so my trainers right now on the one one time a month that we offer it instead of working an eight to four day that day they come in like 11 and works at 8 30. they step in yeah thank you yeah right yeah so it doesn't cost us a lot but the return um feedback from the families uh feedback from principals that um families come in more knowledgeable about the district um has been overwhelming as well as this year many of the principals reached out uh to my staff and they customized the new promise program during open house night for their families as well so this has really gotten a lot of traction right and I'm one more question I think I had one I'm not sure how many kindergarten enrollment do we do we see this year what do we anticipate how many new kindergarten you were the newest figure on that yeah I don't have the latest we'll probably write about a thousand okay so let's try to thank these three if you're wow great thank you and we may have to offer more you know it becomes an unwieldedly group size if you're up over 50.
oh 9 720 Square okay great great and I was given the least amount yeah I was like wow that's like a thousand square feet I'm like that's that's crazy great um and again I I'm not sure I for example I I would be prepared to say that all of the properties are Surplus I don't I think we've we've gone far enough to know that we don't need it for educational needs but again I'm not sure if anyone else disagrees with that but yeah that's all of the nuanced talks for me is just more so I think what you're gonna edit and gather and you know but but generally speaking even framed as is if we had to sign something today I I wouldn't disagree with this what you've drafted I think if we could you know I I'm not sure so all I'm saying is I'm not sure if we need another meeting um unless if unless if everyone else is saying that we do you know because in my mind I you know when I'm vocalizing something I just am curious on what these nuanced things are but at the same time you know again I'd love to hear from everyone but yeah it doesn't seem like anyone would say this is this is not Surplus and we have to hold on to you know for educational needs is there is there anyone that wants to speak to that or feels differently well I just wanted to say because um there was the consideration of uh having Sierra High School at one of like so but we could do Surplus and then reconsider that correct later yes yes so um that is educational need right there so yes the way that I think about it is that we like when we're saying that it's Surplus we're saying it's I guess in in theory Sierra could continue to operate where it is right and and it's not that we can't you know house the um existing capacity or the existing enrollment at that site we're saying we have these these these you know extra sites let's give them a bigger space with a better weight room and and more parking um so so to your question uh declaring the property Surplus would would not you know indicate that you don't think they should move Sierra High School it wouldn't indicate that we shouldn't use it for an educational or some educational related right like all these all these ideas that we're talking about they all kind of relate to education in some form right um and it also would not not restrict the board from saying you know two three years later or six months from now or or tomorrow actually we think we need to build a brand new school and we're going to build it on that site right so even once the board declares a property Surplus there's no um you know like moment of of no return where they cannot go back and use it for a core like educational use until it's sold of course and then you know hard to get it back um but yeah hopefully that that helps kind of no it does I just wanted to make sure you're not going to make sure yeah is there a reason why anyone would say no this is not Surplus you know like what's the benefit to that like no like Slawson must still be a school I mean I don't what suddenly they'll open saucin as a school again I mean I don't I'm not sure what that would be so I I don't know in this particular circumstance I I uh I guess when I think about what when that could happen and when someone might say that it was if a district was you know like right at that like Tipping Point of enrollment and capacity and they were trying to squeeze everyone into these you know lots of students in sight so they could they could have Surplus property here I just the facts are so different than that right we're looking just the fact that we're looking at six sites some of which haven't had anybody there for you know over three years um I I it doesn't seem to be the set of facts in which I could imagine anyone saying strongly like we clearly need this to house existing enrollments um but again if you know if it was if it was a different circumstance where someone felt strongly like we we need an extra school and you know this is why we we need to build a new or you know a sixth elementary school or a third high school or whatever it is that would be the circumstance I could guess in which someone would feel strongly about it but I just I don't sing that see that being the case here and if I'm not mistaken even with the configuration we'll have for the district next year we're still not at full capacity so there is a lot of room for growth and of course our existing schools can be renovated to add capacity right so I mean yeah like I I think we can I think we're all in agreement that it's clearly Surplus I'm not sure if that's helpful but yeah very helpful that I I will keep the report as is in that regard if I don't have to change it I won't unless anyone feels strongly that they want to you know they want to chime in that that needs to be changed but that makes it easier when I'm doing my my revisions for the next meeting um so do we still feel like we need another meeting in between to kind of help solidify some of the recommendations and the kind of like creative ideas and proposals that come in the in the like recommendations section I mean the the alternative is we can we can schedule the hearing for the next meeting we can still do some work on this report I would be doing like um you know like edits in real time to get it to the form that you wanted it so that it it could be you know seen by those that come for the hearing um I don't normally like to do that because I I like to have it in its final form you know on the agenda so that the folks from the community are seeing exactly what they're going to speak to um but you know again I'm I'm open to your feedback on what structure you prefer Sarah just for clarification right so we all understand so if we do not have the public meeting the next meeting then the next meeting basically would be dedicated only to say okay based on your feedback this is what this is the new draft and for for the committee to be able to speak into yeah that looks good and we're done in five minutes or well can we change this paragraph or whatever and then after that then we would have to have the public meeting after that I got another another date correct that's right right versus the committee feels tonight that you know what you took a lot of notes you heard we have the video of it so we need to go back and you'll have a more final draft uh we like to um we like to post our agendas early so even though we're not required right it's only 72 hours in advance but for all of our meetings our open meetings we like to post early to give not only the committee or the board of education but the community as well some additional time to look through stuff so so the committee and the community will be able to see that quote-unquote final report prior to the public hearing right so that's really what we're talking about so those two scenarios and what the committee feels that they should be doing yep yep that's exactly right we'd either have one in the interim to just just you know talk about the report and get it in final form or I would make all my changes that's going to be available to you and then we have the public hearing at the next meeting is there a reality in which again we so like sorry in my mind I think having another meeting when we come to basically approved minute you know is kind of what it seems and I don't personally need that but but maybe other people do I guess I will I'll act as the did anyone feel strongly that we should win now in the public hearing to further flush out content of the report that's really what the next one would be if it's not the public hearing meeting okay can I add a a piece of information that that might change this um I don't so right now we're talking about gen uh the 21st of June I don't think that we can have a meeting in between because we made a promise and we think that this is a good promise that we would mail out to all of the residents of Azusa the announcement of the public hearing we think that's the right thing to do obviously we can just do social media and that's it but we think it's the right thing to do so so to have a meeting between now and June 21st that meeting and then still have to worry about the mailer unless we said right now we're going to try to squeeze in a meeting and no matter what happens June 21st is going to be the the public hearing then we're okay but if we're gonna have a meeting and then still try to figure out because we need enough lead time to be able to to to have the mailer sent out to all the rest let me ask you in your experience yes uh is there anything that we have not flushed up what are we missing that's that's a really it's a hard question to answer because every every committee approaches it so differently right they some are they want to see the data they want to look at all of the information and make this really you know well informed and that you know for example I had the committee that said like I want listed in the report all the data that I looked at so that's very clear to the board exactly what you know kind of what our like what our scope overview was right some of them are are are more just these are our ideas here are the broad you know things that we we just want to be heard we just want to make sure that you include these ideas in the report and then you know we kind of want to let the board you know go from there so it's hard to say is there anything you haven't flushed out I I think I will say we've looked at more data in this um with this committee and more you know charts and and Maps than I've seen in many many other committee meetings so to that extent I think you you have been diligent in that regard um there's nothing that comes to mind right now that that I'm thinking like man there's this red flag of something that you have not looked at or that that you you know that you're missing um so I don't know that that's the answer that you wanted to hear but I think I'll also add that one of the things that we have been doing is we have been running kind of parallel with the board of education so as you have been meeting we have been reporting to the board right so that it's not like this here's this like what where's this coming from so to try to keep them in the loop right so that when we do get to a point where a report is being submitted to the board of education to have that con some context and some background to help that jump start now to okay now we got to roll up our season and and move forward with that is it possible to uh email us your revised draft and then we can just give inputs rather than a live meeting then you can publish a final revised on the public hearing day June 20.
in 2019 Inspire worked closely with cusd RGA and King Consulting to develop a new campus plan Inspire it applied for and received an 8 million dollar State facilities Grant one that had to be matched and one that determined the school side had to be developed on cusd property and had to be managed by cusd the planning process was conducted in close collaboration with the Inspire community in May of 2020 Inspire presented a draft plan for the new campus to all stakeholders at the time RGA had developed an estimate for the total cost of the project at 16.5 million Inspire matched the 8 million dollar Grant and would have been able to pay for the cost of the project on Seven Acres of the Canyon View Property which by the way was offered by the district and we are thankful for that but in September 2021 Sierra West Consulting Group was enlisted to develop a final cost estimate for the project the total came back at 27.2 million a 63 percent increase over the original estimate and Beyond the capacity of inspire to fund in both cases we believe we're getting close to a solution but then cost ballooned and because Inspire was not managing the development process Inspire learned at a late date that it was not fiscally possible Inspire is committed to finding an independent site and committed to working with cusd to help make that possible discussions need to start soon because the state's 8 million dollar Grant hangs in the balance and I really have confidence that these the people from both institutions will get together and come to a solution a win-win solution for our community so thank you for your time thank you up next is Sasha Anya and then Loretta Torres hello I see everybody um I guess the first thing I'd like to just say is that um I think we've been through a lot in this town after the whole coveted lockdown and mask mandates vaccine mandates uh anti-social distancing mandates I just feel like those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it and haven't really seen in this community the kind of Town Hall Round Table include a very inclusive moments where the community would come together and say what did we do that we shouldn't have done this was all a big we all know this is a big dress rehearsal experiment we none of us really know what happened why and we're looking back going well maybe that was a good idea but then now the data is coming out and saying well actually it wasn't that the the lockdown strategies and this is especially you know the case with school children and on academic campuses that they were really maybe the hardest hit both socially academically and psychologically for sure the amount of fear instilled in the children going forward the amount of trauma and that really wasn't alleviated by this what I see in the school district these kids were freaked out they were believing a lot of Hui a lot of stuff that was not substantiated in any way they were like well we don't really know what's going on so we're just going to do all these things that's not following the science that's following hysteria we don't ever want to be following hysteria and Madness again and I would say that it's time for roundtables at the district the school district talking to the parents not just a one-sided conversation with you know the administrators but the parents themselves get a big voice in this because this is can never ever happen again I mean we've had you know we see the data now we know the harms that happen to these kids and I really don't hear a lot of it's like well what's over let's just move on no moving on because we'll have another pandemic coming soon and we don't want to see this happen again so I'd say get your house in order as soon as possible and thank you for your time I appreciate it we have Loretta Torres followed by Aaron Whitney here I am again I am an 80 year old grandmother of two students in your schools I Am Not A Home of phobe I am not a transgender hater as a matter of fact it is a sin in My Religion to hate anyone but I am angry with your failure to see the dangers to your fourteen thousand students because of your continued privacy and transgender policies the parents in your school district are looking to you to protect their kids from would be predators in our schools now why do I say Predators because any adult in your school who convinces a child to keep a sexual secret from their parent has just opened the door to any future would-be adult Predators influencing them for example Stonewall alliance's presence on your campuses it's an organization of adults its presence has unduly influenced teachers staff and students throughout this country to keep secrets from their parents on this issue there are many socially awkward students who need to feel accepted if they find a group who accepts them such as Stonewall alliances support groups they will gravitate to that group studies are showing that diet early diagnosis of transgenderism masks many underlying mental or emotional illnesses that can go undetected until the child is an adult the real Specter of suicide appears to be when a transgender adult finds their problem has not been fixed and cannot be and never be reversed the presumption that parents can't provide a safe space for their kids during the confusing time of puberty is wrong and dangerous many teachers tell me that there are adequate safeguards for children who are unsafe in their homes I'm sure you're familiar with CPS and the reporting for example parents are not the enemy here although you have treated Us in this building just like the enemy during the past few weeks or months have you also I don't even want to bring up the the students the girls in the dressing rooms that are changing their clothes in front of a transgender student this may lead to the very bullying you are trying to prevent here because resentment comes from some of these particular scenarios be courageous please think about it change your secrecy and transgender policies I beg you up next is Aaron Whitney followed by Stacy Gertz and Kelly Huber I love Ward my name is Aaron Whitney I'm here tonight to talk about Inspire I'm the parent of a freshman Inspire I'm also on the Inspire board I'm a faculty member in the school of education at Chico State and I'm requesting that Chico Unified Administration and the board work together collaboratively with Inspire to find a new campus I intended to talk about my child's positive experience but I checked on the website there were 55 letters in addition to the public comment tonight from students parents and teachers about the value of inspire in our community and I think we agree that that there's a value to having the school in our community so I'm going to focus on next steps I just want to make sure that you're all aware that for this eight million dollars which is actually 16 million dollars with the match the architectural design process needs to be started by August 2023 and I just really want to make sure that everyone's aware of the urgency of this issue Inspire has been incredibly patient this year knowing that your priority the district priority was the facilities design plan for the district and so we kind of held back and have been waiting patiently for decisions to be made you know at the the level of some of the elementary schools and the needs of the campuses we also know that Chico High really needs the space and so we want to work together we really want to collaborate and brainstorm and think about ways we might be able to be creative for example could we possibly use and you might say oh no we can't do that but but we just want to generate ideas could we possibly use Bond dollars and the Inspire funds to build a K-12 campus on the Canyon View Property that would house both Hooker Oak and Inspire the two schools have a lot of similarities in their hands on open structure approach and as board president dalby pointed out in the May 3rd meeting these Hooker Oak students are eventually going to move into secondary school and they may be interested in an inspired type program um so in addition to providing a uni unique K-12 option to families this would free up poker Oak as interim housing while other facilities needs are addressed and alleviate the cost of renovating the Hooker Oak Property so just a thought um so why not host a town hall meeting with the inspired Community to brainstorm ideas maybe there are other charters in the area elementary Charters who would be interested in the conversation as well but we need to do it quickly and we know that we don't have a lot of time we know that July there's a proposition to have July off for the board which is great but we do need to start this process in August so we're coming to you with begging to hopefully come together and um and brainstorm some possible ideas thank you so much all right stay secrets and Kelly Huber followed by Becky Brown hello I'm Kelly Huber I'm with Fairway Independent Mortgage this is my friend Stacy Gertz she's with Keller Williams you guys have been talking about so many important things tonight we're just here to give you some really exciting news um how many of you guys were around when Calpers and calstrs was offering Educators benefits when you're buying a home right it went away like 10 years ago the owner of my company Chris Cobbs has worked really hard to let me not just read this it's worked really hard to implement back in Northern California that all California employees are eligible so that's police fire everyone in education and it's a credit of up to two thousand dollars based on loan amount so this can go towards your closing costs it can go towards buying your interest rate down and I just can't tell you how many clients are teachers and they ask isn't there a program where we get a benefit because we work in the schools or my husband's a fire works at fire department and I'm like to be there isn't anymore well we have it back now so anyway my friend Stacy here she's a real estate agent she's also a reading specialist and a substitute she's actually going to be here at Marigold tomorrow helping out um we left Flyers over there with all of our contact information we're much better in small groups one-on-one so just call us if you have any friends colleagues that can take advantage of this program it's really important thanks for your time thank you [Applause] all right up next we have Becky Brown and this will be the 10th speaker at this time good evening I'm Becky Brown principal superintendent of inspire School of Arts and Sciences and at the board meeting in April I was grateful to hear from the trustees that you recognize the value of inspire in our community and I have a deep appreciation for the extremely challenging facilities decisions in front of you I'm also grateful to the district especially Julie Kissel for the countless hours that she has put in thus far in the planning phases of our charter school facilities Grant project and I definitely express my gratitude for Kelly Staley at a time when great leaders are so needed there is no one else who could have brought this District safely through a recession catastrophic fire pandemic and the most profound political divisions in recent memory can I get amen from Charter leaders and it is in total gratitude that I'm here speaking on behalf of my school Community First I ask that the boards support the 80 percent of inspire students who reside in the district by ensuring that they're housed in school facilities adequate to their needs and reasonably equivalent to the other high schools in the district State of California obliges districts to provide school facilities for Charter students living within District boundaries and the calculation for this is a little bit different for high schools than it is elementary schools it includes classroom spaces and specialized classroom spaces like science labs and theaters and non-teaching spaces like libraries and sports stadiums reasonably equivalent to those enjoyed by non-charter students in the district we're not asking for all that but simply that the spaces we occupy now be upgraded to adequate secondly I ask that the boards support the development of a viable plan that would allow Inspire to leverage the 8 million dollars in charter school facilities Grant funds in cooperation with the district toward a facility adequate for our students the timeline for this plan is urgent as the grant requires a process of design and construction that would push the design phase to begin in August of 2023 I know the board understands that with so few resources for facilities neither the district nor Inspire can afford to risk losing this money from the state I thank you for your consideration and my Inspire folks and I look forward to further collaboration with the brilliant Julie Kissel and the facilities team and the board Representatives who serve on the facilities committee I know the power of collaborative problem solving and I have tremendous hope that by working together we can make this happen in a way that benefits all our students thank you thank you I have a question of clarification I have a question for the last speaker Ms Brown just clarification so are you of the understanding or the opinion that if you have not identified a School site by August of 2023 that would be this year that you will conceivably or probably or certainly lose the 8 million dollars that you have been granted I think um that's probably a question that could be explored further it would be my understanding that we would have to know where we're going to be in order to start that design process I think Julie might feel like there's a little more wiggle room and I she's the expert and I'm not but it is it's certainly urgent thank you um so we do have three more speakers signed up um in addition to the 10 for items on the floor I I mean if if the will of the board was to hear yes I would move that we extend the speaking time to allow the lottery speakers on second okay um so we have a motion and a second to suspend the rules and hear the additional speakers beyond our typical 30 minutes of public comment time that is um in our in our rules for each item and so we'll vote on that starting with Mr Lando Lando I Tennessee Dolby I konk and I okay with that um in this order we will hear rose rose you will have to tell me how to pronounce your last name uh Emily Carr and Juni also last name I am just getting worse and worse about being self-conscious about mispronouncing people's last names so there's that Rose kropelka Emily Carr and Juni Bonner G Stevens be bold Dolby thank you no I'm not Rose but I am Pat Macias and I'm president of the Inspire board so Rose couldn't make it so I'm going to be reading her letter for her while a consensus consistent supporter of the institution over the years I recently joined the Inspire School of Arts and Sciences Foundation board our commitment as a group is to help finally move forward with a suitable permanent facility as planned years ago per Proposition 39 Chico Unified does have a legal responsibility to provide its charter schools with like facilities to District campuses I dare say the 20 plus portable classrooms many years beyond their recommended useful life on a temporary location in a proposed District Master Plan Red Zone at an existing High School does not meet that requirement cusd staff along with the Inspire Administration and the institutions volunteers have been working very hard to identify Solutions while the district has agreed to move Inspire from the chico High location as part of a long-term master plan a decision on where it may be moved has been eluded has eluded that cus cusd board in anticipation of the promise of its own campus Inspire Administration did secure an 8 million dollar Grant to assist with the construction of a new campus facilities it has spent 750 thousand dollars of its portion of measure K funds for facility planning in addition the Inspire Foundation has been working with Community leaders and businesses to raise funds to be directed toward a better campus we acknowledge how difficult it is to to cut to govern an entity such as Chico Unified with almost unlimited needs and almost always limited funding as a group Inspire and its community of supporters has waited patiently for its needs to be properly addressed now we are asking that you recognize that over the last 12 years Inspire has proved to write the facilities similar to those of the district's high schools right now we are at Crossroads the 8 million dollar Grant secured by inspire has a Time requirement and much of the time has been expended while waiting for cusd to act the foundation has donors and supporters waiting in the wings to see what a project is actually going to move forward before providing additional support we desperately need a solution now the timeline for the grant is very strict focusing on partially building out the Canyon View project appears to many of us to be a winning proposal for most Inspire NC USD it would demonstrate the delivery of a third high school and identify a reasonable need for more funds in a future Bond measure that being said well we had a hope to be invited to work more collaboratively with cusd governs its an Administration we do have great respect for the abilities of the district's Administration and facilities and plan that works best for both of the entities for the Chic Chico community in general thank you thank you my name is Emily Carr and I'm a junior at Inspire School of Arts and Sciences I'm here to share my story at Inspire and ask you the cusd board to work together with my school and your District to make sure our charter school facility program Grant project moves forward even though my first year at Inspire was not normal I could tell it would be an amazing experience my freshman year was during the height of the pandemic so all our classes were on Zoom the school felt it would be optimal to have one class at a time for about a month each with this system our teachers and students got to focus on one class and build strong connections with each other it was so nice to develop these connections that carried on through the rest of my time at Inspire it really showed how much our teachers care about us with a student body of 400 students we really are a family and that's why it sets Inspire apart from other schools Inspire has also provided me with a way to help our environment than no other school in our area can through inspires environmental pressure inspires environmental Club precious Plastics project on our campus we collect plastic waste and turn it into new products like carabiners sunglasses and Jewelry this is just one of the many ways that Inspire offers unique experiences the cusd board is responsible for providing facilities for the 80 of us that reside in the district these facilities must be reasonably equivalent to the campuses housing other high school students in Chico we as a student body do not feel that these campus is equivalent to our friends campuses without your help we could lose the eight million dollars in grant funding that is desperately needed to provide a campus that is adequate for our school and programs we are so grateful for the District staff who have worked with Inspire to develop a plan for civil facilities so far we are grateful for the difficult work the cusd board has done to ensure all students in the district have facilities adequate for their learning needs I feel now is our turn to receive the campus we deserve and we urgently ask for your help and we look forward to partnering with you in the future thank you should leave this on good evening you did great my name is Juni Banerjee Stevens and I'm a psychologist and faculty at the School of Social Work at Chico State thank you for hearing all our comments tonight we really appreciate it so I'm a parent of inspire my daughter is graduating like in two weeks and I have this other advantage of I have twins one stayed in the school district where they started and one transferred to inspire Inspire so I always say that we have like the control and the experiment going on at our house and while comparison is the thief of Joy I do want to say that my student who went to inspire had they knocked it out of the park during the pandemic and I I couldn't say just I can't describe how powerful that was for me to watch one student one of my children Thrive and one of my children you know do quite struggle with the pandemic in that way in her online experience so um I just want to say that I'm a huge fan of Public Health researcher and Butte County Navy native Christina Bethel she and her colleagues found that positive childhood experiences like participating in community activities having non-parent adults who take genuine a genuine interest in them and feeling a sense of belonging in high school are the medicine that children need to protect them from the toxic stress of adversity of any kind whether that's natural disaster or Global pandemic or abuse or neglect in their homes and we have been many of us at the University have been talking about how schools like Inspire that really fortify that sense of belonging for so many of our students as Dr Liston talked about are what are going to turn our our whole County around and we you know we don't we don't want to win that award again for being having the highest adverse childhood experiences in California so despite all that covid-19 through it my daughter I'm happy to report that she excelled there academically she I'm in awe of the confidence that she has in her own ability to tackle any Challenge and I also know this is because she took full advantage of all that Inspire had to offer she spent countless hours working behind the scenes on inspires amazing music and theater Productions she went on a life-changing trip to Scotland for The Fringe Festival she that trip actually made her think more seriously about studying abroad which you know we were trying to convince her but I guess her school is better than we were this spring she and her inspired classmates as the last student mentioned took their precious Plastics program to the new next the next level by securing funding and truth be told I barely saw my student this year and I think it's because she loved Inspire so much I want to say that the magnitude of love I have for the school is equal to the magnitude of anger and sadness I have at their lack of resources if I knew if the faculty hadn't impressed me so much I may have sent my school daughter to school where they have permanent walls but it seemed like the fact he was going to fill in some of those gaps so I really do hope that all these stories tonight will help you make some decisions that you need to make in the next few weeks thank you okay um so we are moving on to the next item we're on consent calendar Madam president I'd like to um ask for a waiver of the rules that we might go down to item number 11 which is when board members request items for a future agenda I think it would be a courtesy to our visitors tonight to maybe consider put something on the agenda to maybe address the issues that they've raised that are so pertinent I have a second okay we have a motion and a second to um suspend the rules to move the agenda for board members agendizing an item and we have a second by member konkin and so that means it's open for a discussion friendly amendment can we uh just word it so that we also have a chance to organize items at the end in case anything else comes up so writing an additional moment definitely friendly by my Reckoning um I think that um the eight million dollars wait a minute there's a discussion for whether or not to to yeah so I just uh this is this is a this is a discussion for moving the the agenda item right I'm making a case in favor of of the rule waiver to move to that agenda item um the eight million dollars hanging in the balance provides a powerful motivation to uh put this item on the agenda before August I just um two lines of thought I disagree that we need to do this now and not just wait till at the end after we hear from charter school facilities updates um have another round of items from the floor if there's any more folks that want to speak during that time or on the charter school agendas update um I do acknowledge that we have a lot of folks here that want to hear how that's going to go and I don't want to make you wait all day so you can see kind of where I'm at in in kind of weighing this idea to split the agenda item and do part of it now and part of it later that's that's all I have to say for now any other discussion call a question that's another motion I move we call the question seconded okay um so to call I mean this is really silly um sorry I'm not this item is silly me working through the rules is in my brain is getting a little gummed up no um I'm just going to push the question I don't think that we need to have a whole vote to push the question I think we're ready I just wanted to make sure everybody was able to say what they wanted to say so we'll start with Mr Orlando Tennessee Dolby no Robinson no konk and I okay so now we are at um item 11 part a [Laughter] um to offer board members the opportunity to gendize an item would welcome any help from staff in framing this closed agenda item I think it would be prior to can I have a a ask a question of clarification with regard to the schedule and the eight million dollars Jacqueline Krueger Financial Guru for Chico Unified School District is it your understanding that we the community of Chico should have a plan should have identified a School site where this money could be spent or we will lose the money we being the community not specifically Chico Unified although I think somebody could argue that that the charter world was within the sphere of influence of Chico Unified and so therefore in a way this is kind of this is kind of our money too wrong test the eligibility rule is related to the 8 million for inspire are it has to be on a chica unified property so from that perspective that's how it's eligible to be spent so we could identify for example the Canyon View Property as the place where that money was going to be spent that's already been identified for inspire so in theory if we just gave the green light they could plan on and tell whatever regulatory government agency that that money is going to be spent on Canyon View in a certain time frame so I'm going to stop us here just because we're getting into discussion where really we need it's not an agendized item so the vote is whether or not to agendize the item or not okay well then I propose we talk about it in June I propose we agendized this item for June of 2023 so that we can learn all about it in particular the eight million dollars and then we can make a plan to identify a School site by August if it indeed proves to be necessary in order to save this you know all important grant money so if my understanding is that the motion is to talk about this topic in June I will second that don't have any problem supporting this because I'm sure that this is already the trajectory we're on so fairly certain this is how we already have the plan to meet very soon and the timeline that is already in place the conversations are already happening and have been happening for months um it's it's taken board action to drive the conversation in in more specific Direction and now we have our we already have a um a next meeting set with the district and Inspire leadership to determine what that next set of ideas to explore are so I'm seeing that it's a non-issue because I'm sure that it would be coming up in June anyway I'm in support of agendizing this item any other discussion there the part that says push um I I think there is considerable movement to move discussions and fill in all of the blanks as quickly as possible without any additional action from this board I don't see that there isn't that push already going on and being part of one of the Committees I I know we have meetings scheduled and I don't think we're going to be ready to bring anything public before well not public everything's public because we can talk about anything that's been talked about but to bring it back for an official presentation by June well it would be our June meeting so it would be the third week of June mm-hmm or end of June we've got both of our lcap things and the two the two June meetings yes I've been very clearly understanding that any other comments about agendizing this item okay we'll start with Mr tennis eye Dolby I Robinson no good night Amanda why okay so now can we uh do we have any additional board members who would like to agenda as an item while we're here all right uh moving on uh we're going to move to item eight consent calendar foreign consent calendar is a list of items that are regular things to approve and so we can ask if there's any public comment on the consent calendar I did not see any speaker cards submitted um is there anybody who would like to pull a consent item for further discussion no okay I'm doing a motion I move approval of the consent calendar second all right we have a motion from Member Robinson and a second from member tennis um the last vote was not unanimous so we will start with a voice of roll call but sorry um with member Robinson Robinson I konk and I Orlando uh Tennessee Dolby I all right moving on to our discussion action calendar item number one 0.1 in Educational Services this is informational the annual Chico Unified School District Athletics update by Mr John Shepard all right too tall to see that thing okay we are excited and I stay weeks I've got some folks here they're going to join me in just a second they've been really patient so thank you for hanging in there with us we're going to have a conversation tonight about our annual board update regarding Athletics and before we get too far into it I just want to highlight a couple of folks here I work with Janessa smede in the HR office at Chico Unified and she saves us every day ensuring that we are holding our holding our accountability levels as high as they need to be we've if we go back we're going to in just a second historically back to the early 2000s when things were a little bit loose with athletic accountability we found ourselves struggling a little bit to be sure that we're in compliance and people like Janessa and Randy have done a great job in supporting us as you can see on the slide each School site Chico high in PB also have a really strong supportive team so I wanted to highlight some of those some of those folks and just thank them for all their work I want to give the board a little bit of perspective and it's going to matter when we get further into the into the presentation so as we all know we had the recession that hit in 2008 and at the time there's a conversation about what to do with Athletics some of you may remember that conversation a while back so in 2011 after multiple board meetings the district was able to agree to continue to pay coaching salaries and everything else would be paid through a combination of donations and general fundraising and booster support so again I'm just trying to frame this conversation as we're moving forward it's going to matter in a bit however in 2016 as resources improved a shift was um was made again in large part to Randy gilzine and a couple other folks and perspective to in addition to coaching salaries the district was able to say we'll pay for League anything you do in League any success you have in the playoffs will pay for that but if you want to do more than that like non-league contests and those kinds of things because we have teams going everywhere all over the nation it's a very difficult commitment to make and so a standard practice across California is for districts to pay for league and playoffs and then anything that's non-league would be fundraised by the teams so that's where we are now I just wanted to highlight where we've come so that's really exciting for our for our athletes and our coaches so exciting that we wanted to highlight some of our successes this year and I'm not going to read this whole slide to you but if you look at the Bold in the middle when we're talking about everything else this kind of puts it all in perspective 18 of 22 League championships 14 of 20 section championships and we have two teams that are currently competing for another two section championships so I would argue that we are our coaches and our Administration staff are achieving it extremely high levels and and just a couple of highlights here one from each school as most of us know our our Chico High boys basketball team with the furthest they've ever gone in in basketball this year they made it to the state semifinals pretty exciting and then we had a a Seventh Place finisher at the state wrestling tournament and she finished first in her League or our league and first in the section so Angelique Trueblood and then excitedly we're able to announce that Pam Jackson athletic director of Pleasant Valley High School was recognized as a California Northern section athletic director of the year it's pretty cool stuff the board every year is interested in participation numbers and again you know there's there's a lot of numbers up here but most importantly if you look at the the percentages there over half of our athletes excuse me half of our our students at our two high schools are participating in athletics and tangentially I want you to think about for every one of those kids there's at least one other kid that is friends with that is maybe dating one of those athletes at least one so it's it's a larger total than just what you're seeing on the slide I want to report out that for it's a it's amazing to see the smiles on the faces of our middle school students who are now participating in a district funded cross-country and soccer program a couple of the the highlights here and Tyler if you wouldn't mind jumping on that spreadsheet oh really small let me look at this one so as you can see our participation numbers are are really exciting I really want to point out the the number of girls participating in soccer so if all these kids at the middle school level in our opinion being prepared for what it's going to take to play at the high school level we're all constantly having conversations about you know additional Sports and what that could look like but going back to that historical perspective it is expensive and we have to make decisions about what to do with Middle School athletics all right Tyler if you want to jump back in at the bottom of the slide he's not here tonight um I should have considered this but Corey Jones who's currently the the groundskeeper at Bidwell with very little training in what a soccer pitch should look like you've got quite a bit of influence from our soccer coaches of course but he was more than willing to jump in and really beautify the the soccer pitches on our three middle schools I just wanted to shout out to him I doubt he's watching tonight but hopefully someone will reach out to him tomorrow I wanted to highlight tonight that our budget for athletics is embedded in the lcap this is a screenshot of the brochure that's been created so there's a highlight there and Tyler if you wouldn't mind clicking on the coach's stipends Janessa created a a spreadsheet and I asked her to differentiate between girls Sports and boys sports and then co-ed Sports so as you can see here we have over half a million dollars allocated through lcap to the coaching salaries all right let's jump back in Tyler there are some other operational costs when we're looking at the total of all those and that's the um that's where we get to the number that is allocated through our lcap and you're going to hear more about that in a couple of more board meetings specifically and we talked about how you know we have this allocation of funds from the district but we also have an allocation of funds through our Sports booster contributions so we thought it was important to highlight the two schools there's a little bit of discrepancy between the two because they manage their team sports booster accounts a little bit differently as you can see here at Chico High the sports booster contributions 119 000 this past year they've been able to raise which is pretty exciting and at PV they're looking they they raised over 57 000 but they allocated their their money to these to these items it is important to note that for example when we do the car raffle when monies come in most of those monies go back out to team booster account um account funds so the general booster account stays with with with them and then they spread it out amongst the teams thank you great question so huddle it's not an acronym huddle is a it's a program essentially for coaches and athletes to review their video and they have Team sessions where they sit maybe before practice or or after a game and what's really cool is most of the the schools in the in the state are members and so if we're gonna let's say Chico high is going to play Granite Bay in football next weekend they can jump on huddle and pull up four of granite Bay's football games and Scout yeah pretty exciting all right I'm excited to have some students join me come on up so I was walking up some of us have heard about athlete committed and life of an athlete and a lot of people think it's just about controlled substance use and what we wanted to do tonight and Tyler if you wouldn't mind clicking on the link there I've got some some students and representative from Butte County Public Health they're going to talk a little bit about the the real purpose of that athlete committed so I'm going to ask each of them to introduce themselves and they're going to describe their impacts good evening my name is Daniel I play a football wrestling in golf for the Pleasant Valley High School I am a youth coordinator for the athlete committed program The Athlete committed program has not only helped me improve as an athlete but also as a teammate student and overall as a person the athlete committed program encourages me to be the best version of myself on and off the field I've seen the athlete committed program impact my team in so many different ways such as how we conduct ourselves on and off the field this program has also helped me and myself and my teammates be more mindful about what we choose to consume in our daily diets athlete committed has also helped me with my decision making I stay away from drugs and alcohol because I understand the harm it can do to my body and training goals the athlete committed program has helped our school produce motivated and dedicated athletes who move on to play on the next level the athlete committed program has been a huge part of why our schools programs are so successful some highlights from the past year with the athlete committed program have been watching myself as well as my others around me try to better themselves and put forth their best efforts towards achieving the personal and team goals a personal highlight for me is the athlete committed monthly events at these events it's nice to see new faces and watch them socialize and compete throughout the event as a youth coordinator I have the opportunity to gain knowledge about these topics that are beneficial for student athletes I am passionate about learning and retaining the information from the modules I often find myself sharing information and concepts with my peers as a youth coordinator I have the opportunity to work on my facilitation and presentation skills thanks to the athlete committed this program has also helped me Network outside my social norms and create new friendships these skills will help me personally and professionally as I pursue my goals I am grateful for the opportunities this program has provided for me and I'm happy to be able to share my experience with you thank you [Applause] good evening my name is Peyton Durkin and I'm also a youth coordinator for athlete committed I play football and run track for Chico High School athlete committed it's impacted me personally in various ways as a youth coordinator I have organized fun events for my peers such as dodgeball and three on three basketball I enjoy promoting planning and hosting these events with the athlete committed team I have a new appreciation for event planners after seeing all the work that goes into these events athlete committed has helped raise my awareness when it comes to the effects of drinking and substance abuse I have learned Concepts from the athlete committed modules that help reinforce my decision to avoid drugs and alcohol at all costs alcohol could affect my ability to form at my highest capability on the field and in the classroom I share this information with my peers in weekly meetings at Chico High encouraging them to make good decisions when confronted with the opportunity to partake in Risky behaviors our coaches at Chico High have great expectations for all their athletes expect us to rise above the breast and be good role models for the other students athlete kubernetes also help my teammates make better decisions when it comes to their training and Recovery we focus on staying hydrated well rested and getting adequate sleep this helps us maintain our focus on the field and in the classroom my peers on campus lean into the athlete committed modules of character nutrition and Stress Management in order to compete at the highest level these Concepts have helped increase our knowledge and helped our athletic programs Elevate to new heights a personal highlight for me within the athlete committed program is that it has taught me to be more responsible and to stay dedicated to my craft and is giving me more valuable work experience that will transfer into my personal and professional life thank you all right Tyler if you could jump back on the presentation when I listened to students talk about athlete commitment I sometimes they're so humble and what people may not realize is they take a risk to take a risk of joining this this um this group of students trying to improve their lives at the risk of losing social connections with kids who think that they're just these straight and narrow and your your um you're you're on this pedestal and they take a risk by being a part of this program and I just want to thank them for that we also have Jenny Serrano from the Butte County Public Health as a representative here we just want to thank her for for the support as well thank you so looking towards the future we know that there are conversations happening in the district about how we can support athletic trainers at each high school and we're also having conversations about growing that Middle School athletic program just to keep in mind as we're having these conversations going back to that second slide about perspective and what we're going to be able to fund so just trying to tie all of this together we know how important athletic trainers can be we know how important Middle School athletics can be however we need to keep the whole District in mind as we're allocating funds because there's just a finite amount of money and we got one more soccer group didn't want to leave anybody out can I answer any questions all right thank you very much [Applause] thanks for presenting all right um thanks again Mr Shepard I I always have questions swimming but um yeah maybe just for a one-on-one kind of update on I keep asking about Junior High Athletics so we'll we'll keep working towards that um okay moving on to our next item which is 9.1.2 it's an informational item also for annual spring Charter School visits uh being presented by Tina King good evening board and guests for the last four years part of my job has been to work with our Charter Schools as those that we authorize here there are nine of them in our district currently and through that time I've gotten to know the charter leaders well and they've shared their programs with me and through through some really rough times actually these last four years so every may we do invite them to come to the board meeting here to answer any questions to introduce them to you if you haven't met them yet we typically send them out a a packet of questions updates in February and they respond to those over a month or so send them back in to us we talk about them my visit correlates with that timing and I spend some time on the site with them so you've all seen the charter reports for all nine of them they are listed in your in your board packet and at this time if I know all of you have maybe not have met all of them and they may not have met all of you so I would like to invite the charter leaders to come on up and introduce themselves to you right now hello I'm Michelle yesvik I'm the director of Sherwood Montessori hi my name is Steve Wright I'm the principal of a chief Charter School hello Becky Brown principal of inspire Susan dominicani director of blue Oak Charter School director of Forest Ranch Charter School jaina Gaskell executive director of the Pivot Charter Schools Travis Bennett I'm the site administrator of Pivot Charter School North Valley Kathy Dahlgren principal superintendent of Nord Country School and Allison Ward education director Nord Country School hi everybody I'm Wendy pharone I'm the executive director at Chico Country Day thank you all for being here tonight at this time if you have any questions after reading the reports anything that you're curious about they are ready to answer anything that you may have they've learned a lot from us over the times that I've met with them and over the years and we have done as well so they are a wealth of information and knowledge and like I said I always enjoy visiting their programs here in Chico and Nord and Forest Ranch I I'm gonna Jump Right In First and first that coordinates these reviews and I know that [Music] it it gives a board member a an opportunity to really see you know with an overview of of what's going on and the the different characteristics of our different Charters which is the whole purpose of charter schools um I I was impressed and I'm not going to single schools out but I was very impressed with the depth to which our Charters have taken on um expanding their own identities you you each have a different focus and a different philosophy behind how you um go about making your decisions about the the best educational delivery system which is you know what a charter is and I was very impressed with the things that you've come up with these self-reflections that I saw in this year's reports that um reflected some of the things we talked about last year at this time and um so I appreciate how dynamic dynamic our um our Charter world is within Chico Unified um I do have a question probably of you Tina we have a lot of discussion about over the years about prop 39 um and I've seen it implemented at most of your sites actually what exactly do you look at with timelines and and restrictions and and things that you have to go into with a a prop 39 request if a charter has made a decision to do one sure we uh we have experienced that with a couple of our Charters and the the prop 39 facilities request is is really organized by Statute and when a charter is requesting facilities from Chico Unified they do have to go through this process it starts pardon November 1st when the charter schools provide a written request to us and then every month we go back and forth with different things as far as how many students does the charter have enrolled at our Chico Unified students so that determines the allocation of spacing but in my experience all of the charters that have requested facilities from us do follow the prop 39 process um we don't have results yet tests that everybody is either currently going through or or just finish when will we see scores test results and things from our Charters as well as our own schools well they'll they'll get theirs just as we get ours and we're all probably anxiously awaiting I know Tim I'm not going to out him a little bit but he is looking every day to see if something comes through on his email but as of yet there is nothing so it is usually late spring when that happens and the charters will then have in their report for us next year what they scored on and what they've done with that data they always look at that like we do we talk a lot about it we did this time I know some of the charters in particular are looking at some things coming in hopefully scoring higher than some of the years past with the pandemic we've had very open conversations with that so there as anxious as as we are there was one other thing that I noticed um because it's it's an issue for Chico Unified as well and that's um our chronic absenteeism and um I think there were two that stood out as not having the significant percentage that others did I I think um Chico country day was one that was closer to Nord 10.
thank you to our district leadership team in the Academy District 20 board of education for your leadership and support let's give them a round of applause please [Applause] at this time I'd like to introduce the members of The Academy District 20 Board of Education the members of The Academy District 20 leadership cabinet our Discovery Canyon feeder area principals and our student speakers dignitaries please stand to be recognized when I call your name from the Board of Education Mr Tom Lavallee president Mr will tenby vice president Ms Heather Cloninger treasurer [Applause] Ms Nicole Khan's director Mr Aaron salt director from The Academy School District 20 leadership cabinet superintendent of schools Mr J Thomas Gregory Dr Susan field assistant superintendent for learning services and Dr Jim Smith assistant superintendent for planning and engagement from the discovery Canyon Campus High School feeder area Ms Victory Molina principal at the da Vinci Academy [Applause] Ms Laura cressa principal at Antelope Trails Elementary School undoubtedly the favorite principle on the campus Mr Steve Scott principal Discovery Canyon Elementary [Applause] there's only two others that disagree with that the second most popular principle on the campus Mr Mario Romero principal at Discovery Canyon Middle School also joining us tonight are the members of the discovery Canyon Middle School administrative team Tanya Evans Coy shatzner and Kami demise if you please stand and be recognized [Applause] and our speakers for this evening Max Kobayashi senior [Applause] Jack McDowell senior and Seraphina ragushi senior [Applause] and Josh Lohr senior [Applause] I'd also like to recognize the high school administrative team helping with this ceremony today assistant principals Mr David King Brian Herman Ms Parnell and Miss Christy Smith dean of students let's give them a round of applause [Applause] and I would like to make one one two other special shout outs um I would really like to uh thank our security team at Discovery Canyon that includes officer Lee from the Colorado Springs Police Department [Applause] Mr Brian King and Hannah Ms Hannah Hyatt from the security team and our lead security officer had a liberty graduate this evening in his own family so let's give it up though for our lead security officer Jace [Applause] and lastly I would like to introduce next year's Discovery Canyon Campus High School principal will be taking over for me congratulations to him Mr Matt Mitchell is here tonight [Applause] it's a long-standing tradition at Discovery Canyon Campus High School to recognize the top 10 students in the graduating class these 10 students have earned the top 10 cumulative grade point averages while at Discovery Canyon Campus High School when I call your name please stand and remain standing to be recognized for your outstanding academic performance in alphabetical order Matthew Allen [Applause] Matthew will be attending South Dakota School of minds and Technology Danica Bishop Danica will be attending the United States Air Force Academy [Applause] somia will be attending CU Boulder deshna Kishore Georgia Tech University Roy [Applause] will be attending CU Boulder Avery schweibish Colorado State University Avery I've been practicing that too much William Sellmeyer Brown University kessland Sherman you can go ahead and grab that kessland they had permission it's okay Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts Taylor Wagner Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Zeke Werner [Applause] University of Wyoming one last round of applause for our top ten congratulations [Applause] you may be seated one of the greatest things about Discovery Canyon campus is the pre-k through 12 program that we offer and the opportunity for for families to have their children complete their entire School experience at Discovery Canyon this is the fifth year we have graduates who have been at DCC from kindergarten through 12th grade if you are a student who attended Discovery Canyon campus from kindergarten through 12th grade please stand and be recognized [Music] [Applause] our ceremony continues with the addresses from the past and current class presidents of the class of 2023.
[Applause] it is my very great honor to be standing here tonight with this opportunity to speak with you in the shadow of the tortolita mountains and despite that natural wonder all around us I actually find myself more awestruck just gazing out on all of you from up here everything looks bright and beautiful and why shouldn't it just as the Sun is setting here tonight the sun will also rise tomorrow to illuminate the next chapter of your lives the next chapter of your stories it seems appropriate therefore to talk for just a little bit about the stories of your lives as the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca wrote centuries ago as is a story so is life it's not how long it is but how good it is that matters for several years of your young lives the Broadway musical Hamilton has captured so much public attention not to mention insanely High ticket prices certainly like no show before it became a phenomenon the play of course is about Alexander Hamilton one of our nation's founding fathers and Hamilton's story as yours is is an American story he was a destitute teenage orphan when he immigrated from the British West Indies to the shores of what were then the British colonies of America he went to college he studied along the way he served as George Washington's most trusted advisor and aide wrote many of Washington's speeches in fact and wrote the bulk of The Federalist Papers supporting ratification of our Constitution and the Very formation of this country and he created our entire Financial system as the first treasury secretary for that brand new nation now in particular reference to Hamilton but applicable to us all the play asks the central question who tells your story and it answers that we all should that we're all responsible for telling our story it reminds us that we therefore have an obligation to do something with our lives in doing so the play also challenges us to make our own stories Our Lives something incredible something meaningful and something of lasting value to ourselves to our families and to this world the very posterity referred to in the Preamble to the Constitution in the years to come you will write the amazing stories of your lives by how you live them along the way you will have many choices to make and they will be your choices so I beg you don't let your choices or stories be driven by the number of page views likes hashtags or retweets you receive instead be guided by the advice of loved ones your trusted friends and most of all your inner compass for those of the things that truly matter in fashioning a story and life that you can be proud to call your own along the way keep your minds and hearts open always be willing to learn always remember to love knowledge and love after all amass absolutely no weight and will always be the true Treasures in life that you can carry with you anywhere be prepared for detours and your stories life won't always go exactly as you planned sometimes the plot will thicken when it does persevere if you still have something to give don't give up no part of your story ever ends until you decide to stop trying and remember that the most important part of your story will always be in the present tense don't let your story slip through your fingers by focusing only on your past or your future and graduates while we focus tonight on your futures and your stories to be told please remember that you were already the part of stories of so many others take a look for example at your loved ones in the stands tonight as you sit here their dreams are coming true not all that long ago the people who are in the stands up there looking down on you on the field tonight once looked down on you as you were crawling along the floor or as you sat in your in their laps with your very first books and they dreamed of this very moment and ever since then they live their lives they told their own stories with you a part of them to ensure this moment would happen in yours look also to the teachers and other school staff who sit among and before you you and every student they have ever known are part of their stories look at the friends and classmates that surround you and remember that you will always share a common narrative in your stories that you were once Nighthawks together tonight marks the moment your stories begin to diverge from all those others and as joyful as that is for those who care about you know also that it is Bittersweet for them like putting down a novel you hope would never end so when Mom and Dad Grandma and Grandpa and all your other family and friends gather with you on this field in just a little while be patient and let them dwell upon this page of your story as long as they might like let them for example take each and every picture they want to take let them hug you until they can finally bear to let you go give them this moment in your story to realize that one of their dreams did just come true and let them gush with pride as they Imagine The Story to come I feel so honored just to be a witness to the beginning of your next chapters as you turn the page I like everybody else here can't wait to see how your story turns out congratulations Nighthawks [Applause] family and friends it is no secret to you that it is raining and so what we are going to do at this time is we're going to alter our program and we are going to present our graduates at this time [Applause] and then should weather permit we will have our speakers but at this time we're going to present our graduates thank you [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] superintendent Jager thank you for joining me at the podium for the presentation of the Ironwood Ridge High School class of 2023.
so you know based on demand we may offer more yeah do you record it so that they if you want or something that own is that something that we offer or is it only currently live and you know that might be so we went back and forth about a year ago when we switched to zoom um on this and what the feeling was that the parents is that having it recorded inhibited them from asking some questions because we do go down roads of you know my child isn't potty trained or um my child speaks no English how is my child going to be supported in the classroom and so um you know to to move away from families not feeling comfortable to ask their questions uh We've chosen not to record it it makes a lot of sense yeah great Michelle I stepped away for a minute and I think I heard the question around how many kindergartners are we expect to anticipated uh it the number typically is about 900 and 950.
so that is difficult because of the brown act right because what we what we would additionally what we would essentially be facilitating is is a meeting outside of a meeting right so um I could for example you know that we talked you know two or three meetings ago about this idea of like a subcommittee right where I could you know communicate like individually with some some subset of members but um it's it's I guess let me say this what I can't do is kind of is the structure that you're asking right which is send a revised version out to each of you and then receive your comments put them into this final report and then have that published right because that's me essentially facilitating a meeting you know like digitally um what we can do is you know we can make these these these changes I can send it to you before it gets posted um and then if there are final tweaks or or things that we want to talk about you know before the hearing we can make those I can make them in real time on a screen in front of the public so that they're seeing that happen um that you know it does does kind of complicate the process but it's it's not to say that you know it's set in stone once that happens yeah I just want to say that I think we're trying to avoid a meeting I'm just going to put that out there and while I understand that and that we're in this room that we have to be reminded of the community who also is listening live and deserves one if they need one more meeting they need one more meeting too um because it's not an urgent matter it's not life-threatening matter we can take one more meeting I think before the public hearing to be fair to write that up so you're not doing it live and so that when I sign it there's not edit not that I was signed but like the things like that um just distress the urgency that I know um and also that we signed up and committed to this committee and so I'm okay with one more meeting have that but um you did say right now my question was um so because we have to approve minutes and then we have to do all of that stuff is if you were to email it with no um so that we could read it before or will it be in the agenda just a week and read it before not sitting here reading it you know um uh if that and then we can be prepared to have a quick next meeting um approve the minutes at the agenda all of that stuff read it over and be completed with it and then that way because the residents do deserve to have time to to prepare for a public hearing I just wanted to say that before we go on to approving the next meeting and I can certainly send a copy to what it would be is I would send the I would take this version I would make the edits that we talked about I would send it to you individually and you would just have to you would create your own comments write your own thoughts you would not discuss it between each other between you know then in the meeting but then you could be ready to you know kind of hit the ground running when we get to the next when we all you know uh like reconvene and then question as far as just the timing I mean can we have the meeting next Wednesday does it have to be you know I mean I know there's an urgency to send out the the mailer so I'm just curious like does it have to be x amount of Wednesdays from now or can it be once something sooner so there's no particular uh like requirement as far as 7-Eleven but there is lots of lead time to like get the agenda prepared and then get it posted the proper number of days in advance of the meeting in compliance with the brownout yeah that is correct and then for for the mailer purposes it's really I think the where the committee is at right now is either we're going to keep June 21 as our next meeting where we're going to talk about the final draft and that's fine and then we and then we have the public hearing or we're gonna commit today that June 21 will be the public hearing and now we're trying to find a meeting in between I just want to see there's too much going on at the end of the school year for that as a parent and there's Awards assemblies I'm sure you have a lot of things you need to be at um and so do the teachers so just keeping that in mind I would like to say that I am okay with one more meeting we'll have the public hearing that gives everybody substantial time since we already dedicated specific dates um for these meetings and if we can move forward if everybody's okay with that so um can I um can I get a motion for the next scheduled meeting to be on June 21st I make that motion that was Emotion by Steve Castro and seconded by Ed Alva any discussion I have one question and digress uh under number four in recommendations to draft the table an amount of surplus problem what is what does that refer to all right I want to make sure that I'm looking at the section you're looking at so section four on the final page now under committee's findings one two three four and then a table okay based upon the committee's review of this information after studying the real property owned by the district that issue the committee came to the following recommendations The Heading amount oh amount of surplus property okay thank you um so yeah I think we can change the way that that's labeled um because I agree looking at it now it's maybe not very clear maybe we could say the uh the like classification of surplus property Surplus property I guess the goal of the table is that this is where we kind of designate you know site by site Surplus not Surplus Surplus not Surplus um so for heading we could just say inclusion yeah yeah um include inclusion binding or like classification um I'm open to I'm open to whatever word you guys like description well not oh it's not a or recommendation finding illusion I'll put one in there and then if we don't like it we'll change it at the next meeting thank you okay we were in the middle of a motion there um any discussion regarding the the next meeting all in favor bye bye any opposed nay I can't be there but go ahead emotion carries thank you and we will adjourn this meeting at 6 54.
and I I wanted a little bit more information from them on they talked about a team approach to getting and I was interested I believe we're talking about Nord and we all have had common experiences with our chronic absenteeism this last year and that was one thing that we all did talk about during the visits but if anybody would like to come up and see how they're tackling that I welcome you to do that and share those ideas with us as well I think you're talking about Nord as one of them with the the absenteeism you want to address that Kathy I think that was a something that we tackled our teachers worked really really hard at the independent study aspect of that so that we could keep our students on track we have kind of a whole team we support the teachers because that is a lot of work to do but then reaching out to families and making sure that they're you know that we offer independent study and that they're taking us up on that offer so I think that was a big factor in how we kept our numbers down in that area Chico yeah Chico Country Day you you had mentioned uh some teams that you've been working on it yeah sorry I'll just lean down um we have an attendance team as well it's led by one of our administrators Claudia trout um as well as our office managers too and we you know a couple of different things that we did really a tiered approach and then um one thing that they did I think has really helped is take a look at our attendance letters so at a certain threshold families get an attendance letter and the way that that was written maybe could be a little bit off-putting or maybe alienate the family a bit more and so we did a lot of work around how do we engage with families and have you know Student Success team meetings around attendance we're looking at you know there's there's a lot of research around like a variety of text messages and like how first level is kind of like informational and how much education kids miss by being absent and then it kind of becomes a little bit more personalized from there they do a great job running reports every month and then just really targeting families and finding out you know do they need bus passes do they need gas cards how do we help get them to school and support the families kind of on a human level because that's what's going on supporting families um with the information about the impact of even one day a month and when you put that if even just missing one day a month during your school career you've lost one full one full year of education and I don't it's not something that most people you know kind of think about and I I just really encourage not only you guys but I know you're working on but us too that um we need to get that information to parents because it's um it's crucial if you think about you know every time a lesson is missed it has to be made up and it'll either be made up away from the teacher or you know it's just so important to be there every single day so anything any of you guys can do that comes up with really good ideas that work pass it on to Tina thank you sure you know and speaking about that it has crossed my mind because we struggle with the same things and like I said we've talked about it a lot but I often wonder our younger families with younger kids who have come through the pandemic with us who didn't experience school and attendance and things prior to the pandemic and sicknesses or runny noses or or things like that I often wonder if if we can continue to educate folks through that that the days of sending home a student with sister already knows are behind us uh much different than it was during the pandemic so it is something we all do work on I can assure you of that any other questions for any of of my colleagues out here no question I just want to say thank you again I know how hard you guys work and how it can sometimes seem you know us versus them and each and every one you work so hard to serve kids who need something different and coming here and standing down there for a day and wasting anything like that um it's a lot to ask and we really appreciate they're here and appreciate all the hard work you do thank you I'm gonna piggyback off of that because I've been doing on the same kind of comment thank you all for taking the time to be here and put your faces back to the names and schools that you represent and a public commenter said it really well earlier I probably took note who it was but for sake of time and brevity um we all serve Chico School the students they're all our they're all our students they're all our kids and many of them go in and out of cusd schools and our charter schools and um as a now previous teacher I feel as an educator we'll say I'm a lifelong educator I feel very strongly that we're all here to do what's best for our kids by serving them and serving our community in that way so thank you for all the work you do and and your uniqueness at that each of your programs provide I know that I know that as a whole we're doing a really good job for this community and I'm proud to be part of that with you so thank you alrighty thank you all [Applause] um as that I was informational we will move on to item 9.2 business services this is a discussion action item sorry 9.2.1 2023 summer projects update and John Carver good evening Borden how are you this is the easy part of your evening so you just nod when I say sign the bottom line every year we have to bring to you our summer project list that is covered under the three percent monies that we have to retain for our restricted routine maintenance account and during the summer is when we try to get the bulk of this work done hopefully the whole month of July is wide open for us because we have summer school in June and early back in August so we'll be really busy in July so we just wanted to highlight most of the items that we're going to be working on the basketball courts at Hooker Oak School and when we say slurry seal it also gets a new basketball paint lines and everything else new in all table Replacements at Fairview and little Chico Creek I'm going to redo some of the Leaky roofs at Emma Wilson School and some also roof leak repairs in-house and on that sheet that is attached in-house means our own maintenance folks are doing that and roof leaks at the gym at Marsh the I.T Wing at Marsh Roofing I had a part view we'll do that one in-house drinking fountain installations we're we've been moving forward on those drinking fountains a few miles course with that done so far a couple of them yeah so we're using our in-house folks getting them drinking fountains installed and they'll all be done before school starts in August um Corridor doors replacement at Rosedale the I don't know if you've been to Rosedale but in the courtyard there's some original doors from when the school was built that is wood framed and it's very over time you know we get old and it starts breaking down so we're going to have new doors replaced for better security also we're doing new blinds window coverings at Sierra View School in the um MPR in classrooms ramps and fascia repair at Rosedale like I said age dry rot you know a lot of the exposed wood from the rains and elements need to be replaced rain gutters we found we started doing rain gutters at our sites a couple of years ago and it's really helping with roof leaks and dry rot so we're going to continue down that path to eventually get all of our schools and all of our buildings that have actual rain gutters we have a pigeon to term deterrent and the new e-wing at pvi we did that last year at PV in the stadium and in the new Valhalla area whenever you build anything new the pigeons in Chico just like to come take it over but we did this and it's a weird design it and it's not electricity it's not you know a water cannon or anything and it's a little puck with like a lot of glitter in it as the bird comes in it sees that glitter and flies off and Never Lands and it's been working great at the stadium and we did some netting underneath the overhang the outdoor seating area by in Valhalla we're redoing the locker room floors in the chico High boys locker room only the girls locker room the flooring um has been redone so many times in the past with so many different materials that the company says it's going to be a lot longer and we're going to have to wait until we can have some time to go on there and scatify the floor with a big machine to break up the concrete and pour new um let's see where we're ready we're going to do some in-house cleanup work in our training room at the courtyard Fairview has a what are they using that room for you oh it's a PE room it used to be the old library at Fairview then they turned it into a computer lab years ago and then we took out the computer lab and now it's a PE room bed after all those move-ins and move out and change um curriculum inside that room it's pretty wasted it needs help so we're going to get an air clean that up for him Marsh they um the old culinary lab I don't know your son went to that didn't he did he loved that program he used to have to come home and cook for Mom and Dad to get a grade hmm so we're going to get in there and repair all the counters and repaint the lab [Music] landscape improvements in-house that it's a continuous thing that we do during the year but we do a lot of try to get most of it done in July at various School sites every year we have to replace our playground bark and our playgrounds because it migrates out from all the kids jumping on it just crushes it so we have to keep it filled up so that we can maintain a safe environment for the kids when they're playing and the rest the last four is all in-house a new Walking path from the PV pool at Bidwell Junior to The Back Fence where we have a gate for for a pass-through lawn renovation around the library at Chico High excuse me I don't know if you've been at Chico High lately but the the way the library sits in the middle of that campus it's a magnet for the kids but the sidewalks Go a different direction than the kids want to go so everything we've done there in the past with receding renovating and all that it doesn't last very long because you get 20 000 steps a day so we're going to work with the site admin and do a more um desert type landscape you know like big rocks or something not grass something to be easy to take care of and not require a lot of irrigation and that's something that the kids can actually use to lean on sit on so we'll be bringing that hopefully before school starts if we can get some good cooperation out of the chico High folks um Landscaping right over here at Yale you know if you go down Manzanita you go in front of the bus stop there by the Yale parking it's just decomposed granite and nothing one of our goals that we want to do at mno is to do a little bit better job at Curb Appeal for all of our sites when you drive you know we see all the great stuff that Julie and her team are doing with new buildings and whatnot and then as a as a new parent maybe coming into town you see these big brand new two-story buildings and then drive by a smaller Elementary and we have not so appealing curb appeal so we're going to try harder at getting that done for us John yes ma'am I have a question I was um at PV taking a tour in the last week where we had heavy rains I mean it was kind of the end of that cycle and there was one of the overhangs out over the sidewalks there was a light fixture well it was actually more like a waterfall ooh that's not good right so what what's probably happening inside that overhangouts it was outside of the bee building it was outside it was outside of one of the buildings that faces the quad well luckily the water found an Escape Route if it was coming out of the light fixture and not staying up in the soffit yeah that was that's a good thing right out of the light fixture but I haven't seen the work order or anybody complain about it except Eileen but I appreciate it so and it was the B building or the sea maybe or uh one that you know are the mirror mural gym it's the building that looks out onto those murals that's the B building that's and it was at a corner so we went around the corner and looked up and it was like oh my God the light wasn't on was it was the light on no no okay we'll we'll check it for you any questions ah I have another question how are you going to get the um forklift out of out of the welding area it's very delicate but with a Good Wrench and somebody that knows how to use one we're going to take it piece by piece oh you're you're not I'm kidding I um I don't know well it gave me a good laugh that day when I was taking the tour and found out what had happened with that forklift being built is like you know building an airplane and forgetting that you're going to have to get it out of the we just need to make a bigger door and I just want to pipe in real quick to John's list through the facility master plan meetings that we had and the input that we got from staff and community and parents leaky roofs was a big concern and you saw it in all the paperwork that you received as board members so there's a big push here there's almost 650 000 that's really dedicated just to getting some of the roofs adjust this summer and there is a residual odor when we when we do a new roof and that's the reason we try to really focus it on the on the summer months versus trying to do it during the school year so I just wanted to point that out in response to the feedback that we received from from staff and community yeah thank you [Applause] we do need action on this board support agenda item do we have public comment not on this item okay um so for 2023 summer projects update do we have a motion sure I will move to approve the summer project list as just described second all right we have a motion from Member Lando a second from Member tennis uh we can start oh sorry discussion to start trying to start to roll through okay seeing no discussion we'll move for the vote um starting with Mr Lando Lando Robinson I konk and I all right it's unanimous it passes we'll move on to item 9.2.2 this is discussion action on shade structures uh multiple sites project approval uh presented by Julie Kissel thank you good evening I'm excited to be here tonight after almost two years of planning for multiple large shade structures at 10 schools and I think 14 separate shade structures asking for the project approval this evening to get started on these projects we will be working hard over the summer to get in as many as we possibly can focusing on the areas where we'll be the most disruptive to students and saving the ones that will be least disruptive to students during the school year for the fall do you have any questions Julie I yeah I didn't think I had one but I do after we spent the 1.1 million out of the foreign 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up first please welcome to the podium the 1920-2021 and 2022 class president Max Kobayashi okay I'm always disappointed when a liar's pants don't actually catch on fire and with that being said I'd be lying to myself and all of you if I tried to take myself seriously give me a speech filled with great wisdom for the future so today I will not be giving a mature speech of that nature one because I don't want my pants to catch on fire and two because that's not me and that is the whole point of this speech being yourself High School is often filled with external pressures to fit in find a group where you belong and avoid judgment from others all of this pressure can create fear of embracing your identity and who you truly are it's easy to fall into the Trap of trying to please others conform to their expectations or to follow the path they lay out for you unfortunately doing so can lead to dissatisfaction unhappiness and lack of fulfillment as someone who has been a victim of this fear I can attest to its power throughout high school I felt the pressure to fit in to build facades to hide my true self over time though I slowly found my own power to loosen Spear's grip as I embrace my own identity both my strengths and challenges I realized how freeing it can be embracing your true self can lead to one of the most rewarding aspects of life building relationships with people who accept you for who you truly are these genuine connections are free from judgment and allow you to Simply exist as your authentic self they're filled with love and love is infinitely more permanent than the benefits of Faking your identity I've been blessed to have built many of these relationships throughout High School and I'll be forever thankful to this community for providing me with an opportunity to be my best self as we move into the next stage of our lives whatever that may bring I encourage you all to find Freedom in becoming your best self surround yourself with people who accept and appreciate your strengths and your faults surround yourself with people who pick you up when you fall and lift you up when you reach for your dreams surround yourself with people who you love who love you for who you are because at the end of the day the most beautiful thing that you can be in this world is yourself thank you [Applause] one more round of applause for Max nice job [Applause] please welcome to the podium the 2022-2023 class president Jack McDowell I vividly remember the first day of kindergarten as my mom walked me up towards the front of the school I was terrified but also proud of myself for taking the first step towards independence I was excited to try everything I even joined the DaVinci dance team For Better or For Worse I was the only boy in the squad undaunted I showed up for the first day of practice at 6 a.m Sharp two days too early instead of learning the choreo as planned I ended up collating copies with Mrs crane for an hour and a half wearing top hat and tails although my short-lived dance career started off on an embarrassing moment in retrospect the rest of it was humiliating as well but the lesson we should all take away is this don't be afraid to try new things but always remember everybody is a camera phone now and the internet is forever so maybe cool it with the hip thrust looking back the journey from kindergarten to graduation day was challenging for us all in different ways but as we stand here today we know that every step we took every hurdle we overcame brought us to this moment back then when I imagined what the world would be like in 2023 I thought flying cars would be commonplace in artificial intelligence could write my graduation speech I was half right as we move on to the next chapter of Our Lives let's take this lesson with us let's remember that even when things seem impossible and when the journey ahead seems long or difficult we have the strength resilience and determination to overcome any obstacle let us not be afraid to dream big and set ambitious goals as we have already proved that we can achieve great things just by being here today we might all be a little terrified but we're prepared to take the next step towards independence let's keep that same excitement to try new things as for me I'm pumped for I'm pumped for organic chemistry calculus and dance 115 intro to hip-hop I want to congratulate each and every one of you on this achievement we've worked hard to get here and we should be proud of ourselves let's not rest on our Laurels instead let us take the lessons we have learned The Memories We have made and use them as fuel to propel us forward into the future whether it's College trade school straight to the workforce or taking a gap year I know we will do great things and I cannot wait to see what we will achieve in the years to come congratulations class of 2023.
I have the honor to present and recommend for a diploma the assembled diploma candidates of the class of 2023 of Ironwood Ridge High School Nighthawks would you stand [Applause] superintendent Jager The Faculty of Ironwood Ridge High School and I present these candidates for a high school diploma and hereby certified that each of them has met the rigor and requirements for the same as established by Arizona state law the Arizona academic standards and the policies of the governing board of Amphitheater Unified School District thank you Dr Jenkins and acting upon your recommendation and that of your faculty and by virtue of the authority vested in Me by the state of Arizona and the governing board of Amphitheater Unified School District I do hereby confer upon each of the candidates assembled here the diploma of Ironwood Ridge High School which each of them has earned together with all the rights honors privileges and responsibilities deriving from the same congratulations to our graduates of Ironwood Ridge High School [Applause] graduates please be seated [Music] Amy you guys should be over there [Music] let's go Amy Laura sin Carrick [Applause] Rachel Sarah barriga [Applause] [Music] vikas P Patel [Music] Kira Faith Douglas [Music] Carly Tyler Frye Araceli Jasmine Aguirre [Music] [Applause] Noah David Acevedo [Music] [Applause] [Music] Araceli Gabriel Eduardo ahumada [Music] Ariana Nicole adire [Music] [Applause] Isabel Alexandra Alvarez Robert Earl Allen and yoso chenoso Emmanuela Baba [Applause] Fernando Eddie Archuleta [Music] Richard [Music] Gabrielle Baez [Music] Balor [Music] Jordan Jace Baker Jesus Barajas [Music] Camilla Adeline bayesteros Garcia [Music] Noah Delano Barbie Paulina Christina Barbieri [Applause] Brandon Reed Barlow [Music] Zooey Alexander lapidario bardion [Music] Jaden Renee barriga [Music] Blake Michael Farney Emma Elizabeth Bartlett [Music] Michaela Ann Barron [Music] Tucker Sullivan Bates [Music] Hannah Maria Bartlett Austin Allen Bain [Music] Kalin Therese Beatty [Music] Ethan Kyle bembenek Tyler Joan Ryan bikes Audrey Adriana Bernal [Music] cash Lynn veneer Janae Davina bitsui [Music] koi Leroy Bernard Marie bowling [Music] Alyssa graceful guard Andrew Douglas Bowers Jr [Music] Jack Riley Boise Trista Michelle Brady [Music] Paolo ilyan bracamonte Eden Christopher Christopher Brown IE Rose fransky Charlotte Grace Burge [Music] Thomas Sean brusca Lynn Luis Busby [Applause] [Music] Haley Lynn Burgess [Music] Leonardo velezi cashiweta [Music] Brittany Marie Cabral he drew Thomas Kane Catherine Teresa Cahill there you go Evan James Calhoun Reuben Anthony kahigas III Luis Angel camilladas [Music] Trayden Kyler Calhoun Beckett Sheldon Carlson Abigail Ray Carlson Lily Rebecca Cason [Music] Micah Paul Carlson Haley rain Catalano Leah Nicole Castillo [Music] Marcelo chanaba [Music] Sophia Claude Caulfield Jacob Alexander chew sherrington [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Adam Michael Clark Luke Andrew fritton cedelli [Music] Noah Carson Clower [Applause] ladies and gentlemen as we move through this ceremony if you could cut hold the air horns so we can get all the kids recognized before we have to go inside thank you [Music] Jackson Christopher Clark Alexis nylin Cota Brooklyn Marie Colby Phoebe Kramer Alexis Jade Craig Hill Holly Joe D'Agostino [Music] Taylor Lee Crawford [Music] Rihanna faith danhoff [Music] Evan David Dalton Cassandra and Davis [Music] Emma Len Daniels Emily Kate degrude Mia Nicole de la Rosa [Music] John Liam Doris [Music] Jaden Matthew Delgado Denisa Celeste dunloud [Applause] Braden Michael draher Trevor Billy Anthony Ellis foreign [Applause] [Music] James Anthony Ellis [Applause] [Music] Melissa Faith Felix Gabrielle amondo Felix [Music] Robert Thomas Fields Jacob winifield Fick [Music] Diego comaneco Flores [Music] Michael Anthony femrez Connor Tobias Ford [Music] Braden Andrew Ford [Music] Shelby Grace Frederickson alanzia Ivory Frederick Lucas John Garcia Aiden Donovan gallo Alexis Pamela Garrick Keaton Michael Garrett [Music] Ethan Michael jindro Matthew Alexander gelshin [Music] Gabrielle Ryan Herron [Music] Hannah Kylie sake estua Gilbert Jaden Grace Goldberg [Music] Olivia Chloe Gehring Gabriella Sierra Gonzalez [Music] Roman Alexander Goldstein Oscar Salvador Gonzalez Cuevas [Applause] Nathan Frank Gonzalez [Applause] Solaris Marie Graves [Music] Dawson Wyatt Goff Grant Edward Grimmett Kylie Marie Grimes Alberto Alfredo Gutierrez [Music] Paul James Grunwald [Music] [Applause] Ryan Nathaniel hacker [Applause] [Music] ladies and gentlemen at this time we're going to need to pause our ceremony due to weather graduates you have been given Instructions make sure you get back to the auditorium family and friends that are here with us um it would be a great help to us if you would return to your vehicles and we're going to pause on our NPR um we'll be available preferably your vehicles and we'll send information around when we are able to resume uh pending weather graduates if you would at this time reconvene in the auditorium [Music] okay [Music] and ladies and gentlemen we're doing this because lightning is now within three miles of our location
um last year around this time I think we had like 600 kids already registered I'm not sure the last time we checked in with those numbers are but we're anticipating the numbers of being around the same number in the 900 range wow anybody else have any questions Gladys did you want to say something I'm sorry but uh I I lost contact for a few minutes my question is uh we offer this program for the Kindergartens and I'm I'm very curious does the our other elementary schools have any type of program to make parents aware as to what their child is going to be expecting the first day of kindergarten or is it just this one particular School you know so what I'm proposing is district-wide and then the way that we open up schools in the beginning part of the year has gives an opportunity for our parents to meet more teachers and have really school specific information while they're there so we're trying to meet them on many different levels does that answer your your question Mrs Cooper no uh my my question is it's only for this particular school on Osborne Street so the other Elementary School does not have any type of program because when my five-year-old started school at Great Plain uh and I don't know because I haven't had that conversation was he giving their orientation or was the mother giving the orientation this is what to expect for kindergarten so the program that I'm proposing is a district-wide program okay we've done this in previous years not just in this style we've really refined it this year based on our feedback in previous years but then Kevin or Mike maybe you want to address how um schools work on that transition at a school-based level what are you getting at Anne I I think I think the question that Miss Cooper was asking is is this school is this school focus or is this District focused I think you clarified okay yeah the question I'm hearing from Ms Cooper like is is this happening because I think from his I think Miss Cooper is asking is this something only happening from your Center or and and it's not just happening from you this is a district-wide effort that will be and the doors will be open for all of our families to participate in and I think the way it was being received was it sounded like it was just coming from Early Childhood it was only for those families thank you I think I think that's what I think that's the clarification that's needed that's why you have the degree and I don't foreign take the next one yeah and I I think you actually talked through number two already um are there any other of those big dates I know you mentioned the food truck some of the career uh Academy Community sessions any other critical dates coming up what people think we don't have we don't have a scheduled right now we're just starting our cats with Mr Walston we've talked about continuing our coffee with Kevin's and our Saturday morning with our community cultural groups because we really receive great feedback from them great two-way dialogue um with them and with all the things um positively going on in Danbury it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to our leaders in the community okay Ann and I I guess it was a couple of months ago now um we had an opportunity to kind of meet everyone well not everyone but kind of cultural leaders and it was really after that meeting uh we we had a follow-up meeting with um leaders of our NAACP I extended an offer to them as well to join this one big group if you will and I think it would be more than appropriate if we can get some dates on the calendar next year Ann and I had been talking about maybe this group would be meeting at the minimum of three to four times a year and it's really just an opportunity for these cultural leaders in the district to be at the table from their perspective what are they hearing from their families how could we better support them at the same time they can hear from us firsthand some of the district initiatives and some of the things that we're doing and if there's any opportunity for us to better serve our families um you know we have some of those reps it is at the table and so once we get those dates kind of lined up for next year and this is kind of part of number four but see if we can add that and see if we can't kind of memorialize this in our calendar um in a way where we can ask for board liaison to this one like we have some commitment to see other ones but it's this is something I I think would be really good for the school district and for the community to have kind of ongoing conversations with our cultural Community leaders and really provide opportunity for them to share best practice and things that are going in a respective corners of the community but also for us to share not provide an opportunity to talk about our initiatives and things that we're doing but you know again we really need feedback on how things are going from a good perspective but some things that we need to Shrub to better meet the needs um of everyone in the community that actually is a really good segue into item number uh uh into item number four maybe we could we could Michelle if you don't mind just jump right into four and then come back to three okay yeah yeah so we would talk about this idea of Liaisons and uh we were sort of looking through some of the documents we did know that you know there there are different board members that are Liaisons to different schools and different groups and I really like this idea that we could extend that out to some of the cultural committees I I think that's a great way to to just make sure we have appropriate coverage um but also you know there's this idea of just sort of bringing back the news either to this committee or or to full board so that if something is happening and and you know uh you know at a cultural center or something is happening at the Portuguese Center or something is happening at one of the schools then that's how it comes back to this committee and then we all feel like we're in the loop so I I think that's really one of the the the big things that that would be a focus area for next year when we set out the charge is to just make sure those initial kind of tentacles that that you know from the board that go outward are are really set into the right place um so so that's number one um and number two you know I I you know there we did some some Googling and searching around and I I know you did a little bit of searching too to see kind of what other boards had as their charge for their Community Relations Committee um this group had said originally this this uh committee was convened primarily to talk about budget issues to to communicate the budget and the way that that works and just some of the the more technical pieces of that communicate that out to the broader community and then it sort of pivoted a little bit and um now it really has you know more of this sort of just general kind of Engagement feel more of the things that Anne's office does um so in looking at some of those charges one of the things I I caught was that new Havens for example they talk about really serving a specific goal of the Strategic plan so I think when we come back in August it might be a really good opportunity to look at our charge in alignment with either superintendent walston's goals for that year um certainly the the um uh the section of the Strategic plan that is uh goal five I think the meaningful collaboration is that five or six that's five meaningful collaboration and just maybe chart our course based on the ideas that are outlined in the in the Strategic plan so I'll just kind of put that out there if there's if there's any thoughts or feedback on that um but I think we can we can really craft that first agenda or September agenda really around just charting the course for this group throughout the course of the year and and just figuring out how we're going to do this you know sort of back and forth with the community and and wherever you know our sort of groups are assigned to so I'll just pause right there I I just kind of gave you guys a lot any comments anybody have any comments or questions so could I ask a question please please I apologize my camera is off uh my bandwidth is a little bit low and I'd rather have good audio so um with with regard to what you're talking about Dr Sealy um when you talk about finding a specific part of the Strategic plan to support uh so you're talking about sort of carving out a role for the board to participate in the Strategic plan in that way yeah is that how you're explaining it sort of I mean I I see it more as you know the the Strategic plan is the vision of the district so therefore any of the work that that you know either the the district or the board being engaged in would kind of fall under that um yeah so we have this fifth goal which is Meaningful collaboration and you know work collaboratively with schools businesses and Community to strengthen meaningful engagement through joint decision making you know things like that so maybe just when we you know decide whatever that language is going to be whatever that charge is going to be we just align it with a strategic plan and this way we don't have to sort of you know make it out of whole cloth fold it into something else yeah some really clear guiding language there that that'll just sort of help us really snap it into place okay thank you Gladys um just uh off the top of my head I'll go back um when this committee first was started back 20 some are years ago and it wasn't solely budget function at that time it was and and we still doing the same thing uh getting the community and parents to know who these people are that are on the board and uh quite a few uh things were presented that you know we didn't get to take part in uh but I I don't see a whole lot uh things that are being done different now but um I'm trying to figure out we're talking about the roles and responsibility of this committee and I think the committee should be you know uh limit to maybe one or two things uh to get start with in September as we move far down the road uh the budget is going to always be a conversation that we have to uh have a conversation with parents because the average parent doesn't really understand the budget anyway and half of us on the board don't until we we sit here and be in meetings but I also think that one of the things that we can't forget because we do have a high turnover is we have to and most of the uh time on the board two years four years or maybe you know whatever position that they pick up we still need to introduce board members to the community right and to me uh the budget and introducing parents uh to board members uh at whatever type of function we have and I think Dr mead just answered uh of activity that she was having to bring board members uh should be a part of but I just seen again communication getting to know who people are and they can talk to you and and dialogue with you and know that you're a board member so that's exactly that was the two thoughts that I have that's great I'm jotting those down right now miss Cooper thank you do we have Mike anything in mind for when we come back as far as you know I know last year last year having an event and you know we really didn't kind of pan out do we have anything that we're considering to put on the calendar to have that introduction or you know brand new games you can help with this I know there's a whole host of things happening in August and September um any of those would be a good a good fit for sort of bringing you know maybe we can recycle back to this I I don't want to put you on the spot with pinning down a date but um maybe we can just think think together about a a good opportunity to do this once once School comes back and you know maybe it's just revisiting you know the um you know the ongoing engagement and Outreach opportunities you know maybe that's a standing item on future agendas um but Michelle to your direct question I I don't have a date handy um I could certainly send some things out once once we we get closer to looking at the calendar for my um Mike and Anne um too I I have two outline out loud wanderings um one and as part of the family University work um you have your family's learning specifically about the board event how it functions their roles and responsibilities is that is that for Pep which program is that of the other umbrella so it happens a couple ways one it's in the new promise program it happens with Pap it's also in the parent C program okay so let's pause let's pause there for a second yeah so we have it in three different programs and it's one thing for the board to come and kind of wave and you know we take a commercial break to introduce the board members but but if you already have cooked into your work like you're gonna learn about the roles and responsibilities of the functions of of the board instead of you with Grace of one of the Liaisons doing it why don't we invite the board members to come speak to the families and I mean like at these functions and if they're available and interested in doing it then they can hear firsthand you know kind of the role of the work they could be FAQs from your group you know similar to the time when I came in to meet and you guys grilled the the families grilled me for an hour um you know something similar could be done with our board members they can you know get some face time with them um and you know at the same time um you know they're they're learning um Hands-On about the functions of the work and then I'm I'm also wondering and I know we have some board members here who have been here longer than others um you know we we have a function as part of our board agenda that speaks to um uh um updates okay like kind of board there's a board chair updates but it's an opportunity for all of the board members to provide an update and I feel like that's something that's kind of been lost at least since I've been a superintendent anyway um where you know a lot of the board members on this call you know I see board members at our Citywide PTO meeting as an example right but but we have Liaisons of our board members assigned to schools so it's an opportunity to have face time with families right and so I as I'll use Rachel as an example so she was assigned to AIS that's when her kids went she was already aligned there um and then later west side and so she would come and give an update on West Side Middle School hey this is what's happening at west side and so as a liaison that's something we could be doing right and so one we're getting FaceTime with our families um two where you know the families are getting FaceTime with you but also you know we're from parents teachers and the principal um all of our board members um are getting uh better connected to the school community and then if we all pointing out collectively everybody is hearing loud and clear kind of what's Happening throughout our school district and I I think honestly that's that's kind of the low hanging fruit for the board it's one that's kind of been established and in place for years um and you know the more active the PTO is um the easier it is to get information and kind of be part of that group um and frankly if a board member is there they might be more engaged because you know they might feel like hey someone's really listening and you know this is really important to someone so I I just thought that I would share that because those reports is something that's been missing from our board our board meetings just in terms of giving updates about um any liaison commitments that our board members have but it will be a great way honestly um you know I'm thinking back a couple of years ago and and your primary call list and some other board members as well um at Rogers Park Middle School they had a huge Community event where in two days the entire building was painted all the hallways all the staircases everything was painted and so you know a liaison came back and kind of shared hey this is what's going on at Rogers Park and you know they've been part of all of these you know the whole school Community was galvanized to help make this happen but but someone came back to a board meeting and provided that update and you know the day the day of painting is Saturday September 21st I don't remember the day but it was an opportunity for everyone to understand what was going on at the building so for those of you who have been to Citywide PTO meetings and all of the PTO Representatives provide an update about what's going on at this school it will be similar for the Liaisons to share an update with the full board in the community about what's going on in different schools so I I just thought I'd share that obviously we have some opportunity to revisit that in the fall um but I think those two things alone but kind of changed the focus and you know voice kind of opportunity to be kind of further engaged more importantly for the community to know who you are and for the you know who you know what's going on in the school community and Kevin we had also spoken about and I don't know if a decision had been made on it but at the end of every board agenda or our our upcoming dates I would love to be able to include um some of these larger district-wide events um that board members could come to in that so it's front and center all the time it is okay yeah I totally agree and absolutely and it just makes it easier and it's just uh this way we don't you know it doesn't get lost you know we forgot to invite it's just kind of great it's there sit there for a big community events just sitting there for everybody to see absolutely I see Julie your hands up yes I have a quick question I don't know if maybe Dr Siegel or Miss Dr meat can tell me who's responsible to send the invitations for the video like on my end um I know that I'm assigned to Park Avenue um elementary school but I have never received an invitation for PTO meetings so I'm not sure I even went to the school I let them know that I'm I mean I'm assigned to that school but up to this day I don't know if they actually are doing the videos meeting so from that point I really don't know I mean why how do we actually engage on the ptos because I have never received information I only know that I'm assigned to Park Avenue but I have never received information regarding the PTO meetings um might or in I mean I know that when I Rachel was chair we were right with a city-wide yeah yeah sorry you cut you cut out a little bit Michelle um saying that I know that it was just kind of that board members would oh there's been any communication on directly as Roger that I are defense I about them at the Citywide Po and there's a lot per school like there's several things going on right right for sure Michelle so thinking right now I try to make as many events as possible so you got family University that could be a couple of hours then we've got like three meetings a week then you got city-wide Beach if we add the summer I mean there's a lot like I'll try to go to something but I have another meeting it's going to be difficult every night yeah so I I I think we can uh find out from the principals who the president of the PTO is um but the principal um will have the dates of PTO meetings and that might be the cleanest way for us to share the schedule of those meetings um and at the very least make sure the Liaisons are on a mailing list and email lists uh for anything that's coming up so we will work behind the scenes to make that make sure that information is available and make sure the liaison is a part of the um the distribution list for any meetings that's going on in school yeah or yeah I was going to add I would assume the invites are sent out by the school secretary so you know it might be something as simple as just just checking those lists with them or sending out a reminder to make sure they're updated uh usually what has happened though over the years if you're representing uh one of the schools uh let's just say South Street uh is is not normal for them to send you an invitation uh usually we go you know the the superintendent secretary and I'm not saying that this has to change over my tenure being on the board the superintendent secretary and I think Carol did that last year uh she contacted all the schools and uh they let her know which date that they were having their PTO meetings okay and uh one the only school that we always had a problem with was AI um Ace because they're they're uh PTO is not set in stone and they usually let you know the date today the same day that they having a PTO meeting okay uh and over the years um you know if you know it's the second Monday you go and you show up and uh most of the time you know they ask who you are you identify yourself and then once you make that first meeting contact and you uh arrive at the next one you saw to iron your way in and they know who you are uh but they're not happy over the tender that I have seen of you coming as more or less uh supporting because we were told when we go as representative of the the the board to go listen see what their comments are what they are concerned about and bring it back to the board and um you know I used to do that before covert hit and I think what covert did what made us a little uh lazy because uh you know things changed and we couldn't be in the school like we wanted we couldn't be to the PTO meeting and it sort of made us uh lazy uh and and some of those PTO meetings because I I'm guilty myself I haven't been to one when I need to know that I know I need to go but your body can only go so many places and so many nights mm-hmm so my Mike and I we will um we'll meet with Cara and um make sure we have the contacts make sure the board and the Liaisons um have the dates um so that you know it it'll be a little easier Julie unless they have to navigate through for next year so that's something that will set up set as a goal to make sure that's all set up thank you thank you I have another small question short question and and based on engagement um is there any like a social media home page or can we create a a Facebook page only for board members and where we they can actually interact with us I'm not sure everything is in social media so I don't know if it's something that I mean it's um we have it we can have access can we do something or not I I don't know Julie um I don't know if all of you guys could collectively be in that space people responding you guys responding back um but we I let's we can say that question for Kim um but I I Envision it being problematic um just because it it could come across that you guys are actually conducting business um or responding back as a board to individual questions I mean more like instead of just being a Danbury public schools website it could be something that many people engage in Facebook I mean um Community groups not to have their interaction but at least that the information our information is there but I mean it's something that we can actually get more information like you just mentioned because I believe that we can engage a lot more with um through social media then just going to events some parents don't go and but maybe it's something that just got from the top of my head it's not something it's just I was thinking about that I'm not sure right right and we can also coordinate messaging through parent Square so if you know we want to say oh there's a meeting on Tuesday you know that's something we could we could have on our calendar to push out regularly so um it's just clear this is the meeting space there's no you know no questions about engaging offline or anything like that or conducting business so that's another option I like the idea with the um you know the school if you're the liaison and you're on that distribution list like if I see stuff going on because there's a lot of stuff that like we had a hockey game this weekend we had a you know all kinds of events I would share those I would post those you know to get that engagement especially in my school like I'm gonna do it anyway I try to do it when I see it but I'm gonna like really gonna kind of double down on on my school if I'm engaged which I'm not getting those so maybe you know I'll bring that up at the next city ybto but that would really I think at least help spread the word you know with your school and your parents right absolutely absolutely okay okay we've already got a bunch of great ideas here so what what's next on your list Mike uh last but not least uh well going back to number three is an update on Collective impact so we had a little bit of a watershed uh moment I think the last week or two where I think we turned a corner uh with Collective impact and um and I'll let you talk more about it and uh we'll be bringing more folks into uh the fold going forward hmm thank you Mike yes we've been working very very hard and diligently with our signers and others that were identified to be able to help um with this project um community members parents um youth which has been really great to have them engaged um at our last meeting we actually met and resolved around or came to um consensus on a um three different cornerstones or three different goals most likely they will still go through a another process with more folks but it looks like it's leaning towards attendance mental health and then the Early Childhood components we've been fortunate to be led by Alex London who has really pushed us and then pushed back and then pushed us forward again um to make really really critical critical decisions as we head into our sixth meeting next week we will be expanding the group we'll be inviting more community members in more agencies in more families and to really look at what these cornerstones are and then develop work goals around each one and work groups and so we're really looking for those that are willing to roll up their sleeves and get the work done at the same time we'll be working on moving forward with drafting a executive director position and going out and starting to advertise for an executive director the work that it takes to get a collective impact up and going right now is shared between four of us and we're ready to go to the next next stage in that so we are also looking at data sharing agreements um other mousse with different agencies and and what they bring to the table and really codifying our mission and vision and goal statement for each of the areas so um Michelle I do believe you received the dates okay so I'm excited about that yeah yeah and um you know stay tuned for you know more work we have been meeting with funders out there um because this is about a two or 1.2 million dollar lift um for three years to put this in play we already have some funding already from Nelly May and thank you Nelly May for that um but we need to you know position this correctly in the community so that it's sustainable and so we're looking at not so much a leadership uh decision-making board but more so of a smaller Community advisement board or Advisory Board and then the cans or the groups around the Cornerstone uh Community Action networks they're going to be the workabees that will really do the work and then it will funnel up to um The Advisory board for any feedback and then come back down we are fortunate that we have United Way as our back phone and so things such as HR matters Financial reports and all of that back that kind of back um back work is already done by them so we're really happy about having them on board the other great thing about that is they are also key to the Stanford cradle to Career um movement down there so we're able to share some of their expertise around Dei training and things like that we are also um we'll be joining strive together which is a National Organization that supports cdc's or Community impact organizations and so we will be the fifth one in the state that are members of strive and so you know strength in numbers strength in Sharing what works and what doesn't work we feel will make Danbury very very strong and meet the goals that we need to have as a community to to help our students be prepared for school and then to be able to navigate the absenteeism and understand what that is and what it means as well as help with our mental health with our students no and United Way will be sending those invites is that the who's sending out those I know that Isabella's way this week and so I have all the calendar invites I brought them home with me and I will send those out send those out tonight we are at the police station it's a morning meeting on the is it yes okay 25th starts at 10 to 12 at Danbury Police Station great okay you had mentioned three things attendance mental health and then you said a third and I didn't get that so the Early Childhood component um you know we need to help educate parents about what good care looks like how to um another piece is helping parents to develop the skills to support their children and then from a provider's perspective we need everyone on board using the Early Learning development guidelines which are the guidelines that prepare children there's a Continuum of growth that prepare children for kindergarten so that group like our other groups will be multifaceted so it's just not like a parent campaign but there's layers within each one of those um that goals will be written for right and Michelle and for everyone they think about um you know kind of school or kindergarten Readiness in all of the various um um things that need to happen to make sure a child is ready for kindergarten application everything from Health Care to you know us educating families so they can educate their kids streamlining you know kind of resources across this community to make sure at the minimum every all of our kids are getting the minimum minimum experience um assured if not made them experience short experiences across the school Community um it's really really trying to to try to connect and make sure we're all rolling in the same direction in this regard whether it's our um School Readiness centers or for the families that don't sit in their their their kids to pre-k programs uh you know making sure we're finding ways to educate them on some basic things that they could do at home with their children as well um and again you know we we don't have to reach into the entire Community to do this uh but we have you know various institutions and agencies at the table we certainly have the ability to [Music] okay anybody have any comments or questions for Anne or anyone Dr Mead do you mind running down uh the dates again for some of those events that you mentioned earlier I apologize I didn't catch all yeah no I'd be glad to do that so we have 525 27 20 and 8 31.
I think we vote on adjournment sorry um can I get a motion to adjourn the meeting at 6 54. motion to adjourn the meeting at 654 Donnie Lou thank you in the meeting visitor vote yeah all in favor you guys I hi hi any opposed thank you so we're moving the public hearing to another
how much just it rough guesstimate is still left in in that fund Jacqueline's looking oh the money cruncher is crunching okay Jim we'd have roughly about 700 000 of carryover money seven hundred thousand ah okay and um that's separate and apart from our three percent um rrna yes yes separate okay it's a completely different fund yes thank you okay it looks like we have no more questions so we just need some approval yes please okay thank you um and I see no public comment on this item um and so I will ask if we have a motion I move that we Grant authorization to the superintendent or designee to execute the purchase and installation for the projects and the total amount of two million nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars I'll second that motion all right we have a motion by Mr tennis and a second by member Robinson uh all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed it's unanimous it passes thank you thank you um next item 9.2.3 this is our discussion action item on school wellness policy BP 5030 and we have Vince and sorrow to present which button am I pushing forward right all right good evening thank you for the opportunity this evening to present the wellness policy to you for your approval for this evening but before that I really want to take a opportunity we have a lot of new board members to give you a little background over the time that I've been here that I can speak to in what we've done in our department and the and the programs that we participate in Chico Unified participates in school breakfast program the national school lunch program the cacfp or after school programs and also I'm sorry oh there you go and also summer feeding program I got here in 2011 uh 12 school year in 2011 and 12 we did 218 000 breakfasts 490 000 lunches um to date this year we're going to serve actually more than what that says on breakfast probably closer to 700 000 breakfast this year and closer to 1.2 million lunches suppers about on track and summer feeding this is always up in there depends on how the summer goes the Nutrition department our projected revenue for this year's just short of 9 million looking at about 8.3 in in expenses we do run really well really good food costs in the 33 to 39 percent range most school districts are quite a bit higher 3.2 million dollars is going to go into food costs 610 000 we spend on supplies needed to do that every day it's about 43 of the budget we spent about 720 000 this year in local products in a 200 mile radius and our labor is right around 40 percent at 3.6 million now on to the wellness policy the wellness policy oh there it was wellness policy comes from the healthy hunger free kids act of 2020.
[Applause] another round of applause for Jack well done [Applause] I'm excited to introduce the discovery Canyon campus acapella choir there is a change in the program they will be singing Seasons of Love from the musical Rent by Jonathan David Larson under the direction of Dr Deborah Siebert [Music] do [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] God [Music] [Applause] one more round of applause for the acapella choir [Applause] please join me in welcoming to the podium Seraphina raguchi for her student address [Applause] okay each one of my siblings has a different opinion about today a few couldn't care less about me moving forward some are sad to see me go and others are picking out what furniture they want to take to me um whoops sorry my family provides me with constant feedback on everything whether I ask for it and or not this perk although not always uplifting allows me to see the world through many eyes from elementary school insults towards full of wisdom as we embark on this journey forward each one of us will face challenges some of us will go on to achieve our hopes and dreams others will find joy in circumstances they never imagined we are being pushed into a beautiful world overflowing with obstacles and New Beginnings to find joy in our forthcoming realities we must see the world through every lens solve problems with the wacky colors lines and shapes from the imagination of a child Finding Bliss and the little things like flowers and cars approach unnerving situations with The Angst of a middle schooler with no fear of being vicious towards those around us love with the grace of an adult appreciating all experiences successes and failures the past four years have shaped us immensely each day we are pushed to become greater versions of ourselves now the progression onwards will force us to visualize the world in unfamiliar ways looking forward is terrifying appealing overwhelming thrilling and wild depending on who you talk to so imagine like a child feel every feeling listen to the wisdom of others and find joy in all that is to come thank you [Applause] another round of applause please great job I now have the honor of introducing a person who is extremely invested in the discovery Canyon campus class of 2023 and we are very grateful for all the contributions and support he has extended to the Discovery Canyon Campus Community born and raised in the Academy School District 20 Tom Gregory has a passion for the educational process and thrives on helping others succeed he was a classroom teacher for 11 years a school administrator for four years and completed his 14th year as the leader of business operations at Academy School District 20 in 2019 since 2019.
they're all at the police station right there on Main Street from 10 to 12. the only thing that would change that location is if something's happening happening in town the police department needs to use that community room we would know as soon as something happened and then we would let people know of an alternate location for the meeting excuse me um are you expecting all four members to attend all meanings or just a few meanings or not sure I'm not sure at this point I think what's going to be important is what's near and dear to your heart and what group that you would want to work on I'm sorry Ann are we talking about the collective impact yes so Julie I I think it's important we will I think what I'm hearing from Mike and Anne um and and I understand everyone on this call is a is a board member um but but I think um structurally we will have one board member as a liaison to this committee and then if if there's a board member who is on this committee representing a different office or department or agency that's okay but it but technically there's only one board liaison on the school on the on the collective impact um and so we were we were told to um guard against overwhelmingness collected with school staff because it's not school staff and school Representatives because it's it's it's a community group it's not actually a school group and so if you're aware of the hat that you were wearing the last time you came Julie and Bridget where is the hat that she was wearing um and so in this sense that Michelle is representing the board uh respectfully I'd be asking the other board members to represent their respective agencies or offices um and I mean again I I know we're all you're all board members um in the community but at this table you'd be representing those respective officers no thank you Julie I just put all those dates in the chat if anybody just wants to do a quick copy paste to uh to an email for themselves so thanks Mike thank you so Indiana is this something I'm sorry Michelle no no I thought we were blowing so yeah is this is this something that we will is this something we would be adding to the agenda or this wouldn't be appropriate because everyone's not invited yeah you know Kevin made a good point in in responding to the original RFP from Nelly may it was very clear that the work that was going to be done needed to be a Community Driven initiative and so we're being very careful that as school people we don't overload the um the group that's there because immediately people are going to say well look at how many school people are on this and it's actually a school initi initiative we want to hear from parents and families um and and our student population um and others in the community that provide the services so we're very very careful in how we um craft that group um to not appear that we've overloaded it with school um yeah yeah I just wanted to clarify because last time it was a little mixed up and I went there I went from the um Community Action right right as a board member at the same time I'm a board member from the Board of Education and it was like a little mixed up so I just want to make sure um what is the expectation yeah I'm glad you asked that question thank you thank you if there's anything else anybody have any other comments questions we're just about there 655 is there any body else so anybody want to move to adjourn this meeting so moved by I can't see you by Julius Lauren Lauren well Lauren I just saw a hand okay Julie did you want to play Oh second that Julie's not on the committee I don't think oh okay go ahead thanks okay if I take Richard thank you so much good night
um I mean 2010 in the beginning the first year that we did it we didn't have as big of a committee we had a really small Committee just mostly nutrition folks and and a few board members when we went through it and did it and Eileen and I became very well acquainted and uh we had it and it has been in place for quite a while and it was time to up up the up the uh review it and uh time for further review I'm sorry this time we went through and we got more Implement more more help from from different departments implementation the monitoring piece the assessment piece that goes across the board through all the Departments not just nutrition services the wellness committee was created Kelly did a fantastic job hoarding us all together and making sure that we had all the people that we need but we had nutrition staff we had board members School administrators health professionals teachers students parents and community members that all had an input in the process of this and and the direction that we went so part of the things we must follow the federal guidelines those guidelines for the nutrition piece are set in place by the California Department of Education and the USDA they oversee in some capacity all of the programs that we do and set the rules and the regulations for those we have the smart snacks act the calculators the after-school parties and those things that were addressed in this and it was very helpful because in the past we had a lot of things on our wellness policy that we weren't even able to uphold and do and so when the with the parent committee it was really nice for them just to say if you can't do it then let's take it out and put in there what we actually can do so that was really helpful to have that and get that direction from the committee um some of the things the meal times are things that we have to follow specific guidelines as well having access to fresh water for everybody education program as you saw earlier today Shasta they had a they crushed it with a really cool education piece going and having the tasting and going out and visiting farms and whatnot so those things will continue to happen throughout the District staff training we continue to train our staff we got some funds from some grants to be able to extend that local food as we talked about we're going to continue to partner with more local farmers to continue purchasing more and more products as we can locally water promotion that happens every day at schools they talked about today with the athletic or athlete committed being hydrated and and making sure you're taking care of yourself uh physical activity recess I'm going to pause you there you're rolling right through let's talk food okay thank you um I have a question um where are we in the whole discussion that has been kind of off and on um about the about the concept of farm to school because I know that the state has been wanting to throw some money at our district specifically and I know that it hasn't really rolled forward and I I um I kind of am just wondering where we're at with considering a more robust Farm to school program um we do farm to school so we all of our local products that we have we've been doing that since the farm to school program with the state California State Farm to school program but it's like great Grant funded it's like lots of millions of dollars that are available for it yeah so we have participated in it we do participate in farm to school every day with the products that we buy locally and serve to our children but not the actual program like state funded program we do not get funding from that program currently no okay thank you we spend our own funds on local products every single day but not Grant funded program not Grant funded dollars for that okay thank you so what's it so physical education um that part was handled by ed services and working through our committee and getting that information making sure that we're meeting those those guidelines for both secondary and Elementary the family piece the handouts the district website Kelly's updates when we have updates that go in there the communication for our summer feeding programs that we have and the information that we have on our website as well Vince yes a question back in the beginning yes we at the time I think it was funded through Chico State where we had uh interns or people from Chico State and the Michelle Obama we're doing the the after school snacks where they were coming in and doing the fresh fruits and vegetables and stuff is that the one what they were doing was um two of the things that that it that were impressive that I observed and and stuff one was they were bringing um healthy things prepared um like the the spinach roll-ups and offering them for free to the kids to try to taste to get them to you know experiment with a different with something that didn't look like the normal food I remember that and the other thing that um that I saw working was the um I I don't know that the Universe never saw them actually in costumes or may have been we have them out there we have bananas and apples costumes and stuff we still have them to get them I may or may not have worn one before to to be in and do nutrition and and I know you put up the signs that gave the amount of calories and stuff you know over and around the cafeteria and that stuff was all very effective my opinion sure it was it seems as though we haven't refreshed that type of program to to talk to the kids and I know the the policy says that teachers are responsible for integrating some of the nutrition stuff but you know there's so many other things that teachers have to make sure they work into the lesson plans and and stuff right how are you set for personnel for training for stuff to continue to do that kind of Outreach promotion to the kiddos so when we were doing that before that was Grant funded and that was through Chico State and so those were those folks were coming in prepping and then taking those products out and doing those promotions for us um in my department currently I don't have the staff to be able to do that but we in the past have used Grant grants through Chico State and they've come through and done this do you see a possibility of any of that kind of thing returning or are we the last time that we did it there was a lot of reporting issues and and recording of stuff and so they went a different direction and we haven't had much since then are we are we still able to put nutritional values of the stuff we are serving are those posters we are working on we're working on actually getting digital menu boards to go up and we're working on a program that we would control from the office so as the menu changes today we would control all of them at the school sites they would get updated every day so we're working on trying to find the program that oops sorry that we can operate out of the office that we can push to the school sites thank you and thank you for the great job you know the appreciate it I can remember back when the kids were hungry until lunch because there wasn't a 10 o'clock food break and and being an aide in a classroom by 9 30 the only thing you heard was when is lunch right it was just and kids hungry kids don't learn nope they don't you're welcome and so questions I know you did a good job have you got your sense of taste back yet no I have not sorry to hear that that's all right nothing all right thank you very much I appreciate it question on their advice policy that's redlined in your in your pack the presentation was kind of revealed with the elements that are contained within that Wilderness policy but the actual board policy itself is what we need approval on this evening a move that we um yeah we don't we're not on a motion yet yes we have a couple of we have a public comment and I'm still wondering if I have I if I have staff questions um nope I don't hear anymore okay thank you um I looking at the actual like redlined board policy um I was kind of wondering about the the um the choice of ah see there it is again yeah that so it wasn't just you um the choice of wording on um a couple of paragraphs um and so for example or one that stood out to me the most was the policy about it's on page three paragraph four teachers are encouraged to find alternatives to withholding recess or other physical activities as punishment um that was I was kind of curious about um just the framework of of how that's worded um yeah that's why the part about recesses yeah teachers are encouraged to find alternatives to withholding racists or other physical activities as punishment it just um I don't know how it just doesn't sound like a very firm policy a Firm Stance yeah that's really loud I I can't think of a place where that happens now as a consequence when if kids are like losing recess typically they have alternative kinds of situations for them but like you're in trouble you're missing recess is something that we're working very hard to make sure is not happening consistently at schools I have a comment on that um I think that things have gotten totally out of control with discipline I have four children in the system now Ted three of whom are boys at least a couple of those boys are have been in sometimes actively very rambunctious in some ways Chico Unified elementary schools are a lawless environment I want to tell you where um young children boys some of whom may or may not have been related to me at one time or another have the ability to roam the halls with impunity stealing treats out of their peers backpacks and there's no mechanisms for accountability you know that might possibly include things like losing a recess going to detention you know having to pick up trash taking a lap things that when I was a kid were totally normal and I don't think that I'm worse off because I had to do those things I think I'm better off because I had that that kind of discipline and um I'm just I didn't plan to make a speech about this tonight but yeah I mean the only word that comes into my mind and probably is because it's sort of a word of the day is woke you know like we're too woke I'm sure there's a better characterization out there and I know that's very sort of temporal language but you know we're just too caught up in you know newfangled modern Notions of you know packing these kids in you know into some sort of you know foam padded room where where they can't ever you know be handed an empty five gallon I'm gonna bring it back around no no no I'm a board member we're in questions of clarification at this time oh no no no no yeah I'm a board member and I met with Linda hubby we had a very nice conversation and she assured me that I could talk for as long as I wanted on a topic like this or your questions I'm asking you to focus your your words as questions of clarifications with all due respect I am sounding off on the fact that we don't have many mechanisms for disciplining children and I don't think that teaching a kid to perform community service of picking up trash or some such thing is some sort of blight uh in fact I think that we need to do more of it so that's my thought so back to my question on this as I brought it up my question really is um is this is this formulated in a way I know that the all right it's my understanding as a young parent or a parent of a in this generation the youngest group um that uh consequences should be a natural consequence so I mean is this kind of formulated around that poly that concept that you know if it's a natural consequence to lose your recess because you were goofing off during recess and maybe you broke something or injured somebody that that would be a natural consequence and so this is kind of leaving it open-ended for that the word punishment is punitive right like that is um old school and is is trauma-inducing frankly um and so I guess I'm just wondering I was worried about the looseness of this statement how open is it for teachers to um to punish kids by withholding recess for something that isn't related to recess I think it was intentionally left where teachers did have discretion because exactly as you mentioned there are times if a child is uh you know pushing shoving behaving in a manner that puts others in danger on a playground then yes you need to you know with stay out of that for a short period of time and and I think there's a little looseness be I mean all the schools have a PBIS structure with kind of consequences laid out different things are happening with it but there's always outlier situations too where it may be appropriate to have some kind of consequence that's connected to what the behavior was and maybe consequence is a better word than punishment if that's the concern yeah I would agree with that okay thanks for clarifying and we I mean we have we do get at least one or two emails a year of a parent who says my child lost out on recess when they need that outlet more than anything why couldn't it have been a different consequence we hear a lot of just how much kids need the ability to go move get kind of get all those wiggles out shakes whatever you want to call it and there's a range of things that happen sometimes there's a controlled recess you're not just out there with 150 other kids they actually have a person that runs like a controlled recess you're you are stuck with person X out there playing Foursquare for the next three days because you've gotten in trouble doing other things out there so it's not that we don't want you to play in recess we just want you to be in a situation where you're not going to be having those problems happening and still have a chance to move and kind of get out there with the thing still okay thank you that was that was that the other one I had picked out was I brought the same kind of like that we're encouraged to but we're not really telling you you have to so yeah I was just curious about that um and then another question that I have in the policy um it's still it's probably it's not it's not nutrition related but looking at the actual policy just giving you a heads up on that Vince um that um down in sorry just scroll again I don't know where I'm at anymore sorry yeah I might have to come back to it I don't know where my brain's at um yeah we can move on sorry maybe I read something that sparked something else um I guess it was oh yeah it was physical education um so has there been um any thought or anything coming out about um there's a lot of updates to the PE policy in here with time and how important it is to actually be doing physical education and not really having exemptions um listed so that's that's quite a bit of an update and so I guess my question is for students who are not feeling um secure or they're experiencing bullying especially at the secondary level for with PE classes and having to dress down is a district considering like increasing privacy or Security in terms of of the requirements for dressing down I'm just kind of wondering where where we're at with the districts um in that in terms of facilities there are there have been thoughts we've had I mean even here at the board meetings we've heard thoughts about how facilities could be addressed it's it's going to come down to planning and come down to finances in terms of bullying like with any other bullying whether it's PE or it's any other environment they're all going to be contextual and specifically addressed and so if a instance of bullying takes place in a PE setting then it should be addressed just as if one took place you know in the quad at Yale it's all it's all contextual um the states stance on dressing down for PE has been implemented in our in our high school settings in our Junior High settings so we're compliant right now in terms of I'm dressing down can you can you clarify what that is for me yeah so for example the state requirement my understanding is that students need to be dressed appropriately for physical education that's extremely subjective definition what students May deem appropriate might be different than what we used we think is appropriate for physical education could it be made more objective um by saying in terms of making it in terms of safety well safety is part of the appropriateness right so with the safety would be would be the qualifier right it would make it more objective than subjective you know your shoes you have safe shoes on you have um clothing that is appropriate for the range of motion and the weather you know um but but kind of leave it at that I just am wondering it's I'm a little bit more removed from the classroom I've admitted that twice now today um our PE teachers still be seeing grades on whether or not students are dressing down not on the actual dressing down they're dressed they do grade them on their participation are they able to participate in the activity so if they're if they're high-heeled shoes or flip-flops preclude them from being able to participate there's an indirect consequence of not being able to get the points for that but it's not like points for dressing down as it used to be as it used to be I used to turn towels in and all that nope that's all gone okay great thanks for clarifying that for me okay uh any additional questions for clarification I think I'm the only one that probably has I don't know random things swimming around in my head that keep coming together in bits and pieces you actually got all mine which I appreciate all right great um okay so we do have um some public comment on wellness policy board policy 50 30.
Mr Gregory has been superintendent of schools in Academy District 20. Mr Gregory earned his master's degree in educational leadership and his principal's licensure from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs he earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and his Secondary School teaching license from the University of Southern Colorado Tom I want to thank you for helping us out in what is probably arguably one of the most difficult times to lead in schools and the staff will recognize a couple of these phrases but Tom taught them to me he taught us to Pivot and he taught us and he kept us moving forward in terms of keeping learning moving forward while mitigating the spread of covet 19. so Tom thank you for your leadership please join me in welcoming an enthusiastic supporter of Discovery Canyon campus good friend of mine superintendent Mr Tom J J Thomas Gregory [Applause] well thank you Dr wallstrom and good evening DCC High School congratulations seniors you did it but before I go forward I want to congratulate all the family and friends in the audience because you did it also and you deserve some credit for that too [Applause] I'd also like to take a moment to recognize two students of the discovery Canyon Campus High School class of 2023.
um we will hear first from Community member Julie three followed by Sasha Anya hello everyone um actually Matt I'm really glad you brought that up because I was like uh hello I I took my son out and I put him into private school so they could use a paddle he throws a rock you get a paddle there's a consequence I think we need more discipline not less and you know I think there's something to be said about wellness policy I'm so concerned about the wellness policy when you've got 2 000 kids on Specialized individuals education plans 20 years ago you had 200 you've had the same number of kids from 2003 to 2022. why do I have a trend line here why is there 2 000 kids on individualized education plan state disability sponsored programs you're putting Band-Aids on things you're not addressing Wellness at all this facility feels like it's turned into Enloe seriously you've got 41 psychiatrists you've got more doctors and dentists and dental sealants and all sorts of garbage coming in here you're putting chemicals into these children all over the place I think you should spend your July meeting having a root cause analysis to dig into why you need 29.6 million dollars and for these 2 000 children that are on individualized education plans it would be hell to be a teacher I talked to an elementary school teacher last month month she's got somebody that started their period in fourth grade she's got somebody that's getting dialysis treatments coming in or the diabetes or whatever it is seizure anti-seizure medication there's something underlying here wrong and you need to spend time going under the root cause instead of continuing to add on to these programs when I look at this wellness policy I mean don't even get me started on the 72 shots you're injecting into your children with these chemicals and now you want to literally talk about you know the trauma the trauma really the trauma of losing a recess what about the trauma of these girls walking into the the bathrooms and there's boys there and you're not talking about that trauma at all the trauma keeping secrets from their parents that's traumatizing enough when I look at this policy here and you look at the first paragraph Chico School District committed to providing a school climate that promotes and protects students health and well-being it sounds all nice until you get underneath it and you're talking about infectious diseases and health examinations and immunizations and health screenings and HIV and AIDS you're focusing on all the wrong things psychological and health counseling I don't want that anywhere near my kids I would I would be so upset by this is where you guys get into trouble family can Community involvement you believe that family and Community involvement collaboration with parents I've not heard anything about that in the past three months I've just heard all the parents coming in here berating you for keeping secrets from them I mean seriously I don't understand this at all you've got a um you've got this Wellness committee who's on this Wellness committee do you I would like to be on this Wellness committee add me to the wellness committee can people apply for this Wellness committee I think you're focusing on the wrong things that are to do with wellness and that is um demonstration on the wellness School assessment tool and the school health index I think would be great if parents got to see that tool thank you for your time Sasha Anya okay um Sasha Anya Chico environmental health advocacy and um briefly just because there was the talk about you know these uh events with kids getting aggressive with one another Etc you know a lot of it and I don't hear talked about enough I think it's just impulse a lot of impulsivity and impulse control issues that are getting harder and more and more prevalent and you know we've got kids on devices a lot um we've got a lot of new things in the mix that really hasn't been there kids not burning off steam much they're sitting and they're doing these like repetitive actions so their nervous systems are not acting in any kind of normal way that you know we'd have adapted you know over you know thousands of years and all of a sudden we're sitting in one spot where their thumbs rolling and now the classrooms all have devices for the kids which leads me into my concerns about Wireless radiation in the classrooms you've got routers everywhere and super routers and Super Booster routers and you know I have very strong concerns I would urge this group here to look at Environmental Health Trust you can look them up on the web and it's um etrust.org easy to find ehtrust.org Davis PhD has incredible amounts of information about the dangers of Wireless radiation classrooms there are several researchers that actually have been quite instrumental in getting a lot of pushback and getting these kids into wired situations you don't have to be Wireless you can use a phone you can use an iPad a tablet wired every desk can have a wire and they can all be plugged in you don't have to be Wireless and I think there's going to be a you know I think Wireless radiation will be the new cigarette smoking for Our Generation when it's when it comes down how dangerous it is it's in everybody's homes the bedrooms there's no relief and the cells don't recover in a in a sea of Wireless radiation um so I would just say do a little bit of due diligence and start and start studying and tracking and testing on an ongoing basis higher third-party analysis to come in constantly tracking and checking levels of Wireless radiation in the classrooms because if you don't check you don't know so you've got to know and the only way you know is if you check and you get wireless readings very easy to do but I don't think it's been done and if it has been done I'd like to know when and how and how I can get that information someone would like to get back to me that would be fantastic you have my telephone number it's on my comment you know online so let me know what's going on with wireless radiation in the classrooms thank you all right and that's the end of our public comment section sorry it was I thought you were speaking um and uh this is an action item so I can open up for a motion oh move approval of the board policy 5030 with the changes in red in honor of all of the years that Vince and I worked on these [Music] changes to try and and meet the the needs of the evolving process of trying to feed our kids and um get the appropriate exercise and physical stuff do we have a second I'd like to offer a friendly Amendment and that is there's one line in here pursuant to my earlier comments um that's in red and says the students shall not be required to engage in physical activity as a punishment for example students may not be singled out to run extra laps or perform other physical activities that the entire class is not engaged in as a behavioral consequence I'd like to strike that out that's for PE yeah I just feel like there's a time and a place for that can I comment on that please do um I think we need actually we need to either understand a friendly Amendment I think it's a significant um change and I don't agree it's a friendly you'll have a chance to you'll have a chance to make any comments you want as soon as we have a second on the on the table so we need a second for the original still Yes okay I'll second that just for the sake of getting to the debate okay thank you all right so we have a motion to approve the updated policy as is um as is drafted and uh second uh by sorry member Robinson in a second by member Lando so I'll make a substitute motion equal to what I offered to Ms Robinson can you sorry just for my sake can you specify the page and paragraph that that's in this is Page um three of ten and the paragraph is the one two three fourth paragraph down and it's the first two sentences that I would simply strike from the proposed amendments yeah right there um can ask a question of clarification from the from the from staff because a lot of times these board policies get put together in such a way that it's to comply with updated statutes so I guess the clarification would be is is is this something that had come up as an update needed update no it didn't come from csba these updates here so part of the wellness policies that we reevaluate every three years and so the rubric that's attached to the agenda item is really our assessment tool and so we use that to kind of help drive the conversation and so this year is our base year right this is our base Airline data and then three years from now we'll come back review the policy again and self-evaluate again to see where those improvements are so this and it doesn't reference Ed code here anything of that nature so there is flexibility to change that language I'm just looking through that assessment to see if there's anything in there that addresses that so every couple minutes I'll keep oh Tom already second right yeah so this is for clarification um there is a substitute motion on the on the table that has not yet been seconded which is to um strike that sentence from the updated policy um so approve the policy as is with the with that change that that sentence would be struck from or I guess two sentences right because for example would be taken out as well that's right um so so fully that the statement that says students shall not be required to engage in physical activity as punishment for example students may not be singled out to run extra laps or perform other physical activities that the entire class is not engaged in as a behavioral consequence um and so the the substitute motion is to strike that from this board policy and then otherwise approve as is thank you any clarifications I was looking at section four but it is physical education it's not specific to recesses specific to physical education right right one moment on that please because the section I'm seeing is Under The Heading of physical activity it's not about physical education physical education and physical activity at the toward the bottom of page two and then it picks up on page three yeah but this has ended having a physical activity not physical education that is which is its own header there's a subheading of yeah there's a subhead for physical education which covers the bottom of page two those last two paragraphs and then two paragraphs onto page three and the new heading it's pretty clear they did not talk about just PE that says all elementary middle and high schools are encouraged to offer extra physical activities so we're talking about all physical activity here not just within a PE context so would this include um you know prohibiting somebody from saying hey go pick up trash for 15 minutes this one does not this you say would not preclude that from happening I don't see that in this policy there are other policies where it does exist there may be okay so this one um does the dress recess addresses recess for all elementary school students but it doesn't address the question that you had about discipline For Recess Miss Conklin did you have a comment about this please I mean for discussion we need a second questions of clarification from staff is is just open for board members yeah to engage in discussion all right so we have a second on the substitute motion um please please feel free sorry um I guess just as a Avid renter cross-country coach I see like physical exercise and opportunities to run or um or to be physically active as a privilege so I think when we um use things like running running laps as a punishment it just in my mind creates like a negative connotation about running and I just don't think it really supports an overall wellness policy so I see I I see it as physical activity running laps those are things that are privileges you know and not to be seen as a punishment and to address Mr Lando's question if you do go down to section five I was looking under physical activity physical fitness but if you go down to section five there is a criteria that says uh addresses using physical activity as a reward addresses physical activity not being used as a punishment addresses physical activity not being withheld as a punishment and that's on page 22 of the PDF of the rubric under promotion and marketing oddly enough in that case if I may ask Seth where remind me where does this rubric come from it says medulla thank you it does okay so it's a requirement that we go through this rubric and assess ourselves at least once every three years is that correct yes and then we do get reviewed and audited on that and just to repeat and since it wasn't over the microphone that the assessment tool comes from the state yes okay thank you okay are there any other um is there any other board member discussion uh on the substitute motion okay see none um let's go ahead and do a roll call vote starting with um Mr tennis eye um it's all be no Robinson no Kong and no Lando no okay it fails and so we'll move to uh the thanks fence we'll move to the next motion which is the original motion on the table which is to approve the this policy as it is amended in red and published any other um discussion from the board um yeah and it's not the reasoning behind not use not withholding PE or not withholding physical activity as a punishment is really uh very well backed up by research I believe it's also promoted by all of our national medical associations as well so um I don't want to think we're being crazy Radical by doing something that almost every expert in the field agrees is a is a good idea yeah I agree I think that our trauma-informed practices that we've been you know really focusing on in the last at least seven years um lean into that quite a bit that the research is you know you don't want to use forms of punishment that is actually something that we want students to engage in in a healthy way just like member konkin said which is why I also didn't want to make that make that change on that item so um seeing no additional discussion um I will go ahead and just call the vote um starting with myself because I haven't started yet tonight so Dolby um I yep Robinson I konka Knight Randall I tennis may all right it passes four one thanks everyone uh I'm kind of like watching the clock I kind of feel like we should have maybe taken a break but also we're getting close to the end how's how's the how's the group feeling okay cruising okay keep let's keep cruising then got it moving right along to 9.2.4 discussion action resolution 1608-2-3 committing fund balances presented by Jacqueline Krueger yes good evening board so we in our office we are actively working to put together the original budget for next school year for 23.24 which will be presented at the next board meeting in June and in anticipation of preparing that original budget we are looking at new revenues coming in from the state next year with a cola of 8.22 as proposed right now through the governor's May revision what that will do is that will drastically increase our fund balance with those new dollars coming in and not all of those dollars being fully budgeted at original budget um and there is statute that says for a district our size we can't have more than 10 percent of our of a reserve essentially so I'm coming forward this evening um asking for approval of the resolution that's on your screen for 12 million dollars to be allocated in three ways two million dollars for information technology infrastructure and Associated software to make sure our Network stays safe two million dollars in transportation vehicles and then air marketing eight million dollars for compensation and acknowledgment that we are working with our bargaining units I do um first of all I want to be super clear that we're doing this just basically to get it on the books in a way that is compliant with the state right absolutely okay and secondly um once we make this resolution we could potentially move this money around if the need arose through another action on the board right absolutely okay yes so it does earmark the dollars they have to be spent as stated in the resolutions but the board can take action at a future meeting to reverse it change it at the through the board given that are there um how did we come up with the uh the two two and eight numbers in terms of where the where the money ended up so I'm looking at our existing ending fund balance the new money's coming in um to make sure that we're under 10 and we would need about 12 million dollars to do that um the 8 million compensation is a rough estimate based on our current calculations related to a formula with our bargaining units Transportation Vehicles there is new regulations that have gone into effect through the air quality management District that diesel buses will no longer be able to be purchased in the state of California after March of 24 and so we are trying to get on the front end of that because we can't do electric vehicles for a district exclusively in our district we have sports and we have outlying routes that would require diesel vehicles so we're trying to capitalize on that and lastly information technology and talking with John Vincent and the ed services team that is such an integral part to our educational program at this point that we need to make sure we have dollars set aside so if a server goes down that we can replace it quickly in that nature wonderful thank you so much for that was all my questions um okay we do not have any public speaker signed up for this and so if we're done asking questions to clarification I will ask for a motion I move approval of the resolution 16 oops oops 1608-23 second all right we have a motion from Member Robinson and a second from member konkin um the last of it was not unanimous so we will do another voice uh Voice vote roll call vote I'm starting with member Robinson Robinson I Dolby I I should have actually asked for number discussion but since nobody interrupted me I assume that it's okay all right rolling right through um so it was unanimous thank you we're moving on to item uh uh 9.3.1 this is a discussion action item about our July board meeting and um presented by a board discussion essentially I move we don't have one second discussion do we have a potential date for if we did have one when it might be thanks what is it like that you get my calendar out right 16th or something like that I forget whoops July 19th I believe yes July 19th say that again please July 19th if we were to have a July board meeting it it would be on July 19th and when is our August meeting I think that we also only have one in August 19th August 23rd okay August 23rd so what we're looking at is a gap of the very end of June um to August 23rd of no board meetings with the caveat that we could always call a special meeting if we needed to you know earlier in August if something came up um we always know that we have that that capability um if it was urgent but hopefully we'll be able to handle our all our business in June and give the give the District staff and especially Erica some needed uh breathing space for at least a few weeks yeah and just to be clear we'll still be working the district office will still be open it would just not be having a prepping and having a board meeting about how many hours goes into board meeting prep on average a lot I Erica do you want to venture I guess please it's pretty much her job it's a lot of time thank you Erica I was up for a very non-specific answer a lot okay so we have a motion in a second right it was just for clarification we would still be just doing one August or would we add a second we would still be doing one August planned but if something we always have the ability if something comes up and you know we we hit our lcap meetings in June and go oh no we really do need to revisit this in four weeks or as long out as we can but sooner than what we had originally planned we can always set a special meeting or an additional meeting I mean did we have a second I'm sorry I thought we did have a second yeah so just as we do have a public comment on this item oh great thank you um I almost rolled through sorry Julie we didn't take a break so I think some of us are getting a little antsy hahaha I think it just I think it would behoove you guys just to have a meeting I mean that's a long Gap you got a lot going on have a workshop have something in one of these big ticket items right get you this have a workshop I mean nobody else gets this time off to be honest with you you need two Americas so you need to hire two so that she doesn't so overburdened because yeah she should I'd give her all the time off to be honest with you but yeah I think you you got a lot going on here you can't just skip out for two months and then come back and we're slammed with all this stuff that's still happening have it on the Wi-Fi there's a lot of you know generated a lot of Buzz with what Sasha had to say have a whole Workshop just on that whole thing let's do a big let's have all these you know Wonderful I.T students from all these high schools come in here and take those little gadgets and go around the classrooms and see where these Wi-Fi devices are sending off these crazy signals that are impacting stuff that might be a fun one so at least do something but just skipping out for two months just sounds like the wrong move thank you okay um so you know additional public comment um I think that we are ready to vote Oh I thought we were gonna discuss yeah I had to I just to come because that I kind of mentioned on the reason why I voted no on the Inspire uh thing in June um to me that is way too soon coupled with our two lcap meetings um I know that there are deadlines but they aren't as um in my opinion drop dead deadlines as they might seem and that I think that given some more time to um have the meetings that we already have scheduled on the issues of inspire that July 19th might be a good Target for instead of June yeah it's kind of like split the difference there we have had a lot of long meetings lately and I am concerned about what might pile up if we don't have a July meeting that said we'll have a better idea of what's going on with the inspired situation at the end of June specifically so I would like to keep a July meeting on the books and then bring this exact same issue up at the end of June when we have a slightly better idea of whether we would be setting ourselves up for a really hard time in August we're needing a special meeting yeah I would like to table this until uh at the end of the June meeting so are you offering a substitute motion perfect yes um yeah so so one one concern on that I mean in to a agree with your thinking is that July is our annual organizational meeting as well where we kind of lay out our our calendar for the year and have a pretty lengthy discussion about what workshops we want to see come forward and and you know in some cases we can just plan for a few months and then revisit it and plan the rest of it if we needed to um for the sake of length of time um I think my only kind of just uh I wouldn't call it a concern just something to be aware of is that making that decision you know not until our June 28th meeting which is going to be three weeks out this would be kind of short notice I don't know how much in advance you know planning starts to go into board meetings and not not that it wouldn't not that it would be wasted work time but just I don't know just the the amount of pressure and stress that that starts to build I don't I don't know what that looks like inside the office so yeah we currently have the July 19th one on the books so we are currently planning for that but um if we if we're going to change the date still have it and change the date we would probably need to know that sooner rather than later because people do have conference schedules work schedules vacation schedules that go around that and without a doubt we will need Erica to be putting together the agenda and then key staff depending on the topic to be present so right now everybody's on board for July 19th but if there's a date change then has anybody mentioned it change did I missed that has there been a date not a date change just a just a cancellation like like we did last year a date change I mean that's another route we could go is to still have an interim meeting between the end of June and the third week of August and just move the date is also I guess a potential option correct well we have this we have also you know the state budget finalized in the 15th of June um reacting to that is sort of kind of part of the two lcap approvals because they are connected to some extent because of point of order I'm sorry would someone um can we have a quick second or not on uh The Substitute motion just so we can do this by the book The substitute the substitute motion was to table to and if it dies that's fine I just want to be having a discussion while there's the first half of a motion on the table I don't know somebody else figure out where we are I'm lost Tom needs a Tom needs a Tommy's a second Tommy's a second to table um Tom needs a second to his motion to table and your emotion was to table this decision until the June meeting until which June meeting the regular board meeting June 21st the 21st I'll second that motion now we can argue about it to a heart's content not really because I think that that the 21st we we should be able to see really well whether or not we need the July meeting and I'm leaning toward yes we need the July meeting but that's not a decision that we're making right now so okay so are we ready to vote on the motion to table this item until the June 21st meeting any other board discussion before we vote I'm respectfully going to vote no on this just because I don't I think that we should as superintendent said gif an opportunity for you know rest in the middle of summer when school's not in session I think that for purposes of planning family vacations it would be handy to know that we weren't going to have a vacation or a a meeting um we've all been working very hard and I think that we need some quote time off unquote if we can get it I also will say that I think that the lcat meetings in my opinion are longer than they need to be I think that we could get truncated versions of the presentations that we have during lcap season and so I think that any business we need to take care of I think there's plenty of time in the the meeting schedule without the July meeting it's just a bunch of long meetings I have a I have a question this is a Logistics question um does it make sense more sense and I this is like um putting the pressure on you right I don't know if it makes more sense to cancel that meeting the July meeting now with the caveat that there may be something that comes up that we have to put a meeting on the schedule at some point between the end of June and the third week of August is that more ideal of a situation or I mean if we're trying to if we're trying to take out that that chunk of time lengthen that chunk of time in the summer time to give a bit of a bit of a longer break for staff from board meeting planning and the pressures of that um or would it be better to sit on it and revisit it if we know more hoping that we know more by that June meeting so if if we're going to have a beating it would be preferable to just go ahead and have it when it is scheduled now because calendars are built around that currently it becomes very logistically challenging to put together a meeting just even getting the board members to all find a date where everybody's available if it's not already on the calendar okay thank you so you're saying that to to kind of tentatively plan on maybe a second August meeting would be less desirable than just going ahead and having the July meeting yes okay I feel ready to vote well sorry Mr Lena and to be clear this is on the substitute motion yes this is the substitute motion to table to the next regular board meeting Orlando Robinson no no okay so that motion fails we're going to move to the original motion which was to uh cancel the July board meeting yes okay any additional discussion on that well I'm going to vote no on canceling the July board meeting okay I've already scheduled my vacation and conferences in anticipation of having a July board meeting so I'm going to plan on a July board meeting same I mean our schedule as board members I hear the the the needs of staff and I understand that um but the scheduling for us is not super onerous um we have a responsibility to take up the Public's business regarding the school district and I don't think we need to be taking a month off of that any other discussion so right now there is no motion on the floor yeah there is and that motion is to have a July board meeting no the motion was to to cancel the July board meeting you ready to vote we'll start with you Mr Dennis I uh Dolby I Robinson no Kank and I land O'Neill all right looks like we're gonna call off the July board meeting and we're gonna fit as much business as we can in those end of June and take a breather and hopefully nothing catastrophic comes up knock on wood Dolby don't say that um and we will move on to the next item which is items from the floor so do we have public comment on items from the floor at this time thank you I should not open this last water well this is way more intimate than it usually is this is nice and I I prepared something but and I forgot to get on the idea listed on with the speaker card so I wanted to wait and kind of change my Approach and just say uh board uh Ms Conklin Ms Robinson Mr dalby Mr tennis Mr Lando it's my daughter Claire and the 16 year old sophomore at Pleasant Valley uh she loves going to Pleasant Valley she loves being a viking she loves living in Chico She loves being a 16 year old girl she loves it she has a driver's license and a pickup um she just she loves it she loves the Lord she's active in church she sings in choirs she's uh us sings in special groups often and uh she's just a girl she's got to give that let me have that bring up that picture in there a second ago um but she got hurt at the beginning of the school year and she got hurt bad and she got hurt by the way something was handled she she discovered after some time and you already know the story because she's made her statement and I know you're familiar with what she had said but she discovered there was an opposite sex classmate in the locker room with her that she'd been disrobing in front of and and you know I I don't I don't know if you're aware of what bodily autonomy is bodily autonomy says this is mine this is my person I decide what happens to my person somebody else isn't allowed to decide that I have to disrobe in front of a boy for a girl to just rub in front of a boy in fact it can be devastating to put a girl in that situation and I've talked to dozens of women I've been in positions of counseling I've been taught to women often who spent much of their young adult life from from or from childhood to much of their adult life feeling they didn't have control of their own person that there were expectations and obligations probably some of you women here right now know what I'm talking about and it's something they struggled with and something your husband had to help you with is something you had to finally and maybe something you still struggle with but because somebody took away that autonomy and I have by the way Claire's the youngest of my six daughters and two sons and she got a little active about this this is this this just came in during the meeting and there are hundreds of these there was a little picture of her holding signs with a friend at school saying men don't belong in the women's bathroom that's pretty much it here's the here's what she got laughing my a off I am I am I don't know what that means in case there is any confusion I am directly condoning trans people beatings sorry that's the end of your time the F out of straight up foreign public comment okay um so the next item is eleven point two 11 version two uh board member request to agenda as an item are there any additional items that board members would like to request at this time sorry I'm struggling with whether it's I think the discussion about the changing rooms does need to happen in public at some point regarding whether we want to continue our dressing down policy and or whether we want to as we update the facility's master plan includes some kind of different shape in the locker room that provides a little more privacy for individual students what exactly that motion would look like but I guess I'd like to agendize a conversation about um are dressed down policy and privacy in the locker room second all right since we can't discuss specifically unless there's questions that we want to ask from staff we can just go ahead and move into the vote um I don't I would offer a little friendly amendment to this um what's the soonest we'll be making plans concrete plans for for future facilities because maybe we could put a time frame on it like it's not going to happen in the next three months or four months so the next school up is McManus and we're starting that June 5th right those plans have already been approved they've gone through DSA Department of State Architects so it would be the next Elementary School which the board prioritized as Rosedale and that would be contingent on a new Bond in November of 24.
Braylon Harper and Victoria sablad en and Victoria if you could please stand thank you and Victoria I'm going to ask you to stay standing thank you Victoria and Breitling represented the discovery Canyon Campus High School class of 2023 on my student advisory Council they were the DCC student voice to the district leadership for this past year and represented the student perspective with maturity honesty dignity passion and compassion thank you to both Braylon and Victoria for your time and commitment I appreciate you and know that your feedback and input has made a difference thank you [Applause] well today's a big day after 13 years in school you are closing the first biggest chapter in your lives normally I would stand here and say I can only imagine how you must be feeling because let's face it it's been a few years since I graduated from high school however this year graduation ceremonies take on a whole new meaning for me I am graduating with you after 33 years in education I too am graduating not graduating from high school but graduating from a career on June 30th I will officially graduate from a fulfilling career as an educator in Academy School District 20.
do you Mr Lando have any thoughts on elementary schools I mean Lots but not regarding the particular policy so I'm thinking that uh you know secondary schools is really where this comes into play right so maybe this isn't I mean I'm I'm supportive of your and I don't know and while the locker room piece uh in terms of the facilities is important I think that we could have the conversation sooner if it were just around our dress down policy for PE Ace question of clarification could we would we be able to add to that some component of what it might take to update our secondary facilities to just increase some of the the Privacy without causing you know a huge upheaval of the budget so for clarification are you asking about the scope of what that would look like or the dollar value or both this is really just kind of clarifying on on Mr Lando's um motion so um what would that look like a conversation about that would we would want some information from from staff for that I'm just trying to get clarification sorry yeah and I think many of us have had conversations with with staff maybe one-on-one or small groups about how to potentially redo um do you I mean you guys have some sense of the kind of direction we're looking for in terms of um or the the potential ideas we might be looking for very clear on having a discussion about our policy on dressing down for PE I think we could brainstorm we're going to need help on that without a doubt but look and see what other districts have done in terms of creating private space in locker rooms yeah that's in the Chromebook for those two pieces and I think we could talk about those without having to wait for facilities like a moment to change facilities master plan so timeline wise as soon as we can so I I would like to suggest that the board consider this as a big topic and that we consider it when we set our board workshops for the upcoming school year there's been several things that have been thrown out that are big topics and that's exactly what board workshops are designed for and that would obviously be a board meeting so I'm going to be sending out some information on that tomorrow so about selecting our board Workshop topics so the June 21st meeting we'll be selecting workshops that would be August right it would be August August meeting okay yeah let's put it let's let's try and put it on the August agenda then I guess we'll be part of the motion does that seem reasonable how does that fit with our facilities Master Plan update stuff if we were wanting to look into allocating dollars towards you know something along the lines of privacy updates I guess I'd be unclear on that without taking a deeper dive but the high schools are 10 years out oh I know that right so I'm like we would have to be using some of the the residual funds or figuring out where the funding would come from to be able to do those updates sooner yeah so it might not be so much of a facility issue as more of a programmatic issue okay thank you for that so August seems reasonable to staff so I I thought we were having the discussion about board workshops discussing when those would be in August if we're going to agendaize this in August that's going to be I like to get a lot of different information so we may be saying two different things yeah well let's clarify that we would need to get together with all the people the Departments and looking at our district policy on dress codes and working together with again with our key teachers and where we'd be going with that we would want their input we don't want to do it in isolation and I you know yeah Services wouldn't want to say we're doing you know we'd want some collaboration with our Departments of PE Union High in high school Mr Linda so I'm just trying to figure out what the um I guess the we could change the motion so that it was just that this topic ends up on our list of board workshops and then we'll have that discussion when we do in the August meeting okay so you're like now what I'm saying is a move that we well hold on you're withdrawing your original motion yeah okay and replacing it with a motion that says we will make sure that a discussion of privacy and dressing down within the PE program is on our list of Workshop topics that we discussed in August okay hi I'm I'm yeah well because so this is this feels like something different sorry yeah go ahead because you might be having the same thoughts as me yeah I having it as one of the considerations in August yeah okay I absolutely will support deciding tonight that it will be one of our Workshop topics that's not what I was okay okay thank you Tom do we need an agenda item for that specifically no now we don't okay hey you guys can we talk about it in August for real like it will be on the list that I send out to you tomorrow thank you thank you okay all right process process is sometimes are really really good yes I think that we also all um recognize that this is a conversation that we would like to have sooner than later and to get some get something going sooner than later with a lot of things also coming down the line between now and then so great thank you um if there are no other items to agenda is at this time um is there a motion to adjourn second meetings adjourned foreign