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org thank you to Josie and Rich Marino for bringing this special day to our community and Alan I grandkids have gone so many times to see The Polar Express at the cabin and they have a blast it's just so magical it is it is wonderful and uh Beverly bootstraps truck is coming by right now uh the Beverly bootstraps we all know is is an organization that uh really does so much good for our city and for those in need and we want to be sure that we help support them in every way we can in fact we're collecting uh perishables here today uh that that um uh that Beverly bootstraps will will provide thank you Scott hey Mike yeah yeah we've got a couple of our councilors here our mayor is walking the streets right now which is just great really appreciate that uh Matt s ha Mayor Mike uh Scott hman is here and um this is just great and now we have um we have oh this is more of our more of our city councils I think oh look at mac and cheese how are you hey Julie how are you great job great job city council president Julie flowers is coming by on the mac and cheese truck right now raising uh generating some food for uh which will be given over to I think Beverly bootstraps um so oh okay oh here's the um the our letter our letter carriers like I'm kind of cold our faithful letter carriers ensure that letters to Santa are swiftly delivered to the North Pole no stamp is required just hand your kids to a uniformed um post office service be sure to include your return address and Santa is going to reply so this is very excited and you see all the postal workers outside collecting letters for Santa oh there's probably about 30 of them ah come on kids give your lce to Santa you got to you got to if you don't give your letter you can't get a return give you boys and girls wow here's the Beverly midd School band these students are grades 6 through 8th here they come and it's just so exciting that they are able to come come and marching the parade after being on strike for almost 3 weeks so hands off to them fantastic wonderful good job [Music] [Applause] [Music] guys it's it's amazing to see what happens from middle school and then they go to the high school B it's just incredible to watch Beverly Freemasons are coming up right now Liberty Lodge proudly serving the city of Beverly since 1824 the Liberty Lodge is dedicated to Brotherhood charity and community service thank you Masons oh thank you and here comes the dancing witches of the northeast of Massachusetts inspired by the original wolf shagger exob brat of Germany look at those witches be careful They Don't Put a Spell on You are you concerned that they might I am not concerned at all that might work out good for me o and here's our twirling team this is our Starshine twirling team with Erica Clemens the Starshine twirling team is a group of local baton pearlers from across the NorthShore and they're all dressed up in little hats and pink shorts pink pants and they look adorable they they look great they look just great and they are little munchkin they are doing a great job wh and they're throwing those batons up in that air fantastic and coming up you're going to see uh Beverly veterans Council thank you for your service Beverly veterans Council working on Veterans issues and organizing support groups always doing great great work for our veterans who so well deserve it and then we've got the uh Vietnam veterans very also joining us very than you thank you thank you yes Beverly Vietnam veterans right here that's great so happy to see them here I think we've got the uh Beverly PE the Elks Lodge coming up El Lodge coming up right now yes which our contact for that is joore I've known joore for probably 4 years long time yeah yeah speak of the devil Jo Mor who how are you buddy you look good you look good you know when you've been in B for so many years and you're still involved in the community it's nice when all of a sudden let Joe the amori family is a big family here in B Joe's a great guy oh look at this trolley on this is a Salem Trolley Salem the Salem is this a Salem F Bank maybe no Salem Trolley Salem Trolley yeah there you go beautiful hi guys Salem Trolley that's great and we're going to have uh Sal five Bankers coming up oh that's the that's the PE uh Beverly Elks that just went by okay constantly at work donate to the homeless Recovery Center very active in helping veterans they organize a backpack drive for children a hoop shoot and a soccer shoot for the kids many scholarships as well so they're just a wonderful organization the is still coming with a purple truck oh and there's a little moose on top of the truck see the moose I see the Moose you see the Moose who we have all these motorcycles oh look at everybody's all dressed up for the holidays look at the little booties that she has on oh that's so cute very cute we have like the best seat in the house that's we certainly do yeah we really do this is all part of the O they do a great job beautiful all part of the O very involved organization very involved oh now here comes the Salem Five okay saifi Bank uh Mr Brad hunt a fellow rotarian and a wonderful Wonder guy commun very Community oriented and S 5 is proud to support the holiday prade and they do so every single year really lucky to have them really lucky to have them involved with us hi guys oh with all there's a dog on that float with little munchkins oh Salem High School Marching van Salem High they come every year to join us they earn their first in school history gold medal at the Massachusetts instrumental and coral conductors Association State finals and having also placed first in the division 3 New England Scholastic band Association championships wow these guys do some good stuff huh [Music] it does really put you into the spirit it really does yeah they do a great job yeah year nothing like a good Christmas Carol right and this year Hanukkah is starts the same day starts on the 25th so Hanukkah and Christmas actually go together this year we got the official Salem High School Marching Band official vehicles coming by here which is which is good and um and uh oh our names are on the screen here now that's kind of cool uh oh but they did put my name first I what's up with that I think yeah I think Chris hary you're in big trouble now don't you think I should guys I think I should be first oh look at this here's another trolley is this this might be the uh Campbell Funeral Home trolley I don't I don't think Campbell funeral they don't have a trolley oh okay I don't that would be how are you John same to you same to you thank you hi everybody season's greetings that's a party it is it is Campbell funeral home oh okay Campbell funeral homeall familyowned and operator proudly serving ner communities for more than a century Campbell has been here forever andr and this is the current uh the new current uh existed living in Memory Care community um right up here behind us they did a great job with that building beautifulob I went to Northshore way back when and that was the NorthShore Community College building that I when I went to school there and here's M Cuts these guys go and they they'll cut your hair um they'll come to you and cut your hair which is just great Eric Kagney operates a unique mobile barber shop on Wheels wow so kind of a talk about a unique uh talk about a unique [Laughter] love it love it love it love it um so yeah so they come they'll come to you and then they'll cut your hair so but the woman who cuts my hair is standing right across the street over here she run she owns uh a beard main right up here on ran tool Street a wonderful facility as well to to uh to get a haircut uh get a shave you can actually go and get a manicure a pedicure there if you wanted to Al prob to spend the day Emanuel per Pereira electric just went by uh they are Beverly's prier electrician among the LA Shore and Beyond I think here comes the New England Sports League I think coming up I'm going to wait till till I see them are you man I told him you should W log underwear I don't think he' listen to me New England Sports league is a local co-ed you Sports League you don't have to stand there if you don't want to you're you're oh oh okay good okay okay that offers a unique and exciting Sports Experience for athletes AG years old whatever you want to do good good look at that okay so these are kids 14 years old and it's the New England Sports League New England oh look at this look at this little red um Jeep coming up this B same to you same to you I love that oh look at this look at these kids we have grinches and snowman look at we got we got some oh some bad dudes coming up along hand adorable she looks like princesses they are adorable that's the Dance Academy maybe is that what that is no I don't think so no me either this is BET F be best fitness I used to talk before I was numb Best Fitness is dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals through state-of-the-art facilities expert trainers nutrition coaching and a wide range of fitness programs with amenities in the largest weight floors in the area who took Studios like hot yoga and especially classes for all levels and we had them all dressed up as witches and we should have uh at M and Sons I don't know how to pronounce I'm so sorry I don't know how to pronounce the name wow and it's snowing again on C it's a big truck it's snowing again oh here we go here comes the snow over 50 years of site excavation industry as well as Cemetery care services the children on the float are from the north b elementary school hi guys North Beverly Elementary yay thanks teachers [Music] thanks oh the teachers in the in the P this group is wonderful oh oh you would like this I'm coming with you that is [Music] adorable hi wow very nice happy birthday 400 this is uh the truck commemorating Beverly's 400th upcoming birthday as I mentioned earlier in 2026 uh we're going to have a year of our festivities it's going to be a fun fun year so please check us out on uh Beverly 400.

Beverly holiday parade. and Alan I have to say thank you to you because you you've started this parade and you've been organizing it now for many many years and it started as a small parade and now look at thousands of people attending I have a feeling ladies and gentlemen I'm being but it up for something there's something coming but I mean he really do coming yeah I'm not sure what that is but I think at this point everybody's had a long day be Camp thank you so much you guys are wonderful really appreciate all your help and support I love working with you and at this point I guess what we want to say to everybody is happy holidays enjoy your families enjoy the time together enjoy each other and especially thank you Beverly thank you for [Music]

org and here CRS the NorthShore Dance Academy located in danverse under the direction of Tammy Baldock for 30 years they used to have a second location on Cabbage Street in B and we have little ones and probably I would say up to age eight or 10 very nice with the moms and dads in the background very nice Bly Recreation department is is following them beautifully and accompanied by many of their summer employees who run the Beloved camps our grandchildren go to the C camps um at Dicks Park in Beverly Farms as well as Cove Park and of course Lynch Park and they have a blast with all of their friends from school the conf do a fantastic job and um they love going which is wonderful oh here comes the book mob from The Beverly Public Library um the bookmobile has served over Beverly Community for more than 60 years and it visits more than 80 stops within within the city I did that with a Frozen face oh little woman do you remember reading that book little woman this is the Bly High stage right drama club coming up behind me here um they're performing Little Women on Friday December 6th at 7:00 Saturday December 7th at 2 and 7 and then Sunday December 8th wow Little Women they'll be uh be performing at the auditorium at 100 so here Road here in Beverly tickets General ad Mission at the door are $10 for adults $8 for students and seniors so uh yeah there something you want to go see definitely yeah it's all supporting the school so please take the time to go see a beautiful show a beautiful show we're going to be seeing uh the Salem Academy Charter School soon uh they dancing they're coming up and dancing they're coming up on Dancing they are located near the point in Salem Harbor communities for students grade 6 through 12 with a focus on College Prep education and service to the community the dance team is an after school club for middle and high schoolers directed by teacher M Ashley springett [Music] the with BS of I think Alan wants to dance with them I I want to I want to dance I want to sing I just want to have fun good job good job guys the Jubilee yach Club should be coming up uh with a boat yeah and we are members of the club and it's uh carrying on the yawning tradition for over a century it's a private membership based organization Incorporated in 1896 and has over four 400 active members over 400 active members of which we are too which is wonder which is also wonderful because our kids will come they same to you you'll have shows for the kids and all that during the season and in the winter and it's really wonderful the kids have a really and here we have Miss Nancy Nancy parley is is just awesome I'm sorry Nancy purcel uh her team hold amazing cson helps celebrate birthdays across the NorthShore uh Steven with Street treats keep all the B kits cool Street treats right here keep all the kids having fun all summer uh she and Nancy prel is amazing and does a great great job she's a smile on her face all the time I think it's just she's very very very creative on her face she's very very creative it's so involved with the community now and all that which just very which is wonderful Here Comes MBO Mambo MBO Here Comes MBO chips it's the chips right here a mom ball Champs I love it this is just great love it love it they were so much fun to watch our bom ball Champions this year amazing fundraiser for all of Beverly schools to raise funds for the pto's speaking of uh of Educators here come the Beverly teachers Beverly teachers are here I take my GL congratulations congratulations to you awesome this is great we love our students yes we do and we love our teachers too yes yes yes yes thank you thank you good job good job our teachers and our parents got got a new contract and a well-deserved a well-deserved increase and we're so happy for them and we're they're followed by the YMCA Shar track team yeah they're doing a they're doing their thing yeah they're do that thing and having fun and why probably as cold as I swi team here comes the swim [Music] team this is the Y swim team here this is the gymnastics team I think coming up right this the wi gymnastics team oh oh wait a minute it's my pickle Ballers pickle Ballers I tell you Tim Tim flarity here he is right now he does such a great job we could not than him I love this it's like thank it's like awesome awesome this Kaki from the Y they are so helpful to our community I remember talking to Tim one day I like we need pickle ball and he put pickle ball in the water why we probably have six courts going all the time they cannot do enough for us so Tim and kavaki thank you so much for all of your support just great just pickle ball is a big deal it's been at the wi since October 22 uh it's recognized one of the Premier pickle ball sites the UI and the NorthShore this is the NorthShore ballet I believe um okay this is gave me a whole list of what I should be saying and I'm talking shocking for those of you that know her just complete shock so come see the NorthShore ballet perform The Nutcracker at the cabit on December 20th through 22nd and I think the kids would really I think we as adults would enjoy it but I think the kids would also enjoy it and here's the Carefree boat club look at this boat wow boting without owning we own the boat you have fun it will located in danas Boston Gloucester and then you're can enjoy complimentary access to 160 locations okay and I think what I'm hearing right now is the dver high school band um last December the band traveled to Honolulu Hawaii to perform at the Pearl Harbor 82nd anniversary of the attacks this is quite a band they they join us every year they do an amazing job they really need to listen to and we really appreciate they having them at SP our parade [Music] [Applause] [Music] pick up the Champa Dance Company Champa dance Premier Dance School in a Shore having been in business over 85 years offer dance classes for students ages 2 and up you know Alan we really left out we watched the Macy's Parade on on on Thanksgiving day and it was pouring rain it's a beautiful day a little cold but it's not raining and the sun is out on the left side of the street it's beautiful there's a dance team right here look at these kids look at that they're dancing I feel like I can't move cuz I'm an ice cube and these kids are out here dancing well they're moving we're not [Music] moving we should we see uh sparer dream princess parties coming up in a minute uh fairy tale princesses Heroes and more make magic for guests of all ages at parties and events across New England happy holidays from as they say from our Castle to yours well what's really nice is when our kids see all the princesses down at the high school and everybody's getting ready to start with the float and the kids go over and see the princesses and like the real princesses and their eyes are wide open they get so excited when they see them it was like we have so many pictures of our grandkids with the princesses it's beautiful oh and here comes Cinderella at the back and we have Belle we have Frozen Ella and Ella and and Ella where my kid Happ with this should be looking now at the Beverly Cub Scout Pack 2 uh founded on principles such as honesty community service respect and personal growth the pack encourages boys and girls to learn new skills develop character and engage in outdoor activities they focus on building friendships teamwork and Leadership qualities as a supportive environment they're also going to see here Beverly Cub Scouts Pack 4 participates in special events throughout the year including service projects pinewood derby and camping and they're going to be followed by the Cub Scout Pack 49 and then the Girl Scouts are Beverly and the Girl Scouts the a theme this year is Schubert yeah so let's watch for Schubert watch for Schubert all right these are the Cub Scouts May and we have the Girl Scouts and we have Schubert on the top of the car and the Girl Scouts want to make sure that we mention that we are more than cookies there they are wonderful and Shubert on top Shubert's right on top of the car right there I see him he's right on top of the car message we got the message good job guys good job that was [Laughter] [Music] close and here we are with um with the farms uh noov mov Benchmark realy good job girl got the pro got got the proof I love it thanks that is great oh hey flag okay all right well you know what I'll take a flag thanks Don thank you here's the Farms um Pride Fourth of July committee coming up we went through of wow well you know what it's a beautiful thing to go through look at this we all should have more the Farm's a nonprofit organization that provide several events to celebrate the 4th of July in our Comm community and they offer epic fireworks display that we have been going to for years and years and years that's going to blow off um but the flag these are probably Roc students holding this flag it is tremendous did you see this alen look at the flag I haven't seen it yet no wow no very nice very same to you Merry Christmas happy holidays hey guys rooc beautiful Junior RC from the high school holding this big beautiful American flag wonder wonder talk about patriotic that is just beautiful just beautiful good job good job and here comes our Beverly School softball league we are Rec recreational softball league in bevly and our players are from kindergarten through 8ighth grade and here they are very nice hi kids very good [Music] in the throwing out candy hi adorable they look a little cold but they're doing good and uh Beverly little league is next no cheer cheerleading we should yeah vas cheerleader should be coming up uh cheer at B High School not yet not yet who's coming up little munchkins again oh this must be the uh the girl softball league um recreational softball league in Beverly players from K through eighth grade these the boys okay well these are boys whatever M Massachusetts crating 75 years oh Champion baseball Champion great and they have Champ the Champs the Champs the are the Champs district 15 Champs I love it I love it love it love it that was so cute that was so adorable Paul gentiy gen gly Brewing right here wow all right so we should be seeing the uh the youth field hockey group come up soon or the CH lead somebody's going to be coming I I can let you know they're little this is Beverly youth oh this is bever field hocky y so Beverly youth field hockey was established in 2022 in 24 they had over 120 players making Beverly the second largest field hockey program in Northeast Massachusetts have a kindergarten program through seventh and eighth grade division and two select [Music] teams over there I get so excited I'm up I'm up I'm up here we go oh oh there's my so there hey ladies and gentlemen this is the Beverly youth football and chair team this is uh cheerlead in an organization to FR to you the opportunity to participate but this season they are excited to announce that the Titan Football division title Football division grades 1 and two are the nycfc Super Bowl champions they kick the crap out of r 35-2 Super Bowl champs the Titans congratulations to the Titans didn't they go to Jette Stadium they they may have I don't I don't know where they played good [Laughter] job they may have the cheerleaders are right behind them and um we should have maybe the HB Master coming up next I believe B Hobb Master no he is still a kid nope Panthers no this is Youth Hockey the B youth hockey coming up right now okay here we go B youth hockey hi guys guys [Applause] how you doing good to see you man oh Chris's doing so good I love when all these H here the Harbor Master right now Beverly hob Master coming through right now Beverly hob Master Department do a great job for us here in Beverly very nice good how you doing here the rotary and you're going to see the Beverly Rotary Club of which I am a very proud member committed to creating a welcoming accepting an inclusive environment for all and the necessary necessity of fostering and promoting an environment of diversity equity and inclusion hi [Music] guys oh I love what he's wearing oh here comes Toys for Tots oh hi guys Jamie JY I thought awesome and the B rotary is taking Toys for Tots there season yeah look at this this is wonderful you can bring toys down and they'll just throw it in the truck and they will be delivered to children it's B High School band Sean goodro ladies and gentlemen president the Beverly rot club and the Beverly High School band Beverly High School band Beverly High School Beverly High School Panem marching band the band comprises some 80 students representing grades 9 through 12 led by drum Majors Audrey Talbert and Oliver swatman the director of the band now in his 21st year at B Public Schools is Adam Costa very nice and they also had a lot of parents when the student when the teachers are not working They Were Striking you had a lot of parents that were helping these BS for practice and all that my buddy Kyle m is coming up right here now ladies and gentlemen hi guys absolutely just a great job Northshore Bank Here Comes Linda turot and the Beckman look at this oh I think we got Mrs Mrs Santa is coming right through right here right now was right now with the Beckman I love it I love it I love it awesome y beautiful you look beautiful beautiful no but look how warm they are oh look at this oh gy who's coming uh-oh we may have we may have the big guy coming through right about now I think and you know who's in the sleigh with Santa is our granddaughters along with the Stant Jo look at this in the noack I look at them I love it we have we have Abby and we have Ally and Kinsley and Lexi and Stella and Harper and then the mom's in the back this is awesome and this Santa hi Santa merry Chistmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Santa Claus hi Merry Christmas and we have no backs I love it I think I daughter looks Frozen that's okay so is our father well I think that almost almost ends our we have the um ends our holiday parade welcome into the holidays we have more fire engine yeah there's some more trucks coming through here we go dou Emergency Management oh that's a cute little C this would be fun to drive in oh yeah yeah oh that would be fun Merry Christmas I like your car same to you same to you definitely ambulance coming through Emergency Management RIS responders are so necessary and important and and and just such do such a great great job they really do some more fire trucks coming through thank you and Allan another great year and another great year Well it certainly has been it's been another beautiful parade and and I do want to just thank our sponsors and partners again one more time um and we want to certainly want to thank our sponsors uh North Shore Bank uh mcj Insurance Agency lesie sray Insurance Agency the Sterling Insurance Agency Institute for savings Salem 5 we want to thank the Marblehead Bank for supporting us tempkin Financial Group and Blink Fitness really really appreciate all the help and all the support we also want to thank Bev cim for doing an amazing job today thank you so much along with medley Creative Group and special thank yous also to the Beverly police Police Department particularly uh Sergeant Dana Nicholson who I had the pleasure of working with every year to to run this parade and uh he just does an amazing job as do all of the officers on The Beverly Police Department we really appreciate your support and we appreciate all the all the ways to all the things that you do to keep us all safe here in the city also want to thank my our parade committee here for doing such a wonderful job putting this parade together every year John Kenny Steve Crowley Ray Novak Linda turkot Conor and Chris Mooney and for any of you that would like to get involved with us and help us out a little bit we certainly would appreciate it just go to www.

every Tuesday morning and you know you're you're cutting off who are putting their kids on the bus and it was all you know it just all older guys that made this policy without ever thinking about like well how's this going to impact people other than me um that's really the make the equity approach being making sure that the policies that we have are considerate of the diversity of people that exist that they impact and if you wanted to change it to that language I think that was the intent of the conversation so that the our um it say in basically everything that we do policies programs curricul professional development procedures through I think using an equity approach but I think most everything we do we try and do that I agree yeah but again that's new language that that those two words cover everything that was it's no long it's not in any of our other policies you know what I mean that that's been in the policy that we've been reviewing right not this this state that statement is new that's not what you just showed us on that other it's completely different that was in the yeah that was in there it was just number eight instead of number seven because I cut one of them out um based on the recommend I think that's what it what it was so did that the original number seven go away no the original number three was one that we took out but I never renumbered it when when we collectively looked at it before we had one work actively to encourage Advanced academic opportunities for students regardless of race ethic or whatever we had collect itively taken that out before even giving it t it but I didn't rumber it the clean version renumbers it um so in the version history so see we had three here that's I took it out when I did the clean version because we had all the these marks in here but it was eight in the old one okay and so oh so we had 10 instead of nine right and then that's why the numbering changed seven in the old version can you scroll to that is now six it's now six but cleaned up right and the eight is now seven but I neglected in the cleaned up version to take the promotional out I guess right yeah I don't understand what that promot was supposed to be yeah I don't know why I don't know what that was there from I don't know if that was from language that we were playing with before and I just didn't I yeah I regret I apologize I didn't pull that out of there I missed it the strike through um but you know certainly we could look at that if if Equity approach is of concern um I mean it's my concern I don't further Define it maybe but this is this is again we go back to we strive to these are aspirational yeah it is not require us to we would like in a perfect world that's what we're going to do you know we're not going to sit and go through every existing policy I think that when we review policies when they come up yes we do that yes we just try and say to ourselves at that point in the process a lot of the policies let's face it a lot of the policies we review are legal there's not there's not room to say what do you think how do you think other people would interpret this you know actually most of the policies we reviewed tonight are just legal updates um but but when we do go through policies and we're looking at things where latitude exists is this going to impact anybody that maybe we're not intending and just take a step back well we so it's just you know the concern I think Adam's concerned we're not going to go through every existing policy program curricula professional development every procedure and look at it when an equity approach when each when they come up we're going to look at it that way right yeah we're committed to yes to do yeah but I can see where I I can see I'm concerned with that in that we're striving to we're not saying that we're going to go and look at every every existing piece of paper in the entire um that usually we don't like to have language that's subject to interpretation that much so I'm thinking about the point making and what language would kind of make that clearer that we don't intend at the next policy meeting post adoption to start with policy 000000001 you know or something like that um so well I'm I'm just more wondering what Equity approach is that's well I think the equity approach could be better defined too um as I just you know said with that it's considerate of diverse perspectives and the impact that are are we meeting diverse needs of our community of the people who live in our I feel like just read a whole page and a half of what an equity approach would be yeah so before we get to well a whole page so an equity approach means that we go back and make sure we're paying ATT to the diversity of all these things diversity as with respect to race Creed color ethnicity national origin An ancestry religion sex gender identity which is essentially a non-discrimination policy is that what the non-discrimination policy says I suspect it does I mean a lot of this language sounds familiar from other policies I I made this point several times that we we have all these things in our policies already for the most part certainly all the inflammatory language has gone uh and because it seems to me when I read it it's we're not really talking about Equity anymore we're just talking about equality like you know that uh that second paragraph We Believe Equity is recognizing the value of each and every individual and reducing and eliminating bar barriers to wellbeing which essentially just is equal access to education which is what we've always stood for um and uh and recognizing valuing each and every individual that's just you know generally accepted definition of equality so so there is a difference between equity and right well that's kind of the point I'm making is that Equity is it's it's all of the conversations we've had Equity is not equality normally so that's why I asked the question are you saying you know how would you define that we could go number seven I just tried word smithing um to a degree to address consider the diverse needs and perspective those in the community when reviewing existing policies program Etc to ensure educational equity for all students in that new policies program and um reflect those uh reflect that reflect those needs and perspectives I don't think you need to the extent that that review it does sound directive like you will go back now and do that so I think tried to change that language but also Equity approach kind of operationally Define that in the sense that it you're considering the diverse needs and perspectives of those in the community that does that make sense is that an upgrade from where you sit from the from what was there Adam um that that's just that specific number seven well if that's what Equity approach means right are we're defining this we're I like this better you do this rather than the well it starts out with review which is well that but but it's in there so we have that now it's just rather than it sound sounding like hey you got to go do this now call Action now as we go forward certain makes it much more aspirational than which is what this list is yeah yeah there nothing on here is than review do or die yeah but it's what we should be doing I mean we're adopting this as a policy to because we're saying you know we should be shooting for this these are things that we as a community believe and we think that there should be multiple Pathways to success to meet the needs of diverse kids and that we're going to collectively you know work to address and eliminate um practices that perpetuate discrimination but is it the thought of this committee that equity and equality are being used interchangeably no well Define it and where you see the problem the the definition I'm familiar with is that equality is equal access equal opport Equity means equal uh outcome yeah we don't none of I don't think anything in here says equal we're going to guarantee equal outcomes for everybody there there's a lot of diversity you know um would suggest that as a as a parent of multiple children you don't necessarily give equal amounts of supports to all of so you have three children because your children each need different things they have strengths and they have weaknesses that are different from each other so equal means that you give all three of them exactly the same thing Equity means you give each of them what they need I no I would disagree with that but I I don't see but I don't know where that's relevant in this policy Adam where do where do you see that well this is an equity policy yeah not an equality policy so and the entire policy dances around what the intention of the policy is the to be the original version was probably a much more honest version of what this policy was now it's which was what like I I mean Mark had refer our last me referred to it as a diversity equity and inclusion policy right this is not that anymore what is it's just it's just uh non-discrimination policy basically I I I think this goes maybe a little more specific than nondiscrimination yeah I think this um I I would characterize it as going Beyond non-discrimination in the sense that non-discrimination uh basically says you know you can't um make you know judgments based on these things you know that um whereas this says again aspirationally that we're not just not making judgments based on people's race ethnicity Etc but that we are um actively seeking out where challenges to these things exist and supporting access to all kids uh and community members and we're also um trying to be real conscious and aware of the different perspectives and needs that exist in the community and incorporate those perspectives into decisions that we make whether they be for new programs or policies or whatever the case may be um which I think you know the the non-discrimination policy is kind of like the base level I literally this is the minimum required by law um whereas this policy to go beyond that to indicate that we're being inclusive of diverse perspectives when we make decisions that affect our school Community another great point this is not required by law correct correct that is correct I guess in that paragraph right there it says we believe equity and then we're defining is recog in and valuing so that's our definition of of equity in this policy so I think this is the cleaned up version based on what the um attorney has said certainly leave it in your hands though where we going from here this is uh moving forward for third meeting or this was the third meeting is this the third meeting this is the third reading of this policy then the um we only have one other item on the agenda for tonight and then if we want to hit that and then do that you guys can move anything forward that you'd like um so the electronic devices policy we wanted to um before we changed the policy for recall we wanted to do surveys of stakeholders per the best practices or whatever that was sent out and so I reviewed some different ones I sent I worked with our admin team um to have to create different surveys for different buildings uh to get just different perspectives of grade levels and things like that so um CPS is updating policy around cell phone use in our schools as such we are soliciting your feedback around current and future policy your feedback will be an important consideration in the formulation of future policy thank you for taking a few minutes to complete the survey if there's anything else you would like uh consider email Dr solent my email so I think we one of the questions that came up last time was like What if all students say we don't want a cell phone policy it is consideration um current cell phone Expectations by grade level these are the current cell phone expectations at each School talk k36 yeah walkie-talkies that's that's a popular Christmas gift whatever you can't bring bring them into schools can you use them on the playground um if there were certain I think we would consider it talk to your principal we used to take them skiing with kids that's so it's take a separated then yeah so we have it at each you know these are direct from the uh schools and their handbooks Etc so to what degree do you agree with the statement that elementary students should not be accessing cell phones during the school day including L stud Etc and this is going to the students this is uh parent oh parent okay yeah to what degree do middle school students I think I want to bold these I accept the let's see so there's no question should not so like if we walked into a cafet a a do lunch or a high school lunch um right now would we see kids on their phones during lunch um DOD no the high school um probably yeah um so on dot is it if a kid a phone from their bag or something it's the the one put it away oh okay yeah it do so that's between 7:30 and 2 it uh excuse me between 8 and 245 it you know cell phones prohibited during the school hours kept in your locker keep it on your person whatever is there the exception though not at the middle school the exception is only if your teacher says you should take it out now or something no the exception for kids who might be monitoring their blood pressure oh yeah yeah yeah blood sugar yeah of course if you've got a health plan that says you need to have it but even then you shouldn't have it out during the day if you have to for that purpose the teacher knows yeah if beepers are going going off all over the place right so to what degree do you agree uh with the statement that high school students should not be accessing cell phones during the day including lunch study hall Etc so this is parent perspective so um I guess especially at the high school now since you since it's sort of a zero tolerance at the middle school should at the high school level should that question be broken out between class and uh lunchtime we could consider that yeah I don't know know because you could you could potentially skew the answer because if a a parent is like well definitely not during class but lunch I don't know and then so you got a A more lukewarm answer you know what I mean yeah or is that is there question to we do start to roll into um to what degree do you agree with the statement that cell phone expectations that exist in my child's School are working well and so you got to reference back to your your child's school can yeah can I ask you so right off the bat are we going to know whether the parent who is filling this out is a parent of high school schoolers yeah yes middle scho so each or element yeah so this one you know there'll be a version CHS parent DOD parent do little parent um because that'll also give us feedback and I I thought about doing it you know all on the same survey but the um results get so like washed when you've got a kid in different buildings um I don't know that and I I wanted to try and restrict it to the one building especially when it says to what degree do you agree with the statement cell phone expectations that exist in my child's School are working well so all all the doitt parents May the average doitt may be strongly agree and the average it you know Chapman be maybe strongly disagree they've got the same exper that's an enforcement problem so with a parent of a child in elementary at do one at do and one at the high school fill out three they'd get three separate surveys yeah and the survey is short enough that you can take three and not feel like you're killing yourself at the time I shouldn't say kill myself because it's showing up on Gaga possible questionable content super thank God now Marlene will have to review yes she's going to have to make sure I'm okay but anyway so um so it's a pretty brief survey it'll give us some interesting information to review and evaluate as we go back now if for example that my child's School are working well if the average there is like four and a half on our schools like do we need to we can just adopt current as policy at that point if it's one and a half then we need to take a real close look at what do you recommend to improve the expectations maybe we need to go back and drill down get some more information so they can write in yeah there's an open-ended for parents who want to do that then we have a student version again for the different buildings yeah same part I'm real curious to see who put this together this survey I didn't I'm real curious to see what high school kids think about elementary and middle school access to cell phones real Curious it'll be so interesting if all our high school kids say like absolutely they should not should not have that's how I'd answer it is that a spite or concern yeah yeah I bet a lot of high school kids would say say I wish I didn't have access to cell phone when I was in that is the another perspective yet it's a regret of early exposure that's actually what in my book club the anxious generation book club with the high school kids that's what they were saying um did they wish they never yeah had exposure and I would love to talk to Middle School me and tell them stay off the Instagram and all that business will uh will the students have time in school to do this like during advisory or something like that yeah we can give them school time I mean it's is it's not going to take long but just to you know see if we can get get more kids participating yeah yeah yeah we want more feedback you know not me just sending it out is probably not going to get tremendous feedback yeah so it's basically the same questions staff same questions so we're going to send it out uh on their cell phones via Instagram could the survey be distributed um within like um their health class or something like that because don't they they speak about issues like that yeah but not every student especially like at the high school they wouldn't all have it the the way health is spread out you wouldn't get to everybody it different they have advis time cuz you have them like in the Middle School you have it every fourth day for the year so yeah you could do it there but at the high school you might only you'll have it a quarter so a lot of kids wouldn't have it we do an advisory be easy well yeah it's in well in my day health class I think was like freshman year or something like that wasn't it so yeah you're not getting you're probably not even getting all the classes either right yeah uh yeah you're not going to get a full snapshot by just going into that you'd have to do it by like going into math or something that I could guarantee that every student almost every student is taking at the same time yeah right so yeah I speaking from the Middle School perspective where everyone yeah yeah so I know we talked a little bit about you know policies ultimately getting reviewed by a curriculum but there's only that's for say School climate but the only other circumstances if if the survey especially if it's getting Federal funding or whatever and even then it's um political affiliations Etc psychological problems sex illegal self-discrimination or self-incriminating behavior critical appraisals of others um legally recognized privilege or analogous relationship such as those of lawyers Etc income religious practices these surveys don't touch on any of that so if you're cool with the surveys we can try and get them out and take a look at them in January let's take a look at the results see how they so this has to go to the full board no oh it doesn't because it doesn't it's none of those issues the safe School climate survey will go to the full board because we had a special car out in that policy for that but this is pretty straightforward so I'll plan on issuing survey you know soon and then we'll get the feedback and we'll get a chance to look it over at the next Mee okay we don't have to take an official Vote or anything right on this no yeah okay I'll say I support it there you go that I think it's great it's you're real curious yeah yeah it's it's short and sweet yeah so I want High compliance so made it real real short and it's pretty simple once you've read the first question you get it for middle high school and then you just have two others one question that you have to answer one that you don't it's pretty pretty quick survey and should give us interesting information to review all right so and also to see the difference between parent responses to student responses is going to be to staff yeah a staff perspective too so where do they where do they fit in on the survey do they go students they go parents there's a whole separate one for St yes so I'll send one to staff I'll send one to students send one to parents and staff being the teachers too yeah yeah they that might be the most varied yeah actually did the uh the schools that are now using those fancy uh pouches and stuff did they did they go through these steps too or were they more just sort of most of them imp just did it and but you know they're we're getting good compliance at Dot from what I hear yeah without it without it and you know how much those things they're expensive is all get expensive but they're also it's also very confining I feel like time consuming and other than that I mean psychologically what the students how the students will react to locking up their phones is different than being asked create Rebellion be part of a community and put your pH we will get your compliance through locking things up yeah yeah yeah yeah and sometimes you got to do that but you know but we don't yet we didn't see the issue me you know reaching that where we couldn't do it by not all as a staff doing enforcing it and I think at the same time I think well we may all agree that really it's the problem the problem is the device yes but it's not it's what's on the device and most likely what happens outside of school right that's yeah you know that's why like you said like smoking you smoke at school and then you leave property you chain smoke yourself all day but you know and that's we put out a video recently about accessing you know this is a season where you get a lot of people buying cell phones and stuff today's like Tech Monday or something right Cyber Monday or something and uh you know look at some of these Alternatives that don't have all those social media platforms on them when you buy them right out of the store um so we put out inform to that effect to our parents and hopefully you know the the tide will turn a little bit more education I it's interesting how even those those phones that were being promoted at the event yeah where they still have texting on them yeah and so that just goes to show that's a general communication isn't isn't the problem because that's not being manipulated right like social media manipulat and on those pin wheel phones you can dictate as the parent who the child receives texts and can send text to you know maybe they got three F friends the texts show up still on your phone they you can you know family members can text Grandma can sense Pary text but not everybody else well it's too bad because like on I don't know about an Android on an Apple phone you can control that through the age of 13 right I don't know why it's only 13 right but yeah you know and once you get past 13 that's well that's on social media you can have an account after 13 right so yep you I know why is 13 personal experience well that's the have a handle on what your kid is doing by the age of 13 it's lost it's out of your control at that point all right all right so we need to move yeah we need a motion to move to eliminate that one do this so we're moving the Bertram Title 9 and the but we call vir non-discrimination or is it just it's a revised non-discrimination new version a new version and new version from attorney for the sexual so do we need a motion for that to move that yeah so we're we're gonna um make a motion to move these for first readings motion so we but we don't need to say that we're taking the other one from the third reading we're just just just going to move the other on move it back to First reading yeah so we're going to indicate that these are um new versions for first readings okay and we're going to say that um these are versions for second readings that we we don't even have to acknowledge this this just dies on the time then we can say you know if you want to move these for third readings um and then down here there's nothing you have to do with this like the electronic device or whatever that's just for discussion we're good want to take that so moved so where's Carol when you need it so do we have a motion to move 0521 and 4000.1 42 100.1 and 51 4544 for first reading mve okay so in second theair yeah I'll second there you go you should be asking for the motion in a second I did ask for the motion Adam second all in favor unanimous okay so for a second reading all right motion for uh make a motion for the second readings I I'll make it um move that the policy uh 42125 security uh check fingerprinting criminal justice policy 41851 rights responsibilities duties social networking policy 6148 FAFSA completion program and 6172 alternative education program be moved for a second reading second yep thank you all in favor yep unanimous and these only these two not the strikeout one would be for third readings uh policy 0523 equity and diversity and policy 5114 suspension and expulsion process policies be moved for third reading second I'll second it can I second it yeah okay all in favor two opposed okay and uh uh for the record I'm not opposing the the process uh yeah maybe we should break those out then okay so do you want to redo the whole motion then yeah okay yeah so to send policy 0523 equity and diversity for a third reading I will second that all in favor two opposed thank you motion for 5144 5114 uh move that the 514 suspension and expulsion due process be moved for a third reading second yes move to a j second all in favor we are adjourned all right

members of the board and attendance president Linda Chavez presid vice president Andres Kinto he hasn't gotten here yet clerk mfam present member can you say yeah yeah we can hear member Andrea FL Shelton here members of administration superintendent hmana here can you all please stand for the pledge allegiance Mr uh for the record uh vice president kto is here at 5:35 U Mr trii think I seen you out there thank you we made an announcement to the public that interpretation Services were available earlier oh thank you yes yes anything else Madame President uh not at this moment thank you I I can repeat the message if you want for those people who need a Spanish interpretation we have headsets available in the table outside and we also have Vietnamese interpret an interpreter Vietnamese interpreter available for the public if if they need it that's great thank you thank you okay um Mr said that real quick can we get a chair from Mr roel okay first I'm going to call uh Miss Francy uh she's from the Santa Clair County Office of Education um there's so many people in the room I don't know if she's here there you go thank you can you hear me just hour good [Music] evening are we good yeah we're good okay uh good evening Co President Chavez border of truste superintendent s uh and all of the community that is here this evening uh my name is Francy Heim I am the fiscal expert signed to Alam Rock by the Santa Clara County Office of Education uh Don ziming and I have been working as a team uh since May of this year and Don zimmering has been the one who's been in attendance at most of your board meetings since July uh and he was not able to be here tonight when I spoke to the board back in May I started by thanking the Board of Trustees for serving the students and the community of alumrock you have an incredibly difficult job of balancing the needs of students and the community with the reality of maintaining fiscal solvency for a district that is diminished in size from over 11,000 students to 7,000 students I want to publicly acknowledge your extraordinary effort since I spoke to you back in May uh to develop a proposal for board action to address your budget shortfall um I also want to acknowledge the the district leadership team for all of their efforts and work throughout these months um meeting with the community and going through a myriad of budget proposals to arrive at a proposal this evening for consideration when I spoke in May um I talked about um answering the question what happens if reductions are not made and I thought it might be helpful again um I know the board is very much aware of the process uh but for members of the community it might be helpful Al to understand something about this process um so i' just like to take a moment and describe the sequence of events that are outlined in Education Code relative to school district fiscal solvency so at this stage um the district is in a finding of qualified certification which means that a fiscal expert is assigned to support the district in their decision- making so it is the district and the board who are developing the proposals and uh we are just here to Simply serve as expert advice throughout that process if action was not taken the the next step in the process for a district that is headed toward fiscal insolvency is a finding of going concern and at that point in time a fiscal expert becomes a fiscal advisor and pursuant to the Education Code that fiscal advisor comes with additional authority to stay and resend actions of the board and move the board closer toward a plan of fiscal solvency if no action is taken to resolve the budget crisis eventually it results in the district unable to pay their bills and needing to go to the State of California for a loan when that happens the district loses and the District board loses control of the school district an administrator is appointed an administrator then makes the decision necessary to balance the budget and as a point of reference I mentions again back in May but it Bears repeating again uh Englewood School District is a a very similar example of a school district that again very similar with over 11,000 students in Decline to around 7,000 students and they have an administrator they have a state loan and that administrator has come in and the administrator has closed those schools so that was the message that I shared back in May um and I know this is incredibly painful for the community this decision weighs heavily on the board and again I I I would like to close by thanking you all for the incredible amount time that you have dedicated in finding a solution to your fiscal solvency thank you um Mr Manny while we're waiting for the slides to go up uh good evening and um you've heard this presentation a couple of times but again there may be people have not have heard it so I'm going to go through it again and highlight some of the key points of the process um that was used so we're waiting for the let me um let me just begin while we're waiting for the slides that um again I want to acknowledge the work of the committee that was involved it was an extremely um challenging process and I also want to acknowledge as Francine mentioned the difficult task that you face in terms of making this very difficult um decision as I'd mentioned before this is a very emotional decision no one is going to thank you for closing their schools um it's not a situation that it that anyone enjoys it is what it is not one of the most difficult uh challenges that a board has to make this is the sixth time that I've been involved with a school closure process when I had to do it myself as a superintendent Consulting with other districts are facilitating the process and it Remains the most difficult decision that a board um has to make it's not only a psychological emotional position I'd mentioned also in the past that it is a political decision you have been threatened by recall people are not happy they get angry and uh it's what makes being on the Board of Trustees of a school district the most challenging elected position there's no other elected position that you have people so close people in your community that know you that you are faced with this kind of um decision I can keep on going if you I know the presentation if you put it up there okay I don't want to take off there there we go that's sorry Karina she's off the screen all right um again a little bit of history and Francine kind of alluded to this um when we've discussed this when I was interim uh the district is faced with a $20 million deficit uh we basically have enough one-time funds to last us this year and then next year and then we're basically becoming solvent we've been assigned a fiscal crisis management assist assessment assessment team who has um reviewed the budget and made a presentation to um to you um back in November we've been assigned a fiscal expert who um has been with us um and uh following the entire process and reviewing the budget the County Office of Education has required a plan of how the budget would be balanced uh assistant superintendent uh Teresa dellis presented that to you earlier and has also given that presentation and our plan to the county office and the board has approved the need for a process to close up to nine schools and again the reason we do a process we want to take in community input we try to do this in a way that that has a smoother staff execution plan and to try as much as possible maintain positive community relations I mentioned if you're part of the community whose school is recommended for consolidation or close it it is not a pleasant process and you're not going to have agreement from no one is going to come to you and say please close our schools as I've been mentioned uh the alternative to closing schools is um basically you can cut programs so it's basically arriving at the way to to close the budget deficit you can reduce employee compensation opportunities it's the only way where there's money can be saved raise revenue through partial tax as I mentioned to you before this district has already been very generous with um one of the the best um if not the best parcel tax in the entire east side and of course as uh you just heard from our fiscal uh expert at the county we can be looking at insolvency there is another there is another option uh and I mentioned this to you because you may not be aware in the early 2000s 2001 Mountain View District and wisman uh District op to merge there were two separate districts uh it was a difficult process I remember very well and um but that was the decision now the district has been functioning for over 20 years um but that is another option that um I should at least mention to you i' already talked about in my opening comments about how difficult this is as an emotional uh process this is a very it's a real loss to people they have emotional ties to the community um it's also very political your elected officials and are subject to and are accountable to the community the assumptions that we entered the process is that the Board of Trustees makes the final decision on this this is your decision um based on uh input uh from the stakeholder committee which made an informed recommendation to the superintendent who in turn has made some recommendations to you and the assumption is of course no one really wants to consolidate or close schools the committee was composed of a parent from each school and as I've mentioned before um the board made it clear that the members of the committee needed to reside within the district boundaries Midway through the process unfortunately it was discovered that one of the members did not reside um within the boundaries of that particular School District or this District and subsequently um uh had to leave the committee there were Key Community groups involved neighborhood associations the management team had representation um the um unions had representation on the committee the executive cabinet was present but not as voting members but as resources the superintendent was present non voting uh again as a fallback a marketing consultant and uh facilitators myself and uh Michael SED again I want to I want to acknowledge the committee this was significant time commitment you're going to see how many times we met they had to take a look at the district looking at the interest of an entire District not just their own school which is makes it very difficult they're under their own pressure from their own community and it took a psychological and emotional toll on the committee it was very stressful and regardless of what happens uh they need to be knowledge for that uh because I know it's been pressing on uh on them during this entire process the administration role was to execute the proc the uh policies of the board and also to provide for the facilitation of the process and the superintendent making the recommendation to the Board of Trustees the superintendent gave the committee a charge and again as you can see it was to um address the $20 million budget um inbalance and the board had authorized a consolidation committee to consider recommending the closure of up to nine schools the committee was to provide a recommendation to the superintendent of up to those nine schools and the superintendent made it clear this was a real opportunity for the district once this hard hard process is over to reimagine ourselves and look to what a new Alam Rock School District can look like as we've mentioned many time the district is land Rich cash poor there just isn't enough funding to to have some of those programs that really support students um and that moving forward this will be available uh to the remaining schools that would be a district with some resources and really able to service and provide the best education polic uh possible for the students as I mentioned uh the facilitator I was one Michael SED was the other and Heather mcon was the marketing consultant these are the meetings that were held the committee received information on the budget on demographics and enrollment as the fiscal adviser from the county mentioned we've gone from 11,000 to 7,000 with a projection in the next four or five years to go down as few as 5,000 students should also be mentioned charter schools have taken their toll and again these are charter schools that have been approved by the county uh not by you and so uh you've had to Bear the responsibility um and the impact on our budget as a result the um committee also received information on programs Human Resources developed criteria and then began a prioritization process even added and willing to meet an an additional meeting and then of course we we've had the public hearing board information which led us today to um board action there were some challenges of this committee the size of the committee I've never worked with a committee this large to have to address an issue this challenging with the number of schools being considered what's going on is going on around us uh neighboring districts are looking is closing anywhere from five schools in one District to three more in another districts the other districts by the way have already gone through school closure so uh all the districts within what we call the East Side Alliance which is the East Side High School District and the feeder districts have all gone through school closures over time the number of schools considers a real challenge to look as many as nine schools left us with a lack of a Runway but what I mean is um with prior work you can you can close schools ahead of time so that the impact is less so you don't have to close as many schools as you're faced closing now but we don't have that Runway because we only have enough funds for this year and next year so there isn't really a lot of time to do this on a gradual basis and we're faced with this um significant challenge of closing as many as nine schools to close that $20 million and of course the timeline was very challenging starting in uh the end of September and completing the work at the end of October the committee received the information that I shared and any other information that was provided um they're allowed to ask any questions there was discussion debate discussion prioritization and then finally agreement these are the criteria that were looked at the asterisks are the ones that had extra weight so for example being close to a charter was given extra weight wait could the neighbor is there a neighboring school to receive the students the capacity of the school received extra weight the maintenance cost of a school enrollment transport is transportation going to have to be provided special education facilities was given extra weight special programs and then any Community special programs I mean for example the Dual emerging programs um within the district and then schools that had received Community grants all information that the committee received was presented to the district as a whole they were uh made available to the community and parents Square um the superintendent held Town Hall meetings and Al uh both through zoom and also went to the sites themselves there been numerous meetings uh explaining the situation that we Face ourselves in and the process that was involved the committee reached consensus actually on seven schools counting Chavez so six schools by Chavez they could not reach consensus in the final three schools the middle schools and so um they were asked to uh come back for a final meeting and in the meantime a group of the committee met separately and came back with an additional scenario to what had been already agreed so there was much debate we only had two hours to address that because we were really expected to be looking at the uh the M the Middle School involvement and uh we could not reach consensus there was a majority based on the committee that had met but there was um several at least five people in the committee who were not involved in that who are not comfortable with that process as a result those final schools were given to the superintendent um and to look at the recommendation um and look in the best interest of the district as I mentioned the recommendation was made to the superintendent the superintendent could accept the recommendation or modify it and then following that Community meetings have been held to allow input to the recommendation by the superintendent again these were open to the community they were both online and in person um as well as the public hearing and the information meeting which you've been privy to where the public public has been able to provide input input directly to you the superintendent considered the recommendations to include the rationale and framing of the recommendation as to why it is essential and how it will benefit the student the district and the students in the future we already mentioned the input was provided directly to you on November 14th of the public hearing again on the 24 the 21st at the information meeting with brings us today um where you are asked to take action to the recommendation and as I've mentioned and I will continue mention having been through this many times um this is the first part of the process the transition that comes following this is extremely important and very challenging we're needing to look at the needs of the students involved in the schools that are being Consolidated or closed and the trans position to the um to their new School parent groups need to come together and discuss um how they will now um be Reinventing their new school staff is impacted um their layoffs as a result both at the management team level a classified and certificated level staff is also impacted with the cultural impact of having to merge with another school their facility ities issues are there um schools that will need additional facilities or modified facilities because of increased enrollment instructional materials need to be transferred and of course at the end a closure um a cultural and an emotional psychological closure for the schools that are impacted um at the end of the year uh to make it a formalized process this time I'll entertain any questions that you might have see no questions from the board thank you um superintendent can you please speak next yeah I I will I I will speak next uh thank you uh President Chavez um let me know when you're ready to with the presentation yes please can we see the presentation present yes let me know when you're ready all right so thank you everyone board president trustees uh tonight what I will be uh recommending is a revised uh recommendation for school consolidation uh closures and also schools that will be redesigned and so can you go to the next slide and I'll give you a little bit more context and like uh Mr barara mentioned uh in his presentation uh you know why you know the closures why the consolidations well we have a 20 million dollar deficit that we need to address and I know you've heard it before I did address address this at the Town Hall meetings and that's a very very large deficit that we need to address and in order for us to continue to um retain local control and keep our programs we have to reduce during this year 2425 uh we a savings of 20 of $10 million and then for the 2526 school year we need to find another $10 million and those are things that we've been working with we're uh continuing to work toward uh and this year the closur is the first step in getting to the 10 million next uh slide please and like Mr Barbara mentioned in his presentation and uh I've also mentioned it uh during my uh Town Hall meetings when I've met with with community members uh when I met with with uh anybody at a school site or a parent that has had concerns is this is an opportunity for us to reimagine a an Alum Rock that's going to have more resources that we're going to be able to to be smaller leaner we're Spread Way Too Thin and this is going to be an opportunity for us to maximize those resources that our students need that our sites need in order for us to prepare our students for a brighter future next slide please and after closures and consolidation of course redesigning some of the sites uh we're going to be able to focus on uh using our our our bond monies toward fewer sites so that we can improve and repair our aging facilities and build conducive learning environments for our students and this is something that was approved by the community um by the voters I'm sorry uh less schools will mean more same level classes will improve collaboration I've been visiting sites and some of the sites that I visited there's only one teacher teaching one grade level there's not enough teachers and I've talked uh and I'm going to quote uh Sandra Riva the area president you know you have one example she gave me was you know I I collaborated with myself because you know that's what she's hearing from sites because you have one teacher that's collaborating with themselves and the literature uh supports that collaboration is very important amongst professionals collaboration in developing those highlevel lessons that students need to be and tasks that students need to be engaged in are what make a difference and also developing those very important and uh exams right assessments that will move our students toward uh proficiency and or advancement the other thing is we're spread too thin like I mentioned earlier and staff are traveling districtwide are Visual and Performing Arts uh staff teachers are traveling from one two three sites at you know sometimes uh special education support uh is also doing the same thing we're spreading them too thin but this is a good opportunity again to maximize our resources but also to give our students that individualized fa to-face support that they need and this will improve that next slide please this is yeah this I'm not going to go over this uh Mr Barbera went over the committee criteria that was developed this is uh the criteria that was developed by the committee by the consolidation committee to identify which of those schools would be the ones that would be recommended for school closure next slide please and what I want to talk about uh here is I had the opportunity after the last informational uh board meeting with the community input that we've received emails that I know the board has received and I've received regarding the school closures because nobody wants to close schools no one does and we did have two proposals uh Mr trust uh trustee fam presented a proposal I you know presented a recommendation and I had the opportunity to to meet with Mr fam with President Chavez with my executive team and we had an opportunity to sit down collaborate and identify a now co-created proposal that works that will support and address the $1 million deficit that we that has that we need to um reach right we need to reach the $10 million in savings and so I'm going to go a little bit more into detail and then uh trusty fam you can also jump in if if or I'll turn it over to you after so here's what the proposal is going to look like so can you go to the next slide please so the proposal actually closes less schools instead of seven which was what I was recommending it will close Six schools for the 25 and 2026 school year and we have facilities there in parentheses because five schools will close one school will close but then will consolidate there will be two schools uh two School sites that will be closed in the 26 and 20 27 school year but one school would reopen there are three consolidations uh for this uh proposal and there will be three schools that will be redesigned so how many schools are impacted 11 schools will be impacted and actually less students will be impacted with this proposal for a total of 2,751 for the 2026 and 2027 school year two schools would be closed one school would open and this would impact a total of students what's the immediate savings the immediate savings is close to $8.5 million for the 2026 and 2027 school year it would be just a little bit over $1 million that would be saved and the goal again for this year is to reach the $10 million in savings that we need uh based on the recommendation of the board from May of last year next slide please so here are the immediate savings it's a little bit uh broken it's broken down uh breaks it down for you for the 8.5 million in this Cod develop proposal uh the breakdown is in reduction in force for principles and assistant principles at 2.7 almost $2.8 million for TK and Kinder par Educators a $180,000 savings the reduction in health assistance Community liaison custodians is close to $2.4 million school administrative assistance school office assistance is a one almost $1.4 million the utilities uh since those schools would be closed you're not paying more in utility bills and so there would be a savings of $800,000 uh dollars campus par Educators almost $400,000 and then this year we had four counseling positions that were not filled due to attrition so that gave us a a savings of over $600,000 so we need additional savings so what happens to the other 10 right we now have $10 million in savings we need an additional $10 for the 2025 26 school year so how do we get to that this is a breakdown of how we're going to get to the additional $10 million so that we reach fiscal solvency there will be special education reductions of almost $1.9 million we will need less since we are over staffed there will be teacher reductions because we are overstaffed and under enrolled in uh our classes our courses and so therefore we have uh we over hired in uh or retained teachers for the school year and that saves us $1.5 million district office staff reductions we have close to $1.8 million there will be reductions at the district office that will save us that much and then as we continue to move forward with budget development uh through budget development identifying uh you know revisiting the reduction in force that we're going to need to look at re-enrollment our our current uh projections for enrollment as we plan for the following school year we will also have reductions there as well and we're also looking at our current contracts services and we're looking to save about $4.8 million with that to get to the additional $10 million can you go to the next slide please so these are the schools that are recommended for closure in this codeveloped revised proposal uh that are recommended for closure recommended for consolidation and also for redesign I will start with the light yellow ones the light yellow ones are the ones that will be redesigned Cesar Chavez uh Early Learning Center uh will be redesigned and will offer zero to prek and will continue at Travis and the other students will attend San Antonio Elementary uh aptitude uh the recommendation is to continue uh to redesign aptitude keep it open as a TK to5 uh so that they can continue at aptitude and then grades 6 through eight would attend Okala hover media arts academy would be redesigned as well from grades TK through 5 would continue at hubard grades 6 through 8 would attend Okala I'm going to go with the light pink these are the schools that are being recommended for closure so Meer would be closed and students would attend Ryan dorsa Elementary would be closed and students would attend hubard Puritan would close and students will attend Lindale leaving Lindale open Cassel students would attend aptitude to increase their enrollment and then George would be closed and students would attend Shephard or Rena at Matson I'm going to go with the light yellow one because this one is Renaissance Academy at fish fish at Fisher this site uh the School site would be closed but the program would be Consolidated so they would consolidate at Matson the we go with the darker blue these are the schools that are also being Consolidated Adelante one um is being recommended for the 26th and the 27th school year as a consolidation to attend adante at Fisher Adelante 2 would also be a site closure but program consolidate to attend uh at fiser during the 26 27th school year the light green these are the other two schools elementary schools that would be Consolidated Lucha would consolidate at San Antonio elementary and students uh will attend San Antonio so they would keep their program there and then ban men painter Elementary School uh will consolidate with Shephard Middle School keeping their entire program intact uh I also want to note there is a footnote in this slide that for the 25 26 school year families will have the option to transfer like they have in the past we do have board policies intradistrict board policies that families can apply to attend other schools in the district and these would be based on school capacity and I'll show you uh more information uh on the what the the school sites would look like with their new capacity and uh enrollment um percentage of utilization can you go to the next slide please so these are these are the students that are impacted by school closures uh again like I mentioned this is broken down by School site uh by the six closures the three consolidations the three redesigns and then again in the 26 27th school year Atlanta 1 and Atlanta 2 will merge into Renaissance at fiser and for the current enrollment for the 25 26 school year year and I want to clarify that the uh school closures for and the three consolidations and three redesigns uh are for the 2526 school year would impact 2700 and 51 students um and then for the 26 27th school year 874 students would be impacted by the atanta 1 and Atlanta 2 uh consolidation next slide please so this is the uh these are the schools and alumrock uh that would uh continue beginning in the 25 26 school year in this Revis codeveloped proposal um this is broken down by total enrollment it gives you the total enrollment of each of the sites I'm not going to go over every single one of them but it also shows you the total school capacity for each of the sites and also the percentage of utilization that we would have uh in our schools uh post closure consolidation and redesigning and only a couple of schools uh Russo uh and where's the other one I'm missing the other one um Russo would still be under 50% um and I thought there was another one but I think I yeah Ryan would be the other one that would be under 50% in their uh percentage of utilization um but none of the schools I want to note that all the sites would have a 0% increase to their original site operational capacity in other words we're not adding additional uh classrooms we're utilizing what the schools were built to a accomodate in their operational capacity of enrollment and this is the last slide so what I will do now is uh turn it over to uh trusty fam um president Chavis superintendent can can I make one correction on slide 10 um Joseph George there's an error it says that they will attend Shephard or Renaissance at Matson it's actually um Shephard or Okala oh I'm sorry we didn't catch that so I just wanted to make sure that was clear and correct that thank you okay yes well thank you Mr Sera uh you know I want to say that you know this is an incredibly uh difficult process right uh this is basically a school board members nightmare no no school board member in the right mind should should want to close schools um many of these schools have served this community for at least three generations and I'm deeply deeply aware of that um I do want to thank Mr Serta uh Mrs delelis Mrs Garcia Mr too our President Chavez you know we uh I was finishing up you know my annual tour of the disc tour of Allen Rock and you know it's sort of like uh you know the November 21st meeting was very difficult you know there's no sugar coating around that but it's sort of like I get it we had in a sense I had introduced the modified proposal the superintendent had introduced his proposal and the thing is it's sort of like you what is it the old saying so so close yet so far right you know my proposal his proposal uh the what the commun what the Community Committee was able to reach consensus on was Bas you know seven seven sites and we were you know the big difference was you know a few more sites and you know we're great you know thankful that we we had this off opportunity to to sit down and you know express our our concerns our frustrations as well uh to find to try to find a middle ground right and I think that Mr Sera and his cabinet heard me and for President Chavez is you know I've always said that uh there should be an even number of schools in in all sections of the district North Central and South to try to hang on to as many amenities as possible uh you know to find find the use uh to the extent possible for uh you know for the preservation of the Fisher site in one form or or another no no a prop a school consolidation plan is never perfect it it never is uh you know but I do you know it was you know but we collaborated and I said in the spirit of my own you know uh my previous proposals which have always been to hang on to as much Furniture as possible for Alam Rock for your kids for your families and uh for this communities uh you know things that took took years to build with Bond money and parcel taxes and the original layout of the schools uh you know to preserve them in in so that they can be continued to be used in the future um so you know we you know we have you know there is this plan you know that protects you know as many programs as possible as many of our school sites as possible and you know and as always the Hope was to soften the blow to as many Alum rockers is possible you know and uh you know it takes an emotional toll it really does um you know and I know that there will still be people that are angry angry at me or angry at my colleagues angry at administra at the administration and rightfully slow uh you know no one wants to have their schools closed right or Consolidated but you know but the thing was to you know as I I said in the last two meetings you know if everybody pitches in a little you know at least every part of the district has something to to go on with right something to continues or I should say some you know hope to wake up another you know not to not to press the snooze button but something to worth getting up for so so with that you know Madam president if I may de you know uh you know if if it's possible right now uh I'd like you know before public comment to move uh you know take if you would take a motion to approve the Cod develop proposal how with with some explicit mostly non-monetary amendments as it pertains to the uh painter Vietnamese dual language immersion program and I'd like to read these amendments for the public please read them thank you uh painter Elementary retains a separate Vietnamese speaking Community liaison to work with the Vietnamese dual language emersion program painter teachers remain separate from Shepherd teachers for purposes of uh site level me memorandums of understanding with the Alam Rock Educators Association sufficient classroom space on the painter site to be maintained for grades TK through 2nd along with access to restrooms and playgrounds for the Elementary grades Uh current English program students at painter to be offered a choice to stay with the Consolidated painter those wishing not to continue at the Consolidated painter Elementary May attend molum elementary Russo mckinty Academy adequate separation for painter grade Street of 5 from the sheeper Middle School population to be maintained and painter Elementary retains uh the use of the existing Marquee and I think this that also reflects what what we worked on but you know with you know over the Thanksgiving weekend you know the Vietnamese Community made made their concerns known to me and to board President Chavez and you know it is with that that you know uh I felt it necessary to to introduce these explicit amendments uh as it pertains to the consolidation of uh you know the the consolidation of painter with uh Shephard middle and to have it included in the C- develop plan here so I will I will hand one copy to marabel for s and I will hand over one copy for to to distribute among my colleagues and the administration so at this time I am taking men's motion do I have a second I have a second from vice president kingto um any questions okay so I have a first and second we'll First Take public comment um if there's no public comment I will move on to trustee comments uh seeing no public comment oh I'll give I'll give you a minute to get up uh every person will have one minute to speak and we're going to have a timer and those that want to speak please line up here at the podium uh orderly please and this is this is for the motion of the school closures and with including the amendment that he just said and usually we have 20 minutes but if we're going to go longer um we will do that but everybody gets exactly one minute and we have a timer that will go off in case anybody goes over and I do want to tell you the whole public and we thank you for sharing your thoughts during public comment while your time is up we truly value your input and encourage you to email any additional comments to the Board of Trustees your voice is important to us and wecer appreciate your time and effort so this is me saying everybody please be respectful do one minute anybody that goes over uh will be removed thank you um my name is Tina Ma and I'm a Vietnamese dual language teacher at Ben painter elementary school I'm going to keep this short and simple cuz I wasn't prepared for this but I want to thank all the board members for taking their time and consideration I really ask that you guys keep us as a as a unit and if it there comes a need to consolidate I ask that you guys find a way to keep the vietamese program and the Dual program together right now the English dual program teachers are really confused of their whereabouts it seems like the vietamese program is getting more answers to the English duel um my only request along with the other parents of the community is try to keep us together keep the English duel with the Vietnamese dual teachers together as a community thank you again I would like to say thank you so much for all of your work I know it's been very hard and like we say nobody want to close or consolidate the school I appreciate all your work um and appreciate for giving us the opportunity for my child to attend um the Vietnamese dual program and um like Miss ma was saying so we would like as the parents what we really concern we would like the Dual program the Vietnamese dual program to have all the grades together um and for safety of uh for our students so if possibly if we can keep even Upper Grade um at the same facility with uh other younger grade together and that' be great thank you so much good evening School Board um I emailed you the list that the school closure committee uh decided on their list was different from the District staff committee I emailed this to all of you guys about three four weeks ago I am appalled number one that dorsa was just thrown on this list last minute and that Community didn't have a chance to speak for themselves they weren't visi that's not okay your information about Raph is conflicting it says closure SL consolidation I'm asking for transparency can we get answers about what's actually going to happen are we being Consolidated or are we being closed cuz both words were on your slides both words are on the agenda page five page seven and page eight all have conflicting information about Renaissance at Fisher please give us accurate and transparent information it's not okay to treat elmrock community commun this way it's not okay for the parents to have to go through all of this and then for them to be ignored listen to the community Anna Pia Lopez a mother and an alumni of Fisher first of all want to say thank you to Corina and Mr fam because they were the only trustees that responded to my emails or even address that I emailed them everybody else I'm ashamed of you because as my board members that I voted for I want at least a response back which makes me more concerned for my children's education I'm upset because as a parent I want the best for my kids and that's why I went to a school of choice I have the option to keep my children in a charter school and I chose not to because I wanted a parent a school of choice that I knew they were going to get the education that they needed now as a parent I'm more appalled because I voted for you guys and you guys failed to respond to me and attend to the voters rights we spent our tax money on your guys's um Bo and you guys fail us it's it's it saddens me it saddens me because I only have 5 seconds left and if I email you I'm sure you guys will not respond to me good afternoon my name is Martha [Music] we've been told about we've been spoken about you've told you've spoken to us about the $20 million deficit and that's the reason you're closing our schools the superintendent presented to us the the cost savings by closing the schools is that for certain is are those cost savings certain it would be a good idea if the lady from the county that's here tonight would be more informed on so we wouldn't have to go through this process in a few more years about closing schools again due to a deficit gracias thank you hello my name is Gustavo Flores I'm a resident from the mayfer community for almost 35 years I think you all know we have a lot of concerns in our community a lot but education is the first one I ask you to please look at your side this is your community community who needs you right now please don't close more schools [Applause] good afternoon good afternoon my name is CLA quo a proud parent of the Alamar schools district I've been attending these board meetings for about a year now and fully understand why we're here and why how we got to this point um as you guys vote today I do I would like for you all to keep in mind um not only our Alamar students uh and parents but also our beautiful Mayer Community who have all who have already suffered the hit of our school closures in the past so I ask you all to keep our Mayfair uh schools open as well as hubard who serve families not only academically but just as equally important with our community resource center um and you know I would like for you guys to keep that in mind because they also serve your parents and students with resources so let's continue to work together side-by side with community and um make this beautiful District what it should be for our students [Applause] good evening Board of Trustees Jeremy Bru director of policy and organizing with Amigos de Guadalupe Center for justice and empowerment we serve the families of the Mayfair neighborhood of Ean Jose who is home to the lowest income census tracks in Santa Clara County we know that the board has a very tough decision to make tonight and myself as also a fellow School Board member can't imagine the tough decision you have before you but we hope that you can look at this item through an equity lens and think of those who would be impacted by the school closures and call and consolidations the most with this in mind we come to the board tonight with four asks keep schools in Mayfair and hubard open Mayfair has already endured previous rounds of cuts and we can't afford yet another school closure um also end some of the concerning messaging uh about our students we as the Community want to stand with the school district uh to take a stand against such language support all students turn the Transitions and thank you for your comments next speaker [Applause] please I've asked my colleague to help me out we just want to say thank you from painter for all the hard work thank you you can [Applause] hi my name is Isabella NIS and I'm a student from attitude Academy and um I don't want you guys to close the school down because or move schools because I have friends there and I grew up in that school I graduated kindergarten and I'm in sixth grade and I want to finish my year off there hi hi my name is Ryan and I want to ask you to not close middle school because they have a lot of good teachers thank [Applause] you my name is Fe and I have a TK student in the Vietnamese emersion program at painter we've only been at the school a few months but it's easy to see there's something really special about Painter with the blending of cultures of the Vietnamese program alongside the English program I'd like to speak about the point about third through fifth graders um being moved from painter to Shephard um if George middle is moved into the Shephard campus that wasn't mean the elementary age students would be greatly outnumbered on Middle School age students and feel out of place Logistics such as having bathrooms for the um students with such a wide age range can prove challenge in and these factors can negatively affect students emotionally and academically consolidating pain into Shepherd will likely mean some Future Families may not be interested in joining the programs and some current families may leave the program due to concerns of student safety and emotional wellbeing and losing these families would mean losing those who have contributed to the enrollment and increased enrollment and success of the vdl program i' also like to advocate for Dr Manuka and is an admin staff to say at painter because they contribute to the excess of the school thank for your comments next speaker please hi I'm a parent of uh a child at adante 1 I wanted to make some brief comments about you know the the eventual consolidation or plan consolidation of atlante 1 and two um I can tell you from personal experience seeing this that there is a true human cost to consolidating schools it's not just cramming two schools into one facility and thinking everything is going to go exactly as planned you are rewriting the DNA of how that school is of what it means to the students and the Educators that teach our children and as a parent it it's frightens me at what you're looking to do I understand it's necessary but I also understand that we have to do it with care and caution the last thing I wanted to mention in the 18 seconds I have left um I understand that the name of trusty fam and President Chavez is on the revised proposal that the superintendent is putting out there I ask you to consider recusing yourself from this vote because in reality you've added comment input insight opinions you shouldn't be voting on it thank you for your comments next speaker [Applause] please dear board members and uh Community my name is Oscar and I'm a I'm a concerned I'm a Community member here regarding the sko closur proposals we understand that the closur are largely a result of equal funding from the state as well as rising cost of living which has led to families moving out of mayfer in the East Side neighborhoods I'm here because I want to make sure May fa and and hubard schools are stay open urge the board and parents to unite so we can Lobby decision makers for the need for our students stop racist narratives about neighborhoods like Mayfair and the neighborhood uh hubard Community ensure that all students particularly low-income ESL special education students receive additional support needed during the during this transition I urge you to keep Mayfair and Hubbert open address the harmful language directed to our students by some uh elmro parents and provide more support for all students [Applause] gracias almost I mean let's call it for what it is we have the largest country in the world California has the fifth largest economy as well and yet still we're fighting over closing schools that's a shame there's no winners here but it also shows that it is possible there's resources and money that we can go and and Advocate and work together for we all talked about contributing to this crisis of closing out schools well mayfer has already pitched in and we're going to put a period on that we stand by our our priorities keeping hover and mayfer schools open both of these schools are in the poorest sensus Tracks please do not show any bias against low-income families by cutting or threaten threatening those schools in comparison to all schools as well we have some of the highest numbers of low-income students foster care and English Learners these students need support they don't need to be punished or their educational Pathways cut down down and I will end by saying that we stand firm we're working with you and all the parents they're not going to remember us for how many schools we close they'll remember us for what we did after that thank you for your comments next speaker please good afternoon my name isali Martinez and I was raised in the east side of San Jose in the Mayer Community um growing up I experienced a lot of school closures um we experienced a lot of the lack of opportunities the lack of resources for our students and it's just so sad to see that one more school is going to be closing I remember I went to ele the elementary school um Cesar Chavez from there we're supposed to go to um well we're encouraged to go to Lee Matson however students are no longer going to have that option they're going to have to travel far away a lot of us are lowincome we don't have cars everywhere we we don't have bikes all the time we do have to take the bus and if you look at the bus system it's not very secure for our students and it's very very very hard to have to send our kids to school and know that they they might go and encounter a few a few things that they shouldn't have to go through so please um keep school thank you for your comments next speaker please hello how are you board members my name is Mr Mendoza and I'm with Amigos Guadalupe Center for usce and empowerment I never been here before in this building but I'm forced to be here here because I heard that the schools are closing so we want to help the community members that are more affected $20 million and deficit that's because mismanage okay and because the economy the economy and our people are living our kids are living okay and that's not fair and you know who's the most affected the kids right the kids and the thing also Mayfair Mayfair if you know about Equity okay you know about Mayfair with the bario okay with the lowest okay and the most affected community members so please you're already consolidating San Antonio and Lucha great no problem that's in your proposal and all of that kind of stuff leave uh m m Matson renaissan alone please because that's the only high school we have in May first thank you for your comments next speaker [Applause] please hello everybody my name is laa uh I have three childr and I have lived in isan Jose for over 25 years we have seen how isan Jose has been changing over the last few decades and unfortunately he has not been for the better my children have seen the displacement of friends and families du it to the high rent increases and all of this has been very traumatic for me and them and also for our entire Community now I'm here to let you know that is not fair that do to to poor money management the ones who are most affected are us the one putting our taxes in this district and boing for you I do not support any scho closures our Mayfair Community has already suffered from scho closures before and this has already affect my family mentally a lot my son miguelangel used to be at Lua Elementary School and at this moment he's happily going at mson why is important that M no close is a community where most of our children are extremely low income thank you for your comments next speaker please dear trustees my name is Juan EST Strada and Adelante one parent for my fifth grade daughter Bella she loves her school her classmates and her teachers fortunately her desire to protect her school is consistent with your goal to protect the district you're being forced to make Cuts not to stop planning for a brighter future while well intentioned the proposal to move adante 1 and two to the Fisher site appears to be inconsistent with reducing ing the deficit this action could reduce potential savings Additionally the loss of any students due to the move would reduce Revenue lastly reducing student capacity will inhibit additional future Revenue we need more room for more Spanish emergence students not less I four requests leave ad Delante one and two at the current locations protect the Vietnamese emerging School leave Lindale in place to continue to best serve that population and begin planning for ad deante 3 and a second Vietnamese emerence school perhaps joining Renaissance at fiser thank you [Applause] you good evening this is a letter from my fifth grader who attends Adan 1 his name is modles he says I'm a fifth grader at adanta 1 and I'm writing because I think the proposal to keep Atlantic one and two were the are are are the best if things change it don't cost the district more money to move both adanes to Fisher but also you know um he wanted also me to express to you that there is a lot of emotional and psychological stress that the students are going through right now because they're thinking what about my friends or what have you so moving forward I hope that this board you know can create like a a transition team so that there's more insight and more communication for our communities hi my name is an and I'm a parent of three students at Ben painter sorry I'm short we ask that you keep the English and Vietnamese programs together to further our goal of raising globally minded and inclusive kids of all cultures we also ask that you keep the elementary kids all of them including the three the third and fifth grade four through fourth grader fourth and fifth sorry graders on the painter campus separate from the middle school kids Shephard will absorb George and there will be too many big kids with our young ones besides physical safety concerns we also worry about peer pressure and social media and bullying lastly we also ask that Dr manuco stay with painter and Shephard he is integral to Growing our program including the enrollment and the curriculum and he's key to our school and this District in his current position at painter thank you so much hi I'm sorry hi I'm yaria teacher again this is considering what is already being put at the table since it appears inevitable that fisher A1 and A2 are on the chopping block once again let's at least be strategic about this after the 2526 school year based off current knowledge of students trickling in due to looming school closures A2 alone should be moved to Fisher for the 26 27 school year the district should track student population growth for two years if the school is growing continue to keep both A1 and A2 separate as to maximize potential Revenue to alleviate debt if A2 is not growing then at this point with data driving this decision merge both A1 and A2 onto the updated Fisher campus moving A2 to Fisher would have a lesser negative impact on the community as we would have a year to buffer the transition as our current location is near proximity uh no reason to cut Revenue making schools thank you uh good evening thank you very much to superintendent Serta to the committee and the board thank you very much for having us and listening to continuing listening to the community and what they have to say uh I am a parent of three at Ben painter or P painter Shephard and I just wanted to urge you that um what Anna was saying before please keep Mr manuco Dr manuco with the program uh vital to keeping students encouraged and come into the alar school district and the program um also to keep the English program with uh with them as well um there's no need to segregate both programs especially if we're looking to consolidate with Shephard we should have plenty of space for that as well and an enriching environment for all of those students I also want to say that uh it's it's I want to urge you not to put the 3 through 5 in with the 6 through 8 physically it's in one location one school but at a physical location I I have three kids all in the sub five uh grades and I believe that they should not be actually there's studies that show that should not be together with the six thank you for your comments next speaker my name is Norma pimel I want to correct this we hear about you know it's all about emotional emotional T but it's not only about emotions we want our voices to be truly heard as a parent I'm very ashamed my daughter has witnessed what this district has done to our community it's the second time I'm here I would like for any of you some type of advice of what to tell my daughter when she's asking me why is my school being closed for the second time can somebody respond to that please can somebody answer to me Mr roio can you please respond to that why we can't respond they've heard your comments and when they make their comments they can respond yeah because this is the second time that they sent a superintendent to my school and I asked the same question my daughter suffers from anxiety and she keep asking why is my school being closed for a second time why they don't listen to us why you fighting over and over and nobody listen to us so I want to know how to answer to my daughters be because we're Bound by the brown act the law we're not supposed to respond so if we don't respond that's the reason why so you can always email us uh your thoughts they don't even answer the email and so ex that's it okay thank you next speaker hello superintendent trustees my name is Francisco loano I'm a teacher at adalante and I'm also the proud father of two adalante students um I'm here because I'm concerned about the um Financial viability of the of uh the current plan I was earlier was stated that this plan will affect fewer students than the superintendent's original proposal but that's only true if you don't add the 874 students at adalante 1 and adante 2 when you do this plan affects 3,625 students that's 810 more students than the superintendent's original plan that uh the original plan affected 10 schools this proposal affects 13 schools one of the guiding principles was to affect the fewest amount of students and that's because this closing school has an emotional impact it has an academic impact on student achievement not only that you will lose about 10 15 20% of those 800 more students that's 80 students times 15,000 that's $1.3 million thank for your comments next speaker please hello honorable trustees uh board president uh superintendent Administration uh my name is Peter Ortiz I'm the council member for this area for District 5 with the city of San Jose uh I just want to acknowledge the tough situation that you guys are all in here today um as the superintendent said no trustee runs for office because they want to close schools and I know majority of you guys are from the East side so I know this hurts you guys uh uh as well I also want to acknowledge the parents the activists the teachers who are all here as well out of fear for their kids out of fear for their jobs out of fear for their their community and I know you're your heartbreaking your your heart is breaking right now as well so I want to acknowledge you um I think you know the process in my in in our communication superintend it's been very transparent the only thing I ask is that Equity is taken into consideration Alam Rock uh is filled with our immigrant population our working class our communities of color um and our most vulnerable and so I'm hoping that this decision impacts them the least thank you so [Applause] much hi board members superintendent thank you guys for your time being here today as a former student former employee and a mom here in Alam Rock I just ask you guys to think of three groups that are very close to my heart our special ed students our parents who do not drive and our classifi employees who always get the worst hit when we do cuts and these are the ones that our students see first that get close to develop relationships with and I know that closing schools is inevitable we can't stop it it has to happen and let's find solutions for the future to avoid these things things from happening but I don't envy you guys thank you for your service because this is a hard decision and um I just want you guys to be mindful of those groups because a lot of our parents don't drive and depend on Grandma big brother to drop off the students and when we make these closures we got to be mindful that is there going to be Transportation provided for thank you for your comments next speaker please good evening Linda Beltran uh kto if you really cared about about the process stop the work house housing project as as it was recommended to you you seem to be the puppet master of traveis and fam it's clear you run the show if the county rep was here I'd ask him to really look at those numbers because that as far as it goes right now I don't trust you guys to give the accurate numbers and maybe even manipulate Teresa to change the numbers there's still not a lot of mention on phase two of more closures and more changes to happen um our very educated recommendation left a middle and elementary in each quadrant of the map able to serve each neighborhood with feasible walking distance we were informed that the trustees could not come up with their own recommendation then why create a committee and hire a superintendent we were also advised to meet outside of these walls to do the the due to the constraint and time we had to give an educated recommendation we were told we had uh to cut 10 million in year one thank you for your comments next speaker please you give us a second r J thank you thank you for your comment allow for translation yes allow me to do the side translation of her script thank you oh sorry now my phone so I need to as a parent I'm concerned about the propo the possible proposal of the school of closing schools like Lindale it's a school that's very important for our community due to its infrastructure and the support it provides for Special Ed I understand as a district we have a lot of work to do to maintain our school open we need to advocate for the for those school districts so they can receive Equitable funding um actually it's all about currently it's all about postal codes or Postal zones I think it's about resolving the issue with closing the schools which is more important we have to advocate for a student our students who are in the disadvantage and where it's important to defend the quality of Education of our children we're in one of the state one we are in one of the richest states that has the most money and manages the most money and it's subser absurd that we're living this and going through with this and our education is going through this in the east side of San Jose finally I would like to emphasize for all the community that this is not a competition among schools or a contest among among schools it's which school is better or which school is going to win today December the 2nd let it be the in the start for the entire Community to work together and to demand transparency for at the district we need our voices to be heard don't shut down our voices of our teachers our children and our fames that represent Lindale keep Lindale open thank you hi good evening my name is Victoria partia I am a parent at Adelante to and I ask you not to consolidate these two schools when we talk to our families um we talk about the school the size of the school I love it Mr Cortez at adante too knows my my child's name not because he's a troublemaker but because he knows a lot of the families we like it that is a small school when you ask people why they've left the district they've mentioned that the school size is a big factor they mention the charter schools they mentioned that those charter schools have a Smalls siiz classrooms they have everybody knows each other you're talking about consolidating two schools which would make over 800 students at one site how does that even sound okay and their children too their small children our program is growing and is doing well why do you want to break something that's not broken please don't consolidate the two schools thank you good evening my name is Maria orisa and I'm here in representation of the leaders and community members of Mayer that weren't able to make it tonight and I want to share with you our demands one is to keep mayfer and H schools open we had enough already and um to the races messaging about our maer and hover Latin students three uh more support for students during these um hard times and lastly we would like to invite you all the board to join us unite and advocate for more funding for all our students thank you [Applause] my name isia I'm here uh from hubard media arts school I'm hearing everything that's going on and I know you're not gonna you're not going to close it for the time being at the same time you're saying that you're going to remove remove sixth seventh and eighth grade so you're going to be ending up sending the kids to Charter Schools I mean where are the kids from H going go for middle school they're going to go to alphaa is too far away not all parents drive in addition to that if you're gonna only have kindergarten if I have one student in elementary and another one in Middle I'm going to take I'm going to take my my child to the school which is more appropriate for his grade level is a community hub for the we have our monthly meetings at our community center because we don't have one that's the only one we have for the time being I'm pleased that you're not going to consider closing hover thank you for your comments next speaker [Applause] please our next parent is going to read her script in Spanish Her speech in Spanish and I'll read the read in English for the board thank you Marina hello my name is Maria Marina I'm a parent please don't school don't close Fisher um middle school the principal and the teachers they've focused a lot on my son to help him out they help him a lot the teachers the teachers there helped them a lot because he doesn't know English and the school that you're considering ing sending my son to which is Okala it's too far away for us we don't have our own vehicle our own car my son walks to school every day Fisher is an excellent school I have so many things to say but since you you limit us with one minute I can't express it all thank [Applause] you my name is Lisa tothill I've tried to make the case for why Renaissance at Fisher deserves to be preserved but it's become clear that our voices are not being heard this experience has revealed what's truly happening behind the scenes so now it's time for us to turn our Focus inward to each other and to our community this is no longer just about making our voices heard it's about taking action we had have a responsibility to hold those in power accountable first we must take our case to the Santa Clara Department of educ ation it's that if that doesn't yield results we will escalate further to the California Department of Education where we will be demand Justice and file a formal civil rights complaint if necessary we will go we will not go we will not continue to have our voices be silenced in this community together as a United Community we will stand up for our students our values and our future [Applause] my name is Harry wi from the Dual Vietnamese language program our program and our families are a community we deserve to be kept together and not split between two facilities I think you've already heard too that a lot of our parents have concerns about splitting grades three through five in a middle school setting I think that is inappropriate we need the administrative resources including principal manuco the teachers and the administrative sta staff to thrive and grow we need the space we've been growing we've been growing from 50 students to projected over 240 students next year in a matter of four years and we we just need the the space and the resources this weekend we have um over 120 parents that have outlined our concerns in a letter can we distribute that letter to you thank you thank you for your comments than speaker hi my name is Juliana and I'm supporting Renaissance Academy at Fisher I would like to acknowledge the amazing teachers who have been there to support me and help me with my education the teachers at renissance care about me as a person and a student I enjoy being a part of all the programs that they have to offer like Mesa steam te Squad bossy and girls who code they have helped me grow I am here today in front of you giving a speech thanks to Renaissance for what I want closing our school would not impact my community but my education hi my name is a g and I am a parent of a child at Renaissance at fiser you're planning to not only close a middle school in a great Community but all the resources that are around it with all the elementary schools that you have now mentioned to close you say that you don't want to close schools that are closed in a certain Community but you're closing four of them dorsa Meyer Renaissance and casselle so what are you leaving to that Community you can see the potential that the that the campus has because you want to hand it over to another school then why not let the Renaissance family keep it I keep hearing the same thing that it's hard to make the choices and that so many things go go into making this decision but at the same time we the community are not being heard I emailed everyone on the board but I only heard back from one person and this was multiple emails that I sent if you are not listening to the community when we are here in front of you I can't imagine what happens behind closed doors leave renissance at Fisher at this site and bring other schools to this campus you can see the potential it has good afternoon my name is asalia Rano I'm a parent leader and a part of SOS Mayfair Community uh we heard your proposals and we know it's going to be hard for everyone a lot is changing but what I'd like to know is what are you changing what is uh because so far the plan is used to cash out of multiple schools and programs uh we need to go further as a community we support our kids so that means we support you but please stop waiting for last minute uh School closures uh we are a big Community please keep Mayfair Community Mayfair schools open hello uh my name is Fred bozo I'm the uh director of advocacy and Community engagement for Catholic Charities and in that capacity I work with many parishioners who will be impacted by the decision you make tonight and and make make no mistake the decision you make tonight is a kind of systemic change it's just a kind of systemic change that you know we we don't want or that folks don't don't want and so but understanding that closures may be seemingly unavoidable you know we think that whatever you do has to prioritize obviously an equitable process Equitable decision making and have a least amount of impact on families given the timing uh of this of this decision um you know we read very closely the letter that so almost Mayfair has submitted and we believe that it contains a lot of great ideas uh we believe that the Mayfair schools should be saved as it states in that letter and uh I thank you very much for your time good evening everyone my name is flor de Leon my kids used to be a Lucha and Renaissance at feature and today I'm here as a community member um Clos closure schools uh the 20 million budget is talk many years ago so this is a consequence of that and now we are here but I think the problem is bigger and now that we have someone from the Board of Education I want to ask you guys and you guys e for e I 6 for so the e for e after I for I what e this to perpetrate rism and oppression in thank you for your comments next speaker [Applause] please good evening board members and Community I left my trusty trifold at home tonight but I wanted to take a moment to say thank you for considering the idea of instead of closing both cured and Lindale which was one of the recommendations at a minimum keeping Lindell open besides besides the fact that we are an extremely close distance to two Charter Schools we have a non-transferable community Grant substantial amount of money earmarked in fonds extraordinary sped program and no neighboring schools to walk to um keeping us open leaves us available to receive our cure to neighbors clothing both schools in that pocket of alrock would be a major travesty we have done many trainings workshops and staff development days with Curtin over the years since we are in the vapa cluster together proximity wise we are as close to Kon than the formerly proposed receiving School of Linda Vista we are excited to have a buling campus again we are a staff looking forward to full teams to collaborate with when I started at Lindell we were sixth grade six second grade teachers I now I'm on a team of two we are welcome we're welcoming our vapa friends thank you for your comments next speaker please good evening board uh Board of Trustees uh my name is Carlos District 4 I am also here echoing the voices of many and the sentiments of many of police keeping of open Mayfair and hub schools right our community has been through enough right many of the families here have been through many closures and we want prevent that happening in the future instead of fighting and being D diversive we should come unite and ask for more funding unite right County city state for more funding and keep fighting for our children fighting for the Youth because it's them the future's in their hands and it breaks my heart that all the schools are being considered to closure knowing that we're in one of the richest areas in California you be ashamed of yourselves you failing our students are failing our future so please when you make a decision don't put yourselves and in that decision put the fames in your in their minds thank you [Applause] good evening I worked for seven years at one of the schools in [Music] Campbell they don't have what's going on here tonight over there about school closures about kids not going to school think about Z good evening my name is here to support a lot of the schools that a lot of people here are supporting it's not about us it's about our children as a as members of the board do you love the El Rock District why did you take the easy route out closing schools instead of looking for solutions for example why not donate one of your month's highest paid salar donate one month of your high highly paid salary salary thank you good evening my name is Olivia Ortiz and I'm a PR mother at renesent mson I want to thank you guys I want to thank superintendent trusty fan for putting the for recommendations and see this decision in equity lens I know it's really hard I know it was really hard and it still is really hard to you know to make a decision about you know our school closures but I do want to I do want to speak on the fact that you guys were looking at this in equity lens and try to be more uh Fair on the um on our whole area of the school district for e for for for spe e for spe for for e un for for for at Fisher their capacity is 1,105 uh that it's 1,200 1,200 I'm sorry so it's 1,200 so so there is room for growth but I also wanted to address the the question know but uh but that's at fiser how much growth is there if you kept Avante one and two at their current sites you have yes yes we do so actually adalante 1 is close to capacity by okay by actually a few dozen students whereas adant 2 has enough growth for maybe aund my my M for by a couple hundred or so yeah a couple of hundred or so okay so that that will cap them out um if they continue to grow yes so the previous argument to keep the other where they were so they could grow doesn't hold cuz you're saying putting them together at fer is how much so I'm hearing 200 how it currently exists if it were to be Consolidated what's the what's the difference if they were to be consolid y there uh there's about a 400 um um 400 student growth uh possibility F okay and um adante to there's a couple of hundred okay and and also um there as um trusty fam said there're also the facilities to keep in mind you know the PE facilities the locker rooms the gym the fields yep all those fa and then why the year delay so so the and that's what I wanted to address the the year delay in the other proposal uh that I had presented in the previous presentations is the there more students would be impacted if you make the change next year because the facilities at fiser would not be ready and so therefore there was a recommendation to send those students to other schools that had the TK Kinder which would be it it's going to take an uh it's going to take about a year and a half to have the facilities ready at fiser for the tkk students and so we wanted to make sure that if we're making that recommendation it gives us time to work with the architect to work on making sure that the room I have a question about how the proposer proposers can explain that the criteria that the board set out at the very beginning that's been mentioned multiple times in multiple presentations um why um now we're including sort of uh campuses that are adjacent to libraries or campuses that are adjacent to Parks because if there were certain campuses that were deemed you know they're they're too big to close or whatever I'm I'm trying to figure out um how how in particular the crit criteria change for the proposers okay I'll address one of them so at the Fisher site the library is there it's going to stay there uh in order to uh get that up and running for the TK they're going to have to be down the street um and then they can move in so that's a waiting period of a year maybe for those students but they're close enough to move over they have room to grow the library is going to be there but the thing is we're looking at all the things the amenities that are there that we if we close it we're not going to be able to have enough money to have those things there again a track and field so that takes a lot of money will we have the extra money to be able to put that again probably not so we're trying to say wait second I'm still not finished if you're going to interrupt then let me know you you know you have well let me finish my thought first and then you can have another question but that's still that's still you're not letting me finish so if you're going to cut my answer off then I'll make sure that I put it satisfied with your answer okay thank you so let me know okay like this but don't cut me off or else I'll return the favor go ahead your next question e so the so where I'm coming at this is from I'm trying to understand so I just have and I again I don't want to be here till 11 o'clock at night so um I just want to understand sort of the proposer thought process given that we set out a criteria and that it seems to be changing so I hear what you're saying um and so I wanted to ask because I'm really not understanding the painter um Shepherd um and maybe it's because it's it's it's just a lot a lot to like take in right now with the new proposal so could you explain uh what's happening with painter under this proposal yes under under this proposal what is happening with painter you would keep and I think the there's some confus conf usion around the English only students that are not part of the Vietnamese dual language program they would continue at the school with the DU from painter but also we would give them their contiguous space so that they are not completely uh mixed with with all the uh Shepherd students and so they would remain the English only if they do not want to continue at the you know with this model then they would have the option to transfer and so that's part of The Proposal that uh trusty uh fam had also added as the addendum to I'm also going to add on that because I when I proposed it 18 months ago to move the painter students into shepher that was the idea so it was not a last minute change I always said that from all along thank you so the the slide 12 that we looked at um beginning 25 26 it it only has Shepherd on it it doesn't have painter so I'm just wanting to be clear it's a my I'm just trying to this one's showing you what the schools slide 12 is showing you which schools would remain beginning in 2025 2026 school years uh on with the uh Cod develop proposal and so we're only showing Shephard because that's what the school would look like but it would be accommodating Lucha and Lucha uh would keep its program pain a painter I'm sorry so it would be so we would have painter as a Elementary or is painter and Shepherd a k to eight so so it would be both so it would be a it would have the program the painter program program the Vietnamese learning uh dual emerging learning program and it would give it the opportunity to expand and grow it would be both um okay now I'm now I'm that's okay so so on slide 10 it says consolidating painter and then so would it be a k to8 it would be a k to eight not a middle or a one I I'm just I don't see painter on the list yeah it would be part of Shephard so it's not just a middle school correct okay because we because you have am I on the right slide 12 because I don't see K to eight I only see other lante one other lante 2 is a k to eight and I I see sheer the middle can you speak to the M on the mic can you speak on the mic wa didn't painter would be part of the shepherd campus as a as a program as an elementary school as an elementary program I so it's so it's missing from the slide 12 it should actually be on the K8 okay so okay so we would make that correction okay so painter Shephard you're proposing it to be a KD okay thank you um just trying to follow does that is that so well I would proposer is that correct I mam president I may it for the most part yes so it it sort of I think of it as a Quai K to8 you know because you know Not only would you know they're you know the the greates three to five would you know well I could should reference my amendments but you know a portion of it would be you know in the Upper Elementary grades would would occupy space in painter we retain use partial use of the painter site for the lower elementary grades because of the restrooms and the playground access uh but it would be it would be you know for lack of a better term a quazi k to8 right because you know we would have this you know the Ben painter consolidation you know in which Che but also uh Shephard would con you know would continue to accept students from the northern part of the district the uh McCullum Elementary the Russo mckinty Elementary and parts of the Linda Vista uh Elementary boundaries as well okay I'll end my questions for now thanks any other trustees uh truste men H Madam pres you know you know clarification question to the uh superintendent you know in in part of the original proposal you know you had mentioned transportation and safe routes you know in the November 14th proposal because you know we we do have we do have parents concerned about Transportation so just wanted to clarify for the community you know uh is it you know is the administration still committed to ensuring a transportation and safe routes plan that's correct I will be um actually scheduled to meet with the mayor uh later this month uh to discuss this as well for the safe routes uh but also we're exploring the uh possibility which I've mentioned in the previous presentations uh and board meetings uh that we are exploring shuttle stops uh so that we could offer some form of transportation for for our families thank you you're welcome um I ask can you I don't know if trust have any question do you have any questions am I the last one nobody else do you have any questions uh trust you don't have any questions no she say she does she say she does okay you want to ask your question now no she's she's on the phone can you ask your question trust can you hear can you hear un can you unmute yourself okay no all right I had asked questions already I'm just kidding do you have any questions am I the last one nobody you have any questions trusta I have comments and questions I have both okay can you pleas yes we are waiting great um so my first one to superintendent said that let me turn my bell no I think it's mine no it was mine okay um and let's see did I'm I'm trying to think because you know I I had already uh received your proposal U or the proposal that we had on Wednesday I had reviewed the board book and so then we got this one a couple of hours ago so I haven't been able to you know uh compare the two did the first one that you present um superintendent said that did that bring in more savings than this one uh yes it did and if you can um speak up loud because I can't yes it did okay how much more savings did the previous proposal bring in compared to this one it was approxim what the difference it was approximately $9.7 million so it's about 1.3 almost 1 1.3 am I doing the math correct it's 8.5 it's about 8.5 so about $1.2 million uh less so the proposal that had originally been proposed on Wednesday that we read had that much more in savings correct okay um well you know I mean I've heard many public comments received many emails and met with several parents throughout this process um I was able to hear my peers review as I mentioned the board book that we received on Wednesday uh with what I thought was going to be the recommendation and as of this um morning I you know I worked hard and I you know turned things over but I thought I had made my decision um not based on any any emotional ties or any biases but on the information provided to us by the school consolidation community and our staff um along with you know public comments and and everything else I do want to say I appreciate everyone who took the time to be a part of the school consolidation committee because that took a lot of time from parents community members leaders um to come together and as we've heard over and over and can imagine wasn't easy and weren't easy conversation so much so that even within the school consolidation committee there weren't agreements um as Mr Barbara pointed out and you know some felt they had a meet outside in addition to the time they had met others didn't feel like you know they were in agreement with that but nevertheless there was a process that took time um I am concerned you know about just the way that today's uh recommendation kind of came about because clearly board President Chavez and Min uh trusty fam are both bosses of superintendent Serta so there's no way that superintendent zerto is going to go against that so I just want to point that out as one of the five board members that I I mean I don't know and I'm not saying you know superintendent s that you're against this I'm just saying just that possibility when two board members one being the board president um sit with you and create this process together that really concerns me however I do know that at the end of the today's conversation you know to uh prevent from being taken over by the the county and or the state eventually that we do need to make a decision so I get that you know so I'm really stuck right now um but I do want to talk about that process because it's not already it's not easy um and some of the stuff has made it made it even harder for me um so you know superintendent said that I know we're going to make these tough decisions and in one way or another um many of our students and families will be affected have we factored in the resources that it's going to take for our students that are transitioning to new schools um having academic or emotional uh additional needs because of the changes um and or special attention that might have to be given to students with special needs are English Learners and low-income students uh yes uh we have actually and so and that's actually we're going to continue to evaluate and assess uh throughout you know the the process as we transition post the board's decision um because the other thing we're going to have to monitor we're going to have to go through uh you know enrollment projections uh we're going to have to make decisions on the uh like I mentioned in the presentation the uh reduction in force for teaching positions for additional positions but also evaluating um you know what the need is going to be post uh you know the closure of the schools and then reopening in the uh 2526 school year because we're going to have to be ready for that transportation is also going to be another key that we're we're looking at as well because we're not cutting uh recommending any Cuts there for that same reason that we want to ensure that we have some form of transportation for our uh students and families and and yes the mental health is is important uh Mr Barbara has mentioned multiple times in his presentation there is is a psychological toe and so we're going to we're going to have to prepare for that as well and provide those supports for our students okay I'm trying to manage these two things thank you for your patience um also uh as some of our partners pointed out you know hovert is in one area one of the census tracks with the highest poverty levels and I just want to you know make sure we keep that in mind when making some of our decisions um I do understand that we're not recommending or the recommendation is not to close hover but to um you know shift the K through five and not this year but the following year or not for this next upcoming year but the following year I just you know I want to um have us really think about that because if we talk about not wanting to you know send our students to sh Charter Schools they will with what we've heard and what we know about our parents walk our students to school it really won't be like by choice like they will have to send them to the charter schools in that area because of you know access to transportation and things like that so as we move and you know we're gonna have to spend more money on transportation to keep them in our district just let's think about that um and I hope that you know this was thought of when when making the the recommendations um so also in addition um you know having sat through some of these comments and even having received some phone calls from parents who were a part of the cons consolidation committee I'm really being freaked out about gains and things like that I was like wow I wonder what's being said because you know um just some of the the comments and thoughts so anyways at this point I want to you know firmly and um publicly state that we as a community um and me as a trustee one of the five but I stand against any uh rhetoric that you know will make any of our students criminals or gang infested or anything like that and um superintendent said that I look forward to working with you and how I mean obviously we can't change our parents and what they say right we can just encourage our students and hopefully uh you know hope that our students when they go back home uh reflect sometimes to their parents of like that's not ni mom or dad or Guardian um but you know I look forward to taking a strong stand against any type of uh um language that might put any of our community within Alro or students um in that in that space so uh I just want to make sure that here publicly I I state that um and then commit to restorative practices to ensure that every student regardless of where they live or who they are feel safe um and a part of and uplifted and motivated in our district um and then let's see oh yes uniting uh to advocate for more funding for our schools I love it I love hearing that um I think one of my favorite Parts in today's meeting and the emails that I received was our uh city council member Peter Ortiz um who came and also spoke on that and I look forward to coming together not just as students as parents who have come here with us but also as our city council member standing with us who also gets to Advocate with us um for his area in the schools um I look forward to doing that on behalf of our our district to get bring in more funding um for our schools for our students um and so yeah so I'm excited about that parents uh and community members and leaders I look forward again to uh making sure that we come together to make that happen um because it's United that we're going to be able to make these decisions and um make sure that not just us not just us I listen to you all but also that our our uh leaders within local jurisdictions uh council member Ortiz uh County board members um our state legislature and our um Federal I mean we get to do it all we get to come together and work together and not work against each other you know which unfortunately some of these process sometimes do um it's like people against the school board members no how do we come together to go and Advocate on behalf of those we represent so I look forward to doing more of that um and with that I'll just pause right here okay um uh vice president GTO um well first of all I want to thank everybody who's come out and speak uh and participate in the process I it's it's a as been said before it's a very difficult process it's nothing that anybody said well let me sign up for that um that's not what you sign up for you sign up to cut the ribbon on a new school to do new stuff we don't sign up to shut down schools um however I'm I'm very concerned about the narrative that's been created saying that Alam Rock has been taking the can down the road and I think that may have come up um in some way sort of well-intentioned by an individual who's ill informed uh one of our colleagues who decided to start using this Narrative of kicking the can down the road and this is not a microaggression any way she performs is clarifying the record that Alam Rock has been undergoing uh this this this process for a long time we can drive down what is now uh the um the the job course site that used to be Richard conif school that shut down years ago clearly there was a trend moving in a certain direction that necessitated them to to to to no longer have that as one of our schools um prior to me joining this board the board went ahead and handed over a site for a very low price to a charter school that's right here next to us in the old historic building uh that used to be the district headquarters of alrock um it was declining enrollment they saw that as a an option they saw that as an easy fix um I didn't agree with it I joined this board and I said we're going to fight this uh right as I was coming on to the board there's a decision made prior to me from joining to go ahead and move on sler and so we lost loner you know a school that uh my my cousins went to and I remember very well as a kid so there was all kinds of family connections we then are faced with the decision that uh we have a very shrinking has been mentioned by one of our speakers that Rogers went ahead and Consolidated into uh Atlanta atanta was growing and Leaps and Bounds uh we were leaving kids there by the hundreds in waiting list which uh I said this is ridiculous we're leaving people on waiting list it makes absolutely no sense then superintendent and I got to give full credit to then superintendent fist who uh went ahead and took some very Extraordinary Measures to figure out how to make that work on a fast track so he opens up a second site um we are still facing declining enrollment it's not working in our favor and then we've we we are brought what is The Unthinkable by then superintendent l b which who was faced with a very tough decision where where do we go how do we deal with with these with these very hard Economic Times and the libraries and we got we we and l so people had a right to be upset but I was called and and I take it as a board member I accepted it that they had a right to rip us uh because we acted upon the libraries but what are we going to do go against the superintendent or uh not and so it was a tough decision we did it because we needed a save and we are then faced with the consolidation of the fish of the Renaissance schools in Fisher in Matson and for that we are also um faced an onslaught of anger rightly so people have a right to be upset but to say that Alan Rock has not been moving in the right direction is ill informed people who have not been around or haven't been paying attention to the very difficult decisions we've been faced as a community over and over again why because back in the 90s we had nearly 20,000 students we were the largest K through 8 school district in Northern California that was our distinction that's a way in which people introduced themselves who were in the board at that time we've gone down to 7,000 students we can no longer support this Behemoth of a district without the right number of students we were inundated and we were attacked by Charter Schools it was a consolid concerted effort in to a certain extent played in part by the board at the time that wound up giving away some of the sites for the Miller site uh they handed over um uh well Pala as I mentioned uh yeah to Kip and so all of these things have been taking place it's not as if the district hasn't been responding we could have been a lot more um if we had been all about dollars and cents if we hadn't been facing an onslaught of chargers I'm gonna give you some inside baseball this is a very tough decision we're making and you guys should be well informed one of the things that we had to deal with is how do we keep as many sites as we can some of you see like you held off too long we were facing on 14 charter schools within our district boundaries if we would have taken action on any of those sites to save money Guess Who would have had first dips on the sites Charters and we would have had an our our essentially our competition right in our backyard sucking more blood out of alen rock these are the realities that we have faced as a board and those folks who say you've been kicking the can down the road you're entitled to your opinion but you don't have all the facts you should inform yourself of what this district has been facing 14 charter schools within our boundaries we've had one nonprofit that has stood up strong and that's almost made for the rest of them like to play ball with these charter schools because they're nonprofits they go and they hang out at the same fundraisers the someo folks are the ones who came up started yelling screaming against the charters when there were some of us on the board who were doing the same thing and pushing back the change of narrative of that charger is going to save everything when in fact they haven't when we've gone to the County Board of Education we were there with the limited number of us pleading with them telling them to please not renew two failing charter schools their own staff told them do not renew them in their data they found out they were failing and they go ahead and they renew them against our against our our our against their own staff's recommendation against a pleading of the them I think it was board president at the time or a member of the board either way and then the superintendent and other folks who who stood up and they disregarded us we've been given this by folks who are outside of our district who popped on us these responsibilities without giving us the resources to deal with the consequences and so I just want to I know that a lot of folks are here passionate upset you're right you have every right to do so I just want to make sure that we're all educated about the history of what this district has been through and we've been used in a labor experiment by folks from Sacramento by very Filthy Rich millionaires who see us as let's play around with these folks and use them as their as as an experiment to see if we can figure things out oh it's a just a bunch of working class predominantly like inos and Asians and you know who cares that's the reality we're facing as a board having to deal with powers that are beyond your comprehension and the amount of wealth that they have to mess with us and so those are the things that we've been dealing with so in terms of Mis management I will I stand by the the the expenditure that we've made to continue to support our students in Alam Rock by providing music Visual and Performing Arts by providing uh Sports when other districts other Public School District have chosen to go away and shut that down because they were looking at the dollars and cents they were looking at how to avert these issues that we're dealing with we've chosen to continue to invest in our kids and continue to provide them the quality and dignified education that they rightfully deserve and if I had to make that decision I'll do it again continue to spend on our kids and give them the resources that other kids get from their parents when they get sent to private programs that we don't have the option for our that our parents don't have the option to provide their kids here we are their we are their option this is also and the fact that we are saturated by Charter Schools also takes us into the overe expenditures that have been identified through this budgetary process about special education surprise surprise when everybody when we have the largest number of charter schools they wind up distilling special education into the local school district they have that option of counseling out kids and sending them sending the most expensive kids to us saying here you go and folks rightly so they come over and they get the quality and dignified education that their children deserve so we should not be surprised that we have higher numbers of special education because we are they are distilling special ed kits into alrock it's by program so they can go ahead and profit at our expense this is not right but it a it is something that's been handed to us how how do we deal with it I think that there needs to be a call I'm making this call to action I had opportunity to meet up with the folks from SOS Mayfair uh who have are are are in agreen that um that there is a special situation there's a unique situation Alam Rock faces we are the poorest district and the most richest area in the country and those special and unique circumstances need to be met with special and unique answers from the state so I am asking us to begin a pro a Lobby day for Alam rock where we go we move forward and our community goes out and lays out the unique circumstances that we face in Alam rock that a cookie cutter a a one- siiz fits all does not apply to Alam Rock our folks in the north have twice the amount of wealth than Alam rock as soon as you cross the boundaries automatically the average household jumps up by twice to the folks to the south in the same situation so these are the circumstances we're facing this plan is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination it is a plan and it seeks to provide options for folks in different areas I'm highly concerned and and uh I'm highly concerned about the the issues with regard to the moving us to TK to5 but this is a model I get it everything has to be pre-planned and and I I am concerned that uh some of our opponent no no our competition our competition right there in the local area will wind up taking advantage of of the kids that will wind up going uh to them instead of Okala right there in the hubard neighborhood um I'm appreciative of the fact that hubard is being saved um and even with my prior comments I'm still supportive because I don't think any plan is perfect but I am I'm I'm asking us to look at that and with the you know really focus on th those families and ensure that we don't have a mass Exodus and that if something does look like it's not going our way we need to Pivot immediately because uh by sitting there and then waiting for things to happen we will wind up getting our lunch taken completely by the by our opponents who are who who have the luxury and the ability to Pivot very very quickly they have a lot more flexibility in what they do and so uh with that being said I'm asking that that be something that we're we're observing I know that it's it's it's a model everything's already spoken for and done for um and but it is a concern and so with that I'm asking that we we want uh we we look at that um it yeah what else can be said this is a uh um I I appreciate your ability to look at the the community's needs to look at the concerns from our colleagues and uh come up with the plan that seeks to leave uh presence of alam Rock in every quadrant that's something that I've been calling for from the beginning that I would not be supportive of any plan that seeks to leave a a quadrant of Al of alumrock without access to a school site um I have shared my concerns with the folks at fer when I did meet with them that in one way shape or form I do believe that the site needs to be retained um this the library uh the investment that alrock school district made in that land the the land that Hillview uh was not just didn't come out of thin air that was an investment by Alam Rock and I believe that needs to be maintained in Alam Rock's uh control because I can see now some of our competitors jumping in and saying give us that so we can have a full built-out Library that's funded by the city right with right next to them um and so with that I'll I'll I'll reserve my comments for later if there's any okay thank you f first of all you know I want to thank all alen rockers tonight when you uh advocated for your schools at you know I I'm at least if there's a silver lining I'm very very touched that you you guys heeded the ask to accentuate the positives of your schools and not to tear tear any you know tear down an Alam rock your fellow Alam Rock School uh you know all alen rock schools are good schools uh and that you know whether you live on capital and mcke or story and King uh or I should say Jackson and mcke story and King and capital and Okala you know you advocated for your schools and you know what everything you got and you focused on what was good about your schools and in and you know did not attack your fellow Alam rockers so I thank you all for that uh I want to say you know address the issue uh libraries and parks are Force multipliers for Education that's why that was one of the issues that I took into consideration uh I you know uh I'm a graduate of alam Rock I I understand the value of having an having a library nearby I went to Pal middle school and the old Alam Rock library which is now the Roberto crw library was within walking distance it was a great resource for for myself and many of my classmates I went to Independence High School and as you know there's the all Educational Park Branch Library there and over felt Gardens um you know those City amenities provided learning opportunities you know added on to the opportunities available uh for kids in the area so that was you know that was part you know one of the reasons why you know Pro protecting sites adjacent to parks and libraries what was a huge concern of mine uh I also want to address the issue you know somebody brought up you know cancelling Workforce housing uh at the present time Workforce housing is perhaps one of the clearest ways that this District can begin to turn the fiscal tide uh as uh Mr Barbara said what is it land rich and cash poor and funding from you know from you know hopefully when completed work force housing would enable the district to have at least some of the unrestricted Revenue to invest in our kids to invest in our teachers invest in our schools again so I do ask that you know let's you know let's not be shortsighted um you know again I I want to say I want to thank superintendent Serta in the cabinet and you know trusty Chavez you know for working on you know at the end of the day every every section of district has a school uh no no proposal is perfect I get that this is this is a moment of great you know and sense great anguish and great sadness and you know I I stated for very Cur it's a Schoolboard members nightmare no one wants to you know uh I I never thought you know I want I never thought I'd be in this situation right you know if the state Cola was at 5 and a qu% as was promised in June of 2023 we would not be in this situation but you know this you know I'm H first of all you know superintendent certain mention Transportation that's why you know that was part of the consideration when we collaborate collaborated on this plan right to ensure you know that while we maintain schools in all sections of the district you know there was at least a feasible way to address the concerns that you all brought which was uh the distance between schools um you know uh I want in this hangs on to as again as many amenities as possible even though the initial upfront Savings in the first year is not as great as the initial administration's proposal it does it does match that over a two-year period so we you know you know we have to take into account there's a human cost there's an educational cost to this and if we're able to as I said make savings while miate softening the blow for our kids and families you know let's try to do that and I think it's evidenced by the fact that it is one you know it may be cold comfort but it's one net less School closure it means the preservation of another you know School Community within the district uh you know I you know again feel free to be angry at me angry at this B angry at the administration I mean it is your right to do so and you know in in this this moment but I I hope that you know this plan I think leaves uh you know at the very least save saves saves the furniture saves Grandma's silver so that the district can continue to use it for our kids you you know so with with that you know again uh I you know I thank you for your patience I thank you know thank the board my colleagues for their consideration I thank the administration for you know buckling down and working to get to a solution you know though not perfect uh does it you know does address as the needs of as many as possible and I want to make one last question you know statement and it is uh you know I've also heard concerns about the redesign to K5 and I think part of it is uh our middle schools are good schools as well and I look you one of things I look forward to to working with along with my colleagues with the superintendent Serta in his cabinet is what can we do to improve the educational offerings at this District you know obvious ly you know there's always room for improvement and I hope that you know in in time you know once we get past this we start working on change you know positive changes to our curriculum so that our parents not only want to go to our elementary schools but also our middle schools so with that you know I'll end my comments at this time thank you thank you trusty Flor thanks I have a question and then I have my comments um uh well first actually I want to just um piggy back off of Vice President Kinto a little bit um you and I joined the board in 20 end of 2012 beginning of 2013 I was right on the heels of you and I was on the board for two years and in 2013 and 2014 I went back and um we had to we had to um open up an ace Charter School behind Cesar Chavez open up the DCP Charter School at the Okala campus the alpha saloner and this board at the time voted against rocket ship fza only to go to the County Office of Ed and have them approve it so in the span of two years exactly 10 years ago four Charter Schools um opened and then you can if you look at the declining enrollment at that same time um and that's just my that's just my little two-year bubble experience um and so I just think all the our affordable housing crisis are um our birth rates declining most likely because of the affordable housing crisis um our overcrowding crisis um Charter Schools it's all of these all of these factors have us in this um horrendous um situation um so I I do want to um double down on I think the management practices and the fiscal management um basically has the the positive practices have kept this place going um because of all of these forces that have have um challenged this District um I do have one more clarifying question on the proposal just again this is more for clarity I'm seeing the par educ Ator Im so immediate savings slide eight um 8.4 million there's two lines on par Educators which total TK par Educators campus par Educators a total of $561,000 in savings can you just clarify for me because I feel like we've been trying to hire par Educators to offset other more expensive kind of like contract and vendor costs is is um talk to me a little bit more about these well that's good assistant superintendent of business uh Mr s to speak on that um we are very short staffed in special education par Educators they are not a part of this analysis okay yeah so this is only the TK Kinder par Educators that if we eliminate the TK Kinder class then we would not need the TK Kinder par educator so this would be like the the Chavez uh we're but we're moving it to L uh to San Antonio right so so um so those you know this is my issue of just the overall slicing already a very very thinly staff district office um so those are concerning um as well as one of our my hopes that again I'll just you know recognize I'm a lame duck trustee this is my last board meeting um and I'm trying to like for the future my hopes and dreams for this place um is that we continue to um prioritize um all day Kinder um program so that we can be competitive with our comp competition and I thought par Educators were very very key to making that um potentially work um at the bargaining table so I just want us to be really mindful of the things that we're giving up and impacts um that they can have um so thank you for that um I just really W to again be focused on having history really inform how we move forward and I I appreciate um vice president Kimo's um uh his institutional knowledge and sharing that context I do appreciate um really the hard work um that truste kicked off to do things that um you know the rest of us weren't getting into the weeds like like you did and so um you know it's we've said it multiple times this was going to be horrendous no matter what um and so your due diligence um and looking at the numbers um is appreciative I'm appreciative of that um I am really concerned though that we don't have new partial tax money coming in our our you know localities near us were successful in November and we didn't put one on the ballot so I would hope that this District um plans and prepares and thinks about the next ballot we've got to be bringing in Revenue let the voters decide and after making hard decisions like this um I'm hoping if even the taxpayers association could come out give us Kudos my God like let's not forget that moment here um so I I really really hope that we go to the voters and ask for um potential Revenue I'm thrilled that we're looking at um you're looking at State funding reform in the future because this Ada model is is killing us and your your um remarks um and about our unique situation um they should they should ring true to folks but this is truly a a Statewide um issue for all the Alum rocks in Southern California and and um in rural California to the north um I think there also has to be other massive systemic changes like when you consolidate a school this large into less schools you start need to thinking about consolidating districts and that's like another you know crazy blow but um we need to get smarter because this district office again I want to go back to how thin it is um I was reading in the csba newsletter that came out about there's new legislation because there's so many requirements on districts now to put you know this report forward and this dashboard and this lcap and it's like now Doos are just in this like reporting cycle versus what intervention can we put in the classroom what's curriculum Focus what's our differential response you know um approach so I really hope that we can keep that this uh board also keeps track of sort of that legislation that can um minimize districts being at the the Hest of every you know metric like like I still at two years later I'm like which metric should we be looking at there's so many darn things I was like okay it's chronic cism for me and but there's just so many things and so I hope again the state reform model also focuses on what can we do for our classrooms versus just accountability um you know so many different ways um and I think the most important thing that I would like for us um you know besides actually two more things sorry Linda um I want to say to my curatin friends right my curan moms who it's terribly s um to Mr Bara right who lives in the Castell neighborhood and he told me last Wednesday about all of his you know children and grandchildren that went to Cel my e for e for e for e for for for spe e for spe e for e spe e spe what for p spe e spe for e for e e spe e for e for e for e for right e spe for e e with for for ch for for spe for for in board President Chavez vice president Cano members of the board and members of the community um I love how the room empties out before my presentations I am always grateful for that um this is the addendum to the fiscal stabilization plan that was presented on September 26th the agenda is um for me to go over the unrestricted General funds the multi-year projections at budget adoption then I will compare that to the unrestricted general fund multi-year projections at first interim it is just a draft at this point in time I will be uh going over the first interim report on the December 19th board meeting I'll be going over what's changed since budget development a summary of the savings and changes since budget development the School site savings some Revenue considerations that are not included in the first interim multi-year report some expenditure considerations that are not included in the first interim multi-year projections and then some other considerations this slide um you you all have seen several times this is the unrestricted general fund uh from budget development so this was based on board action on May 21st so I just want to highlight a few things so so this was projected to have a beginning fund balance of the 47.6 million almost 47.7 we were projected to deficit spend this fiscal year of 19.5 million uh with the1 million of projected school closures and $1.8 million of district office staffing Cuts in the fiscal 2025 26 school year we were projected to deficit spend of the 10.8 million and then in 2627 down to 8.3 which includes some certificated Staffing reductions in the third year out uh please take a look at that ending fund balance of $8.9 million this was approved by scoy this does meet our three-year projections um and I will now show you the Improvement uh in our draft first interim report so we are starting the beginning fund balance with $50.7 million we had the $3 million of savings from the last fiscal year when I presented un audited actuals um we were able to have some savings this year so we are deficit spending of 17.8 million and no longer than 19.5 next year with the current projections based on the the um Consolidated plan that was just approved we are deficit spending next year of $9.2 million and then in the 2026 27 school year of $7.8 million so that we end our fund ending fund balance of $15.8 million um I do need to ask trustee fam uh with his amendments I think there's a couple of fiscal impacts that I might need to add back um most notably the separate Vietnamese Community liaison is is that correct trustee fam uh I think so okay and and then I just want to make sure are there any other fiscal impacts to with your amendments not no not that I can see based upon you know the wording of the Amendments perfect I didn't think so as well uh the cost that I would need to add back in is approximately $71,000 for the additional Community liaison starting next year uh so that would be $14 $2,000 Less in the ending fund balance at the end of the three years so $15.8 million minus $142,000 still it is a far better position than we were in at budget development what's changed since budget development enrollment uh Alam Rock's enrollment for this fiscal year is a little bit better than projected at budget development the preliminary October SE beds enrollment is 7,226 versus 7,093 at budget development the 2024 updated demographics report includes the updated projections which increases the projections for next year and the year after the increased enrollment and Ada the average daily attendance has been Incorporated in the first interim lcff Revenue calculations however to account for the potential decrease in enrollment due to school closures and consolidations enrollment was decreased by 300 in fiscal 2025 26 and fiscal year 2026 27 overall for the three-year projections the ending fund balance has increased by $6.8 million since budget development uh the beginning fund balance increased $3 million to 50 million from 47 million due to savings from the 2324 for school year for fiscal 20242 there is a $1.7 million savings due to increased indirect cost out of the unrestricted general fund to the to the restricted general fund to account for the 26 million in carryover funds for 2025 26 and 2026 27 there is a savings of 1.6 million and $478,000 respectively due to the increase lcff revenue from The increased enrollment and funded Ada the savings for the school closures is less than what was originally projected due to the following reasons and you'll see this on the the next couple of slides counselors were counted as a reduction but should not have been since we are reducing them due to attrition four counselor positions were reduced since budget development this is a reduction in savings of 600 $6,000 for school closures the $66,000 is included it's just that it's included this year and we've already accounted for it so I can't double count it as part of next year's school closures okay so I just want to make that clear utility savings were reduced to 80% per consultation with our scoy assigned fiscal expert this is a reduction in savings of $331,000 in fiscal year 2025 26 and $28,000 in fiscal year 2026 27 for the utante consolidations here is a summary of the savings and changes since budget development so the closure consolidation of schools comes to7 million 885,000 the consolidation of utante 1 and two at the fiser site in the 2026 27 school year is $ 1,66 th000 the four counselor positions that were not filled uh amount to the $66,000 and that's a saving starting this year so if you take a look at the subtotal the subtotal of the closure or consolidation of schools for next fiscal year is almost 8.5 million and the year after with the consolidation of the otanes at the Fisher site come to $ 9.5 million the reduction of the $350,000 was due to the the 80% reduction of utilities right so we were at $9.8 million okay uh we have the same district office staffing reductions assumptions of $1.78 million uh we have special education Staffing reductions of 1.8 almost $1.9 million and certificated Staffing reductions of $1.5 million again that's due to declining enrollment and class size efficiency uh superintendent Sera already went over this in his slide so I'll go over it quickly so here's the um the job titles of the savings that we would have from the school site closures the principes and assistant principals the tkk par Educators the health assistance Community Liaisons and custodians the school admin assistants school office assistants the campus par Educators and the 80% Savings of utilities for a grand total of $7.88 five million here are some Revenue considerations that are not included in the first interim multi-year projections the repurposing of excess facilities to generate facilities use or leasing Revenue the possible sale or land swap of excess facilities the district would like to hire a real estate consultant to assist us in evalu ating various real estate considerations and revenue options it takes three or more years to realize revenue from leasing a site or land swap options here are some expenditure considerations that are not included in first interim all of the first bullet is step and column increases for employees are included in the projections however there are no raises or off salary increases in the multi-year projections since negotiations are not settled moving expenditures and other costs due to school closures are not accounted for in the multi-year projections since they are not Quantified yet other considerations um all of you know we are going to start a a comprehensive special education study uh we will also continue to evaluate each position as vacancies arise starting next year and the year after the district may have additional certificated Staffing reductions due to class loading efficiencies we are in uncharted waters uh this was a graphic from our fiscal expert Don ziming okay we are in uncharted waters because we are I am told the first district to close this many school sites so I do commend the board for making the very difficult decisions these are some potential surprises um the cola may change the current Cola projections are for next year 2.93% the year after 3.08% and for fiscal 2728 3.3% um we all know a reduction in Cola would would hurt us in our Revenue projections uh we also don't know the changes to our average daily attendance due to the closures we also need to keep in mind that the special education the maintenance of effort considerations um the maintenance of effort requirement is for us to spend in local and State dollars the same amount in the current year as we did in the previous year so this is something that we need to keep an eye on uh we do not have Ane issue this year if uh I foresee Ane issue next year I will bring it to the board's attention with some possible solutions I will be working closely with Hanover who is doing our special education study and with skoy to keep an eye on the special education maintenance of effort and when fmap presented their report on November 14th they voiced some concerns with liability exposure due to pending litigation okay so we just need to keep all of these points in mind with that I hope that you approve the fiscal stabilization plan which is due to scoy by December 16th and I will take any questions that you have um it's not directly related to the plan but um I wanted I wanted to make sure that we're in constant communication with the the solar folks and that they are they're immediately notified about the decisions that way they can in Earnest move forward to start realizing some of those savings we were waiting for your decision tonight so I'm sure that Mark frus and I will be on it tomorrow thank you any other trustee comment TR okay um I just uh going back to uh the the um slide before the uncharted waters picture um you mentioned that conducting a special education study is that the one that um trustee Andre Flores Shelton um requested or brought up at the last board meeting part of it no this is uh this is not that request this is the study that uh the board approved um actually skoy uh our Don I believe Zimmerman our fiscal expert recommended that we can conduct a special education study to identify root causes for overidentification of special education students and we've contracted with Hanover who will be conducting that study okay thank you and I do see Mr um simmering hands up so I don't know if it's him or if he wants to share anything oh Mr zimy yeah he's already talking per minuted okay uh please put him on Mr Z he's on but he's not talking no I've been talking to no but they're talking about Mr Z no he's un muted talking permitted talking per oh that's right he has to call her she's not talking I know like he would need to call us let's see can you speak didn't we tell him 10 minutes about two hours ago sorry sounds no he can't we can't hear him actually if you call him and then just put yourself on speaker then if his isn't working then try it through his he says he's fine no need to talk okay he says he's okay yeah he says he's fine no need to talk okay I'm G I mean uh any more questions for miss seeing n you want uh you want to do public comment this is just a presentation we don't usually do public comment but so no no no so means we don't usually take public comment on but okay let's let's do this let's take your public comment there you go we'll even be generous we'll give you a minute and a half I'll um in the initial presentation of merging the adantes it indicated that there' be about $1.2 million savings yet in this report for future years it only shows $1 million so there is a discrepancy on what's been presented publicly versus what's financially been shared so there is a discrepancy that should be um clarified why why that is uh the other thing is in your presentation of redistrict scene it's showing how the schools are going to be there in the future the atlantas are not there so unless they're going to disappear next year that map should be corrected to show that those schools are part of the school district serving the K through whatever you'll need you see they're missing okay okay thank you for pointing that out and just you know from a statement perspective clearly the reason that the atlantas are being closed is because you want to save 1.3 million is not sure if you're saving 1.3 or 1.0 it' be great for clarity purposes to do it to to share it with the public thank you for your question um the original $ 1.2 million in savings included a counselor and 100% of the utilities so again I backed out the counselors which come to about $66,000 for all the counselors for the sites that were closed or Consolidated and the utilities we reduce down to 80% from 100% so that drops the $1.2 million in savings to a million dollar but the counselor savings are there we're just realizing them this year and not as part of the savings for next year oh and then I also want to keep in mind that these are all just estimates we don't have specific people identified right so once we go through the process of figuring out which principles and assistant principles and health assistants and all of that um then we can get to exact numbers so again please bear with us this has to be averages or um you know based on uh what I try to do is kind of go on the lower end because as we know it is the the less senior people who get bumped or reduction in force um so these are all just estimates right now these numbers will change um but hopefully we will get approximately where we are with the estimates uh uh just um superintendent um there's the 80% is to ensure that we have electricity water to keep things going so that we maintain the sights and yes uh yes that is correct alarm systems making sure yeah that's one of the concerns uh in San Jose we have a distinction of having this horrible reputation that um things light up when people want to do something else with the land and so I think it's important to make sure that we have uh the alarm system security to ensure that uh our sites are well protected and that nobody takes advantage of the fact that there might be less presence I'm sure that staff's still going to be around and maintaining the sight correct that that is correct yes all right thank you thank you TR has had her hand up uh tra you want to talk did you have your hand Yeah question I didn't see her hand yes I I just want to um clarify now we're not supposed to respond to um the audience but just want to make sure that the the maps are attached to this is that true Teresa and then we're going to update that tocl adante for the following year I apologize can you repeat your question uh the maps the boundaries is that attached to this one I know we're not supposed to respond to the audience but I just want to make sure that we reflect the right ones that will include adante for the following year yes that that is correct the it's not attached to this presentation it was attached to the resolution that was approved sorry I can't hear you can you speak a little louder because she can't can you hear me now yes so the boundaries is not attached to this presentation it was included in the resolution and the recommendation for the school closures and so in Adelante one and two the reason they're not showing up there is because they're not boundary Schools they're choice schools than schools of choice I'm sorry okay so we're GNA call for the vote um trusty loera how do you vote hi uh truste Andrea Flor Shelton how do you vote Yes uh vice president GTO how do you vote I trustee minf how do you vote I and myself I it's 5 motion passes unan ious and so it is now 9:45 and I'm going to adjourn this meeting all right thank you

uh Mr II here Dr herrian here Mr grippo here Mr chair you have a qu standedge Al to the flag of the United States of America the stands indivisible any members of the audience seeing none so um at a previous meeting I think two meetings ago actually there was a fair amount of dialogue around uh Gaggle and how does our technology work in the district what can somebody get access to not get access to uh from a student perspective and um I offered up expert testimony and it doesn't get more expert than our guest this evening our director of Technology Mike popup welcome right thank you thank you for that outstanding introduction um I just have a quick handout just regarding it's an overview from gaggle of kind of what we've captured this year from the start of school um into the present just a very high level over here I think that'll help us um we can have some conversations based on the different categories on there so first let me say it's my pleasure to come and speak to you guys anytime you want or reach out if you have any technology questions I've been the technology director here for 27 plus years and I'm very very proud of what we provide to our students in terms of uh technology I do like to say I'm not embarrassed to say I think we have the best uh technology offerings of any school system in Connecticut on a very limited budget if you will so so regarding gagle Gaggle uh is a Safety Management program and what it does is it monitors the kids Google Drive accounts so when they log in as J Smith chesher K12 C us that instance of Google docs and spreadsheets and email and all that is monitored by gag so if there are words words it's AI generated right but if it picks something up that it finds objectionable it will go to a live human being and that's the difference between this and other Safety Management Programs the human being will then intervene and say we're going to classify it as this and based on what it's classified as certain people would be alerted the principle in the worst case of a PSS or a possible student situation imminent danger to themselves to others those calls go directly to the police department and to the principal at the high school or typically the high school um Jeff get alerts so it's a layer of insight into this whole world that they play in all the time looking for certain things that that may may may or not be of concern um worst case is a kid uses bad language fourth or fifth grade they'll get a a message and the principal will get a message and then you know maybe you start a conversation ese if there's a pattern so um it it ties directly in with um you know our SEO initiative so the one thing to remember is it's only monitoring their Google instance if they're on their phone obviously or somewhere else it's not going to so the human interaction part is nice because it eliminates the false positives so if you're a principal and you're getting 20 of these a week and 19 of them are like bogus or whatever it's hard to you know it's a CED wolf type situation so the human being intervention is kid goes on a hunting trip with his dad right shoot something there's blood there's a dead carcass blah blah blah clearly someone could determine that that's what that incident was even though there's a whole bunch of keywords that would throw Flags so that's the beauty of Gaggle we have it for all of our students and um all of our students email is checked as well so we start emailing grades three so Board of Ed members are 12 just students administrators just students so the way we have our gagle set up is there's little um organizational units they're calling everybody gag only resides on the student organizational units is what how it breaks down so is it outgoing emails or incom any email any email could be something you write in a Google doc kids will open up a Google document and they'll share it like they're working collaborative collaboratively and there'll be a little box now you have like a chat feature it also monitors that kids have been bullied via a shared Google dog yeah so really y unfortunately creative yeah yeah so if you look at the the report quick total flagged items 77,000 since since July actionable incidents 90 so the first one the 77,000 what I referred to someone using inap language right the other 90 actionable incidents those were things where someone got alerted that it needed to be looked into looked into if you look at the on the right side under PSS two there was two PSS that were violence toward others so those were immediately looked into Police Department got a call um when you get in a report of an incident it includes all the pertinent information as far as like emergency contacts and stuff like that so we have had instances where we' had to you know the police have gone to to students homes and it's great that we have the cooperation of the police when we first started this God got 10 years ago we kind of had anou with the with the PD to enter into this and that's it was very it was something very revolutionary that even gagle hadn't done before one of the big things was what happens when I get an alert at 1:2 in the morning right you know and and I live in Madison or what you know whatever it may be so having that local presence there with with an immediate resp resp is uh is is fantastic so does um so you know a lot of U well almost all of school work kind of goes through Google Classroom so if they're in the middle of so you said that it monitors uh chat features in collaborative documents right so does that also mean that if a student is in the middle of uh a form of creative writing or something like that that is also monitored so if they're writing a fictional piece that entails keyword that's also flag you know that like as a high school principal you know when students are doing that work because you'll get a spat of gaggles in a pretty shorts pan and you read them and you all right you just know and at this point you know our administrators have been there long enough they know the time of year we just passed it uh in the fall where kids were writing more of those I mean you got to be careful because you can't afford to make a mistake and have it be something legitimate so you review it but you know you tend to see them fall in that unit yeah as you're saying your monitors like in chat or comments it monitors every keystroke that's made in that and very very few people have access to this information gagle doesn't store it or whatever but we have it here and very few people have access to the actual incidents some cases in the incident when it's a qon after it's resolved it'll say why it was flagged and then it will say this was a fical narrative written by a student or whatever so so the AI portion of it is great and that's obviously come a long way even though they were using this AI 10 years ago it's the safety team that reviews these things and if they get one that's a PSS they're on it and they're they're calling texting whatever until they get a hold of a human being that's going to deal with this it's it's a internet yeah and you can see like there are a lot of things that get screened but you know in the first you know from July 1st it's not a lot of usage over the summer but through 1120 a couple of weeks ago there were two possible student situations those were the highest um tier response that we have too and they're possible student situations so it doesn't mean they definitively are but the you know something that is high enough on the scale that it it you know could potentially be so that we get notified the ones below that are called cuon which stands for questionable content I like to to to refer to those kind of as conversation starters so there's a report that goes out to the principles each month of the incidents and then it also ranks kind of the students at set situations now if there's a student in your class that maybe is not the kid you would expect to see on this list you're like wow I've never really seen anything from this kid on gagle but he said three cucon in the last month that's a conversation start so the the principal gets an actual list list of names with with it they'll get the list of incidents and on the incidents who kind of had most and how they're ranked so it might be a kid that you're like wait it's not I want to say ranked but the number of the frequency the frequency the number correct correct not in degree of severity and you can see what was written may have conversation never really had problems at all if you was something going on blah blah blah it really is a proactive tool as opposed to something happens and then that and then we react to it so it's um it it served us well one other thing that gagle offers is called the gagle speakup it's like an anonymous tip line we have that as well some things come in through that could be a parent member of the community another student totally Anonymous they can do it from the Chromebook they can text they can call so it's a more of a digital tip line than than some of the things we've had in the past where there's aest box you that one lit up with our teacher incident people from all over calling and saying things yes they got flagged on to speak up people from throughout the I I think it's um incredible in incredible information that's good to have are those suicide and self harm sure um those numbers are actually pretty high and if we can catch those in instances before but keep in mind 16 of those could have been writing an essay on suicide prevention oh you don't know it gets flagged and then sent forward just to be double checked and so you know as much as these things the questionable content comes up yeah if it was somebody writing a plan for suicide that would be a possible student sit situation and we'd be notified immediately um so questionable content you know that's different something you want to pay attention to but possible student situation I mean that's that's serious at that point but all students are aware that they're being monitored right MH they they know about gang they'll talk about it open right well well cuz I'm just you know I appreciate the you know what I mean the ideation of suicide and stuff like that would you the only reason why you'd be running on your school computer is to let someone know right could be a flag yeah it could be you want the hope and it's good yeah yeah yeah or some kids are just just not paying attention which is unfortunate because you really need to know where you are and where you're where you're storing your dat right exactly there's I can imagine you a chat like that a chat could light up like that yeah I'm GNA kill you yeah you know when they because you did something stupid in class like yeah this so we get that and you know we evaluate it know the difference and act this is where one additional measure obviously we have you know active adult supervision when these kids are on their devices and there's other layers within Google and with within other you know security products we have that also limit students filtering one thing we use a program called iboss so things are filtered out different searches different keywords different abili you talk bit about iboss yeah yeah how that works yep so ibos is a is a is a web filter so certain things are blacklisted and every day it updates itself and you know it tries to stay ahead of it but new sites are always created so um you know uh sites with objectional content gambling drugs sex things like that would be blocked um every once in a while a good site might get blocked and a teacher can submit that request we check it out get approval as long as it's okay then we put it on a white list and we allow it every once in a while one might get through that should have been blocked and they let us know we can manually add that to a blacklist but just another layer of protection now that's only available through our Wi-Fi network right no that actually does so if you're on my home home network it'll block it to yes yes it has a the proxy the traffic is what it's called but it goes back through there and the same rules would apply and that's where it gets a little bit confusing so it monitor your cheser K12 C us account as a student correct you go home and maybe not your Chromebook but you log on to your mom's MacBook but you log in as yourself as ches kol CC us it's going to get filtered so got calls why are you filtering my personal device it's not device filtering it's all based on that account so it's kind of kind of odd why why am I getting blocked because maybe the kid leaves it logged in as him then the parent goes to do something and it gets blocked and blocked by treasure Public Schools that's why obviously it's it's there's a lot of levels of complexity to uh to this that I so on a Chromebook if they logged in on their personal Gmail they can't they can't it's lock down to chesher K12 CT us okay yeah the Chromebooks are Fant fantastic I mean revolutionize what we do I never thought I would see the day when we gave every kid prek through 12 their own device right that's kind of where we're at right now it's it's allowed us to do so much at such a reasonable cost that something like gagle you're give all these kids devices or whatever in my opinion you have to have some kind of Safety Management thing you know to to to help you through it and we're way ahead of the game as far as that's concerned so yeah but as much as we have one to one availability elementary students aren't taking home their Chromebook like not everybody's got but they have a cart that they can access at certain points not a Shar C you have to go get the second grade C it's appropriate to you use your instruction you have that resource available to you so seventh grade when they start taking taking them home Yeahs home and if they take their Chromebooks home and they don't log into their school account they can log into other stuff you can't you can't log into the Chromebook without logging into your that's the only way you can get on your Chromebook okay yeah yeah it's a brick without that we we turn off the because those Chromebooks are all managed by cheser public schools there's no guest access there's no Anonymous login there's nothing like that it's purpose built just for that and we can get a lot of data on the other end when it was logged in who logged in all that type of stuff so there's a lot of other things just in the Google admin console that we get with the Chromebooks so and the big thing that so taking those Chromebooks out of school doesn't doesn't do anything you can log into your Google account on your phone yeah so the big thing is with all of this is data privacy which we take very seriously where's the data where does it get stored who can access it so even like this gagle data which why it's very very um very very restricted and students are allowed to store unlimited storage after they graduate we give them a grace period of like a year or something they can go and they can zip their whole folder and they can extract it and they can put it you know wherever they want so they can take stuff with them so we don't save it forever so on our main website under um you know cheser public schools for parents digital citizenship and student privacy we have a whole website dedicated to you know all the information around student privacy that you know parents students can look up every piece of software that we need that we use we get a privacy pledge and a signed contract from that vendor that states where the data is where it resides to terminate that contract that they need to delete all the data and give us our data back so it doesn't just end up you know end up out there so how long have we been doing that what's that the data privacy state passed the law five years ago yeah I was going to say five years five six years ago which was which was was good it was a lot of work to get to that point but it is a it is a great idea so this is on our website like if you are under our privacy compliance you can see you know every software that we use in the district is there subject grade level approve and then what's the Privacy State status is any software you know everything from Adobe and ad block to ABC reading you know free app that maybe teacher wanted so we evaluate it and make it available ones that are on here that say NPI it does not collect personally identifiable information kids are not loging in is anonymous yeah yeah if there's a a data breach we post it here this was January was the last one we had you know so there's a lot of um information available on our website you know dedicated to the student privacy piece our digital citizenship Online safety curriculum different strategies so these are the resources that repr provide on the on the board of that side you know from like a curricular student centered level there are also backend things that we do in our data center fir walls other type of malware threat detection type of things that I don't even want to pretend that I could speak intelligently that's exactly how they work but we do have all of those things in place there's a program called Art of wolf there's a program called Sentinel one all of those are monitoring for malware and things like that but for instance we get regular reports about when we have the you know we've had several Russian attacks denial service attack where they fledge your network we had a rash of people that were trying to do a d dos it's called of chesh public schools don't ask me why um but we were for some reason I like to attack schools you know why because there's student data there that's not protected and if I can get with the student serial number um um Social Security numbers and things like that these are kids that don't even have a credit report yet right it's like virgin data so I think that might be a big reason but we block entire countries through our fly wall we block China we block bellarus we block these other countries where any traffic that comes from there is just B so there's things that take place at another another level to to keep stuff from even getting in and trying to harvest any information malware and things like that so so you've heard from like the micro down to the student level you know how we employ Gaggle to try and make sure our kids are safe you know personally interpersonally up to the you know macro level where it's like denial of service attacks from a country uh or originating out of another country so um kind of gives you a sense of the breadth of what Mike and our our team deals with um certainly you know he's here to answer any questions you guys might have or if you have any questions you know certainly you can ask me and we'll get Mike to either come back or answer the question for you I think um the how this conversation got started is we talked about personal device using School Wi-Fi is there any effect on a device like that at all no so in a personal device and and by the way we don't have we don't allow students to bring their own devices because we give them one although we don't have something oh okay yeah oh putting up their phone on our Network yeah okay so I don't know why they would but if they did so when anyone joins our Network that it's not the they they join the device on their own like as a guest if you want there you there's a prompt that comes up says I'm a student or a staff member there's another one that says I'm a guest when you click on I'm a guest your device goes into a guest role more filtered less priority for your you know for your traffic to uh to do whatever but you're on our network with just kind of the basics you're still filtered you're filtered actually a lot more heavily so that network is available for guest access so yes a student could put their phone on there but they can not put their phone on there and have access to anything right that's and that's really the case for most our kids that coming to school you know this one of the few Silver Linings at chesher high school it's like you know you could survive the nuclear Holocaust let alone get 5G service in there in a lot of places you can't there's like nothing in there kid takes the phone makes it a wireless Hotpot then connects up with their device now they have unfettered internet access however on our Chromebook they don't because no matter where they go they have the same still have to log on to our device we're controlling everything that we have control over obviously there's things that are just that are just outside of our you know outside of our control yeah yeah but we prefer you know not what we prefer students should be only be using their Chromebook that's a device that we give them to do what they need to do in the ches public schools or whatever every once in a while I get a call that someone wants to bring their MacBook in or whatever it may be and I explain to them why they need to use that device cuz a and we're also able to monitor it we have another device that comes in on the outside now teacher in class and she has a kid and she can't see what's going on in their device we have a software that allows them to monitor the classroom full the Chromebooks too so you can see from your Chromebook you can see their screen from your screen it's a program called go guardian we put in what it allows the teacher to do is also to to to set the class um you can set what's called a scene so Sam teaching a class and we're going to go to like these two websites and we're going to open up Google docs to write a paper on it and maybe you know one other source when they log in based on their class period on that class when they walk into that class they log in they get those four tabs and that's it you can't go anywhere else you're captive so you can access the resources you need and write your paper but you can't go searching on random sites so so that's a great feature through guard go teachers can see their screens if they see that you're doing something they can simply lock your screen and walk over to you hey Mark what's going on right do theud and it captures it too so if the parents said well my kid wasn't doing that in class like here's a picture do the students know when the teacher is is watching is there something on the screen that shows up like if I'm not sure but they should be under the premise that there always are yeah if everyone's using it yeah and allows teachers to canol you know there's there's one way to look at it like I don't want them to to wander other places but there's kids might might legitimately get lost and they're not trying to then I can look at them like you look like you need some help and and getting back on course so tough to teach when you got you know 20 kids in front of you with screens facing them and you're in the front of room yeah yeah we don't do a lot of that anyway yeah you know this is not good practice unless you're teaching a student how to walk through websites I that's' be one of the few they're working on like uh they're working independently some would do like a math module or something like they doing yet yeah yeah yeah different assessments that you're taking online and stuff we take uh you know PSAT sat online now that sort of stuff Smart Balance is all online so all done through the Chromebooks you know we push that down when test time comes so so whe they're on smarter balance the Proctor or it's the teacher can look and see everyone's screen make sure that they're I don't know if you can use go guardan not do that but when they take that smarter balance test the Chromebook is locked and they can't go anywhere else anyway during the Smart Balance test that's one of the I think that's a special softw smar They buil yeah we can't use go Guardian for that when you turn the chomebook and you click test then you're just in that testing screen and you can't break out and go to a web I can see this the situation where Sparky is taking his test and you know the teacher watching through go Guardian Sparky yeah yeah but uh they lock all that up yeah there's a lot of safeguards in place that you know thinking along those lines well what if this what if that but believe me there's new ways that people find do stuff every day that we're you know that we're trying to that we're trying to deal with it pop up like w I've never thought of that pretty creative some of these kids so and uh so do you need are we all set as far as from policy perspective do you need anything additional from us no I think you know from the policy perspective I think we're pretty strong there as some place where we've spent a fair amount of time over the years um a lot of it's you know guided legally but um if there's ever anything you know Mike is real good about communicating with us and our and Vin and our principles about you know different uh applications that arise and opportunities to make sure that we're uh as safe as we possibly can we've done stuff over the years like um Michael sent a bogus email and says you know looks like it's coming from me and it's a fishing test or whatever see how many people click on yeah done some fishing simulations just to see where people are at and we can give them some additional training so do you do you think we'll need to um uh enact any policies through the use of AI for you for students using AI That's Coming part of another group that I'm in in conjunction with uh with Marlene is what are we doing about AI know before it used to be just using Wikipedia yeah our Planning Group is spending a lot of time on that this year um we met with our administrative team um and a gentleman from Ed Advance came in who they do a lot of AI work and it's fascinating you know to just the they call large language models where you're just pulling from everything on the internet to create new information U so generative AI is like the the newest piece and so we're working um with our Strate strategic planning group that's District uh teachers like Mike and different folks across the district uh working on where do we need to go with that uh but we're also learning how to leverage it too and you know whether or not we love it it's definitely part of what we're going to be doing for the rest of our life so how do we how do we teach responsible use and how do we leverage it to the best of our ability uh give our kids those opportunities and advantages because they're dabbling with it already like you know a couple of months ago my oldest son was sending me videos um that his buddy had sent him he's wearing his prom a senior prom tux or whatever but he's like dancing and everything singing like it wasn't him but it was generative II um making him look like he was doing it you can still it was a little little rough little boty but was pretty good I was like w it's only going to get better same yeah the Deep fakes and all and there's no real way to to detect it like initially people came out with they tried to sell them to schools that were these like AI detectors like you could run it through like what we have for like plagiarism and things like that doesn't work like that and it's a waste of money to even buy those things they just they they simply don't work yeah well there's also I mean there's legitimate uses to use AI even in education fantastic uses correct correct blocking is not always the way to go sometimes educating people and finding out the appropriate uses of it and going that way which is what we've always done thanks to thanks to Jeff you know we've always been reason what's figure out the pros and the cons and and have kids use this use this responsibly I use it I use it all the time it's it's incredible but then again I'm I'm an adult that's using it for a very specific purpose in my industry so I kind of know what the content looks like so but yeah yeah definitely uh definitely more come yeah on that front yeah I was looking real quick for the um the uh PD oh there it is Vector training so like uh with respect to all the digital security stuff uh our staff are required to take different professional development online so like here's mine you know um email and messaging safety responsible use thought there was another one that we had too you don't have to do those every year do yeah with the only exception is um mandated reporter training which is every three years that responsible use policy isn't just CU that's the the staff one that yeah you guys have talked about a couple couple of months ago so that was the one mark that think that question about yeah so yeah thank you thank you for that that is something we need to make sure that we adhere to the students also have sign responsive use policy parents and students both sign at the younger grades and then students at the at the older grades at the high school or whatever so um you know that's another issue that we have to check to make sure that we're in compliance on that specifically at the high school um because if a kid's not signing the responsible use policy they're also not signning acknowledging the student handbook there's a whole bunch of other different you know different forms yeah so usually principal's tracking those students down and middle of September going are with us so are we changing or updating or reviewing any policy that's connected to this or is this just no no this this question came up uh a couple of weeks ago there were some questions so thought it'd be nice to get Mike in here yep yep you know give you some little deeper background that the only other policy issue probably something we need to take up is we used to have in there back before we had devices for everybody there was a policy in there that said you could bring your own device and we've since removed that from there but we don't have something that specifically says you can't bring your own device if you're a student which would be nice because then would eliminate the kids feeling like they need to bring in a Macbook or whatever we already give them a device I'm not sure why they would but but we handle those when they when they arise and and there's not a ton of them so I don't think that would beue well great thanks for allowing me more than willing anytime any questions you can reach out to me with more uh more specifics great awesome oh man do you have the code to turn off the alarm I do maintain thanks a lot thank you good night they tend to do that lately the alarm while we're still here anyway um so the first policy we have tonight is non-discrimination and this was actually a third reading but we bumped it to the first reading because it was so dramatically different this is one of the um policies we had uh Rebecca review Goldberg our one of our attorneys from birom and Moses um this is um you know her uh update to make sure that this policy dub tals really well with this other the sexual harassment in Title 9 so this is so this is what we had for the third reading this sexual harassment she's recommending this other version it this is is kind of challenging tell why separate though do um there two different policies um the non-discrimination policy and then the um title n Title 9 one and if you remember like they didn't make sense together they were all disjointed and why does this have um why does our old one reference all the various forms of discrimination and this one only references Title 9 and it didn't make sense and this was from um some sort of Shipman Goodwin SLC version and we were because we were trying to really reconcile two different forms of policies and and because Bertram and Moses uh are the people who walk us through and address these challenges with us um I would strongly recommend that for both policies that we're looking to adopt that are direct dictated by law these aren't so much things that we're just adopting for our own interest um but clearly dictated by law that we follow the um recommendations of our attorneys on these so the first one we bumped this one back to non-discrimination um both 521 frankly it'd be my uh recommendation to take this policy the sexual harassment and bump that back to First reading as well um keep them and dump this that was on the third reading because it just doesn't make any sense now what you could do is say you know what this one's already at the third reading we're just going to adopt this all together brand new but I [Music] don't I wouldn't like the practice of having one for go to through two readings and then wholesale substitute it for the third reading it just feels kind of disingenuous to me um if anybody like we wouldn't do that for any policy uh feels like you're trying to get one past people clearly we're not in this case but I just don't think it's good practice and we're not under any there's no urgency we have to follow this no matter what we have to follow the law anyway yeah so that's why I would recommend you know tonight maybe what you want to do is take this you know and say we're going to do this for a first reading um and we're going to take the non-discrimination for a first reading too and kind of just like reset and don't even I would strike this one um out does that make sense it does does do you want us to vote on that when we get there um the the non-discrimination policy like I said this is all grounded in the law you know notifying people of the non-discrimination policy it's it's all legal ease um but I think it's easy to read too uh Rebecca does a good job she's the one that did that bullying policy for us many years ago where we took it from this incomprehensible legal to English um and it was it was very well received um so this is the you know just that General policy uh again dictated by law with with relate as it relates to um non-discrimination you see the BM is virtual Moses then we have um so that was the only one we had for number one I would recommend also having this one for number one and this is the updated policy and um regulation this is uh 40001 is the certified staff 5,000 is the classified non-certified staff and then it just goes through the updates for Title 9 law and then we'll do three readings of this and then there'll be a new presidential Administration and we'll be rereading it probably by this time next year yeah does that make sense to you guys like I tried tried to because she said you definitely want to keep the non-discrimination and the sexual harassment if you're going to adopt one you got to adopt the other like because they're complimentary um policies you you guys okay moving on to Second reading stuff yeah all right so then we got security fingerprint this is the update in the law um I you can see see some of the changes background checks we've been following the law we're just updating the policy um this was you remember having the conversation about the nurses because it was redundant that's why they pulled it out I think everything else we felt really comfortable with terms of the revised policy fingerprinting it's not long what's that it's not long and involved is straight forward well the regulation I think is really long like how to do it that's where they get into who has control of the Records who doesn't who you know how to access it that is a lot more cumbersome then we have the social networking policy um if you recall this is the one that we had Floyd review um you know it kind of Timely um and I think you know one of the things that that came up the other day as I was just reading this uh so inappropriate conduct outside of Staff members professional responsibilities May render them unfit uh for their duties um it's you have to be really careful uh as I was saying at the board meeting the other day about freedom of speech and not wrongfully terminating somebody um because of their free speech and we can't draft a policy we can't have a policy that restricts your free speech rights so in here we do talk about um you know that uh you you shouldn't be right here number seven you know you can't use your District title or affiliation anything like that in a post or without you know the express consent of administration you know so if a teacher any employee is making inappropriate remarks or inappropriate posts um and they're wearing treasure gear that's different than just making a post um so this is pretty nuanced and this is where you know we're careful in the process of following the advice of our attorney and navigating these things to the best of our so it's the attorney who is putting those additional words yeah Floyd had put those in yeah actually he had done it before the situation even so um why is ridicule in there um let me see if there's a prior this is so basically you cannot ridicule the school district yeah or just close confid confidential information you you can't Heckle um families and things like that in your professional Duty that you engage in your professional Duty unless it's a matter of public discourse so if um you know for example you're a parent what if you're using a burner account yeah if you as a parent those exist if a teacher a teacher could make comments about you as a board member which would be protected um they can't make comments about your child because you're a board member they can't ridicule your family yeah you we're public figure so it's like right there's a lot more latitude that's provided and I know that's like something Tim brings up a little bit you know I want you know people should be able to speak freely they can't but they 's a threshold to that you know um and I'm curious on the history on this must have copied it over yeah imported file so I'm not going to be able to see what original what Floyd had see yeah in the original version It's he this is the original one that he he had because he took I'm sure I sent it to him and he he updated it to include ridicule I'm sure he had a reason for that word yeah specific legal definition of ridicule right that's different than harass I guess right is it a is it levels of you know I don't know the difference from a legal perspective between said this ridic and harass yeah so then he I'm sure he does he uses words with intentions yes he does absolutely um the FAFSA completion that's just an update from the state that was requiring by 2027 now instead of uh 202 the completion of the FAFSA it sets a goal of 100% but we're not penalized if we have less than 100% uh fasta completion um can I just ask a quick question um on uh number eight of the uh the previous social media one about accessing social media yeah I know we had a question about that so is that um yeah I think we would use reasonable judgement on that okay like you shouldn't so scrolling it's there to be there and then okay yeah I think you know the question came up during lunch in the policy it says working hours you know you make the argument okay well then then it's not during working usually by union definition break is a break dutyfree lunch or whatever for teachers there's a little bit of a different I mean if a teacher's in the faculty room scrolling through Instagram during lunch nobody cares yeah you know um and it's you shouldn't be outside of that like scrolling through Instagram well kids are in your classroom you or when you're monitoring the playground or something yeah um alternative education program this was uh update from the state and I see we took out yeah this was the credit recovery piece that we had to address so Pro we provide a credit recovery program as part of the alternative education program um you don't don't have to enroll in the um alternative program to have access to credit recovery so you don't you don't have to go to um like a wng for adult ed or humus then necessarily to engage in Credit Recovery we do that all the time for kids to go to treasure High School too it's not you know you're not required to enter those programs in order to have access to that sort of support that's the the gist of this change the third reading ones um again just remind you we're not going to advance this one forward because we're moving the other one to the first and I think we'll just um maybe we could just call when we say the first reading you know updated beral Moses policy 41 421 Etc um I'll save if you don't mind Equity diversity for last uh suspension and due process um there are a slew of legal updates that were required in here um that we've reviewed in the past you know a lot of it which isn't necessarily relevant to us all that often you know we don't expel without a notice or anything like that um making sure that parents are aware that if if you are being expelled you have access to free legal services when it doesn't happen often but when I send an expulsion notice um it says right in there that you know here's who you contact in Waterberry there's a a center that provides Le free legal service in Waterberry excuse um notification of parents when students engage in uh harmful Behavior how teachers can now request behavior intervention meeting with the crisis team if if a student causes a serious uh disruption or they caused harm the teacher other people in the classroom then we send notification to the parents these are everything in this policy is is really pretty rare you know the dates anyway the other stuff like you know runof-the-mill suspension um in school and out of school is going to be more regular than expulsions but and the suspension um process was uh updated we can't suspend students under grade three it's kind of rare anyway that we would ever run into that scroll up to something there sure yeah yeah you have to so everything's in school and we may authorize or you may authorize out school we we authorize it there's there are conditions that have to be met for out of school suspension they pose a threat the they create a disruption things like that um you're fighting that can be an out of school suspension you know but does that after school what's that does that mean after school out school suspension yeah it mean no no in school so in SCH in school suspension means you come to school and there's a a room where you have access to your work or whatever um you go to in school suspension but you're not going to classes no um you're not going to after school activities either you're um hopefully meeting with a counselor maybe teachers administrator during that time um doing your work in an in school suspension setting uh that doesn't sound like fun or no it's it's not designed to be that way but stuff you know it's better to have the student in the building if you can rather than no but you know but it's a just it's got to be a disincentive for students yeah I mean we've had parents say with an out of school suspension oh you're just putting them on vacation and so we recognize that too we don't want to do that but if there the behavior is such that it's going to be dis RVE or you know the some sort of physical threat issue you know then yeah go out of school suspension but um yeah that's the the process there so the default is that we're authorizing you in in school administration to suspend out of school if need they yeah if they meet these conditions yeah um so disruption of the educational process poses a danger yeah I get that I'm just thrown off by except we may authorize the administration so it seems like to me that you're coming to us to ask if you can suspend but it should just be that you guys just have the authority to suspend they do these are our policies yes these are board of policies let me um I'm just curious because it says it set the board May authorize let me see if we should change that to authorizes for the sake of the policy the I think the law that's probably drawn straight from the law okay and we pulled this from um from uh c yeah I like it 51 yeah it's clear and it answers Mark's question authoriz it's exactly the whole point is it's like you have to like you have to ask us yeah I don't want coming you espec especially since there's 40 pages of do what you got to do right yeah right there yeah exactly so again very little left to still out out of school you know under previous issues but and that's you again you know you can do out of school if it may lead the physical harm it requires us to provide developmental support uh follow 504 plans and special education plans just because the students being disciplined you can't disregard the services um the we have to consider if you receive special Education Services whether or not a PPT meeting is appropriate is this a programmatic concern so like if you you know when you read our um policy around expulsion you can't suspend a child with who receives special education services for more than 10 days out of school without it constituting a change of placement in school or out of school you can't suspend a student with special ed needs um so they could do something really egregious um you're going to move to expel them but because they receive special education services you have to hold What's called the manifestation determination PPT so was the child's Behavior a manifestation of their disability was was there a causal relationship between the behavior and the disability if there is then you can't EXP spell that student you you have to modify their program in some way and that could be a change of placement it doesn't mean that they automatically just go back to their class whatever they were doing but you know it's all part of the process to make sure that you know students needs are being met so and these are all just like updates from the last session actually yeah so maximum number of suspension days before a expulsion hearing I said the 10 days that's 10 days for 3 through 12 we uh never in my career have I seen K to2 uh suspended I don't even know for a day let alone five um what about how is um is school suspension counted as absent does it add to the chronic absentees uh I believe so yeah because they're not getting they're not in school if they're in school suspension they're getting their work done so even if but if they're out they're not yeah even if you're competing for the world championship of chicken wing eating or something as prestigious as that maybe you're uh not in school today so that You' see that it's become pretty cut and dry you're either in school or you're out of school a field trip is the only thing that they would consider you know if you were doing a school field trip to something yeah even if the even if it was something you know more significant like the you're competing in the scrips Howard Championship or whatever even the superintendent authorizes your absence it doesn't doesn't matter you're not school because I think too many people were just kind of beating it that way and and I think the answer your question that's why there's 40 pages of policy because they would prefer to keep the students in school right yeah because once you're out of school then that's it well for a year or however long it is you know yeah yeah so there's a lot of effort around what you can and can't discipline students for and then the resulting consequences so this is um the much reviewed equity and diversity policy and this is the revised version after Rebecca went through it and I met with her um at length about this policy to uh get her perspective and to um get her opinion on making making sure that we were writing a policy that was sound and defensible under the law but um also expressed our uh mission of making sure that we provide uh access to learning for all of our kids and and community members and that we solicit diverse participation to help make better decisions around uh things that we do and so you know the the perhaps this this is the clean version right but I want to show you the um version history on this um this is a I don't know if I can I can't close that side of it I guess but um I can kind of walk you through the changes and why they were made there um she wanted to right up front cover all of the different um elements of and these are these are per the law this is what the law says is covered through uh diversity um and that's in that non-discrimination policy almost the same language and and other characteristics as a key component of meeting this goal um she just cleaned up the language there and then made it reflect uh the uh the law the non-discrimination part of it and did we not have that all no well I think we did in other places where we like here we this is all we had before races ethnicities social and she just made it clear and encompassing it's everything yeah yeah you just basically can't discriminate and then she switched it from children to members of the chesher public schools Community because it's more than just yeah yeah um family members staff Etc in the CPS Community believe uh Equity is recognizing and valuing each and every individual reducing um and eliminating barriers to well-being um struck the systemic piece out of there uh did she she recommend that yes and um we already discussed that though didn't see you'll see later on you'll see later on like down here where we have the definitions she her take it doesn't show the cross out here because she just highlighted the whole thing and said dump them all because a lot of these you know are social construct definitions and they're not legal definitions and the policy is clear and these things evolve um and perspectives evolved with time like and she's like how do you prove implicit bias you know things these are social constructs that can be taught but not legally so she suggested dumping all the definitions so you'll see I'm just going to walk you through some of these recommendations and then let's go back to the other version where you can see clean up yeah based on her recommendations um you know really appreciated that piece about members of the community rather than just children I was everybody um again she was very clear about what's included um here and then we started to go through these different um you know kind of aspirational statements that we had um reduce barriers to the recruitment employment retention of teachers um ethnic and other disparities and achievement she thought was important to include so you know when we were talking about it I remember saying to her like you know it doesn't we're trying to address any sort of disparities in achievement or access like if it was North End students versus South End students we'd want to attack that too any we want all of our students to have access to hide a treatment and an opportunity um and so she felt including and others was important this um was just the the you know kind of a redundant piece actively identifying any practices that create dispar opportunities or results among students period this um part we had already we decided to take that out previously because there were two options for that seven and we had previously crossed out that so when you see that and then um we had crossed that out she crossed out this and just said students in general and then when it got to the definitions her recommendation was take them all out um and that was interesting I thought that was really interesting because that was kind of where we started to get felt dicey like trying to figure out like how do we Define this that and the other thing and she's like you can't there really is no legal definition for these things that you've got the aspirational goals you know these are I think it addresses um the initial intent while maintaining legal Integrity would you like me to print a couple of copies so you could just read it I should have printed a few copies do you want one to I know you're I have it on my screen let me print a couple of copies for you guys of the of the the clean one excuse me quick oh you the same issue that I do right here of big pot of soil got your limitations I had to get it like down the stairs oh yeah soil is a light it's very heavy how big well and it just got rained on for all day so it was wet it was wet was it frozen too it wasn't Frozen that's why I wanted in because I had put bulbs there okay so I'm going to keep them inside in a dark place for couple I didn't I wanted to get it in there before before the rain but that didn't happen yep I want to do a lot of things before really cold get it all plac inside warranty oh boyy thank you well it's shorter yeah short and Street oh I like number one after the cleanup I just felt like you know this this I think reaches a really broad range of backgrounds and perspectives like you know this some the language in the previous one I thought could be a lightning rod for some people um regardless of their perspective because it's not like strong enough or or weak enough but I think this um get drives home the same point uh in terms of how do we make sure we have a a school system that uh encourages voice from all people protects voice from all people and supports uh inclusion and Equity I like the language of the nine aspirational statements they're very positive for and look at all the legal references for questions comments of course um so this is a completely different policy from the one that we saw Even in our last meeting which I mean it's just stripped down uh okay yeah right completely different it's uh highly edited from the last one where all the definitions are gone a lot of like you said in infammatory uh defin from my opinion uh uh definitions are gone um so my my question um well firstly I'll comment um number seven um seems to commit us to doing something um the review of existing policies etc etc uh will be developed with an equity approach so what does that mean what is an equity approach yeah I I think in the spirit of this um policy it means that we take a step back and make sure that are we conscious of all perspectives here um you know I think the example that um you know to ironically kind of stereotypical but our uh that Rebecca gave was that you know if you created a policy that said you know meetings would happen at 8: a.m.

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and we'll start, They'll be a card that says we're in caucus or we're in small group. and we'll start, We'll we'll broadcast we're in caucus or we're in small group. and we'll start, We'll we'll broadcast we're in caucus or we're in small group. and we'll start, We'll we'll broadcast momentarily. Lunch and break time. Same thing, it won't be, you know, Lunch and break time. Same thing, it won't be, you know, Lunch and break time. Same thing, it won't be, you know, we won't have live microphones Lunch and break time. Same thing, it won't be, you know, we won't have live microphones Lunch and break time. Same thing, it won't be, you know, we won't have live microphones for those that those times and thing, it won't be, you know, we won't have live microphones for those that those times and thing, it won't be, you know, we won't have live microphones for those that those times and then length of viewing time, we won't have live microphones for those that those times and then length of viewing time, we won't have live microphones for those that those times and then length of viewing time, I'm not exactly sure what our for those that those times and then length of viewing time, I'm not exactly sure what our for those that those times and then length of viewing time, I'm not exactly sure what our conversation was on that.

So, there'll be a visual that people will see if they tune in. Why are they talking? it? So, there'll be a visual that people will see if they tune in. Why are they talking? it? So, there'll be a visual that people will see if they tune in. Why are they talking? They'll be a card that says that people will see if they tune in. Why are they talking? They'll be a card that says that people will see if they tune in. Why are they talking? They'll be a card that says we're in caucus or we're in tune in. Why are they talking? They'll be a card that says we're in caucus or we're in tune in. Why are they talking? They'll be a card that says we're in caucus or we're in small group. and we'll start, They'll be a card that says we're in caucus or we're in small group.

But then length of viewing time, I'm not exactly sure what our conversation was on that. But then length of viewing time, I'm not exactly sure what our conversation was on that. But it's going to be all day. Oh, I'm not exactly sure what our conversation was on that. But it's going to be all day. Oh, I'm not exactly sure what our conversation was on that. But it's going to be all day. Oh, that length of viewing time? conversation was on that. But it's going to be all day. Oh, that length of viewing time? conversation was on that. But it's going to be all day. Oh, that length of viewing time? Yes. So we'll have the it's going to be all day. Oh, that length of viewing time? Yes. So we'll have the it's going to be all day. Oh, that length of viewing time? Yes.

and we'll start, They'll be a card that says we're in caucus or we're in small group. and we'll start, We'll we'll broadcast we're in caucus or we're in small group. and we'll start, We'll we'll broadcast we're in caucus or we're in small group. and we'll start, We'll we'll broadcast momentarily. Lunch and break time. Same thing, it won't be, you know, Lunch and break time. Same thing, it won't be, you know, Lunch and break time. Same thing, it won't be, you know, we won't have live microphones Lunch and break time. Same thing, it won't be, you know, we won't have live microphones Lunch and break time. Same thing, it won't be, you know, we won't have live microphones for those that those times and thing, it won't be, you know, we won't have live microphones for those that those times and thing, it won't be, you know, we won't have live microphones for those that those times and then length of viewing time, we won't have live microphones for those that those times and then length of viewing time, we won't have live microphones for those that those times and then length of viewing time, I'm not exactly sure what our for those that those times and then length of viewing time, I'm not exactly sure what our for those that those times and then length of viewing time, I'm not exactly sure what our conversation was on that.

So we'll have the proceedings available for a that length of viewing time? Yes. So we'll have the proceedings available for a that length of viewing time? Yes. So we'll have the proceedings available for a year and then we'll archive Yes. So we'll have the proceedings available for a year and then we'll archive Yes. So we'll have the proceedings available for a year and then we'll archive them. We won't delete them. but proceedings available for a year and then we'll archive them. We won't delete them. but proceedings available for a year and then we'll archive them. We won't delete them. but we'll hide them on the portal. year and then we'll archive them. We won't delete them. but we'll hide them on the portal. year and then we'll archive them. We won't delete them. but we'll hide them on the portal. So that we do need them want to them.

But then length of viewing time, I'm not exactly sure what our conversation was on that. But then length of viewing time, I'm not exactly sure what our conversation was on that. But it's going to be all day. Oh, I'm not exactly sure what our conversation was on that. But it's going to be all day. Oh, I'm not exactly sure what our conversation was on that. But it's going to be all day. Oh, that length of viewing time? conversation was on that. But it's going to be all day. Oh, that length of viewing time? conversation was on that. But it's going to be all day. Oh, that length of viewing time? Yes. So we'll have the it's going to be all day. Oh, that length of viewing time? Yes. So we'll have the it's going to be all day. Oh, that length of viewing time? Yes.

We won't delete them. but we'll hide them on the portal. So that we do need them want to them. We won't delete them. but we'll hide them on the portal. So that we do need them want to go back to them. That would be we'll hide them on the portal. So that we do need them want to go back to them. That would be we'll hide them on the portal. So that we do need them want to go back to them. That would be available to us. Yes. Kelly. So that we do need them want to go back to them. That would be available to us. Yes. Kelly. So that we do need them want to go back to them. That would be available to us. Yes. Kelly. It's the same. Yeah, it's the go back to them. That would be available to us. Yes.