ideas that we can pull together as a community and as I said those ideas grow and grow because these are ongoing it also allows us a flexible mechanism for when changes happen so win standards turn over and change as they did over the last five or six years this type of tool can be updated and refreshed to meet any of those changes or when we have adoptions or new materials come on this allows us to put those materials as much as possible at the fingertips of our teachers so that they're not scrambling or like in the old days digging them out of some big box that was over there in the corner so that's kind of the goal of this the idea is when we pull all these ideas together we can help put our teachers in a position to continue to develop those College and Career ready Scholars another part of what we're doing here in advancement sign there we go sorry another part of what we're doing here to try to make certain that we have Innovative Learners is to have supportive professional development and in this District we graciously have these early release Wednesdays and we take it very seriously the responsibility to make sure that we use that time to grow as professionals and this is an example of that Elementary professional learning calendar that we put together and I think one of the things that you'll see on here is an intentional balance between giving the site some days for them to work with so that they can address their specific needs and District level needs as well and so that kind of balance along with those professional learning communities and providing time for teachers specifically to meet together to work on that idea of how they can truly meet the needs of their students so what we have here is an example of a way that we try to intentionally balance that time and get everything we can out of it to again allow our teachers to have that on job opportunity to grow and further their own skills and so many of the opportunities that really happen with this are the chances to talk to someone from another school who teaches the same grade level or teaches the same content area it's so hard for a classroom teacher to be able to reach across to another campus and learn and grow and support someone else because of the nature of the work it's so so all-consuming but professional development days like this especially when we have the big district-wide PDS provide that opportunity for folks to learn from each other as much as to learn from maybe guests or people who help facilitate learning here's an example of our secondary professional learning calendar you'll see the same types of elements are put into place here where there's a balance between site-based opportunities collaborative team professional learning time and District base and the idea is that if we kind of take that multi-vectored approach and allow different groups to have different time to do their work that we can best kind of meet the needs of our instructional staff so that they can learn and grow within the framework of this day and really take advantage of those opportunities the other nice thing is because it's scheduled because you know when it's coming it's very easy for us to help folks prepare and one of the important tools that we do for district-wide professional development is as much as possible make certain that folks know hey what exactly are we going to be doing there what resources am I going to need to bring what's our what's our Target what are we trying to accomplish during this time we don't want folks just showing up at a certain time and then wondering what's going to happen but rather we want to build that anticipation we want to help them best understand hey this is what the opportunity is going to be and along with that we also need to pay attention to how it goes and so we always survey our teachers after every session that we have and we dive into that data it's very important for us to understand exactly how it went but also to know what is it that you think we should be doing next because based on the quality of the experience that folks have in a professional learning session they'll often tell you okay this is what our next steps really need to be and we work very hard to build those into our future sessions so we're really doing everything we can to build a partnership between the folks that are typically delivering that professional learning experience and the people who are typically attending those in fact one of the things that's really important is making sure that um making sure that that time is utilized so that they can really make those cross-campus connections My Hope Is that uh in these sorts of professional development opportunities folks will maybe meet somebody who is facing the same sorts of challenges and they will now see an ally in other another school we don't want our schools to feel competitive with each other in that regard we want them to be cooperative in sources of information and it's really great to see people working together and I know our professional development team of instructional coaches that were really hard to make sure that everyone feels comfortable in those environments so that they can kind of be in that learning posture so that they can get everything that they can out of that but you have to make it clear as to why we're there and so that's why we always have success criteria and Link all of our professional development to ultimately our strategic plans so that we're all moving in that same direction to make certain that we keep in mind what the needs of the Learners are um this next slide here is kind of an example of just some of the promotional materials that we like to put out there as I said we don't want to just send an email which says Hey show up on the 10th and you know be here for two hours but rather when possible we'd like to get folks excited about it come and and know that it's going to be a time of uh collegial Fellowship it's going to be a time where you're going to learn something and hopefully have a good time while you're doing it and so this is just two of the four pages of information that went out to our elementary folks for their January PD days because this isn't just uh regular grade level teachers it's also specialist teachers and those are are LED through the outstanding work of of tremendous teacher leaders and I just had a great meeting the other day with Brian Greenlaw one of our fantastic Elementary PE teachers about again appreciating the efforts of those teacher leaders who helped them out with the specials but also hey what what more do you need how much can we support you what else can can we do to keep adjusting things so for every month we we put out materials that hopefully not just inform but also excite and and help somebody build some anticipation one of the things I always ask of our instructional coaches and facilitators of professional learning experiences is that they send out a follow-up communication to help pull together all the ideas that were learned a lot of times in a whirlwind of conversation and learning and often a fast-paced agenda you you get a little bit overwhelmed and we want to make sure that those resources live on that the experience has a has a chance to kind of go from there and so we always adopt a tell show due tomorrow kind of vision for this we always want there to be a tomorrow aspect to it in fact we use the phrase tomorrow takeaways there has to be a tomorrow takeaway for every lesson that we do in a professional learning experience so that those folks can maybe use something that they learned right away and put it into action and try it out and and to and to continue to grow along those lines so moving kind of into just the portrait of a graduate in general if you'll recall last year we spent a lot of effort in bringing kids here as we said representative groups and kind of trying to get our hands around what this portrait of a gradual could look like and so what we thought was important to do was take the next steps with that idea of okay what does a College and Career ready scholar look like and instead of it just being my definition or definition of leadership or other adults we thought all right it's time now to make sure that we widen this kind of concept and widen the conversation so we built this challenge where we're going out to each of the campuses and we've asked each of our administrators to identify a teacher leader on each site and that teacher leader is going to working with their administrative team identify a handful of students to represent their campus kind of a cross-section of of the folks who go to school there and what we've asked them is to just kind of frame a thought around well what does portrait of a graduate those College and Career ready Scholars and responsible citizens and Innovative Learners what what are those those look like to you the student and from that student perspective and what is it that it looks like here on your particular campus because even though we're a small District geographically we still have different communities and it's so exciting to walk on each campus and and see how they view themselves within there and the idea is for our students working with fellow students and leaders on their campus to answer this question what does the husd portrait of a graduate mean to them and their school community and right now we're getting a chance to introduce that to the folks at the the campuses Miss Richards and I have been going around meeting with people around the the district and kind of setting that idea in motion before break gets started and and I have to tell you it's been an absolute Joy getting to work with the teachers in particular who even though they're on the doorstep of spring break you can see right away the creative juices are starting to flow and just start thinking about hey when we come back from break what are some things that you can help maybe do with the kids and how do we get the kids voices out here as to what does that portrait of a graduate those elements that we have identified previously what does that look like for you on your campus and so they're going to work on that project throughout the month of April and then we're going to head back out in May and the students are going to get a chance at each campus to kind of showcase their creative approach to what this portrait of graduate means to them so there's no specific way it's going to look or I mean again we want them to be student creative and have it represent that campus so we're really excited to kind of take that next step so not just a small handful of students but now moving wider and wider and hopefully maybe create some permanent ways that that campus can introduce new students or future students to what their interpretation is what their views are on this portrait of a graduate and how they see themselves as those College and Career ready Scholars and responsible citizens I love that idea I'm excited to see the outcome of it um I think I brought this up earlier whenever we were talking about one of our meetings for this portion as they uh invite or seek out students um will they be seeking out not just the model students that love schools those that maybe are struggling don't like school so much just to get their opinion I would love to see what they think a portrait of a graduate looks like and maybe light a little fire in their mind of yeah interact with other students thank you vice president Anderson we specifically have asked and in our conversations with teachers as we start to Envision what this can be to make sure that you have a real broad representation of the population of your school it's not all students of a certain age or grade level or of a certain GPA or something like that but rather let's let's really get into the heart and soul of who goes to school here and and and have everybody's voice kind of shine through at least in a in a representative group like that so you're you're right on the money with that similar as the construct that we did when we did the fact finding the first time by going out to the sites and actually widening expanding the student groups that are there the two of them have been going giving the sort of the here's what we're going to be working on here's who we need we want you to identify and then when we return from break literally the three of us are going on a whirlwind tour as we go around and provide the information allow students to then digest think and then work to create what that might look like for them and then we'll come back out again for them to show and share so by the end of the second round that we go out to them we'll have some beautiful artifacts that we can bring back in show and share and Dr Foley may I add president Schultz we're going to take Curtis with us in May so we can capture some of the excitement and get it in our story because I think it's been good for us to have our video online because people have watched it and the kids are going to watch it when we go back out in April so I I do want to say something really quickly about Dr treat when you guys approved this position I had no idea that he was going to come back to Higley he doesn't always brag on himself now I want to brag because he's not just teaching the coaches the teachers he's teaching us so when we go into net Services meeting there was always a takeaway here's something you can take use with your teams same thing with the principles so we appreciate your support with with this position and what he's done and what he continues to do so thank you [Applause] presidential I have to agree um I can't thank you enough just a really quick background on portrait of a graduate because some people's hair might be tingling because of those words um we sat in this room several years ago in a goal planning session and I believe Mrs Kaylor had just returned from a National School Board Association conference and saw the portrait of a graduate and that there was some defining traits and gave some Direction so when we came back and we met for our goal planning um we were talking about it and Dr Foley was in there and she's like well wait a minute do you know what a portrait of a graduate is because there is a curriculum or or a documented piece out there a portrait of a graduate and Mrs kaler is like well I saw parts of this and so Dr Foley educated the board on exactly what that was and we're like no no no no that's not what we want um we want a Higley version we want to higley-ize it which we do a lot of um and so Dr Foley wasn't even in the superintendent role at that time and just ran with that we wanted some some goals we wanted to be able to Define what we want kids leaving Higley with we want teachers to be able to have something to look at and where we're consistent um and so this was brand new with our strategic plan and so Dr tree you have taken this to a whole new level than that conversation that happened in here you know though the board at the time and Mr Glover and I know Mrs Anderson very passionate about professional development we had all these early release days and we weren't quite sure what was coming out of it we didn't have structured we had some coaches but there was no one overseeing to really bring it all together and and everything so how you've brought the professional development to our teachers and our students and everything here with portrait of a graduate going back we talk about our stakeholders going back to our kids what does this mean just like our strategic plan this is going to be ever changing and evolving and moving because what we look at today is not going to be the same in five years and so I just appreciate where you've taken this idea and have made it into a very impactful um I don't want to call it a program but part of our strategic plan where we're not just saying you need to do this we're providing support and you're driving it what does it mean to you and when you guys defined responsible citizen that took a whole team of people and everyone it took everyone to buy into it and I I see it all the time people talk about it and it gives people something to kind of live by so Dr treat I have to thank you for this is yours this is all you and this is yours that you took our idea and you have brought a team in and you have have created what it is so thank you thank you you're too kind of believe me it's not only it is a huge Community but thank you problem so I had an opportunity to meet with Dr Foley and Miss Richards and Mr Dr tree yesterday to get a better understanding of portrait of a graduate and you know I did a lot of research prior to even knowing that this was in Higley and I can tell you that you know there's a lot of valid reasons um based on what I've learned in my research and at the last board meeting it was said you know we we've been working on this for two years and parents can go back and watch the last two years of board meetings but a lot of parents didn't pay attention and I know that prior to covid people parents trusted schools and districts and teachers and once kids went to distance learning a lot of parents saw what was being taught in in class and so now parents are paying attention um from my research I'd like to kind of explain the concern um I learned that portrait of a graduate is a national program created by a company called battle for kids battle is a applied science and technology company that uses technology to track behaviors the program was incentivized through policies and grants in a 2015 federal education law every student succeeds which replaced No Child Left Behind These policies are an extension of Common Core reforms some of some of battle's strategic partners that direct that direct States adoption of portrait of a graduate or Castle Aurora Institute Excel and Ed and knowledgeworks which is a Bill Gates funded organization each of these companies is working towards a mass data collection of children's values attitudes and behaviors with a company called Data quality campaign this program pushes families out of the picture of their children's future replaces personal education priorities with non-academic social justice vision of correct attitudes and mindsets which are all social emotional learning competencies that every child is expected to model and master portrait of a graduate is being used to fundamentally transform the purpose of U.S education shifting curriculum assessments School accountability and data collection away from academics and towards social emotional learning portrait of a graduate tracks children and all sorts of social services including health services and into the workforce in a final scheme of things portrait of a graduate is a backbone for social credit scoring and ESG scoring for children teachers are being shifted into becoming facilitators of social emotional system and over time the entire system would be geared towards social emotional learning there are there's also another organization involved called Panorama education their website shows that they build Behavior surveys and data collection around portrait of a graduate Panorama was founded by U.S attorney general Merrick Garland son-in-law which could possibly be the reason why Merrick Garland called parents domestic terrorists with that said I hope you understand why parents would be concerned the data mining children and you know focusing everything on the social emotional learning and Dr Foley assured me that that that's not the district's plan um that this they only took the framework from this program and our um and with the help of teachers parents and students came up with our own version and which isn't anything like the original program that was that I described above I still see a lot of similarities I do have to say um but and I still have a lot of questions so I will continue to come to you guys with my questions um to better understand it um and to be able to not only for myself but also for my constituents to assure them that um what I described isn't actually what is being brought into the district and I know this is this came in 2017.
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thank you any questions or discussion either about the contents of the report itself or about my summary of the discussion of the report maybe last time I had one comment Chris um the illusion was made at our last meeting that perhaps this one balance that we recruited over these years was prize and something we did without signature discussion I just wanted to really point now this has been intimately discussed among the board every year since I've been here and we've always made very deliberate decisions on how to best these stewards of that public dollar and I just want to sort of as we're voting on the budget as you mentioned with some of the things you just said reiterate that commitment to being prudent with our community members dollars it's something that's really top of mind for all of us you know when we discuss these budgets um I think we're being really attentive to making sure that we're being responsible for any inference to the contrary say that I believe we've been very thoughtful and very thoroughly thank you I actually have a question I might not even apply here but given the fact that in benefits that that would include Healthcare with I don't know whether or not our teachers get the benefits that some of the other and would it be worth looking into the upping the benefits as a way to take care of the teachers better than having all these Surplus so I don't know the answer it's sort of a point by Point level of how our uh benefits package aligns with that of other districts that is something that's addressed during contract negotiations every year the biggest wide item both in terms of you know value and in terms of cost is salary but they're also discussions about each point of the benefits that's another way that we can take care of our teachers but I'm not able to answer the question of how we align on on individual components of the benefit but yeah the primary the primary thing is that the staff teacher or staff member takes an individual versus couple versus family that difference is different cost so when you budget for family but the individual opts to take only the individual or don't take benefits at all because their spouse appropriate benefits then that's what generates this okay um the people no let's vote hearing no further discussion I'll call for a vote all those in favor of approving the report please indicate by saying can you post abstention passes the report isn't approved uh the further discussion at the finance committee last night was very brief we had a brief discussion of the ongoing use of the RF funds to finish our Pavilion which we'll hear more about from Mrs word uh we heard about the audit which is done uh with no concerns at all about our our record keep facial management here at the school is as dear and I applaud Mrs bird Mrs Fargo and they're just to the staff for that record there continue to be some work to do in terms of aligning the school and town to making sure that the two budget systems are fully integrated and there's no ambiguity as money passes back between them there's a little work to do there within the school itself there were no concerns in the audit and it's done so we will not be hearing about the audience um I think that's it any further questions about the finance okay hearing then we'll move on to whatever's next negotiations very good thank you yes we have parent negotiations this spring and then we have teacher negotiation um policy policy we met last night and we will have forward that completes our committee meetings we move on to unfinished business move on to new business so there is a new item uh concerning a child carriers of absence request Mrs Burton so we have a child League of absence required from Victoria and jtech a speech and language pathologist she is requesting a child care extension for the entire 2023-22 school year per the contract and you have a copy of and if I can clarify my understanding of the contract so all of our teachers are entitled to parental leave of I believe 12 weeks that's a set amount of time and then are in with pay and then are entitled to the remainder of the school year without May and that's their entitled to that by contract this is a request to have the job held for the another year after that so A Lead without pay for the following yearbook with the job still here at the end of that is that it was my understanding correct thank you all right um and what do you what are you advise us about this request I would recommend it or division building it this year but it would impose a hardship on the district but another qualified person willing to take the post for an entire year for an entire year without right agenda afford them an additional year so this would be on a Case budget it's a very tough president in the past I think we've honored it I think in the past for a classroom teacher over the last 14 years there have been instances when we've honored these requests and there have been there have because it just deployment how many speech and language pathologists more than half of our Speech Pathology okay for the discussion before we move so we need to vote as a board on whether to approve or not we've heard the recommendation any questions for Mrs Burke questions about the contractor policy or other matters prior to moving on to a vote can I ask one more question how is the workload with 1.78 currently is it it's it's it's pretty to manage with the one that's what I'm asking seven eight or eight that we have now they are swamped and I know to lose that one person you are willing to stay for the year is the concern thank you so you're saying you have something to fill in for that right here but it's not guaranteed that person would say if the other so so that so miss Andre chick is currently out and we do have a long-term sub in that position who is willing to fill for this year but there's no guarantee that we could get that person to come back for a year who we might have to cover because it's also a shortage area so there's no way to guarantee that he would come back but the challenge is how do we get a good person who's willing to take the job without any guarantee without any continuation a one year long further questions of discussion depends on how you you acquire that individual if we had to go with an agency it would be much more expensive if it's a long-term sub like a medical agency or someone that we've hired as an individual it really depends all right so we need a motion to State our decision which we then need to vote on so I will make a motion to deny with regret the request for an extended leave of absence made by Victoria and Drake come here thank you any further questions or discussion if you're a medical for reboot and obviously people don't agree with that say so what's your vote all those in favor of the vote to deny the request indicate by saying aye any opposed any extensions the motion passes the request is tonight vote say um very important position s thank you uh we move on to the Board of Education goals Media review so I'd like to keep this brief especially given how late we started today but to remind everyone um the uh we have severe as a district have several sets of goals the district strategic plan which was revived reviewed every five years we have these superintendent's goals which basically translate that strategic plan on a year-by-year basis into overarching goals for the superintendent herself and for the school that she oversees then that leads into administrator goals and we have our board operational goals and these are not so much of the operation of the school and the details but rather about our function as a board and it's a place for us to put into writing the values that we hold for ourselves in in working together as a board and then twice a year now and at our July Retreat to read them and remind ourselves of them and have any needed discussion about whether the things we need to work on um and I'm not going to read through all of these I'm going to read to the goals but not all the bullet points and pause and just see if there's anything that we need to discuss or reflect on as we go through we're not going to edit these goals or revise them at this point that's something we do every year in July we just want to reflect on are there things here that we're letting slip to the crack so that we want to improve on um well one the board will maintain a focus on high standards of learning Social Development and emotional support for all of our children with continual Improvement then we have a series of bullet points about monitoring achievement which we did at our meeting last last month engage in regular dialogue with the administration about strength and opportunities for improvement I think we think we continually strive to support a well-rounded education the curriculars and other than the Core curriculum and continually support the social emotional and physical needs of our students both because these are important goals and end upsells and because social emotional and physical health is essential for optimal uh I think this is the focus of most of what we do most of our interactions with the superintendent and the staff but I wonder if others have anything they want to say or things that they'd like to see us doing in these domains okay um goal number two the board will continue and augment efforts in communication and Outreach to staff parents students and the broader community open forums twice a year which we do encourage public attendance and participation including by teachers and staff at board meetings I'd just like to say I'm thrilled with the increased attendance we've added to board meetings and the increased public comment over the last few I realize it's not the most exciting thing in the world as we go through our business but it's really valuable and when people come with public comment it it brings important things forward both things we knew about but that are emphasized and their details by people who care about them and sometimes things that we didn't know about so um so that's really valuable and I um communicate through letters and other mechanisms honestly I'm supposed to write a letter once in a while and I've fallen down on that a bit and relied on Mrs Berg so that's something and ensure the presence of board members at Major school events to maintain visibility and availability of board members which I think we could probably do better but I think those of us who are parents are always you know from this one and what never miss one excellent you have three reasons yes any comments or discussion on any of those things under Google [Music] speakers welcome that's a that's a good idea many years ago we had an open Forum specifically with staff honestly didn't go well it was at a time of enormous 10 schools a decade ago but and we didn't it didn't become a regular thing but but perhaps a trip or we could certainly think together and think with Mrs bird about other ways that we can do that I think that's so maybe we can follow up we do have and this will be announced a little later we have the spotlight spectacular coming up uh that is a celebration of this of the teachers um people are given awards for uh long length you know length of uh service at BCS and other acknowledgments are made at that time um I try to attend that almost every year and speak on behalf of the board um to the teachers but it's usually not heavily attended by board members and that would be an opportunity for a larger presence of the board to be at the edited event that is explicitly about celebration of Art thank you EJ anything else under uh goal too which is both three the board will seek to enhance its efficacy and efficiency through professional development we will institute a structured orientation for new members to familiarize them with their roles and responsibilities we're in the midst of that right now I will say that's largely deferred to this is burden Mrs Carpenter to make sure that our new members have have materials and we'll we'll do uh actually we'll need to think about that next year actually because we've always done that at our July Retreat when we've had turnover but now that the elections are in November we'll have to think about the best way to do someone we'll have to think about the best way to do orientation for new board members when we have a whole new crew um Mrs Bradford I know you've spent time with Mrs Carpenter Mrs Burton had gotten materials from them but if you'll find that it takes a little while to sort of get that get a hang of the the meetings and the rhythm of everything goes but please at any time ask if I can help or anything that you're not um continually seek out opportunities for professional development to enhance understanding and ability to function as affected board members so opportunities like include bringing people here to talk to us about new legislation or particular topics we've done that from time to time and we can think about it as a board but if there's something we'd want to do at our July Retreat to for development on a particular topic there are also opportunities like the game conference which Mrs lustinski went to I went to two but I was there for like 12 minutes um he had to take a picture and um they're also there's a day on the hill which I used to go to and I haven't gotten to since there are opportunities I think this is something we could do better as a board everyone's busy it takes time but I think it is but we have had some representations finally go forward the board will perform all of its duties with the highest ethical standards the board will be cognizant of the importance of confidentiality of both students and staff I know of no cases of concern for this and then in the year there was a few years ago this is that this showed up on our goals because there was a concern but I know of no recent concerns I hope if anyone else does the appropriate form board members will attend and participate in meetings and subcommittee meetings as scheduled I'd say this is an area where we have room for improvement and we saw that today whether we're not able to start our meeting for half an hour because several people not able to come usually for good reasons but it is a an ongoing problem for us full engagement not much there now obviously I'm speaking to the people right here there is one other thing that I want to say under this goal I received Communications after our last board meeting from a number of concerned community members who are in attendance some individually and then one advisable group to express the concern about the comportment of certain board members at our February meeting that was that struck them as disrespectful and creating a an environment um was not conducive to inclusive discussion and in particular about the use of language that was offensive to some where it was lynching it was used at our last board meeting by a board member and was offensive to quite a few people um and so I think that we need to take this as an opportunity I have apologized on behalf of the board for that to the people who reached out to me I do think that we need to make sure that we conduct ourselves in a manner that is professional and appropriate and sets a model for the children who are educated and um we also need to be aware I mean we do have we're we're on mic we're on the web and we have more people coming than we usually did that's great that's wonderful and it means more people are watching and so I think it's a reminder for us to be aware of the impact that our comportment and professionalism may have uh and I'd like to see that added to these goals um and I apologize to anyone here any members of the public who are troubled by anything uh any comportment or speech at the last coordinating comments or discussion on anything under the School Number Four including what I just have contacts I mean I I'm just a little concerned that we as a board of just learning of this and I don't know I said it I have no idea um sure but you apologize for it I think the appropriate thing was whoever said it was a member of the board should be the one to make a decision you should know the context of it and certainly I don't think any of us would want to one of anyone or I mean to be disrespectful or not set a good example so if the context was in a in Mrs Bird's um discussion of the budget and of the uh increases that have been asked for by different districts about across the state which have ranged from two point something up to 11 on something um and uh Mr Garcia said that he's going to just wait till they come for the person who proposed the 11.7 to Lynch them struck a lot of people as inappropriate and there were a few other things in the meeting that some people spoke to me about but that was the key comment multiple people Square yes I have spoken to Mr Garcia and we had an understanding that that was not not appropriate behavior and he's committed to me that uh uh try not to engage in any similar Behavior I mean I can't speak for anybody else on the board besides myself but for personally if there's anything that I do that's offensive I would like to know personally so that we can speak about it because you know I just think that's the appropriate thing to do rather than have somebody and Chris is a spokesperson for us but you know things could be misunderstood taken out of context I just think it's important when it comes to communicating and communicating professionally and competently and just you know luckily it shouldn't be one-to-one because you wouldn't want anywhere else in life you wouldn't want somebody else speaking for looking for it's just being responsible and accountable and I think that sets it yes and no I think that the you know speaking to people individually absolutely is a good thing and could be done in this case but also we're functioning in an official capacity experience the board as opposed is also appropriate on Philippines I think but I think the board doesn't mean necessarily individuals and I think not on this board I'm sure not everyone agrees or disagrees with what Garcia had said so therefore I think when when it comes to specific language it you know I think it's not representative we can't go out in the public and speak on our own behalf or the board we can speak on our own behalf but we can't speak to speak for the board I have the same thing I think it should be no one suggested in the complaints to me that all members of the board were using it I think that's correct all of us the main things that we want to realize what you're saying at all yeah I think you know both both are both in the level of insulation by by it's a good first step yeah that might be outside of you know it's a good first thing and I will say uh Mr Garcia apologized to me for creating this he also apologizes um so so at this you know but it's just as I said I take this as a single event that we can move and a reminder that we are not just talking about school stuff and making decisions but also representing the school we are being watched and we are setting a model for our community and for our students for our children and so it's a good reminder of that and I would like to see that put into those guidelines in their next iteration although I won't be here no I guess I will be here in July all right there's no need to vote or anything here but I wonder if anyone has any further discussion about we'll revisit this at our July retreat at which time we can consider all right we move on to our administrative reports before I begin my report I just would like to acknowledge that March is Board of Education appreciation month I would like to recognize here for your dedication your hard work on behalf of the children of Bethany I do look forward to our continued partnership as we serve our community and honor our commitment our Collective I feel appreciated and then I'll just jump into port enrollment as of February 28 22 my students 6 the historical enrollment shows a snapshot for which prior years for the months of August through February from 2020 and 2021 for your review and comparison kindergarten projections at this time kindergarten enrollment for fall of 2023 is projected to be 55 which would be 18 18 and 19 uh students in a class and so we are currently still anticipating three sections currently there are 49 students actually enrolled which would be 16 16 17 students in the class in pre-enrolled are those 49 and 14 of those were not on Sue's original enumeration so families but we'll continue to monitor those numbers as we've reported to you in the previous meetings if we get to those higher numbers have those conversations instructional age Personnel update for you we are very pleased that Brooke hemperly our new fourth grade teacher she started this week and she hit the ground running started and went right on a field trip so so she's doing great we love having her here there were also some recent changes as I reported out previously in our custodial Department with the resignation of one of our full-time custodians we moved some of the gentlemen around Kevin Fallon is now our lead custodian full-time evening position was vacated by Mr Ayers been reassigned in part-time custodian Kyle Clement moved up it's kind of like the the moving pieces into that full-time position which created the mission that I reported out on and we're happy to announce that our part-time custodial vacancy has now been filled and we hired Kendall Ward as that new custodian and he comes to BCS with eight years of custodial and maintenance experience and that's all I have as far as the enrollment projection Personnel update but uh Dr pittinger did mention that I provide a brief update for you as far as the use of the Esser buns our Pavilion project continues to go well last Thursday Mr bartolini and I met with our architect Rob white to do a walkthrough of the project and everything remains on schedule and we really appreciate his attention to detail fire to not only do things correctly but to do them on time there's a few other items I said to complete mostly electrical and then Paving we're very hopeful that in April when the paving plans open that we'll be able to get on their list and get them paid ideally they'll pay during the week of April 10th because it is school vacation week and they'll have the place to themselves which would mean that following the April vacation we can start available for this experience it's not necessarily our passer funds but just wanted to give you another have done that bidding process for those track I'm very very pleased if we were able to get that project fit on and then actually paved at or around the same time by ideally the same payment perhaps that does the paving for people on that any questions from Mrs bird about any of the top ICS hearing nothing to move on to active stuff the first update I have is for professional development on February 17th we had an opportunity to further our journey with learning more about the Commerce community and we had barbecules in here with us and the professional belt was well received and we're hopeful to continue working with her in the future to have additional professional development and on March 17th we'll be having professional development coming up and that will be focused on social emotional learning I have a legislative update for you our science of reading waiver was submitted to the state on February 27th the document was very detailed there's over 70 pages long and a really huge thank you to Andrea Hubbard for her collaboration in creation as well as Sue Carpenter who assisted us with aggregating the data and we're not sure on the timing of ways we'll get a response from the state but it has however this year they sent us notice that um going to be not administering it because of the science of reading so they're going to redo the entire assessment and for special education the Special Education team hosted a family social on February 23rd we had approximately 17 families in a tent and they were able to enjoy quiet games obstacle course bullying parachute games and we had some staff to clean the volunteers but say their names because it was really impressive that they came gave their time to the family you know Jamie Bowen a lot of good feedback from the family and that idea actually came from the community so for our steering update our experience [Music] for [Music] um so getting resilient to a good spot is also um uh Leadership Council which is really great uh but we've got kids up there foreign [Music] um yesterday we held our BCS convention convention there's a screen in my backyard they want to get to the other part of my my backyard or like like two questions oh and the best part is it's all like these kids questions so uh but it was really just great to have kids Foundation and then also as you heard our fourth grade song and third grade school uh so we really appreciate for their donations tomorrow we have conferences a lot has been going on yeah um did you get a new capacity number so so we got we got feedback so previously um previously we were of of the impression that for our gym the capacity would be enough to uh hold the entire school and a review of that um has the number at 300 I believe uh potentially 360 when you look at it it's a calculation that the fire marshal gave us based on standing room only based on square footage or seated um capacity so it's I believe seven months seven square feet when it's standing room only but then if it's sitting either on the floor or in a chair then it's 15 square feet so when you take the total square footage of the gym divided by those numbers then you get massive so because of that old school events we've had to really kind of rethink some of those and the first one that we've come across has been Community meetings we've had a split between K2 I can try and put any any Communications that I have there's policies and things that I am there's numbers um but I'm more and willing to look into the exactly I know Mr bartolini is I contact around sometimes more specific yeah yeah it's the it's the alphabet soup that I am not I am familiar thank you for the questions for Mr B12 hearing none we move on uh chairs report very briefly we do have our spring open Forum coming up on March 28th it'll be 6 30 to 8 and that will be virtual while we see value in gathering together in a space a genuine or attendance and higher attendance to their open forums when they went to Virtual Durham Zoom so I think that's not a completely obvious decision because it is nice to be together in the same space but we can include more people so that will be held on Zoom um the spotlight spectacular will be later in the spring I match I'm meant to interact with and celebrate our staff but the date is not here I think it's late in the year again we have no updates so uh as you know Mrs Burton I presented put forward to budget which at that time was the superintendent to budget in January uh the board of Finance is now aware that we've approved that budget so it's now the Court's budget and they are considering it alongside other [Music] so um we move on to correspondence okay and we move on to our second and final opportunity for public comment if anyone who'd like to address the board here at the end of our agendency all right uh so in that case it brings us to the end of our public uh meeting we do have a scheduled executive session to review this for the mid-year review of the superintendent schools um so uh I've moved the Bethany Board of Education enter into executive session to discuss their superintendents 2023 2022-2023 mid-year goals and that Cape Byrd is invited to attend second thank you uh so uh once the motion passes that will end our public meeting we'll take about a five minute recess give a chance for people gather up their things and um and then we'll reconvene here uh with Mrs Bert for that executive uh the regular meeting will mean after the executive session for about 27 seconds thank you all for being here this evening good night
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um I'll mention this one really briefly just because I don't think it's likely going to be impacted by uh the action of this committee but there is an additional rule that says you can't be involved in the making of a contract if you would be financially impacted or interested in that particular contract here because this committee is not really involved in the making of contracts you're really just providing a recommendation to the board about the use of property excuse me it's it's very unlikely that this this particular code is going to be implicated still thought it was important enough to uh to mention it to you all though all right and then uh uh uh the next slide please there is kind of one final source of potential conflicts and that is even if it's there isn't going to be a foreseeable and substantial Financial impact in your decisions there's this um kind of other section of the law that says if you feel that you really can't make an unbiased decision right that you're not able to make a decision that's in the best interest of the District of the public entity um for whatever reason then that you know certainly could also be a conflict that you know could be grounds for you to recuse yourself or decide that you don't want to participate in the operation or the business of the committee um if if at any time during the operation of the committee you have a concern about one of these conflicts or you you know want to want to understand more feel free to reach out to superintendent Ortega and you know we can certainly have a conversation about that to get you an answer about whether or not we think there is a conflict there that should be concerning all right next slide please now we're going to talk about the properties um which again I'm sure you are all very familiar with but I just want to make sure you know we have all six of them in mind um and so we'll go Slide by uh by slide here to talk about each the next slide please all right um Ellington Elementary School um so this site is 8.55 Acres it's shaped a bit like a pentagon kind of like a square and a triangle mixed together um it's in Covina and a kind of a kind of a section of code of Covina um it is currently surrounded by uh some retail on on one side by single family homes and then also by like mixed use on a third side um it is zoned as light agricultural currently um so that's just you know some basic facts about the site when we look at it from a property perspective all right next slide please all right uh so Center Middle School um this site has a rectangular shape it's the largest of all the six sites that we're looking at as a part of the committee 13.87 Acres um it's in Azusa um and it is uh surrounded on on all four sides by uh low density like Residential Properties also zoned as light agricultural all right next site um Mountain View Elementary this site has a square shape it's about 8.5 Acres the smallest of all six of the sites that we're looking at as the committee um also in Azusa and it um it is surrounded by single story residential and then some light industrial on one side it is zoned as a industrial school or sorry um institutional School site all right next slide please all right uh Howell Elementary School um also and it's the kind of the Far Eastern side of Azusa um it's a it's a square shaped property it's about 9.14 Acres um and it is surrounded on most sides by single-family homes and then apartments and it is zoned um institutional next slide please all right the uh former Sierra High School adult education center also a square shaped parcel it's about 9.7 acres in size um it's low to medium density on most sides and then a multi-family like residential also and it is zoned a single family residential and our final site is uh Slauson Middle School again it's a square shaped parcel about 9.43 acres in size low and medium density homes surround the site and it's currently zoned as institutional School uses all right so that's that's a really brief summary of those um of those six sites the size the shape and uh some of the surrounding uses and Zoning those are really kind of some of the uh the basic facts about a property that I look at you know when I'm looking at it um and so I wanted to make sure that I shared with you all all those things are public knowledge um they're available you know through the County website things like that um next item that we'll look at are the property options so when we're looking at a potential um you know use or or change in use of a site there are various options from a legal perspective for what the district can do with the site um and these things I like to point out because usually some um some or all of these are going to be mentioned in the report kind of based on your recommendation for what what you think the board should do with the sites um or the you know freedoms or options that you think the board should should have to decide really what the what the best potential use is for the site um so we'll talk through each of these just uh just briefly I'm actually going to start at the bottom with the use and license agreement so even if a site is Surplus to the educational needs of the district meaning that the um the district doesn't have a educational you know like classroom purpose right for that for the site there's still the potential option to keep actual like ownership of the site and to have a use or less this agreement where someone comes in um you know they do a lease or like a shirt a short-term use of the site depending on the needs um at that site some of the benefits of that particular use are that the district is still the owner right so any value in that property if it goes up or down is still going to be to the district's benefit over time some of the drawbacks there is not all districts want to be landlords in all cases right there's extra cost time expense um and labor that you know is involved in being a landlord uh for a site um going to the right there there's an exchange option so the Education Code actually has this kind of unique option where a um a district can exchange a property for another site of similar value it still has to be within the boundaries of the district but if there you know with some other location or some other like nature of a property that made more sense for a particular District goal or use there's always the option to do an exchange assuming the owner of that property wants to exchange for the for the property that you have to offer um going upwards to Green there's always the option to retain um right so it's not you know I don't want to sound like all of these options are getting rid of the parcel there are certainly some that can retain it for example the use and license agreement is is a retention of the property and just a different use from what it's been used for currently um if we go to the left um Elise you know is kind of the same idea um Elise is like a longer term version of a use or license agreement um and it has has different qualities uh really has the same benefits and drawbacks right as the use and license you know the the district still owns it they still benefit from the increase or decrease in value but they have to operate and maintain it as a landlord um at the top there's the sale option um in purple and you know sales take a number of different forms they can be uh you can have a property sold for a number of different uh you know uses and to different buyers so that's really um a much more diverse option than I think it you know looks like from the visual there um but you know that is certainly one option um and the uh the proceeds of a sale of surplus property goes back into a fund that is that is used to benefit the properties that are currently at the district so there is a restriction that the money that comes from those sales has to be used to um upgrade or like upkeep facilities specifically um the the the last option here that I've noticed or that I've uh that I've included is the waiver option and this is really less of a um use or like change in use of the property and it's more of a particular procedure that you might choose to include in the report now um this is used because there's a section of the Education Code that says if the district decides to sell the property there's a there's a very strict uh procedure and process by which that happens so usually after after we make a series of offers to other like public entities um there's the the option to sell to for-profit entities the way that that has to be structured though is that there's a notice that uh that goes out people can express some interest but they ultimately have to come to a board meeting and raise their hand and say I want to buy it at this price and then there's a bit of a auction that goes on and they can you know uh someone else can offer to buy it for more but that process isn't always the best option for the district right if you think about it there's lots of potential um you know like unique uses or people that may have interest in a site that just can't come to that particular board meeting no matter how far in advance you've given them notice of it um or there's a there's a process of negotiation for a value of a site right or things outside of price that you might want to consider when you're thinking about who you're going to sell the property to and so the waiver process allows the district to submit an application for a waiver to the State Board of Education the State Board then considers the uh the reasons that the board is asking for the waiver and then they they ultimately in in most cases will approve it and what that means is that they say to uh to the district you know you have flexibility in deciding how you want to go about um finding a buyer for your site you have the ability to do an RFP or you know have negotiations that don't have to just be in that very uh formal setting it also gives the district the ability to work with a realtor or with a professional that can kind of uh help them solicit offers for the site so that's um that's mentioned here specifically because it is something that um when when the uh when or if the application for the waiver is made they will uh they will look to the 7-Eleven committee report to see if it was considered by the committee and if it was an option that the committee recommended for the board all right next slide please so in you know kind of wrapping up the content here there were two main questions that I wanted to propose to the committee to consider as you're as you're thinking about all of the work that you do there are really two main things that we want you to think about and then include in the report the first is are the properties needed for for school uses and I say the properties here are plural but really that question is for each individual property because they can be treated differently right is that particular site that we're looking at does it is it Surplus to the needs of the district and then the second question is what subsequent use should that particular site have and it could be you know any of those options that we talked about before um but really you know I would say if you're if you're unsure about really what is being asked of you I would kind of return to these two uh these two like core questions to you know to really determine what the what the role of the committee is right next slide please so I just wanted to give a minute here for any questions I know that was a lot of content and it was all over the board there's a lot of good information but I'm sure you have questions or requests for additional information so the other piece is if there's more data that you want to see um we are certainly happy to provide that to the extent that it's relevant here for the committee's operation um before I take your questions I will tell you that at the next meeting there will be a substantial amount of information about the individual properties delivered so the district has worked with a company uh called dcg they have a board approved agreement where they have done an in-depth thorough analysis of each of the sites and kind of what their development potential or use options are um it's it is very thorough and so that will be presented to the board for them to see in advance and then also staff from dcg will be here to speak with you all at the next meeting so there's there's lots more coming but I just wanted to put this out here initially in case just based on this content so far you have any questions or requests for information any questions from anyone sure I have a question on the options for lease yes the monies from that does that go to upgrade the uh you know the other properties those those uses they do um all have those restrictions oh yes and yes yes in any of these options um we've heard that when there's properties not they're not being used in other sites such as chart not other sites or other like Charter Schools can they come in how does that work with this and so yes so there there is um there is a requirement that if a if a charter school that's operating within the district makes a particular request for for use of a site district has some obligation to make a site available it doesn't have to be one site in particular just has to be a suitable space for the request so to the extent that there are Surplus sites that are just kind of sitting and aren't being used for a district purpose those uh it is very possible to receive a request like that so if one of these options were taken can one of those schools come in or is it there a part where they can if for instance I would say like a sale they can't obviously right well they can still make their request it's just that the district doesn't have to offer that particular site they'd have to find another suitable site to kind of fulfill the need of their requests so when you when you just when you um find an alternative use like a sale or at least to another entity it kind of pulls that site off the table if that makes sense that's not it okay any other question um I think this is the requester um so look there are six sites and I'm wondering if we can find out whether the district even though based on all the statistics and the information only is now using us you know the schools that they're using IF if we need to consider that maybe two of the elementary school sites need to be kept or retained because what if we do grow or can all of these something different done it's a good question okay is there so um so help me understand the form of information that you think would be helpful there because I think you know the initial thought was that the info or the information provided about declining enrollment helps with some of the you know the big picture numbers as a whole um but with regard to individual sites is there particular information that you think would be helpful or Miss Jones are you uh requesting that uh if we go back to the two questions uh that is supposed to be framing our mind is somewhere along this process will this committee be hearing from the district to say look these are some of the interests that we have is that is that the question yeah any one of the got it okay I definitely think that uh that is something we can pull together some some additional information for it um for for a future meeting certainly thank you um thank you so much Sarah for the information um personally I I would love to know the money spent on the schools so then we know if we're going to lease it out let's say how much we could get it for and if we're maintaining the the properties you know is that going to equal out right does it make sense to to lease it out are we going to make money um I I would also I'm not sure if this is something that you guys can provide but maybe some history regarding um have we ever sold any properties here you know um anything to do with Azusa unified before I'm really curious um historically like what have we done before maybe even what neighboring cities have done like in the recent years I'm just curious right like oh Glendora sold this school I had no idea it became XM you know X Y and Z or they leased it Etc you know um and then I think lastly it would be something maybe to do with um like what would be the timeline that we're hoping to get you know this information out to the board and then the I'm not sure if it's too far ahead but like what is the board like what what's the school district's um ultimate timeline in addressing these properties like we should have a final answer by this time I know speaking to a lot of constituents and all of us we're you know I think I think we want to give recommendations but we also want to see what's going to happen and when and we kind of want to know all of that timeline as well thank you so much sure so I can give a just a little bit more information about the timeline of the committee that will kind of help uh you know lay out at least the initial framework um so I would anticipate that if we CA if we decide to consider all of the six sites together and include them all in a single report which is certainly one option the other um option though is that we can we can kind of break the six sites down into some like subsections right so if if you decide based on all the information that you get at the next meeting about the sites that you would really like to take them kind of bite by bite you can um you can decide to create an initial report that only speaks to a certain subset of the properties and then do a secondary report that speaks to the rest of them um if you decide to lump them all together it's probably about uh four of these meetings right so this initial meeting a second meeting to really dig into the content of um you know presentation options and data about each site um we may also bring just a very initial version of the report to the next meeting so you can see what that what that document looks like and start to kind of anticipate what the content of it will be um your third meeting will be the public public hearing where we'll also talk in detail about the drafting of the report that's really kind of a drafting heavy meeting I say that it's not that you all are doing drafting it's that you know we're having a conversation about the content of the report um then you'll have the public hearing on it and then the final meeting is just a final approval of that report now if if additional time is needed or you know a fifth meeting is requested to to you know have more conversation that's certainly an option um but for the goal of expediency and not having you all have to take you know more time than than is needed you know four meetings is kind of the standard on this um usually we have about one one meeting per month just to give everyone staff and all of us the time to kind of turn things around get the minutes ready you know get things posted and prepare content um and then also to make sure that we're not taking you know more of your time each month than is necessary we're going to you know space them out that way um so you know with that in mind it's going to take at least you know four or five months for the committee to do its work at that point a report gets presented to the board um the board gets to consider that and uh you know think about additional options you know do additional exploration they not their boards aren't always ready on that day to decide exactly where things are going but they you know that's certainly the first step in that direction um then I mentioned right that there's there's this process in the code right where we if for example one of the sites the board decides to sell we you know we don't know any of that yet that's all very much up in the air but you know say that that does happen with one site there's this uh obligation to make these uh statutory offers to public entities there's um there's a timeline associated with that so there's uh you know 60 days where that has to be open and then additional negotiation time so um I say all that to say the process moves slowly because there are so many statutory requirements about how offers have to be made and time left open for negotiation so I wouldn't anticipate that any of this is going to happen fast um each process kind of has to happen in order but hopefully that at least gives you some idea of you know the various things in play and at least you know this first half of what the timeline looks like and I I've noted all the other questions that you had we can certainly take a look at those and bring more information back all right if there is nothing else on that then we will um I guess there were two other things I will mention just while we're here about the content or the items that are in your in your binder um there is a just a quick uh kind of a cheat sheet of the roles and responsibilities of the committee that I've included here it just kind of summarizes what I've said today in a way that hopefully is you know kind of useful and summarized for you um the other item that is here is in the uh the second tab of your binder are both of the resolutions that were approved by the board to form and then appoint the committee so you'll see here you know this is all of the information that was board approved to bring us all here today all right um we'll move on to the next item on the agenda um this is in Section Five Section uh or item 5.1 rather election and appointment of the committee chairperson so this item uh the intent here is that as as I have um you know tried to facilitate this whole meeting for the committee tonight um moving forward it's our goal that the committee will facilitate itself and so you'll have a chairperson that will run through the agenda um and that will do the facilitation so uh the the the goal here in this action is to appoint a chairperson um does anyone want to either um kind of you know put themselves up for this position or uh put someone else forward for the position of chairperson what we'll do is we'll collect names and then someone will make a motion and then we'll make a second and then we'll vote just to kind of lay out the procedure so I guess I'll say is is anybody interested in being and being the chairperson of the committee and Sarah we we um we'll we'll be supportive of of that person and help them and you know even like a pre-meeting to walk through and you know those kinds of things yes don't feel like we're just you know setting you out in the cold I'm certainly I I will continue to help facilitate good to go yes is it possible for me to nominate Vanessa Jones yes absolutely yes so we have a motion and a second and then let's take a vote so um all that are uh in agreement to have Miss Jones as the chairperson of the committee say I all right any that are opposed say nay all right so the action is unanimous excellent congratulations okay the next action is in item 5.2 um and this is really uh optional for the committee it's not something that you uh have to choose to do but it's an it's an option that I like to give um so sometimes the committee wants to appoint a kind of a smaller subcommittee either one or or more people that want to be a bit more involved in the drafting of the report um the way this usually works is I do an initial draft to kind of give you an idea of you know uh the framework of really what we're looking for and then all of that content will get discussed in these meetings and you'll have an opportunity to be a part of it um some folks want to you know see and discuss that content before the meeting of course we do all of that compliant with the brown act but it's just if there's one or two individuals that want to take that role on um certainly again optional if we just really want to focus that Focus that content into these meetings is there is there anyone that feels strongly or wants to make a motion that we that we have a subcommittee involved that's more involved in the drafting as opposed to it just being you know brought in front of the full committee okay okay well we can always you know um bring this back at a different meeting I can I can put it on the agenda for the next meeting as well just in case at that point you feel like it's like it's needed but for now um we will we will not take action on that particular item okay so moving forward to item six um the next scheduled meeting really this is just here as a point of information uh for the committee and for the public so our our next meeting has been scheduled for April the 12th um so we're just about a month out there um and the goal will be to convene here um same time and same place on that date oh to approve okay gotcha okay um so um can I get a motion to approve that date for the next meeting motion to approve D April 12 2023 meeting thank you and can I get a second thank you okay and then um all in favor all right all right all opposed all right so the motion passes unanimously um all right so we will move on to item seven the adjournment um can I get a motion to adjourn the meeting thank you can I get a second second all right thank you everyone oh sorry vote um and um all in favor uh uh all opposed all right seeing none thank you we are adjourned thank you
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they know for sure at 15 to 18 and then they finally tell someone at 18 to 21. these are averages this Research indicates that it's extremely unlikely that anyone thank you that's your time anyone up next we have Rob Berry good evening obviously the enthusiasm for talking about your parent secrecy policy has not been exhausted even though you tabled the issue and I I have reviewed all the material and I'm wondering why you would delay addressing this issue and why you would delay making a clear and concise statement about what is the basis for your policy you are not here to solve gender non-conformance issue we're not here to solve all of the emotional problems that may arise in a child who is trying to orient themselves to life grow up and mature that is the responsibility of parents and so the issue that that is before you is whether or not you are going to Grant Parents full transparency especially for those kids that are an escape of your policy which is the age 12 to 18.
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um I was able to go back and pull it up in our agendas but to also ensure that our district is paying attention to ensure that the course subjects are the priority for our students and that we're not veering off from that thank you presidential no that is not happening everything you read there and that's when it came up when Dr Foley says do you really know what that is and she educated us on that and we're like no no no that's not what we want we wanted the the concept of the expectation and and someone leaving Higley what that should look like whether it's this value this value this value whether they're going to college whether they're going into the career um and so no but you see why parents would be concerned none of that is happening um and won't happen here that is that is why like I said when Dr Foley said there's this whole program do you understand what that is um that using and essentially what you read there excluding children for information and and things like that would not ever be acceptable in this District so no terminology only and I can just encourage people to ask questions and seek information there's a lot of buzzwords out there there's a lot of phrasing like I said portrait of graduates one of them um we talk about social emotional learning there's whole curriculums there's different things that's another one of them the restorative justice is another one of them that their Concepts of looking at certain Concepts while there are programs out there that is not what would ever be acceptable in Higley so I I appreciate you doing the research and and looking at that and bringing it up so that our community can understand we are not doing a portrait of a graduate program we have created again we higley-ized it we have created our own expectations of people who graduate Higley what that should look like and that and that's and these conversations are important and to question it is important so um we should be able to to have these conversations without being shut down president Schultz board member Reese earlier yesterday we did have the opportunity to meet with board member Van Hook where we shared and showed that over the last three years the board had very specific goals one of them and all of them was Define a road map for a graduate update the Strategic plan as you know the Strategic plan had been it was about to to retire this was at the time and when the district did this back in 2017 you had brought in a company to do this and they brought in a program to run it to get the feedback and the board was very clear we have this document it didn't get implemented till its full potential we don't and and your team came to you and said we have knowledge in how to look at what we have and update it which is what we spent two years doing with our stakeholders to take the parts of the the original strategic plan that had been done with communities and stakeholders that had not been actualized to evolve it to to the language and words that came from again people were familiar with this terminology they'd been talking about it since 2017 but opening what does it mean to us as you know the language we used here and we find came from initial foundation of the work that was done in that strategic plan but we created our own and identified those procedures and processes and identified goals as a board you've worked to identify your self-evaluation aligned to those goals and you've also adopted an instrument that you wanted to hold your one employee me accountable for which is a part of my evaluation as well so hence the goals that the board has set all along need to be directly connected to the Strategic plan which is the work that we have done over the last two years and is kind of an evolution from the work that started back in in 2017 however this time around had such a huge input from children that had not been a focal point in round one and we feel we have a much better uh a product than we've ever had before and and we We Own It We own all of the data and we own all the feedback which is what we Implement and act from so again as you've heard tonight the continued work is not done um as you know we identified goals this year that we're working toward accomplishing and we'll be coming to you in April with additional goals connected to that strategic plan uh in order for everyone to know what we're working on and how we're going to actualize the work that we prioritized in our truly are collective strategic plan importer of a graduate documentation other questions I just want to make the comment um I appreciate everyone's input and questioning and feedback and information um I know I could hear bodies move and chairs move whenever it was brought up it's an uncomfortable conversation and I just want to point out uh portrait of a graduate includes critical thinking and working collaboratively and it's good to see that up here on the dice with the board and with our administrators as we model that so I appreciate questions I appreciate feedback and I don't think that should ever be a matter of contention as we as we set up here as professionals thank you thank you I just want to say one of the things when we talked about the Strategic plan and the portrait of a graduate last year my biggest concern was implementing it and how we're going to make sure that it's happening and I'm glad to see that very early on that we're making sure what we're saying we're going to do is what we're doing and asking the most important people on our campuses our children to make sure that that's happening and that we're preparing them for the world ahead so I appreciate that very much that it's not just a document sitting in a shelf somewhere and we look back on it once every year thank you very much for that Miss Dr treat the 7.3 second review of the 2023-2024 capital outlay budget good evening president Schultz members of the board tonight I'll present a second review of the f4a24 capital budget this review is is truncated from the first review and just really covers the the change that was made from the first review as I've adopted uh the presentation acronym slide here I'm not going to go over each acronym but again for any Community member or um staff employee watching this and is not familiar with our acronyms that we utilize um and the budget process this is your cheat sheet here we go so as a reminder the fiscal uh 2024 capital budget highlights include um the first one the DEA update that's the district additional assistance which is capital they're used interchangeably is going into a second year being fully restored um and again this was fully restored last year from the 2008 2009 recessionary Cuts so the state brought that funding back up to those levels of funding from 2008 2009 as you know we've realized a lot of inflation various adjustments in our economy and so that funding source while we're happy it's fully restored it's still inadequate which you'll see in the next category here they did approve in that K-12 budget last year inflation adjustment over the next three years as they've basically recognized that that funding source is not not enough for districts to sustain their Capital needs and so there is a small inflation adjustment over the next three years that was approved in last year's K-12 budget bill um the emphasis on this budget is in major maintenance projects our schools are aging the average age of our schools is now 16 years 20 years if you ask Mr Mr Dobson back there is really the year in which we hit a lot of those major projects in terms of time to um basically tear out and redo so Roofing weatherization those big projects that cost a lot of money typically have that 20-year timeline how we're funding a lot of our major maintenance projects is from the edmono capital transfer which is what the district has historically done due to the fact that we do not have additional Capital funding via a bond and or override so we always are working to supplement funding with the school facilities oversight board that's the state fund in which they provide Capital funding two school districts to me that don't meet adequacy guidelines um this funding source is limited and it's supposed to Encompass all the states schools so over 150 public schools with every school submitting projects to that you can see how that limits the amount of projects that get approved but we are we're constantly submitting projects to get funded by that source and that is always our first goal before usualizing our own budget and the third emphasis is is adding the phase security upgrades as I mentioned this was approved or proposed and they bond the 2022 bond that did not pass and so we realized that is still a need for our district a priority to invest in security we have aging security equipment and so we're looking at phasing in that equipment over the next several years and then to the left um just a picture of chaparral on the elementary they are proposing this plan to receive a weatherization and exterior painting so which would address this leaking wall hydrants throughout the campus that's causing severe stucco fracturing so I'm not going to go line by line as I as I already presented this but I do want to highlight that the one highlighted here um and then another highlight in the next slide but Safety and Security the one change from the first review to the second review is we increase this by 25 000.
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those are the kids that are at issue in this policy discussion but rather than address it and let us know what is the thinking rationale behind your policy or even clarifying what your policy is you have basically postponed the discussion and I am asking myself why would you do it well you say that you had to do it because you needed to seek legal advice but you had Paul Gantt here your attorney giving you a full presentation on all of the background he was here in attendance with you you certainly could have asked him questions about what legal concerns you may have I shared with you my own legal analysis and as you know I'm an attorney about how his uh presentation was irrelevant to the question at hand which is what is your policy with regard to your duty to disclose two parents everything that their kids are exposed to that have to do with their Health and Welfare that is the issue so it's not a legal issue I've also heard that well we can't talk about this because we have a pending case there is no gag order in this case and there is no legal reason why you cannot discuss your policy even if there is pending litigation you may not be advised to talk about the specifics of that particular case but you are completely free to discuss change modify do whatever you want to do with policy from this point forward and these parents behind you are concerned about what you're doing and why you're doing it and you have an obligation to them and to the public to disclose exactly what it is that you're thinking why are you thinking justify your decisions and make a decision in public subject to the political process that reflects your policy and the the in light of the concerns of the parents so I urge you to bring this issue back as soon as possible I think it's worthy of a special meeting I don't think that's your time wait thank you very much up next we have uh Terry Dubose good evening board thank you to everyone who came out tonight in support of parental rights in schools I'm here tonight on behalf of Congressman Doug lamalfa he could not be here tonight due to official duties in Washington D.C but he is standing with you supporting all parents who are exercising their right to be heard in the classroom Public School Employees have no right to exclude parents from their child's lives they have no right to keep secrets from parents regarding their child especially while broadly telling those supposed secrets to other students teachers and administrators if other students and teachers know that is the definition of public now you're just keeping it secret from parents they have no right to unilaterally change an 11 year old girl's name pronouns or tell her to change genders parents have a god-given right to make decisions for their children and protect them school districts cannot take that away this month Congress will vote on enacting a parent's Bill of Rights to prevent this dangerous malpractice from ever harming another child this bill is directly spurred because of your actions you are part of the national story that is infuriating parents across the country congressman lamalfa is also working on a broadly supported bill that eliminates this so-called ambiguous State policy that Chico Unified School District so drastically mishandled thank you next is Gina backs we're meeting with the sections of the Education Code was presented by Mr Grant I believe the codes were not relevant to the issue the school board is facing right now which is whether parents have the right to be informed about issues children are facing a school for example ab1216 60 66 I'm sorry ab1266 is irrelevant to the question of parental rights more policy 514 5.3 nothing in this policy deals with a school counselor right or obligation to keep information from parents it is also my understanding guidance issue by the CDE has no binding authority to mandate local school policies Education Code section 49602 any information of personal nature disclosed by a popular I'm sorry 12 year of age or older in the process of receiving counseling from us from a school counselor as a specified in section 49600 is confidential in this case the student was 11 years old at these at the time of the secret transition and the obligation of the district to disclose what they might know to parents is evidenced by the constant form employed by the district that requires Express written consent on the parent before school can engage in counseling service with their child a better policy might be for schools to practice encouraging students to talk to their parents about any issues affecting their mental health before parents find out from other sources and to help educate parents on subjects that we can hardly understand especially I'm a Hispanic I'm an immigrant all this is new for me it's not in my culture I don't understand instead of assuming all parents are unsupportive of their children schools should serve as Bridges to connect families and to improve relationship between teachers and caregivers I would like to ask the school board write a resolution to affirm the commitment of chic Unified School District to parents fundamental rights to direct their children's education and to be informed of matters affecting the emotional health of their children and to encourage Partnerships between teachers students and parents by directly communicating with and involving parents in the education of our children thank you and next is Bill marchie hi good evening board um so I'm here to also speak on assembly Bill 1266 and the implementation by the Chico Unified School District um so to me this issue centers upon the very Cornerstone of society which is the family deeper still this issue involves the intersection of family and the law the parents fundamental right is directing the care custody and control of their children yet is my opinion that through the so-called parental secrecy policy the district and the state are attempting to disrupt limit and even terminate those rights and by doing so are acting unethically and perhaps even illegally several federal court cases have determined that parents have the fundamental right over their children and that the government shall not interfere with this right unless and until a parent is proven unfit notice I did not say assumed unfit as many of the supporters of the secrecy policy which have you believe that a parent is assumed guilty or being unfit to raise their own children until proven otherwise I sent ahead an email with more Federal cases but I'll cover a few here today so uh one is 1997 in the court case Washington versus glossberg the Court ruled that the Constitution and specifically the due process clause of the 14th amendment protects the fundamental rights of parents to direct the care upbringing and the education of their children in 2000 in the case Troxel versus Granville the court again unequivocally confirms that these fundamental rights of parents when it stated that so long as a parent adequately cares for his or her children I.E is fit there will normally be no reason for the state to inject itself into the private Realm of the family to further question the ability of the parent to make the best decisions concerning the rearing of the parent's child therefore a failure to consider the fitness of the parents represents an unconstitutional infringement on that parent's fundamental right to make decisions concerning the care custody and control of their children in 2005 quoting court cases Yoder and Troxel which I sent ahead in an email in representative in public schools districts subjection to Children's inappropriate sexual explicit content the United States House of Representatives affirmed that the fundamental right of parents to direct the education of their children is firmly granted grounded in the nation's constitutional and traditions yet today in we see in States all across the country a confusion as to where where to land on this issue I'm not a lawyer I was raised by one and I have some sense so I'd like to point out that these are infringements on our rights and it's up to the school board and the district to get ahead of this before more lawsuits come and we have more litigation more unnecessary spending more disruption to in our classroom and potentially even worse thank you up next we have Eric Nelson um good evening I work for cusd as a teacher and administrator and was principal superintendent of inspired School of Arts and Sciences for eight years I have three children all of which attended cusd schools and one who attended Inspire through her high school years my mentors at Chico Unified prepared me well to work to provide the optimum educational environment for young people to ensure that they feel safe and comfortable at school knowing that this would maximize their learning and lead to their success they also emphasized how critical the school Family Partnership is to enhance and ensure student well-being and that same success I know that about this District I also know that they care deeply about student safety and they demonstrate that every day in their actions and I know that they are committed to the parent educator partnership this we all have in common this commitment to the well-being of the young people in our community in this context I see the solution to the recent discussion around student privacy as a both and not in either or we can work together both protect our students from discrimination and harassment and continue to partner with each other to ensure that our trust and communication lead to the safety and best possible outcomes for students time and time again I witness that happen in my experience as a teacher and administrator at Chico Unified and I brought that culture to inspire it is important to note that there are times when a student's privacy is a critical component to their safety particularly in cases of discrimination and harassment related to gender identity the focus of state law ab1266 is not on keeping parents from knowing but on the safety of the student this law helps to ensure student safety and provide time to work toward resolution for both students and their families it is vital that when parents have observations or concerns about their child they contact teachers counselors administrators to discuss ways forward at times communication between parents and myself involved a concern or an observation and my role was to listen and support there are other times though though not often when students sense of not being safe comes from the home in my experience the law and policy provide time for both the student and the family to work towards resolution I have experienced parents who do not support their child's transition meaning their gender identity it was not my job to put that student in a predicament where they do not feel safe this law Works in concert with the parent education educator partnership to help students feel safe while working towards family resolution the current state law and District policy at issue are written to protect the safety and well-being of students I am grateful to the district for their commitment to this and know that when we all work together toward this common goal our young people will grow and flourish and have the success they deserve thank you thank you we have Nicole Nava next good evening I'm reading this letter on behalf of Karen wilhoy a chico parent who can't be here and I concur wholeheartedly with her position as much as Stonewall Alliance and their supporters want to make this a discrimination issue it is not this is about protecting all children it is about supporting the child parent connection and it's about transparency we can make this case without ever disparaging the transgender Community I have huge concerns about the qualifications of the guidance counselors who play such a pivotal role in directing and influencing children in this District especially if any of that guidance is to be done without parental knowledge or consent I work for this District as a speech pathologist I am required to have a master's degree to help children fix things like saying wabbit instead of rabbit or to remediate a stutter do guidance counselors have to hold that level of Education to help children decide things like whether they should change their ability to pass through puberty or have their own biological children someday these are enormous life decisions and should not be left in a room with one guidance counselor and one minor child excluding parents and guardians from these pivotal conversations is absolutely unconscionable while there are cases of parents who will make these situations more difficult or harmful the district should replace the notion of keeping secrets from parents with requiring their guidance counselors be highly trained and highly educated so that they can facilitate proper handling of these situations with family involvement if that is not attainable then the policy should be to refer families to outside professionals who are qualified to help in such situations we should spare no expense in getting this right leaving such important discussions in the hands of potentially unqualified staff and minor children on an elementary campus is a terrible idea it's hard to believe this notion is even on the table please get the time to get this right in addition this is me now um I would like to say that public transparency and the parent School collaboration is key you've heard and read plenty of public feedback but didn't agendize the secrecy topic for this meeting or make a decision on it or give your positions except for trustee tennis that Omission showed a lack of accountability given our positions secondly this board failed to create a safe environment and properly manage a situation that occurred with me and other women who spoke out against keeping secrets when we were targeted by a couple who used very visible obscene gestures and words in an attempt to intimidate and harass us which made that couple guilty of the very Behavior Stonewall believes parents would exhibit if they were told of their children's possible gender identity situation lastly at the last meeting the brown act violations appeared to occur with one trustee asking the president if she could speak on a topic and was then told the item had passed but proceeded to discuss it anyway also my rights I believe were infringed because I was almost prevented from speaking and had to really wear work hard to be able to have that right please revisit the brown okay that's your time that concludes our 30 minutes of public comment for items from the floor um there are an additional uh six speakers that had signed up for this and so um it is my it is my duty to move to the next item since this is our rules to maintain the 30-minute limit for public comment during one of Order each item can we suspend the rules since we know that we're going to have a lengthy meeting tonight to enable the people who signed up to speak from items from the floor to speak at this time I don't think it's realistic that we should ask them would you like to make a motion Mr I move that we suspend the rules in order to allow the remaining items from the floor speakers to to speak their mind since they're citizens and we're here to represent them and hear them do we have a second second all right um we'll start with you Mr tennis tennis I know Dolby I Robinson no no Robinson know on suspending yes okay konkin voting I to allow for more time yeah and I should probably apologize for a point of order we should have allowed discussion I'm super super sorry that that we didn't allow for discussion um and so so it passes and we will allow the the remaining um uh six folks to speak at this time um but just keeping in mind that we do have a 6 30 cut off time um and so if we don't finish our regular board meeting items we will have to push those to the end and so I would encourage those six folks who have signed up for items from the floor at this time there is a second items from the floor and so there is an opportunity to speak at that time if you will allow us to continue our board business and get through our board meeting agenda we would love for you to stay and hear about our facilities Master Plan update and all of the great things that are happening with special education Outreach etc etc to maybe hold off on your public comment at this time and and and speak during our second opportunity for items from the floor I'm not discouraging you at all and I would say too if I were to follow my own rules of order to have discussion before we had the vote sorry I was just like really quick trying to get through it trying to get to that 6 30 point um I would have I would say that I I do anticipate hearing all of these people and giving the opportunity for all folks to talk in some way shape or form so um in in that I guess in the spirit of that let's move move on again I will say if you have signed up for the second items from the floor also please um you know consider waiting until that time so that we can hear all of our board business and and take action on the things that are on our agenda before we start our board workshop at 6 30 PM it is a very full night and there's a lot of folks here for very many different reasons that are that are all valid reasons for people to be here um so with that um the next person to speak is Arwen funk good evening so last month this governing body told parents to take a hike basically by tabling the motion that we were all here to talk about this district is accused of having a policy that hides important details about children from their parents this allegation is obviously true since that meeting last month I've read a lot of news articles and spoken with a lot of people on the two arguments against all those bad parents that I keep hearing are basically number one that if kids aren't telling you something it's basically the parent's fault which I think is a pretty gross attitude to have towards people that supposedly you care about you care about what they think any 12 year old babysitter can attest to the fact that kids will make things up and hide things from parents and tell stories in moments of stress or anxiety or upset or wanting attention or whatever so it's a pretty weak argument the other argument that I keep hearing is that there is no parental secrecy policy we received a notification from the district that this was the case um but that's obviously not true there were lots of people here at the last meeting that were talking about how the policy needs to remain the same because clearly it does allow the district to keep secrets from parents so the argument I guess is basically we don't keep secrets from parents but we do and it's okay so I think that's a pretty weak argument as well we have to have trust with the people that we elect you that are sitting up on that stage we're supposed to be able to trust you Eileen we can't trust you you told the entire room last time that you have a mess please don't address board members directly oh really okay well we heard from a board member last time a personal story about our own family where she hid a situation of of uh gender change from other family members and all I will say about that is that that does indicate that we can't trust that you would actually listen to us you've obviously got a fully formed opinion this board talks about safety all the time and safety is is not what we're organizing around here it's not safe to put children in a situation where they're getting diagnosis from non-medical professionals and the parents are kept out of the loop that's not safety the parents should be in the conversation they should be aware of what's going on last thing that I hear my being my beep yet okay um back to the uh the topic of the of the policy I have here a document that was provided to me by a person who wants to remain anonymous they're a uh an employee of Chico Unified School District this is a um a training module for teachers and and administrators with the school and it says quite simply protect privacy be careful not to disclose or discuss issues around being lgbtq with parents or anyone else it clearly is a district policy it's in writing and I have copies of this if anybody wants them thank you up next we have Loretta Ann Torres yep oops sorry Loretta and Torres sorry hold on one second do we have a problem with the microphone no okay please speak louder okay well I just get a little closer okay Loretta and Tori's the grandma and um tonight I'm going to talk about California Penal Code CBC two six one point five as it defines statutory rape it occurs when anyone has sexual relations with the person under the age of 18.
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and I'll explain why when I go to this slide is we've decreased our capital projects by 25 000. so we did a first review of our capital projects for next fiscal year that encompasses every school principle submitting basically projects that they cannot fund from their capital budget these projects are larger in nature so they're not just buying student desks or chairs for a particular classroom it's more or less replacing a whole entire School of furniture or major Renovations that they have prioritized for their campus that they cannot fund so we did a first review the the reoccurring theme was security cameras and so um we are investing um that 25 000 back into security cameras and so that will allow us to do another additional camera to every single campus next year so in that original proposal the 350 000 um that provided five cameras for every single campus now we were able to get an additional camera on every single campus um just putting that money where our schools are asking us to put it I do want to highlight at the bottom of this capital budget here the budget formula so the total budget for next fiscal year is proposed at 17.4 million how that is made up is first line under that total expenditures is 6.6 million being transferred from our mnl or maintenance and operations budget to the capital budget and as you know on this previous Slide the building leases the line three you know that's taking up 3.5 million of that transfer the rest is for the major maintenance projects that we are funding the second line on the bottom there the daa budget capacity this is our state derived budget 6.8 million and then the estimated budget amounts carry forward this is what we anticipate carrying forward from this fiscal year into next year four million dollars so that's how we get to that 17 million 413 743 budget for next fiscal year um I do want to point out uh so we have now reviewed taken a first review of the capital budget on February 8th on February 22nd we reviewed our second review of mno tonight we're asking for tentative approval on later in the agenda for our m o budget and I just presented the second review of our capital budget and if there is no further questions on April 5th I will bring a tentative approval of the fiscal 24 capital budget to allow us to get out and purchase some of those items that require long lead item or long lead item time for next fiscal year and then again you'll see this official capital budget proposed and adopted in June um set when that's statutorily required and those official budget forms come out so with that I'll take any questions is the phase two the 2.8 included in that major project of 4.3 NO phase two is going to be recommended from this fiscal year budget so it's above me on that the 4 million this budget is for next fiscal year phase two that's being proposed later in the agenda is being recommended out of this fiscal year fiscal year 2023's budget thank you questions I just want to so everyone heard you to make sure that we're restored to 2008 2009 funding which is 15 years ago and I'm sure all of our budgets have changed in the last 15 years and the cost of items so um difficult to work with that thank you Mr Moore [Music] moving on to 7.4 Higley High School phase two good evening president Schultz member of the board again um tonight we're bringing an information item and later a recommendation for approval of phase two for Higley High School um I guess I'll go back first um I just want to point out that this this project initially faced you initially stemmed from the um the bond proposal um and so there was five Community meetings held at Higley High School I know several of you had a chance to attend um and during those meetings we worked with the students the teachers the community to identify priorities for Higley High School um pretty much for the next five years really forward the thinking and try to making that campus um standardize it and make it a campus where students want to attend when the bond proposal failed we went back and reviewed phase two and looked at it from a district perspective and what we can do to basically maintain Safety and Security there was already several needs on that campus in terms of addressing Safety and Security like I mentioned and I'll go over some of those tonight um again we have a presentation acronym slide here these are the acronyms used in the presentation um but really uh so what give a little update on phase one and if uh Chase Building team can come up here um Mr Lee and Michael Diaz are here from Chase Building but um just an update on phase one uh on the left is the rendition that the board had seen have seen from uh DLR architectural firm um on the right is a current and actually that's not even current because if you've walked over right now um they are well ahead of that schedule um but the building is still on on track to me uh open for next school year um and I guess I'll let um Matt Lee and Mike just give you a little update on on phase one right now yeah thank you Mr Moore uh president Schultz members of the board my name is Matt Lee pre-construction manager with Chase along with Mike Diaz project manager on the job so kind of just a brief overview of everything we've been through um we had some really nasty site work going on with this job we had a lot of existing utilities going through an occupied campus that was a very child a very challenging part of this project unfortunately we were able to get through that um to this day we've you know kind of done a lot of the dirty work and you guys have probably walked around and said what are these guys doing all I see is dirt and fence and haven't seen anything cool yet so um we're excited to announce that in the next couple months you're going to see this building really start to pop so on Monday we're actually pouring our our second floor slab and then following that you're going to start to see the roof start to enclose and you're going to start to see those exterior elements all those cool finishes the metal panels all the different colors so that that's kind of where we're at so we're really tracking well we had um quite a few delays with with all the rain we've had um this winter so fortunately we've been able to make up quite a few days and we're happy to announce that we are um as of today we're on track to open for for this coming school year so we're super excited so I'm glad you were able to make it up thank you yeah thank you very much so jumping to phase two so this is um what the district is recommending um today so um throughout that Community meetings again we phased back um some of the the items that were not necessarily needs and or wants for that camp or excuse me needs for that campus um and we narrowed it down to these three items here um the total but project budget for this phase two uh the district set 3.5 million from the capital budget um gmp3 came in at 2.8 million and that includes the restroom refresh which I have a slide going into the detail on that the campus security lighting traffic flow modifications and I do want to note the traffic Club modifications 400 000 of that 2.8 million uh will be funded from the adjacent ways fund which is a different fund not Capital um and that's a state-derived fund that we can Levy for it can be used for any public right-of-way fire lane school bus lane and so we are utilizing those funds um as again they were kind of freed up from the consent judgment that the district um approved from the Birdwell litigation and then I guess proposed misuse of public funds so um gmp4 I do want to mention that uh that is not on this recommendation right now um I mentioned earlier in the capital plan that we are continuing to pursue additional Grant funds and so we do have tentative approval from the sfob school facilities board to fund 82 percent of that exterior weatherization for that campus so while I don't know a number that exterior weatherization would be well over a million dollars so 82 percent is over 800 000 which is a huge lift from our budget now we do get to play the game of waiting for the grant to be approved in the school facilities board to approve that um and which bucket of money whether it be this year or next year's funds that that gets approved from um so that's why again that's not being brought tonight as we wait for that approval from the school facilities board to take advantage of that grant funding um the campus I didn't want to know was assessed and I think 99 of the paint industry utilization failed their assessments um so if that's any indication on the um basically the the condition of Higley High School um it's it's well written in that assessment by 99 of the building failing their assessments so let's dive a little bit into this gmp3 so the restroom refresh again this was all covered in the community meetings but every single restroom will be touched we've done some things with Chase Building team to kind of save costs with flooring but a lot of the tile is all from the original build and so this is 20 plus years old much like a home renovation 20 years is a long time to not touch something so everything really needs to be yeah taken out redone for basically our students safety as well as just feeling comfortable using the bathroom throughout this community meeting several of the students comment that they don't use the restrooms because they do not feel comfortable going to the bathroom at the school and that's just I think unacceptable from a District's standpoint that we can't have public facilities that students feel comfortable using foreign security and lighting the campus again still has original Lighting in most places any place in which we've had to change or modify we've tried to put LED lighting but again lightening up the interior of the campus for safety concerns when students are on the campus late evenings for sporting events after school activities there's an existing picture of what the campus looks like it's very dark and so we want to light that up and make sure it's visible again if students feel safe traveling the campus both in early morning late at night and the last one here traffic Club modifications I think this is a big one as the campus continues to grow the student population with students parking on campus parents drop off continues to increase and uh the town of Gilbert has made us aware of issues on Pecos and has asked us to come up with addressing some issues here and so this is a a loose rendition I do want to point out that the actual traffic flow may take shape differently as we see the first day how things flow but the main points of emphasis on here are moving the Bus drop to the back of the campus making that bus lane a one-way Lane and also gating near the north side of the football field and the bottom half by the cafeteria so limiting traffic behind the school again a safety concern we had Parents dropping kids off back there limiting that making it a one-way in a bus only drop-off Lane in addition at the front of the school so we would we utilize that bus queuing or Bus drop off current Bus drop off and connect the front office proctoring lab uh to the existing student lot which increases queuing um three times I believe what we can do just in that front lot so what this does is it gets traffic off of Pecos where we have seen families dropping students off on Pecos students running across Pecos we've had accidents unfortunately with families dropping students off on Pico so it gets students parents off of Pecos and onto our campus and queuing on our campus rather than on Pecos the town has worked with us and they're very supportive of this they're also working to address some of the light light concerns so while bringing all that traffic onto the campus and into the student lot some of the concerns were how do we get rid of all of those cars how do we you know move all those cars out and so the town has talked about sinking the light the Higley drive light and the Pecos light so if parents were taking a left onto record to Pecos those two lights would be synced and turned green at the same time so traffic can flow and move some of those cars off the campus the last thing would be um this is our only campus in which we are fencing and securing our parking lot and so um this proposal would move the fencing down to the building level and secure the building which would open up um a couple entrances in that student parking lot that are currently being fenced this would also help our security guards in terms of points of entry for that campus and reducing it down to the north west entrance by the by the courtyard and so all right all right um go ahead um going back to the map right there um we're making traffic flow modifications and it looks like there's very limited land and I've received some public feedback regarding parking it's not just for students it's just for the the events that occur at the Performing Arts Center is that ever an option for this campus yeah so we priced some parking options we even priced our parking garage and it was just the total budget it was over 3.5 million so it wasn't feasible and so um we are adding some parking in that bus lane so that would be facing you can see it kind of striped a little bit I think we're getting 40 spots 30 to 40 foot don't quote me on that but um we are getting some additional parking um right there but to add additional parking in some Mass capacity that makes budgetary sense it would be we do not have the budget to do that and so so as far as you know this may not be the time to talk about it but it hasn't impacted any events from occurring um and the Higley reforming Arts Center because of the parking have you heard any feedback regarding that not that I'm aware of we do utilize both the student not and the district office parking lot when there's a large event and so um and those lights will be super helpful because people will be traveling all the way across campus yeah yeah in those moments okay I just wanted to ask thank you and so a little bit that the construction timeline again we hope to bring GMP floor which would include the weatherization and painting uh back in on April 5th again that's contingent on the school facilities board proving that blessing that and so um it allowed Chase to price that out and us to bring a price back um I did I kind of just put a general timeline but summer break is going to be major traffic at Higley High School so um as you saw we're going to be all over that campus not just at the phase one of finishing up that new building but modifying the traffic flow in the interior of the campus across all the campus restrooms and so major construction traffic across Julie high this summer and uh you know again we as of today I don't wanna go you put it on pen and Pen to paper yet but uh because we never know with construction but we will anticipate that new building Edition being open for the first day of school and so as we get closer uh we'll identify a groundbreaking or not groundbreaking but grand opening uh date um to share um and that hopefully again be open for the first day of school so with that I'll be happy to take any questions thank you very much um I just have one or I have one question on the fencing when we move the fencing are we repurposing that fencing so we don't have to buy additional fencing yeah that's one point of emphasis you can ask Mike in our owner's meetings that I've probably asked and so if it is uh in good use if there are pieces that we can't use we obviously will not use them but um you know myself and Mr Dobson have looked at some of the fencing a lot of it seems like we can reuse and so we're going to try to repurpose that to the basically as much as we can so some you know we just remind our community that this will be classroom space for it or as far as I mean what we're using it for Safari for the project yeah so phase one um stemmed from um the Higley High campus running out of space so their enrollment has grown drastically over the over the last several years and um this year they were utilizing traveling teachers and so that's teachers without a homeroom um and so the campus needed additional classroom space to accommodate the students that are enrolled at the campus and so phase one is is 12 classrooms and so we hope that provides enough room for growth for the next several years not only just this next year so perfect thank you question very happy the bathrooms are getting an update too thank you very much thank you thank you moving on to action items 8.1 approval of GMP number three for phase two of Higley High School project Chase Building I make I motion we approve of GMP number three for phase two of Higley High School project Chase Building second questions comments concerns all those in paper hi uh post four to zero uh I'm moving on to 8.2 I make a motion that we for the tentative approval of the fiscal year 2024 maintenance and operations budget questions comments concerns all those in favor aye all those opposed did you did you see I I didn't say I sorry um or did the motion passes four to zero I make a motion that we approve the moving on to 8.3 I make a motion that we approve the issuance of certified educational professionals administrative contracts and classified work agreements with the increase listed below to the base salary or base hourly rate for the 2023-2024 school year presidential president Shields may I address and board members um I'd like to say first that I'd like to make an announcement if that's okay at this point absolutely oh we have Mrs Angie Walker in the room if you'd please stand up she is our newest Mrs Walker is our newest assistant assistant principal she will be located at Gateway Point Elementary School she is just a fine example of what a Higley Unified School District employee looks like as well as living the values of Higley and so with that I give you Mrs Walker and I think she has someone with her this evening if you wanted to introduce him [Music] thank you [Applause] thank you was that the partner you were referring to Mrs Johnson congratulations Mrs Walker and uh questions comments concerns I think three 8.3 yes or second sorry okay good um so my concern here is that I would have liked to have seen more options as far as this the salary increases as we discussed earlier today during um our meeting um we're increasing salaries to ensure that we're being competitive but then our districts around us are also increasing increasing their salaries which then puts us back down um and we're going to be in this constant back and forth of competing with with the districts we're going to raise it they're going to raise it and I don't know if we'll ever be able to be on top and the fact that we're hearing that if we don't approve a bond or an override in 2024 that kids are going to be impacted and programs such as music could be cut is a huge concern for me because I don't want the kids to have to be impacted at all these programs are so important to them and you know that shouldn't happen um so I would have liked to be able to see different options maybe you know a little less of of raises so that the kids aren't impacted but that's a huge concern for me so um I I don't know how I feel about the two percent increase that's all I I hear what you're saying I absolutely do not want um programs to be cut we also have to have teachers to teach the programs and we're not going to be able to have staff or teachers if we're not paying them there was a seven or seven percent inflation rate correct nine nine seven percent inflation rate and so the two percent doesn't even meet that for them being able to take care of their families for teachers and admin and to be able to have those teachers and so I don't absolutely want any program to be cut but we have to be able to have qualified and amazing staff to be able to make that happen as well so it's kind of a balancing juggling act that we're facing and I think um last year we were given several options but that wasn't an option this year to do I think two percent was all we could do and able to do it right now and we did do a six percent last year correct so six percent last year and and an additional two percent this year with the potential of kids being impacted I and again we have one of the highest salaries compared to the districts around us um and knowing that for instance Chandler is working on a raise which then might put us back down again so at what point do we compromise and say okay we need to ensure that that the kids aren't impacted but also be able to do you know somewhat of a raise but ensure they're taking care of here just the options I hear you um we I mean one we can't see the future so we don't know what's going to happen we don't want any of our kids impacted I Mrs Anderson was part of the district I think at the time and I was on the board when we were having to talk about doing some cuts and that's not a conversation that you want to get into um because like you said you don't want to impact kids and and all those programs have value in different ways it may not be reading and writing but they provide value for sure the problem is is if we don't like you said and we talked about this last word meeting too is that we it we keep going up and down up and down you know um and the larger districts have more money they get more they're bigger and so they can do a little bit more but we know that Chandler is looking at increasing theirs we know that um Mesa the districts around us are they're going to increase theirs and they're going to go above us and we know that but if we do nothing we're that much further behind so it creates a larger Gap um while don't get me wrong there's a little sense of Pride that on our little sheet that at the moment I can be like look it we did it because again we're small and we want to give as much as we can to our staff um and because we don't see us on top with regarding pay we just don't we we don't have it um we're not as big and that's why for me it's very important for all these other things everything Dr treat's doing all the professional development the support because we once they their boards approve their increases we're going to be back down again um and so the environment the culture the the support is what I think how we can try and make someone feel a little bit better about making a little bit less than than their counterparts because everyone knows you go to a bigger district and you just kind of get swallowed up and and you're you're lucky if you get the professional development or people who know you know we we get to do all this cross collaboration and and so I think that's where we add value over salaries um us being on top is going to be a moment and I want to take that moment because again it doesn't happen very often but if we don't if we don't we're gonna have a larger Gap and then those programs we're not going to have to have the discussion of us trying to figure it out they're going to weed themselves out they're we're gonna we're gonna have classrooms that have a large amount of kids that will over stress our teachers because we won't be able to attract them we'll have some we have our dedicated teachers who are here for that environment and and we will have some it will be so much harder for us to attract new teachers it will be so much harder for us to retain part of our conversations have been um if we're we try and get through you from years three to five people come they gain that experience and once they have experience then they can go to another District making a lot more money because obviously at that point they have experience which is no different than any other industry you start an industry you gain that experience you're going to be paid more going somewhere else um so retaining those teachers which is a large group a large number of teachers is is going to be hard we have teacher shortages all over the place so I hear you I we had options last year um like Mr Schultz said um and that was a conversation I had it's not that I didn't want to to do the six percent I we had those conversations and and it was a an internal battle for me um and I supported it and I support our teachers we don't have those options this year we're not as fortunate um but everything's going up and we need to try and stay competitive with with salaries unless we do the greater the Gap becomes because they're still going to do it so I understand what you're saying um I I can't make a decision and it's I know Tyler's gonna look at me because I always look to the Future and I always say let's prepare for things that we might not know about let's make sure we're okay with costs that go up what what if this what if that for unanticipated increases but I can't not approve this with the thought of are we going to be able to pass another mno override I mean luckily it has a sunset that it it's over several years and I'm hoping and our community has been fabulous about um about supporting that but I ca I can't go with I can't approve this or I hear your concerns so um because we may not have something in two years so um because then like I said if we fall that far behind that's not we're going to be figuring out what to do just to maintain regular classrooms it that wasn't a pretty time in Higley and I don't want to go back to that so I hear your concerns I agree I mean last year we had options um and quite honestly for me like Mrs Schultz said two percent is not hardly anything I mean everyone Social Security got an increase this year they got a large increase it's everything's going up and this doesn't even cover that so um so in my opinion two percent is actually fairly low given the circumstances of where we are in our economy right but I I agree options would be nice um but I think that this is minimally what we can do and and I 100 support or teachers all of our staff and and they think I I think that they're just as important right but I don't want to be using this as as a form of pulling the you know parents heartstrings going you know your kid's music's going to be cut if you don't approve a bond or override in 2024 um when we make this decision and and this was part of the reason why I was last year like I wish last year maybe wasn't as as large to where this year could have been a little bit larger um but that's just you know that's just how I feel about it like I don't want to tell parents like this is why you you should vote Yes for a bond because otherwise your kids programs are going to be cut so that's all any other questions comments concerns I just want to say that we won't be tugging on heartstrings we will have to have real conversations in 2024 and 2025 I've seen our budget and where we're at so Mrs Schultz can I just clarify that the the bond we don't have a bond that we have an mno over that is funding a lot of those extracurriculars and that that is outlined on our website um on what that is funding and what that was voter approved for but I just I just want to clarify this I'm going to override so thank you Mrs Anderson time you cuts um would hope would never they can make Cuts in other areas before they try to make cuts that impact the school district and of course you could say you can make a cut anywhere and it will unpack the students it'll trickle down and it will impact the students but I've been there in the district office where an HR department went from seven to four three seven to three um a grown woman I was a grown woman and I was bawling bawling on my knees watching these people because so never again will I ever want those and that's many moons ago reason why I ran for school board to stand up against a superintendent at the time who was making other decisions that were impacting our budget and I'm causing Cuts like this but as a teacher I I did sit down and I I did some quick little math at home and you know how much do we really make an hour you know and and it all depends on how many hours you work and we could all all argue how much we work and I just took that 45 886 the base and said hey we're 190 days in 12 hours is about the average that's put in mind I am a department chair and I do work weekends and I do work evenings um so that base at 190 days 12 hours a quick little calculation was 20 an hour that's not much I said okay well realistically I mean I like to work so I will put in those hours so what about an eight-hour day and even my husband was talking about he's like you know well you know do an eight-hour day I said okay and that that did Beef It Up to 30 an hour then I said well let's you know the middle man let's take 10 hours because no teacher that I know nobody in the education Field Works eight hour days um if we took mailman at 10 hours a day and then if you did 10 hours a day that's 24 an hour that's not much um I buy tissues and I've heard the argument well there's other um careers where they buy their own there's tools and things for their job and absolutely and that is expensive and that's unfortunate um but they probably get to take their tools home at the end of the day and those are their tools everything I buy for the classroom I don't get back the markers go tissues I can't even keep up with that it's gotten to a point in the household where I had a bag of juices sitting on the counter and my husband's like you're taking more and he wasn't being rude he's like you're taking more and I'm like no no these are ours these are our juices you know like juices at home it's not for the kids and I'm I'm standing I'm taking up your time I just want to say I support um increasing the salary um in in the money for these Educators and and the employees of the school district because um they desperately need it um they need they need to feel valued it is a thankless job it is a job filled with a lot of effort and it's never for the paycheck not one second for the paycheck so I just wanted to give my two cents from my experience thank you Mrs Anderson any other questions some comments concerns and I didn't I laughed at your juice is but it's not funny that you have to order to keep juices I'm sorry um okay I lost where we were I apologize I think uh yes 8.3 all those in favor aye all those any opposed I'm gonna have to vote nay okay motion passes three to one 8.4 salary schedule I make a motion that we salary schedule and rate adjustments right I did motion yeah thank you Mrs Henderson questions comments concerns yeah the two percent took us to 8.4 questions comments concerns all those in favor aye uh all those opposed nay motion passes three to one future agenda items we have some items listed here any future agenda items Mrs Anderson yes we used to have Student Art in the the Board Room do we did we choose to not do that anymore maybe it was a few years ago as that was a decision that was changed so vice president Anderson it was my understanding the art came from um like our Fine Arts festivals and other events and at one I don't remember how many years ago but we started giving it back to the schools to post the art in the schools rather than here because I don't know they don't come over here all the time and say Hey where's my painting so if that's my understanding of what took place so when they re when they painted and redid and had to take everything down then they started sending it back to the school so it could be because it is the the art that was in here was from the Fine Arts Festival yes would it not be an option like would they like to share it we have our points of Pride here you know a couple times a month I mean and they get to see their schools displays president Schultz Vice member Anderson if you walk down the hallway you'll see that every month we have a rotating art display that shifts perhaps we could talk with the groups that we use to help do that to see if there's a potential for rotating it in the uh in here because it is missing a touch of if you walk down the hallway toward my office there's such warmth when you see children's artwork everywhere it is it is a tad sale at this point sharing is caring doctor pulley so if you wouldn't mind me I am all for sharing I am all for sharing vice president Anderson thank you and I had another um I'm not I'm not sure how to do this but there was policy G CCA which talks about employee leave and I would like to talk about parts of it um obviously not today but it's something that I could put to put forward on them on the agenda yeah vice president Anderson um that has been an ongoing conversation with meet and confirm we're preparing to bring a recommendation to modify that Paul so we were already in the works of that so yeah you shall see that in a future portugene item anything else then um I want to let everyone tell everyone to have a safe and relaxing spring break and I hope that our teachers and staff enjoy some time off and I'd like to make a motion to join the meeting all those in favor aye media intern thank you
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it's even more egregious when the person is under 16. now why am I bringing this to your attention because the state of California reasons that any minor at this age 16 or under or 18 or under is has diminished capacity I repeat diminished capacity to make sexual decisions period sexual decisions of school children's gender identity must then be shared by a parent or Guardian there can be no secrets from parents in our schools shame on you for not agendizing any change to your board policy you know other people have name numbered it it's very clear you would like all of us in this room to just go away and forget about your secrecy policy it's not going away we're not going away parents want answers at this moment a federal lawsuit against this district has been filed by a parent who was not informed about her child's transition to another sex while they were only 11 years old tell me when a teacher begins calling a child by a different pronoun in the classroom how does it not get around to the rest of the student body yet the parent was not informed or even given of the opportunity to give their consent save this District millions of dollars make your policy clear all teachers and counselors must notify parents on any sexual matters or there's the very real possibility that others will be joining this lawsuit agendizes policy go on the record your voters want to know what your vote is on this item secondly if I have a moment I would like everyone to get everyone on this board to get this book I could not read the whole thing it will it gave me nightmares by what's going on in our country in our schools Across the Nation and at this moment at this very moment you heard tonight it's going on in our town please help parents and grandparents we want the best for our kids thank you next we have Debbie Jillian good evening I'm here just to speak in general and I'm here to speak to you about your curriculum childhood is a time of joy and innocence and this should be an absolute right for all our children one percent of elementary school children have gender dysphoria but you are affecting the 99 percent most kindergarten children don't know how to tie their shoes or recite their home address when they start school but instead of teaching academic Basics schools are actually promoting identity confusion emotional harm and insecurity negative impacts that last a lifetime it's no wonder that Child and Adolescent mental health issues are in a steep rise when students are taught to question their own identity and select from an ever-growing list of confusing options gender identity is taking precedence over student and well-being and safety it has infiltrated schools without parental consent and at the expense of academic learning you were elected by everyone in this room your undermining parents constitutional rights to control their children's education on sensitive topics Public Schools should not become a place where children are exposed to radical sexual ideology Carrie Krueger let's go [Applause] it couldn't be more clear that systemic patterns of secrecy disregard for the rights of parents and the public and lack of transparency are running rampant at Chico Unified from practices with students on campus to the way the board president runs these meetings the patterns of secrecy and disrespect is not this surprising but it is very concerning at the last meeting the board president stated and I'll quote there are children present and everybody does hear what everybody does say and we also have a civility clause for this space that succinctly is to please remain respectful and refrain from any sort of bullying harassment or otherwise negative comments that may hurt some other folks who may be more vulnerable than others a couple sitting up front Jeff and Samantha Shaner flipped off board members and speakers they disagreed with Jeff also verbally abused every female speaker who didn't support the parental secrecy policy the board president did nothing while this happened in Clear Sight of her she did nothing to protect those vulnerable women nothing this was stunning given her comments about civility it wasn't until Jeff said Fu udumbi after my speech when I requested intervention in public outrage ensued and he was finally kicked out of the meeting these board meetings are the only opportunity the public has to address their elected officials the practice of tolerating disrespect and disregard for the Public's right to address our government officials without harassment is abhorrent it's a cure It's Curious that video footage from the meeting shows the camera angle changed part way through the meeting so that viewers could no longer see the shaner's disagree disgraceful Behavior this move suggests the district was aware of the shaner's behavior and instead of standing up for the victims of bullying once again employed a pattern of secrecy and lack of transparency somebody simply changed the camera angle further expressions of the systemic patterns of secrecy lack of transparency and disregard and disrespect for parents and the public continued when the board leadership motioned to table the parental secrecy discussion until it could be discussed in private the board president already had the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the topic for as long as necessary with the district's attorney Mr Gantt but instead chose to remain silent and keep these discussions secret the patterns of secrecy lack of transparency and the disregard and disrespect for parents and the public with how these meetings are being run mirror what's going on in practice in Chico schools within the culture that exists among admin teachers and counselors who feel entitled to keep parents in the dark while transitioning students without their parents knowledge I am not surprised at all that this is happening given the patterns that we are seeing in these meetings but again it is very concerning [Applause] Connor wesnell hello I'm Connor Wenzel uh I would like to ask just uh philosophy does anyone know how many folks in this room right now identify as lgbtq what about trans or non-binary identities the answer is we don't a person won't know until they are asked by someone and that's only if they feel safe and comfortable enough to share that information or if they choose to share publicly how many people here would be willing to share with this room something private something that they've held close to themselves for at least a year something about themselves that would make them a minority of our current Society thus make their lives harder I outed myself during the last board meeting and I'll admit my heart was racing my hands were shaking and my voice quivered I'm an adult I've been outing myself for the past 11 12 years and I still felt that way in this room and I did it because I felt I had to many parents of lgbtq students feel that they can't come forward to speak for fear of outing their children which can then Target them for more harassment and bullying on campuses so do you think a student would want to out themselves if this is the same language they hear sentiments they've felt or seen in their home it may be unintentional or not that's not the issue the issue here is what the student feels and believes the issue of the non-discrimination harassment policy number 5145.3 isn't about secrecy it's about privacy and yes even children have the rights to privacy the Trevor Project reported that in California only 30 percent of the lgbtq students felt supported at home while 50 50 percent felt supported at school good work and thank you board staff admin Educators for continuing to work to reduce the 69 percent of lgbtq Youth that reported experiencing symptoms of anxiety and the 50 experiencing symptoms of depression by continuing to follow the Chico Unified School Board policy 5145.3 non-discrimination harassment as is the continued adherence to California Assembly Bill 1266 and the national family educational rights and Privacy Act FERPA you are continuing to work towards creating a safe secure and healthy environment for every student a place where students can develop their knowledge skills and competencies necessary for academic success and their personal well-being in other words you are improving lives if not saving them thank you our last speaker during this session is Benito abarco Sanchez sorry I'll Circle back to that person during the second items from the floor in case they happen to come during the next part of the meeting all right um so that closes excuse me that closes our items from the floor we will move on to item six the consent calendar this the consent calendar groups routine items to be a single item for action um we will address public comments first do we have public comments we have one person requesting to address the board on consent oh sorry I have Rob Berry here as a public comment for consent calendar I'm here to object to the minutes uh regarding the emotion that was made to table the item the way it shows up in the minutes is that it Mr tennis's motion died for a lack of second as if it occurred in regular order but that's not exactly what happened what happened is the chair made a motion to table Mr Lando seconded the motion Mr tennis offered a substitute motion he was interrupted mid sentence by Mr Landau called a point of order and then ruled on his own point of order incorrectly I might add that's a person who's entitled to me to make a substitute motion and inquire whether there is a second and that motion should be voted on first not second and so you essentially overrode your own rules of order in order to squash a legitimate substitute motion now the remedy for this is to undo the entire process and to repeat the vote I'm not suggesting that but what I am suggesting is that this matter come back and that you review your rules of order that you understand what procedure is because the public expects these orders to be conducted in regular order okay so uh this or this motion should come back Mr tennis should have an opportunity to present the motion to propose the policy changes that he wants that he's suggesting the chair should give the rest of the the board an opportunity to discuss and second I'll offer amendments friendly amendments and so forth before a vote is taken on that motion before an original motion is is gone so I would ask that the minutes be changed to reflect the fact that his motion did not fail on regular order it fold by it failed by the exercise of improper order and that you need to acknowledge that that happens so that you create a record that you don't repeat that error in the future thank you very much I'd like to comment I don't want to belabor this point um I think largely your analysis is correct Mr Berry I didn't do in my opinion a good job signposting you know that I was going to make a substitute motion that came from I just I think maybe a lack of fluidity on my part in terms of what I should have said the right formula of words um and so my my presentation of that that motion was weak weaker than it could have been um so I apologize to everyone for that but I would support bringing this motion and this matter back and and would move accordingly now not that we do it now but that we put it on the next board meeting agenda I am so uh at this time and I would offer also that we all stumble on things in the Rules of Order probably every meeting so I you know wouldn't wouldn't put that on yourself so much because I would struggle with the same thing and I'm like I said earlier in the meeting I'm learning I'm becoming more aware of everything and process so I appreciate um the I appreciate the humility that's allowed for us to learn to do better um at this on this particular item um what we can do is I can ask if anyone would like to pull a consent item for further discussion I'm Robinson yes thank you madam president I'd like to pull under human resources for um the certificated Human Resources actions so can you give the number yes 4.1 6.4.1 ah 6.4.1 consider approval of certificated Human Resources actions yes okay thank you um is there anybody else that would like to pull an item from consent I'll pull the minutes from the last meeting um so we will also pull item 6.1.1 are there any additional items to pull from consent okay I'm going to ask for a motion to approve the consent calendar minus item 6.1.1 and item 6.4.1 which will be utilized for further discussion so moved thank you okay so we have a motion by a member Robinson and the second by member Orlando um this is our first vote tonight that's really strange I'm going to start on the end with Mr tennis tennis eye Orlando Eye Dolby eye Robinson I can't I all right thank you um the consent passes uh minus those two items that I pulled or that we pulled I'm sorry um and so let's um address uh we'll just go and order um the minute 6.1.1 Mr tennis [Music] um I would just like to vote probably abstain on the on the minutes um would now be a good time for me to suggest that we take this up at our next regularly scheduled board meeting I think that it's certainly within your purview to offer a motion with an amendment or request a change from the staff I could sure the staff will correct me if I'm wrong um I'm not going to dispute that the verbiage in the minutes so do you have a question for me no I was just curious if you if you had a a if you wanted to make changes in order to approve the minutes or wanted to bring the minutes back with amendments to them and we could improve them at the next meeting no yeah I guess um I would ask for that I would ask for more time to process Mr Mr Barry's remarks and I would request that these come back for I guess we table them for now and then maybe reconsider them at our next meeting these minutes I would second that thank you um we do have to vote on that so um do we have a let's just do a Voice vote again for tabling approval of the minutes until further review can be done by Mr tennis and any amendments as he sees necessary for the minutes recorded on his behalf I'd be I'd be I'm I would like to um push that forward so um we'll start with Mr Orlando this time sure Amanda why Dolby eye Robinson I konk and I tennis High all right thank you uh moving on to item 6.4.1 I'm uh Ms Robinson yes thank you madam president um under certificated Personnel action if you go down the list of many many employees on page oh my gosh they're not numbered well it's the front page at the bottom of the front page under retirements there's the name Kevin Moretti Kevin Moretti has been cuta president for 16 years Kevin 12 years time flies when you're having fun I want to acknowledge Kevin the tremendous leap of faith you took and and brought your executive board and membership along on the ride to join the district in being schooled in interest based bargaining we had been at odds for a number of years on many issues surrounding collective bargaining it was a it was a big leap and we used a CTA trainer that was amazingly good your team bought in the cusd team bought in and within a year things had changed miraculously and you have kept your faith in keeping the interest-based bargaining tool working the way it should and I just want to say thank you from this board member for all you did to initiate change in the relationship between cusd and cuta thank you you're welcome but it it would not have happened Without You Eileen you were the driving force on that so thank you and that you pushing us that way made my life a whole lot easier I appreciate it I I was a bit of a nudge I I will admit but thank you Kevin and and and happy trails to you and your wife I see that you are both retiring this year so many happy returns well deserved thank you all right um is there any other discussion for did you want to make a motion I move approval of the certificated Personnel actions seconded congrats Kevin for what it's worth um all right so we have a motion and a second for item 6.4.1 um to make approval um let's I'll start um actually where were you unanimous last one yeah we were let's just vote together all those in favor say aye aye opposed all right looks like we all approve okay moving on and for the sake of just all of our awareness we are at um nearly 6 15 and so we're rolling into item 7.1.1 informational special education communication update sorry for the delay yeah I thank you to my parents for being very patient and waiting for their opportunity I want to thank you for inviting our parents representing some of our student families I have invited many parents and it was based on parents that have contacted the district attended meetings had issues or concerns with the district I contacted more than 50 people in order to get across variety of people to ensure that I had they we could address their questions concerns and attend to any of their complicated needs of their students I am pleased that several of those parents are here tonight and as a representation of the others I've spent it there are others that have submit speaker cards or emailed the board also these parents represent 1 792 TK through age 22 students which is 14.8 percent of our population in Chico Unified and an additional 296 zero to three year old students which brings that total up to 16.6 percent of our district population you're about to hear from their experiences directly Julia I'd like to invite Julia rogoff to the microphone hey Phil the the microphone just seems a little soft to me yeah can you bring up the volume please thank you my name is Julia rogoff I am a parent of a special education student that attends Marsh Junior High she is in your mod severe program and I've spoken here before about how wonderful it is I love I love her teacher and I love the staff there I do want to make a point that it is very very difficult for parents of special education students to come to these meetings and for us to stay this long it is very hard for us to have respite to have parents watch our children because it is very hard to find people to watch them so when you extend the time that you told us that we were supposed to be talking to give everybody else an opportunity instead of following the actual rules that you set forth it was very difficult for us and I think that you have to concern consider yourself consider everybody else and not just the people who might want to talk everybody should get a chance and I don't think you understand how difficult it is for us I want to address two things they asked us about special education experience and what we're all about and two things you hear it a lot inclusion right and it gets lost and I want to give you a specific example a couple of how I think we could do better um the middle schools have started some sports teams and I think that is wonderful and I love that they're doing that for the population and on the flyer it said all levels available but is that true because when I said I wanted my daughter to play I had to set up a special meeting with the principal did everybody else have to set up a special meeting so that their child can play is all levels in this District really all levels or is it all levels except children who have disabilities because I think that's what it actually is my child is in the mod severe program there are children in the severe program what would you do if they wanted to play right now you have no plan there is no plan every time you have an event every time you make a new program no thought is given to how to incorporate special education students into those activities I always say I wish we were an afterthought because we're not even there special education isn't even an afterthought to Administration or the school district most time we're not even to that level we're not even a thought I think that a line item should be but every time a school creates a new activity for typical students they need to ask themselves how do we include special education students in these programs and I want to call specific attention to your CTE programs at the high school level we have a problem in these programs and the problem is teachers who are discriminating against special education students and not allowing them in those programs I've worked at the high schools I'm a paraprofessional as well as a parent and I hear the teachers talking about how they don't want our students in their classes I want you to check the numbers I want you to check how many months of your students are in CTE classes I want you to check level one you may find one or two I want you to check level two CTE classes and you will find zero they are barred from these classes because of teachers and administration who are not pressuring teachers to let our students participate they're given a million different excuses why they can't be there I was actually told by a teacher when I was asking why mods of your students were not in your culinary CTE program that has a million dollar two million dollar facility that there is a stove a stove in the mod severe classroom that they can use are we separate but equal here because I really feel sometimes that's what we are we're not included we're not thought about and it really needs to change and I've been at this for 10 years beating this drum of inclusion and it gets tiring to have to say it over and over my daughter and children like her deserve to be included in every single activity of Life on campus and right now she's not included at all and I think that I would love for the board to come and really start asking these questions looking for the students where are they in campus life because you're not going to find them they're in Portables they're stuck away in the classrooms on the side of the very back of the campus they're not integrated to Everyday Life I asked a high school student hey how many times do you see monster students around campus and he was like we never see them sometimes they come into our classroom and they pick up our trash so please take a look at what's going on in special education and how we can make it better for our students and now I'm going to introduce next person okay so now we have Megan Stewart and her lovely daughter here and she's going to talk a little bit about her experience in special education hi hi I'm Megan Stewart this is my daughter Faith she's six years old she just started kindergarten at little Chico Creek School in January she did her first semester of kindergarten in Glenn County and preschool in Tehama County and so far this has been our best experience Faith absolutely loves her teachers Faith do you like school she's been over there squealing for about an hour now just to give you an idea of Faith's needs she has several medical conditions and disabilities she spent hundreds of days in the hospital she's used the medical helicopter five times she takes medication throughout the day and uses a feeding pump she's unable to move herself out of her room if she needs to she can't tell me anything about her day in addition to her disability she takes medication um like I said she has a low immune system so I have to be really careful about germ exposure for her so you can imagine it can be quite nerve-wracking to leave her in anyone's care so I have to have complete confidence in her caregivers to give the right amount of medication at the right times to be prepared to um deal with an urgent situation if needed a couple of weeks ago we did have an urgent situation in the classroom while Faith was at school and I was just very um I was very impressed with how quickly a nurse drove to the school and responded and resolved the situation just like it needed to be on face first week of school I just really appreciated that the classroom staff and teachers they allowed me into the classroom with her for the first four days they let me teach them the way that we do things the way that the doctors have um have trained us and I just really appreciated that that they allowed me to do that and make sure that they were doing things the way that needed to be done and her whole classroom stuff has just been extremely accommodating I just from um well I'll just say that everyone that we worked with has been very competent they've worked quickly things that I begged for for months and months in other counties were literally provided the first week that we started at little Chico Creek we've had a spectacular experience and I just want you to know that and I feel like everyone has just worked so well together and the main thing that I love communication has been wonderful without this within the school system within the administration and everyone just seems to generally care about faith so I couldn't be more pleased with our uh the way that you guys have handled everything thank you [Applause] next we have Elaine Ward and Jessica hunt talking about their experience at special ed um so specifically I was asked to share about the sped paranites that Jessica and I had encouraged the board to implement so that sped parents could have more time to discuss those areas of concern that we had overall I feel the parents are really welcome to this idea of having these little mini groups however I feel there's still room for improvement um it's apparent oh let's see if it's apparent that there is still a level of mistrust and distrust I looked it up those words mean two different things but all comes down to trust there's a level of mistrust and distrust that parents feel towards a district and it shows and questions they have asked during these meetings while we were discussing a sports program to allow our students opportunities for team sports a parent essentially asked how do we know that the district will follow through with what they're saying right now who will hold them accountable again she phrased her question differently but when she was asked to repeat herself I had to restrain myself from interrupting her and interjecting by saying she wants to know if we can trust you guys to me for a parent to ask a question this way I feel like they've been given lip service before they have experienced the districts and they have experienced the district not following through on promises or statements made another another Improvement would be adjusting the time statistically a lot of um our families come from single parent homes so when you have a meeting at four o'clock most of those single parents are working or like Julia mentioned they have to find respite care which has been very hard for parents to have students with disabilities having it at four o'clock you're automatically disqualifying a large portion of your parent population to participate in this discussion we were told when the topic of time came up we were told that these meetings were planned in advance that's poor planning because you don't recognize the Dynamics of your parent population when it comes to students with disabilities finally we need to have topics or providers share information that actually apply to us as a district and a county at our last meeting we had Rao family empowerment of Northern California percent present to us while Rao is a great organization most of the information shared was only offered in Shasta County it was hard for me to see parents get excited about their Slate Program which helps with the social emotional development of autistic students children it was hard for me to see parents get excited about this program knowing it wasn't offered in Butte County we were told that uh sorry we were told that the district did not do a good job of informing Raul about the information that they should present particularly the IEP support that they can offer our families and again that's poor planning if you're going to have a meeting to be informational you need to make sure that the information that's being shared applies to your families that are there because then it rolls over to being a family's waste of time trying to find respite care for their child if they don't bring them to the meeting or even families adjusting their schedule to accommodate for these meetings overall these meetings are happening uh these meetings happening are a good thing conversations are happening what can make them even better though is if school board members and principals actually attended these meetings a lot of parents that have students with disabilities feel you especially as board members don't care that our students are a mere second thought to you don't take into consideration our students and their needs that perception needs to change you need to ask yourselves how you can make that change hello my name is Jessica hunt many of you guys know me I've been to quite a few of these meetings I am the mom of two wonderful 16 year old sophomores at PV with autism first off I'd like to say that the special education nights are really a great step in the right direction this is something I have been with Chico Unified since my boys are at Loma Vista and this is the first time that we're having these type of meetings and I think they are a work in progress and that's still a great thing because the district is actually listening to some of our input and I am proud to be part of that and help change that um I think that um again parent nights do need to be more about our area I understand you know what happened with the royal family Empowerment Center um I get it it happens um but that's something that we are all going to be looking at of finding people I will personally call for Northern Regional Center hey you guys want to come and do a presentation in our parent night we'd love to have you this is what we'd like to hear I think it's important that we all get involved and when I say all everybody here everybody here and everybody out there we can't do it alone I'm tired I'm tired of doing it by myself I'm tired of looking at my friends and seeing us all have the same looks on our face when we hear something else that has happened I'd like to go back to a situation um in particular with the board members it was around covid when we were talking about whether we were going to go full time in May and you guys had the very difficult decision of voting on that I'm happy to say that you chose to leave it the same at this time though I was telling you how wonderfully my twins did in having that half day schedule how they their reading program was increased how their math was increased and one of the board members said after I spoke that we needed to find out why there were these improvements what things were we doing that the boys got to improve not one member of this board reached out to me nothing so I felt really like a second class citizen like my boys don't matter I know you guys have a lot of students but all of these students are important thank you um just really quick before you bring into the next person because this is a presentation so we can't interrupt briefly um can I I just need a little clarification for my own categorization in my brain some of the meetings have been bcoe driven meetings haven't they so all of the parent meetings have been District presented the all the parent means so there's been uh in September there was a four o'clock meeting in November there's a four o'clock meeting and then uh six o'clock was our special ed students with disabilities at Academy and that one was at 6 pm um that was the one that was at 6 PM that had child care provided all four of them all of them have had child care we have had Child Care at every single one I do work with bcoe to bring different trainings in we've had far no other enduring presentations on new light parents to IEPs and they've they it's an eight series presentation that's been happening at PV then we do provide child care and food to that one and then with this other Workshop coming up that is going to be and I hit the sealer Thunder with Julia this group reached out to me to present I passed it on to our new CPAC committee and said would you guys like to be the ones to first present it and they're present at four o'clock because that's when their presenters are available they're not available any later so there are other things that impact times that we have um okay so all of this is separate from there are also bcoe special education meetings happening that are that are separate from this conversation that we're having the we I work in conjunction with them like they presented a rights law presentation okay and we together I guess I just need understanding why I'm confused about that that's all that we can address it later there are specific parent meetings and then there's specific workshops and we've also started CPAC this has grown Way Beyond and is what my vision was three years ago during covid and luckily we've been able to do it this year and if you look at the timing of when I had the first meeting it was actually before the board had asked for these to happen Okay so thank you we have another presenter her name is Mandy Browning and she's brand new to our district so I'm excited she decided to talk today thank you for allowing me to speak today um I'm here to talk about my son Malcolm light Julia shared I'm my family is not only new to Chico Unified but we're new to school our son is only four and he was just assessed and placed at Loma Vista he just started last week so we're one weekend so I am brand new to all of this this is my very first meeting so bear with me here if my voice quivers um well Malcolm has been going to school for a week and it's obviously been a very fun eventful time for him meeting his new teacher she has a rabbit I mean it doesn't get any better than that for a four-year-old he's meeting new friends and he seems to be adjusting really well given that it's only week one but as his moms my wife Danielle and I have really struggled to get to this point we've gone through several assessments that have been very stressful um and our first experience with the with school district was in the form of an IEP which for those of you in this room who've never had to participate in an IEP it's an extremely stressful situation and while I'm grateful for what we're calling team Malcolm our IEP team is extremely dedicated and really sees Malcolm for who he is and the assessments that the school psychologists provided from Loma Vista matched what we see at home and I was very happy to see that they saw him for who we see him as nonetheless entering into that that conversation that legally binding conversation in the format of inp as your very first experience was very stressful I know that she spoke about having IEP trainings and she mentioned this to me those are things I for sure am going to be participating in in the future I guess my experience that I want to share with the board here tonight is that as a new parent coming into having a child that's going to be entering school but then also within the realm of special needs um it's a whole other level and I'm grateful for the support of the the parents who've spoken here and the others who I continue to meet as I throw myself into these meetings to try and hit the ground running it is a lonely place and I encourage the um School Board here to really listen to what these families are sharing the good and the bad and really commit to making changes that can help the overall success of all students within the school district you know like I said Malcolm's four so you will be seeing us because we're very we're very active participants in this process but not all parents can be and I just encourage you that when you do get feedback to really take that to heart and try to make the changes that they need to help their kids be successful thank you thank you okay I also wanted to share that we do have other meetings that are LED in collaboration with parents for the district we have started is called a CPAC committee special education care education parents advisory collaboration there is a head committee a lead committee that is five parents and administration from Chico Unified primarily right now that is the special ed Administration and well all Administration and all board members are welcoming those in fact you have received by invites to the meeting on Friday and then we would love to have all of you come to that meeting I have heard from Kelly that if I space things right I can actually have every single one of you there so um I would love to have you participate in that I would love to see you at the lcap meetings and at the parent meeting so you can see firsthand how the structure of these meetings happen it is very open and is very collaborative and we are going to be adjusting schedules to do alternating schedules um many of the times it's based on when presenters can be available to present I'd rather have them at inconvenient time than not have them at all um I want Julia to do last part of this presentation just an invite to people to be part of the CPAC um school team one more time for me okay so I know I spoke about the CPAC like right when we were getting it started and I want to say thank you to especially Diane Olson here for embracing this idea and really running with it I mean she was she's been such a driving force in making sure that we make this happen and it's going to be phenomenal for this District um I really would love if there's any parents watching or if anybody here knows of parents who want to get involved with us we're looking for School site Representatives each site is going to have a CPAC site rep so that they can reach out to the administration and the other parents at their site to get more parent involvement to get our voices heard more at the school level which I think is where most of the changes get made and we really are looking for those strong collaborative voices who want to make positive change so if that's somebody that's you or you know of somebody who wants to get involved um we have about half of our School site reps spoken for but we we want to fill them all and next year we really want to hit the ground running and get some parent engagement activities on the books so that we need those site reps um and I just want if you have any questions we're here I accidentally skipped one person point of order for me I missed we had one presentation on the lcat meme just so that you got some information on what happened at that lcap meeting that you weren't able to attend Madam president um thank you I'd I'd like to just mention to you guys that at age two and a half I was primary caregiver to a grandchild and by the age of three that grandchild had been assessed at Loma Vista and entered innovative preschool and completed her whole educational process through Chico Unified and I never once missed an IEP meeting so I I do know some of the struggles that special ed parents and kids go through so you do have Advocates I think other board members have experience as well with our special education system and so if you don't see me showing up there I'm sorry that I wasn't able to make the meeting but I I have walked in your shoes and I I do understand to some extent what you're going through comment also although I'm a board member I'm also a parent of a special needs kid and he also has an IEP and I hear you guys and I know what sacrifice you're making tonight just to be here and I just want to say I I've walked in your shoes and I share your story and I would love to come to one of your meetings as well I want to be a an active member in that so thank you um so in regards to lcap meetings in the summer of 2020 I actually shared with Diane that I felt the importance of having lcap meeting specifically for parents that had students with disabilities why because I felt a majority of parents felt that the elk the lcat meetings that were previously happening happening did not pertain to their student and the same reason why parents that have students with disabilities don't join PTO ptso PTA because they feel what information is shared there it does not apply to their child the specialized lcap meetings have really started the hard conversations hard conversations that need to happen for positive growth and change within our district at the most recent lcap meeting it was shared of the high uh that our district hired 80 plus paraprofessionals which at the surface level it looks and sounds great but in an exchange I had with a fellow parent raised the question about how many more are truly needed this is where transparency needs to happen you can share the great wonderful magical things that are happening in our district but you also need to know let parents know but this is where we want to go this is what we're aiming for that's how we have growth that's how we have change uh we as a district we can't continue to just Pat ourselves on the back we really do need to publicly acknowledge to parents those difficulties that we are having because we as parents we see those and when we don't hear it being talked about we feel as if you are blind to the idea of what is happening in our district and we want our um and we want to make sure that our parents feel supported by the school board by District employees and especially by principals or I know I've gotten up here and shared sometimes mostly bad but I have had both good and positive experiences in the school district I've had good and both both good and bad experiences with principals very as Diane called them unique experiences but I know my experience with a particular principal has happened to other parents as well um I really encourage you as board members to attend these meetings because you get to personally experience and witness these joyous experiences that we share as parents that are our children are experiencing but then you also get to see those tears of Sorrow that come from parents of how much more our district needs to improve upon and how much growth that we need in our district again I know we all have busy lives when this topic was brought up when Mrs dalby made a motion for a updated discussion to happen a certain board member who I'm sure know who they are um said how long is it going to take because we have lives that's not a good way to show something I did not say that yeah you did I did not say that yeah no yes you did but I'm glad you send me the video okay I'll do that for you that shows your constituents that you don't care constituents that's voted for you with that have students with IEPs if you're going to directly talk to me I'm gonna directly talk to you I didn't know that yes you did if you want people to know that you care show up come to these meetings we all have busy lives I have busy lives my kids have busy lives I make lots of sacrifices to be here my family makes lots of sacrifices for me to be here saying you have a busy life not an excuse don't use that as an excuse you're going to take our time extending like Julia said more time for other people to speak don't complain about having a busy life because apparently you don't if you're going to extend the time so people can talk well I didn't say what you're saying I said so I'm not going to worry about it you did you said how long is this going to take because I know I'm sorry I apologize show up just let people know that you care make the sacrifices of your time to be there let parents know that you care let students know that you care many eyes are on all of you um I did have them go back to slide number two if you look at the top of slide number two there is a link in there on the parent input responses from the November meeting and then the district steps in meeting some of the needs within it and then at the last special ed Workshop I had already given you the responses from the September meeting so you can see what the discussion items were and what the things that we're moving forward on and then there's also comments in there about things that were are looking at how to address okay it's just so transparency you have that also sorry it took so long I did want to give my parents who had been waiting a very long time an opportunity to speak and I do know that I have speaker cards on this agenda item so thank you very much thank you thank you for the presentation [Applause] um we do have public comment but are there any other um items just for clarification from the board from the presentation okay um so we'll move to public comment there are three speakers signed up for this item I'm up first I have Alexander hunt unfortunately Alexander could not make it tonight because he called in sick for school today um but he had me this is public comment just to clarify so okay yeah so so the three minute limit 30 seconds Etc okay so he's got a statement that we wrote perfect sorry that was just my bad for not re-reminding the audience I thought that's our rules that's okay my name is Alexander hunt I'm 16 years old and I'm a 10th grader at PV not everyone has a mom that fights and advocates for me and my brother that advocates for me and my brother I worry about some of my friends I worry that people aren't speaking up for them and they are missing out also my brother and I did not have an aid last week snowed in for our Spanish class we had a hard time with no one to help us Topete tried to help but she has a whole class and we don't have an aid in our ceramics Mrs Somerville a long time sub tries to check in with us the district says we hired 86 aides the math is about three per school for the district shout out to Mr Hightower for everyday math skills I really like my teachers that I have now and they work really hard and they need more help and Renee spageri is kind and always listens to my brother and I thank you [Applause] I'm the next speaker is Nakaya Langley and please correct me if I say your name wrong I'm really self-conscious about saying names wrong that was my second guess and I was like I'm gonna get it wrong okay thank you it's okay nice to meet you guys it's my first time speaking kind of excited um I am here on behalf of my son Aiden um he attends Parkview he has Down syndrome I do watch these online because that's as good as it gets while I lay with him during the time that you guys are doing these really late um he's been attending Parkview for two years unfortunately over the last few years we've had multiple incidents of him getting harmed by other students now I'm a really awesome person in letting it go because the students don't really understand there's para AIDS in there they try super hard to kind of bypass it but when you know when your kids if you have kids understand if they have marks on them it looks like you did it really when you take them out in public okay my son was smacked across the face had a handprint across his face for um a good 24 to 48 hours not by me by Studio obviously um so having multiple incidences unfortunately having para AIDS I think in my heart I think that we should probably have less students in the special education classrooms with the parades to protect students through you know chairs throwing Etc it's not their fault in any way shape or form it's not anybody's fault really the students are stemming or having you know an outburst it's you know Common nature for even human beings right us as myself I have outbursts too right we're human but they don't understand to calm themselves right they have to have a certain way to do it so if my son gets hurt on accident by being pinched or being smacked it's unfortunate but it does hurt me as a parent okay now that being said also it's a safety issue as well because you know you let your kids go to school and it's safe for them to be there right you drop them off and you're like please God nothing happened to you today our students usually are in a classroom for four years I don't know if anybody knows that but so my son is in this classroom for two years and one more year he should have been in it for four years technically so they're in a mobile all the way at the other side of the left side of the school um it does feel quite discriminatory the bathroom's around the corner and they can't really get to the bathroom if they have accidents Etc and it really makes it hard for everybody I just want to say I do appreciate the staff and the teachers and all their hard work that they do and they're doing their best they can they really should be getting paid more to be bit and hit and scratched but thanks for listening thank you our next speaker is Jennifer Gallagher hi I'm Jen Hasty Gallagher this is my son Christopher we are almost at the end of this process he's a senior this year and we'll be leaving probably for the adult program but what I was asked to speak I thought that I would have some Insight after such a long process through through this school district we started when he was three years old with Loma Vista and we are ending this year at Pleasant Valley High School um I wanted to start with the strengths of Chico Unified District or school district and I think that I should preface this with I am a former special education teacher I am a former fifth grade teacher I am a current kindergarten teacher in a different District um so definitely one of the strengths here for Chico Unified I think are your teachers and we started at Loma Vista with some fabulous teachers and um made a decision to move him to an elementary school that was not our home school where we thought he would do well he did not and being involved parents as we are um we went out into your other schools and chose the well what we thought again was the right place for our son and we found a little Chico Creek which was definitely I'm sorry it took until fourth grade to do that but was a was a turning point for us in in his education and actually in his life um he then went to Marsh where again he had a fabulous teacher and fabulous aides Dennis and um then went on to PV which is finally our home school um where we have another fabulous teacher um if I had to you know look at I wouldn't call them I would call areas we needed to work on for Chico Unified and I had said you know I mean here we are he's 19.
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we've been at this a long time I could go all the way back and talk about all of the issues but I thought I should probably just start thank you with um since he started high school and I just think communication has been very lacking I do know what I'm doing thank goodness I went to college for this um but you know one of the special education principles was quit let go I don't even know I was not informed I was told by another parent um our special educator education coordinator changed again I found out from a parent is that my time up yeah that's your time that's fine if you have that if you if you could scan you don't have to type but if people could scan the rest of your comments and send them to this us that would be really helpful okay I can do that yeah thank you so much also Christopher thank you for being here as well um that is all I have on the list for the folks that signed up to speak on this item um do we any other public comments at this time for this specific item okay seeing none um this is informational only and so there's no action to be taken tonight I do want to reiterate how much I appreciate all of your your thoughts and issues that you've brought forward I think you've given us all a lot to think about um and I really appreciate your time here and I'm sorry that it has gone so late um to be respectful of your time and we'll be more considerate in the future certainly um and I'll otherwise chat with you on the side about coordinating our schedules okay so um we are well past our 6 30 Mark of wanting to address our our Workshop which is the facilities update um I am actually I do want to suspend the rules briefly and so I'm going to make a motion to hear just the next item to take action on the next item because it's from um it's for our transportation services plan and our staff person does need to be on the clock at 5am tomorrow and so I would like to suspend the rules and move on to item seven point one sorry 7.2.1 and then in the same motion move 7.22324 and 7.3.1 to after item 8 and before item nine at this time so that we can move on with our Workshop we'll get there that is a mission all right I'll second that okay was that clear enough to stop my motion yes so we're going to hear the um item 7.0 well if this if this is approved sorry um so we have a motion in a second um yeah I already explained why okay um let's just do a Voice vote all of those in favor signifies it by saying aye aye aye opposed we're good okay thank you so we will um here 7.2.1 now and we will move the other items from our regular schedule to after the workshop thank you thank you board for giving me the opportunity to present this transportation service plan um go to the next slide my name is Bob Bond riveros I'm the transportation supervisor I'm the one who has to get up and be here at five o'clock in the morning um the the reason we're here is because the state of California has instituted a new Ed code that gonna provide some funding for transportation their goal in the beginning of this process was to provide homeschool transportation for every student throughout the state of California well they can and fell short of that so this is the compromise go ahead and go uh this new education code is 398.00.1 and it's uh part of the the process is that we need to ratify this in front of the board we've talked to go ahead and go we talked to the the parents we've talked to the students we've talked to the elementary school principals we've talked to the transit authorities because all these people are involved in this process what we're trying to do is we're trying to get more students on the buses and there's a new priority according to this Edco go so now um home to school transportation uh has a new criteria the board policies that we had previously were pretty close to what the Ed code was requiring for the smart special ed we're in line with everything already we provide all transportation services to all kids who've qualified through through IEP and have hit all the marks the home to school transportation we've already proprieted transportation for homeless students to the foster care students and provided free transportation for low income go what we're going to do is add because of this this new law we're going to unduplicated students and what that means is we're going to add English Learners to the people who can receive Transportation free we just have to add that to our application we've already got that process set the district also has to prioritize students by grade so the TK students will be the ones who received the first priority to ride the bus and through the grades all the way up so what this means is that at the beginning of the year we'll do our typical process of accepting applications for everybody filibusters as much as possible but what will probably happen is when we become saturated and no longer to accept any more applications people who were at the secondary grade level will lose their ability to ride the bus if we have an influx of elementary kids so this is something new and something we have to make sure that the board understands that the public understands yeah so we have to approve this before April 1st and that's why we're here today this is our last opportunity okay are there any questions so Premiere so overall this expands the number of students who do not pay for transportation correct thank you okay that's exactly what it does and it's a win in my book thank you very much yes sir it's one in my book too I'm a little concerned about the prioritization so how does that impact students who are able to to drive or maybe they maybe the the reasoning is that you know they could be we could help them have Alternative forms of transportation like um the public transportation right yeah that's part of the process we actually met with the uh the public transportation area also on the they agreed that wherever we're not able to provide that transportation that they would be able to try to pick that ball up okay that was yeah there's like a window there where kids still can't drive even if they're high schoolers right right now all of a sudden they don't get to ride the bus right again my vision you know just to reiterate for the board is to transport every student that goes to Chico Unified yes you know I'd like to have 75 buses and how do we do that how do we do that lots of money yeah and lots of drivers anybody want to be a school bus driver that's what I was looking for yeah where are our school bus drivers out there potential School District if anybody wants it's a Shameless plug I would love to train you the hours are are odd and the pay is not you know spectacular but you know it's really rewarding some yeah hours are flexible yeah yeah yeah I like your advertisement yes I'm working with you yes I appreciate it yes the bottom line is is we want to offer these students these services to all students who need it in our district which is a very broad long District that's not just Chico central no no we go all over the place to Cohasset Forest Ranch all over the place yep so um anybody out there who's semi retired and is looking for a little extra income we would love to uh come see Bob in transportation 891-3097.
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I have no other questions Bob thank you you're very welcome any other questions on board going once going twice thank you for your time thank you yeah I don't have any um prior uh assigned public comment on this item do we have any in the audience who would like to speak on this item going once twice all right um do we have a motion to approve the transportation services plan I so move I moved by member uh Robinson thank you Robinson um we'll do another voicemail all those in favor signify by saying aye please I should um remember my Rules of Order and I should have offered discussion um but I'm sure if anybody had a burning discussion item to speak up that they would have cut me off as anyway right right okay good thank you um okay so in the previous Mission we did move the rest of these items to after our workshop on the facilities master plan which I think is what most of the folks in this room are here for it's really nice to see so many people in the audience hearing all these great things and the great discussion that's happening so thank you for being here and um bearing with us with this long uh agenda um I do want to um consider if there's any point of personal privilege from any board members who would like to take a brief brief five minute break um we're going to stand up and stretch our legs for five minutes and probably do some other things in between to then be ready for this discussion thank you uh we're going for a recess yeah thank you okay we took a brief break it was meant to be five minutes but I'm learning that five minutes is not sufficient so I will acknowledge that that was longer than five minute break sorry um thank you for finding your seats um it was brought to my intention from our facilities director of that um there's actually an item that we do need to hear ahead of the workshop because it is our demographic analysis which is very relevant for the facilities master plan discussion so I'm going to um ask that we I reverse our decision on on moving that item to after um sorry I have not gathered my thoughts a break kind of turns me a little bit sideways for a second um yes thank you 7.2.4 um so I moved to actually hear that now instead of later second dude thank you um any discussion no all those in favor hi hi thank you okay we're up sorry Julie good evening thank you for having us tonight and for your consideration every year in March the district updates the demographic study this data guides the planning for school facilities into the future tonight we have King Consulting here tonight to do a brief summary of the larger report that you were provided last week please welcome Rob Murray and Jamie Eisman thank you Julie and uh good evening Madam president members of the board staff I first just want to lead off before I get into all of the Glorious details of the demographics that we want to cover tonight uh just with a quick acknowledgment as Julie said we uh are fortunate enough to get to come here every year and present this and especially in a very dynamic demographic environment which Chico USD is it just can't overstate how important it is to have that opportunity to check in annually and as you'll see tonight spoiling uh some of my results a little bit this was a very good year to have made sure that you were checking in on some of these indicators so much for what it means in the year to year short term but really looking out ahead we are starting to see some things that are actually starting to paint a little bit different picture than what I've been up here and told you some other years for those of you who have especially been on the board a long time and heard me do this more than once or twice but that said my name is Rob Murray I'm the director of demographics at King Consulting I have with me here also Jamie King Eismann who is the president of keen Consulting you'll hear a little bit from her later just touching on some of the state funding opportunities that the district has taken part in and has coming up but for now I want to go ahead and give an overview of what we have with your demographic analysis and student housing report and so again you'll see some specific examples of all this and of course not everything in the report will be covered tonight in detail or even touched on it all in some cases that said if you have questions about something that you noticed in the report that I don't mention please feel free to ask but the big picture is Chico USD aside from the anomalous year uh during the covet pandemic when you and just about everyone else in the state had a lot of things shift around a lot of people pushed out of the district saw that year of enrollment decrease otherwise you have been growing consistently for a while but the demographics really are looking like they are changing and so now instead of it being a situation where you're demographically neutral or demographically growing and you have other factors adding on to it you're entering more of a kind of competing offsetting Trends absent anything else going on demographically we might expect you to start going down that said you still have residential development bringing new families to the district you still have Universal TK transitional kindergarten rolling out and adding students who are getting to enroll with you earlier than they used to be able to and those things are boosting enrollment and the net is still growth but we're seeing it slow down and so we get into some of those things in detail and the first one up really is uh in that 2014 to 2015.
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that is the year when you cycled into the growth pattern uh you can kind of see the bars up top there uh since 20 that 14 15 school year you had been growing very consistently you had a one-time loss of students what we have observed in your district is that those students who left tended to have left you entirely at that time but it didn't change the demographic Trends you see the last two years uh since the that that one big red line on that bottom chart that shows the year-to-year change are pretty consistent with a couple of years before the pandemic you're still in that growth pattern and if that's all we're looking at uh it looks like we're kind of still business as usual and that's why it's important that we dig in a little bit and the first step of that is we look at your kindergarten enrollments here and this is important because what happens every year when new groups of kindergarten students come into the district is this is really the engine that's driving what's happening with your total enrollment if you see that cohort size getting bigger or smaller then that gives potential for your total enrollment the change because if you think of it as kind of like a big snake uh where you have cohorts coming in or let's just call that a hose so it's a little bit less scary uh but they kind of come in one end and youth can kind of sometimes you see a bubble moving through where you have a bigger group of students that comes in you know it'll be 10 years before they hit high school but you can absolutely see it coming then it hits just like you expected it would because it's based on students whose numbers that you know because and that's kind of what's been happening again you see between 2014 15 and 2015-16 you jump from 775 to over 900 kindergartners and then you had a run of some big incoming cohorts and that's fueled that enrollment growth that you saw and I mean those kids haven't even hit high school yet but you see the last couple of years you've had a couple of those kindergarten cohorts getting down closer to 800 and so that opposite effect can also happen uh you know 800 kindergartners come in and they're replacing a cohort in elementary school at least that started off in the high 800s or around 900 as they move up to middle school and that's going to make your Elementary enrollment almost certain to drop you I mean you'd have to have a lot of offsetting factors just to overcome that so that's why it's important that we look at that and then before I get into a lot of the details on what's driving the enrollment projection we do want to acknowledge the residential development and specifically it's important to contextualize that we look at how many kids do you actually get out of homes that are built we call that a student generation rate and as you can see from this it's a lot of numbers I'm not going to necessarily go over them all in detail but we look at it by type of housing which is very important uh anytime you have a below market rate or affordable house that's going to have a higher number of students that you tend to get out of that a single family detached homes tend to have more students come out of them than attached homes or multi-family Apartments and I'm including a couple of rows for you on the bottom there that show also the last couple of years because we look we look at this every year sometimes you know we're looking at the uh you know we usually go back and Survey a few years of things and sometimes the same home might be surveyed from year to year but oftentimes there's new things that are built coming in and what we're seeing is single family detached housing multi-family housing is pretty consistent year to year we are seeing that some of the affordable housing that's been built recently has not been generating as many students as we saw even last year or the year before a single family attached is just been a bit more variable I think it's more last year was a little bit of an anomaly uh being higher than the multi-family that tends to be the lowest type and we're back to having that again but what this means is when we're looking at the development coming up especially the number of affordable housing units it's cooling off a little bit what our projection says in terms of how many students you're going to get from that now they're still again not going to read this out to you but still have a long list of projects at the city of Chico has now these aren't all the all 3500 plus units here are not necessarily all going to be built over the next few years this is very Market driven that's another reason it's important to check in on this pretty regularly but this represents hundreds of new students that are coming to you even with that little bit of cooling off from seeing that some of the most recently built units are not generating as many students as we had seen other times and you also see the location here very very concentrated right now in the Southeast you know still a long way to go but we also know uh Valley's edge with the the most recent uh project that is at least on the road to moving forward uh just continuing that growth to the southeast part of the city and so just being aware that even for a district with you know lots of movement of students and open enrollment it does still absolutely matter where you're seeing some of this development set to occur so that's a good segue to our spatial analysis it's just a good reminder I find a lot of with the District staff this is one of the tools that gets referenced the most often and so I just want to do a quick recap of what these matrices show and what some of the terms mean and this basically just gives you a one shot quick guide to who lives where and who's going to school where if you look down those columns that just shows each School boundary you can just then look across to see how many kids who live in that boundary are going to what schools if you want to look across a row that just tells you here's all the kids going to that school what boundaries do they live in across the bottom and those uh reddish colored boxes when we say in migration and out migration that's just a quick way to capture and migration is what percent of the kids who are enrolled at a school or coming in from outside of its boundary out migration is what percent of the kids who live in the boundary are going to another Chico USD School especially at the elementary level where you have a hooker Oak and Rosedale plus the Open Enrollment that you have in general you have a lot of that in and out migration from boundaries across the district then that net migration is just on you know it's a zero sum it's just on net uh you know every single school has people moving into and out of it but just which ones on net have more coming in than out or vice versa so I always like to explain that every year just because there's a lot of really good information in that if you know exactly what it's telling you so now that said on to our projections and again I've already mentioned talking about kindergarten cohorts how important it is to understand uh how the difference in size of the incoming cohorts is going to drive your enrollment Trends and the way we project ahead for kindergarten cohorts is largely driven by District births and this year the 2022 births are officially in the books that's another advantage to kind of coming in in March because we have that opportunity the California Department of Public Health only lags a couple of months getting all of those out and available but what we're seeing now is 2020 you uh we're below a thousand births for the first time in quite a while and there was a rebound in 21 but 22 were back to even lower and even that rebound last year is still uh those last three years or three of the four lowest years of births on record going back to 1990.
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so in terms of kind of demographic bellwethers this is where we're saying we are seeing demographic uh you know just there's some kind of brake pumping going on in terms of a few years ago before we started seeing these lower births it was your on a growth trajectory nothing is really indicating that you're going to do anything different until we see otherwise now we're to that point we're seeing otherwise most districts in California have been dealing with this for a long time you're just starting to see it here and of course that will be the importance of seeing if this how much of a sustained Trend this is but what this does give us that red box that you see there those are the years of births that you haven't seen show up as kindergarteners yet and again that includes three of your four not if not ever but at least in the last more than 30 years lowest birth totals again there's just so many kids around uh you also have Charter in private schools in your area so you don't even get all of those as kindergartners you have some that move in but there's a very strong correlation between births and looking four or five years later to kindergarten enrollment so one bit the next bit though is once you have those kindergartners in you know you look at the difference in size of cohorts of who came in and what cohort they're taking the place of essentially but you also have all the kids who were there last year who expect to come back again this year so this is just your high level summary this is all of your k-11 students from one year and then you go forward and you have all of the first through 12th graders the next year if you were located on a remote desert island and it was very difficult for anyone to come into or leave your school district you'd expect this to be about zero in reality lots of people leave lots of people come in every year on net uh you tend to get uh you know two to three percent growth aside from one very obvious outlier uh which we have already talked about where a lot of people left during that or you know that first year of the pandemic but otherwise and you do expect those cohorts to grow as they're in the system and a lot of what you're seeing here actually is the effect of that residential development that's a lot of what's driving this so as long as that continues at about the pace it has been we would also expect those cohorts once they enter to grow again and yeah about two to three percent a year on average you know some of that is yeah go ahead Miss Alby I'm just wondering um what is is there like a is it a snapshot in the year or is it average of the whole year that you're looking at that from year to year that is a great question and yes there was an official census day that is in early October every year and so we're comparing year to year on that same census day so that low column is actually from 2019 is before coven uh that that one would be from October of 2019 to October of 2020.
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so basically it's the spring of 2020 is when we had covet hit and that was that first fall when we started the school year while coven was good I guess so it is average of that 2019-20 school year is what you're saying is what we get not the October 2019 date yeah it's the October 2019 K through 11 and then you look at that what you would think would be the same students in October of 2020 who are now first to 12th graders and that year you saw about a two percent decrease and that student population I'm just trying to figure out yeah no it's it's a lot of numbers and math but the main thing that we're getting from this is that you are still a growth District in terms of once you have kids and families moving in and out you're netting Positive Growth usually uh but the big result of everything just showing you the projection here reflects that again I didn't mention explicitly but you still have this was the first year that transitional kindergarten eligibility expanded you still have three years of that before it effectively becomes a new grade level for all four-year-olds uh and so that's driving some you know a little bit more growth through 2025-26 after that point uh it's very modest growth but still growth uh but a lot of this is and I'll show the whole chart here which I know is a lot of numbers very hard to read but it's really looking across that those top two rows you see 214 transitional Kinders this year growing up and I I believe you're still a little under enrolled in that proportionally to how many kindergartners you get the next year so even as that program continues to roll out I believe you'll continue getting more as it becomes increasingly normalized that school starts for a lot of people at four years old if they want to come but if you look at the next rowdown in kindergarten again you saw from the earlier chart uh down around 800 that doesn't even reflect those two those couple of years we've had of really low births so you see as kindergarten drops off into the 700s in some years that's where again instead of enroll all of the and migration and students generated from Development building on top of a flat line it's kind of filling in what otherwise would have been some decreases and you're still netting what looks like it will be growth but it's really leveling out some of the far out projections that I've given you in years past had more of a steady line up and we are seeing the beginnings of uh tempering that and again this is based on some of those lower births that we've seen if that keeps happening this is still about what we think you're looking like but it would be very important uh again this is dependent on some things like continual development happening and continuing to put about the same number of new families moving into the district as you've been seeing so there's a lot of things that can change and then of course this as the whole reason I'm still up here now instead of patiently waiting for my turn is this is all relevant to looking at facilities so we have the facility capacities that we have been using that were developed uh you know with the facilities as you have them uh so this is just looking at that same uh just breaking it out by school with each school's individual enrollment projections and where you see it highlighted in red is where that school is has projected enrollment that exceeds was identified as its Target capacity no some of these capacities may change as other projects are contemplated and into course as you see for example in Shasta there where it's highlighted all the way across that doesn't mean you know the target capacity doesn't mean like uh a building capacity the fire marshal sets that's the most kids you can have no more kids than this just means that that's the level that the district has identified as the best fit for those facilities you know some of these schools have had much higher enrollments in the past than what their target capacity is now so just always important to help Define those terms but again looking at this really highlights the sites where you do have that level of enrollment that you know when compared to Target capacities stand out a little more at the intermediate and high school levels you don't have anything that really jumps out in the same way yes Ms Robinson yes thanks Rob on uh this slide Shasta has large numbers but and and you said it's you know what Chico Unified has set as their target capacity but isn't there also a problem with the state deciding how many students and what grade levels you can have depending on the acreage of the site that you have put the school on yeah getting into some detailed territory but yes there are CDE and the acreage of a site comes into play when you are requesting to construct new buildings sometimes with what you already have in place which is what your capacity is based on it's not directly related but it can inform the conversation of how easy it is to build more on some sites hey and then I'm actually going to invite Jamie up to give you a little overview of your state funding picture is it something else that King does and ultimately all of this ties in together so Jamie thanks Rob good evening president dalby members of the board superintendents daily we're so glad to be here I have one slide so I think I'm going to be like your favorite presenter tonight um not just because it's only one slide but also because I'm just here to share with you and staff and members of your community prior to jumping off in this facility master plan process what good fiscal stewards you have been with the local funding that your community has committed to you and to your facility planning process so you have actively I don't know that we have another client we work with over 100 districts in the state who has so actively pursued State funding to match with local Bond dollars truly you have an incredible staff who cracks that Whip and makes sure that we don't leave any money on the table on your behalf so um thank you for the opportunity to do so this is just a summary of the state funding that you've leveraged through 2022 so first state modernization funding a little over 3 30 million in new construction including the CTE projects I think at Pleasant Valley High we got you over 15 million dollars or we applied for and you received over 15 million dollars so a little over 33 million for new construction and CTE and 8.3 for a charter school application so the total funding you've received since the Inception of the program is almost 72 million dollars to match with local Bond dollars now that was since 2000 but just under the measure K bond that passed in November of 2016 you've received almost a little over 36 million dollars in state school facility program funding so again asking your community but also making sure that you are asking the state for every dollar you're eligible for is critical so well done in addition to that funding that you've already received we have been working hard to submit another 15.2 million dollars worth of State funding applications those are on the workload list and awaiting processing in addition to all of this funding we have ident and identified enough are 55 million dollars that you're eligible to receive for this next phase of your facility Master planning process and we will be working closely with District staff to make sure that we get those submitted so thank you so much for having us it's a pleasure to see you all thank you imagine the lady who tells you how much money you're getting gets the biggest Applause she was already but but I but I think that concludes what we had prepared I'm again happy to answer any other questions that anyone has on the demographics uh before we let you commence with your Workshop I I have a question um as we are getting into our next update of our I wasn't thank you yeah as we get into these next phases of developing our our update to our facilities master plan um we can utilize your statistics to kind of double check our conclusions before we um go out to really seriously consider what we're gonna do right of course that's a large part of why we provide that and I might always caveat with especially the school level projections and especially in a district like Chico USD that has a lot of students moving around is that District policy and District decisions you know while my total for the district I'm confident in uh how that split out between the schools is variable depending on some other choices that are made thank you are there any other questions from the board Julie thanks Rob thank you for having us here tonight thanks for all the numbers all right thank you so much thank you this item is an action item we're requesting that the board adopt the demographic study for this year thank you I'm doing a public comment on this item I'm seeing hearing none I will ask for a motion to approve so I moved second all right so we have a motion by Mr Lando and a second by Mr tennis I think we're still in Voice vote low mode all right so all those in favor of approval say aye aye opposed all right moving on thank you have a safe drive all right Workshop let's do it thank you it's exciting to have so many people here tonight for this item it's usually not as well attended and we're very excited to have you since thank you all for coming before we jump into the presentation from our Master planner I want to give a short informational slideshow on the voter Bond voter approved Bond history at the district just a few quick slides to bring everyone up to speed so in 1988 is the first bond that I could find for facilities here in Chico Unified School District it was passed focusing on improvements at the then two junior high schools that we had and all of the elementary schools little Chico Creek Emma Wilson and Forest Ranch were constructed then the land for marsh Junior High School was purchased and multiple multiple projects were performed at the junior highs and elementary schools way too many to list here in 1998 measure a was passed and measure a was passed primarily its purpose was to develop a new High School site out at the where we purchased the Canyon View Property for years that it took to decide what property to purchase and get the purchase done enrollment declined severely in the whole state of California but specifically in Chico as well and that made it where it was not prudent for the district to build a third Comprehensive High School so there was a lot of public input a lot of board meetings for several years until 2007 the board felt that they could decide to spend those dollars on the two or excuse me the comprehensive high schools and our Alternative High School so the projects that were completed there were quite substantial with those measure a bond dollars um the Performing Arts Center at Pleasant Valley High School two-story classroom buildings at both high schools construction Academy at Forest I mean I'm sorry at Fairview High School arts media entertainment CTE AG CTE bleacher Replacements Inspire School of Arts and Sciences two projects at Chico High School to name just a few and then in 2012 measure e was passed for 78 million dollars and that's when we developed our very first facilities master plan and we've developed phases of implementation and in the first phase we decided to start with some quick start projects some things that were badly needed for Safety and Security emergency repairs fencing exterior lighting wayfinding signage that sort of thing for safety and then massive technology improvements and Ada improvements at every School site also we moved into phase two with those dollars at the junior high schools where we modernize the facilities and added brand new science facilities and upgraded the science facilities in in the other Junior High School which brings us to measure K which was passed in 2016 for 152 million dollars 15.34 of those dollars are allocated to our local charter schools and we started on phase three of our master plan those projects you've seen at Marigold Lomb Vista Shasta nildao and both stadiums at Chico high school and Pleasant Valley high school and then moving into phase four projects Emma Wilson Pleasant Valley High School CTE and modernization and Chico High AG CTE projects and that brings us to where we are now go ahead Caitlin I'm referring back to the previous presentation these projects or at least some of these projects were all funded just by measured K dollars right they were also some of those other pieces the state money that that we applied for that also matched some of that absolutely every project that is tackled we also pursue every bit of State funding that we can get to supplement our local dollars okay I just wanted to bring you all up to speed on our bond history and with that I'm going to introduce to you Laura NAS from lionakis architects who will walk us through the master planning slides I'm just really hello everyone we're really happy to be here um Rob and Julie and ourselves have been working very closely to get us to this update today this is an informational item and there's a lot of information so um we're going to talk about what a facilities master plan is the guiding principles that we're working toward what our engagement process has been to date and then walking through at grade level first the elementary schools the junior highs high schools and then we have some questions for you about what's next so what is a master plan a facilities master plan we like to boil it down rather simply what do we have what do we want to need and what does it look like to get us there so we've been in the very deep dive in the what do we have and what do we want and need so that our next steps will be developing the Alternatives that we will come back and present to you as a master plan um in 2019 you had developed some guiding principles and some of those were based on the growth that Rob talked about earlier and managing some of that growth we have a slightly revised set of guiding principles to respond to the changes in the demographics and the first of those is the right sizing of schools and making sure that we're aligning those projections With Your Capacity keeping the commitments that were made in the past and in the 2019 implementation plan TK planning you've heard a lot about TK planning it is a growth area and one that has a significant facilities impact special education planning it was great that we were on the same agenda as they because special education planning is also a big driver in this master plan as we try to get our arms around an issue that has facilities impact and of course Safety and Security kind of underlays everything that we're doing this is the current implementation plan that was part of the 2019 master plan you can see the red line that goes vertically there that's where you were at the start of the 2019 implementation plan the red arrow is where we are now McManus is about to go to bid as the next up project and this is an opportunity or a pivot point to make sure and confirm and validate the assumptions for the implementation plan so you saw a lot of these numbers in Rob's presentation I want to share with you what those the red yellow and green mean in this in this piece we have looked at the projection numbers for 28.29 and identified the model Target capacity the ones in green are fairly well aligned the projections align with the capacity the ones in yellow are the ones that are 10 over their capacity or more and the ones in red are under capacity so we have room at all of those schools why that becomes important to us in facilities Master planning is as we go into modernizer renovate schools we're constantly looking for space to adjust to accommodate things like TK and special education but also to accommodate students as we modernize and renovate schools we wanted to share with you where we are to date on the engagement process we have had Community meetings throughout the district hosted at the two high schools and at each of the middle schools with the feeder elementary schools invited to attend those meetings we've done site walks with all the principals our engineering team has been out on every site to analyze the conditions we've also met at the district level with all of your internal departments in order to assess their needs in the master plan going forward we've had two steering committee meetings which is a group of stakeholders across the district and our core group at the cabinet level we've had three meetings so a lot of feedback has gone into this thus far you can see some of the engagement we've had in person in with sticky notes and all sorts of good conversations there were also surveys conducted we did student surveys at the middle and high school level through your District system you can see bathrooms that are always come to the Forefront but also playgrounds outdoor spaces comments on internet and even student acknowledgment of their concerns of Safety and Security whether it be drop-off areas or bullying which again ties back to those restrooms often at the staff level we had over 250 participants while not all schools participated we did start to see some themes one was that there was a recognition of the district's commitment to district-wide technology upgrades to playground equipment those improvements you see across the district but there were a lot of open-ended comments as you might imagine they were very specific to individual School sites but there were some themes around deferred maintenance leaking roofs gophers and things in the fields restroom again the restroom theme comes up and a little some questions about equity and whether my neighbor's school was getting more attention than mine and then there was a community survey as well this survey was predominantly to test the awareness of what's being done with facilities in the district there were over a thousand participants there and really wanted to see did people even know what you were doing in the district and did they know it was in conjunction with the master plan and then there was a list of things they wanted to know more about so again how we reach out and get that information out to the community as we move through this master plan is clearly important we do have virtual community meetings scheduled for May at the same locations with the same feeder concept some of our sites didn't have as High attendance as we had hoped and the in-person meetings and we learned during the pandemic that we could have really good success when folks don't need a babysitter or other things and allowed them to participate virtually so we're trying that in our second round to make sure that we have more eyes on the master plan so I want to start with the elementary schools as you saw from Rob's presentation that's where the initial concerns are in terms of both capacity and over capacity of schools so we address the TK planning issue we wanted to look at a decentralized model so that each site received TK why that's that that gateway to attract people to a school site and that cohort then in theoretically remains on site and feeds the population there there was an agreement that we would try to plan for 65 percent of your projected kindergarten enrollment or about two-thirds not capturing you're not capturing every kindergartner and we probably won't capture every transitional kindergartner so planning for 65 percent of that 24 four to one student ratio and that we're going to recognize that not only does the Department of Education require kindergarten facility standards for transitional kindergarten but there might be some small accommodations for those younger students that we need to make in those facilities we also had a good conversation on special education at the elementary level identifying the need for too mild to moderate um spaces at every site and identified eight Elementary School sites for the moderate severe program again trying to get our arms around that facilities planning so we do it well and we're prepared with restrooms and space and storage and things that are needed for those programs so then we go into the condition assessment this is a result of the engineering disciplines the architectural disciplines all being on site and evaluating the existing condition we've organized them from green to Red Green is we're good to go we've put McManus there because it's about to bid and and be more or less a new school the yellows they're in pretty good shape you know they need little little deferred maintenance ongoing things like that the oranges we're starting to get to that area where um we're almost going to spend as much to bring it up to your current District standards as a new school would be and at the red level that's an almost an absolute so you can see uh the grouping of Chapman Parkview Rosedale Sierra View it's not a coincidence that those are all the same plan they were built around the same time they're almost a prototype template school and that they all have very similar needs over time so what we've learned you can see here again the red yellow orange green has been applied to individual buildings this will help us in the generating of budgets for the school and a lot of green at the at Shasta yellow at little Chico Creek and Emma Wilson so those are not sites that we consider next up or next priority in terms of what we've learned to date these are the four quadruplets I guess they would be um and so they have very similar finger Wing classrooms undersized multi-purpose rooms and just aging infrastructure at every one of these four sites Chapman Parkview Rosedale and Sierra View we've categorized those four in the question mark replace or renovate what we have learned certainly in McManus but also Neil Dao and Marigold is that the time it takes to renovate an existing occupied school is to about two to two and a half times as long as if we were to build it from the ground up and so that's one option is that we can renovate in place understanding that the community has let us know that they'd like to see things moving more quickly so we also brought some options about how we can do it more quickly how we can do more at the same time but also more quickly one is that you can on the sites that have available land we have Park View shown here with the blue overlay can we build the school on the land while the students are occupy the existing school and then do the swap and build the fields where the existing school is we've done that successfully across the the state because most of the state's inventory is getting up to this age and seeing that need for some replacement or can we find a location that the School site can move together and stay as a school but in a new location while their school is either renovated at very high level or replaced I have a question yes I recall recently that we came across an issue where a project became a lot more expensive because we were doing some massive Renovations but then the state required a lot more extra testing and things like that that drove the cost of that project up and so is that what we're talking about here is like the reason why we may just consider maybe even shifting students to another site for a year and just doing the whole do-over piece because that may may actually it is in fact McManus that we our firm is working on is the example project or one of the example projects where we have some deep modernization but some also strategic replacement and the state um mandates that if you're going to spend 50 or more of the replacement value of a school and that's around 250 dollars a square foot right now of re of modernization that you have to do a complete seismic analysis and upgrade and that pushes that number much higher and also requires that we do an assessment and a review by DSA to approve the testing protocols there so when you package all those things together along with the extended construction time which of course time is money in the construction area that length really does become impactful on the overall budget of a school and slows down the ultimate delivery of how quickly we can do it sorry our current practices it has been option one up there renovate existing School in multiple phases over two to three years yes and we haven't done option two or three necessarily in in recent okay no and that's why we've brought it forward for consideration as we look to this next round of the quadruplets and Beyond what what might make it go faster for your community um and then we have citrus and Hooker Oak which are more unique schools smaller Footprints smaller schools both in that kind of historic feel that really um all all Building Systems need some improvement there as you as you know and they're not easy improvements um because of the nature of the of the building so we've identified those as replace renovate or repurpose how might we use those in a better way so one of the things we were asked to also take a look at is in addition to the Target capacity is looking at the total unduplicated students for each site and what percentage that represents of the student population there as well as the English language learner percentages so as we start to look at these Equity questions this can be informative for you on the board the the line items in the peach color are those projects that were those schools that fit into our either our green category that they're good to go because they're like new or the yellow category where they're very close to New so we're really pretty focused on future phases around those schools in that are listed there in Gray I'd call them the quadruplets Citrus and and Hooker Oak should I pause okay this diagram overlays your existing attendance boundary map with some I'll call them wide Circles of influence around all of the school sites in where the star is the white circle is the Hedgehog when property that you own of a future potential school if growth was to mandate that the red schools are those ones I mentioned are under capacity yellow over capacity Shasta and Parkview and the green is those that align capacity roughly with the projected enrollment one of the things I'd like you to point to point out to you here is the kind of density overlap of the schools in red almost competing with one another and all slightly under or more than slightly under enrolled I think that will help inform some of the discussions later but it is you look at McManus for example that is under enrolled the idea in the 2019 master plan was to draw from Shasta into a new McManus right and where we'll see where that goes and certainly Rob will do that work when McManus is complete but that was the intention in moving McManus into its position in the implementation plan we'll see what it does to the adjacent properties as well but this density map it does a really good job I think of showing where your capacity is not aligning with your um projected enrollments you saw this from Rob this is the in and out migration again another layer for future decision making when we talk about right sizing opportunities we take those demographic enrollment projections that Rob presented and we look at what are the ways we can take advantage of that Surplus District capacity um when we know that so many schools are under enrolled at the elementary level can we use it for some interim housing for renovation so that we're not so disruptive and we don't have such long length on those implementation plans is there any other need in the district for support facilities or other things that we could use some of that capacity because you have to remember your cleaning heating air conditioning all of that Surplus capacity on a School site it can also be an opportunity to remove Portables if you don't need that capacity and then certainly the discussion of a new location for inspire which is the first Domino that needs to fall for any future improvements at Chico high school and an opportunity to use the Portable Buildings that they're in currently for swing spacer interim housing while other buildings on that site were renovated so those were three areas of brainstorming for ways we could utilize and take advantage of quite frankly that Surplus capacity that you look to see for the long term at the elementary school level so when we look at revised capacity we are looking at model loading scenarios why you heard a lot about cohort right in the demographic projections we developed three scenarios a small at the bottom medium and large school sites that roughly align with your smallest medium and largest school sites but that maintain a consistent cohort from kindergarten through fifth grade so if you enroll as a kindergartener you've got a seat for the entire time that you're there when you go into your current School sites you'll find a lot of variability there partly because of the in and out migration but also just a pure space issue at that site so the lowest is a 320 student model the middle is a 496 student model in the high is a 672 student model yes just for clarification the columns from left to right grade level number of classrooms for those grades loading standard loading standard per classroom yes and then total number of students per grade level yes okay thank you and the loading standard I should mention the district has a preferred or a Target loading standard which I will say is conservative right it's 24 to 1 K through 3 28 to 145s but what that allows us to do is make sure that there's enough space with a little wiggle room for those bubbles that inevitably come through come through a School site so when we start to look at and this also includes two special education rooms per site with the acknowledgment that the mod severe program would be on top of any of these model loading scenarios so um when we apply those loading scenarios to the projections I'm sorry I need to interrupt you can you go back to the previous of course um so I I think I'm just not understanding maybe the the concept behind having to spread classrooms regardless of model capacity so that was a discussion we had with the special education department and the um was having two at each site and two mod severes at eight sites they identified eight sites but had some flexibility there so we were hoping to get through this process and see where our Surplus capacity might be and make some recommendations is your point that the bigger site should probably have more special education would think that math kind of yeah drives that concept and I think that's a fair Fair conversation we can bring forward and you'll note the TK for each site is one less than the kindergarten back to that 65 percent roughly capture rate of the incoming kindergarteners so when we take those model capacities and again when we're in the planning mode we're working in sort of theory and perfect alignment but you can see we can align most of the model capacities to roughly the capacities they have right now I'll point out one exception in a moment and what that results in is about extra seats however you want to describe that Surplus capacity that assumed Shasta at 496 and we're going to walk through an example there so when we talk about Surplus capacity we have the equivalent of at least our middle-sized school as excess capacity for the long what appears to be the long term so we did a couple of case studies because I don't know if you're all graphic learners but I am and so we took the new McManus site and applied our 672 student model to that and it is tough to read but that is the model for McManus that we can upon its completion house 672 students at the McManus site again with the intention to draw from some of the over capacity or near-capacity schools adjacent to it we have two scenarios for Shasta the Department of Education and Rob started to allude to this um through title V of the California code of regulations has guidelines and regulations around School site size and number of students there are always exceptions and always caveats we know San Francisco Unified for example probably asked to ask for exceptions all the time but we did have when we did the Shasta project we did have pushback from the Department of Education that this School site was starting to push up against and exceed the site-sized limits so we've applied what Shasta is today to this and it would be the 672 student model with one exception we don't have anywhere to add three transitional Kindergartens for this site if we move ahead and apply the mid-range the 496 student model we have some Surplus space for special programs but we have enough existing kindergartens because we have five to do three kindergartens and two transitional kindergartens this is just to show how this Capacity Analysis can really affect up and down the the graph can affect those overall numbers on the site this will be one of the choices that in the April board meeting I think we'll be talking asking the board for is our Shasta alternatives for example boil down to do we not add transitional kindergarten and that becomes one of the sites where we don't introduce that model so it can continue with its big population in K through through five noting that the multi-purpose is fairly undersized for that high enrollment or do we do the other do we add the TK and move that cohort through the whole K-5 reducing its overall enrollment probably the one that this most affects this site size and the transitional kindergarten Edition breathe breath are we good okay moving to the junior high schools again similar application of the yellow um the green yellow orange and red you can see that Marsh being the newest has a lot of green with the new facilities in yellow it's in really good shape a Bidwell is also had a number of interventions and improvements it's really the classroom Wings on that site and then Chico Junior has we call it great bones but many of the facilities on there will need deep renovation and this will be one of the tricky ones where we will need to either Hopscotch or provide some interim housing um looking at those sites trying to address some needs for physical education for their mod severe program as well as their undersized science rooms are some of the next phases that were assuming will come for Bidwell and as I mentioned at Chico Jr the single point of entry is one of their areas of concern they have a monitor in that front lobby so some kind of a configuration of the administration as well as modernization of those classroom wings at all of the site we saw a burst of need in the wellness area student Support Services as you might imagine and so that came up pretty thematically throughout all of the campuses and Marsh again with its recent um the recent build and its new construction is in in really good shape Chico High School the Inspire campus is shown there with the white dotted line around it as I alluded to that piece of real estate is really the part of The Dominoes that will need to fall to do any next phases at Chico Junior High one is the renovation of a specifically the front historic building those kids need to go somewhere those Portables might provide that opportunity and that footprint has also been a footprint in the 2019 master plan for future Performing Arts Career Technical education space expansion as a future phase or a later phase in the master plan we also met with the athletic directors and small interventions their stadiums obviously are our new relatively new but captured their feedback as well and then we had a community meeting and some of the feedback is there we had a great group of students who came from the architecture program on that site and we're very interested in helping us plan their new school so it's great having them there hopefully future employees of ours and this was the 2019 master plan and again that footprint that you see in the hatched area is where Inspire is now Pleasant Valley um we talked about this you see a lot of green and light yellow here and that was the Career Technical education money and the new build on that site it's in really good shape with just a couple of exempt exceptions uh Building B for example and the Athletics program again in very good shape future mat room those kinds of things a little smaller community meeting but some very engaged athletes showed up at our at our meeting and so what's changed since the 2019 master plan all those spaces in red have been renovated or re or new construction so a lot of work has been done at Pleasant Valley Fairview I mentioned the quadruplets I don't know what the five is quintuplets this is that same same plan same building same Windows same doors the whole thing so it it fits in that orange red category the district is currently looking at some big restroom improvements there but that that building is is aging as well um so uh capturing the need for multi-purpose space a lack of a secured entry and this plan from 2019 had included physical education and culinary spaces those needs have changed but there probably is a need for a future inside Gathering space on that site we did get special education recommendations at the junior high and high school level with not a lot of change to the high school current status but a needing to add one room at the junior high level and I think Julie's in the process of looking for adult program space at Pleasant Valley as as we speak so we do have some discussion required before we can move ahead and I believe this is what's anticipated on some decision making for the April board meeting one is how do we address the Surplus capacity issue and what of those strategies we talked about what seems appealing to all of you in the master plan those interim housing options we talked about moving people off site or building adjacent or the long long extended construction schedule are all of those options okay and we can use them on a case-by-case basis again trying to move the program faster we talked a lot about Inspire our approach to that is it at Chico high school or does it get moved to an alternative location to start those dominoes the impacts on school size and capacity transitional kindergarten special education but also your required Arts and Music funding is putting pressure on school sites especially those that are using every room for um you know K through five classroom space and then um we're going to need to work on prioritization of the elementary schools in particular assuming those are still first priority to address this capacity piece and then sort of I guess the fun part is there is still money to spend out of the remaining bond funds and so do we start the next facilities master plan project in the updated facilities master plan or do we prioritize safety security those restroom upgrades and other things that might be a stop Gap to what will be ultimately a future need for a future Bond so not we're not asking that much of you today no I it's a lot I know but this is where we are this is really a progress update and we hope to be back and and presenting a final plan uh later this year or early in the fall thank you Laura [Applause] thank you very much that that concludes the master plan presentation for this evening and we open it up for questions and comments do we have any questions from the um from the board question technical questions or clarification from the board it's a lot of information there we go there were a couple of points where we were asked are these options okay the option to consider on a case-by-case basis um building on the the grounds of the school and and housing the students either at that same location or moving them for for a year I think that's two options I think we were asked whether or not to consider Inspire staying at the Chico High site and and building there are those things that we can um you know state that yes these options are are okay or not today we don't need to do that today for moving forward we can't do that today because this was information only oh of course so um I think the idea is that um we will we will have to decide as a board when we want to bring this back for Action um which I was anticipating bringing up during Adams from or board members requested to agendize but we can suspend the rules and we can make that motion now because we don't have an act this is not an action item we kind of tied our hands behind our background accident let's not do that now but I'm sorry um if you don't mind I would like to spend the rules in a different way and we're going to be here all night the five of us have to be could we go to public comment right now and then bring it back for us for technical question discussions things might come up from the audience and I know a lot of people have been waiting a long time long and anticipated to get to say their piece and that really might inform the discussion so so what we did do is we asked each of our schools to work with their ptas their parent population and designate a representative from each school to address the board about what they saw about their needs so we do have speakers from each school you know some will be very quick some will be a little bit longer but they each have up to three minutes and then we do have some speaker cards as well after that so if it's okay we could jump right into hearing from our school sites thank you um so we're going to go write an order alphabetically which means Bidwell junior is up first and I have on my list uh Mr Dave McKay the dude himself good evening uh in addition to the great information you already received um for our students easily they're focused on the restrooms that's a high point and then overall from staff and and parents we're looking at modernizing an elective building that also has a Performing Arts capacity that would also allow us to repurpose the current music room and expand our indoor PE area which is a big big issue with our growing school also again the emphasis on office space and room for student services and community-based counseling that Community School concept we need the place to do that stuff with our students and then our science crew I was looking at modernized science facilities to support 21st century steam classes thank you [Applause] um um representing Chapman I have Megan Walling oh yeah also disclosure if I say your name wrong please correct me that is a standing order thank you request not order sorry friend friendly requests you said my name correctly so nice job we get a lot of wailing good evening my name is Megan Walling and I appreciate this opportunity to speak with the board regarding our facility needs at Chapman Elementary I have been a Chapman parent since 2016 and we as a community feel that our school facilities do not reflect the great pride and love that we have for our school and its staff as a Chapman parent these past six plus years I felt on multiple occasions that our schools received the short end of the stick and has been one of the last ones to receive upgrades or improvements I'm aware that our area of Chico is not experiencing as much population growth as other areas and that our school population is almost compared is also comparatively small to other schools in the district but nevertheless our kids deserve to come to a school that they feel proud of and in which they feel safe and secure our facilities are outdated and have a multitude of issues when it rains water leaks into multiple classrooms and the gutters don't properly divert the water which creates huge puddles on our blacktop and Courtyard areas there are three toilets on campus to accommodate the entire staff which is not enough sharing a campus with Sherwood Montessori means that we are very short on space we have support staff crammed into every open closet portable and small area that we can use the after school program which serves one-third of our population uses an old pump room for their office we had to break down our Wellness Center a couple of years ago a space that was used by our counseling staff to host group counseling sessions help students reset or reflect work through conflicts Etc because we needed an extra classroom the counselor and counseling assistant are now in such small rooms that group counseling and social emotional play times are challenging moving forward we essentially want what has been given to other schools in the district because our students like all other students deserve to have a campus that is clean safe functional and beautiful we want the quality of our facilities to match the quality of our staff and student population specifically we need a multi-purpose room that can be used for activities such as PE assemblies Sports and performances these extracurricular activities are often difficult to offer to our students because of our limited available space we need more staff bathrooms and renovated student bathrooms we need a new roof and drainage systems to better handle the rain our portable buildings are way outdated and should have been removed or replaced years ago our classrooms were built in the 1950s and it shows we need more of them and we need them to be bigger if we're going to continue to see class sizes nearing 30 students a piece we have many diverse needs at our school and we need the physical spaces in which to meet those needs through counseling intervention special education and enrichment opportunities we need a Wellness Center not only as a counseling space But as an integral part of our PBIS system we also need a sensory room that could be used by our students in the special education program but also by students who are having a trauma-related meltdown panic attack or who just need a place to reset and calm down lastly we would like to have an enclosed area on our campus for the Kinder TK and preschool classrooms this will give teachers greater peace of mind and will make it easier to collaborate and support one another in conclusion I want to say that every time I come onto one of these beautiful remodeled campuses I think when's it going to be our turn our students deserve this too so I really look forward to the day when our facilities reflect the quality and pride of our school Community thank you thank you [Applause] I will say since these com these comments are not specifically public comments that the three minutes is is please keep it to three minutes but I'm not going to cut you off in your last sentence so make sure if you do go a little bit over just be respectful of everybody's time and wrap it up as ASAP please thank you up next we have Chico High Doug Williams thank you for having us here this evening I do want to start off it's been echoed before to to really thank the voters for passing all the school Improvement bombs obviously with with the dollars and and a lot of those Bonds were passed in difficult uh Economic Times for everybody so I think that says a lot about our community I also want to thank the board for spending all this time and deciding because when you have money it's like Mom's purse everybody comes asking for there's a lot of pressure in that and I also want to thank the district and the planning Agency for going out for additional dollars as well if they as has been shown tonight um our tree our Chic life facility we Echo Chapman we we see our our school as much more than a a passive container for educational processes it's it's an integral component of What's called the conditions of learning and I think the uh it reflects the respect that we have and the importance placed our students see that and and they see that reflection in our facilities um specifically I also want to point to the plan and the fact that we I know this plan changes it's like my four kids they're all going to get new basketball shoes the same month someone's going to get them new ones and someone's gonna have to wait so I think people understand that and the plan is really easy to follow Chico I alone has changed from the 14 plan to 13 million dollars spent 2016 the plan was 38 million dollars 19 it's 37 and we haven't hit part of that so we understand this changes I just wanted to make that statement it is a plan specifically Chico I wants to thank uh the board for classrooms and our G and K buildings that were built our Lincoln Center our Lincoln gym our beautiful stadium and several Ag and other CTE classrooms tonight I would just like to specifically advocate for Remodel remodelization and upgrades already included in the 16 and 19 facilities plan for our buildings A and administration B and C classroom because these include vital office spaces which house attendance counseling Administration and student services and thank you for your time thank you um Chico Junior Pedro Caldera hello thank you school board for allowing me to speak for a little bit first of all uh thank everyone here particularly our community who has been supporting us for so much so so many years um Chico Juniors wish list uh update the locker rooms update the gym add some uh drinking fountains some ones that you know that that work uh create new office space uh we have a um you know we've doubled in size in the past 16 years going from 460 to around 950 students so we have additional uh support personnel and it'd be nice to have some additional office space now uh but I do want to say the following we know all of us as administrators that you know we're all vying for getting some updates to our schools and we also know that not all of us are going to get it we understand that what I do want to ask the school board is to consider the following the Recruitment and Retention of Tradesmen that help up keep our schools our schools are beautiful and they have a lot of charm and you know there's what I call Chico Junior my this is going to sound really wrong but she's kind of like my old lady and I want to take care of her as long as possible I don't have the skills but I do know that our awesome mno do their best to support me and I'd like to support them by asking the school board to see if we can get some additional Tradesmen thank you [Applause] first we have Kristen shalotti good evening and thank you for this opportunity to speak joining me um is our principal principal Shannon Payne again my name is Kristen I'm a parent of two children who attend Citrus Elementary and I I guess I want to say I too feel like I completely identified with our speaker from Chapman this evening um with many of the things that she noted as the school needing um feeling a little bit like we're Left Behind over there in sitters too as you know our school's a very old school 87 years old so obviously it's a school that you know the needs for our school are much different today than they were at the time that it was built as a parent my Maine we're not mean but High concerns are certainly with Safety and Security I had really prepared kind of a almost like a wish list to share this evening but during the facilities master plan presentation I I noticed several of you nodding and understanding an agreement when it was noted that citrus was at the bottom of that list of of schools or I should say maybe the top of the list for for needing needing help needing Renovations and better facilities now our school is just I I love our school I'm so proud to be a parent of citrus kids I'm so proud of everything that Shannon has done for us and I knew I was going to get emotional up here um but you know you look around and there's more places on our campus that needs help than doesn't and our children deserve a better place you know they deserve they deserve the facilities like we see here this is a beautiful school and my youngest had the opportunity to take to take um TK here last school year and just I was wowed and amazed in every turn when I toured the school before she started TK um and I'm so happy that the children here have this facility these facilities and have all that that the school now has to offer I wish that for citrus too I wish that for our children they deserve it we are a true neighborhood School so the kiddos that come to school you know at Citrus live down the street live around the corner many of them are walking to school biking to school because that really is the way they need to get to school we have a lot of families in our school who are you know strapped then financially the thought of them having to travel distance go elsewhere to go to school neighborhood schools that could just be a big burden for them so this idea of you know replace renovate or repurpose I'm concerned about the repurposed part and we can't see our kids you know be Bust or have to travel elsewhere um sorry I really started for my notes um but I hope I hope I can convey the love that we have for our school and the need that we have for for better facilities yes I've got a question of clarification thank you for your comments um I've toured Citrus and it is a great school there's a lot of love with the staff and it really was touching to see um the old building which has a lot of charming aspects to it and a lot of history with the mud rooms off the classrooms and all that kind of stuff do you uh think that that building in your opinion feel free to chime in Madam principle um needs to be torn down and rebuilt different opinions I mean you know one thing that for me is so special about Citrus is it it that the charm of this of this old facility this old campus this old building it's I personally would hate to see that go I I feel like there must be a way to preserve it maybe it's not the best facility for classrooms maybe it can be used in a different way but still be a school I don't know again Shannon might have different ideas but I I personally don't want to see see it go but I will say those mud rooms aren't mud rooms anymore they're they're offices for our counselor their rooms for children to have reading groups they're tiny spaces that are being used because literally every space within that main building is needed they're not storing cleaning equipment and school supplies their housing staff and students so you know it's it's the function of the functionality of the building is used to the max thanks Kristen I would encourage you if you didn't get to speak all of your notes to definitely scan and submit those to us just if you want us to see the rest of your thoughts thank you it was mostly my nervousness okay oh sure [Applause] um Julie okay so were there some particular issues about the building we were just talking about at Citrus regarding whether we could or their extra hurdles involved in re-modeling or renovating that building so similar to what we discussed with the example of McManus for this seismic upgrades Citrus is the oldest school that we have in current operation and major deep dive Renovations for citrus would trigger some very extreme seismic upgrades to that building and which would be very very costly so not to say that we couldn't do a lighter touch on the existing building to improve its condition but it would have to be very light under that 250 square foot cost that Laura was discussing earlier so I guess I'm saying is if we if we did a deep remodel on that would the that front building that is so Charming survive would have passed muster probably not okay cost wise it would it would not pencil out okay thank you very much sure um next up we have Emma Wilson I'm just gonna say those things instead of trying to get everybody's name right it gives me anxiety a little bit you guys they know who they are I just don't want to say Courtney's name just kidding hi I'm Christy Taylor and I'm assistant principal at Emma Wilson and I'm Courtney Conley the principal at Emma Wilson and Emma Wilson is as you saw one of the new newly newer constructed schools compared to others and we really just want to take this time to thank the board I think the district and thank the chico Community for the support of the school in the last few years we have had the addition of a TK and Kinder wing and some upgrades to the playground areas and again we're just very thankful for those upgrades and want to make sure that we take this time to to thank all of you in the chico Community for that and we also wanted to appreciate the fact that schools were using these schools as hard as we can and these students are out there you know really using the facilities and the teachers are really using the facilities and what I appreciate about what Julie and Laura are doing right now is really looking at where the most immediate need is in Sharing The Wealth making sure that they're they're getting to the schools that that it's their turn so we just appreciate you guys and we appreciate the fact that you're really looking at what's going on so thank you thank you we have Fairview and all Ed good evening and thank you for your continued support of the alternative education family every campus can make a case as to why they should receive priority with respect to facilities upgrades with such an immense immense task to determine who receives what and when and when to acknowledge the work that goes into that process all Ted students are referred to us for expulsion chronic absenteeism Credit Recovery probation smaller class sizes Etc the overarching theme is chronic absenteeism absenteeism and a disconnect from their comprehensive comprehensive programs for various reasons the bottom line is students are told they need to enroll in our programs to find success and reach their secondary goals the pressure to re-establish a sense of belonging to any campus or program falls on the shoulders shoulders of our dedicated staff just as it does with the wonderful staff at the referring sites the difference being our students are now generally speaking at the crossroads of their academic careers in Chico Unified and in some cases their young lives we can speculate the impact on our community of chronic absenteeism persists to the point of students dropping up we're grateful for the educational services support in all aspects and the work from mno Team to inspect and maintain our campus you already know the master plan and need to renovate and or replace all buildings on our campus with the exception of the the Cal and AFC Portables on the west side of Campus while our shop is about 10 to 11 years old it has been played with constant electrical issues since its Inception as evidenced by work orders throughout the years said issues have led to machines breaking down and most recently the compressor has been ruled completely inoperable staff students families and our neighbors cannot know all of the conversations we have had as a district to prioritize the needs of our students but we discuss it whenever possible to ensure they know just how much support we really have that being said the constant theme is the appearance of our campus we can theorize all day long have facilities tie into attendance staff work tires tirelessly to break down barriers to Student Success and the feedback is consistent the all-day campus needs upgraded PE facilities to ensure physical education can take place throughout the entirety of the school year and not just when the weather permits being outside whether hot cold or wet weather when outside we are tasked with keeping our program separated from one another primary primarilies for safety given we serve students in grades 6 through 12.
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or field like many others is overrun with moles and Gophers making it dangerous for more rigorous PE activities and narrowing down the options available on the former Elementary campus our students and staff see the failing Drainage Systems of our buildings with each storm and the constant issues with HVAC HVAC systems excuse me they see the deteriorating Portables of Oakdale from Roofing siding and simply exterior paint with an understanding of our position in the phases of the facilities master plan and the timelines projected we are absolutely grateful for our new HVAC systems for the NPR the upcoming Renovations for the Fairview bathrooms the pickleball court Edition and years ago we did have our screen printing program upgraded our students when referred only know what they what they initially see when we have the opportunity to show them until we have the opportunity to show them how much we really do care in order to do that we need to show up with an we need them to show up on the appreciation and sense of Pride for the campus when they walk in thank you for everything thank you hook her up please I'm really nervous yeah hi my name is Michelle Palmquist um I have a kindergartner at Hooker Oak and a little one starting TK next year I actually ended up at Hooker Oak by chance I am so grateful that we did our zoned neighborhood school only had one TK classroom and unfortunately it was full which landed us at Hooker Oak I remember being so disappointed my son wasn't going to go to school with the neighbor kids and I remember doing a drive-by with him to check it out it was cute but it was old and we were not impressed the district promised us that we just had to ride out our TK the TK year there and then would be guaranteed enrollment at our Zone school next year needless to stay we stayed and we are staying because we love it there Hooker Oak is a unique school first of all because we're a choice School meaning that no one is zoned to go to our school and our learning module is quite unique as well focusing on thematic Hands-On learning and the community approach from what I understand funds are distributed based on enrollment and although we're a smaller School in the district we have the opportunity to compete with schools like Chico Country Day this could bring new families back into Chico Unified School District who are looking for that Charter like feel foreign sorry the problem is it's a little hard for us to compete and show how wonderful our school is on a brief School tour when the building itself is depleted we're the second oldest school in the school district and have received very little upgrades for starters like everyone else are roof leaks there are trash cans in the hallway to catch the roof drips in classrooms where we have to move desks around the roof leaks for that day not ideal for a learning environment for children the windows in our school are original windows they're single pane they don't do a great job to keep the cold or the heat out and are Cooling and Heating units already struggle to keep up we don't have a designated Kinder TK building we are very lucky to have the modulars for these classes but I believe those were supposed to be a temporary solution the kindergarteners and the TK students have to leave Kinderland exit through the kindergarten playground go all the way through the big kids playground just to reach the nearest bathroom one thing about these little guys is when they have to go they kind of have to go like right now not to mention the TK kids are getting younger and younger as we prepare to take on all four-year-olds this is a pretty long distance for four-year-olds to travel unsupervised and then once they get to the bathrooms they're just a little bit frightening our staff also only has one bathroom which is located at the very front of the school the toilet's flush sometimes if you flush twice one of the Stalls doesn't have a door but a really creepy curtain we were shown this site map in our schools obviously all red and I guess we're just here tonight to ask when is it going to be our turn and when do we get to see some of these funds bring our school up to standard thanks thank you McManus good evening everyone on behalf of the McManus Learning Community I just want to say we are extremely grateful and excited for the construction that's going to start in June just along the way the process I really want to thank our students our staff our families as they've all contributed input I know Eileen you contributed as well I want to thank our site committee which consisted of staff and like I said families a big shout out to Maria and Julia and Julie for all their support as well as Laura and the professionals from lionakis it's been a really incredible experience and I have to say I'm just super impressed with how responsive everybody has been to the input given by the folks at McManus so again we're just really excited thank you I got a Mr Weaver I got a question when is construction really going to take off June June and our families apprehensive about what that's going to feel like how would you characterize what's going to happen are they going to be building new stuff next door to the old stuff then tearing down it's that model and what's the scuttlebutt that you're hearing from families about about how that's going to feel genuine excitement the first phase is 14 months the removal of seven Portables our front parking lot is going to be impacted impacted as construction is going to take place um while it's the longest phase I think it's the least impactful from my opinion but again this is all brand new so I know there's going to be challenges I also want to say thank you to my colleagues from Shasta Neil Dao Marigold for kind of you know meeting with me and let me know of the upcoming challenges but I honestly don't know we're getting into this you know for the first time yeah do you think many people would be of the mindset that they'd rather move and go somewhere else while this is all going on and they'll just come back when the school is rebuilt I sure hope not and the McManus Community is a tight-knit community so I don't think that's going to happen okay thanks thank you that was gonna be my question so I'm little Chico Creek hello and good evening my name is Marky Hardesty I I love Mrs I'm the parent of a first grader in the special ed program at little Chico Creek and I have my notes here but something um kind of triggered a thought for me when they were discussing um the plan um there was quite a few schools with a red box under Safety and Security um and I don't know how many parents here have gotten word that their child has um ran into the parking lot or been out at the back gate talking to two strangers before and the back Gates short enough to where somebody could pick your kid up over the gate and that's not for lack of Staff chasing after your extremely quick six-year-old that's just a Safety and Security issue and that's a scary thing that the parent of a disabled child has to go through when your child elopes so I did just want to bring that up because Safety and Security should be a top priority for every school and for every child um but as for things specifically at little Chico Creek of course we would like some bathroom improvements and then of high importance we need a more inclusive playground a playground that is inclusive meets the needs of students with all abilities um so again do any of your children do any of you ever worry about how your child feels while playing on the playground at school even though my daughter loves running around at recess I still worry about how her overly sensitive body feels going down a metal slide and I'll say that again a metal slide we live in a town where it gets to be over 100 degrees outside and how she still cries because she can't do the monkey bars like her friends because of her gross motor delay or how she trips and falls over the edges in the bark around the play area meeting the sensory and physical needs of all kids can reduce over stimulation and feelings of not being good enough when they can't keep up with their peers equipment that triggers not only motor movement but also cognitive social emotional vestibular tactical and pro proprioceptive systems can help speak to the whole child in every child thank you for having me tonight thank you marigold we're here sorry I'm getting tired hello Ford and community I'm shawnice Heath I'm the principal here at Marigold in the Louisville Vista preschool program we are so blessed and I'd just like to take a couple minutes to share our gratitude with you before construction we had limited spaces an office with no bathroom many Portables that were falling apart after years of use and dilapidated buildings the old Loma building was of particular concern because it did not meet the needs of our preschool special education students it was a joy to work with Julie Kissel and Maria Campos The Architects in the construction crew through the planning and construction phases we love our renovated campus the beautiful new buildings and we feel completely spoiled to be here some highlights of post-construction are that we are now blessed with a perfectly planned functional mini campus for our preschool program increased office spaces this beautiful stage and gym and a campus that I've had many people remark feels like a junior college knit splendor thank you for doing all you can to meet the needs of our community Through the continuation of these projects and updating our schools across town if you're interested in touring our site to see the wonderful things that came from our bond money we're happy to set up a time for board and community members to walk through thank you so much thank you and thank you for hosting us well I'm going to continue on the Gratitude train here thank you all for having us tonight we appreciate the time in the dedication that you have given to our schools and really putting our schools as our top priority being local to Chico I'm just in awe of all the recent Renovations that you guys have provided for us including Marigold Loma and PV um during my time at Chico Unified I was privileged to be at Chico Junior during the science renovation of the room and I know just how much hard work and dedication it takes from Julie Kissel and Maria really making this happen so thank you at Marsh we are so grateful for the beautiful campus that we get to talk home we appreciate the support and the monies that went into building our campus in 99 we most recently the chico Community finished our campus by building the NPR the gym and our new science wing and I believe anyone who steps foot on our campus can really see the pride that went into building that school with that said we also realize that there are other sites that deserve that same pride and need campus updates and improvements more than we do although we do not have major facility needs we do want to express our gratitude and thank you all for having us here tonight up next is Neil doll good evening I am here also to express how grateful we are at Neil Dao we have had our campus renovated most recently and it has been nothing short of wonderful and amazing I know that several of you have come to visit us I welcome you to come at any time but more than anything I just want to thank the board thank the community thank Julie and her team who worked endlessly for years to put together our renovation in different stages our Dragon family has most enjoyed our brand new MPR complete with a stage and kitchen facility that makes my husband who is in the restaurant business jealous so again thank you for um for thinking of Neil Dao thank you for and the bonds and our community and we are grateful for our renovation and I know that others in Chico Unified Schools are looking forward to it as well thank you um up next is Parkview she kind of spoke at the beginning and had to leave so I have taken note from uh staff students and families so first we want to thank you all for your continued support we are the stem school and we have received some updates over the last couple of years we had a new Kinder building added in a portable um we had an additional portable bathroom added we had an update on our playground we have a very good working relationship with Eminem to keep our facilities at at Bay when the rain comes and our leaks start we often joke that we're the stem schools so re-engineering and Reinventing is our Jam however we do have a need for as you can see our capacity is growing which is a great problem for us to be in we have increased enrollment and we have maximized every single nook and cranny that you can you can imagine with shared space for offices counselors TCMS adjusting that schedule before school starts some of our biggest needs come and have been voices with our sped programs they're in the Portable Buildings and they don't have a restroom within them so they do need to leave and and even though our new restroom was placed close it still is not accessible for some of the life skills that could be taking place within the classroom in addition we have a need for new water fountains the bathrooms are a constant complaint for kids they're they're dated our multi-purpose room we have outgrown we were fortunate enough to receive during covid times a lot of outdoor tables which is lovely and when weather permits that is what our kids choose to be but on these rainy days we have a factory in place to get kids in and out to make sure everybody has seat that is covered in addition some of the other parts that our concern is with our growth is our parking Circle so there is it's challenging to find a space if you're coming to pick up a child or um get stuck in the circle that can back up to the four the four stop signs in addition we are the stem schools so one of our biggest Visions would be to have an updated stem facility which would really be a science lab of some sort to offer and extend the opportunities for all of our students um we have an amazing parktastic community and support there and they are eager to see our our community grow and have this same opportunity so thank you [Applause] Pleasant Valley good evening and and thank you for allowing me to speak tonight um my name is Damon Whitaker I'm the principal of Pleasant Valley high school and um I I as well want to share so much gratitude and um thank you for all the support the school board and the district has provided Pleasant Valley High School um we we feel extremely grateful and are appreciative of all that has happened at our school over the past four years we've been the recipient of so much modernization as well as through funding through our CTE programs we have been able to build a brand new culinary state of the Arts building that houses our fire and Fork restaurant we have built remodeled our buildings for medical pathway more CTE Child Development our graphic arts and design and most recently our industrial Technology Building and so again we are we are so grateful for all the support and that the district and the board has shown it is greatly enhanced our School site and has helped create a positive culture on our campus I'd also like to show some appreciation gratitude for Julie and Maria again like Chris mentioned they have been so responsive and supportive and helpful throughout this whole process so thank you very much thank you next is our representative from Rosedale [Applause] [Music] hi my name is Marisol Lopez I am the assistant principal at Rosedale Marisol Lopez hi my name is Beth Bradley and I'm the parent of a first grader at Rosedale Elementary School I'd like to start by saying that I love Rosedale the teachers and staff are exceptional we live pretty close to the school close enough to drive by frequently and we often see teachers cars parked outside on weekends and holidays these teachers are committed to our kids each and every student on top of that my child is receiving the kind of education that I wish I had a dual immersion school when I attended Parkview Elementary in the late 80s early 90s this kind of opportunity did not exist in Chico there's always a wait list to get into Rosedale because its curriculum is highly sought after today of the six oldest schools in the district Rosedale has the highest enrollment at 546 students I truly do love the education that my child is getting at Rosedale I started volunteering in my son's classroom and quickly became appalled with the overall condition of the facilities with just the small footprint I covered going to and from the office to my son's class I've learned a lot over the past six months as I've dug into rosedale's building infrastructure issues my son's classroom has had a leaky ceiling since October while the ceiling come to find out there are several other classrooms in this particular wing all which have active leaks while the ceiling tiles continue to be replaced once they are bulgy and brown enough the leak the water persists this is the perfect example of what rosedale's campus is looking like the rotted beams dripping like waterfalls in the courtyard the light fixtures that no longer work the kindergarten classroom that couldn't hear the fire alarm a problem that has spanned the teacher's tenure of over 10 years it just got fixed two weeks ago thank goodness the doors that don't open because they're afraid the single pane glass will fall out the bathrooms that don't have heat are not insulated and when it's 30 degree morning heaven forbid you have to sit your tushy on a toilet seat and then wash your hands in freezing cold water what are we teaching our children the kindergartners that don't have bathrooms in their buildings so they have to trudge through the rain and puddles to the other kindergarten bathrooms just to try and open one of those old heavy doors that they don't have the strength to open and now they have to go back to their Maestra and whoosh accident I could go on and on here's the thing I know we're not alone of all the oldest schools all of the oldest schools need Renovations but the thing that sets us apart from the rest of the quadruplets thank you Laura are the facts that Rosedale has the highest enrollment at 546 all in Rosedale houses over 620 students and staff Rosedale is a title one school I'm almost finished I promised Rosedale needs to continue to attract Spanish-speaking families in order for the dual immersion to work at its best and I implore you Rosedale must be prioritized when we pass the next measure thank you so much I appreciate you Madam president I haven't got a comment um [Applause] I had a chance of two arose to Dale a couple of days ago or maybe it was just yesterday and um people like being at Rosedale they travel all the way across town to be at Rosedale um and you parents do a really good job being articulate for your needs which is impressive and good um in this case I can tell you from first-hand experience and seeing it firsthand the place is literally falling apart doors are literally falling off the hinges and panes of glass just truly look like they're about to come crumbling right out of the windows you know I've I've I it's a special school it's a special program and I don't mean you're special you know I mean that that you know there's something special going on there with the dual immersion but truly in this case it's falling apart yep so thank you for your report all right up next we have Shasta please um Bruce Bain our principal Shasta every day I have a joke of the day I've got a construction joke that I would tell you but I'm still working on it thank you uh there has been a a school at um on shasta's site longer than anywhere else in town in 1867 Webster School was a one room Schoolhouse that gave way to Shasta Union School that gave way to Shasta Elementary when I got there originally about 10 years ago there were portable classrooms older than me not that they had been on campus longer than I've been in education no they were put in before I was born and I was very happy when we were selected to go through our renovation process we went from having more portable temporary classrooms than permanent classrooms now we have 31 classrooms 19 of them are brand new and 12 are existing classrooms that have been updated with technology new paint and new carpeting so we appreciate all those things as you can recall from the map previously Shasta is by itself on the north side of school of the town our attendance boundary goes all the way to the Butte County border on the North side including the the properties that are being built to the west of us some of which are not in our area even though a student could literally walk three minutes from their house to get to Shasta but because of the way the boundaries are currently they go to Emma Wilson we currently have 655 students and as was mentioned earlier we have no room for TK program all of our classrooms are completely full and like some of the other elementary schools every one of our nooks and crannies is being used our reading Intervention Program is what is in what we lovingly call our reading garage our reading specialist is a reading mechanic she diagnoses the problems of the students when their reading abilities and she fixes them to get them back out on the road into their classrooms we don't complain we are so appreciative of everything that has been done so far but there is still a need for in improved in large multi-purpose room to house our students what has compounded that problem recently our stage that we use for our performances we were told that because of the new emissions laws we would be able to move that stage to a storage space but there would be no guarantee that we would get it back later in the spring so we are we have four lunches a day to accommodate our five our sixth grade levels so if and when the time comes to look at what we can do for Shasta in improved expanded multi-purpose room would be on our on the top of our list along with that with the bathrooms that go along with it Mr bainard yes I've got a question Shasta is such a popular school I mean because of growth I guess recently there's just so many people who want to be there we're adding TK now you made mention of this fact and there's no room for a TK to go I guess without sending people away or changing boundaries how do you think a families would react to going somewhere else for TK uh I can tell you how they feel they are saddened but they also see the light at the end of the tunnel knowing that they will have the opportunity to come to our kindergarten program we do several tours um you know every week especially this time of year and you know I don't think they totally enjoy going away but they know that they have a spot when they come back so it is not a dire necessity but I also know that every year we lose a couple of students that go to a TK at one of my colleagues wonderful schools they love it and they don't want to leave that to come to Shasta okay thanks thank you Sierra View hi my name is Melissa Kozak I'm the PTO president for Sierra View school I have a third grader that attends there and I'm also an employee at the school I loved it so much I decided to work there um I'm here to speak on behalf of our Sierra View families and staff we are the only school on this list of the quadruplets and and any others that do not receive any Title 1 funding with the exception of Marigold but as we can see it's already been beautifully updated the funding that our School receives comes nowhere close to covering the costs of providing an excellent environment and enrichment for our students and as a PTO we have an annual budget of over 88 thousand dollars that we have to fundraise to cover the environment of our students we literally fundraise for paper the PTO budget supports our PBIS program assemblies books curriculum online learning programs work room supplies software support and update school-wide teacher reimbursements scholarships for field trips homework folders planners book bags to just begin to name a few from your position as a board member you can look at our school and just see numbers enrollment numbers funding numbers Etc but for those of us that work here and send our children here with holes in the exterior walls rotting walls around all of our Portables uh peeling paint constant disrepair of our heaters and air conditioning systems um it it's this endless Money Pit that just feels like gets a repeated Band-Aid on it when it really needs a tourniquet um it feels impossible to imagine that the school would even be able to survive the amount of time it might take to get the additional funding after this last bit of money is spent it's discouraging to watch all these beautiful updated facilities when we are just bleeding out at these all of our quadruplet schools I know we all experienced that um despite the fact that we have little funding in the physical state of our buildings we continue to be a high performing School academically Statewide which reflects very nicely for our school board after attending the facilities planning meeting in February I know that there are many other schools that are in equal or Worse disrepair that may meet requirements for receiving the funding before CRV with our school being located in an older neighborhood and in an area of Chico that is not experiencing much development as well as the removal of the lottery to be in the academic Express program we have experienced decline enrollment it's just our hope that enrollment won't be the only deciding factor and consideration which a school gets chosen next we have no historical value we have no charm we are completely willing to work with you guys and tear the whole thing down which over half of our buildings need and require there is nothing nothing that we feel heartfelt about saving we will move to other buildings we will move location we will move into another area on our campus we will do whatever it takes to make this be an expedited and and financially beneficial situation for everybody thank you [Applause] cool on the contrary I would say that was very charming and compelling thank you and a good way to cap off our school school site well School site representative shares and we do have some public comment speaker cards so I am going to move us into the public comment session where um folks did submit speaker cards we have five on the list at this time um and so I'm just going to start at the top of the list and roll right into that at this point um so first on the list I have Beth Bradley yeah 30 win that's all right but there was a uh Lauren that signed up from Rosedale thank you [Applause] good evening my name is Lauren inaway and I have three children at Rosedale in transitional kindergarten second grade and fifth grade I recently attended the facilities meeting that was held on February 9th with a lot of other as Dale parents staff and administrators we have an Engaged community at the end of the meeting we were broken into groups by School site and asked to fill out Post-it notes with the prompt being if we could do one thing and it made me think about all the individual things that have gone wrong and that we've attempted to have addressed during my children's tenure at our school so when my fifth grader was in first grade the first grade Wing was notoriously leaky like all the schools you've heard from tonight we are no different um so we were super excited a couple years ago when facilities came in and offered to reseal our roof and then I was crushed because I didn't have a first grader there anymore I assumed it had been fixed um and talking to other parents to find out that the leaks continue to persist um we have doors on our site that do not operate properly and we've made attempts to have them fixed however we were told to do so the project would involve having to address issues with door jambs then you get into like code stuff and you got to bring that door up to code and then all the doors have to be brought up to code and then lickety-split million dollar project if not more so these are just a couple examples but these are the issues we run into again and again facilities makes an attempt to fix the issues that are wrong the fixes don't stick or we have a problem that looks like reasonable to us and they're like no it's multi-millions of dollars and the school is just not worth investing in in that way right now so circling back to the prompt from the facilities meeting if we could do one thing several of the sticky notes put up that evening say something to the effect of Raise It To The Ground rebuild it and for us that's not hyperbole we mean it just like some of the other schools who said here tonight we will do anything whatever it takes we want our skill our school rebuilt with Integrity with thoughtfulness and with planning some of you may be aware in our multi-purpose room several years ago we had a serious scare where one of the beams we were concerned was warping it it ended up being fixable they were able to go and reinforce it but we don't want to be backed into a corner like that again where there's an actual structural failure and then we're having a hodgepodge something together that's not actually going to serve our community so please we want our campus fully rebuilt in a timely fashion we want to have this done with intention and appropriate planning so that it can be functional and safe for our staff and students for decades to come thank you so much for your time [Applause] you Gina backs okay thank you um uh Elaine Ward at yesterday's lcat meeting Tim I saw him but I forget his last name he had shared yes uh he had shared how students feel about themselves and packs their education and while he was talking about social and emotional well-being for our students I feel the classroom conditions also play a role in that as well how can a student feel good about themselves and their learning environment when their classroom has a leaky roof or a broken heater for students with disabilities especially if they're in mod severe program they need room they need a room that meets their needs to move around and to be able to breathe and not to be on top of each other becomes a dangerous situation when a student throws furniture and there is nowhere for other students to move you to move to Parkview is a dynamic campus we have a highly involved principle that makes both parents and students feel valued all teachers do an amazing job incorporating stem into their curriculum their campus needs to reflect everything that makes it great I would also can I would also encourage the district when we're considering these facility upgrades to look in to inclusive playgrounds ADA Compliant and inclusive playgrounds are not the same non-inclusive playgrounds do not allow disabled and non-disabled students to engage and play together every child deserves to play not just those with able abled bodies and then when we're talking about the options of how you want to go about building and restructuring these campuses again I would encourage you to think of the impact they will have on your sped programs I had friends that their students were attending Marigold at the time in the sped program when it was going through its upgrades and they did not have a pleasant experience with their students and so I would hate to see that be a trickle effect at other schools as well thank you thank you [Applause] Mary chin [Applause] hi there my name is Mary chin and I have two kids who are students at Rosedale Elementary School I'm also the president of the Rosedale immersion PTA and well involved with the campus activities and student enrichment as we all know Chico Unified School District has a huge problem with the upkeep safety and structure of all of our schools many of the parents from Rosedale are here tonight to show our support and explain the awful conditions that is the Children's Learning environment I am here to share how much our school has fundraise and spent on our campus as a PTA perspective I was asked by a kindergarten parent this year as to why we have not fought before when it comes to our school facility when I attended my first PTA meeting at Rosedale in the year of 2018 one of the exciting reports was that Rosedale was soon to be renovated the following year we were told that we got pushed down the list and we are next in line for the coming year in 2020 we were told that we are next in line to be renovated the following year we were told that Rosedale was put on hold and now for the present year that the funds have been exhausted and that we would need to wait for a new measure since being an active member of our PTA we have purchased a brand new kindergarten play structure which costs us thirty thousand dollars we have purchased a new Marquee which came to twenty thousand dollars we have purchased over ten concrete benches since I've been here for a growing student body which come to 750 each totaling seven thousand five hundred dollars we purchase air purifiers for each one of our classrooms during some of our smokiest school years which was about fifteen thousand dollars this year we have purchased a shed for each one of our grade levels six in total that has cost us almost twenty thousand dollars we are in the process of purchasing new trikes for our TK which come to around 640 dollars for four trikes also in our budget is a mural for eight thousand dollars in front of our school which in honesty is putting a Band-Aid a Band-Aid over a hemorrhaging wound we have on our budget proposal to purchase a sound mufflers for our NPR which from the looks of things seems to be a standard in renovations as a PTA we have tried to use our fundraise money to fix and replace old doors but we're told no by the district because if one door is brought up to code all the doors need to be brought up to code which could cost too much money in total in the five years that I've been a part of the Rosedale PTA we have spent over ninety three thousand dollars for for facility upgrades storage and standard daily equipment used by students to imagine that if we had the upgrade we are promised how much those funds could have benefited our Educators and student enrichment thank you [Applause] thank you and uh Jeff Blake thank you okay I'm not Jeff Blake but this is these are his words I'm here with a completely biased opinion that Rosedale I'm here with a completely biased opinion that Rosedale be at the top of the list for school Renovations admittedly beyond what was present presented at the master plan community meeting input meeting I don't know the current condition of the other elementary schools in Chico what I do know is that my sixth grade son was in kindergarten when we first learned that Rosedale was slated for renovations within the next two years he's since graduated from Rosedale and we've yet to see a construction crew break ground I also know that Rosedale is among the oldest schools in the district the school is not ADA Compliant several classroom doors do not work properly the encapsulation of the lead-based paint is wearing away beams are rotting away and the list goes on despite the current state of the school there are more parents that want to send their kids to Rosedale then there is room to hold these kids approximately 30 kids are turned away annually what this means is the uplift and expansion at Rosedale will be utilized immediately and in perpetuity it has frustrated me to hear over and over again that the reason for prioritizing other elementary schools ahead of Rosedale was due to the number of new housing developments that have popped up around those other schools yet this is the only this is only one metric that unfortunately seems to outweigh all the other factors including the health and safety of a school such as Rosedale recently I learned that McManus was currently being renovated the rationale was that was explained to me was a Field of Dreams scenario apparently the thought process was that parents will want to send their kids to McManus if the school looks better this build it and they will come scenario fall short in reality Neil Dao is a clear example of this Rosedale already has the students please help get them the school they deserve thank you thank you for requests on the list so with that I think I will return us to I mean it is informational only so we are not taking action on this particular item but are there any other questions or clarification that the board has or any input that the staff would like to give at this time if there are no questions I'd just like to bring out the last page of the presentation again um this is sort of the homework these are the topic the main topics that we need some resolution on for the development of the master plan so these will be coming back to the board these items of how to address the Surplus capacity that we're seeing at the elementary level if those housing options that we showed you are acceptable for to be applied discriminately to each campus how it best fits an approach to inspire knowing that the chico High School master plan cannot be implemented fully with Inspire on the chico high school campus and if they're not going to be there where will they be is a big question mark um it impacts on school size and capacity that transitional kindergarten issue that we're having implementing at Shasta and knowing that it's a major goal of this Master Plan update to be able to project the enrollment for special ed and and build accommodation into the full build out of our master plan to accommodate special education the way that we need to and also the Arts and Music that you know the new state law grant that was passed that we need to have music and arts facilities in our campuses on our elementary campuses yes elementary school campuses thank you and then the prioritization of what I'm assuming are the elementary school projects we need feedback from the board are those the priorities and then how what order will they be achieved in knowing that we recognize that we have done a lot of good with our bond dollars and our implementation the master plan as witnessed by the comments from the schools that have been addressed but recognizing that we're not getting to the schools as fast as we would like to and meeting Our obligation to the voters in our community with how we're utilizing their dollars so that's why we asked our Master planners to assist us with being able to expedite the projects those interim housing options will help us to be able to roll out our projects in a much more Swift manner and then what to do with the remaining bond funds so after McManus what we have left of the funds from measure e and measure K how can we best spend those do we start tackling the very next project on the list or do we take a step back and try to put in some stop Gap measures by doing restroom improvements Safety and Security improvements in in the hopes that we'll pass another bond in the future so I just wanted to review those items we will be back to the board for direction on those items in the future I have a question for timeline because I know one of the previous slides is that in early March there are all of those Community input meetings correct and that's to sorry May sorry thank you thank you um Mr Marshawn um those the intention of those is to have have more information at that point than what we have right now and you need guidance from us before then correct the intention of those meetings is to report back to the school sites yes we heard you and this is the the plan that the board has evaluated and this is how we're planning to move forward so it's providing that feedback yes we heard you and this is what we're going to do so it's almost like a preliminary draft of you know to get more input and then to further Drive our decision making correct okay thank you do you have a rough estimate of what the remaining bondos will look like after McManus 50 million dollars one five or five zero five zero thank you you guys might have said this but um round numbers was there around numbers for each of those kind of three levels thrown out there the three sort of broad Target school capacity sizes so for the cost of the large medium uh small school is there a round number for each one of those you know that it's a tough question uh to answer um the construction alone at McManus which is the largest we're expecting around 45 million dollars is the construction bid and in addition to that is the design design fees and investigation fees inspections that sort of thing so um looking toward the future that things will cost more you know construction costs escalate over time so you could probably say large school the largest one somewhere around 70 million dollars and then medium size Maybe 50 to 60 and small size 40 to 50.
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so without a bond another Bond measure what kind of cash flow would we be looking at you know on top of what we've already got in the bank for purposes of building in the next couple you know three years without a future Bond it would be very difficult to achieve the implementation of of our master plan projects period period okay do a lot of the grants that do go to facilities do they they have a match component that is what kind of they play off each other having the bond helps us secure those grants is that part of the absolutely full funding picture yes um although the state match is never never really equals what they say it does but new construction is to 50 50 modernization is a 60 40 Career Tech has been 50 50.
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so to get those dollars to go further it would be beneficial to have a new measure absolutely yes and and conversely go out for Grants but we do um this is Robinson Julie if we go out for um a bond we get our our plan and we go out for a bond in 2024 um and we could begin to draw on that bond in January of 2025 we know what that would look like right but if we go out for a bond and we're not successful we're basically Sitting Waiting with the ability to not do anything other than spend the 50 million to do some bathroom Renovations and some small things like that correct 50 million dollars is not a small amount we can make a lot of good improvements with that funds however we can't tackle it a whole school right yeah that's why we put this on the agenda for a decision because we would hope to be successful but the economy isn't great and it's really up to the board to evaluate the appetite of our community when it comes to when we bring it to the board for a decision and if we do not go forward with a bond measure or if we do and we are not successful we need to have a plan you know kind of a if this this if this this plan thank you thank you all right so once again this is informational only um and um all move on to our next item which is one of our relocated items um which would be 7.2.2 Business Services um hold on one second thank you everybody for for hanging in there tonight with us and being here for all of it we really appreciate your time and effort and energy you're all awesome thank you good evening board I'll try to make this as quick as possible the resolution before you for enter fund borrowing allows Chico Unified the capability to borrow between funds if we need to we have two funds that operate outside of the general fund for our California state preschool program as well as nutrition services both of those are reimbursement based and so when your reimbursement base sometimes you spend your expenditures before you get your cash back and so as of because of Ed code we're required to have positive cash balances in all funds as of the third Monday in April every year so if we need to luckily we didn't have to last year we're hoping that will be the case as well this year but we always want to make sure that we have that capability if need be so any questions for interfund borrowing no okay I need a motion [Laughter] while your mouthful [Laughter] I'll move resolution oh my gosh I lost the number now degrees yeah there it is 59 923 it's right on top of the paper second all right we have a motion by Mr Orlando a second by Ms konkin um all those in favor signify by saying aye hi hi hi thank you and I'm gonna pass it off to Marie thank you hello Charisse Jacqueline and I are here to present 22-23 second interim budget to you this is the third budget that we've presented to you for 22.23 and we will be back in June to present estimated actuals these are the major themes that I'm going to show you some slides about tonight okay this is a graphic representation of our actual versus funded average daily attendance using the new three-year averaging model as you guys know the vast majority of our funding through lcff comes from average daily attendance um on the left is the actual enrollment and average daily attendance enrollment being the top bar and Ada being the bottom and then on the right is the funded enrollment in Ada so you can see even though our Ada dropped in the last couple of years it's a much smoother curve because of us being able to use that three-year averaging okay this slide shows our unduplicated pupil percentage numbers over five years unduplicated pupil percentage is the amount of students who are either free reduced income qualifiers Foster youth or English learners this is significant to us this year because if you get over a 55 percent district-wide on a three-year average you are qualified for concentration dollars in the lcff and so if you see at the very bottom in 2223 we did cross that threshold and so that gives us about 600 000 this year next year it's looking more like 2 million and that's um concentration dollars for our neediest student slides shows the spend down of our coveted dollars with the board's approval we purchase technology buses HVAC systems Furniture we also implemented student supports like additional counseling the block scheduling of both High Schools elementary Reading teachers class size reduction summer school programs after school supports we're now at the sunset of these funds so we're projecting that they'll be fully spent out next year so despite the sunset of those funds we have better news this slide shows State funding that's new and upcoming for us you guys have seen plans on some of this and more plans will be forthcoming but the good news is that some of these grants will be used to support those um you know the student supports that we put in with the kova dollar so we won't have to lose the counseling we won't have to lose the after-school programs things like that okay and my last slide is stirs and purrs cost increases I have a yes sure that to the grant funding um the line on Arts music instructional materials discretionary is is that the new the legislation that is it ex there's two no there's the new prop 98 legislation so that's part of it this is just a block grant like okay because when I saw the expires in 2526 wow wait a minute we're we're still looking at building to go along with the program right this is in addition okay thank you we're just going to pop in to clarify the prop 28 money that the voters of California approved in November is ongoing it's in statute so that will help fund music K-12 it is allocated by School site and as long as the voters don't go back and overturn that that would be ongoing money the pot of money here that's listed on this screen is really just a discretionary totally discretionary block grant okay that needs board approval prior to us spending those funds so I'm looking to come back next month with that plan for board approval but it is noted here the original allocation was close to seven million dollars yeah part of the governor's proposal in January even though it was allocated in the current year is to take back some of that money to address some of the deficit for next year so right now that is just proposed legislation and we'll know more as it gets closer to June so that hence the double asterisk there okay that makes more sense thank you yeah yeah okay and this final slide is the impact of stirs and purrs cost increases you guys have seen this slide a lot um so as budget people we always have to watch pros and stirs because the employer contribution rates have been rising you can see this is like a seven year span and pers rate has gone up 10 percent so we include these projections in our budget because we need to know how much of the new money we will need to set aside just to cover stores and pers costs okay so as a part of our budget we used some major assumptions while we're building these calculations one of those is cost of living adjustment that's the same it was built into the state budget so it's the same as when we came to you in first interim the funded average daily attendance went down just a tiny bit because of our 2324 since we are a three-year average now that's our highest Ada and that's what we're funded off of the 2324 school year Ada dropped a little bit from when we came to in first interim so the drop was 3.25 overall for that ADA the unduplicated also dropped just a tiny bit so it will it only dropped by 0.5 percent but I'll get into in a couple slides how much that affected us on the funding side of it and then the salaries and benefits reflected in the budget are as of February 1st that includes any vacancies that we plan to fill this year okay so this is a comparison that shows the last budget that we brought to you in December for first interim the second interim projections that we have for this most current budget that we're bringing to you tonight and then any differences so I will go over the differences in the future slides but I just wanted to make sure that you could see kind of a summary of everything the good thing is with second interim for unrestricted we still have a positive change in fund balance so we're not deficit spending this year okay so for revenues here's the differences between each of those Revenue categories as I said the unduplicated people percentage that dropped just a tiny bit so you can see that even though it only dropped by 0.5 percent that's about a 500 000 drop in our funding so the local control funding formula even small changes have a drastic effect on our budget sometimes and then we had a small increase in unrestricted Lottery revenue and then as far as the local Revenue increase interest rates went up in the first quarter so we got a little bit of an increase there in revenue and then our year rate went up as well let me know if you guys have any questions as I'm going through this so this is just a pie chart that shows the funding on the unrestricted side as we've told you guys pretty much every time we come most of that is funded with local control funding formula so as you can see this is just a graphic representation of that 96 of our revenue on the unrestricted side comes from local control funding formula sources yeah yeah I understand state revenue I understand federal revenue what is local revenue is that our local tax base local Revenue are like revenues that we get from charter schools for like Charter oversight so it's yeah just basically they break it down in categories so it's any local government or miscellaneous Revenue that we might get in for reimbursements with working with other organizations that kind of thing okay okay okay so this is the same kind of chart it just it's on the expenditure side so the biggest difference on this is on the certificated salaries that increased and that was due to certificated sub costs for sick leave so we do our best guess at first interim best projections that we can based on the information that we have and unfortunately sick leave has not dropped as much as we were hoping it was going to after covid I think that a lot of people are taking sick leave more often which is good because then we don't have illnesses passed throughout our staff but then you know we see it on the funding side as well the decrease in our classified salaries as well as benefits a lot of that is tied to unfilled vacancies that we were hoping we were going to be able to fill when we came to you at first interim but unfortunately it didn't happen and then the other large increase there is on the utility cost side so as we've all seen in our personal budgets utility costs just keep going up and so we see that at the district level as well okay and then this is just another pie chart to just give you a graphic of those different expenditures the one difference between this and the chart is we've added in the special ed contribution and the reason for that is most of that is Staffing and so we want you to see the full picture of how much we're paying for on the unrestricted side for Staffing between the special ed contribution as well as Staffing costs it's about 88 of our expenditures on the unrestricted side okay and then for transfers in these are pretty much the same as when we bring them to you every or every budget period the small increase we had was in the RDA pass-through it was about a hundred thousand dollars and then that developer fee admin support that's three percent of our developer fees that we collect over the course of the Year contributions to restricted programs you see special ed up there it's about 21.5 million and then routine restricted maintenance that's three percent of our total general fund that's what we're required to to contribute to that program that staff solve our maintenance and operations Department as well as you know any supplies that they need to do their job or if we have any jobs that need to be done like plumbing and our maintenance staff is working other places and sometimes we'll have to contract out so that's three percent of our total general fund expenditures that we spend there okay and then that 21st century assets that's going to be a one-time only for this year it was a prior year payroll correction that we had to do so you'll only see that this year and then it'll drop off for next year okay all righty and I'm going to hand it over to Jaclyn so part of the budget process is not only looking at the current year but looking at the two out years right we want to generate a planning tool to be able to make decisions going forward so you're gonna have the current year 2223 as well as 23 24 and 24 25.
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included in that multi-year projection or nyp we call it I have a conservative enrollment of a small decrease going forward so as the demographers spoke earlier certainly in five years we're going to see our Kinder enrollment drop but we're still kind of coming out of that covid piece and really looking at where that enrollment is um so we have a conservative look there so as a result we have some certificated FTE that have been reduced we do adjust first step in column we have seasoned staff they you know move columns they increase steps every year and we do look at utility inflation and insurance costs so as we build these new buildings it's great but our insurance premiums do go up as a result of that we did receive lcff concentration dollars this year we will get 2.2.2 million next year and so we'll be adding positions related to the the regulations of lcff and are actually really our lcap and our parent and Community input on that so we had positions certificated positions that were funded with coveted relief dollars specifically at Oakbridge our independent study program as well as our two Comprehensive High Schools so those will be moving into the general fund next year so kova dollars are going away our enrollment at Oakbridge has pretty much stabilized as far as which students and families participate in that program and then our teachers at the two Comprehensive High Schools did approve a one-year MO you with Administration to have an eight period schedule so those those Staffing costs are Incorporated in the multi-year projection as well we do estimate that there are retirements and there are savings typically from that a very seasoned teacher is at the higher end of the salary schedule you may be hiring someone in that has five or ten years so we do estimate those savings and then as of right now and I preface this the cola estimates from the state for next year 8.13 and about three and a half percent the following year there was only six of the eight data points that were out when this 8.13 was estimated and then the question comes in of does the state have the ability to fully fund Cola even because this is a statutory calculation so in brief summary this is what the multi-year projection looks like I would Target your eyes to the fourth line that's bold it says net increase or decrease in fund balance that's going to tell us for the current year whether we're bringing in more Revenue than expenditures or spending more than Revenue so I'm happy to say in all three years right now we have more Revenue coming in than expenditures with a very healthy as you can see in the Box a very healthy ending fund balance um because I would say largely because of that healthy fund balance we have a great cash flow position so cash this is cash in the bank for the last two years as well as as the current year um that I believe is going to play a pivotal role for Chico Unified going forward because one of the things the state can do when they have a deficit is do what's called a cash referral deferral it's basically checks in the mail so the state gets to count it as a cut let's say our May and June money and they'll give it to us in September October it's not really a cut for us we get the cash later but the state gets discounted as a cut it's kind of an accounting move that's been used before by the state and I would anticipate that that is used again so this will help us kind of weather the storm when we have those deferrals in cash so we have to self-certify as we come forward every time I'm very happy to save a positive certification that's the way Kelly likes it so we're going to try to keep going that way a swimming board approves it tonight we'll get it over to the Butte County Office of Education by March 15th per compliance of Ed code so next step so we are as you're probably aware we are actively working with our parent and Community related to the L Capital implementation and what that looks like for next year so we're looking at the program now we're Staffing for the program now for 23.24 and then in May the governor will come out with his revision of May revise it's going to be really tricky this year with 40 of the 58 counties not having to turn in their tax revenue until October 15th so it will be very interesting to see how he weathers that storm and then as was alluded earlier back in June with kind of an update of where we think we're going to end this year and more importantly what the budget looks like for next year so those are kind of our next steps any questions regarding the budget now or the two out years you see head shaking no just want to say thank you to all three of you for putting this together and keeping us afloat all right well this is an action item oh sorry yeah no I have a I have a question it's taking a long time to kind of float to the top one of the things I was listening to when the budget analyst the state was speculating that some of what the governor had proposed was not wise and they were recommending that the governor not put as much money through to the schools on an ongoing basis as he had recommended in his first budget do you know if that discussion continued in Sacramento or are you continuing today so the governor always comes out with his proposal his or her proposal in January right that is what he would like to see the state of California adopt going forward then it really becomes a negotiations piece between the legislature and his office right in the coming months typically we get tax revenue in by April 15th the governor then reevaluates that revenue and does a revised budget in May so there's tons of negotiations that goes on between his proposal and the May revision I think what you're alluding to is there's an exceptionally High Cola yeah from a calculation standpoint so the question becomes can the state fully fund ongoing that Cola and that's where a lot of those negotiations play into that there is a prop 98 guarantee so schools are guaranteed a certain percentage just under 40 percent of the general fund where in education that gets placed that is up for negotiations that's that is exactly what I was reading thank you all right um do we have public comment on this item uh then I will ask if there are emotions associated with this item second interim budget seconded right we have a motion by Mr tennis in a second by Mr Lando we'll just do another Voice vote so all of those in favor of approvals oh hold on do we have discussion first making this your microphone's not on the end your microphone's not on again thank you yes thank you a lot of work goes into all of that I know I I know all right so all those in favor of um approval signified by saying aye aye aye opposed okay moving forward um the next item we have is three thank you is 7.3.1 which is human resources discussion action on resolution 1601-23 and we can pull that item we have no need to have that on the agenda tonight all right Jim you're off the hook yeah I know he's been busy tonight actually honestly yeah he's been busy um okay so um our next item is number nine our second items from the floor so I do have a handful of folks signed up the first one being Sean MossMan no there's a couple that sign it kind of signed up wrong but I just want to make sure that those people I'm not going to read all of them because I know this I think you should rattle through the entire list and just just see if anyone's here so I think it's basically just representing all the people who accidentally signed up on this one and the other one okay I mean sure so Sean Mossman Arwen Funk Loretta and Torres Nicole Nava and Connor Wenzel are there any other items from the floor to speak on okay um the next one is item 10 a board member request to agenda as an item do we have any requests at this time I do yeah um I move we place agenda board policy and the corresponding administrative regulation 5145.3 for discussion and possible action at our next regularly scheduled board meeting second I'd like to offer a friendly Amendment um can we specify the date for April 5th um sure okay so just so that's specified in our sure minutes that we identified the date that way do something in the next month it'll be a workshop is that not a safe assumption um if we so if it is on the fifth it will be um on a workshop night but it is but it is four weeks away because it's kind of a ways away so and because of spring break there's no meeting scheduled yeah that's fine okay friendly Amendment you got it yeah I accept the friendly Amendment okay thank you I accept the amendment is friendly I'm sorry thank you important stuff yeah um all right so um let's do a roll call vote um starting with uh Mr tennis since you made the motion um I oh wait yeah we don't discuss I don't need to vote on the amendment because I deemed it friendly exactly so therefore we're copacetic you and me yes yes right aye aye uh doll being I Robinson I konk and I alrighty and then um I want to make a motion to continue the discussion on facilities and have the ability to take action on some of those things that we're we're being asked to do um and I would like to also do that at the April 5th meeting so it's going to be another roundinger the slide that Julie said was our homework those items it's hard it's just hard right now because we only have one meeting this month so it's you know we have four weeks to recover from this one and kind of knock it all out you know I I would favor the earlier time frame like we did tonight like we did tonight I'm not opposed necessarily but I mean we could do we want to maybe just like decide that later or we can I don't know how we want to do it why don't we go ahead and vote on this okay um so I'd like to yeah I need a second second thank you um so the motion is to continue the discussion um as an action discussion action item for the facilities master plan um update and uh to put that on our April 7th 5th sorry April 5th board meeting thank you um we'll do another roll call but I'll start because I made the motion Caitlin I Dolby I that's weird Tennessee who wants to go next Robinson whoops Robinson I here landoi and so now we can have a motion to start that meeting on April 5th at 4 pm okay you want to discuss it yeah do you want to make a motion no go ahead and I'm ready to make a motion yes I move that we do that okay I'll second that so we can well we can't really discuss about a clarifying question for staff yeah um because it's a workshop do we have closed session so typically on a workshop we start the workshop at five o'clock and we have closed session after right so what we did tonight obviously was there we had a closed session at four started the meeting at five okay so I'm assuming we're suggesting the same format as tonight closed it for uh open at five and then there's no closed after does anyone not think this is a good idea I think it's a good eight starting starting earlier I mean it's yeah yeah would we like it to be 11 o'clock right now so you know we do have a motion by Mr tennis in a second by me but I second it well I thought I seconded it we've been here for a really long time let's go with that let's vote tennis motion Dolby second all right we're gonna start with Lando Robbins and I you guys are wishes we did board meetings thank you ten aside but you know what you guys also did those um mid-afternoon board meetings back then you guys did afternoon daytime board meetings too I went to one it I think you we all voted right that's done okay are there any other items that board members would like to agendize I think I have a lot to think over from the special ed presentation but I don't I'm not ready to make a motion on anything tonight okay okay um is there a motion to adjourn Al done
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hi Steve um I just got a call from Steve and he is having internet problems so I'm gonna kick off the meeting um as Vice chair uh and I will say thanks everyone for joining uh on this delayed meeting that we had to reschedule because of weather and I'm going to ask Sean to call the roll um should we start with a land use statement Rita okay but I'm just following the agenda it says call to oral call to order yes thank you and statement go ahead uh I acknowledge that the land the city of Ann Arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinabe including Odawa Ojibwe and badawami and Y and peoples I further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the United States on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways indigenous peoples The Taking of this land was formalized by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807.
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foreign [Music] [Applause] thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how to use it okay I called to order the workshop for Bullhead City School Board on Thursday March 9th at 5 30 p.m roll call Melinda sabreski here Charlene Diaz here Amanda Ayman here Brad Rushton here we're going to talk first about the recruitment plan we are going to talk about the recruitment retention plan and I'm going to ask Jennifer lot to come up and talk a minute about it and then we have a couple of the folks from the committee here to answer any questions you might have excellent well good evening um we had decided as part of our district Improvement plan for this year that we did need something in place for Recruitment and Retention of our employees all employees I will tell you however that in completing our plan it is not a recruitment plan this is really just a retention plan so that is one thing we do need to change is the title because it is actually really just a retention plan for employees but what happened is we put together a committee and we did have classified employees and certified employees we met roughly every six weeks or so um got some feedback from the various schools about what teachers what kept teachers in our district what would what another District could offer that would convince them to leave our districts the various questions that the committee members actually interviewed various members of their staff and then we came back and brainstormed ideas through this process the committee did actually ask me to just facilitate because they felt that if they are the ones who wrote the plan it would be more accepted by the employees in our district which is probably true because it's coming from them so you have it in front of you I'm not going to read it to you but I do have Nicole cope and Maggie Morgan here they were on the committee and they'd be happy to answer any questions you might have well I'll say that looking at this it was so awesome to see this put together because we've talked about you know we've talked about recruitment but we also talked about retention many many times up here and and seeing this put together and actually come to fruition and have a draft is shows a lot of work that's gone into it and it's really nice to see that it's here now who is on the committee yeah but I mean okay there were there were teachers yes we had teachers we had a counselor and the teachers were both grade level teachers and specialist teachers counselor we had an attendance Clerk and a paraprofessional we tried to get bus drivers we didn't get any response for anyone who wanted to be involved had a couple classified people and teachers did you include any of these the site administrators are named we did not we kept them in the loop kind of on what what was being said but we are what was being said and then we shared the plan with them but we didn't they were not on the committee just for clarification on the financial side for certificated certified employees continuing to work for bcsd will receive an additional pay raise for the six years so after the fifth sign the sixth okay I just wanted to make sure that's what it was part of the reason that minister administrates our curriculum committee and then when we realized that we weren't really going to be piloting any new curriculum or looking at anything new for the following school year we turned it into our retention plan so with the teacher appreciation on Section Five who's actually going to be in charge of like the teacher and staff members of the month and those types of things will that be somebody per site or will that then fall on the administrators I think we had decided this did you guys want to answer or do you want me to appreciation just to keep it more consistent perfect thank you are things that we already actually started yeah please come up so that it gets in the recording thanks Maggie uh some of the things that we actually put on here are things that we do already just to recognize that those are those things that we've already started to do we just wanted to make sure that we highlighted those as well the teacher staff member of the month would be in the school site the beginning of the year breakfast and end of the Year awards were done by the district level and student growth and better student outcomes were the instructional coach and the administrators at each campus what kind of student growth will we be looking at will it just be like pre to post or like Benchmark or is there some others that we're going to do on additionally Dibbles and Galileo but we weren't necessarily looking at who is proficient we're looking at who's making growth and um how are you going who's going to who's going to determining the teacher of the month that's done at the school site so I know a lot of the schools already have that in progress do you is it voted I think I mean I don't want to say that Fox Creek kind of started this but we've been doing something since for the last couple of years we give away two Awards each month uh at PD one is chosen by Mr Osuna and myself we talk about it pretty regularly and then the other goes from teacher to teacher so the teacher has Whoever has the award we give it the first month and then that teacher picks another teacher to give it to the next month and then so we we do two a month at Fox Creek so that's how we determine for Desert Valley it's just a little bit different we do classified and certified staff of the month we do it in a Google form our staff votes monthly and then it never really goes away so they accumulate over time and they have to put in words of why they're voting for that person so then I get to read what the person who or the different people who nominate them say about like that they were very helpful or whatever and then we award them certificates and something small every month I that I I absolutely love especially those words that come from their peers and you know even at the end of the year if you've got this long list of those that maybe didn't win the award come in second and you share that with them that means so much what's coming up I have Diamondback and sunrise both we do not currently have a teacher of the month program but there is a thanks for being awesome program where the staff nominates other staff for going above and beyond at every PD admin pulls out five to ten of those nominations and rewards them with various types of gift cards awesome well it's kind of nice that it doesn't have to be one size fits all yeah you know that the site gets to decide what what works for them well you know and once a month is something you can manage a lot of times it's difficult to do more than once a month I know that we had tried you know every week passing the teacher one or passing passing the the the staff LED one versus the admin one at when at Mojave and and it just kind of fall off it sits there for a little extra longer until someone nudges like hey can you pass it on so once a month I understand because it's it's totally recognizable you know every month that's gonna happen can I see the you know the one of the page Above This thank you and I will say to you that the things that had to do with financial Jen was bringing back and discussing with me you know throughout so that um uh you know so that we wouldn't throw a monkey wrench into this plant and I would also say on that one one of the things that has been discussed in meet and confer excuse me over the last few years has been and not just in meet and confer but in the superintendent's advisory committee is when teachers have to cover somebody else's class and for when I first came that was uh that that involved points in the classroom site fund um excuse me in the classroom site fund plan and those kinds of things um I told them that we we couldn't just pay for the one period thing because there's no way the way we were doing it before because there was no way to have anything close to Equitable between middle school and Junior High I mean yeah and the elementaries because of a teacher's gone at the elementary either a specialist teacher gets pulled for the whole day or the class gets split up amongst other teachers and so there was no really good Equitable way so I said to them I said to that committee if you all can figure out if we can figure out something that is reasonably Equitable between the elementaries and the upper grades then we'll figure out how to pay it out of M O because it's money we would be paying a substitute anyway so the good news is this committee came up with a plan that is very close to being Equitable certainly acceptably Equitable among all grade levels and and as I say we can pay for it because otherwise we'd be paying for a substitute and we only have to do this if we cannot find a substitute so and you know so we can pay for it out of that fund and it and it and it works so I'm really happy that they figured it out well this was something that when I saw that as well because this is something I've been asking for multiple years like yes because at the high school level we do pay and it's a little bit different because they all have a prep and yes it was different at the elementary level and I know that for years and and Corey when he was here he was the same way like how can we do this like we constantly just pull from them but we don't say like we don't give anything back with that so when I saw that as well I was like right on like perfect yeah and I know as a junior high you know quite often that was the way with us and stuff uh Carolyn how much is a substitute teacher paid now um one day Subs are paid 110 dollars we we raised that from a hundred because of the minimum wage uh increase in January and then long-term Subs are paid 150 a day and long-term means someone who has been in the same position for 10 consecutive days and if somebody starts as a one-day Sub in that kind of position and ends up in the position long term then then the pay becomes retroactive to the first state I will add that I think that um we did say for splitting the class room due to a lack of substitute teacher was splitting among your colleagues your grade level or your content area colleagues so that it wasn't sometimes we might split like a first grade class into the other first grade in some kindergarten classrooms and in that case you'd be splitting in among five or six teachers so they made that clarification and there was also um supplemental pay for a specialist teacher at the elementary who was giving up their prep time to or who was giving who was being moved from say being an art teacher to being like a first grade teacher for the day due to a lack of substitute so I don't think this is the most I don't think that's the most popular I was going to say because that's not I didn't I didn't see that anywhere on that on here yeah so that was also I believe 25 for that for that person because it means that they have to give up all the plans that they've had for that day for the various classes they see and then try to learn that that uh less than plan you know all those lesson plans for that day and that's one of the things our specialist teacher on the committee did say was that you know just even if it was just something little just to just to say hey thank you for making that switch because oftentimes they don't know till they walk in that morning that they're being put into another role so yeah okay um our plan as we were talking about our um our district Improvement plan for next year is to then go back with a committee and create a recruitment plan so when we realized reviewing this that there really wasn't any recruitment on it we do need to add that piece so that's kind of the plan for next year okay awesome I like it yeah thanks to the committee yeah I think this is really ambitious and but also very exciting and I liked their ideas and it was it was really nice to have it come from you know from teachers themselves one of the things that Maggie and Nicole did not say is that the reason that they kept some of the things that are already in place is because those were things that teachers said oh these are already happening and we don't want them to go away so they were cognizant of not throwing out baby with bath water you know to keep things that they already like so I think that's a good good idea too so excellent thank you Desert Valley is going to school Improvement progress okay I'm going to do a thing for us Cassie and Meg and Maggie are here to present that second step in this whole process good evening Madam president members of the board thanks for listening to our presentation this evening um so we have since moved on from our CNA our common needs assessment into the root cause analysis and we do it via the fishbone diagram which means that we're taking a closer look at what is causing the things that we need most across of our across Desert Valley specifically um so if you take a look at the diagram that's up on the board that is what the fishbone template looks like you can kind of see it has like a head and a tail in the bones in the middle and basically it allows us to identify what is the root cause for the needs that we have and once we identify what the root cause is we can move forward and identify the action steps timelines things that we're going to need in order to achieve that desired outcome essentially okay go ahead so to start the process we developed uh three teams at our site that um was a collaboration of about I think there was like five or six teachers four to six teachers on each team and then each team took an area and worked on one of the diagrams to address the principles on the next slide so each team identified each one of these principles principle 1.9 we so we took the results from the CNA and then narrowed it down to each of these principles so principal 1.9 at Desert Valley was that teachers need training because they lack the competency and confidence to interpret and analyze and use data effectively and then to go with 2.9 students are not engaged in classroom where they take responsibility for their learning through effective instruction and principle 4.6 was that teachers lacked effective training in the standards internalization of lessons and then the creation of Assessments that are aligned to those standards um so a little bit more about the process with that group of teachers we have instructional empowerment at Desert Valley as well as all the other schools in the district so each of those subgroups worked on one main fishbone template so it was their job to look closely and come up with these uh different parts of the fishbone that are required so the first part is to identify what the need was you saw those on the previous slide and those were direct results out of the CNA those were the areas that we felt were the most significant need and that CNA process involved a number of people kind of rating and determining what we actually needed to focus on the second part was to brainstorm those possible causes so there are those six areas not every fishbone has six but we look at the main things that lead to the need or what could be causing what's basically what's happening on our campus when we look at the third part identifying the root cause when we look at those different parts of the bone we want to know what are the commonalities where do we see the overlaps where do we see Trends and things that we really need to focus on in order to look at how is that causing this to continue to happen and then after that we develop a needs statement which is basically what do we need to do to change the outcome of the need what do we need to do to address it how to kind of interject and change where we're going and then the last part is to create like our desired outcome where we think about the things that we're going to be doing to get the outcome that we really want and we look at the different types of practices that will help bring us to the outcome that we're looking for okay um oh I believe in order to drill down to what really is the cause we use the five y's so instructional empowerment like instructed us in our teams to ask why a lot of times so by asking that why we can get down to what is the actual problem and what needs to be fixed to help us figure out the primary need and if you've never had someone ask you why five times in a row it gets frustrating a really great challenge because you're like oh the first one's pretty easy and then the second one you're like okay well I think I know why and then by the third or fourth they're like man really why is that happening so um it's a great Challenge and uh some amazing conversations were happening in the rooms that we were in at Desert Valley and I'm sure just across the district in general when we did a gallery walk everybody really kind of Dove deep into the root causes um so I'm just going to share briefly uh our three fishbone templates that are complete for Desert Valley that look at those needs um so in 1.9 it's really focusing on how we use data and data from students effectively are we looking at long-term mid-term short cycle data what are we using it to drive instruction so our desired outcome is that teachers will use a designated system driven by data in the decision-making process through three main areas instruction planning and assessment so those are the three three targeted areas that we will when we move forward into the next part creating our action steps we'll look at our systems our tools how we do professional development how we share ownership of data from students to teachers so our kids actually talking about how they did and how they can improve that's a really powerful conversation even in grades K4 so opening that up and practicing is going to be really beneficial to our students and then obviously with the fifth part will be leadership the role that myself that I play Not only as the school principal but my administrative or leadership team plays and how we can trickle out and kind of centralize that message throughout the year um for the next fish bone we identified that principle 2.9 which has to do with scaffolding we identified an area at Desert Valley we have about 21 probationary staff members at Desert Valley which means they have three years or less in the district they may have been teaching longer than that but they're still in that like kind of beginning stages so for us we find that our teachers might need different things when it comes to professional development so when we're developing teachers whether it's on a PD day or in a PLC meeting we want to meet their needs at the level they need so they can build their skills effectively so our desired outcome is to look at differentiated support through feedback professional development reflective activities coaching and also mentoring that's uh some of the needs that we really needed that we felt like we were missing or the team had come up with so we're going to be looking at questioning collaboration best practice and looking a little bit more about mentoring and how we use our profession National development time appropriately to grow our teachers and the last one um really has to do with the alignment of our curriculum something that came out in the fishbone process with empowerment is that we do have ckla and Eureka but not every single part of every single lesson directly aligns with our state standards to the best of its ability and really the difference between the book and the standards is the teacher and so they have to really know how to like unpack what they're teaching every day and know what the standard is and how deep they need to go so we need to invest some time in that because it does take time and we know time is one of those things that teachers don't have a lot of so we want to look at what this can look like over the course of a year how we can invest in the process so we're looking to increase student performance using um better alignment of the curriculum the standards through instruction and assessment okay so our next steps is our leadership team we've actually met with instructional empowerment for an additional two hours since this previous day at Desert Valley so we finished our second meeting today and we talked about taking all of those kind of parts of the fishbone and how we turn those into timelines how we have impact data and how we're going to raise achievement over time so that's kind of where we're headed to we're going to look at some evidence-based practices develop our smart goals and then turn those into basically the steps we're going to do next year and then they'll also correlate to how we're going to spend our Title One funds in order to support those goals I think that's it any questions um I attended part of these meetings and I was very impressed with the collaboration that was going on so give everybody a pat on the back for me thank you I also today and sat in several different ones the the thing that I really like to see was the fact that the teachers were being critical of themselves they weren't afraid to accept the responsibility that yes we have this problem and yes we need to be doing something about it and I am part of the problem I want to be part of the solution now and it was it was very interesting to see you I appreciated it very much I'm going to follow up with that if I may just die after what Barb said is that one of the most impressive things I saw at Desert Valley was the heart of the teachers who recognized that yeah we need to do things better and that was very very impressive to know that we have individuals like that who care about our kids and are teaching them so thank you very much all of you all the staff and all the teachers it's it's wonderful to see and I'm very impressed thank you for the feedback I'll make sure to pass that on all right thank you so much item 1.5 Fox Creek junior high it's School Improvement progress hello good evening right I don't know if I have that communication skills but I'm gonna try my best so um obviously we're here to present on our CNA process and our root cost analysis if you go to the rundown you'll see kind of the way that we structure this is just talking about where we started and where we're going and from from each one of these parts in there so our password included like we mentioned our CNA process trying to figure out uh where we were at you'll see the list of the people that we're involved in that in that process from before in the next slide and that's when we you know we had the opportunities this happened after the observations that we have with our instructional empowerment team that came into our school and they did the observations which was great I know they spoke about it at the last board meeting and within that we were able to find our three indicators that we wanted to to work on and that's what we brought over to Desert Valley which was great um at Desert Valley Mr easement set up the the the teams for the for the presentation for for the uh for the date which will help us kind of set up what we're going to do so I'll let him kind of explain the team still here you'll go forward to the next slide um so just to impress upon you how how kind of cool this was remember that that was a Friday before a four day weekend or what could have been a four-day weekend for our teachers and these teachers volunteered their their Friday that they had off to come and do this so what I did was uh instructional Obama told us that the principle is not to be part of any single group so I tried to the first names in each list is kind of my leaders of each group Miss Maccabee is our counselor so she took the leadership group which is where I had myself to begin with misagi is our instructional coach and she kind of picked that group she's like that's kind of my job is the instruction and teachers and things like that and then Mr Osuna went with the the conditions group and I tried to place the people as best I could into what I thought their strong points were and I'll be honest I I even the instructional empowerment people were like well you really hit the nail on the head on all of those groups those people really knew those particular spots and and did a nice job working on them um you know a lot of like what what Cassie was saying um there was just great conversations great you know there was lots of thinking going on lots of really deep looking within yourself and figuring out what is it that we could do better uh and that's really what this process is all about go ahead and go to the next one uh we have some pictures from that day um we like to do pictures and we like to celebrate our people as much as we can up at Fox Creek and I know the other the other admin do too so we just got some pictures this is from the kickoff in the morning before we went out to our groups they were just giving us some information obviously uh Cassie showed you some of the fish bones we have some of those pictures the working documents uh the picture on the right there is I don't even think that was all the sticky notes in that particular room because they weren't sticking to the board very well but that just tells you how many different conversations were had in that room uh I remember when I walked in we looked uh with the instructional power people we were really impressed with how many sticky notes were on the board and then we were going to the next room we're like holy cow there's just as many laying on the floor so it was you know there was lots of lots of good conversations going on and I think we really came up with a pretty solid plan um here's another one this is after we've put everything on the fishbone and kind of organized it um so that we can kind of get to what the root cause is and and what our desired outcome is what is what is it that we want to accomplish um obviously we want the best for our students and and we want to get our teachers to be able to present in the best way possible so that our kids can learn uh and and move the school forward this is probably one of our favorite Parks here the gallery walk usually when we do this at school sites we kind of just focus on ourselves and this was a great chance to go walk around others and see what other schools kind of their thoughts and their their ideas and what they're doing and this really helped us set up our after the break after the lunch break what do we need to do what what other ideas can we Implement what other things are being going on around the district with us which is what we did after the Break um we kind of started finalizing all those sticky notes started picking them off the ground and then we put them all together in there which I think is an excellent if you want to go to that one and just these are basically our our three main um you know our three main indicators and Fishbones that we're going to be working with in there um it breaks them down a little bit more in a second so we can kind of go over each one in particular but after that we kind of finalize we went back into a wrap-up mode and then just kind of debrief for the day which is really great if you go a couple more steps forward it'll be the indicator 1.8 this is one of the indicators that that we chose for for ourselves really our desired outcome is really what we were looking for which is if if we have intentional student schedules because right now our scheduling has been one of the things that our teachers have consistently said hey how can we improve our scheduling to make sure that we have right um the right students with maybe the right teachers to making sure that we can they can get this the correct support and things of that nature that are equitably distributed between highly effective teachers then we will Foster learning environments that provide different perspectives with new ways to collaborate and learn new things as well as decrease behavior issues while increasing student engagement and growth again teacher training is will increase the number of effective teachers to students which release the scheduling strain as of right now one of the things that we've been working on a lot is a lot of times the the scheduling comes down to a few people in the office administrators and secretaries and making sure we have the right groups one of our kind of desired things to do with this excuse me is to um bring more ice to The Fault like he have the teachers have a say into hey where what is going to work who's who's going to be able to you know support this soon a little bit better where the best groups and combinations and students to go so be more intentional with it rather than randomize is kind of what we were the other indicators are also up there so um indicator 2.6 was another one of our our next one after this which was our desired outcome for that one was teachers would consistently Implement data usage and planning for lessons for their students apply engagement strategies and use Time collaboratively by applying training that will provide to them with accountability observations in place to observe classroom Effectiveness this is along the lines of again just making sure that that um that teachers teachers say it and it was great to hear we want professional development that's going to help us and it's individualized and that is you know that it's going to help you know everybody on campus and what's great is you know we we recognize we have these Masters you know teachers at our school we have these amazing teachers that have been there a long time and we just want to find ways to be able to not only support them but also have them show their expertise to our newer teachers that are you know only on the year been there a year or New York teachers are moving in from another country and then our final indicator was indicator 2.6 for that one was I I lied 5.1 that one our desired outcome is if we create buy-in across campus by including the factory staff and the creation of Campus White norms and procedures we were consistent consistent implementation of policies and procedures with high expectations for all students across campus so again one of the things that came up again and again we were talking about is making sure every teacher has a high expectation every staff member has a high expectation for all students we feel that if we can bring that across and if we can have a buy-in from all the teachers by creating campus-wide norms and procedures and that teachers are held accountable to that they will be able to um it'll improve our campus and will help our students in the end which is really what we want and I think that's what we have for those yeah the rest kind of goes into typical of us Junior High people we tend to just put our nose to the grindstone and get things done so I think we went way farther than what we were supposed to uh and I think next month you're going to have a couple of other schools that come to present the the rest of this so I don't want to steal their Thunder by going into too much more um so our our presentation we just we weren't sure but I think we'll kind of just stop there because I don't want to take the thunder away from the next schools that present okay any questions or things for us no thank you it's always a unique position because we're a junior high and not an elementary and we gear more towards a high school so we're we're just different we stick out like a red thumb at the elementary so yeah thank you very much 1.6 policy j i c j student use of digital communication and electronic devices this is up for discussion Madam president and board members it's all red because this is an entirely new policy that I'm presenting to you and it came about because we've had some issues with uh video on the buses and some of it inappropriate and then ending up on social media and we really didn't have a procedure for handling that so when I started investigating I found that there are other school districts in the state that have a policy a similar policy and then realized as I was reading those policies that we've had practices in place for a long time relative to um digital devices handheld you know portable devices in our classrooms and in our school sites but we didn't have a policy to back it up and so I thought okay we'll look at these other schools so frankly I mushed together some policies from other places rather than reinvent the wheel and this has been in fact vetted by our attorney relative to following the laws and those things so the idea is just to have a a set of guidelines for how we manage digital devices in our schools and on our buses so but I thought you might want some time to discuss it before we actually got to the first reading in it is on the agenda for a first reading tonight anybody got any questions comments um I have a problem you go back up to the very top where it says uh in order to reserve and respect classroom instructions like trying to make devices made only be used in a classroom environment where the teacher gives explicit permission for use I have a problem with electronic devices being used at all in a classroom other than possibly a computer uh to me cell phones and those type of electronic devices should not be allowed in a classroom and should not be turned on for any type of instruction and stuff well let me jump in there um I will tell you that one of the um best uses for a cell phone in the classroom is when a teacher puts a a display of notes or whatever on the PowerPoint and that teacher gives them permission to take a picture of it and so you know and and you could say well they should be taking notes yeah but I I will tell you that that PowerPoint only stays up for like two minutes and you can't write it down so I've done it in meetings where they have put something up on a screen and and instead of sitting there writing it all out trying to get it down I just take a picture and then I can transfer it to notes later on so it is handy in that regard and it's good for students to know that there are other means of or uses for a cell phone than just texting Tick Tock and whatever else they use so it it is it does become a tool at that point just so my feelings are a little a little bit more towards Miss Diaz's because um working in the high school district and working for for so long they're watching the development of the technology that's come out over the last you know 15 20 years even the last few years um I was always taught that this is a handheld computer use your resources if I don't know what a word is I'm gonna look it up real quick if I have if you're talking about something and I may not know now I'm also talking about maybe maybe we're talking about Middle School and High School levels maybe K4 this isn't something they all have you know maybe a lot of them do but maybe they don't all and so we do have those computers or the you know iPads or we have other things that they can use to look them up so I mean is this I this same statement that you kind of brought up like have we the movie talked with your you know your different groups that you have and the administration at the different campuses to find out if that's something that that's what they want well this is this is already a this is a practice we already have in administration and teachers have been involved in that in development of those practices it's just that we never had it formalized this way and so um you know we certainly can we certainly this gives us enough this gives us enough structure but also enough wiggle room to to make you know to make some adjustments relative to the circumstances um uh so your example Amanda of looking up a word um well most of the time in our classrooms particularly at the junior high when students come in they Park their phones uh you know there's a garage phone Garage in most of the classrooms at Fox Creek okay so uh so if there were a circumstance like that where a student maybe wanted to look up a word or where they'd ask for permission okay and so that we can kind of control some of that and I totally understand because with behavior and expectations and especially when looking at the principles that they identified and and many of them like Fox Creek identified had to do with expectations right so if your expectations are when you walk in the classroom and the first thing they're going to do is they're going to park it in the cubby or they're going to put it in the little hotel or whatever it is that you have like I get that that's the expectations but as long as there's something in there that allows for yes hey I'm doing a poll anywhere I'm doing a survey I'm doing a kahoot and those computers don't work very well to the Wi-Fi but this works great so I can do my con my kahoot from here you know um that's the only thing I just don't want to be too rigid that we don't allow for that autonomy in the classroom that's the only thing that I or at the age each school for that matter it I didn't take this policy to the administrative team so I apologize for that but um but I felt like it in this part particularly was reflecting what we already do um and um and it certainly can this is policy we can certainly attach a regulation or something to go with it that might be a little more specific that's how we tend to do things anyway is have a policy that's uh you know that's uh pretty structured and then and then talk about the procedures more specifically in a in a regulation if we need to this one happens to be a little more specific than a lot of policies are but those are those are valid things and and Barb you know I I early on I would have said exactly the same thing that you're saying and we recognize that there are times when that's why we have the garage the phone garages in our classrooms is that students were using you know we're just pulling them out and using them and and the teacher had no idea what any student was doing with them and so it can be very distracting on the other hand if there is some specific the activity that the teacher wants this is a good tool for the teacher to be able to use absolutely the and the the reason one thing I've seen is I've been volunteering at Fox Creek from time to time and I've seen earbuds in kids at school and that to me that I have a problem with because then they're not paying attention in the classroom butted and stuff like that so you know that's that's one of the things where I'm saying electronic devices also includes those earbuds it does and they should not be doing that unless they have permission from the teacher yeah to do so but this at least now validates what decisions our teachers make relative to that because I was rather startled that we didn't that we didn't already have a policy to back up the practice that we've been doing so um uh you know so this this now puts some teeth into the practices that we've had literally for years years that we've been you know Charlene remembers and it's been a while so yeah and if you think of other things because it is on tonight's agenda but it's a first reading so if you think of other things that you have concerns about let me know and we'll uh you know we'll work on those things thank you I really think that we you should take this back to the administrators okay administrators look at it please sure um we'll do the first reading but I think we need some input from the other end too no problem is there any other further discussion on this do I have a motion to adjourn a workshop I make a motion Workshop I'll second that motion Charlene Diaz all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz I Amanda amen we we have a special between meetings we have a a special presentation by the women's Council and I see that some of them are here would you like to come up ladies and present this is because I know oh yeah Annette did you sign in Barbara did you sign in I know the process hmm okay um I think that I want to join in on this yes Carolyn would you like to come down of course I'll always accept a check yeah good evening Madam President Ford staff guest thank you for those of you who don't know we the four of us are part of women's Council here in town and um so we decided to help them with their Vector program and Carolyn could you explain a little bit about investigation one of the things that we're doing particularly at Fox Creek but also at the middle school when we have some students who have been in trouble and then are in the behavioral Resource Center which is essential in a school suspension we wanted some opportunities for them to learn some things that it's not just a negative consequence that there is an opportunity to learn some things about change Behavior and Vector has seven to ten minute little class class video things that the students would be doing and then at least at Fox Creek would have to write a little bit to follow up on that so this will help pay for our use of the vector programs for a year you're welcome you know what we we love um giving back to our community and especially our Educators I have three children that I raised here in this area and they're all who are college graduates and my third one not sure what it's going to do but he works the Dutch Bros oh yes yes they're all awesome but anyway I love doing this the women's Council we love giving back to the community and we love you Educators support you 120 so thank you for all you do because I could not be a teacher or a pretty girl [Music] it's an honor thank you so much yeah it's wonderful and it's not in the mail I'm going to call the regular meeting to order uh on Thursday March 9th 6 30 p.m roll call Melinda zabroski here Charlene Diaz here Amanda amen here Fred Rushton here Barbara zarzicki here would you guys all stand and say the Pledge with me for the Estates of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all um citizens present please print your name on the attendance sign-in sheet at the entrance we're now going into call to the public this is a time when the public may speak to the governing board regarding issues within the jurisdiction of the governing board and subject to reason reasonable time space and manner restrictions as the governing board May establish C policy b-e-d-h comments will be limited to three minutes per individual unless specifically waived by the governing board at the conclusion of the calls of the public individual members of the governing board May respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask staff to review a matter or may ask that the matter be placed on a future agenda however the governing board cannot take action on matters that have not been noticed and advanced as part of the agenda do we have any oh we don't have any okay 2.6 adoption of the agenda I need a motion I make a motion we adopt the agenda I'll second that motion Charlie India's all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski aye Charlene Diaz I Amanda amen hi Fred Rushton hi Barb zerzicki 2.7 last night there were some incredible ones can you is sunrise and Diamondback got tell me a silly story Desert Valley in Desert Valley oh yeah and Desert Valley too this um I think I'm going to be down there to see what that is because that looks really good Fox Creek donation of 1500 check for athletics by Jamie Jensen and Amanda Zink from air control home services in Lake Havasu City thank you for all of this stuff this is great this is great we have a great community item two points eight superintendent's report Mrs Stewart Madam president and board members you see all of our usual reports but I also as part of miscellaneous updates would like to share a couple of items with you the kindergarten registration Lance sends out to all kinds of people and it appeared in the AZN news of this week so that's kind of exciting because that's seen all over the state and um uh and then uh we have been go ahead with that one Cass um uh we have been invited to be one of the sites that Ade presents this Workshop in June for Arizona literacy and uh so Jen is working with the folks from the Ade uh so we're likely to have teachers from all along the river to come to this particular Workshop from Ade so we're we're kind of proud of that that we've been invited that's awesome Yep very good so those are my miscellaneous updates if you have questions about any of the uh any of the reports I'll try to answer item 2.9 board members updates a note a thank you note I don't know this is appropriate of course it is whatever a thank you note from Desert next door Middle School the board provided Kona Ice thank you very much for coming up with Kona Ice I don't know who did that Cassie um I think from what I heard all the teachers really liked going out and getting their ice cream or they're not ice cream their Kona Ice we appreciate everything that the teachers have done to improve the discipline in the district and basically we wanted to award them some kind of a nice item so thank you for the thank you note but thank you for doing your job and doing a good job of it we have our accent agenda do I have a motion well I just want to say on board member updates that um the read Across America Dr Sue's birthday had been happening and um I I know I got an invite I scooted over to Bullhead middle and I was fortunate enough to take my daughter with me and she had such a blast I had a great time reading to him the kids were so respectful they I mean they literally were paying attention and I felt I'm like oh my gosh like you know and but they were they were great my daughter had such a great time in the class she went into they asked questions about High School she was fortunate enough to answer those and and um and then just today we shot over to Desert Valley her and I again and got to read to a couple classrooms there for the end of the week and it was it was so much fun we really enjoyed it so thank you for inviting you know inviting us and the board that was that was an interesting thing I did 11 classrooms on Monday I thought it was going to be deadly by the time yeah reading the same book I got it so that I had it memorized yes you know I only did one I even whipped in some science with it we had feathers who we were playing with feathers um I'm sorry Amanda that I skipped you're fine I I just wanted to slip that in there though it was awesome we appreciated it was um a consent agenda do I have a motion to approve Madam president eiffred rushed and moved to adopt the consent agenda except for removing item 3.5 please others that would like to be removed we favor if you don't have a second oh you need a second I'll second that motion thank you very much Charlene all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski aye Charlene Diaz all abstain Amanda amen I Fred Rushton hi barbs wait a minute oh Cass is playing with it over here hello testing are we getting audio now okay uh 3.5 is basically the list of um people here in the district and their salaries and their jobs um Madam president if I may yes this is uh this is our recommendation for offering contracts and work agreements for contracts for certified employees and work agreements for classified employees for next year but I would like to withdraw the name James Forge Young everybody on here everybody except for Mr Jones is good yes and the salaries that are listed are their current salaries since new salaries have not been approved yet do I have a motion to accept or accept this with the exclusion of Mr fragione Madam president I Fred rushed and do move to offer contracts and work agreements as specified in this document to all the employees that are listed except for Mr James franzio 4G own rather I'm sorry do I have a second I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski hi Charlene Diaz hi Amanda Ayman aye Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki okay okay yeah should we get past this right go ahead I see we have no old business that is unusual that is unusual moving into new business 5.1 staff appreciation and president this is a board board decision board discussion whatever it is you want to do this year for staff appreciation first Friday in May first Friday in May yes Cinco de Mayo who it is let's see who could we hang up in I think we ought to get a bunch of pinatas and put them around the schools and let the teachers you know take the frustrations out there it's been a long year yeah I will I will tell you that as much as our staff teachers and staff appreciated the food trucks last year they did let us know that they missed having the opportunity at the end of the year to get back together as a big group and uh you know and socialize and and see the board so just whatever it is you're considering you might want to take that into account as well so in other words you're saying like a big luncheon over at Desert Valley with everybody there and stuff well if that's what yeah they would like they really liked this year when we did the welcome back yeah as a big kind of family reunion right they expressed last spring that they really um you know as much as they appreciated uh the food trucks and the food they missed the opportunity to see their friends and from other schools so maybe we can combine both yeah I have the food trucks over at Desert Valley and just have a big assembly over there and stuff so I asked a couple months ago to put this on and then I actually came in a couple weeks ago to talk with Cass and Dr Stewart about making sure that we get this on because if we wait till April then it was oh it's so stressful so um and and we talked about the different things and um and we Charlene and I were on the board two years ago when we did the big one at the field house and the tables were out and it was it was a hustle they had it was lots of talk lots of noise they enjoyed being together I know last year we tried to do something different and just you know place the food trucks at the different sites which was really cool because we as a board member went and took different sites and and did giveaways and things but I even did kind of miss seeing teachers that I know like that my kids had and you know and things and and so I understand that camaraderie at the end of the year and coming together so um could find a place to put it all together and like you said bring in the food trucks to that location and maybe everybody gets a ticket to a food truck and they just pick their one or something I don't know and then go and sit down together whatever you decide and well you have some of our ideas is that the direction you want to go yeah yes the vast majority it's it's a it's it's a well-attended fun atmosphere that um at least I find it to be well attended probably there's probably 250 of our employees so a Desert Valley could accommodate them is that the direction I I like that I like that yeah I like that idea I think that's a good we'll get casts on it okay okay casking on the food trucks there's a Food Truck Frenzy on April 15th so you can always go over and get business cards from all the food trucks and stuff look listen can we have a sample yeah okay thank you good idea of item 5.2 asva custom on-site trainings we put this on or I put this on early after we got back from the First new school board members meeting I thought that maybe we needed we needed as a board to come together and actually learn to work together so Carolyn kind of or Dr Stewart basically came up with this idea or came up with this page um does anybody see anything on here that they would that just really attracts them right now I know we're going to use a different superintendent evaluation so we might want to learn that maybe we need to be a self-evaluating too so maybe we need to go down there to get some evaluation too this is a self-evaluation that we do anyway yeah yeah but are we and you wouldn't be going they'd be coming here this whole idea is that they're coming here to you for this training so you don't have to go anywhere anything strike your fancy I would really like to see Dr Stewart that we do some evaluation training some superintendent and board training if we're possible um yeah if that's suitable for everybody yes that's fine we'll get cash on it [Laughter] yeah and another one item 5.3 policy j i c j student use of digital communication and electronic devices this is the first reading it's just up for discussion we kind of looked at it earlier and uh in the workshop I I was really having some problems with the confiscation part down here because it seems like we um we spend a lot of time doing the same things over and over you know first of all we confiscate the phone in the classroom and then we give it back to the kid and then we confiscate it and we take it to the office now we give it back to the kid and then we've got take confiscate the phone again and the parent has to come in and get it and so we did we did change I will tell you that last year we changed it from uh that the parent must come in and and maybe it was the year before I can't remember exactly so you notice that uh it does say that the parent would require to be required to pick it up but in certain circumstances if the student is a latchkey kid and the parent request you know does respond to the administrator and say my child is a latchkey kid and I need my child to have a phone when he or she gets home then we do we do give it to the student you know to take home because we don't want the student to be in a circumstance to be at home and not have a way to communicate so there's a little there's a little wiggle room in there but other than that you're right we are you know we're making a point and I'd assume at some point there's you know Behavior contract there's meetings with the parents and well it does say that there's some suspension that's a possibility well when I'm talking about like the confiscation one two and three like you've made contact home you know so there is forewarning of what's Happening Melinda did you have um uh you know would were you wanting it not to be confiscated or did you want to shortened process it just seems like it's the same process that we've had since I have been in the classroom it's one of those things that um I'm just wondering if there's something else that could be added that would would help teachers in the classroom I understand what they what Amanda and Charlie was saying and I had not thought of those two items and that's that's good but the thing is um even out at the college they're very disruptive in the classroom I mean I've got students who are supposed to be going to be nurses who are sitting there texting and all that stuff you know so um I just can see it being very disruptive in the classroom if I may um ask Mr Eastman and Mr Osuna if if having the I call them the cell phone garages but whatever you might call them if that has helped has reduced some of the need to compensate phones oh that would be a good idea um so the kids have the option to put it in the box or to put it in their backpack in the back of the room our role basically is it can't be on their person in the classroom some teachers are very good about enforcing that some teachers are not um but we do the one thing I will say that we could add to this as I hear you talking that that we do is once it comes to the office and the parent has to come pick it up so like the third time then for a period of time and I'm not sure exactly how long mistrosuma does it for but that person is on a technology hold in the office so they have to come in the morning drop their cell phone in the office drop their airpods in the office and we keep it for a period of time uh they get it back at the end of the day but they're not carrying it with them through the day at school because they've gotten caught three times so that's something that we do some deterrent um a little bit of a deterrent and our boxes do have charging ability in them um I'll take a little bit of credit I made the boxes over the cover somehow I figured that so they all have the ability to charge they plug into the wall so some of the kids park them there just so they can charge them but that means they're not using them while in class so it's kind of a good thing for us so we have seen a little bit of a decline with it um at the beginning of the year it worked really really well but as teachers got lazy then the kids became a little more aggressive with not putting things away um so it's that's part of our push with our CNA to make sure that everybody's holding the same high standards all year long expectations absolutely you know that's that's one thing we recognized as our teachers get a little bit lazy and then the kids obviously will take advantage of that but but the boxes do help a little bit okay any questions thank you thank you very much I will tell you my favorite part of this whole thing is that the um that the violation includes the SIM card so they've gotten good at making sure that they pop out their SIM card before they hand over their phone I take it I I can tell you that I've seen that happen oh yeah here you can have my phone because then they could just borrow their friends phone pop in their SIM card and use it or if it's something like an F where you're searching for the electronic devices because let's say it's used to bully threat video records something shouldn't have happened while you pop out that SIM card and you no longer have access to that stuff so the fact that it has to stay in there and they give up their privacy expectation their expectation of privacy for that information that's big gonna stay one step ahead yeah and you just schooled me on this because these are these are words that I had borrowed from the other District's policies because I hadn't even thought about those things so um okay all right okay any other discussion yeah I'm talking about that item 5.4 agreement with the Arizona Department of Homeland Security regarding cyber security Madam president and board members this agreement as it states is with the Department of Homeland Security Arizona's Department of Homeland Security Cass if you want to get it up nobody's going to read this because it's you know it's like all the fine language fine print but what here's what I will tell you about these two documents our technology department has been working with adhs relative to this partly because the Arizona risk retention trust who are our insurers our liability insurers have stepped up the requirements for school districts to for cyber security because they are our insurers so if we get hacked uh if our data employee data or our student data gets lifted they're the ones who are going to end up paying for us to deal with those situations so there are two benefits to having this agreement because adhs has the ability to monitor not I'll use myself as an example not necessarily what exactly I'm doing on my computer at any given time but has the ability to know to notice if some malware pops up if some ransomware pops up those kinds of things and they're a lot more likely to see it before James Wood in our tech department so they're not seeing details of what I'm doing but they're seeing the kinds of things I'm doing and they have built into their system this alert so that they can immediately contact us to shut that down so as a result we will of having this agreement and having this service available to us the service itself is free what it's doing then is it will save us thousands of dollars in fees to the trust that they would charge us for the insurance for if we had malware or ransomware so uh probably I'm I'm guessing in the probably in the range of ten thousand dollars it might save us per year more importantly if if the system and it because it's been proven to work keeps us from being hacked uh particularly Personnel data or student data it could save us Millions right now excuse me James tells me right now the rate to repair the damage from uh from having a Cyber attack is five dollars per record okay so and we have thousands of Records so uh this is a pretty good deal free saves US money up front and saves US money on the back end so uh needless to say I recommend that we sign these agreements okay any discussion then I need a motion to approve the agreement and the Arizona Department of Homeland Security regarding cyber security I make a motion we approve the agreement for with the state of Arizona Department of Homeland Security for the cyber security is there a second I'll cycle that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sobrowski aye Charlene Diaz aye Amanda Ayman aye Fred Rushton aye Barbara bazarzicki item 5.5 retroactive approval for preschools at Diamondback as of 12 10 2 2013.
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