Now, they're finally off to championships. Lastly, looking at Western, their highlight would be their international week led by their ICC Tiffany Nuen. The international week was a beautiful cultural week and their pioneers enjoy cultural dances and fashion shows throughout the week. Cannot wait to see what is to come for the month of April. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Uh next we have uh student speakers. We have one uh student in the audience request to speak. Uh Sam Goodheim, come to the podium there. All right. Uh, good evening. First, I want to thank the board members for showing up and giving us time to speak. It means a lot to be seen and heard. My name is Samira Ganame and I'm a student at Cypress High School. I'm also a visibly Muslim student, which means my identity is something people notice before they even get to know me.
We don't want ABUSD to become just like every other district. We value the things that make us unique, but to preserve those strengths, we have to be willing to confront hard truths. We must shrink the pay gap, not just for the sake of teachers and administrators, but for the sake of all of our students as well. That's how we move forward together. Thank [Applause] you. Okay, that uh is it for the comments for close session. We have open session will be at 7 p.m. But prior to that, we're going to go into close, but I'm going to uh read off what we're going into close session for. It's quite lengthy, so bear with me. Um item one for close session is superintendent evaluation. Item two pupil personnel expulsion case STIP number 6 2425 and expungement of expulsion case STIP 222-23. Item three conference of litigation government code section 54956.9 subsection 8.
But remember, this capacity does not take into account specialized classrooms. All of those special education and ESL classrooms that are capped at smaller numbers of students using full size classrooms. When you get to that, we'd be once you look at that, then the capacity chart would change more to 100% capacity. So, what are the next steps now that we have this demographic study with this proposal? The proposed notification of the reszoned rising fifth graders would happen in April. The meet and greet with the new principal would happen in May. Busing notifications would be going out in July and August and an open house at the new school would be possible in August. as a district. Some of the next steps are the naming committee that is coming up, the staff reassignments, because what this proposal does is it basically takes one team out of each middle school to make the new school, leaving behind three teams at each school.
spend talking with you all that we are in the process of discussing not only how many quality programs we have but what are the results those programs are getting and this program this being a part of this project would help us to be able to evaluate how we're doing and how we can be more effective. Some of the questions for the audience that this research study would help us to uh get some results on and visualize some data on are how do middle school students perform in high school? Where are the academic what are the academic trajectories of our students based on their performance in the district? How do groups of students differ in their trajectories? What factors impact those trajectories? our students being prepared for rigorous high school classes that eventual and eventually for college or other education needed for their future. We are excited to examine this uh the data yielded from this study in an effort to be the best district we can.
So, that's all I have. Thank you. Um, I'm Jenny Sims. Um, this is my third year in Crawford'sville and one of the questions that we were given to contemplate is, you know, why CHS? And I just have to tell you, I can kind of sum it up in a couple words. Living the dream. Um, I've been a lot of places in, you know, my 26, 27 years of teaching, and this by far is hands down from top to bottom the best place I have ever experienced education. Um, one because it's it's a family here at CHS. We take care of each other. We don't just help each other with our academics. We genuinely care and respect each other as professionals. We care about each other as people. Um, thank you is common. Shout outs, cheers, and you know, and that starts with leadership. We start every faculty meeting with shout outs where we get to recognize each other for for great things we do that maybe you wouldn't see or it it's not something that's going to make it out on a report or show up on data, but it's something that's we notice about each other that we know that is special that they do for kids.
Do that all together. So good. Oh, thank you. Thank you for coming and presenting. Thank you. It's one of the favorite parts of the board meeting is to see all of the great things that we're doing here at Jennis County School. So, just want to thank everybody again for um sharing and taking time out of their evenings to come here. Um we're done with presentations, right? To go. Just wanted to make sure. So, next we'll ask if there's anyone present who would like to speak on any item on the agenda or any other topic. Yeah, I would. Um I don't have a lot to say. I was just there was a good um I'm part of a Facebook crew group called Parents United and it's about bullying in the school and um I have a several parents who have specifically mentioned bullying in um fifth grade at Northland and Vernon Elementary and I know we obviously can't talk about specific cases here at all but um I didn't see bullying on the agenda at all and uh there are a lot of us that are concerned for obvious reasons Um, I'm not a parent of a I I was a parent of um of a North Elementary student and um I'm obviously not a parent now, but um when something happens like happened in our community, it affects everyone.
Okay. So, there's nothing that's kind of a heads up to us about what's coming, but there's nothing for us to do on it tonight. Nothing at this moment yet. Okay. All right. We are like setting records here. Do we want to approve the minutes of March 27th before we go through the retreat and updates? Yeah, we could do that. Um, they're right behind. I just need a minute because I didn't have a chance to look. March 27th was just Trisha, Anna, and Kate. I did not have any changes to the minutes. Oh, that was just last week or two weeks ago. Oh. how up to speed we are. We are there is on the second page um under the motion C300 but it's CI. These minutes used to have like line numbers. They do. I think that just because we went through the new format they forgot to put it.
All while my nine-year-old daughter wonders where she'll go to school next year. I was also shocked as an employee because I was here 10 years ago when the new school was designed and built and the mayor's suggestion that we can fit 788 kids into that building didn't sound right to me. Sure enough, a 10-second Google search revealed that it was built for 585 students, not 788. So, where did that number come from? It came from the Nestec report, the consultant you hired to analyze possible reconfigurations of our district. So, I'd like to remind folks that that very NESD study proposed four feasible options for Greenfield, none of which included cramming the middle school into the high school. Mayor Dorger, it is dishonest at best to cherrypick one number from that report that you like and then ignore the report's actual recommendations. Uh, about that number though, it's from page 79 of that report.
Is there a second? Mr. Ek second. Um discussion of the motion on the floor. I just want to point out that in the packet there are the three um surveys that would be going out that we would be using for parents, students, and staff. Just a quick question. When are we um what date is it slated to be dispersed? The idea is to administer this a after the April break. Okay. Questions from board members for discussion. Miss Harrian. Miss Solano, could you um explain how the survey will be distributed not only to students, which I assume is during school time hours, but also to um staff and parents. Sure. Happy to. Um, as you mentioned, the student survey is going to go through to grade students in grades three through 12, and that will be done in the classroom. The parent survey will be sent directly to all families via parent square.
And unfortunately, that also means I've had to deal with situations that make me feel singled out, judged, and deeply uncomfortable, especially by some of my own teachers. There have been moments in class where teachers bring up political issues that are not related to anything that we are learning. They make it related to the Middle East and then look directly at me. Or they pause in a way that makes it clear they expect me to comment. Other times they make general statements about Muslims, Palestinians or conflicts overseas that feel very insensitive or biased and I'm left sitting there feeling targeted. That kind of attention doesn't feel like curios curiosity. It feels like I'm being provoked, like I'm being used to start a conversation that I never asked to be a part of. And in those moments, I don't feel like a student. I feel like a spotlight that has been put on me for something personal and painful.
Current litigation 12 cases CIVDS CIVDS2011183 CIV SB 2111303 220 303 221-8676 2322171 241 2359 2412687 and 232 211161 CI VVS24002894249 and 2500223 Government Code section 549 54.5 subsection C and 54 956.9 subsection D2 and E1 anticipated litigation one case 20242501 government code section 54954 4.5 subsection D and 54956.95 anticipated litigation two cases claimment Roa Zane claimment Marino Nathan Eli item four public employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees item five public employee appointed resignation retirement reduction title certificated and classified employees. Item six, conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Jeremiah Harrison. B, employee organization Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association. Seven, conference with labor negotiator agents negotiator Christian Dupri. B, employee organization, California School Employees Association. Item eight, conference with labor negotiator. A aegis negotiator Trenne Nelson employee organization unrepresentative. Nine conference with real property negotiator government code 54956.8. A negotiation parties Matthew Schillingberg Apple Valley Unified School.
Also keeping in mind fiscal responsibility because by removing the number of students that would make up a team from each school that significantly reduces the need to have to hire extra staff. There is some staff that needs hiring as was presented in last year's budget and again in this but this significant this plan significantly reduces that fiscal impact. Um the renovations have to be completed. And then of course, since we have this really good solid data about our city, about all of our residents and our enrolled students with a 5-year projection, it's a good time to look at other possibilities to address other things that have come up in front of this board, such as the imbalance of where our preschools are located and some of the concerns arising from there, as well as the capacity issues at some of our elementary schools. So, one of the reports that will be coming out of this study is going to explore the idea of breaking apart some of our centralized preschools.
Can I get a motion? I move that the governing board approve statement of work number one for longitudinal student performance vista with the Arizona Board of Regents, the Arizona State University's Helios Decision Center for Educational Excellence and Miranda Unified School District. Can I get a second? Second.
um the collaborative and open safe environment to have those professional discussions and really dig in and debate and figure out um Jay has always challenged us he he inspects what he expects and it's that continuous improvement of okay we can always improve what can we get better at how can we get better at um but there's a lot of grace in that so as we muddle through and and we have those discussions and we're figuring out what is the best way to do it. Um the question that always starts every conversation here is what's best for kids? How is this going to support kids? How is this going to help improve their life? And the personal relationships that um there is not a teach a kid in this building that doesn't have a teacher that they can connect with. And we all know that relationships is a huge piece of education and that's something that I see in droves here at Crawford'sville schools.
No matter if you have a child in the school or not. And so what I want, you know, I'm here representing those parents and um and you know what we want to know is what's being done to address bullying. I you know I especially want to know we want to support those who are being bullied but especially um what happens to the bullies. Um and and I don't I find parents are going to the administration and they're not getting satisfactory answers. Um let me I think I have a couple more minutes. So there was something very positive that was in um this group. So um let me see if I can find that. I'll just I'll just sit down. Let me see. Okay. I don't miss. Hey, can you mind sharing your name? Oh, I'm sorry. My my name is Marcia Boardman and my address is 529 Daniel Drive.
But yes, I'll make a note. Yeah, that might help next time for you. I didn't remember that they took talked about the bottom of the wires, but I guess I don't think we have that in our on the letter we just did for the pruning. I thought it just said the sides and the just the sides and I think that should be top bottom of the wires. Yeah, because I don't remember them talking about about the bottom of the wire because nothing falls on the bottom. Things that are below the wire don't fall on the wire. I thought it was just the sides and the top. Yeah, that is awesome. So, it should just be bottom of the wires cross. Yeah, I think it was just 10 feet around the sides, 15 above and 15 above. I mean, that was my recollection. I thought my question, but I think on um page if we can put um say it would be the third page from the back where we're talking about the size of the sign.
And they also state their assumptions which were 25 kids in every room at every hour of the day. That means teachers sharing classrooms. That means teachers on carts without their own desks or resources or a place to do their planning or grading. And what happens when 40 kids need to take my history class? We have one class of 25 and then another of 15. And what do we do? Because we need 25 in each room. We fill it with 20 more kids doing something else. It doesn't make any sense. What about lunches? We would need four or five lunch periods. Means the first one probably starts at 10:00 in the morning. Any of these issues would have been more than immediately apparent in any conversation with a staff member or especially the superintendent if there had been any conversation. So my point is that we may be able to fit physically 788 students into that building, but we cannot educate 788 students in that building.
In addition, because this is a student survey, a letter will be going home to all families and letting them know about the survey, giving them a PDF copy of the survey, and as with all surveys, giving them an opportunity to opt their child out of the survey if they would like. And then the staff survey will also be going to all of our staff, not just our teaching staff, but any staff that works in the building, so that they can also give us some valuable feedback. After we get the survey results back, we look at them. We analyze them. They are analyzed at the school level by each individual safe school climate committee at each of the schools. We also look at them at the district level and then we will talk about them at the district safe school climate meeting in May. From there, we'll analyze these results along with other information that we have like disciplinary data and past results to inform our safe school climate plans which will be um which will be put together over the summer by individual safe school climate committees at each school.
I'm at school to learn, to grow, to explore new things, and to feel safe asking questions and making mistakes. But instead, there are times when I feel like I have to be on guard just because of who I am and how I look. It's exhausting to constantly wonder if I'll be put on the spot. It's frustrating to feel like I have to either defend myself or stay silent forever. And it's painful when the classroom, a place that should be welcoming, becomes a place where I feel uncomfortable, exposed, or even punished for simply existing as myself. I'm not here to debate politics. I'm not here to represent an entire religion or region of the world. I'm just a student, one who wants to learn without being treated like a controversy. All I ask is to be respected like everyone else. To be seen as a full person, not just a symbol or a stereotype, and to be able to go through my school day without feeling like I have to defend my identity.
Item 10, security matters, government code section 54957, consol consolation with Apple Valley Unified School District Chief of Police. Uh with that, I'll need a motion to go into close. So moved. We have motion by um Amanda. Amanda. Second. And a second by Anita. Anita. All right. All in favor? I.