Um and then the other thing I will say from the staff perspective uh is that I have heard um from Aaron Donnelly uh that our planning department is uh willing to attend uh the meeting in May uh to have more discussions with you around this um uh uh proposal uh and the comprehensive plan. Um so just wanted to make that offer note. Thank you. Commissioner Murski. Yeah. Very briefly, um, it would be great if maybe someone from the planning department would be willing to meet with the biodiversity uh, uh, working group before the May meeting. I think it might be more productive if we did that. Same thing with uh, OSI so that when we bring something to the second reading that we've already hopefully clarified a lot of the issues. Um, in terms of specific actions, um, Sean, thank you for sharing your thought with us earlier this afternoon in that regard.
What's the max in for any house or for the ADU? Well, this ADU there's no restriction on the amount of rooms like you it could be a single big studio space, right? You don't have to like a very modern layout without any rooms. You might want one for the bathroom. Um or it can be divided into many rooms as long as those as long as those rooms would meet the state building code. How many bedrooms in this? There's no limit on the amount the amount of bedrooms isn't given. So that's not it. That's up to the um that's up to the the owner who builds it. And um yeah, really up to the owner who builds it. So it's up to the developer to say from there how much how many rooms are going to be in once he makes it when he makes that one house in frame.
we're able to cover a lot of our sub postings and positions with our daily subs and some of our daily subs do have um bachelor's degrees at least. So, we're we do put those people into the classrooms to cover the longer sub positions. And what is their uh how many hours do they are they teachers hours? Yes. Yeah. Yes. That's what seven seven I think are they make seven hours or Yeah, they do a seven hour day. Seven hour day. Is the increased rate already accounted for in our proposed budget for next year? Mhm. Yes. When did we go to uh like we had a service before co was well we started right around the co time. It's been a huge improvement. Yeah. we couldn't so we have a continuity of subs so that people are familiar with the building they never fully staff different people never been before so when a sub we have now or daily sub is not in a specific classroom we have they have things where they'll go into the math classroom with a small group of students so they're never just not working so they in for a teacher who's out or they have other tasks that so are they treated as contract employees or do you treated as temporary employees?
deputy city manager for the city of San Jose and also my assistant principal uh superintendent I'm sorry not a principal uh Terresa Dels's director of uh Ed Variel and chief of communications and community engagement Serio Diaz Luna uh together we discussed uh the MAXA Sinclair uh building's legacy as a vital community hub that once provided life-changing services to alum youth and families The collective is is respectfully requesting two to three months to continue working in partnership with the office to develop with my office to develop a joint operational plan and long-term ground lease. This proposal would be designed to serve both ARUSD students and the broader community and it would directly address the four questions outlined by the board. The intent is to have them return with a comprehensive proposal for your consideration within that time frame or for or at a future board meeting determined by the board.
Good evening everyone. Um I will say my name up there's a typo but no worries. Mine it happens to the best of us. I know even all it's been a long year. Don't worry. But let me formally reintroduce myself. My name is Ailen Ramirez Ruiz. I am Magnolia High School student ambassador and for the past let's see six years. I have been a student in the of the Anaheim Union High School District. I went to Dell Junior High School and my now I but I graduated from Magnolia High School. And in these past six years, I've never fully appreciated how much our district puts an emphasis on student voice and agency. Uh this is my second year being a part of the LCAP process and I can say that both years I have never felt more heard when it came to my opinions. Especially sitting, you know, elbowto elbow with district officials, teachers, administrators, and other community members.
Um, I haven't given this a whole lot of thought, but one area that I thought that potentially um could be included as a as an action is um to reduce um the number of in space of of invasive species, particularly trees, buckthornne, and honeysuckle. Um, I walked through a natural area that is actually a a private preserve. Um, it is just south of the DAO field in um the arboritum um between Riverview and I forget the name of the other street. Um and um I uh happened upon the person that was maintaining the area and um he had just removed um a um a large number of invasive trees um from a section of that area. And he said what was so striking to him was that there were essentially no uh there was no understory. There were um no wild flowers. there were no progeny of the large trees in that area because the invasive species are so dense that nothing basically survives underneath them.
How many rooms are going to be the developer has the right to say how many how many rooms will be in the in the found in the frame foundation in his site plan in his inside interior plan. Right. That is that is not up to that is not regulated by the bylaw or or by the state about how many rooms there are. Okay. Is just the the building code and the sanitary code is that that you would apply. Right. As long as it as long as what is being proposed adheres to the the building code. Right. Right. And and other state codes. Right. it um but it's not necessarily divided into rooms. So as a non-experienced person just a regular citizen I did tiptoe around it and thank you K for bringing that up. Protected use of ADU attached and detached ADU that is located is a proposed or be located on a single family residential zone in district and is protected by the mass general law 488.3 provided that only one ATU may qualify as protected.
But if they're here, I mean, does the is the IRS okay with that if we're uh paying them to be here every day and requiring them to be? Well, we have to offer them now. We do have to offer them um the ability to buy into the insurance. So, that's changed a little bit. So, we are doing that. So that I think that kind of softens it a little bit and and makes it okay to do. Before there were no benefits associated with it, but now we are um they we are obligated to offer them they can buy into pay into the insurance. What is the process to become a daily? Do they have to interview? Is it like a position that we interview for? Yes, it is. Yeah, we do a regular interview for it and we want to make sure it's a good match and you know, we certainly we like when people have a bachelor's degree.
And so that's the update that I have for you. Uh I'll turn it over to you, Madam President, or uh any discussion by the trustees? So um as um chair of the committee that u has jurisdiction over this I I want to thank uh safer for the and the coalition that came together uh for putting forward a plan. Um I I read the letter that you provided and I think it's as I stated to some of your some of the leadership that I spoke to and think it's moving in the right direction and so uh I appreciate that. Um, and so at this point, I'd like to hear from my colleagues as to what your thoughts are with regard to um the uh plan that's that's been proposed. And so to kind of get a better sense as to where we're at because it's a pretty big decision.
I have never felt more heard and more encouraged to be there. When I looked across their faces, I used to feel like worried and scared. I was like, "Well, I'm just a little 11th grader. They're not going to listen to me." But they did. And it's the LCAT process has hold a lot has held a lot of truth, especially in this past year. At Magnolia High School, uh we have recently started implementing a new program called Neutral Ground, which aims to help connect with students at the margins who may be facing different difficulties. And as I was reading through the LCAP packets on the first and second meetings, I realized how true all of those statements were and how much these programs that are funded actually affect all of our high school students. And as I will now graduate high school, I can only hope that more students will step up and be a part of these LCAP processes because it is their voice that guides them.
And indeed that was exactly the case with my backyard when I bought my house. It's the currently still the case with my neighbor's yard. And you've got a couple of large old m old mature trees and then you have a canopy that is about 30 ft high that is extremely dense that is buckthornne and honeysuckle. So that is an area where I think um this is just one possible action that we could take. I know that NAP is doing some invasive um species control with uh control burns um in Parklands, but this is something that really needs to be done um on a broader scale and this is just one possible example of something that we could talk about. So I think um to your point Sean, you have an excellent point and I think with some back and forth and some brainstorming between now and our main meeting, we could come up with some some potential ideas for that.
What happens if there's a An extended room garage. What do you mean by an extended room or garage? Okay. Uh attach or detach ADU that is located. What does detach mean? A detached unit would mean that it's it sits apart separately from the ex from the house. It has its own building envelope. Could be a garage, could be a porch, it could be anything that's away from the frame of the main house, right? That's what detach means. That's what this protected use is for ADU. Uh the requirements, no exterior size, no. Um disposal of sewage adequate procision be made by plant water. Who's paying for that? the town or developer in the disposal of sewage. So the an ADU would operate the same way as a single family house does. So it would be the in in a sense there's not a developer would be the owner of the house.
Um, so we're interviewing for these positions. They have regular hours and I mean, how how would those not normal positions? We don't pay them through our payroll. They get paid through payroll. Okay. Well, I would imagine they get paid through Yeah. through payroll. They do cards. They do time cards and potentially 1099 employees. Oh, okay. Okay. That's what I was thinking it was. Thank you. Not sure about the 109. No, they're not contractors. They're they're paid through payroll. So, and they're eligible for benefits and right. They can pay into the insurance. Yes. And they have now that we have CT paid sick leave, they're entitled to CT CT paid sick leave hours as well. and they come in every day. They they can't just say, "No, I don't feel like coming in today." No, they're here for Yeah. And we have some who have just opted to do maybe three days a week.
I uh I've heard the concerns and the comments that have been raised by uh community members. I also want to make sure that we're aware I think you are uh that u we have a lot of folks, a lot of people coming at us with needs and our priority is our students. That's what we're here for. That's what we're intended. Uh that's what we were created and that's what we have to do. If we fail that and we failed as a district and we should not be here. All right. Um and the Moxa is an important thing. It's an important asset. It's something that's personal to me, family members, uh myself who visited uh the center and uh benefited from the center. However, the priority for the district is our students, our schools, and providing a dignified and quality education to our kids. Unfortunately, because of our financial crisis, we are now seeing that we're going to still commit be committed to providing a quality and dignified education.
You know, our teachers, like Maya mentioned, our teachers and our district officials, they got their degrees, they graduated, they, you know, they're going to the world of career like of different careers prepared. and it is clear that they want the same for their students. So, thank you guys. Sorry about that title. Thank you so much. These are truly amazing students and I feel like they do represent the voice of other students um who are not here with us tonight. So, thank you for doing this for us so that we can hear from you. Um Jose Sana is next. Laera High School student ambassador, senior.
Thanks. Yeah, Sean, I just want to echo what John Murki said. U we'll be better off having smaller meetings with biodiversity with one with planning and one with OSI because I don't want to drag this past May. We should in the May meeting, we want to vote on something. And if we have planning coming in May, then you're talking June. We might not have a an environmental commission in June. It's, you know, or that'll be our last meeting. So, we want to get this done sooner than that. Um, and just as far as invasive species go, because I do a lot of that work for NAP, is when the soil when you have woody invasives or any invasives for an extended period of time, the biggest problem is the soil is damaged and it will come back. If it takes if the woodies were there for 20 to 30 years, you're probably talking 20 to 30 years to get the soil to come back unless we start doing plantings or other amendments to the soil.
So there would be like a sep you could have you would have a builder obviously someone that would come and build it but the owner of the house would be the one who paying they would be paying Ashland sewer rates as for disposable costs. Yeah they would if they're using the Ashland sewer they would pay ADU would pay and the single family home. Yes. I'm actually do I'm actually pretty good here now. Last one 7.6.8 nonconformities. If an attached ADU is proposed by a pre-existing non-conform family primary residence requirements of section 8.3 of the zoning by those shall apply provided that it's an event where special permit is required. No special permit may consider the ATU or an imposed condition on such use. Why is that last sentence there if the zoning by law is going to apply? Um, I think I understand your question.
They can't commit to five. So, we try to balance that with somebody who maybe wants to do the other two days a week. But if we get somebody who's really good, um we'll take them for the three days if they can commit to that. We made it work. Five people. Sometimes it is a day for a bit. Sometimes there's a period there's a lot of turnover for two months trying to get hired right now. Have they ever transitioned into a full-time employee? And we've offered a few people positions as like as paras to see if they wanted to switch from a daily sub to a parah because um they've worked out really well and we thought it would be a good match and that they would be getting full benefits. And some have opted to do that and others have said, "No, I want to stay doing what I'm doing." Just wonder if it was a good feeder program.
It's still going to happen, but it's becoming more challenging and more challenging and more challenging. We see our kids in the special ed program that are being looked at as if they are the ones who are taking the resources and things are having to be adjusted and that's sometimes very painful for me to see. Uh, and I don't blame anybody. It's the what I what I do blame is this uh this crappy model that's been put in place that allows uh certain communities to have no resources and others to have too many resources. It's not right. It's wrong. But that's what we are dealing with. That's what the situation we're faced with. And so at this point, Superintendent, how much more do we still have to come up with in order to not be taken over by the state in after three years from now?
Good evening everyone. My name is Jose Salana. I'm a student ambassador at Laura High School. I'm a senior and a student ambassador. When I started high school, I was a student. I didn't know any English on my first year. Every day was very hard. I didn't understand any of my classes or any of my homework. I remember looking at the assignment and I don't have idea how to do it or how understand it. But my bilingual I helped me help me a lot. She explained me everything um helped me to survive my first year. Now that I have part of the ALA process, I know that's a thank for this recommendation that I've was able to have the support and I'm thankful because all all of me to be here today speaking to you. It was in regular to re realize students can be a can have a real voice in the decision that shape our schools.