all right i don't think it's going to snow on the six then talk to my people yeah yes i'll make sure you got god's cell number that means the general's over here i can do the tweet i i mean that was originally that's the snow day right 12. snow day to 12. okay i mean if we all agreed to do it that night that's fine if we if we need some more discussion once ourselves yeah i i would say that you know we don't commit that we're going to actually decide on the 12th i mean that leave it to you know action may be taken right maybe it may be taken okay so and we also have to consider what if we want to have a um do a second round because we did that with the superintendent we had and we had we had to make congregations for the election with the people that got put on but there may be a second round if we have further questions for the person so we have to think about that accommodation as well and while while it may not be ideal you also still have board meetings scheduled on the 20th and the 5th where you could theoretically do if you do if you have all the interviews done you could do things on those times as well we could we could do a short you know if it's i mean at that point maybe it's like one or two people or something or so maybe we could you know it'll just it'll be one of those longer ones but it will be what it is so um we could do the interviews first you know so the people aren't sitting there and waiting and and then we can go into the board meeting yep so we're here later but you know they're fresh um okay so i think we're good mr uchi you'll advertise tomorrow we'll put it on our website does the board wish it to be on social media also absolutely put it in on everything anywhere anywhere everywhere yeah we're going to get a new pope so so uh and president the the resolution by mr casper is for uh the the uh advertisement or the uh returns are the 31st of january and interviews are scheduled for the sixth snow day yes okay and actually maybe could be taken yeah yeah and can we just tell the public do not wait till the last minute to apply apply asap as soon as possible okay uh i'll i'll amend my second okay so roll call yes ms yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes mr yes any other new business i was wondering if you had an update on the project graduation funding uh remember we were talking about it back and forth and i thought like perhaps maybe because we didn't have to spend the hundred thousand dollars for the election in april that maybe we could consider using some of that funding if it's possible um to go towards that if you know to consider so uh miss belgium what we we do have a legal opinion that the board can pay for it um we do have the funds you just mentioned the election funds but we have found mr uchi had found other funding too it just requires a board vote and a dollar amount and if that's something you wish um we can put that as a resolution on our next meeting for discussion yes do we need a second for that no i'll second someone from casa come in and talk about what they did and what their costs were so we get an idea of what that is and then go from there we get the cost amount from them and add something at the meeting mr gnov at our next meeting yeah so let's put it on the agenda yeah let's let's have an amount there that we can amend if necessary when they come up and speak because we don't really know how much they pay for them yep well i think we should ask the 20th yeah right the 20th and can we can we even just go step forward rather just speaking about it actually give us the presentation so we can what what the plan is for this year what the cost has been if there's a rate that goes up every year how many students so if we also don't know the public also knows i will reach out to mr whittles and i'm sure he will make himself available or someone for that purpose any other new board member business so uh next order of business is um there is no executive session any other board member business any other so next order is adjournment motion to adjourn by mr abra drop second five mr casper all in favor opposed the three pages you
yeah so morning makalah today is January 2020 until May 22nd 2020 it is 96 day of school this is WP a genius I'm Andy I'm Rachel today for lunch today will be waffles bacon cucumber hash brown orange juice and milk tomorrow today for tomorrow for breakfast will be will fuel for you graham crackers and chives Ernst juice and milk we have some fun celebrating birthdays Genki nap and lily map go to the office to pick out your boo boo stable yesterday's fun that question was if you mix yellow and red together what color would you get the winner is page Pierce big over a hundred office to pick out your party today plunge my question is Texas Georgia and Connecticut are all names of what to write your answer neatly and include your name your class we have a special announcement are you looking for something to do after school unemployment well fun design our it's a place to come please join us for an afternoon of games snacks fun on 20 January 31st from the 3:30 and fight yeah to 5 permission slips will be coming soon so be on the lookout this is not something you want by going to one missed out on we have we have a special guest welcome doctor me honor thank you good morning I have not seen all of you in a little while and the WBA Chi listen today the topic is following the ideals of the Martin Luther King jr.
yesterday we celebrated Martin Luther King's birthday dr. King was a minister who wanted to black people to be treated with the same dignity and respect that every person deserves many white people felt superior to blacks and other minorities they made black people sit in the back of buses they could not eat in many restaurants or live in the same neighborhoods or go to the same school as white people this was very wrong and dr.
King tried to help change the way blacks were treated he told his people never to fight organ violence he believed in being peaceful and helping everyone realize that all people are created equal we must always treat every individual with dignity respect and kindness and to remember that the only way you are superior to others is by being kinder and more respectful thank you now we only learn about a period of silence to reflect on the day wait please cancel pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all well no no he was in the big Hollywood I prefer whether or not a school I travel or has much to be safe I pledge to be safe in every way take responsibility take one of the buildings are against Leslie I will be respectful and all I do media started the whole day is ruined I grabbed whimsical whimsical Wednesday never a 1-mile is a universal language of kindness thanks for watching bye
good morning McCollum today is January 2013 south xx xx it is the 94th day of school this is WBZ news I am Angie I'm pitcher today for lunch there will be a Domino's Pizza spinach cherries tomato applesauce and milk tomorrow for breakfast there will be my Chris Pizza banana smoothie and number we have some friends celebrating birthdays Peter s please go to the office to pick up your birthday yesterday's my question was Texas Georgia and Connecticut Connecticut are names of what now answer is States the winner is at Kennedy of three merits today oh come to the office to pick out your price today's that question is what sport has important quarterback remember to m2 right here to answer and inclusion in the class we have a special I gots but are you looking for something to learn that to do after score on Friday well Friday night out is the place to come please said join us for the afternoon of games and snacks and breads on Friday January 31st for our 3:30 to 5 o'clock permission slips will be coming soon that so of the are no loca this is not something you are going to want to miss out and now we will journey previous irons to reflect on that visiting actuaries of the day please stand for the pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and II will lead us in the big Hollow pledge I pledge to be a beautiful I pledge to pita BH with only my foolish rebel fall whether I'm at school or travel far I pledge to be safe in every way I pledge to be safe in every way to take responsibility today being within place take the responsibility during work and play I will be respectful in all I do I will be respect forward and all I do and Mia store the holy zoo and be a star in the whole day through have anything interesting remember don't be mean to be meaningful thanks for watching bye
indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay at this time we were going to go ahead and go with the roll call so board member she don't know she leaned who's Gonzales board member gabrielado Rihanna's present court board member Adrienne Grier here and board member Yolanda present Rodriguez opinion I'm sorry about that it took a minute all righty and I'm here so we have a everybody's here 4.0 open session see we need the approval of the agenda I'll make a motion to approve second any discussion [Music] okay it passes 5-0 and now I'm moving on a 5.0 report action of closed session matters and what we'd like to report out is that I thank everybody who came to our meeting and attended that information session on putting together districts but it was great information we're going to move forward but at this point we're going to go ahead and pin it have it pending on the census data that way we're not doing it and then having to do it all over again making it one smooth so we're continuing with it but at this moment we're kind of setting it to the side and keeping updated on it so just so you all know and next recognitions and awards six point one recognition of the Azusa leaders for learning áall Education Foundation donation to the Azusa Unified School District mariachi group so yep yep and we have a certificate oh you're there Yolanda well all of you come forward and so we'd like to welcome AOL here who's going to give donation to the money at she grew can I have the AOL team that's here today please come forward [Applause] on behalf of the mighty Azusa here very grateful and thank you for all your support and giving us the opportunity to pursue the arts of music and giving a little bit of the Hispanic culture an opportunity to shine and I'm very grateful for that so for that I thank you and I hope that you will continue to support us in the future and we look forward to growing our community and being part of the community and I want to invite everyone to if you're available save the date May 8th we're gonna have our money at the concert we don't know the to be announced our location but we know that we want to have it on May 8th so we'll save the date for that right now so thank you very much okay and also the AL Foundation has been farming since 2014 in organization is to give scholarships to students we already gave two scholarships top dollar scholarships to suit the gladstone and Sierra high school and we also gave $8,000 to the seventh graders to be able to go see the Museum of Tolerance so the purpose of our organization is to help other schools because we know some PTAs do have more funding than others or they work but we want to be able to give to all the students so I'm also here to give a hundred dollar check to the money achieved Azusa they came to our golden days dance fundraisers and they performed and it was successful we made enough money for another thousand dollar scholarship this year for one of our students a listing we thank you and we had good representation from parents and students and we want to also [Applause] and actually before before we finish we'll take a picture but I also want to let the audience know that as president of AK so this year I've been able to invite the mighty IG group to come to the statewide acts of meeting on February 20th to perform for them so I'm looking forward to that okay and now we're going to move to 6.2 recognition of the azusa leaders for learning education foundational donation girls yeah to the Azusa Unified School District Choir an orchestra [Applause] on behalf of our choral program in our Orchestra program at Azusa High School and also for the entire district I just want to say that we are so grateful for the opportunity first of all to be able to perform at your Foundation dinner in September and also for your support because I know the kids love it when they see adults who are who are behind them and are always there and give them a smile give them encouragement I know that we just had our winter concert in December and it went really well and I think the kids were really on a high just so you guys know in February on February 25th we actually have an entire district choral concert that will repeat that we will have fifth graders all the way up to 12th graders singing together that evening as it's a high station and then also in April we have our all district concert where everyone is going to come together and perform at the event center so I hope that everybody will be there to support them as well we also have a hundred dollar check they actually came to perform and I didn't mention what they came volunteering the evening so we wanted to give them a small token of our appreciation one hundred dollars some more committee we have a great team and we will let you know on our further fundraisers and without money we can't make things happen so we need you thank you okay I am 6.3 recognition of paramount Elementary School a California distinguished and so we have here the Azusa Unified School District certificate of recognition is probably presented to elementary school for its selection as a distinguished school and we also have a member from this community teachers and students this summer woman's the teacher and she's been a longtime advocate of Education but there are so many people as community who are champions for their students and our kids and it's our honor to present this certificate of ignition I'm half the state and the residents of assembly 48 to Parramatta elementary and recognize them as a distinguished California school so congratulations I thank you so much would anybody else like to say anything okay [Laughter] [Applause] okay if anybody likes same thing I would like to congratulate Paramount Elementary for their outstanding achievement it you know what we made the cut we have one elementary and I'm very very proud I was very proud to see a Sousa unified on that list and paramount being one of those schools so congratulations keep up the good work and and congratulations again but I just you know I really what I really appreciate is that the focus of your of us staff right and you started with RTI now you've got a deep with mt SS really I mean really keeping focus on what's what you know is working and continue instead of you know having any newfangled thing come in and shifting focuses and I really think that this is this this is the result of your dedication and focus on making strong that you're serving the needs of our students so thank you very much I want to thank the mr.
Flores and his staff because I do go to parent many times and I see that your staff is to me looks like you know a family you're always working together and I think that that makes it happen is the family staff administration working together as a team and I think this is well deserved decent work congratulations insane just in line with that with everyone thank you for the hard work that you that you do especially the things that go unseen there's so many unseen and unthanked things that you do that that lead to these types of results of me and this year so thank you for not only the the stuff that's out front that everybody knows it recognizes but but for those things that are behind the scenes that aren't always recognized and I'd like to say thank you and I'd like to share with all of you that I have a friend who actually used to work in Mountain View and was accepted to your community and I have heard nothing but accolades about all of you so I just thought I'd pass that on that they just think you were the bottom you know you just brought him in welcome dome and they love your enthusiasm and I can see why already and I would like to let the Paramount staff know teachers and and other staff members and in the principal how incredibly proud I am of you and I remember over the years visiting your school and watching you make that transition from having a very strong RTI program of intervention and support for kids based on the old standards to moving it to the new Common Core standards which are much more challenging and you've just led the way be doing that successfully and with great teamwork and dedication and appropriate use of data appropriate use of always saying how are we supporting our kids who needs what what can we do and that is really admirable I really really appreciate that and I probably don't have enough words to tell you how much I kind of feel in my heart for who you are and what you've done for kids thank you so much moving on we have items from the floor public comment on agenda or non agenda items 7 point 1 this is the opportunity for the public to address the board on non-agenda items no action can be taken on non-agenda items individual speakers will be allowed up to 3 minutes to address the board on any non agenda item prior to addressing the board please fill out the request to speak blue cut public comment blue card and submit it to the board secretary so we have two cards Margie Anderson please wait it a verson Avis okay I am so sorry good evening as school board members in district cabinet speaking on behalf of Azusa educators association and item number 9.2 the parent advice council AEA has some major concern about the presentation that's going to be happening about recommendations from the pack plus as a member of the pack plus committee major concern that we have is the fact that they're really not recommendations what they are are preferences we never voted had an e vote Tate been taken it would have been a an imbalance to vote because constituency groups there's a number of different parent groups and then there were six district employees so just based on those numbers nothing would be equal as far as the vote goes so what we did do is some you know quick discussions after we changed the process in December that was a report about how the process has changed so that we could have actual discussion on the points that were brought to us about some of the budgetary issues that we were asked to discuss so after those discussions what happened is we did not reach any consensus we did not take an official vote we did who didn't do winnowing which would be you look at the list and decide which things could come off we put dots and which is fine but we just want to make sure that you guys understand that these were preferences they're not necessarily recommendations and they so there were some some consistent constituency groups did have preferences however because of the imbalance in the committee what might have been a insiders knowledge of some of the ideas for cuts that would not rise to the top because you know with 25 parents and 6 district employees there was going to be an absolute imbalance but we just wanted to make sure that a EA did speak on this issue to let you know that you know the process is valuable however it is was quite it is imbalance and we did come up with preferences and not necessarily recommendations thank you thank you and next we have cristal male Mali and I apologize I only had five copies with issue is my printer so good evening I don't have a whole lot of time - I'm just gonna get right into it the first this my intent here is just to give you some information of some analysis that I did I want to thank the districts and the teachers and the staff for the excellent work that they've been doing educating our students I'm a parent at Hodge I did some analysis last night so this is not in-depth it's not complete but if you want to go ahead and go to slide 2 this is from the pack + committee recommendation it basically was this slide for those of you in Kent's obviously you can't see it the slide that had the staff recommendations where they wanted to cut stipends for technology first and so on I noticed that toasters are recommended to be reassigned to the classroom before we let go of classroom teachers I'm a parent at Hodge I personally rather see a few classroom teachers let go before we reassign our resource teachers who I believe are toeses that would be mr.
Lawton this schoener I think they're integral to Hodge field of function I don't see how they could be reassigned if you go to slide 3 the next thing I wanted to point on is that there's a recommended 1% staffing reduction but the budget cut as far as I understand it is more than 101 percent and the declining enrollment is projected to be between 3 and 5 percent less every single year I think that the staffing reduction maybe needs to be more like 7 to 10 percent and in the next slides I'm going to show you why I came to that slide for I used data from California Department of Education to compare the number of teachers that we have in this district to surrounding districts in this area and comparable districts I'm calling a comparable districts something that has a similar percentage of English language learners as well as low-income students and I use free and reduced lunch and test scores per socioeconomically disadvantaged and I'm calling those equal so what I found is that we have smaller class sizes than any other district that I checked I checked about nine more importantly we have smaller class sizes than those comparable districts so if you go then on to slide five the lower class sizes don't seem to impact our test scores in comparison to comparable districts I don't live and die by the test scores I understand that the testing standards are very high my point in showing you this is to argue that having more teachers to have lower class sizes may not be the best argument to make slide six is just showing you two slides showing the de climate declining enrollment from the first interim financial report that you've already seen my student teacher comparisons were based on last year's enrollment of eight thousand ten students this year's enrollment is already less at seven thousand five hundred and sixty-one next year it's going to be even less it's hard to see on those but you already have that information that's time thank you thank you okay moving on we have general functions 8.1 Azusa unified school district strategic art and arts education plan what you have here this agenda item this is a labor of love that a team came together last year to work on a strategic arts plan that in a nutshell would to learn I'm sorry that in essence would increase the arts for our students and by the arts we're talking about the visual arts and the Performing Arts as well we did provide an executive summary so we don't have to we didn't have to go through the whole thing but I just want to publicly thank the committee that came together there is a cross-section of staff member community institutions of higher education the county and we're very grateful for that one of the things that we all walked away from is the understanding that this has to be a living document when the oil of budget cuts and 6.5 right those things are real things and we understand that the committee understands that this is living and you have to adjust but because of this team because of the efforts of the people on the committee we have seen things increase in terms of the arts and we have made a commitment to think outside of the box and try to think about how do we increase the education of arts throughout the district and steel and still be mindful of the current the current budget situation that we have and the committee completely understands that we just want to profile they the work that had been done by the committee so you you had a good look about you know kind of where the community worked on and what they thought about in terms of the future just one example the teachers at the secondary level do PLC several times throughout the year and we have seen some really awesome partnerships that have been made with APU and other institutions and we see it as product that have come out of that so [Music] projects working together getting feedback off of each other and so we are doing things and we just want to present this to the burgesses and employ them yeah I just I'm really excited to see this I mean I especially when I look at the artwork that's coming the artwork is coming out of our high schools right I mean that really is because students are having the opportunity to have arts from elementary to middle to high school and I'll just remind us that last year our secondary evapo PLC came and asked us for additional funding and I know we're looking at budget cuts but I also know where are we looking at the better at our Al Capp right so I really hope that else the pack plus looks at what's working and what's not I'm thinking about how do we invest in the things that we know we can see right is having a direct impact on student success and also the faculty are so is until January 31st and it ends January 31st it's on right now and the work is amazing it's really great to see the teachers you know you see their work so then you take you see them teach the students and it's really amazing they did a really great job I like to know so how does this tie in like for example our elementary that we have performing arts elementary how does that feed into to this program to this vision so [Music] I'll tell you an art school take some of that into into other into other schools throughout the district this is a high school and soon their dramas way but anyways he was performing his mom that he really loved it so he used his skills and there he was at the high school also continued so is this like a concentration this plan is a concentration on performing arts and opportunity for all students to be able to experience the arts in a nutshell and so strategically how do you start taking steps so that our students have exposure appreciation love for the Arts anybody else I'd like to say that I loved theater and I loved art my daughter's I had art scholarships so it runs in my family and so the appreciation of it and it helps in so many different ways as far as math skills English language learning I mean it cuts across the board with all the different you know theatres the painting sculpting all of those different areas [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right moving forward we have eight point two safety initiatives with is Unified School District good evening [Music] sorry I thought my voice Gary I'll be speaking to you about Alice which is the program that we went into two years ago 2018 in response to you know some tragic events across the country where you know many children lost their lives and laws were changed to the effect that just locking down a school isn't enough so we decided to go with Alice mostly because of its it's standing as one of the leading providers of these strategies what they do is provide proactive strategies for individuals in the event of a violent violent intruder on campus so as you can see alice is supported by 1200 law enforcement agencies and it meets the standards set by the Department of Education FBI Department of Homeland Security and FEMA Azusa was in a sort of a situation wherein we had four law enforcement agencies that served our district and that made it very difficult to get consensus among those law enforcement agencies on how to respond to these events in communities like Glendora or you know something where they have they're just their police department some of their local law enforcement provided these sorts of strategies based on a run a Fite model we elected to go with Alice because it gave us you know the kind of training that we need the videos and the sort of support that we you would need the goal is to provide employees with a theory behind Alice and that's the basic knowledge and just the first component is an e-learning component component and that's 45 to 55 minute of an online sort of a training module that's followed by a hands-on training which builds skills and confidence and the lessons that the learners experience during the e training and the ability to better respond during a violent event as I said there are six modules the first elearning course is the basic ala course and it can be viewed as many times as the user wants it's once they get logged in they still have that each new year of the contract is certificated an employee with a point and employee who has passed the first module they would get next the next module which builds on the previous modules experience but it does kind of reviews and it's in a woven after that there's a live training and the live training gives a learner an opportunity to implement what they've learned it's important to note though that strategies of Alice the alert lockdown inform counter and evacuate they're not performed sequentially each unique situation sort of determines the way that an employee would respond so the first of the modules are the first those strategies is alert and this would be the first indication that there is danger on campus and that would be something sensory that you see something you hear something and you respond the important thing is that you are aware and you don't ignore any of the signs that that you see next is lockdown and this is as I said how schools previously responded to any sort of an emergency we went into lockdown and as I also said that has been proven not to be an effective strategy in many situations it may however be an appropriate strategy if danger is nearby that might be what you need to do and it now is training you of course would you know make sure that the door was locked but you would also learn how to secure the door possibly barricade the door in the live trainings that I did you would use in order to use things like your belt or just objects in the classroom to secure a door information this empowers individuals to make decisions based on what's happening it could be something that someone sees it could be over the intercom and again it's important that that information goes out and clear and easy to state language or easy to understand language and allows individuals to respond to a corner and this gives the listener or whoever receives the information the opportunity to you know determine what would be best in that scenario counter is could be fighting an attacker or it could even just be disrupting the mental and physical process that this person has it could be throwing things it could be noise it could be motion in the room those sorts of things that would you know hopefully change you know that person's line of vision you know looking elsewhere and it could also be as I said fighting back that if you had a room of you know an economics class with 36 18 year-olds you know that would be someone you know a situation where there would be the opportunity to fight back evacuation is the preferred strategy and that's just getting away from the danger as quickly as you can many times the situation would happen on one side of campus rather than locking down and waiting it might be you know more prudent to evacuate the premises as quickly as you can so where we are right now is we have over 600 employees I've been trained and Alice strategies all schools will have completed the e-learning component by the end of the school year and three schools have already completed the live training modules at their sites so if they're well and what we're we're where we're going next is we're training you know classified do staff you know that sort of training as well we started mostly with classroom teachers to give us a list where they can have the training so I mean whatever board member will be interested in yes absolutely well when you say live training what do you mean is that an active shooter scenario what is that what is life training it's not for the students it would be for the people being trained it could be a live training where the one that I went through that there's like a nerf gun and that the people who chose to take part in the training would be in the classroom and they would be given a scenario that this is the situation and we would be in a classroom and we would barricade or do whatever it was so when are these trainings taking place professional development days staff meetings like they eat raining when they need 45 to 55 minutes so not when students are ok you haven't done anything with students and there's right now there's some debate about the most effective way to drill for students because obviously it could be a very traumatic event so right now we've done nothing with scenario training first they do earthquake drills and fire drills and right right with what support are we giving our staff bad go through perhaps and uh some type of emotional this can bring an emotional trauma up to the surface what support are we giving our staff when they'd go through that so first of all anyone can opt out if they don't want to take part in the training they don't have to take part in the training they can observe the training others can not even observe the training that they just have to fill out a form that Jorge provided to them and they turn that in and they just don't take part in live training scenario at all perhaps but how about if it's something that they're probably not aware of and it's triggered during the training what I imagine that they would do we have that included on the paperwork or anything that they have that they've been given during the training so that way they are aware that they have these services readily available for them and in case of a trigger in case of something that you know it is needed rapidly I may respond great points the poetically and I think about I've been sending message out messages out to administrators with regards to ease which is a program that the district pays for it participates in through the County Office of Education when they provide trained personnel and it could be a telephone conversation so if this does trigger a memory or an emotional response administrators have been receiving these messages directly from the local representative and also I've been reiterating them what we'll do to in response to your questions is make this very intentionally connected to the Alice training so that the as we go through these live trainings the administrator employees have this information so that if and if this does trigger something that requires some more attention than we could respond quickly through through ease thank you also do they know prior what this training consists of do they know prior like so they know I mean so the training have been shared and and through these early on trainings and and we've had several discussions regarding the types of events that take place and so we we understand that this may cause an emotional reaction so that's why we took the steps with our AEA partners and explained what the process would be if a wanted to opt out of the live training individual may have suppressed feelings and they may not be fully aware until it is triggered during a particular incident or you know training so I appreciate you taking that extra step and adding the extra resources for our staff that are being trained and that we are here to support them and think every way thank you thank you so I have a couple questions so you said we haven't you done this with students is I mean you're thinking about that I think that there would be some sort of a training wherein we do you know some sort of a drill like we do for you know fires and earthquakes and whatnot I don't think that would necessarily include you know nor gun or anything like that but you know we do need to bring the students into this and train them you know for something that hopefully never occurs so I mean I'm very saddened that we're in a place in society now that that we have to do this so I appreciate that that we're giving everyone training because it's important to be prepared but I'm absolutely opposed to doing any training with students I mean it's I think there's very good documentation out there about the trauma that it imposes on students to do any active active shooter drills with them and so I think we have to be very careful when we think about if we're gonna do something with students that that's off the bat I have very serious reservations about even doing these athletes live trainings with teachers because as Gabby Gabriella just pointed out right there I mean there there are it triggers trauma and adults as well and so I just I just want need to put out there that I'm very concerned about all of this and that we're doing it I'm not saying I agree state that we're training everybody but I'm not I don't feel very comfortable with going up for that that step that we that we've been doing it at the three schools that we've done so far I just want to put it out there going along those lines um what feedback happy guys receive from staff for those three school from those three schools that these live trainings have actually occurred I would like to receive that feedback in a survey of how you know before moving on to other schools I would like to know the feedback from the staff the teachers classified whoever you trained and to be to even move further with these trainings yes for the hands on it before we move to any more schools I would like to be like I said to be able to just get the feedback and how is this helping how is this hindering how just any type of feedback would be great thank you so I have I think you asked many of the questions I had about Allison and I know that I've been asking for some updates on security stuff for for a while so I appreciate that we're having this conversation now a couple things that I'm curious to know I know that there have I'm pivoting a little bit from Alice specifically so I know that there have been conversations maybe that have stemmed from Alice or some some new trainings about how we steps that we take to ensure that kids you know are as safe as can be and so it's my understanding that there's been a security security task force that has been brought forth or that's been initiated to review and look at some of these things from peers to know just what is the makeup and that's part of there's a conversation tonight after Carrie is talking and then your question is I'm mark will show you some information what are the three schools that have completed their live trainings [Music] they've done the life training so it's more than three schools then so we're looking at five schools as of today Foothill so I think before moving further for the live training like I said I would like that survey regardless I think we need to have somebody on site because again those triggers that person who is triggered mate you know may have it right away may have it could be on set it could be later on so my recommendation - yeah we need to have a trained mental health specialists at all these trainings whether it's a it's it's it's a concern of mine as well because of the fact whether it's each training whether it's live training it's a reality but at the same time it brings up again a lot of just feelings as emotions and we want to go ahead again support our staff the best way that we can so I'd like to say that you know that's an event like that having suffering from I do have a touch of PTSD if I walked in I would not know walking in I think I could handle it and then as it went on I would start to have physical symptoms that I would recognize if you've gone through training because you have it then you recognize those but if you've had something - trauma happened years ago and you had no idea it could hit you right there so I agree with the mental health professional being there and with the students I don't even want to play with that because that's a mind that will hold on to it for a very very long time but thank you I would say that CDE is going to be collecting information on drills and whatnot that has nothing to do with the scenario training that we discussed but that does have something to do with students yeah now again that's not going to be like a training per se well of course you know we would come to the board with whatever it is that we're looking at but right now there's a lot of debate about you know the way to approach this with students if you could yeah before you even think about doing it with the students see what in bringing information to us definitely anybody else all right so we will thank you and we shall move on to a oh there's a little bit more there was a small group of staff that came out of his yousa high school that had concerns about what to do given this situation and going through the training it brought to light a concern which is how do I get my door closed in a simple fashion how do I keep my kids secure in a lockdown and with the new Panic hardware that we have right now and and this is across every ad a compliant district the panic hardware it pops out and when you're gonna leave you push on it and it opens but it doesn't it it's very easy to to turn a key and then it keeps that door kind of open and many of our teachers for a long period of time have kept their door open so if kids need to go to the restroom they can simply just go out and come back in and this year we had a discussion around security and making sure that our doors were shut and locked requiring kids to be able to to come back in they would have to interrupting instruction and so we looked at the best way to match that and some of the things that Gary said tonight which is how do you make sure that doors closed do you use a belt off your waist do you but items in front of it so the district's searched for and it was actually one of the company members who had a spouse at Bonita Unified who brought this simple device at seven dollars to our attention and this simple device allows teachers if they choose to install this in their door and it allows them to have their door ajar where kids can come in or out if they need to use the restroom but in an emergency all they have to do is just slide this to the side the door will lock and and you won't have any of those issues that that you saw maybe in Sandy Hook where the teacher was trembling trying to get the key and they actually had key so it would have been easier than ours and and they thought the teacher could have sworn that that key did not work but it was really the trembling that prevented her from locking her door this simple there's no key you just slide the door closes and that door is locked you don't have to get creative and use about or any of the other elaborate things like ropes that folks have come up with to put into classrooms and for seven dollars it's a it's a good investment reach one of our rooms to be able to lock down with a simple device what concerns me is the high school ball was it so high I would say you know I know once you go out the gate anyone could come in and for some reason they have like four or five gates it's why are they have so many gates they would just like a fence in one game like Gladstone high why do they have all those gates anyone could come out and could go in so there's two parts of our state that don't necessarily agree with each other that's the fire officials of fire code and our police that want to have limited access and so those gates are required by fire code based on the populations of our school sites in a way to efficiently have the campus evacuated in case of a fire who has one gate entrance in out and the other school has five gates how does that when school is further in modernization on its fencing than the other so a zoo Sahai has more modernized exterior fencing than Gladstone High when we get to modernize all those exterior fences for glass dome they will have additional gates as well because it's required by the fire code I thought we were done with that face no there's there's still more fencing required at Gladstone I'm going back to the to the door lock you said that teachers can meet pesavum can use this if they that they they elect to use this as opposed to so just installing this on all the doors so one of our committee members was excited at first when this was announced he's like I don't want to lock my door it's uh huh but after he did it he was like this is the greatest thing ever it increases my control of the coming and going into my classroom it it has limited the number of times that kids have asked to use the restroom and it becomes really only when there's when it when a student has to use the restroom it's not an excuse to you know leave the classroom and take a break or whatever so it's it's helped him with his classroom management and so he said I don't want one I want to be able to manage that coming and going but it would be up to teachers to decide if they wanted to add that for ease mr.
clarify what he's describing is a teacher who prefers to have his door locked versus a teacher who prefers to have something on it where it can be slightly ajar but closed very quickly so it's not an option to have nothing or to do nothing because security is required for the safety of the teachers and the staff and of course the students but and right now the two ways would be to have that door locked completely or have something like this device which is effective in another school district we've seen that and they did a site visit to see how it worked in order pleased with that and so provides security while still allowing particularly like if you have a lot of little kids who need to go out and use the bathroom or something you don't get having to get up and unlock the door all the time asking does it make sense just to have it in every room I wonder yes I guess I'm we just installed on every in every room and if a teacher says I'd rather just keep my door locked and that's but it's lockable every every door is has an attachment so that way if the teacher wants to maintain control and doesn't want somebody pushing that in there so that way it creates that gap and the door lead is ajar it because anybody obviously can now keep that door ajar and so if a teacher doesn't want that ability to have their drawers door slightly ajar then and I think that they should be able to control that option and and maybe I maybe I need to see it in action because and I'd understand so it can be disengaged so it's really that sliding motion so that big one of the sides of the rubber flap keeps the door slightly slightly open and so it it almost looks closed but it's preventing the door mechanism so the doors still locked it's not touching right because there's something in the way and so in an emergency you just pull that little tab back now the door will close all the way and it is but during normal operation some teachers have indicated they really appreciate the policy of keeping their doors locked and they would want to maintain them got it and this is available currently so I did so we just received our order they were on backorder for some time we have a number of them which is a thousand and so we can start getting them distributed out but we just received them the indem end of last week so how did the teachers feel about this I would like to know because we I really didn't get a chance when you guys when someone decided that the doors were gonna be locked and it was news to me we were not given that communication and so I think I personally would like to get teacher feedback because this is something that's going to you know yes it's preventative but at the same time is it's going to be another inconvenience or is this going to be another so I I would like to to get their feedback so it's providing teachers and option right but I would still like their feedback and be able to you know is this something that they feel would benefit I mean they're in their classrooms eight you know six eight ten hours some teachers are there for ten hours so I mean is this something job you know I I mean we can sit there and say well it's you're off it's your choice it's your you know but at the same time it's but well some teacher said this no no I want to concrete sure and I think that's a really good suggestion that once we get these installed and keep it they have experience we didn't say without that sir I think it makes a lot of sense with that information could be also included I'm curious what are what do other districts do around this issue as well I'm just to kind of not reinvent the wheel I mean this is a innovative you know device what are other things that are utilize and there's many different options most of them are expensive hardware and so there's advanced technology which changes the lock structure where at any given moment there's a button you could push on the office and it locks every single door on campus instant lockdown but you're looking at more than $2,000 per door just for Hardware not including the installation so you're looking at a bond level project to roll something up like that out there's a kind of middle-of-the-road cost items such as kind of for lack of a better analogy the club on your car that that keeps that door even more tight or locked to prevent folks from from getting in and that provide it a little bit more I guess backup but the the issue with items like that even though besides the cost you have to have it next to the door people have to remember that it's there right people have to get it out and activate it in a panic and which is why this is a great option it's obviously a low cost item but it's also it's already on the door and it's even if you got anxious and you hold it too hard and it ripped off the door it still worked the doors now closed and it's out of the way so it it really works and kind of the best of both worlds other than something that would be a multi-million dollar project we could add the push of a button lock everyone's door what is it tiny brain that we're looking at to install these and all the schools all of all the classrooms we just had them arrive so we don't have a mapped out timeline yet and we you know we would have to look at the best way to have them installed whether that is through maintenance or whether we could hand them out to have them in salt so we'll kind of look and see what school sites are comfortable with and as soon as you get that information could you please send it over to us well yeah one of the questions are and so that's the doors the other thing that has come up that I'd like to have a moment to address is also gates and interests entrances and ways into the schools so I know that there has been some confusion around some schools that have one solitary entrance into the school at certain times and are maybe schools that haven't transitioned over to that so are we are we as a we look at some of the best practices are we as a district moving over to one thing or another our school sites making that determination on a school site and if so how how is that decision made on a school site so each one is looking at their safety plan and when possible a single point of entry is a good safety measure but some of our dis our sites were not designed for that and so it's it's not possible but we're we're possible the staff is looking at their safety plan and and trying to address those items at a site level and then from the district office we're supporting any of the things that they're requesting and when looking at if there's any cost that would be associated with those staff recommendations for addressing entry points I have a question on that so as soon as on staff at each individual site decides what you know their one point of entry how is that being conveyed to parents Gary safety plan in the instances that I'm aware of the principal took it to school state council and discuss the in addition to the staff that discussed why they felt that a single point of entry would be the safest way to go and then that principal would convey it to okay you know I just have one question it's nothing to do it the fence or the gates but I have a concern when I first came to this district because I've used it to schools you know um then putting paper on the window I mean I know maybe it's a Sun you know maybe that's what's happening but it I get concerned because you know you're in there and you can't see out you don't know who's out there who's running around out there I think that's a big safety issue no no you discuss that or you thought about it but I just think it's like yeah you can't see out it's pretty scary when we went to a the police department came and talked to the community we got my neighborhood watch that was one thing you know don't put a big Bush in front of your window you cannot see how you know if you have them in the market they don't like them to put the posters on the windows at a liquor store we'll just say I'm like who's in there no one can see you so when I go to the schools I see the same thing and I'm gonna turn about that it's some I know we can you can but it is something that I know has been going on in this district oh yeah definitely US school sites and so just maybe lastly can can we create a can we make sure that we're create as you mentioned where we're moving into a place where it's unfortunate that we have to consider some of these realities but what we do and what looks like to protect our children today and the things that have to be considered are horrific with that being said new things and new best practices are being developed can we a lot make sure that we allow for for feedback and that we're hearing in so that when decisions are sometimes we make one decision and it solves one problem but it creates another problem and so and so when that happens so there can be some back and forth just to it just to ensure that maybe there is a better an alternative solution that's even better than the original one because we're we're changing a lot of best practices and policies around some of this stuff you know now and into the future are you suggesting something like maybe a month SurveyMonkey and kind of getting feedback from that's not well see that's one that's that's one way to do it I guess maybe any any you know what is what is the pipeline what do what is how should how should a parent how should a teacher how should a student for that matter communicate you know when we we put a measure in place to protect how do they communicate and how is it addressed when it's communicated that that measure created another problem and is and then how do we consider an alternative so I'm not sure what the pathway so maybe a survey or maybe a hypothesis visiting back to how is this working you know and possibly adjust to the possible issues that arise from the decision I agree with that I are you also talking about I mean are you asking about the decision making process and who's and get who's involved in that process before just I mean I'm more I'm very interested in if we're going to make policy changes that that the that it's that there has been some kind of input around the people that it's going to be director that are gonna be directly affected so that you have these conversations before it happens and not after the fact but but but I think a lot of the times when for example of the gate closing and all I'll show there's that at Slauson it's great you know it's for safety and the communication wasn't really related to the parents there was just a lot of confusion and so I think the matter of fact after the matter of fact that the decisions are made sometimes we need parent and sometimes we need staff input to be able to like make adjustments to to what's best best practice and what's best for our students and a lot of the times you know um we don't hear them out and so I'm what I'm hearing is a possible survey maybe have a two week window where there is a change in place and have a two week window feedback yeah so I guess I'm saying both end really I mean so can we have information on the front end so that when decisions are made that become when you can we avoid some of those unintended consequences by having some of those conversations ahead of time but then even with that after the change is made there inevitably are going to be some complications that arise that we did not foresee and so if you act if there can be a time window where the conversation remains open as opposed to a decisions made this is the new way that we're doing things and it just that's the way that it is going forward because sometimes it creates it just creates other other you know good confusion or or issues so all righty well that will move on to before I think this conversation is a very healthy conversation since we're speaking about the you know the safety of our community - safety of our students the safety of staff so I I think you Gary or for this night I think you mark for us to be able to have an open conversation and be real about what's really happening and how we can move forward best practice and be here for our staff and students and community so thank you okay anybody else all righty moving on 8.3 ratify approved change order number to school marquee replacement at various sites who's a high school in Gladstone high school so I make a motion to approve 8.3 I'll second okay motion by board member Yolanda Rodriguez Pena seconded by Sheila I mean Cruz Gonzales board member let's any discussion dr.
committee can you please explain in each of our projects that we have one of the things that has always been done is to include a certain amount of money for contingencies that might arise that would be unexpected and in this case there was $50,000 set aside for as an allowance for unexpected things that would come up and not and things went very well so we actually only used about 3000 or a little less than $3,000 out of that 50 so we have forty seven thousand one hundred and sixty one point 94 cents 94 cents left over that we didn't have to touch and that's this change order is called a deductive change order because we're taking them the dollar amount Oh away from the total cost for that project so it's good news and I just want to know because I know that there have been times when we've seen some not deductions but increases and I and I brought those forward and kind of highlighted that and asked to ask some questions so I do just want to say I mean here's one that I will equally want to make sure that we highlight that it was it was under and so there sometimes they go they do go over sometimes they do thank you one of the things is we never know what's underground or behind the walls already let's vote that theory over there okay motion passes 5-0 and we move forward to eight point four legal representation and remember our got this up so I would like to go ahead and move the this motion forward for legal representation I would like to put out an RFQ for legal services okay because my motion is there a second second any discussion about what is it yes I would like to go ahead and prior to pretty much given to give direction put out and the RFQ for legal services um it's been there's a lot of things that have happened and we have gone into litigation with the city I I think it's a it's time for us to be putting out the RFQ for our legal services and prior to RFQ made public I would like to have board members review any criteria suggestions that administration will put forward I would like to set a date when the board can review all applications and set a date when the board can approve legal services thank you okay so just like would you would you invite so we would open up an RFQ would we invite any and all including our current legal people to to reapply and you know what is the average time period normally that school districts hold on to an attorney is it something that happens you know do they turnover on a regular basis or what I have seen typically in a number of different districts is anywhere from two years if they're not happy to 20 years if they are happy okay so yeah it wouldn't be unusual for us to put out an RFQ just to see if our how ours holds up so what's the actual purpose because we've had them too long or because they did something wrong or what is that clarification I think it's healthy to when we when we put up an RFQ for legal services for them to be able to you know have new new legal counsel be able to come and be able to bid which is going out putting out I heard sounds right I'm just thing if I mean if it ain't broke why fix it you know what if there's something that that it's big that we need new legal or that that's what I want to know I I personally think the idea of actually just going out and looking because you don't know maybe things have changed in different areas maybe there's somebody who fits us better you just don't know it's just kind of just putting out a bid checking to see if this is what we really want still or it if we do we stay with them if we find better than we can you know adjust see what the costs are it just at least have a discussion about it yeah and I'll say I've booked so because there have been a couple a couple of them I'll just say a couple situations where I've I've wondered you know again what are some of the best practices and the ways that that we engage our legal services I even know for example I I'm there have to be there there have to be additional additional costs involved here but what are those additional costs I know that at city levels a lot of times there's attorneys that are on that are on hand for you know for these types of meetings to be able to speak into and weigh into certain procedures and so I wondered that as well you know what that would look like so yeah I definitely would be curious to know what's what's up there anybody else okay let's vote and see what happened okay it is 44 in favor and one opposed and it passes and then we're going to move on to communication as three counseling's this is an information item and Yolanda you wanted information so can you tell me or how do we do this oh oh oh I got that you danced very intimate okay I was told it's all right and basically I don't know the information maybe that I didn't want is it whatever Ariana's getting the papers that we needed well for us to sign up to go to the continent but I wanted a conversation before okay up about it yeah okay so I wanted a conversation prior that's that's what I'm asking so just fighting it and not knowing I know we did discuss it but we didn't have concrete yeah you know when or how many times and we didn't get to that point so I guess before I sign it or I wanted to know more about it okay no we go every meeting then we go one reading do we go once a month you know I wanted more clarification I think we know we had let me remember this was back in August and we had a governance meeting when the majority had decided that it was very very important for transparency and communication for community for staff for us to be going to city council meetings csca meetings AEA meetings staff meetings and come at the beginning of the meetings and be able to share and be able to be visible and be able to give you guys our information for you guys to contact us and at the at and it's January and I have not received any talking points so therefore I have not attended we have not attended some people had said they did not want to go which is okay and it's voluntarily I think it's really important that we make ourselves visible I want to let you guys know that I think we should be at City Council meetings to be able to to speak about the great things that are happening in our district we need to go ahead and our own cheerleaders at the city level to be able to hey there's a mariachi concert commenting of there is in the summer there is a program at APU for students you know it's really important to get our the services the resources the exciting things that are happening in our district and share them with our community and I think it's a great opportunity for us to be able to attend all these meetings and I do want to apologize we have not been able to go but hopefully moving forward the ones that are available or the ones that would like to participate and I know some of us work and can't attend or some of them have other commitments but I think it's really really important that we we are approachable and that we are there so um that that's where I was coming from home and and the list actually came from our cabinet for us to be able to just sign up on days that we would be committed to showing up and sharing the highlights of our district and that was it but then that's why we have our peer person that does do peach darman's she does you know highlight our district in passing out flyers and her job I think I understand what you're sitting here but at the same time it's very important that us as a board be visible out in our community for our constituents for the staff for us to have that connection and partnership and be in real time well I mean we can sit where I am one of the most digital board members and yes I do go to the school sites and I do go to the meetings but like you said what I because I can so you know so with that being said this is another opportunity for others that work that can go to other meetings and then can highlight and be visible so I mean it's it's not a one size fits all so I think it's very important that we as a board try to accommodate and try to be visible and try to be in collaboration communication and in partnership with all of our staff our community our parents and our council our City Council we have to bridge that gap it's one thing and I understand Lika does a great job but I think it's more personable when we show up and we're there visually and I would you know I appreciate Lika and the highlight points that you give and I would just like you know I would like for us to be able to go ahead and share those thank you and that's I tend to agree with that that that's a good venue for us to put out to the public because we do have YouTube and we do have the days that we are in City Council in in the actual city council Hall being recorded but and I think we're showing our our meetings more often on the TV but I guess but as I'm saying you need they basically that's the only time we actually get in there and and get to say things on the TV to everyone the meetings here as well now on there on cable no they're just showing the ones at the city hall I tell peer meetings to YouTube it and then go boarding the date and that's how they see it when I tell people if I could just go back to I I have not yet received the signups from every single person so I don't sure like for example I don't have yours I know it didn't didn't come to me I don't know where it went so I'm gonna just double-check that you have that or you can let me know the other thing to think about is that the rule that we have to follow with the Brown Act and how are having meetings that we can only have two people at a time talking about school business in a public setting if I got more than would have to agendize that as a board meeting we can't have art board meeting at their meeting so it might it might be important for us to think about if you know certain people want to go on a certain day if we have pay people how are you guys going to decide who girls are you gonna draw lots or you know I I'm gonna do it to sign-ups feet that you gave Linda only had two slots and as we were filling them in there was only two slots and so I think you know we don't get a chance to go that day I think we're adults and we're pretty flexible and that we would be able to sign up for other days and I do agree with you if three or more we're going to speak about an agenda item we would have two agenda dices but therefore we are not speaking about agenda items what we're doing is what we want to do is highlight highlight our district what are we doing good what are we doing great we have to be cheerleaders for our own district we have to go to you know we should be at a ei meetings CSCA meetings the same hey here's my card hey we're visible there's a lot of things that we're that we are going to that are going to be progressing and we need that partnership in connection just like a body needs arms and legs to move and that is all thank you so so Linda I wasn't here when that sent up she was was I was I was out of town that day um and I think that we agreed to go once a month is what we but I mean obviously we can change that but I think once a month is visible and I just want to suggest that we all rotate if we're all going to do it then we should all we should all rotate and take turns doing that I totally agree completest rotate so a couple things I remember that we what's what brought this conversation on what brought this up was in in a governance conversation we we said what are ways that we can build trust and grow the trust that exists between the the board the district and the community and the city and our parents and our teachers and classified in our and when we when we talked about that this came forth from that so instead of instead of taking the the mentality of you know we already do these things and these things are sufficient instead asking what more can we do what are additional ways what are some new ways and some new things that we can do to bill new you know trust in some new ways and these were some of the ideas that that came up from that if I remember correctly I thought we talked about once a quarter okay that's what I remember it every three months be able to just and I think that you know and what another thing that came up is recognizing that everybody not everybody is going to want to and that's until we talk about them to do a rotation I think that there should be a rotation but I think that we should also read you know if I can't or don't want to or am unable to you know or you know would prefer whatever that may be even then I'm able to not and it's okay because we as a body can can represent each other when we are going and when we are at these different places right and I'd also like to add in there that we would have talking points that were basically I don't want to put together with Lika there and just whoever's turn it is it gets emailed to them and they do the talking point so nothing random is going to come out we have a schedule things where you're right people can see on YouTube right and and pretty much we're not gonna go up there to discuss we're you know we're gonna we have a six point five million you know it's no it's something positive bring positive into our community and let people know who we are and what we have to offer okay so I do but I did want to request for the two of you right so I I mean I'm I know that we have our our meetings on YouTube but not everyone is internet savvy especially with an older population so I I think that if they could put these meetings on on the cable channel that would be great I did he's dealt with our discussion you did bring it right and he would we talked about the rotation of we talked about it airs live and then can it rotate throughout the the duration of that week and I did have that conversation I haven't checked I don't know if someone could speak to if that is happening it's in the agreement we got the city to agree to that just now this year they had not invented riously but there's still some work that's being done to understand whether or not we need to use that contractors are working into it too so it's not it's not fully resolved actually I understand you are thinking can we do it from here the equipment resides in that when the meetings are here at their live on TV I'm so I know Island or unified they tape theirs and then they and then city puts it on their cable channel after the fact city and see things of that person can I just say one great thing that came out of our partnership with the city of Azusa a dream girl myself and we have dr.
Kaminsky and we have city managers in mayor Rocha and Kosmo Gonzalez are used to go swimming at Sierra adramal parks here high school and as of this week I heard that our kids are beginning to be able to use sauce and food for cities to use it and then they were not aware of it I don't know what said you all mentioned in our kitchen first right so they're using it as a biscuit and that came one of the conversation between partnership between City right and that's that's the positive thank you for sharing that you're amazing I did not know there really thank you about it yeah okay well so so with that I'm sorry just to make sure because I keep on that so then do we should we re rotate that can we start so we start over every rotate that miss maybe identify quarterly would quarterly meetings and then send that list around okay we had decided to actually send to school board members at a time um not three so just to make sure that we have two slots for that quarter thank you anything else okay we'll move on to 9.0 study session 9.1 governor's budget proposal update mr.
Bommarito good evening board and this update is to provide you information that we received regarding the governor's budget for 2021 this is our first look at what the state is projecting will be the budget we will get kind of a another version of this in May and then sometimes or recently many times there's even deals that go on and into the summer trying to figure out what the budget from the state level will be for school districts and and sometimes even later like like 2018 or 2019 this presentation is taking information that we received from school services and sharing kind of the big picture first for the state so the economy was projected to decline in the on the national level the GDP which is the gross domestic product was projected to decrease by a percent every year so that's what that three-to-one was and now it's projected to be a three to two which is a good thing for the national economy and we are really kind of in full-bore we have record employment rates record wage growth and every kind of metric at the national level that you could imagine is is really going as well as you could hope to the point where the economists are like I don't think we can grow any faster which is why it is only a three to two next is statewide looking at what what's happening in California so even with that massive growth that the nation is seeing it it also is happening in California but California has not seen that same growth for education education as that's very slow growth and this year again is going to even be slower growth so this slide here looks at how much reserve school districts have in 1718 which was the last set of data and you can see even back then when growth was projected to be a little higher and district reserves were projected to decline moderately and and that was when we were looking at some larger supplemental concentration dollars coming in and so that is concerning when you see that we've only had increases in funding the state has only had a larger and larger tax receipts come in and you see school districts across the board going into their reserves to keep programs and systems moving forward and and again for 2021 the they're proposing a very modest increase in funding which equates to 1.2 billion dollars which is a cola only environment of 2.29 so that is down from what was in the prior budget of 3% and so that that is a you know upsetting for all of us in the industry because we our budgets projected at 3% but it is slightly better than what the Elio was projecting based on looking at growth and that Chloe would only have been 1.79 so the governor did add a half a percent to it so if you look here you can see what that does in the out-years were the cola and so if you look at what what was projected at first interim which was our last major report this state was saying that for next year Colo would have been three percent twenty two twenty one twenty two is gonna be two point eight percent and then three point one six and you can see every year a significant decline especially in next year so down almost 0.75 or three-quarters of a point another big concern is CalPERS increased their district rates which they charge employers for offering help retirement benefits to their employees so if you look at first interim we were projecting an increase every year but it was it was from 20 to only twenty five point four and so now that in twenty two twenty three is is going to twenty five point nine and then the next year it's even a larger increase to twenty six point six and so those pension cost increase whenever they do this and the trend unfortunately has been every every time the CalPERS board meet they do increase those rates quite significantly and it's their objective is to ensure that they have a pension available for every single one of our first members so some of the other big items that were changed is under Assembly Bill 602 there was additional money put into the language so we'll go from our current 1920 rates of five hundred and fifty seven dollars per student to six hundred and forty dollars per student so it's a small increase but it is an increase and but on the other side where the governor this year made a a large commitment to supporting preschool education for special education students where we received in in Azusa a million dollars to support that program it's going to be reduced to only a half a million dollars in the next budget if if this doesn't change in May or later so who would drop the rate from nine thousand and ten dollars per pupil to four thousand five hundred and seventy dollars so can you explain that so the governor's investing more money in this but then that means and we're gonna be getting less so why is that happening so he he last year put in late last year this year 1920 he put in to the 1920 budget nine thousand and ten dollars for a DA four for us and that equaled a million dollars he's continuing the program but he's cutting the amount per a DA almost in half so he's not doing additional investments he's he's not doing additional event investments it as far as what we're gonna receive the additional part is that it was one-time funding in 1920s and he's continuing it at half the rate so how much money we get for 1890 oh so 1920 we got a million it was supposed to be one-time funding that's what we have in our revenue but he's extending it for one more year but we only get half the money so their maintenance of effort connected to this expenditure is 1 million that we spent last year there's now we're getting half the money so that is that is the next piece to this the 1920 money that we received had no maintenance of effort required okay but this half a million dollars will at this point have maintenance of effort attached to it because it's ongoing or why it's one-time so that is it a large concern with receiving a half million dollars that you need to maintain an effort which is one-time funding and obviously school services and CBO's will be bringing that issue to to the May conversation because it does not make sense you're absolutely right to have a one-time fund it has so this is just for special education correct or in this case preschool funding and where do we have special education preschool in our district and I'm like correct me if I'm wrong I'm a nurse saying this is for inclusive preschools in schools that would include special ed students not for our general special and only clashers provided to the district based on the number of kids that we had in our preschool programs qualify for an IEP but there wasn't any strings that which program they were they were and for the coming year though because of the maintenance of effort we need to rethink err how we use those funds there's a lot of unknown attached to because the money is specifically designed for this group of kids so there's a lot of questions that need to be answered in terms of that what actually students are getting so did we change because I know we've always served the students right so did we change what we did from 1819 to 1920 in terms of the services we provided to two to three to five year olds no this was just a change Wow so just money that we now are getting that we weren't that we didn't have to spend out of our general fund right and you can use the microphone and this is fairly new information so we have a self a meeting coming up next it's more a little fleshed out but to your point into what dr.
Kaminsky was saying I am aware that there are some inclusion factors that have been included in some of the language but I'm not sure of the details of that but the original money the one-time money no that did not change our special education programs last year other than totally separately our cspp and including students in California State preschool that's a separate gram there's also money being put into education programs to chyann in the deficit of special teacher classifications like special education teachers hard to hire teachers like high school teachers that work in the inner city and so there's money that he's putting forward in the budget to address those issues and as always those ones are challenging to know whether because the laws are not set for us to know whether those dollars would apply to us or whether we could apply to a grant or whether it would be handed out based on like an unduplicated count all those factors are missing this is just knowing that that's a budget and next there's money set aside for nutrition services there's increased funding to to provide additional dollars for each meal and that's set at sixty million dollars and there's there's money or kind of a more healthy food there's money or training around food safety and so it'll be interesting to see how these get rolled out into the law and which monies especially in these bottom two buckets will be eligible for so I have just a follow-up question for this I don't think we're gonna have the answer anytime soon so I mean part of part of the problem is that the federal government right is changing eligibility so some students are going to be losing access to snap right and so I would like to understand in our district really I mean what does that mean our district how many how many of our students are really going to be affected by these new laws that are going or the new regulations that are going into place at the federal level to really understand what kind of food access issues our students are going to be having and so that's why it's a longer term just discussion but I did I wanted to put it out there since it's in the in the in the budget we can we can definitely look at the implications of changes that the federal level and I had a question and so with this increase in funding for school nutrition how is that going to affect that in the last presentation he had said that there was a what is it a gosh hold on the overspending in nutrition and is that going to how is that going to affect that so it definitely will help okay so we'll get additional dollars per meal served with that first and so that will allow us to have additional revenue for the department which will make it a little easier for us to and I think the word you're looking for is in encroaching on the thank you and we as we get details about this breakdown of what the reimbursement rate which we don't have yet reimbursement rate for a lunch a breakfast and a snack are and will definitely include that in our updates okay thank you but it is good to see they recognize the fact that nutrition services across across the state are struggling to to make it within those those dollars and a lot of the policies they put in place are good ones but they do cost money and it means that they need to support California to make sure we can continue to provide nutritious meals for our families so what would you do with the 10 million to train food service workers to promote healthier and more nutrition how how would you do that what does that look like so it really looks like supporting things that were already doing that were already being so we had we have great training programs to ensure that we're compliant it's really the governor's way of helping school districts pay for things that were already doing so it it wouldn't mean any necessary changes unless there was additional safety regulations that were added into this law I mean later on I really like when they did in the past were they allowed students to come and taste the pizzas they didn't even know that it was out a week dough you know and things what I like to have students included and some of these things because they're the ones eating the food right so I like them to be able to taste and we pick what they like right so definitely we've scheduled those about every other year and I think one year yeah maybe last year you know what I just like to continue thank you so kind of big picture and what is not in this budget is a change to lcff targets so we're not seeing any increase in supplemental concentration dollars that was a huge conversation piece that the state legislature was looking at as a as a goal it did not make it into the budget another huge item that was brought forward from many of our organizations was the pension cost and looking at how to have the state help with those pension costs and that did not make it into the governor's budget and another item that there was a lot of speculation around was creating kind of more categoricals and more kind of one-time funding like jerry brown on the one-time funding side was doing and as he had extra dollars to to provide school districts there is not a lot of one-time funds all right there's very little one-time funds in other than mark if I could just swim down budget if I could just add something what we're seeing are some specific programs that are receiving some extra monies special education for preschool children but not for the rest of the students or a little bit of extra money for nutrition services a few other things there are there are other but budget things such as recruiting and supporting people becoming teachers which is a great thing particularly areas of high needs such as math science and special education providing teacher residency programs as part of a training all really good ideas but what's missing and what he's really saying here is that focus on the day-to-day work that school districts do what's missing is you know what the support 40 K through 12th grade students and this morning I was a meeting with many many agencies from across the state talking about the budget and many comments and then integrating an article Max and his paper about it called the present kind of building the future and right now when you hear in the newspaper that the governor is putting more money into education he's putting it into things that will pay off in the future like we need catcher so well it's like once I go through college and they get their teaching credential I would that's a good investment in long-term support for the school district but what's missing is building the present presently we have students and classrooms that are crowded we have we have challenges just meeting your approval for next year facing cuts that we'll be hearing about and education needs and our state needs I've mentioned that looks at both it's not either/or it's not the present or the future it's both we have to invest in the needs of the present and we have to look forward and prepare and invest in the needs for the future one without the other is insufficient and I think that message is something that we have to carry forward I'm sure all the different groups are with the legislators in the the governor's office are going to point that out that if you're sure the present and also issues districts that are becoming insolvent that's not us yet did you have to invest in a posit similarly if you invest the present but don't think about the future needs you're short-sighted it really is both and you need to focus both on the present and on the future and that's what's happening here is we're not seeing the focus on the present thank you can you can you clarify one thing on that so it says no one-time discretionary grants and you said similar to governor Browns it's my understanding that what it's not that Governor Brown decided to be a nice guy and give give more money necessarily but that there were conservative estimates that came came forward initially and then when the actuals came through and there were more there ended up being more monies available to schools so is is that what we're when we see no one time is that just because I mean there's there just are more accurate kind of projections or is there is there something that's not happening that we are one would like to see happen there so yes a lot of that Jerry Brown one-time money came at the end of the year and was because his numbers were very conservative but there's also very little money that's not part of proposition 98 which is basically what sets the law as to what the minimum amount of dollars that can be provided in time to education there's very little that's being provided to education outside of that minimum and on top of that minimum there's a lot of money that is being taken away from k-12 and provided to community colleges and so shifting or diverting money that used to be provided to k-12 and then pushing it towards other objectives like you know free Community College for all which is part of prop 98 minimum guarantee right so the other big piece is we are adopting or the state has adopted a new El Cap template which means that we're we're going to be going through the process and up from scratch and you know mr.
Ortega is very excited about that process over we we're going to be merging the El Cap and the school accountability report card and so it's gonna look a little different for our community than it has in the past and the objective there is transparency where we're looking at some challenging times with with minimum dollars coming into the state for education so roughly two hundred and thirty one new dollars for a DA and at the state level the pension costs are increasing by three hundred and thirteen dollars for 2021 and so even at the state level the cola is not covering pension cost and and that is a huge concern because that puts every single district in in a very challenging situation because there's a lot more cost to consider than just pensions that are going up and when you're in a declining enrollment which we'll talk in a little bit later than that kinda gets magnified there's also a big movement that's happening across the state it's something that has started one of our neighboring states Arizona the red for Edie movement and it's really pushing boards the state to really really focus in on education looking at supporting our teachers and what they need to to be successful so very it's gonna be interesting over the next year to see how that movement works with our governor and so that way we can have a middle ground obviously there's only so much money being allocated and that the teacher community is pushing hard for increased increased compensation increased I guess items such as reduced class size more counselors all those type of items so somewhere the state will have to find a middle ground with this large push so I'm going to shift to what that means for Azusa so as I mentioned before we are in declining enrollment and we have shifted downward every year since 2002 this last year was our largest decrease that we've had in in in this time period we had nearly a six percent decline from 1819 to 1920 and we're projecting another large decline of nearly six percent in the following year so that is gonna be a almost 12% decline in two years which is a lot of students we lost in one year more kids than most of our schools have in and then to do that at two years in a row is very challenging one of the big effects was a loss this year in our tea cake a group of students and that loss will over the next 12 or 13 years really decrease enrollment for for the long haul and then obviously our kindergarteners in first grade next year and second grade the following year so you're gonna see that back into continuing yes why do you put TK and K together we we've done that over the years just because we have usually TK k teachers in that in the last year three years ago you're right we've had separate counseling I do have the accounts separate but it helps with the historic data because prior to 1718 I don't have the separate data so it helps to kind of look at that as a as a whole I'm starting in 1819 I do have the data separate and do you have any idea what the reasons I mean they're not having any kids or they're going somewhere else or zero so there's the big number one reason is birth rates are declining and so we've shared that data with the board it is it is declining every single year and it looks like it's continuing to decline for the next four years which is the latest data that we have the next piece the big loss this year also had a number of families that left Azusa to go to other counties and other states so we lost a number of students to San Bernardino Riverside Arizona Nevada and so they are moving for a number of reasons I'm sure but I would assume economics and family economics and I can pay less for rent in San Bernardino or Riverside or Arizona or Nevada minimum wage is the same in those counties as it is here and so everything goes a little further and the further out you go I see a there's a discrepancy with this slide in the previous slide as far as the percentages so maybe one is it updated to the other one yet which of the two is more current and this one is the most this is not yet this next chart shows per ad a which is per student the increase in revenue versus the increase in expenditures just in the categories of pensions step and column and special item and so this has been updated with the new January budget numbers with the lower cola and you can really see the effect in 2021 so let me go over the 1819 again that was Jerry Brown's last year full funding for lcff supplemental concentration was a large increase a large Cola 3.7 percent then in 1920 we had moderate Cola three three and a quarter percent and so you can see that you can also see that the pension cost difference in this year so you can see that there was a buy down of pension costs there was money put towards stirs and purrs from the state and so it is significantly less than in 1819 and significantly less than it is in 2021 and that's what that buy down reduced in 2021 which will be next year you see that we're kind of at the lowest point as far as increase in revenue and our highest point in pension cost and and really pinch in cost and so it's just pensions alone I'm kind of matching the state that we that we saw on the earlier slide ours is matching these numbers which is pension cost alone or far out how pacing the cost of what they gave us for Cola and and it does not get much better in the following years which is low colas and there is some some flattening for pers I'm sorry foresters misters rates are flattening but there is a caveat which is starting next year the PERS board will be able to vote to increase their rates just like the per the PERS board is stirs will also be able to do the same thing in every time that they meet they can adjust their rates as they see necessary has has there been another year can you do you know of another year where there has been that wide how common or uncommon is that for us that wide of a discrepancy between growth and growth and revenue and expenditures that is a great question I not in my time have I ever seen anything like that I would imagine Oh 708 might look very similar to that it might be different numbers and stirs and furs because the rates then were low as well but yeah the the cola was you know looking at a negative Cola practically and so what does that mean so we've been talking to the board about our decrease in funding and I just told you that our decrease was based on a higher Cola so that means we're going to have even less funding so we're going to have almost 600 thousand dollars less than what we had presented at first in room that we've been sharing out in 2021 almost 650 thousand dollars the following year and almost a million dollars less in 2223 essentially we need to add that on top of our reductions that we've already listed and so you can see here from 88 million to 89 million down to what used to be 86 million is now at 85 so I said a massive decrease in funding this shows those pension costs and those rates that we were discussing so you can see in 1819 that it was at 16% to 17% 18.4% so pretty drastic increases and then a a decrease to 18 point one percent with the caveat that the Astor's board now can vote to increase those rates starting next room for purse we're seeing an even more drastic drastic increase so again from 18 to 19 percent and that was with the governor putting money into pensions to 22 percent that's a really drastic increase we haven't seen anything like that before 3% increase to then followed up by another 2% to one additional one so those are this is really that the most we've ever seen in a single year as a reminder we just implemented our $13 an hour minimum wage in the state of California and next year will be 14 and then followed by 15 we're going to talk about this in detail the next presentation but another effect on the budget is nutrition services as board member Ariana's mentioned we are encroaching from nutrition services on the budget so we we're gonna share that plan with you but this shows kind of the expenditure side which is the red line and the revenue side which is money generated from student meals and you can see under the disparity each year between those two and we'll talk about that in more detail during that Nutrition Services presentation and this one shows the spend-down of the reserve so you can see in 1314 we had almost three million dollars of reserve for nutritional services and that reserve was used up in 1890 and we became like most other districts that are encroaching the general fund special education you remember a few slides back we had those high per student increases every single year and this kind of shows it from another angle which is increase costs to provide those services year over year it also shows the amount of money being put into special education so you can see from 1617 till now where we've had a very very slight increase in funding but you can see the exponential increase over that same time for special education cost and that's to provide services for our kids and that they need that are specified in their IEP last and look at the reserve so at first interim we're we reported as qualified which is this red line showing that in [Music] 21 22 we would have used up all of our funding if we continue with the budget that was submitted and so we've presented the pack plus recommendations to address that and kind of put us on a different trajectory which would be this nineteen twenty first interim with work required cuts but we've had to modify those required cuts because of the change in funding and so if you look here we have updated it so we have what was shared with the board prior and which was six point five five point eight five point two and three point three that has been changed with the lower cola to be to leaving the first year the same would be would be six point five and now almost the same amount for your to six point three to almost six to four point three but we wanted to put forward another option just so you could see if we did more upfront how it would change those numbers and so if we went up to eight million in reductions for next year then you would see that it can drop the twenty one twenty two and twenty two to twenty three down to five just about five million dollars so if you do cuts sooner it it allows you to do less cuts later as a reminder we did file as qualified and the definition of that is when a district may not meet its financial obligations for the current or two subsequent fiscal years and we're were reporting that we would have made it in the second fiscal year and what we can do and what we do kind of reflects what our next report will will state our next report is due by March 17th and so depending on what we decide or the board decides and and what where we are in the process will dictate whether we change that certification and so again first interim in order for us to be qualified it was required that we would do the 6.5 million dollars if we don't do the 6.5 million others then we would be less than then qualified negative if we want to remain qualified then we have to do 6.5 million dollars if we wanted to be positive again then we would need to do at least eight million dollars in cuts in your so those are some of the the numbers to work on or think about when we're looking at reductions as to how we like to report our our second row I'll leave it what I thought there's any questions I can take any questions yeah no yes oh okay yeah I thought I heard a single so Kim are can you can you go back to the slide there you go so when we look at this we see that how did you phrase it the more we do it has there's a greater impact on what we cut now versus later how did you yeah so the more you do upfront it kind of has a compounding effect because you're you're able to save basically twice that in the next year so if we were to cut eight million dollars you see the effect that we only have to cut four and a half or four point nine million dollars the next year instead of six point three and then the following year is also less it's only five million dollars it's only four million dollars so there's savings by doing that because you're saving that every single year for the next four years instead of waiting one year right and then maintaining whatever that that service is and then waiting again for the following if I'm gonna kind of put you on the spot a little bit if we see that we see what those numbers are projected out if there was a dollar cut here and now for it for this next year what it would look like for the subsequent three years if you had to I mean estimate if there was let's say 10 million on year in year one what about what that looked like for three four and five or two three and four so you could the first one was ten you could probably take a million off at least the next two fiscal years and that would that would reduce that to probably three point nine and three or you could leave it the same and then in year four you could only cut you probably would not need to cut anything because you would have saved it for multiple years and the reason why I say that is because sitting in on the pack plus meetings and hearing the conversations that are happening and seeing I mean this is this is difficult this is hard hard stuff and we're looking at what we did the conversations that needed to happen this year it's the exact same conversation for the next two I mean in essence for the next two years and so and there will be no drastic options like clothings and there well I guess they're all there always will be that option but and so I guess what I this is so this might seem wild crazy I hope it's not scary but but I hope it's seen as responsible but instead of us taking steps where we're merely you know reacting to how do we you know just stay above water how do we stay above water this year and next year and having to have this drastic conversation when we look at this column out you know I asked you when was the last time you saw such a great discrepancy and there's you know not it's not been for a while that we've seen anything like this and so I wonder what it what does it look like for this for us to just recognize that this is the kind of year that this is that we need to tighten if we tighten even a little more now it means a less tightening later because it when we look at some of these numbers there's an there are inevitable cuts anyway so when we when we add up the numbers but you know they still are are what they are but have the tough conversations and instead of hanging on to things that you know only have a year date on them anyway and then we have to have that conversation again how do we have an even tougher conversation and even harder time now so that we can address it here and now and it's it's going to be I mean while but have that now so so as to be able to breathe that much more in the next and there still will be cuts so so I don't know I guess I really would really like us to look at what is the most responsible way for it and and and maybe taking a you know a minimum payment approach may not be the most responsible way forward so Adrienne I mean I agree with you but to think I agree with you I think that's that's a responsible thing to do I mean I'm just very struck about the fact that our enrollment is now going to be half the size it was 20 years ago right and in some ways we still think of ourselves as that 12,000 student school district when we're now a 6,000 student school district and so we really need to have some really hard conversations about what does that mean about how we operate and how do districts of that size operate right because we're inching towards this I mean we're not going to get to small school which is under 2,000 or inching towards that right so thinking about what ways we have to do different business differently and those are very hard conversations I don't I think we're looking at cuts not at how do we restructure because we're not a very different district so I think that I agree with you on that the other piece that I think is so critical so I was at the same meeting with Linda today because of my role at Sea SBA and that the conversation has to be focused on Sacramento it has to be focused on the legislature and the governor around where is where are we going to find ways to have new revenue for schools because if we don't do that I mean we're not the only district in a state that's facing this right so so we really have to be pushing and focusing on on Sacramento because that we can amongst ourselves killer self with the cuts trying to figure out how to stay afloat when the real problem is is that when we're funded in the bottom quartile of all states what do you expect to happen right so saying that I really appreciate that CSD a CTA and now our board is are supporting the schools and community first initiative in November right that will generate four-and-a-half billion dollars for schools but it won't happen if there's not a lot of work to make it happen so I mean my my goal is to push and work on that because that it's one way for us to generate some revenue so that maybe in 21 22 we're not looking at those kind of cuts but it's not guaranteed so I agree I mean I think we do needed we have some hard decision-making here but we also need to make sure that all of us us our our staff our community are focused on Sacramento to make them understand that that we cannot we cannot survive public education cannot survive I would just like to add to what you stated which is this is the best economy that's needed seen in a very long time that's being mentioned in the same phrases that Chile needs said or miss Cruz Kasasa so eloquently it it's a mismatch it doesn't seem to make sense that we could be in the best economy and have one of the lowest colas that we've seen in the lowest level funding increases it but education is seen in some time already any other questions comments okay we'll move on to 9.2 Parent Advisory Council pack plus recommendations for fiscal solvency so we have shared with the board this presentation and this and we've added to it with some background numbers as requested and so I'll go brief on the kind of introduction portion so this presentation is about the inputs and I think Margie said it very well these are inputs that that PAC plus is providing they voted by putting stickers and we collected those stickers to do counts and but there wasn't like a summary portion or we asked them to figure this out these are all just concepts to be considered and they really were looking at each bucket separately and so these are the folks that were represented by PAC Plus which is one one parent from each school the groups that are represented in a special category around the unduplicated count and then our staff groups which is our AAA CSEA and they were asked or tasked with looking at three separate buckets to make recommendations provide input from from their table groups the first bucket that they looked at was school reorganization so they looked at the different structures that we put in front of them that would be possible and we looked at every option that we could think of combining both high schools closing additional comentary schools really looking at any iteration that we could that we could find as a possibility and these were the top three that were that receives stickers from reorganization and the number one one was to reorganize into tk6 sites with two additional tk8 sites and keep one middle school as a seven eight campus and in savings we would save about eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars doing that the second option was to go to a tk8 model district-wide so all of our Elementary's would become TK eights and we had phased that in over the next three years or the sixth grade would stay behind at their elementary seventh grade was staying behind an eighth grade would stay behind and the last option is a TK 8 model where we would phase it in over two years in the final year where the eighth graders would have been alone on their middle school campus we would do some interim housing like move them to the high schools or move them to another site that's already in operation to save on the administration costs but it would come with a lot of additional cost and providing bungalows for those students and interim fencing items like that to make it work so there was a there would be a lot of logistics to put in place just for one year next we looked at programs and so these were the program recommendations and they're in their cost so computer labs food and refreshment added conference and travel let's go back to the to the last night I just thought about something so if it's the same amount of savings and you're saying that we're gonna have to spend more on the number three so in year how does that come up so there's the additional savings to the general fund would be in that year three so when the eighth graders would be interim housed somewhere else so that that would be the extra savings here in the first year you're right they're savings as is exactly the same because it would be the same model you have to spin to do the fencing and spend spend the spending would likely be and of course it's up to the board would be bond funding be used use that money which you know is a one-time used maybe not not the best use of thank you so next under program recommendations I got through most of these I'll start where I left off which is college field trips the PBIS services from the district office as far as support and then the the tkk gap hours provided through thing together next we looked at staffing because of budget so they received really the staffing cost of every staff member from the superintendent on down to our avid tutors everything in between so the recommendations we kind of broke into categories with a the big one overall overarching one was reduction in overtime hours from fifty to seventy-five percent and you can see those cost associated with overtime and extra hours I will add a caveat which is the majority of that is coverage for absenteeism on the classified staff and so we would have to have policies or something that say that we're not going to cover for staff in there like when I secretaries out for a long period of time in order to implement something like that so those savings would be very difficult to reach without changing our current procedure 1% staffing reduction for departments the thinking there was that each of the departments would be tasked with answering that question how do you reduce 1% from your department would you cut supplies would you cut overtime extra hours a number of staff members how would you reach that within your department or your school site next we didn't we break these into different categories administration certificate in classified and so the first one administration looking to reduce district administrators by five and it's reduced so there's some reduction positions and some elimination of positions that the total number was five schools reducing by two plus any additional due to school closure if elementary school was closed obviously they recommend that we would reduce that administrator next would be certificated staff and so these were the top recommendations technology stipend and nursing we have a vacancy eliminating some number of ptosis from one to all but one was a conversation and after-school intervention reduced by 75% so was what's an example the app after-school information so there's general fund dollars that are put towards school sites to offer tutoring for our students from our teachers and so reduce these all that significant overtime or what teachers receive extra hours so it's like a one rate no it's an hourly rate all right and then classroom teachers I do want to say that these are not necessarily in any particular order and classroom teachers would be based off of loss of enrollment our our contract with our teachers and dictates what those ratios are obviously we lose students and reduced by classified and we have three FTE which is full time equivalents and so that would be at the district office and then there was a recommendation input to reduce grounds by seventy five percent in overtime hours and they had a caveat add to create a position in their school sites there's reduction in aides and there was a discussion around and the the great need that we have in this district for special education aides and shifting some of those jobs into the vacancies that we have food service workers reducing to kind of match enrollment at our sites and then I did put a caveat in there that we do we would look at breakfast in the classroom implementation because we will need more hours if that was something the board wanted to move forward with which will be in the next more hours to implement that or it would we would need we wouldn't need more hours than we currently have but we would need more hours to implement that than the lowest than this 251,000 reduction for sure so well we can talk about that in the next presentation anybody have questions or comments we just want to make a quick comment I appreciate the transparency that um we are having with our staff and our our community just looking at the budget and the hard decisions that we will have to to make just just know there it's not taken lightly and that we are taking every consideration possible thank you and I I'm looking at it and school reorganization recommendations seriously need to be looked at because if we're gonna have spend if a three year phase-in will save us the same amount as a two year phase-in but not cost us anything we really need to look into what's going to be the least expensive but save us the most and it would probably be a lot easier for our students with the three year phase-in to to get into it so I just thought I kind of throw that out there anybody else all right we'll move on to 9.3 Nutrition Services at point-o no you're done done you well I'm just okay okay so when it what what are we doing next with this is what I want understand yeah that's thank you we are all dismayed you know I just just thinking about the meeting I was at earlier today where all the news was negative and then to have to come here and talk to you all and to listen and think through what do we do when none of the options are good not one option you know there's no I don't see a rainbow area all I see is hurt and undoing of good quality education certainly with us and also the statewide and I had said though we still have to we have to deal with the dollars that we have and I do hope that I really do hope voters support schools in November and vote to pass additional funding for schools because it's not fair to our kids it's not carry fair to the families it's not fair to all of you all of our employees and work so hard day in and day out to do what is getting to feel like the impossible when you don't have the funds to do with it I had the opportunity years ago to live back east and see what can be done with twice the amount of money and then to be here in California the fifth largest economy in the world and Samaria they can't figure out how to how to support schools the way more countries do the four states do and we don't have yet have to make decisions and so that's important for us it's important for our staff it's important for our families it's important for our students that we make these decisions center so that we can help people get through what will be you know it is definitely a challenge there's just no choice about it and if you think about it the mask that we take is if we as as as a district if my can't or they don't make decisions now about what we're going to do and start those decisions we don't have to have any decision made today when they have to decide at a minimum we had to come to some kind of consensus agreement and what we're going to do with at least with the school connections and if I can make all the recommendations that would be helpful to the business because they're people involved that people hold lives and have families there are kids who enroll with the promotion ceremony Gangadhar in fifth grade or do they wait till 6th grade they're their teachers that want to know where they're going to be their staff that wants to know where they're going to be and we have to honor and to show respect to them to give them information on this timeline basis as we care so as hard as those I think that's a kind of to some kind of consensus here so I'm just gonna say I'm a little disappointed because I thought this was gonna be a study session focused only on the budget and we've had a million other items you started talking about budget at 8:45 I'm as tired as the people that I see in the audience and and so that's why I'm so I'm asking what are we doing and then we have other with other financial updates and reports to talk about before after this budget proposal and it just it's not I don't know I I mean I think you're asking I'm not clear what we're how can we make decisions when we haven't even had discussions about but I don't even see totals of how much let's say we accepted all of those the top the contol consensus items or whatever what did we call them whatever they are like what it what would that even add up to right is it is it this one right I mean let me just ask you before you share Linda are you asking you're you're saying that we need to discuss it and make a decision right now on whether we're going to move forward with level one level two level three for the you know the recommendations that you guys are presenting here before us is that what you're asking from us I think we just need clear direction yes that is where we need to have a discussion here know what people's questions are what their thoughts are trying to answer the questions and see where people or they want to focus what they think the direction should be so my my thought I hear that and I recognize that and even even going back to what I you know said in the last lesson about how do we not be react how can we be less reactive and even more now there there are timelines that are already in place and and decisions that that need to be made but I think that to you to your or were there I think there's still more work to be done I think there's still more conversations to be had I think there's still more that needs to be discussed and decided when I so therefore when I look at these three something that I notice about each of the three to allow us to take a step forward is that one we are looking at a no matter we're looking at a drastic you know change in the way that you know schools operate moving forward versus how they have in previous years that there's something we gotta we gotta make a change somehow and when I look at the three options to me it appears as though extending sixth grade on elementary school campuses is a is a first in essence a first step in in any of those and either of those three options and so what I wonder then is is there is there some fourth option that we're looking at considering that isn't that is it here because if these are the three things that we are looking at as far as a school reorganisation then maybe one step forward to allow there to be further conversations impact less to allow there be further conversations and on on where we go move forward is on a step one extending elementary to include sixth grade and I don't know that we need to just do we need to necessarily lock in on one of those today or would that be sufficient to move forward like what my only concern with that is that this is an information I am and it's not an action item I we can give directions so so I mean to your point though Adrian like I mean and this is what I'm asking when are we gonna have a conversation okay let's say okay let's say we decided to go TK right Archie k-8 I'm sorry like I said it's late right what are the implications right if we're gonna put middle schoolers on the campus is what does that mean for those campuses how are they going to change to accommodate those those students we have and we haven't had any of those discussions and I haven't seen a presentation about what that means what what would we do how would we get there that's that's a fair question mark can you share some information please so we've started to look at what it would take being that all three of these have something in common which is sixth grade returning next year to the elementary schools and so we would need additional classrooms at only one school to move sixth grade in other schools would be so what is that what is that one school that would be Hodge so we would need additional classrooms to be moved in this year to support sixth grade moving back other schools would be extremely I mean by sixth grade moving back you mean eighth graders not not from promoting to the grade level itself moving back the kids staying at that current site other schools would be tight but it would give us time to do construction on those other sites too for the next year if that's cool ways to then become a tk8 site or for the board to make that decision what all I can see though is I see you have the savings but we're not talking about how much you got to spend to revamp it or do what have you because then that figures not right so right there are different pots of money right now we have 10 million dollars set aside for modernization of Slauson last estimates is it what it would be closer to 12 Center is the same thing we have 9 set aside for modernization of Center but estimates are it's gonna be closer to 11 so those pots of money would be the dollars that we'd use to bring in facilities and add classroom space other spaces make sure that we could accommodate the school bond so when we start the school bond was that the decision of the people that we promised that we're gonna do all of a sudden we're using the school bond money first I'm totally different than what was promised to the community we had that on the ballot you know we promised them something they're not I want to go be something totally different because do you hear her body so I'm just gonna recommend because I think that maybe we can ask a lot of questions tonight about what we're concerned about for the staff and I know we since we're not gonna be doing the trustee areas and we had a meeting scheduled Monday night that we can give you guys time to go back and put together a full presentation with implications of what school school organization looks like what it means in terms of that the staffing what it means in terms of what the facilities at the sites all of these pieces then maybe we could talk about right now so that we can have a full conversation with not just like off-the-cuff answers but actually the visuals so that we can see what we're talking about because I'm not comfortable having this conversation like this and making a decision and it would be an open session yeah it would be I'm saying yeah yeah it would be it's a regular open meeting yeah so just have that next Monday or Tuesday with day is the day 27th so I mean I know I know Linda you're telling us do you want to have this direction as soon as possible but we also need to make sure that then we're making a thorough decision and I can't just be like okay yes that's we're gonna do this well it's not planning on being there on Monday you have another commitment and I said that prior no well I guess Lee I'll cancel my other commitments so I can be here because this is very important but I'm not even a quorum so I think that horn is important but it's also you need to include all the board members I'm here I think so what's going on I don't think you just worry about the quorum I think we shouldn't worry about that we're all included in this decision making oh I understand exactly what you're saying yes what other I mean is there on the alternative other dates they were to look at the 28:28 yeah I'm free so I think I laid out the things that I want to see in terms of a discussion about that I think it would also be really helpful if I could understand what does a and we think this could be an initial conversation but what does a what does a district of 6,000 students what kind of what kind of what are they how do they operate and what kind of supports do they have as a district as opposed to a 12,000 district I mean I I appreciate these comparables so I think maybe we can look at some some districts of much smaller sizes I know I know okay I like you you work in a smaller district right so so there we have some some perspective there why do you say that is the state of the city yeah because then we'll be dividing our community right so we'll be there yeah yeah so all right Wednesday Wednesday Thursday yeah Wednesday Thursday I can do Thursday I can do Thursday 30 yeah I haven't ROP meeting that night 2:30 first Friday absolutely I'm good you know I might have I'm going out of town when the next Tuesday isn't it the next board meeting so I I mean I don't know what they also had a Monday February 3rd meeting I mean but the the earliest we can have a meeting we want it to go ahead and have in the next what week right because that's what you're you're proposing um ulaana is there no way you can cancel your meeting I mean I'm I will not go to my meeting I'm gonna pass on my other meeting okay can we have it at a different time okay we have it say Monday earlier in the day before 4:00 yeah that's fine yeah okay all right all right so Monday at 4:00 how about you all right awesome okay I mean I said what I wanted to see it I don't have anybody else said anything else besides because what I thought that I like to see the statements would I want to see the car get also and I think that helped me make a better decision yep and I most of the stuff that I was thinking of you you stated their journey and so but yes seeing what the difference is what we were you know if you're gonna do it too versus a three is there gonna save you more money to do the three is that gonna save you more money to be the - you know just how it plays out yeah I'd also like to see it so a breakdown so I see the numbers where we have a 854 school reorganizations or a one you know one point five what is it breakdown of that of those numbers and even as we look out you know for subsequent years if we're expected you know whatever we're expecting that to look like in so what I would like to see is one of the things that we did not consider that was not presented to us is how the adult education would not be fitting at Gladstone's Street school and how those possible now they're running out of room there's all these potential things that just were not anticipated so I would like along with that room I would like to for you guys to do some research and to be able to talk to school administrators and to see actually go yourselves and be able to see you know because these are real issues that are affecting our our staff and that it will affect our staff not only you know we have staff halfway he you know from last year's closure from Sierra and adult school we've supposedly closed adult school but adults cool still there because there's no room here at Gladstone Street and and so the reason why they're not there is we're constructing their parking lot right now and it should be done shortly and we will have been moved so yeah so what you're telling me is that there's and that we could have another conversation about that but I just want to be able to just potential problems that may arise and just be proactive I'm just looking at you know I know we can't look into the future but possible potential issues that not only the cost potential issues that may arise and and I'm really glad that we're bringing all this up to have a deep conversation about this and really for us to be able to move forward and make these tough decisions that was not anticipated parking lot I mean that guess who's won money it's being used for that and I don't think that we'll see and those are the things those are the things that we need to be aware of right a lot of shifting is gonna be happening so another conversation not so whether we include this on Monday or whether it's ongoing as well that concerns me to a degree is you know last year we had the conversation we made tough decisions to to consolidate some schools and now and now again we're looking at reorganization but the decisions that we made last year were not tied to the decisions that we're making this year it's as if the two the two years are treated independently to do what can we do this year and I look at what can we do this year as opposed to what if we look five years out at projections what if we look 10 years out and if we say it's in and instead of you know having to make these in real time decisions if we have a have a plan of action like going back to Wichita and if we're not a school district of 12,000 and we're headed to a school district of 6,000 what does that look like are we on schedule to need to reduce by X number of school sites are we on let's let's make decisions when when we're not you know when the decision isn't dire an eminent here and now but but make conscious decisions based on the projections and lists and simultaneously let have those conversations and in Sacramento in hopes of things being better than we forecast but I think we have to take some things in our in our control to say what can we do and what should we do responsibly because it seems like we're doing the same thing every year that's what it feels like and I you know what I have to say let's not forget that the client enrollment was exacerbated this year and that's why we're back here that's why we're doing this because that was a change in our historic decline we were able to protect year after year after year and when we made the decision when the board made the decision when the surplus property made the decision committee made the decision a recommendation to the board at that time we were not having this massive decline in enrollment and that that's what's changed the picture that's why we're here again because at that time we could look ahead and say you know we're not going to have to deal with us for a good four five years decline and a change in funding happens so extremely but this is yes this is an extremely unique situation that we're having to deal with and I guess that makes sense but I guess what I'm saying is let's I would go first I would prefer not to take the approach of this isn't something that we have done we don't have to deal with this for another four or five years and instead say this is something that's coming four or five years down the world projecting is coming for five years and that makes sense and we have talked about that so we'll be happy to share with you the roof is leaking we're putting a band-aid now the roof is leaking we're putting in band-aid know-how what does it look like for us to to be able to what is the projection for us to be able to accommodate to fix some you know to fix the roof and work backwards we have to have you know the bet plan so we know that we're next year we're gonna have another 400 estimated students that are going to leave our district so in five years from the estimate the presentation that you gave to us tonight let's go ahead and total all that and be able to work backwards and be able to not just put band-aids and what I'd like to include into it too is when we reconfigure schools we are going to be making changes on how and what we're gonna upgrade as opposed to what we had planned in the savings on that bond money from us not doing those projects being transferred over to fund these projects just so we have a general idea of you know we're - we're just moving it around but we just want to see where it how it went how it goes we'll work with our consultants to figure out exactly those cost it sounds like the board wants to explore that sixth grade option we'll look and gather the data around how much additional facilities where they would be needed with this short turnaround it will definitely be a rough order of magnitude projection but we will bring that I'll see you here at 11 o'clock at night working hard just like me okay any more discussion do you do we have what we need okay 9.3 Nutrition Services update it's been lately ladies and gentlemen cut my three hour presentation [Laughter] good evening I do want to start off by saying thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak on behalf of the nutritional services department so in tonight's presentation I will give you a quick overview of the operation we will review some of the successes that we've been able to see and accomplished already since the start of the school year review some of the challenges and I know that mark has mentioned our department regarding the inclusion of the district and at the end of the presentation I am excited to provide information on an immune program that could potentially really help us in in securing additional funding but more so also allow us to ensure that we are providing access to our students nutritional meals during the school day at the overview of operation Azusa Unified School District we have three central kitchens in our operation each district is completely different some of the districts have one centralized kitchen other districts districts all of the distributors go to each and every school site here we are distributors go to three different locations the responsibilities of the central kitchens is ensuring that they're providing their ordering the correct quantities they are receiving the correct quantities they are maintaining a temperature and they are distributing to their assigned sound-alike school sites so you can as you can see as zoos that oversee Sierra Foothills McMillan Powell they ensure that they are bringing in the correct quantities and distributing that to the school sites at the satellite location their responsibility is ensuring that they receive the items the food and new this year I knew this year is the school site the satellite school sites are heating the food at the site level that has been an important shift in our operation because it really gives the school site leads to control the quality of the food not only the quality but it has helped us reduce food cost in food waste we're in the past something that was prepared as early as 8 o'clock in the morning by the time the little ones received it as early as 11 o'clock 11:30 and even as late as 3 p.m.
first up a program the product just it looked great but it didn't taste while or the texture was not best quality so we do have little ones that are hungry they may eat a portion of it or they may choose not to eat it because of that so we've been fortunate enough to transition into a cold transport to really be able to control that quality and to help increase participation and more so ensure that we're not wasting too much food do you have any questions regarding central kitchens and satellites for you mark so not not right now but so if Slauson is being is going to end up being closed what's going to happen to the to that kit what's going to die nice to be part of that conversation too you I'll provide you a little bit of facts of the operation if if we have several programs within our department and when you see the combination of breakfast at serve before school lunch snack and our separate program the district itself the nutrition services department was able to serve I believe one point seven meals last school year so that's definitely an accomplishment there is still room for improvement I'll be able to share a little bit more information regarding our breakfast program but we are only serving 21 percent of our students that are enrolled there's a great room for improvement and the way the nutrition services department is intended to be structured and run is that we are supposed to be self-sustaining meaning that we are supposed to bring in the money that we need for our staff or equipment for food or any expenditure it should be 100 percent through revenue coming from our department and the majority of our revenue comes through the meals that are served to students that has not been happening for the last so we definitely need to look at other opportunities to start increasing not revenue to minimize how we impact the district when you say 21 percent enrolled are you talking about in a particular program or our students are rolled across the district yes overall of all of our enrolled students okay twenty-one percent participating our breakfast program so we have a large but then and then but we are free and reduced is like eighty one percent so 87 so when things theorem the snacks what what are the snacks are after school one of the benefits of our district that we do is we really make an effort to have healthy nutritious food access to all students so the snack and a separate program aha are served after the regular school period and first these are for students are in either an after-school program or in the think together program so how is that different than the program there's only one program that our request snack and I don't believe we're serving supper for them it's only snow it's homework house and I and I know it's not a full year or a full school year program I believe it just was implemented or big in September yeah does it cover its costs yes for this particular snack program it done for all of our staff time that we put into it so for all the staff time we put into it it covers all those costs so we don't have additional labor hours being utilized for snacks that we don't there's not a position just first not so this is all part of the central kitchen so they support the breakfast and lunch and the snack program a very small percentage also supports the supper program but we're fortunate enough to allocate funding from the separate program in to offset the any type of labor that's used on supper and I'm not sure if I did mention it but we have two different programs they're funded from different resources they have different regulations and they have different reimbursement rates so we supply the snacks for homework house yeah so we have an MoU or how do how does it work I mean do so to do our employees go and deliver the snacks or how does it work so what we do is anytime there is an after school curriculum type B's program we are allowed to offer them a meal for those students so what we do is just ensure that we're following the regulations and the guidelines are there I don't believe there's an MoU for that they reach out to us and say hey we have 800 students between this time and this time and we would like to offer them a snack without the central kitchens and the satellite's school site will communicate with one one another and say hey we are delivering the snack item it's only two items it's fairly simple and they're typically shelf-stable or a fresh fruit and milk something really simple so there it's being transported at the same time they're delivering the lunch program or the breakfast program so it isn't an additional you know route or transportation and the quantity is very small enough that they can put in the same transfer cabinet and delivered so if this is an organization which is fine as serving our students after school are we offering this to other organizations within our community um so this is for students there has to be on campus so one of the examples first up on our our campus yes okay did homework house yeah if she said homework house miss amber is our assistant director of nutrition of services and she's a bit more familiar about homework counselor location and then they don't need to pay for that you don't need to pay for that is what I'm asking I'm offering this so why are we not reaching out to them this is something that we get paid probably reimbursed and our students are actually for example one of them being I mean um I'll just say Parks and Recreation there's another my third place there's other organizations that are serving our students after school and our positive influences so um I think parking recreation there on the school site they get today because yeah like Murray I know that they okay do because they're there but I would want to suggest you look into that and that's true as you know starting the year here I'm getting to know the operation and who were serving I know that for like the Supper meal programs they are delivered and it's at a school site so let's just say one of the middle schools so we target not only the students that are in the after-school or childcare program or things together but we it's also open to students or in after-school programs sports activities arts plays so we open it up to any of the little ones that are on campus during the hours and invite them in and it's a great partnership with the principal's or our teachers anyone that's leading now then can you know knock on our doors and say hey I have a group of students that are hungry we don't hesitate to provide that service I'll definitely look at you know but during our presentation we are looking at opportunities to continue to support our students and increase that so I'll look into that work and also I'll say because I used to I work for Homer cost like 10 or 12 years ago and and so just around the delivery piece I don't know what happens now but when I work part of what I would do is go and pick up periodically go and pick up you know the the snacks from Slauson middle school for example that's how it works okay so when does the adults get served what what adults are talking about here well it's it's on your child and adult care food program it's wrong reading the program itself is not only for school-based programs it's also for adult programs outside of the school district for example what's the example of the dough oh you do not oh okay what is not a lot of child care at home programs are utilizing this now for funding so dumb chocolate programs off-site program you know like this way of funding for meals so and then for the supper program does that the number of mill I mean is that is that program covering the cost related to that program that programs doing really good so that's one that's generating you said it was generating funding that you're using to subsidize other my program is okay good doing all in right rate reimbursement right they all have different rates reimbursement rate so where are we so revenue generating a cost what are we where is it breakfast is where we did the art Nutrition Services Department generates the most funding through the school lunch program that is where we make most of our revenues and then from there it goes to the summer program and then our breakfast program generates one of the least amounts and then our SNAP program we also have catering and you know don't sales but that is very very small cottage so I have the next couple of slides I do want to highlight some of the proactive approaches the department has made the staff in the team and I want to make sure that I I present that as well today so coming in and being informed by the way the department is encroaching we definitely want to look at ways to increase revenue and minimize that impact the team I want to definitely highlight the good work that amber has made the supervisors have a site managers our food service three workers have me when we go out there we visit the sites we're looking at every way that we can say funding and just by making two small changes we are projected to save fifty three thousand dollars and and we haven't looked at all aspects we are looking we are having conversations this year we are consistently meeting on a monthly basis to continue to get feedback from the team what's working what's not working what access what do we see in the trash cans what do we see that's not moving so that we can come back with the menu development come back and make sure that we are putting a product that is in good quality that students are willing to eat that it's not resulting in food waste so with the two changes we made which was switching over from shelf-stable milk and shall stable juice to the dry food dairy company not only have we been able to save twenty approximately twenty eight thousand dollars but it actually reduced the workload at the site's just a quick review milk would be distributed to the central kitchen and we're talking about small little cases maybe eighty of them they would have to be manually moved to the storage location one by one cuz there even though they're small they're very bulky they would be store there they would take up a lot of space in the central kitchens the drivers would then have to on a daily basis not the drivers one of the staff members would have to load that on the transfer cabinet that product gets moved by a driver that product gets offloaded to the elementary then it gets offloaded to a shelf then it gets offloaded to the serving line by making the small change we reduce all of that and now it gets delivered from directly from the distribute into the refrigerator where students are served from so we are saving and money we're also utilizing our tea more effectively and then in addition to that we switched over to Papa John's replacing Pizza Hut these are Papa John's was the student tasted product through our purchasing co-op and we have we're projecting to save 25,000 for them I think one of the biggest changes that we've been able to make this year is a reduction of additional hours additional hours isn't the umbrella that I'm using here for extra time for overtime and for substitutions an actual person that's hired in as a substitute as you can see we we are projected to save 90 percent of last year's expenditures cost and hours and this in itself could not happen without the hard work of the entire department we're talking about our food service workers want our 3s out there's our leads or managers or supervisors and even our team in the office on a daily basis more so in the beginning we would have ongoing conversations of how can we be as effective continue to provide support and service for our students but not utilizing you know outside resources I think the team has greatly improved took on the challenge we're now those discussions are happening less than last because everyone has an action plan there you know plan B they already know plan C and we were not diminishing the quality of the service for our students that has nothing to do with their presentation but I wanted to address Madam President I we're looking at the seventh slide out of 24 so I and I'm looking at our agenda and we still have another information item and then we have another audit and we have the consent calendar is there any way that we can actually you know amend and be able to pull nine point four nine point five and and be able to to finish after this presentation I I would like to make that request in the ocean I'm so sorry I just because of the fact yeah by the time that she will be done it will be close to 11:00 can I bring something up regarding I agree with you totally and there is a board policy on a 1030 if you know the board policy and what stickable if we want to continue the board that's what the board Park I don't have in front of me but I'm sure dr.
Kaminsky nose and my you should do just so I am fine if I can I think I think your idea is is good to book and if I can point out a couple things that I think you can get you may want to consider so if you move this one we could move it and continue I think on the next meeting is February 4th so we can go ahead it's just info in action and yeah I want to be careful to make sure we have time for that larger conversation okay then what would is it that we can go ahead and pull from here on and be able to leave it a decent time for I know that parents want to stay until the end and I just want to be considerate of their time and did not be here till 12:00 again and employees you you guys have to be here at 7 o'clock so velu oh you mean the cabinet has to be written more right yeah that's what I'm saying so um okay sure so yeah okay so here here's some suggestions and thoughts for you we could share this information with you at the Friday packet yes sent you or you could move it to February 4th if you'd like well why don't we just have I mean it's not it's not going to take well it's not gonna do much long enough it you're going through the best and then so why don't we finish no why don't we let her finish and then approve the consent calendar because it takes one motion right unless we're pulling things are we pulling things then and then let's put everything out put it to the next four and nine point five the rebels those from the study session and just become you know so I'm gonna go ahead and motion I don't wait wait and I let me just ask you a question nine point five is a district audit mark you have the auditors here so why don't we just but why don't we do it at 10:30 when our board policy says that we have to take a vote yes yeah okay so Larry this finish this and then alright sorry continue on scigirls projected savings is all of the information i provided 187,000 for this clear this information in the PowerPoint but it's showing the difference in revenue and expenditures and you can see where that shifted in 1314 we're put on to a spending plan and we we did in that spending we increased staffing and policies and agreements around how to cover for absenteeism and levels of absenteeism continued that it thanks the mature rate one of the challenges is our declining enrollment and that effect on our participation rates so you can see breakfast participation is lower this year we did have one significant change which is we did have a program for second chance breakfast and so there's been kind of a culture shock in folks getting used to not having that program but that program was costing us even more money to offer it then then what is costing us now and with all the extra staffing hours and so it reduced us down to what we were looking at in previous years but it is significant are you gonna talk about breakfast in the classroom now or later on we got our do I ask you are okay all right lunch is as you can see declining in alignment with declining enrollment and so obviously that's a decrease in revenue that we have to plan for and the next piece is looking at labor hours so this is this is how Nutrition Services kind of measures their productivity and so we look at that very last kind of column that's gray it shows meals per labor hour and you look at sites like Longfellow that produce two meals per hour and it's not even produced it is really taking that item that's cold transported warming it and then pushing it out because the central kitchen does most of the prep work so it's very low and so that that is this over staffing issue okay some of our other sites likes Boston that is a large site that also has a very low number showing that we do have a large staff for the meals that are being served so six meals are being served per labor so in terms so what would what's what's like the the target what I've seen for middle schools and high schools is about 25 meals and for Elementary's 35 to 45 it depends on the menu the reason why middle schools and high schools are a little less is that they have a varied options on a daily basis and Elementary is typically have one entree or two on trees but those numbers are all much larger than any of these they are saying yes we are definitely have a lot of hours labor hours or the amount of meals we prepare next is a kind of ongoing trend which is absenteeism so absenteeism is an issue within within the district when somebody's out it requires somebody else to do that work in the past we were paying extra hours to cover for those absences this year we're no longer bringing in substitutes or paying extra hours recovering from within and the majority of the six hours that we have this year are long term where where staff has like for example that Maria has never met they've been out for that long and they're these are folks that have doctor's notes on different types of lead but it affects the department when we have a large number of folks that are and you can see that same trend kind of broken up by group you can even see where we've moved staff from one site to another where things inversed because those same same issues where folks have medical leave that are out and we shifted them to a different site and that issue has continued but you can see how that absenteeism has trended in different school levels and so they're absent ease is a is due to their hold their leave of absence I mean they have a medical no so so what is the percentage of that right now in nutrition services could you just write about it right so what is the percent right so what are the percentages in nutrition services that people are in a medical leave and how many are actually are abusing the their their limited their time so if they're abusing it then we address it we have new language with CSEA that spells out that process and it's followed up so I'm not trying to suggest that this is abuse these are folks that have a note from a doctor or from a medical facility that is the reason why they're out but it does impact the organization and especially the school sites when folks are out for a significant amount and do we have substitutes how many substitutes do we have to be none yes that was a big shift from last year to this what I would like to know is how many employees are you know working them in 1025 what do we do it varies by site I'll get you a sampling right good idea good idea we're talking about yes so so mark I will just add to our future conversations around absences I think we've danced around it but I think there's value in having a conversation about chronic absenteeism across students staff both classified and certificated and administrators so we can have a picture of what that is and maybe the culture that we have currently have in our district around around that so you want to see shows absenteeism by those groups I think I'll defer to you the best way to to lay it out for us to present it but yes I would like to see that I would also like to see how many workmen comp do we have any crew studying in RV being proactive by you know safety and training them and you know so maybe we could prevent that the absenteeism so I shared on a regular basis our work comp updates but that is for the district are you asking for a Nutrition Services Yeah right next is a chance for opportunity the opportunity is breakfast in the classroom and it's something that we've introduced to our labor partners as a potential option this is kind of the cycle of what breakfast in the classroom looks like it looks like this in districts across Southern California I'll save the video maybe you guys can look at it but we went on a tour of El Monte elementary school district and saw how operations happened there there's a video that's included in this so we brought yeah they they offered us to come back and so what this looks like is nutrition services preparing the carts for the classrooms they get lined up a student helper from each classroom come accept that cart brings it to the classroom opens the carts sometimes it's the same student sometimes it's different students and either distribute those to each individual student table in other settings and the students each kind of pick their own out of the cart then a student worker brings the items back and that could be unused items or the on the wrappers or trash or it could be trash was collected in barrels in front of the classrooms different models the Nutrition Services cleans and it's ready for the following day carts for the next day okay 7:34 something like they would in the cafeteria so this actually happens during instructional time yeah so school starts there might be some type of activity to welcome the kids in and then right after that typically is when it happens but it doesn't have to happen that way in high school it could happen later in the day if if that's what the school wanted but it's during instructional time also it takes work and education and then what happened that's it that's a misnomer so what happened to the 13% that don't fall by for free or reduced bait we just give it to them to correct so during the time that the kids have their meals instructions should not stop it should it should continue obviously it will need to be modified instruction I don't think we want Chromebooks out while the kids are drinking juice but it can be the warm-up activity it can be taking taking time to go over a welcoming a question or a problem of the day a time to have the kids also sort items for turning in a discussion period social-emotional check-in so all sorts of options whenever most of these just a cliff I real quick so in doing this it means that breakfast would not be offered before school correct correct so that wouldn't happen and instead all students would have breakfast yes and so a conservative estimate is that we would go from serving 21 percent of our kids breakfast to 90 percent of our kids breakfast which would change that projection on how much currently our breakfast program is costing us about 42,000 a year and we would be able to generate almost $700,000 if we were to offer a program and it just to be clear this would be district-wide implementation which I would not recommend doing instantaneous it needs to be implemented over over time what what organization are you using to implement this so 1819 there was an expenditure of seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars above what the department generated this year with all the savings that we're implementing were we're projecting we could reduce that down to five hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars but if we were to implement breakfast in the classroom the encroachment would go to zero and then they would actually be extra dollars brought into the department so there was a lot of good to come from this one we would not need as many reductions and staffing to or feeding our kids and trying them for the school day three we would not be encroaching on the general fund and then as far as I mean there are some potential negatives as well so what about things like ants or rodents or cleanliness or or the potential for those things so in the districts that we spoke to those are not large issues that they saw I know that they all mentioned they were concerns but they did not see that as a big issue and their implementation but it all comes around making sure that the classroom is cleaned up that we do provide enough labor hours to make sure that the class and the trash is removed that any significant spills are addressed by a custodian and I think it's a perfect opportunity kind of to teach kids responsibility and like you at home you have to but you're you know you're cupping the sink well at school if you do too like that and so these are kind of just a planning of potential next steps and some of the things we've done and we've met with the site principles that we end on implementing a pilot with which was Valley Dale and Sierra we've met with a EA CSEA we went to El Monte and we we met with the ED services team to look at instructional planning time so that we can we can make sure that there's there's ample use of that time and it's not dead time next steps are working with the pilot teachers if we were to implement this and making sure that they understand their role in implementation making a start date looking at menus that would support a low mess environment and communicating out to the community and the parents and then it's about evaluating the success or challenges of that pilot so that we can learn and correct or if we're ready the next step which would be phase one the next group of schools looking on this online this is the almani story which happened to be the same school site that we went to visit so we can look at that or skip it so we're talking about starting a project this this spring this is we're talking much with with board support I would love to be able to pilot this and and give it a go our labor partners are not opposed to a pilot or trying this out so I think it would be a positive thing to try and see if we can implement it many other districts have we just have to just make sure that we communicate to our custodians one of the things that I I think it's great I actually have seen other districts you know implement this and be successful but I think it's really important that our custodians that you know we don't get some back backlash and oh now we're going to clean we're not gonna do extra stuff it's one of those things that needs to you know be reworded within their job description so it's not extra extra time over time and the potential of because if they do something like that then the potential of ants and cockroaches and mice and rodents and sit we have a problem with that so just looking at those logistics that's my only thing moving forward and we can go ahead and just take that in consideration place thank you anything else okay all right that's my direction okay if you want to hear from yeah all right and then give us a rundown that's what I was gonna do oh oh yes yes ma'am madam president okay what would you okay thoughts and considerations yes at this point right now it's 1033 and they just finished so I think we should go directly and to consent calendar your mom I think yeah all right wait a minute okay okay you just said yes about this so I'm making it okay that's what I was thinking I was gonna do it one at a time as far as this goes sorry I'm Margo moving into how do you feel yeah yes yes yes thank you Brett Hey all right so okay Madam President can we please move on to consent calendar I'm table then I quit for 10.5 thank you yes yes before you let me just share that mark can you check with the auditors we have auditors here to talk about your annual audit report and is it something they can do quickly or something any more time on another meeting okay yes thank you I just how does everybody feel about it okay then well since she's here we'll just I most need to you said I don't have to emotion I I don't think we have to just a missing just seeing what everything is do we amend no no so moving 9.4 to our next school board meeting it's just info yes is that yes if I can just add one quick thing this is our January update zoomify school district we do a lot of things to be transparent with our outcome and this is one of those things that not many districts to do a measurement it this presentation is scheduled to launch tomorrow two principals and in 2008 two parents that's what I wanna say just so you to be super transparent that you know that this presentation is scheduled to launch tomorrow over the course of the next month Asia and let me just check with you I throw in terms of timing hours on Monday issues we talked about that so the question I have is if you table until next Monday or Monday before you have to discuss the budget issues so do you want to 4th of February because it's basically information for everybody and I really would like to have them to do that okay so so I think what I mean it's like a this is like process why don't you and the board president figure this out for us I think you know like you just had said earlier you know there was a lot of information and it was jam-packed and we do have a lot of questions in for transparency and I I think it's something that was probably inevitable but one of the things that we are who should be flexible with and I really want to consider this for next time just the information I understand it's an information session but we really need it seems like every time we have an information session we run into like 11 or 12 and write things like that so moving forward please consider that mm-hmm okay so basically we're moving on we have to take a vote on the cabling please all right it's time to vote how do you all feel it doesn't need to go on to our is it doesn't need to be a hand vote let's do a hand the organism coming up here waiting what is the vote we're going to be voting on putting pushing Oh not pushing off but moving the elf L cap to the February 4th meeting our next actual meeting okay all right so we're all consensus all right so okay okay we're moving the on 39.5 consider acceptance of 28 1928 1819 district audit please don't give you the information that is pertinent to the report I trust you have an in front of you you had some questions of your management but I'll turn if you'll turn with me to page two this is the auditor's report and this is basically it outlines the responsibilities for both parties its management's responsibility included in the report and our responsibility as your independent auditors is to provide an opinion as to whether those financial statements are presented fairly if you look at page three there's a paragraph at the top of that page that says in our opinion financial statements presented here tonight based our our audit are fairly stated what that means in common terms it is a clean opinion give you a snapshot opinions expressed in our audit report we have the financial statement opinion where we look over the in district internal control processes procedures and so forth and we do have an unmodified opinion however we did notice we did note two material weaknesses in the financial report and you'll see those in the ensuing pages of the findings one and two the federal awards opinion we are required to look at different programs mostly on a rotation basis but the district receives federal funding child nutrition is one of them special ed is another one title one this year we looked at the child and adult care Food Program and the title one program and I'm happy to report we had no issues with either of those two programs then we also have the state of wards opinion the controller's office requires us to look at several items and you can see that in the actual opinion itself there's quite a bit there's probably like 40 sections of the state controller it requires us to look at and let them know if you have some fight with those programs we do have an unmodified opinion that is a clean opinion we did have one finding relating to the SARC and that it has to do with the facilities inspection tools not matching those are the findings we do have some management comments that relate to bank reconciliations ASB issues those are important enough for us to call to your attention but they don't rise to the level of findings can you please elaborate on that a little further if the bank statements are not configurating with what we're actually stating what exactly does that really mean well the bank reconciliation means that it might not be being done on a regular basis but it is being done so sometimes districts fall behind due to staffing issues rotations but the reconciliation is there and this is in this particular instance it has to do with the revolving cash so it's $25,000 so we're not talking a big dollar item didn't we have that problem last time with um student body funding and so forth what why is it still happening let mark address that for you I mean definitely good to chime in but this is a consistent issue in Holley every district it is a challenging item to control we we entrust the accounting with our school sites and there is a lot of small dollars that come in to ASB and there's a lot of procedure that's required for very very small amounts of transactions and because of that there's rules that are are not always followed perfectly well I don't think we should have to I think we need to fix it I don't think we should just push it aside and say it's okay $15 $1.00 to meant too much for me and it's not that money has gone missing I want to be clear it's that the procedures of accounting for the money on a regular basis are not always being followed so they might skip a review because of absenteeism or because of other issues and so it is something that we bring up we have trainings on a regular basis they are being trained trained on it well I still think there's no excuse for that so what you're saying is app people are being absent on the days that they have to turn this in so is there not a project deadline that they have to meet and be able to to do this beforehand so I mean who is it who is accountable for this who is just who is who's the one overseeing this this is procedure like you know board member Yolanda Pena is saying $1.00 too much so we're looking at budget and we're looking at money we have to be able to be accountable for every dollar we have so can we please look at this and defined accountability responsibility and be able to your standards in other districts that's happening it is probably the most common finding in in every district it's not finding and when I say issue they're like mark is saying there are several requirements or procedures that the Navy has to do and because they work not only with students they work with teachers it's much more challenging to make sure that everybody is on the same page but what is the principal accountable for their employee to make sure that it's right they are ultimately the principals are responsible for overseeing their ASB clerk which is managing the funds and but a lot of its procedural stuff and it's and it's order of operation of how things get approved a good example would be I raised ten thousand there's a hypothetical I raise ten thousand dollars for my kids to purchase shirts for an event I raised the money and I gave it to ASB over at the at the end of the school year ASB doesn't meet to vote and then I want to buy my shirts for the beginning of the year and I I have to get a hold of that money ASB didn't vote and because of that if that was reviewed that wouldn't be proper procedure because ASB did not approve that expenditure first and so those are examples of typical findings because procedure was not followed and I get that I get all that what is an employee that is your job and I think that person should do their job right I don't think we should have to I mean small or big I don't think that they should be you know making us look bad by just not calling procedure that's what it is calling procedure isn't that part of it and review then part of what it is valuation it definitely is but so then our option is to have the kids come in over the summer to vote which is probably very difficult to do or the kids go without the shirts in my scenario well right the first time you don't have to be coming in the summer I'm doing all that yeah think we need to be more proactive and we know sticker on it because we had the situation before okay the next one I do have another audit report it's the measure okay your bond audit report so that report is broken out into session financial report the financial section report and then the performance audit the financial section mirrors the district's auto report and again and that in that report there is a clean opinion we had no issues and how the district was spending the major key money in the performance report and it's more of a performance as to how the district is spending the money in relation to the ballot measure not necessarily how the district is doing on a certain project called that performance of that project is happening but rather we said we were going to spend it on the project a b c and d and we look at it whether you said yes you spent it on a b c and d and if you turn to page 3 of that report you'll see that we looked at 8.9 million dollars and which represents 79% of the 11 million that the district spent in measure k money and i'm happy to report that we had no issues with those expenditures that were reviewed ID do we have a copy of this on the agenda I'm the only one I see a thing is that is the first well I'm not gonna vote to accept I mean I haven't even read it I agree I never had a copy on top to let my past but so but I can't see that was your presentation on that right so maybe we can just vote on that next time and I make a motion to approve the just the 2018-19 district audit and the discussion is you will go ahead and provide that you're done right so we can move on with them oh you had one more thing okay is standards require us to communicate directly with those of you that are charged with governance and you'll see that in the audit report there's a separate letter that strictly addressed to you and there are only two items in this letter that would not necessarily be identified in the audit and that is whether we had any disagreements with management or any difficulties encountered during the audit and I'm happy to report we had night thank you thank you thank you so we motioned Jerry and I already bought it oh yeah okay huh did you log out and log back in all right let's do a verbal okay remember to name Cruz Gonzales Cardmember Ariana yeah board member Greer yes board member or Guidry is pinion yes yes and I vote yes so that passes for 5-0 and we are moving on to the consent calendar ten by Jim point one all right I'll add about that all matters listed under the consent calendar are considered by the board to be routine and will be enacted by the board in one motion in the format following the last consent under agenda item there will be no discussion of these items prior to the time on the time the board staff or the public requests specific items to be discussed if discussion is requested by a board member that item will be removed from the consent calendar and will be considered separately the superintendent and staff recommend approval of all consent out consent calendar agenda items all right do we have a motion to approve second oh okay or you'd like to pull an item actually we were just looking for the particular item sorry [Music] where are the items on the consent calendar each each time we meet is the personnel report tonight that's item 10.5 and on that one list extra hours extra duty new hires emotions etc and separations of people resigned to retire in the district and tonight we know that the appointment of Alexis Norman as the director of classified personnel and I'd like to share with you a bit about her she has extensive background and in our relation was a sy principal and wife as she's done with other other folks and also has a doctor for ESA and leadership and has also complainant the access personnel Academy which is a young sense of communities and workshops and that ease with personal people throughout the area and she brings canvas and the mandate to work well with people as well as to help us particularly move forward with evaluations and you know they myself reshape the district's interest in making sure nice certificated personnel with the resources they need as well as classified personnel I don't want to let anybody out and her ability to work with people and training them she's doing extensive professional development and it's my other things that classified think that we receive from classified people development I think we've got somebody here who brings the the knowledge of HR human resources the experience of establishing person working relationships in multiple different areas also the professional development that most people have asked for support with shall we just a hand oh all righty board member Pena yeah board member Grier yes board member Ariana's and board member thank you and I guess and with that that closes the meeting at 10:55 or so
22nd 2020 Planning Commission meeting will begin the meeting with a roll call good evening commissioners commissioner woods commissioner briggs commissioner mills commissioner Milstein here commissioner give Randall Commissioner Ackerman Commissioner sauvé here commissioner aprons here commissioner hammerschmidt we do have a quorum of 6 members however I would note that based on bylaws it would take a unanimous decision to affirmatively advance any petitions this evening do we have any introductions this evening joining us later will be Deb Gosselin of the system's planning unit will be regaling you with all of the Wanderers of the capital improvement plan welcome we look forward to that do you have a commissioner who move the agenda move by Commissioner Sauve seconded by Commissioner hammerschmidt any changes to the agenda all those in favor please say aye aye opposed it is approved minutes from previous meetings before us we have the January 7 2020 meeting sure move those move by Commissioner Gabrielle seconded by Commissioner Mills any discussion or changes on the minutes all those in favor please say aye opposed they are approved we move on to reports from city administration City Council Planning Manager Planning Commission officers and committees written communications and petitions item 6a City Council Commissioner Ackerman is not here this evening so we will move on to mr.
just pin your kid and adam's trying to get him to his back as he does getting back points and ladies and gentlemen that's our first pin of the night adam hassan with a pin victory at 106. mustangs take the lead 6-0 and next up for clifton we have abdul al sayed wrestling off 113 pounds test one two one two [Music] [Applause] [Music] test one two [Music] test one sir test one two good job [Music] test one two test one two all right [Applause] test one two test tests [Music] test one two are we live [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we have abdullah al-assadi wrestling off yeah here cosmi from kennedy [Music] and tangled up abdul takes the shot [Applause] and that's the end of the first period and kennedy kennedy chooses to go on the bottom as abdul will work from the top and abdul keeps him down as he tries to get him to his back [Applause] as he tries to get him to his back dual working kennedy wrestler abdul tries to get the half in unsuccessful that time [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] if it goes yellow if it goes over that bar you're speaking too loud okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] trying to get the kennedy wrestler to his back [Applause] and red cheese is the bottom as clifton will work from the top as we have a pause in the match as clifton's trying to settle their head gear issues and we have the wrath stretching and resume the match as kennedy starts on the bottom and clifton will work from the top as a kennedy wrestler he's not giving up and he gets a point from escaping this is a 2-2 tie right now and that's the end of the second period ladies and gentlemen it's 2-2 right now as clifton will take the bottom and kennedy wrestler will work from the top down [Applause] oh wow what a reverse what a great move from the clifton wrestler [Music] clifton takes the shot [Applause] as he gets he gets the successful takedown and he's trying to get him to his back he's fighting to put him in the half and he has him as kennedy kennedy wrestlers trying to bridge bridge out of this clifton still fighting for the pinfall and we have another pin ladies and gentlemen abdullah sayidi wins at 113 clifton leads 12-0 [Music] [Applause] tell rob to open his phone [Music] and now for clifton at 120 we have carlos sierra wrestling for the clifton mustangs [Music] they have andrew enriquez wrestling at the weight class of 120 pounds and both wrestlers are tangled up right now [Music] and clifton's wrestler takes him down no points yet giving in we got two points for the takedown as he's trying to work that ankle and [Applause] kennedy's trying to fight out of it an unsuccessful attempt he's trying to get the cradle clifton is trying to get the cradle on the kennedy wrestler still trying to get that cradle going and he he got the cradle we get two pack points and kennedy trying to wrestle out of this cradle as we have another pin in the first period carlos sierra 120 pounds taken down kennedy's andrew enriquez and clifton goes up 18-0 now for clifton we have omar ali senior captain going out to wrestle for kennedy's 126 jeffrey ureta now wrestling at 126 pounds from kennedy jeffrey urrita from clifton omar ali 126 pounds and omar takes an early shot and he gets him down for two points working that back and he's [Music] and he got the cradle and got him on his back and that's another pin from the senior captain from clifton and clifton takes another victory as they go up 24-0 clifton and now at the 132 weight class we have from clifton adam kita going against xavier correas [Music] [Applause] [Music] and the rest of the shakens and the match begins and wrestlers are tangled off and kennedy takes a shot unsuccessful kennedy's trying to get the take down and he got two points as he gets a successful takedown on the clifton wrestler kennedy's trying to work the ankle on the clifton right here [Music] and clifton trying to fight out of the takedown another unsuccessful attempt and clifton gets a point [Applause] and kennedy takes another shot [Music] [Applause] and clifton reverses it and gets two points out of that [Music] and at the end of the first period we have clifton 3 kennedy 2.
everyone and welcome to our Dysart school board meeting we'll call the meeting to order and go ahead and start out with the Pledge of Allegiance thank you and let the record reflect that all board members are present we'll go ahead and move to agenda form the approval of the agenda form I motion to approve the agenda form form consistent with governing board policy and temporary suspend any policy with which the agenda may be inconsistent second motion made by Jay and Leonard seconded by mr. Pritchard motion passes all right we will go ahead and move on to recognitions and celebrations we'll go to the choir performance dr. Kellis Thank You mr. president members of the board and members of cabinet this evening we're very pleased to welcome our extraordinary student talent from Marley Park under the direction of Miss Laurel ruff who will lead the marley park choir so we'll turn it over to you miss Roth [Music] there are times when my feeling less can't see the places where you belong but you will find that there is a purpose it's been there within you all along and when you're near it you can almost hear it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh let you feel the notes bill [Music] you will see it's like a symphony just keep listening and pretty soon you'll start to figure out your part [Music] [Applause] Ms Ralph that was absolutely amazing students you were extraordinary we appreciate the talent that you share parents you should be very proud of what's happening here and as a as a district we certainly are very very proud of the talent that you presented thank you so much [Applause] definitely well done and we appreciate you coming out excellent recovery from the first soloist it's always a little tough to recover when there's a little microphone malfunction so well done on that as well all right we'll go ahead and move to C 2 which is the College Board AP District Honor Roll of work dr.
good 1b go today isn't January 24th 2020 it is the 95th day of school this is whe news I am Angie and I named me today for lunch there will be animal shaped chicken nuggets and roasted potato wedges bean salad ice cream cup apricots and note to multiple facility mini bagels yogic tails apple juice and milk we have some friends celebrating birthdays celebrating birthdays this weekend Gianna are far too far to Mara and Jasmine Jasmine P Kira of Linea a and Sofia se go to please come to the office to pick out your birthday yesterday when that question was what boy has a quarterback the influent football the winner is Cooper three hopefully coming to the office to pick out your prize today's fun fact question is what is the mascot for chick-fil-a when the weight is and helium blue you name in class we have a special announcement are you looking for something to do after school on a Friday well Friday night out is the place to come please join us for an afternoon of snacks games and friends on Friday January 31st from 3:30 to 5 o'clock this is not something you are going to want to miss out on and now I know I live of me feel decided to settle anticipated activities of the day please stand for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible can't justice girl Rachel Maddow lead us in the big house start pledge I pledge to me i'ma show you a bhr whether at school or travel for whether I'm at school or a job oh I pledge to be safe in every way every way take responsibility during work at please take responsibility or anyone can play I will be respectful and all I do I will be resentful and all I do and be a star the whole way to MPs over the whole days we'll have a fantastic party remember if you can't think of anything nice to say you're not thinking hard enough thanks for watching bye