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Stewart and mr. president mr. Lutz we're sticking with the Dell laptops this is a more business bring end of laptop then we purchased the last time the laptops we purchased you know over three years ago now were more of a consumer type laptop like you'd find out while more than that and they are just quite literally falling apart so the laptops that we're choosing now are more business laptop there's more metal in them as opposed to plastic cases they have the integrated webcam and and all that other stuff one of the key things that we're doing now is we're putting solid-state drives in our new computers and that sounds fancy now but what it means is instead of waiting two and a half three minutes for your computer to start up it starts up in 20 or 30 seconds when you launch Microsoft Word or Internet Explorer instead of wing be 20 30 seconds for the program to launch it launches in just a few seconds we felt that the few extra dollars at that cost us pays off big time when are realistically expecting our computers to last five years four years in the hands of a teacher and then get repurposed back into the classroom for another three to five years you know we really expect a lot from our technology I kind of joked with some of our vendors that you know if we don't get 15 years out of it we just feel like we got ripped off so we're really trying to stick with the device that's gonna be here for the long haul but it is a Dell computer it's got a good modern processor in it a solid-state drive we put eight gigabytes of RAM and that we kind of felt that was a little light but it does have expansion so down the road if we determine we need more RAM we could just add that in with a single chip add-on it's not going to eat go out and buy a whole new laptop and we're expecting them to be a lot more durable than the last round of purchases that we have and then mr.

Stewart item to our preschool program is [Music] one of our important programs in our district and Coyote Canyon we have a designated focus on this James for me please and I did sand I sent a team out to the board members so for those of you looking good there we go that's true okay I'm sorry I didn't have this prepared before today it was just one of those things that I didn't think about so we have a program at higher bohemian it's down here the 700 building which is at the back of campus and it's a it's a good playground there's not a problem one thing next to it is right at one point was a kindergarten playground and also has a fence a little bit the and the gate for this one is right here and the gates are this one is right here now that we only have preschool on that campus and we wanted them have to be able to play the free premium would be nice to have the use of both of those both of those programs the other thing is that there was a piece of equipment for a preschool swing set that had been purchased for sunrise school that was never installed because there was no place to put it no agreeing to put it but he had a safety safe ground cover so he only did the piece of equipment he was never installed it's just then alright and the very one we've moved it to coyote and would like to put it in there's no space over here in the hip and current preschool playground there is space in the kindergarten playground to put it there is also a piece of equipment in that playground that is not suitable and now safe for preschoolers so what we would like to do and this and both of these playgrounds are surrounded by a chain ring by chain link lenses we would like to put just a short piece of fence defense on this inappropriate piece of the Whitman installed the new equipment and then put these here so the students are the teachers people back and forth directly between the two programs as opposed to going around and so we think that we can get this accomplished before the end of this month if we get right on it so that would be the next the next capital item and I made a guess at about $15,000 for the fencing and the installation of the equipment is that something you're gonna send out for bid or is it something to get quotes can we have good resources and local sources for this so we think we could do that fairly quickly and and you know I made a guess of 15,000 it's just a guess it might be a little more than that we've kind of saved someone our laptop so maybe I would be ok with it going a little over there but we could keep we would keep it as low as possible and any portion of this that could not be done by the end of this month we would we would then do on the new budget any other questions about the playground and fencing I have a question the equipment that we're partitioning off that's better just to leave it there then with a more costly trimmer I don't think it would be more costly to remove but at some point we might want to use it you know this Toyota might not always be just a preschool and once you remove the equipment you essentially ruin it for future use because it's it's this is like a it's not exactly a jungle gym but it's kind of like that and it's too high for the preschoolers you know goes too high or not come clean if we in the lakes are set in concrete so essentially we would have to saw it along and then if you reinstalled it then it's gonna be low and not usable again that is an option if you prefer to do that the sense but it just struck me that that would be kind of a waste of that equipment okay thank you I guess I'm I'm thinking like if if we're going into these phases and kids aren't going to be playing on equipment we're gonna have to be washing it down anyways is this necessarily a priority for us to be working on right now for us to keep our licensure as a preschool we have to have playgrounds and part of the reason for expanding is so that we don't have as many kids in the same place at the same time as we would just with the one small playground okay so in this case we would have to figure out how to do the sanitizing and the disinfecting we do not want to lose our licenses as a preschool okay thank you for clarifying there's no particular funding for capital things for preschool quite a bit in fact almost all of our preschool program is paid with grants they pay for transportation and no capital is all that good they don't pay transfer you know they paid they paid salaries by very long thing well yes they are dug and but the other part we have to say in relationship to that is is that we would be required to have the program for the preschool handicapped children and and we yes and we do those students are in fact challenging in our our ADM for ever no budget yeah any other questions hey dr.

president the other plan is that instead of going four or five years and then requesting all of them again is that we would start a replacement program we probably would wait until at the end of the second year to replace a third of them for the next year and then the third after that and as we replace them then they the ones that we are replacing come back into our inventory to be used by students and used in other situations but we don't want to be faced with this situation again in three or four years where we have to have the huge capital outlay to replace all the time I like that plan any other comments or questions and so these are brand-new computers that we're purchasing yes yes thank you for that question we're not doing renewed computers these are brand-new never been used okay thank you well the teachers be able to keep their current laptops in the classroom as an extra one for students or will they be turned back in we haven't even discussed that we kind of talked about that they could become part of our pool to check out to students you know if we're needing to check them out for our use and online learning but that certainly could be in the next gene okay the issue will be how many of them are suitable to still use well they're probably more suitable than the Chromebooks that are missing half their keys the hinges are broke and they don't work also some of yours later would be able to during these days and their professional use well I'm sorry that you broke up brandy so I didn't get that I think she was asking it was maybe the pair of professionals get the teacher laptops to be able to use BT the older ones the brand-new ones they're ones that are still in good shape I don't I can't have him think of a reason that they need them but that certainly could be in the mix though the title teachers do okay Jim's filling me in a little bit on that so any any of those things that will be useful use of them we would certainly consider doing any other questions about the technology dr.

Stewart transportation they're all part one okay sorry okay the transportation as I reported to you last month we had because we paid off the loans for the VW settlement that we and then we actually had some money left in there in that account and so I was going to request that we consider a box truck for the warehouse however in investigating pasa the availability of used vehicles right now and usually with our usual vendors there's nothing anywhere close to the amount of money that that I had put in the budget for that they're all much higher or they're unsuitable trucks so at this point I would wouldn't draw that request for the time being the truck that was ours from that ABM hand we have no idea where that is that's long gone I have no idea I mean it was we don't have we don't have a box truck that was they had their box truck that they purchased and then they tried to sell it to us or offered I'm sorry trying to you is not a nice way to say that they did offer it to us when we took the warehouse position back and you as a board decided that that was not a good option right now we have only two box trucks that we use for our food delivery and I think we've had three at one time kind of a mess yeah I'm sure that the I'm sure I see the the truck that ABM was using I see it sitting up at like the high school district by the bus yard and they gave us a price that's in our price range but unless we had it inspected and made sure that it had in fact been getting its it's scheduled maintenance and those kinds of things I would not want to recommend that right at this time what's the mechanic think he hasn't had the opportunity to go over it and because it was an ABM truck we had nothing to do with the maintenance the regular maintenance or anything taking German out the top of my head I think it was around 15 to 16 thousand I don't think it was exorbitant certainly less than the ones that were looking at from from our usual vendors right now and I could certainly see if ABM would let them take a look and evaluate it and look at the maintenance record I would like to see its proceed that way if the truck is in good shape you know it might be a decent purchase orders okay I can certainly do that do you want me just to check on price or do you want to proceed with giving me a dollar a maximum dollar amount how do you want to do that I say well yeah I think okay okay I just wanted to be sure that I understood completely your door did we have any other questions on transportation okay then I would make a motion that we approve items four point nine one four point nine two there should be four point eight sorry yeah four point eight one four point eight two the technology and playground equipment for Coyote Canyon with the technology not to exceed one hundred ninety thousand and the fencing not to exceed 15,000 I second that and just to be clear that's the fencing and the installation of the swingset yes just a fencing yes a fencing and insulation women 15,000 Cory heard this I Brandi do why I stood Ybor limb I know I'm four point nine consideration of a future presentation by H Schneider Electric as I've reported to all in the in the past Schrader Electric offered and came and did an audit Doug I did follow-up I've spoken with the person at any C and sent him a copy of this and he was going to get back to me with any information any C does not do energy audits however they will look over these kinds of documents and tell us what they think about what they're offering to us at this time I'm not asking for any decision relative to it but I'm asking if you would like to if you would consider having the full presentation from the folks from Schneider Electric I motion to discuss I'll make a motion say aye dr.

Stewart item to our preschool program is [Music] one of our important programs in our district and Coyote Canyon we have a designated focus on this James for me please and I did sand I sent a team out to the board members so for those of you looking good there we go that's true okay I'm sorry I didn't have this prepared before today it was just one of those things that I didn't think about so we have a program at higher bohemian it's down here the 700 building which is at the back of campus and it's a it's a good playground there's not a problem one thing next to it is right at one point was a kindergarten playground and also has a fence a little bit the and the gate for this one is right here and the gates are this one is right here now that we only have preschool on that campus and we wanted them have to be able to play the free premium would be nice to have the use of both of those both of those programs the other thing is that there was a piece of equipment for a preschool swing set that had been purchased for sunrise school that was never installed because there was no place to put it no agreeing to put it but he had a safety safe ground cover so he only did the piece of equipment he was never installed it's just then alright and the very one we've moved it to coyote and would like to put it in there's no space over here in the hip and current preschool playground there is space in the kindergarten playground to put it there is also a piece of equipment in that playground that is not suitable and now safe for preschoolers so what we would like to do and this and both of these playgrounds are surrounded by a chain ring by chain link lenses we would like to put just a short piece of fence defense on this inappropriate piece of the Whitman installed the new equipment and then put these here so the students are the teachers people back and forth directly between the two programs as opposed to going around and so we think that we can get this accomplished before the end of this month if we get right on it so that would be the next the next capital item and I made a guess at about $15,000 for the fencing and the installation of the equipment is that something you're gonna send out for bid or is it something to get quotes can we have good resources and local sources for this so we think we could do that fairly quickly and and you know I made a guess of 15,000 it's just a guess it might be a little more than that we've kind of saved someone our laptop so maybe I would be ok with it going a little over there but we could keep we would keep it as low as possible and any portion of this that could not be done by the end of this month we would we would then do on the new budget any other questions about the playground and fencing I have a question the equipment that we're partitioning off that's better just to leave it there then with a more costly trimmer I don't think it would be more costly to remove but at some point we might want to use it you know this Toyota might not always be just a preschool and once you remove the equipment you essentially ruin it for future use because it's it's this is like a it's not exactly a jungle gym but it's kind of like that and it's too high for the preschoolers you know goes too high or not come clean if we in the lakes are set in concrete so essentially we would have to saw it along and then if you reinstalled it then it's gonna be low and not usable again that is an option if you prefer to do that the sense but it just struck me that that would be kind of a waste of that equipment okay thank you I guess I'm I'm thinking like if if we're going into these phases and kids aren't going to be playing on equipment we're gonna have to be washing it down anyways is this necessarily a priority for us to be working on right now for us to keep our licensure as a preschool we have to have playgrounds and part of the reason for expanding is so that we don't have as many kids in the same place at the same time as we would just with the one small playground okay so in this case we would have to figure out how to do the sanitizing and the disinfecting we do not want to lose our licenses as a preschool okay thank you for clarifying there's no particular funding for capital things for preschool quite a bit in fact almost all of our preschool program is paid with grants they pay for transportation and no capital is all that good they don't pay transfer you know they paid they paid salaries by very long thing well yes they are dug and but the other part we have to say in relationship to that is is that we would be required to have the program for the preschool handicapped children and and we yes and we do those students are in fact challenging in our our ADM for ever no budget yeah any other questions hey dr.

Stuart water relief budgeting right now for our current energy program oh my goodness in life on my desk and I thought when there's a fire efficient under electric could you bring me necklace here I chose a million dollars I know that our electricity is just short of 400 thousand dollars a year and of course that's our most expensive one I know we're paying 100 twenty thousand dollars a year to pay it off and I know that it goes on for a period of time another eight or nine years and I totally understand how the district and the board feels that they got burned on that deal so I understand your skepticism and and all of that and I wasn't aware of some of that when I started the conversations with Schneider so yeah that's very irritating to me as I'm sure it is to you that we continue to be paying on something and are not necessarily seeing any of the other benefits and I don't even know what the other benefits were or the other things that were offered at that time from that company so you know I just don't know you know and other than I know what we're paying like this somebody's gonna have to make some money nobody does this for nothing the I would like to see that get cleared away and I would also like to see us consider some of these funds for upgrading some of our parking lots not all of them at one time because I realize that expensive but if we take one or two parking lots and address them each year for a period of time because they're terrible I hate to drive out of myself but the other thing I didn't notice in looking through Schneider's proposal and I would be interested maybe see looking at it - what do bird required three three proposals they didn't go on one okay and we certainly can do that there's there's a difference between those approaches we can either take the procurement approach in which case we would need three or the contract approach which is the basis on which I had been talking with Schneider all along but at this point however we proceed is is at your pleasure as a board I personally am NOT interested in even talking to Schneider about it we have not seen a benefit from the last time we got into this we don't need to get into it again we can spend that money on as duck said we have a lot of other things we could spend that money on rather than laying out this kind of money for something that we did not benefit from enough last time so I would I would not even I would like to not even consider listening to him I don't think we need to waste the time I agree any other comments okay well we don't need a motion for four point nine then unless somebody wants to make one I'm sorry for discussion yes do we any other motions all right with that being said we move on to 5.1 and turn to executive session we have mr.

Stewart transportation they're all part one okay sorry okay the transportation as I reported to you last month we had because we paid off the loans for the VW settlement that we and then we actually had some money left in there in that account and so I was going to request that we consider a box truck for the warehouse however in investigating pasa the availability of used vehicles right now and usually with our usual vendors there's nothing anywhere close to the amount of money that that I had put in the budget for that they're all much higher or they're unsuitable trucks so at this point I would wouldn't draw that request for the time being the truck that was ours from that ABM hand we have no idea where that is that's long gone I have no idea I mean it was we don't have we don't have a box truck that was they had their box truck that they purchased and then they tried to sell it to us or offered I'm sorry trying to you is not a nice way to say that they did offer it to us when we took the warehouse position back and you as a board decided that that was not a good option right now we have only two box trucks that we use for our food delivery and I think we've had three at one time kind of a mess yeah I'm sure that the I'm sure I see the the truck that ABM was using I see it sitting up at like the high school district by the bus yard and they gave us a price that's in our price range but unless we had it inspected and made sure that it had in fact been getting its it's scheduled maintenance and those kinds of things I would not want to recommend that right at this time what's the mechanic think he hasn't had the opportunity to go over it and because it was an ABM truck we had nothing to do with the maintenance the regular maintenance or anything taking German out the top of my head I think it was around 15 to 16 thousand I don't think it was exorbitant certainly less than the ones that were looking at from from our usual vendors right now and I could certainly see if ABM would let them take a look and evaluate it and look at the maintenance record I would like to see its proceed that way if the truck is in good shape you know it might be a decent purchase orders okay I can certainly do that do you want me just to check on price or do you want to proceed with giving me a dollar a maximum dollar amount how do you want to do that I say well yeah I think okay okay I just wanted to be sure that I understood completely your door did we have any other questions on transportation okay then I would make a motion that we approve items four point nine one four point nine two there should be four point eight sorry yeah four point eight one four point eight two the technology and playground equipment for Coyote Canyon with the technology not to exceed one hundred ninety thousand and the fencing not to exceed 15,000 I second that and just to be clear that's the fencing and the installation of the swingset yes just a fencing yes a fencing and insulation women 15,000 Cory heard this I Brandi do why I stood Ybor limb I know I'm four point nine consideration of a future presentation by H Schneider Electric as I've reported to all in the in the past Schrader Electric offered and came and did an audit Doug I did follow-up I've spoken with the person at any C and sent him a copy of this and he was going to get back to me with any information any C does not do energy audits however they will look over these kinds of documents and tell us what they think about what they're offering to us at this time I'm not asking for any decision relative to it but I'm asking if you would like to if you would consider having the full presentation from the folks from Schneider Electric I motion to discuss I'll make a motion say aye dr.

president items correct we have we have two so we need two separate executive sessions and the first one has to do with the possible retention I'm a student all right so item 5.2 is a turn executive session for retention can we get a motion to enter into executive session okay we we need to do that one more time I apologize can we get a motion to move into executive session for the retention of a student do we have a second video ah hi Jeannie Borland I we are an executive session you all right so we are gonna reconvene our meeting at this point we now need a motion because we're going back into we need a motion to go back into executive session for item 7.2 superintendent performance goals second Cori virgin hi Douglas all right brandy Dubois hi you a frame 8.2 superintendence performance goals for the school year 2021 we will have those prepared to be ready to record for our next meeting we do need a motion to reconvene house thank you Cory Burgess hi Franny Dubois I yeah yeah I know mate point three future topics do we have any future topics that we like to discuss score so we'll just forget about the one you didn't highlight future so we can still go over all the changes that are being made for the plan to open and and then going and what do we do open all of the aspects that go with that you know yeah so updates for where we're sitting on opening school okay and and this month and we do need oh okay I'm sorry okay so we talked about that but then I will tell you that our July meeting is going to be pretty jam-packed too we delay bringing to you the handbooks for this meeting because they're very typical handbooks and so we know we either need to make some adjustments to them or we need to have addendum as that say okay this is the handbook but in case this happens these things kick in and we didn't want to proceed with that until until after all of this discussion so we will have those and there be some other things so it's going to be with those handbooks Brandi didn't mention the discipline for situations I do think it means to be heightened with the shortened so make sure if that's in the handbooks that we will have you know we have to be a little more stringent on our discipline because we will be getting jamming so much information in a limited time and and I will tell you that not only do I appreciate that but I know principals and teachers will appreciate that too it's going to be it they will they will meet the challenge I know they will but you're right it's going to be worse they'll be challenged yeah all right no other future topics it doesn't have to be for the next meeting but I'd kind of like to see how the teachers felt see the new curriculum went this year before the closure and how they expect to implement it next year with like the changes I'm sure they're gonna have to focus more on some standards you know unless on others so I just kind of maybe want like some feedback on that that's a good one and and they had actually part of their task before they left you know before they checked out for me here what I was starting to map you know map for this year and and how they were gonna fill gaps and and still do new stuff and do that kind thing so they have started that but it will that will be a good report for you to have okay thank you alright future 88.4 future time date and time for future meetings we need a special meeting on June 26 at 5 o'clock what is that meeting for that is for the proposed budget okay you can see the proposed budget and and go over and have any questions and then at our meeting in July which will actually have to be earlier than its usual schedule because we have to have the budget to the state by the 15th so I'm really sorry that I didn't have that ready for you but there were lots of complications so this should be on the 26 should be a really short meeting it's just you all going to the new budget proposed budget asking any questions finding mistakes I might have made and and improving it as the proposed and then we have to have the real approval reading with the 26th or the 20s I will be gone the 21st to the 28th at wrestling trip okay so we need to make sure that all three others are available so you both be available for the 26th meeting so you 26 on the Friday on the Friday do you want it a little later then the other option would be on the 29th high school okay the high screen is having their special meeting on that night but they don't meet here so you know I put that in the mix for you that it could be on Monday the 29th is what you want how are we going to be doing technology-wise though it's my understanding that the high school is holding them in person do we need to do ours by string or do you want to do this one live so it's just the one item do you want to stay strict if we go to the 29th if we move the meeting to the 29th the high school has their meeting on the 20 minutes for the exact same thing doing their budget they're going to be doing theirs alive do we want to stream ours on the 29th does that work you guys yeah yeah that's fine all right let's do that we'll do a stream streaming meeting on the 2935 yeah we'll set the date you time alright so at this point we just need a motion to adjourn you can be at one you can be at the other one and streaming up second we are adjourned [Music] you

Stuart water relief budgeting right now for our current energy program oh my goodness in life on my desk and I thought when there's a fire efficient under electric could you bring me necklace here I chose a million dollars I know that our electricity is just short of 400 thousand dollars a year and of course that's our most expensive one I know we're paying 100 twenty thousand dollars a year to pay it off and I know that it goes on for a period of time another eight or nine years and I totally understand how the district and the board feels that they got burned on that deal so I understand your skepticism and and all of that and I wasn't aware of some of that when I started the conversations with Schneider so yeah that's very irritating to me as I'm sure it is to you that we continue to be paying on something and are not necessarily seeing any of the other benefits and I don't even know what the other benefits were or the other things that were offered at that time from that company so you know I just don't know you know and other than I know what we're paying like this somebody's gonna have to make some money nobody does this for nothing the I would like to see that get cleared away and I would also like to see us consider some of these funds for upgrading some of our parking lots not all of them at one time because I realize that expensive but if we take one or two parking lots and address them each year for a period of time because they're terrible I hate to drive out of myself but the other thing I didn't notice in looking through Schneider's proposal and I would be interested maybe see looking at it - what do bird required three three proposals they didn't go on one okay and we certainly can do that there's there's a difference between those approaches we can either take the procurement approach in which case we would need three or the contract approach which is the basis on which I had been talking with Schneider all along but at this point however we proceed is is at your pleasure as a board I personally am NOT interested in even talking to Schneider about it we have not seen a benefit from the last time we got into this we don't need to get into it again we can spend that money on as duck said we have a lot of other things we could spend that money on rather than laying out this kind of money for something that we did not benefit from enough last time so I would I would not even I would like to not even consider listening to him I don't think we need to waste the time I agree any other comments okay well we don't need a motion for four point nine then unless somebody wants to make one I'm sorry for discussion yes do we any other motions all right with that being said we move on to 5.1 and turn to executive session we have mr.

Spees I'm gonna take myself off the screen so you can say a couple words - okay okay thank you so I've been really thinking hard about you and what I wanted to say to you and I put together a little something but it's not necessarily perfect but I figured it's always better to share what's in your heart even if it's not perfect so this is what I wrote for you last night as I was thinking hard about you you're taking off you're taking flight it's your time to on the light of Education laughter and fun making friends and wondering about the next stage about the curve jumping over and taking swerves it's not a race you're you'll tumble and fall but don't forget that through it all your family is here at Wildwood you've walked our halls you've run through the grass and you sat together with your class growing and changing becoming you and we've watched you and hoped and wished that all of life will be your dish Henry Hickman Comeau bust SDS and Nick are just a few who you can call on no matter when no matter what no matter how far Wildwood is your family so this is it didn't know you wrote poetry when I'm good I will write poetry and I'm very emotional about this class I think they're lovely and I just want the best for them and they've gone through so much they mean so much to me it really came through in your poem so this is this is a time for us to feel our feelings so let's get our tissues our handkerchiefs with me I'm gonna move the head one thing we do at graduation is we recognize how many years people have been at while to it and we usually do this when we're together we stand up and sit down so because that beautiful class came together this year and one of the wonderful things is that people have been here from since kindergarten but all the way some people just arrived this year so let's take a minute if you gave the Wildwood ins just sixth grade and you joined us you can stand up in your livering living room or wherever you are and how about those of you that came just in fifth grade okay how about those of you that came in fourth grade and then third and and some of you came in first grade do you remember that do you remember your first day at Wildwood all of us can remember that and finally there is a group that came in kindergarten so let's all remember how we felt on our first day at Wildwood and that everybody should be standing right now yeah how did you feel and those of you that came in sixth grade what a year it's been and you've made an impact so now we're gonna move on and hear a few words from our superintendent like Mars and dr.

in reaction to the murders of George Floyd Brianna Taylor and countless others these last few weeks have shocked me as I became aware of the depths of my own ignorance prior to this moment I had failed to truly understand the pervasiveness of the violence against black Americans and their lived experience as Claudia Rankine described in 2015 of the daily strain of knowing that as a black person you can be killed for simply being black this ignorant led to complacency I didn't see myself as part of the solution to racism in our country as a person who professes to care about social justice I have been asking myself how could this be when I think back to my education and my experience in brookfield I certainly learned about rights I learned about the history of slavery and the mistreatment of black people up through the civil rights movement as well as in English classes from works such as To Kill a Mockingbird and a Raisin in the Sun but for the most part in brookfield racism was taught to me as it was taught to me felt like part of our past I assumed that as King had said the arc of history bends towards justice and that even if we hadn't eradicated racism yet but that was our eventual destination and if we simply waited we would arrive there I also didn't feel like I personally was responsible and had a role to play in combating racism because I didn't hold any personal racist attitudes and while I may have intellectually understood the fact that racism is about systems we live in that advantage some people and not others in addition to just individually held beliefs my white defensive missile ow this understanding to truly sink in and to change the lens through which I saw the world or the way I acted day to day I was called to unpack my invisible knapsack of white privilege but it wasn't long until I put it back on and continued to carry it around with me blindly in the past few weeks white people all over the nation have suddenly started questioning very similar beliefs and realizing that these beliefs have caused us caused us to be passive and prevented us from taking more active and assertive action that is necessary to undo systemic racism brookfield Public Schools has an obligation to ensure that the leaders of the future are better equipped than we were with the true and robust understanding of systemic racism that will fuel them to make this country better by working against oppression brookfield public schools must provide its students with tools that will allow them to dismantle systemic racism and to build a more just society thank you thank you Angela anyone else Liz go right ahead hello everyone my name is Elizabeth Murphy and my current place of residence is three Wilton Drive in Wilmington Massachusetts although I lived in Brookfield for eight years at one Stoney farm Lane and I would have graduated from BHS as a member of the 2018 class I'm speaking tonight to share with you my experience as a mexican-american woman in the Brookfield public school system I'm here as a concerned alumna calling for the implementation of discussions on race inclusion privilege and practices of anti racism I largely credit my academic and professional success to the education I received at Brookfield however in my time I felt unheard by the student body and administrator endured ignorant and racist remarks and struggle with my identity I want to speak on one incident that occurred and still weighs heavy on me my freshman year at BHS in 2014 I was one of a handful of Latin ex students among the roughly 90% white student body a half Mexican boy came to BHS from Danbury high school from the moment he came he was called hood ghetto and various other racial slurs by students I recall one day in the hall when my friends pointed him out and remarked look you and him basically make up one whole Mexican in that instance my identity had become a joke to my peers and the perspective my peers had of me and this young man became painfully obvious while their intention perhaps was not to hurt me the impact this experience had on me did cause long-lasting and significant emotional pain it might be difficult to believe that in that moment I was unable to do anything but laugh along with my friends why aren't you better at soccer do you have your papers you must really be able to jump high after jumping the fence can I buy marijuana from your mom these are just some of the things I was told and asked never did I feel that I could go to a teacher or administrator for help it is important going forward that the Brookfield public school system recognizes internalized racism which is defined as the acceptance by marginalized racial populations of the negative societal beliefs and stereotypes about themselves the experience I just shared proves to be an effective illustration of the relationship between racism white privilege and internalized racism while new humanities reading material the introduction of global themes as a course and the addition of diverse resources is an excellent place to start there is so much more that must and can be done it is necessary that teachers are trained by professionals to be able to effectively engage in courageous conversations with a diverse student body and that the education of terms like internalized racism colorism tokenism anti racism and more are included in the school curriculums it will be impossible to build a strong community in Brookfield while black indigenous and other students of color do not feel as they will be heard and appreciate it thank you for your time and consider Thank You Liz Elijah the floor is all yours thank you uh Elijah healing the third I live at 34 hidden book tribe in Brookfield also work at the Brookfield high school I would like to start by acknowledging and thanking Steve Baldwin the athletic director for working with me on a statement that we released from the Brookfield athletic department but given the state of our country everyone should be taking a step back and really taking a good look in the mirror there's no longer space for people to quote stay quiet or refuse to quote take aside everyone must be accountable for their words and actions lack of words or actions at this point is equally disappointing and frustrating Desmond Tutu said if you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor well Brookfield is not at all a diverse town or School District that doesn't mean the issues of institutional racism racial profiling and police brutality are not important the school statement that was emailed out on June 2nd fell inevitably short of the mark in my opinion no issue was actually addressed and I quote we want to reassure you that the Brookfield public school staff are here to provide students and families with support as they may view unsettling images as we watch our country grapple with these issues end quote at no point did the email actually say racism murder or discuss what the quote issues are further they included a link of quote books with characters of color first reading a book with a person of color does not address the situation and if the school wants to suggest said books why aren't they already in the Brookfield curriculum whether we choose to see it or not we are not doing enough to address the issues of our country we need to ensure when kids go through the Brookfield school system they're prepared to join a world that is much more diverse than Brookfield I recognize that I too have more work to do to help educate kids that I work with in fact I spoke to ten current and former athletes who are also minorities they all agreed that the teachers in the Brookfield school system are good for the most part but every single one of them had been called a racial slur multiple times while in the Brookfield school system most felt they had they just had to try and ignore most instances of racism because quote nobody would really do anything about it anyway of the ten people I spoke to none of them could remember having a minority teacher other than world language or a couple of substitutes I believe we can do better I believe we must do better I leave you with a quote from one of the ten kids that I spoke to he said in my experience with Brookfield there is no visible problem with the teachers but there is with the community families among our town are still racist and it's time for the school to step up and teach if prejudice can be learned it can also be unlearned and it starts in our school system at this point I would not raise my children in this town only for them to be labeled as quote bad influences as I was many times it's time have you wrap it up a little bit Thanks yep almost done it's time for the temperature from acceptance more than they ever have before and teach the children about privilege and systemic racism end quote thank you thank you anyone else sure staff go ahead hi I'm Steph Ferrari I currently live in 75180 West Lexington Avenue in West Hollywood California my brookfield address is one Lexington Drive I there for 22 years I was in the Brookfield school system from kindergarten until graduation in 2014 in reflecting on the town's lack of diversity I could point to many ways that my peers of color were whitewashed erased or other how attitude in our town painted Danbury essentially as a dangerous ghetto or the blatant stereotype slurs and inappropriate jokes that went unpunished unnoticed and even encouraged since my graduation in 2014 I have lived in Boston Los Angeles and New York where I've been closer to diversity and race wealth sexuality and gender than ever in brookfield when I first got to college I had no idea how jarring it would be to confront my own privilege and I had a hard time relating and being a good Ally to people of color in hindsight it would have been nice to have some preparation or better understanding of what dynamics were really at play in the world before I left Brookfield because I missed out on potential friendships point of view and challenges and other benefits of diversity that I was a bit too insecure and defensive to really think about I think that a lot of students going through the Brookfield school system would benefit from Frank and candid conversations with their teachers parents and peers about privilege race class and other real world issues that we see on the news but don't necessarily experience in our town so I could see this taking form as a semester of required civics classes where students can reflect on their world with reading speakers and workshops about racism sexism classism and other isms that present the world much differently than how we live it in Brookfield these classes could be complemented in the high school with assemblies and speakers similar to those we had on drug abuse and drunk driving which also had a corresponding pair discussion it also is up to the parents to engage with their children to discuss what the world is like outside of Brookfield where cops do more than hand out speeding tickets and bus parties and voting rights aren't always right furthermore it is up to the teachers parents peers and the entire community to hold each other accountable and furthering racial tolerance by speaking up against microaggressions slurs and hate in this way we can make our students better prepared for college and moving to more diverse places and we can make our students of color feel more welcome and supported thank you thank you Steph okay it's all yours thank you good evening my name is Mary Kate Chloe Jersey Brookfield High School alumni that graduated in 2009 I wanted to take a moment this evening to describe my experience as a student of the Brookfield public school system and to voice my concerns around the lack of education and discussion surrounding racism that are currently status quo in our schools like many others I could describe my experience of growing up in Brookfield and going through the public school system as a suburban bubble race was a topic that was rarely delved into beyond surface level lessons on the civil war and the civil rights movement of the 1960s much of the complexities of the histories of by pop were left out of our history books leaving us with an education that centered around white people partly due to this I'd spent a large part of my life assuming that racism was an over their problem no only to realize that the viewpoint itself was extremely problematic as an adult it's taken me up to this point of my wife to realize that I am actually part of the problem as I reflected on my life to come to a reckoning with how we have continually come to this place as a society ever I could realize that ignorance is the worst excuse as to why systemic racism lives on in this country the simple antidote to this ignorance is education children need to have the exposure to the complexities of race to have open honest and respect conversations about them we too often think that we need to shield children from these complexities however it is absolutely necessary for this education to occur I don't want my experience being sheltered in my education to be the norm for our younger generations and I'm asking the Board of Education to consider reviewing and amending curriculums to include anti-racism work and more accurate and inclusive portrayals of by ACOG by Park and American history and culture in addition I'm also asking the Board of Education to consider implementing a diversity task force to consistently and continually review the dynamics of our public school system to ensure our schools are safe place for by Park students thank you for your consideration and your time this evening Thank You Hayley the floor is all yours hi I'm Hayley BHS class of 2013 my family address in Brookfield is one derby court and my full-time residence is 1236 specific Street Brooklyn New York so you've heard from a number of us already so I'll make this brief but we actually represent a group of students alumni parents and residents over 215 strong who are committed to actively teaching and embodying anti racism and the Brookfield education system many of our group are watching this live stream tonight and many of us will continue to watch how the board moves to address structural racism oppression and privilege in our school system first I want to take a moment to actually thank all of the speakers who prepared remarks and came up to the public comment tonight I appreciate that it's not easy to share such personal stories and I've won them grateful for the strength of the mind and heart that you Beach demonstrated and showing that for our community tonight so thank you I also want to recognize a particular conundrum that's been top of mind for me as we've listened to these stories so how can it be that while students of color and Ord covert and sometimes overt displays of racism ever filled schools their white peers myself included had to leave our hometown for our education on race to begin something and then there doesn't quite add up for me I also be the first to acknowledge that progress has been made since I last walked the halls of the Brookfield public schools and I'm also here to say it has not been enough we are here tonight to show you that the Brookfield community cares about seeing the work of anti racism brought into the classroom we are prepared to offer our time energy and professional expertise as teachers school counselors social workers artists and more as a resource to the Brookfield school system we are ready to hold ourselves each other our school faculty and staff and our democratically elected officials accountable for the timely and deliberate implementation of anti-racist initiatives within the Brookfield education system and to that end we have a few questions we would like to submit to the board for consideration and I will be following up with these over email as well we're wondering what changes are you currently considering towards the curriculum on what time scale can students expect to see these changes enacted in the classroom and while we understand that curricular changes are a long-term ask we ask are there interim measures that can be implemented for the 2020 2021 school year are you considering anti-racism training for teachers and finally I'd like to highlight again the black lives matter rally that is being organized by Kiana Shabazz Williams we heard from tonight and her sister SIA happening this saturday june 20th at 4 p.m.

salia and I want to echo that just tremendous thank you to rich and also to Rachel for asking clarifying questions into cabinet and you know everyone forgiving me the feedback from the last meeting for those of you that were on the Finance Committee attending two weeks ago I apologize it's going to be redundant I wanted to be sure to be clear to the folks that weren't there we got the feedback that the presentation helps to understand or clarify so I hope even you'll even take in a little bit more and it'll be helpful and you'll have additional questions and our goal is to be very transparent in the budget process as well as in the budget itself so without further that I'm just we go right into the presentation just bear with me this part is a little new to me okay can everybody see that yeah I see right yes yes okay so um basically broadly speaking what does the budget do so it adjusts the base budget by when I talk about the base budget I mean if last year's budget was $100 we'd expect next year's budget to be $100 except for the adjustments that we're making so here it adjusts what I would call the base budget by 1.8 million due to an sta credit and insurance savings that were accounting for with the reserve and I'll get into that when we go into the detail budget but you know one of the things that we were able to do was when we negotiated with our transportation provider for the closure period we realized that we didn't need to retain all the savings for this year and they were able to give us a credit into this next year's budget we also through Rich's help identified a way to account for what we what we were calling the cliff I mean I don't want to call it a cliff because that's not I don't think I have to think of a better word for it but you know the risk that we have to shore up and account for so the budget book the SDI budget will go back up again and I will show you later on how we account for that in this budget as well it invests about 8.9 million in new initiatives and I know everybody was shocked and said well how can you do that if the city is only giving us 1.2 million I hope after the presentation you'll you'll see what what we're proposing and that's why we had to use this bridge and approaching that as a way to show you the budget it meets the needs of distance learning some nice requirements for faculty technology provides for some special emotional supports for faculty and students as well as it funds the budget maintenance required to move forward and a big piece is the Student Support Specialists also that we'll get to in the budget and that Karen will be able to speak to overall the the model that we were putting forward it braids the funding to continue operations and fund our required activities and it reprioritize --is the alliance funds and it uses a multi-year approach with the liens as I said rich really helped us think through a lot of our baby portion of our money and we'll talk to you about that as one-time funding and it's because of the nature of Co vid we have some additional opportunities of one-time funding but we had to use a multi-year approach with alliance because we know that that's projected to be a new amount next year and will grow again the following year so I'll explain a little bit more about that as we get into the detail and and I'll pause at certain points for questions because this is a workshop so I want to encourage people you know at certain points to be able to ask their questions if you can save them and then I'll pause and we can we can move forward it sets up a reserve for unpredictability we've done this Jo set this up he set this in place already we have a relationship with the city to do this the mechanism to do it we need the board approval to do it but we've done this with our insurances and with technology we're newly adding the reserved for special ed tuition and for emergency purposes that shouldn't lead kovat it should meet emergency purposes it does provide emergency related funding through a reserve and Kerr's funding of 1.3 million and 800,000 for social-emotional and curriculum so those are addressing some of the unique needs of next year so what are the new funding sources we'll just keep talking with you about it as of the year goes on because there's we have guidance from the state about it the last time we spoke we weren't certain about what methodology we would be allocated this first bucket that I'm highlighting here it's it's the federal cares act funding the education portion that we're talking about here is the Elementary and Secondary Stabilization Fund recovery funds so it should say our F but and initially there was question as to whether or not how it would be allocated it would be allocated based on enrollment and the private schools would get some funding but we out be allocated based on our title one which benefits you know damn very better and that damn bears it city but the public schools better because you know the title one funding methodology is based on need so the state decided to go with the title one methodology which gives us about two point two eight six million it's about eighty four percent of our title one allocation is how it was explained to us by the Kathy Dempsey the CFO at the state and there's a chance that that could change in the federal legislation because there's a conflict between the way that's being spoken about by the Education Department and how the legislation is written so Connecticut's interpreted this way there's a risk it's about two hundred thousand dollars we've set up escrow for that because of that that potential risk that they're saying you might halfway through the year it could change so but what does this fund it's pretty broad even down to you can see it listed out here but even down to the protect protection of educator jobs so we can use it for existing positions we can purchase education technology training and PD and we'll show you in the budget when I get to that shortly how we're proposing to use the Karis funding and the grant carryover this is also as rich alluded to earlier is new normally we can carry over depending on the grant source about anywhere between ten to fifteen percent of a grant or nothing at all but this year the state has made an exception for our titles Alliance and the IDE a grant that we can carry over a full bounce the unspent funds so for us this year it's gonna be about two point two six eight million and that'll be important when I show you that the funding screen next as well city fund balance dr.

and it is virtual and we're excited to see you there this concludes my report thank you so much uh Board of Trustees uh and executive cabinet superintendent mattsuda for your support of our English Learners emergent bilingual and multilingual students and now I would like to hand it over to Dr Ru thank you thank you Dr um so again I think all of our messages um focus around the thankfulness we have and the appreciation we have for our staff who has been really making this happen um it it's been an amazing opportunity for us to see the leadership emerge of all of our staff and so to share a little bit from the business services side about how we have been reacting to the covid-19 crisis first and foremost from that first Monday after we dismissed we had our food services professionals up and going serving meals to our families we have currently to date served 7324 meals to the local community and remember that that number is also tempered by um the reality that folks can go to any school they would like and so our feeder tracks all our districts have all had um schools serving meals as well and so really if you were to multiply all those numbers together the five cities that we encapsulate have had an amazing um ability to be supported through for Food Services departments we have eight sites our highest week that we served was 67,68 meals we are seeing that number decline significantly this past week we had 50, 522 meals and that is a typical decline when we typically serve lunch during the Summers we watch families um start out strong accessing it and then they move away it can be because this could be because folks are going back to work and so children aren't getting to schools to get it it could be that people are resuming life and and they're no longer feeling that there is the need for these meals as much as there was during the height of this crisis however we will continue to reevaluate our sites for the viability of continuing all of them how many students we're serving and the waiver that allows us to serve lunch in the way we're doing the grab and go model is good until August 30th um Orlando REO our director of food services and I had the opportunity to chair the Orange County Department of Education um reopening schools Food Services Task Force and um was able to work with uh five amazing directors of Food Services to really look at what challenges and opportunities we will have when we start school in August and so whereas we may not have all the information yet we have a lot of ideas that we can Implement quickly um once we know what we what we will be um facing both via the educational model and the waivers that will be available to us or not available to us via the USDA um we have begun to reopen our district office and that entails just I I can't even think of how big of a thanks I can't think of an adjective big enough for the thank you for Diana Getta as she has really single-handedly did this and is truly working 247 for our our district right now this began with risk assessments we evaluated which departments needed to be open the recommendation for offices is still that if you can work from home you should work from home and we still are advocating that if a person can do their work from their house successfully we are asking them to remain at home at this time for their safety and the safety of the staff that is reporting to work however we know that there are a variety of employees that could not complete their work from home and so we started with bringing back our maintenance and operations staff and they have been out there providing their summer um PMS on things like our HVAC systems they've been out mowing the Lawns and getting our our schools back into shape we reopened our warehouse one thing is once you open your maintenance and operations um Department you need to be able to receive things for them to do their work if you have them here and they need to get um materials and they can't access them it stops their work and so our warehouse is back um came back part-time initially and now that the load has increased is back full-time they've done some remodeling back in there with our mail area to make it so that it is um more socially distancing or physical distancing for us um part of this reopening we're full risk assessments of each department which now include that our offices are socially distanced um for those of you that know my office I have a table with four chairs I can still have five people in my office but they all have to sit in Corners they're no longer around a table we've redone our um conference rooms and so they have a much smaller capacity than they've done before we redid the boardroom and when and if we ever return um we work collaboratively with our maintenance operations team and our board members will have something that no other board will have and I guarantee that because it's an au uhsd special thing and it is they are partitions that roll between each board member to be able to to keep you um distance in their plexiglass and they roll right in um because of the closeness of that table we then brought back our site custodial staff to begin our summer cleaning we brought them back on June 1st um that included our plant managers as well as our custodians our Athletic Facility workers um are also there and then I really need to take this moment to thank asme one of the challenges we had was we had a large number of our bus drivers that because we are not running a physical inperson um extended school year we're still at home although being paid and so a asme was very willing to work collaboratively with us and so those bus drivers are now working their shifts on our school grounds helping the custodians to um clean the classrooms and so we're very thankful they made it very easy for us that when when that request came and they helped facilitate it I'll say Adrienne actually called every single um driver that it impacted personally to to find out their needs and their concerns and I appreciate that um with our risk assessments have masks in place we have health checks at um every site so you cannot get into the district without having a health check I somehow did not make it officially onto a list this morning and so um our warehouse wasn't going to let me in the door um but fortunately they did um they did acques and let me in and then of course physical distancing one of the pieces with our maintenance staff was also that we employed a process where we do not allow employees to ride in cars together again for that physical distancing so we have ensure that all of our maintenance and operation staff have their own vehicle to be able to go from site to site so that we are not so that we are again protecting our employees um prior to the end of the school year we have required all employees to do the integrative test Management training I actually know even one of our board members um was curious and completed the training as well we're happy to send that to the rest of you if you're interested and that allows um all employees to be able to utilize um the disinfectant wipes um in their classrooms or in their offices to be able to keep surface as clean as needed as we have returned as fully anticipated we we have had exposures um and we have been able to successfully Implement an ahsd tracking and tracing protocol that one of our superintendent um charges to us as a risk management department was what are we going to do not if something happens but when something happens and so um Diana gaeda as director of risk management is working highly collaboratively with our classified human resources department and they are um talking to each employee that has any level of exposure um guiding them helping them to support what types of leaves are available to them so that we we have a system that supports our employees and their safety we also know as an organiz ation that we are impacted by our feeder T track districts just as they are impacted with us and so we wanted to ensure that we have collaborative relationships with them and so we did send out an invitation inviting our feeder Elementary districts to meet with us to discuss their protocols and procedures for reopening schools in regards to the health the risk management components we um were fortunate to meet with um representatives from Anaheim element school district cyer school district and Centralia School District we shared our processes with them we also heard what they're doing and learn from them as well and um I I really think they were strongly um appreciative of us taking that initiative and reaching out and again something our superintendent truly wanted us to do during this time we also on the same vein reached out to the north orang county Roop um they're a small organization as we all know and they don't have AIS manager and so Diana and I met with them for probably a good hour and a half and went over what we are doing because their teachers are in our classrooms on our school sites and we need to be able to create a collaborative relationship with them should something happen so we ensure there are procedures and protocols and then finally um some good news is one of the main um concerns that we've had as a school district as every school district has had is the cost of the PPE and the the um cost of Co 19 and so yes there have been State funds allocated there's now three pots of cares act money um and then now there we' also received some donations and I just want to be able to publicly thank some of these organizations we received from the state Council on disabilities which really was due to the relationship our district has with Brian ton we received 30,000 masks and um a large amount of gallons of of hand sanitizers which we are giving out to our site and they were specifically designated for lowincome students so we distributed them to our sites based on free and reduced lunch as well as on their enrollment and then we also are receiving a large amount of um PPE and cleaners from the governor we're receiving both cloth and surgical masks for students and staff face Shields hand sanitizers and thermometers and so we anticipate those arriving um from o ocde they're being funneled to the county office office and our warehouse staff will pick them up and deliver them and then we will also get them out to the site so um we have a lot of work still to do very proud of the work that we have already done and our successes in it and continue to appreciate the support we get and being able to safely bring folks back to work thank you Dr root we're now going to turn it over to uh Mr cologne and Miss GAA who will give an update regarding the reopening of schools and as a reminder to the board they will give a far more indepth update uh in the two weeks at our next board meeting with all the aspects of the opening of schools so Mr colone Mr G I'll turn over to you great thank you Dr freed good morning everyone good morning uh board president and Board of Trustees um I want to start by thanking our opening of schools task force uh we have over 50 members that represent all stakeholders and also our associations are all represented in in our task force super uh proud of the work that we've done collectively um but as you can imagine there's many moving Parts constantly and we're getting guidance almost on a daily basis but our task force members have been meeting out for the last two months um as we not only have looked at the options for opening of schools but also looking at all the components that go into ensuring that we maintain the health and safety as our number one priority as we uh uh uh consider the reopening of schools um we will continue to meet and have continued to meet all the way through until we start on August the 12th um I want to mention the guidance that we have been following um first from the Center for Disease Control the guidance came out on May the 15 um also the California Department of of uh of Public Health their guidance came out on June the 5th and finally the guidance from the California Department of Education came out on June the 8th those three are the main uh pieces of guidance that we have been following along with our um local uh Health officials and and guidance from them as well um in looking at all the guidance there's there's some very key pieces that are that are overlapping in all of it and I think um you know you would you would I'm sure know that these are the things that uh we need to be focused on as we consider the reopening of schools physical distance is probably the most important that keeps getting mentioned over and over through all of these guidances ensuring physical distancing um face coverings again another uh piece that is is critical for the spread of covid-19 so face coverings is another piece that is mentioned on all three guidances hand washing constant hand washing uh and the use of hand sanitizer uh cleaning and disinfecting uh both in terms of our uh classrooms and overall school facilities and the monitoring of Health which includes the health screening which has already been mentioned all of these pieces are pretty much consistent across are the guidances so for us the foundation that we have been using is the strongest guidance uh from them uh we to work with our local public health officials as we've mentioned as directed by the uh the state of California in our opening of schools task force we have um moved forward three options for the opening of schools um and again to ensure the health and safety of our students and our staff I also want to remind you that uh these options could change um as the guidance changes as we get closer and closer to the opening of schools um the first option that we have moved forward is a blended hybrid option in this option on Monday uh students will be instructed in a synchronous or virtual way all classes will be instructed all students will be in instruction on uh so that's on Monday on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday these will be in-person uh instructional days students will be coming onto campus and for each day only a third of the students will be on campus this will allow for uh 10 to 15 students per class which is the current current guidance that we have gotten from the state again uh 10 to 15 students per class is what will be uh with this model and this is in person on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday and then Friday will be an asynchronous instructional day so that is the Blended model that we have uh moved forward second option is full distance learning and for that model is very similar to what we currently have which is that um the state requires us to continue with distance learning and all students will be instructed uh via distance learning or remote learning uh in this case uh we will have both synchronous and asynchronous instruction as well the third option is full in-person learning again if the state guidance requires us to come back full-time uh then we will maintain a full schedule with full uh uh again schedule full staff on our campus with students continuing to ensure the guidance that is given to us at that time so these are the three options that we are moving forward um but as as we have mentioned before the current guidance uh leans towards us implementing a blended or hybrid model on August the 12th as we begin school I also want to mention that we do have two schools that will have a different schedule from the rest of the district and that is hope school and Oxford Academy we are still working with those staffs to finalize those schedules um as you can imagine they have unique schedules currently and so we we will uh uh make sure that the needs of those schools are met uh through this process um I also want to update you on Athletics um I want to first start by thanking Mitch Olsen our District athletic director who has been very instrumental in ensuring that we can return to practice in a very safe Manner and healthy manner um and so he has formed committees that include uh all sports uh and representatives from All Sports and and coaches from across the district and so we are following local state and federal guidance as it relates to Athletics our plan right now is to begin uh practice on June the 29th that's Monday June the 29th um we were given guidance from the national Federation of High School athletics that is the foundation of uh how the Athletics will be rolling out um but what we've done is we've also overlaid the guidance from the California Department of Public Health over those guidance and that guidance um also on August 12th we received guidance from CIF uh which is the governing bar body of Athletics in California so taking all that into consideration the national Federation of Athletics has um has given the guidance in three phases phase one phase two and phase three um we have uh started or we will be starting with phase one and we will not move to phase two or phase three until um we get clearance and the guidance is is is and we've met the guidance as it relates to um the guidance from the public Health Department so again we will be implementing phase one on uh June the 29th so that will be for fall Sports um and fall Sports include football girls volleyball boys water polo cross country girls golf girls tennis and cheer all coaches in these Sports will be trained and be expected to follow the phase one guidelines of the national Federation of High School athletics and the guidelines outlined by the California Department of Public Health um at this moment we do not have any guarantee that there will be any competition of any kind um when schools reopen and so we will wait for that guidance as we get closer and closer to uh the year but also um we will not move into phase two or phase three or competition until we get the guidance from the local state and federal officials um the last thing I want to mention in terms of of Athletics is that we will continue to work with our coaches and ensuring that all of these are are adapted to in the individual sports and that all guidance is being followed at all times um I also want to give you an update on vapa I want to start by thanking Brian bsky our vision Performing Arts coordinator for our district who is doing an amazing job he also has formed a committee representative of of all vapa areas um both at the junior high and Senior High Level to really look at how is vapa gonna look like uh when we return to school and as you can imagine it's going to be very different from area to area and uh he has worked very closely with some of our top teachers and really not only looking at the instructional piece but also how do we ensure that we continue to meet the guidelines outlined by the California Department of Education and the California Department of Public Health and so just to give you a cuple of updates as it relates to that um and looking at our um and looking at our uh Visual Arts um we will be providing individual kits for each of our students that is in the visual arts one of the guidance that is very clear is that students are not to share uh equipment or materials and so we will be purchasing individual kids and and this all came from our teachers they uh looked at what was necessary they created a units uh that would be instructed and what materials would be necessary to complete those units for those students and uh it was actually very remarkable that uh for each of those kids it it uh it was very reasonably priced so we can purchase those for our students across our district um in addition uh for our ban one of the concerns was sharing instruments as you can imagine another guidance that was very clear um so we will be purchasing additional musical instruments for our Junior High programs uh again to ensure that we are following those guidelines um we have like I said some amazing band programs we probably have the best band programs VAP of programs overall Southern California if not the state very proud of our of our of of all of our programs um but I also want to give you an update on our marching bands because I know that that's also been a question that has been posed in terms of of how we're doing marching bands and so um one of the things that we have been notified on is is that all uh Championship competitions for marching men's have been cancelled for the fall and so what that means for us is obviously we wouldn't be competing in in the marching band competitions um but we will be adapting and modifying marching band uh for our students and our programs and so our marching band directors have been working very diligently um with Brian B who was the as you know the the the band director for the Savannah Mighty marching band uh who is outstanding and so working with them and how are we going to mon modify uh to to continue to provide an experience for our marching band students um and again I want to thank all of our vapa uh teachers who are working to ensure that the instruction stays at the highest level and uh vibrant and engaging for our students as it has been uh up to this point and as as Dr freed also mentioned we will provide you a more comprehensive report uh from everything from how are we going to enter school exit School uh passing periods lunch periods Etc uh when we meet on July the 2nd for the study session so again thank you for your time and I'm going to turn it over to Diana Getta which uh has done an amazing job at our at all facet has been working with just about every team in ensuring that we are safe and that we are doing everything in accordance with our guidelines so miss cetta yes good morning thank you thank you for everyone um I have to say that um it while it is a tremendous job um I certainly don't have expertise in all of the areas that this uh covid-19 has uh thrusted us into so I rely on a lot of our resources both both in-house and ouse so I have to say that um I definitely don't do it alone but but yes it is um it is an allc consuming task to ensure the safety of our staff and our students um along with the um Orange County healthc Care Agency uh California Healthcare agency uh uh Center for Disease controls um we also have to follow the guidelines of C OSHA and OSHA as well um so when we put all of those together um we want to ensure that we are protecting fully um the folks that are coming on to our sites and so uh we started off by um communicating to our uh staff uh the protective measures that the district put in place uh probably six weeks ago and so Dr root helped me compose um that correspondence U for all of our employees that checks the boxes from all of the guidance that we need to outline to our employees they includ included things such as our face coverings they included um a link as to how to properly wear a face covering how to properly remove a face covering um your social distance in um you also have information regarding reducing the spread which is your handwashing and when you don't have soap and water um sanitizer is a good alternative as well um again that we know cleaning and disinfecting is also going to be a huge new um uh inclusion in our duties that we all have to take ownership over so the integration of the IPM um for all employees um assists and facilitating that we don't have to continually see who is clear to receive the disinfectants and of that frees up resources for all of the other tasks that are um this this new normal is going to um going to uh uh require on us in addition um there is an obligation to uh impart education both on students and staff so um for that I leaned on our certificated HR um Scott Jensen has provided me with um a module for staff training with the um options that we need to impart and I can tell you that uh he um spun something out for me very very quickly we're at the um tail end of rolling that out um it wasn't enough to go on Keenan safe schools we we were missing just a few boxes and and we want to do this right so I can tell you that as a risk manager I'm a conservative risk manager and so that means that I'm going to ensure that every single box is checked every eye is dotted and every te is crossed so um the products that were available to us did not do that for us and so we went out and completed um our own training um and and it's concise and it makes sure that we're using um the information from those agencies such as CDC um and when there aren't videos we're using the PDF um Flyers available to us to make sure that those employees are getting that information um as a followup to that we also have uh training that has to be imparted on our students as well so knowing that we are going to be bringing back Athletics in a very limited form um that that has now moved up the priority list and we will get that staff excuse me student training underway um as we mentioned before health screening we have about 150 Health screeners across the district um once we bring back Athletics very soon we will have about over 225 screeners across the district um know that again I relied on one of our internal resources um Veronica Medina who's also a nurse practitioner so she ensured that the process um you know included an FDA approved low resolution no touch thermometer um we worked together for for the the process we created a video so that we could utilize a trainer of trainers and everyone received the exact same information um it's imparted in an email and gives kind of tidbits of more uh uh hints if you will on how to have a successful health screening uh we created a uh risk management email so that those screenings can be um sent over uh to either email or or um to me directly uh risk management will maintain those um using confidentiality uh protocols and so as you can imagine um that's growing bigger and bigger so we'll have to um everything we say is for the now um I I can't tell you what we're going to be doing um six weeks from now but I can tell you that um uh very quickly we outgrow our own processes so um uh but making sure that we're um getting those um knowing that we are a large school district knowing that we have a lot of um families that work for our school districts and their students attend our schools we know that we had to prepare for um for exposures um so I uh looked at the John Hopkins online uh contact tracing program um it's it's actually about a 12-hour program but I um identified on the actual communication that needed to get the information that we needed to get and uh using that information then we uh created a health screening tracker um that once we have that um conversation with that employee we are then able to um input that information into the health screening tracker um HR then takes over um at the leaves portion once we have an outcome and once we know what leaves they need to utilize um again this is one of the areas that very quickly I'm we're going to outgrow in risk management and we're already uh working with classified HR to train staff there and um you know just again because of our numbers we know that we may very well have to um ask for additional resources to be sure that they are able to um manage contact tracing because what I can tell you is that if done correctly contract tracing can take up to 4 to five hours you you're actually reaching out to that employee you're having a conversation with them you're establishing a report because at the end of the day this is our private healthcare information and so you want to be sure that you're protecting them you want to assure them that you're protecting them um and then um there's the follow-up right we need to make sure that they've reached out to their physician we need to make sure that they got to that testing we need to make sure that they're following up with their doctor for the results um and we want to make sure that they get over um to utilize those appropriately Diana yes quick clarification you mentioned health screeners and then you also mentioned contact tracers I'm assuming these are the same or are you saying Health screeners are just basically checking for um um what do you call your temperature and then we're having a separate set of folks who are being trained as contact tracers yes I apologize I actually moved over into our health our contact tracing Health uh um our tracker so I apologize I transitioned moved on from the h screening now we're talking uh contact tracing um so right now uh the majority of the contact tracing is being performed by me um uh Melanie Thomasson is supporting that um but very soon um other staff members in the classified um HR department will also be trained um because it simply can't be performed um by by one or two folks um it takes quite a bit of time so so there are folks in the district office folks that are trained in confidentiality and know how to maintain that those are your folks that you want to um conduct your contact tracing um so uh uh the next area um that that we talked about is risk assessment right so risk assessment are typically performed by people that are um uh educated in the um OSHA um requirements for risk assessment you have to be knowledgeable in how to um assess identify control and mitigate the risk uh so knowing that I'm one person knowing that I'm not able to get out to our large large sites but knowing that we have a a great group of of very um well abled administrators we again went to our trainer of trainer models and um basically created a a video that imparted on uh administrators at their school sites how to um Implement controls and so controls are how you mitigate the hazard our Hazard is infection right how do you control that and so the um training gave them tools it gave them a chart a form it simplified the process for them so that they were able to um uh look at the key areas identified and indicate how they're going to create those controls um know that this is a process that um I meet with each principal regularly I'm meeting with them if they have any questions in between I'm meeting with them after they've looked at their priority areas and I'm meeting with them after they've um we they've uh made some changes as necessary um so they're definitely receiving support I'm I'm not leaving them out there um unsupported uh but in the meantime what I'm doing is I'm working on the other parts of the risk assessment that can be uh used as a whole for the district um so working with our our sites we have um the major vast vast majority completed with the priority areas the priority areas for your information are those areas um that support our clerical staff because they are the ones that we know are returning starting with the beginning of July and so we're just prioritizing who's coming back first and are those areas safe for them to return um knowing that we we have in coronavirus world we have good time right now for this one area um so uh I am meeting with all of the schools um after we got the schools off and running then I turned my attention to the district office specifically every single department and every single coordinator and director um we have uh trained the business division they are um uh again almost done with all of their risk assessments we're meeting uh actually I'm sorry I lose time we met with about half of um education yesterday we'll be meeting with the other half when they're back from non-duty in a couple of weeks and then um they got off to a really great start they were already saying stay behind let's have talks so so that's on its way as well and we're doing the same for um HR so supporting them and making sure that every area every staff member is safe for them to return and making sure that they have all the support they need um and then finally just um supporting the other areas such as Athletics registration all the areas that Mr cologne spoke about and making sure that our communication is always clear and and making sure that employees and and parents and our community feel um uh know that what we are doing and so part of that is making sure that our illness and injury prevention program as required by kosha is up to date with a Corona virus program um and so I am working on that making sure that we adhere to a requirement by hosia that um every employer shall have a coronav virus mitigation plan um so that is one of the things that um will fall under risk management will take care of that on behalf of the district um so uh working really hard to just make sure that um we we cover as much as we possibly can in order to protect um not only our staff but our students but our community as well we know that we're very tight in a community and um you know one exposure can impact multiple sites across the district and so um for us it becomes even more important to ensure that we have tight protocols in place and we're doing the very best that we can for our staff and students that's all thank you Diana and thank you Mr cologne uh so board president Rand TR I know we've spoken about how blessed we are to have the team that we have but it's been remarkable uh to see everything that we're doing unfold U given the urgency around all that's going on uh and as I said I think July 2 we of our study session that really will be a great space for District staff and board jly dialogue about the specific the logistics about what this is going to look like and then we'll have because that's the only thing on the agenda so we'll really be able to go deep on that day to really talk more about what this is going to look like that concludes our report I'm G to turn it over uh to you all right thank you so much and I hear you uh I will hold my question um for uh for that meeting um this was an amazing report thank you so much and how did we get so lucky to get Diana I just don't know but thank you everyone I know how hard you've been working and um you know go on your vacation thank you you're on your vacation let's let everybody know my goodness and you're here at a board meeting so thank you so much Jaren and thank you everybody please take time for yourselves okay we we need you in the fall uh ready to go and uh but you do really need to take some time for yourselves so uh I'm just with that moving on to 10.2 public hearing opening uh public hearing on the 2020 21 proposed budget uh did we have uh any more uh public comments we did not receive anything other than the budget comment read previously okay thank you and then I'm turning this over to uh Jennifer root your microphone sorry about that so good morning is something I don't think I've said in a presentation to a board ever and so good morning um board president Randall tro Board of Trustees Mr matsuda cabinet and our staff and community so the other thing I've not done yet in a board meeting is actually presented a PowerPoint via um this process so I'm going to post my vid my presentation on the screen what that probably will mean is that I won't be able to definitely see your faces so I'm gonna ask if you can hold questions to the end if you can't please feel free you'll just have to speak up um but I'm going to try that now so let's see how the success goes so you should see my slideshow right now and so um probably if I had to entitle this I would have changed the title from proposed adopted budget 2021 2021 to a topic of a tale of two budgets and the reason for that is that currently we are in a position where we have been um presented with two very very different options of what may happen in our fiscal future as districts throughout the state and so to start to just again thank the contributors truly every person that has involved in our budget as a contributor one thing to really point out this time is many of you don't realize that when Jerry chenaran does the budget for adopted budget she's really managing two budgets she's managing the conclusion of the 1920 District budget and ensuring where our actuals came out and and adjustments as need be and then she's building based on that the 2021 budget um and in addition to that based on what we know our needs are I requested that she create a scenario 2 2020 2021 budget and she was able to do that as well and so kudos to her for for not only working with two budgets this year but three so that we have the best information to be able to provide to you today as our Board of Trustees as many of you know um the the legislature did propose a budget to the governor on the 15th of June which is required of them to continue to be paid the governor then has until June 30th to um act on that budget and so we should within the next 12 days hopefully know what our situation is so you're going to hear two scenarios today and hopefully they will they you'll understand the differences between the two so each year our Board of Trustees must authorize an operating budget by June 30th it is held at a public meeting and a public hearing must be held which is what we just did we then submit the adopted budget to the Orange County Department of Ed and then it goes to California Department of Education as well because we must act on what we know at the current time the the the data points being used for this budget we're presenting for approval today are based on the governor's May budget within what you've received you've received um narrative disclosures our supplemental documents our multi-year projections legally we are required to do current year and two additional years in Anaheim Union because we are such a large organization we have very strategically added a third oute which allows us to Pivot as needed and to be able to um respond very thoughtfully to any issues we may see in our future you also have our budget stabilization plan and then the required State forms so beginning as always with our financial Trends and Analysis we have our enrollment data and as you can see it continues to be where we are um experiencing significant decline as a school district within the state over 50% of the districts Statewide have declining enrollment the highest um results of decline have actually been targeted into Orange County and into Los Angeles County as the two most impacted districts or counties over this nine-year period this results in a 3,754 student decline in enrollment and just looking out from 20 1920 for the next four years we are anticipating a decline of 1,927 students one thing we did build into our data was an additional 1% enrollment drop because of covid um this year because we've had some um changes in our enrollment we actually consulted with a company um that we presented to you at a board meeting earlier this year in a study session their data did come out very similar to what we had already projected so it did validate that but we made a decision as a Cabinet to recommend a 1% additional decrease because of covid-19 knowing school students May a not be returning to the classroom or B because of the economy may be moving out of Orange County we feel that that could have been a higher percentage but we feel with the board's Swift action in approving the Cambridge Virtual Academy allowing families to have virtual online experiences that we will have a lesser decline than we would have had had we not been able to swiftly do that that translates into our average daily attendance and you see a similar projection for that data however just to caution that this is based on a current the current Ada model at this point we do not know what our average daily attendance will be based on we were provided a hold harmless for the end of last year and that they moved what is called our P2 attendance window up to the end of February and hold held districts harmless for the remaining months of school based on the covid-19 school closures we also um currently there was there is not actually at this point funding for extended school year for our special education students which has typically been an average daily attendance model however based on um reaching out and working collaboratively with our Teachers Association um both Lisa AK and Grant Schuster were able to reach out to State um organizations with CTA and Advocate on behalf of all districts for that and um was very excited to get a message from Grant the other day that there is trailer language being proposed to hold districts harmless for um extended school year and I know that's over about a half a million dollars for our district um so we're we'll be very happy to see that trao language so we don't know what Ada will look like at this point hopefully after the the governor's um budget is signed there will be language in there that will help us to be able to give you a better sense of what that will look like for us for the future so you then look at our Revenue our unrestricted and restricted revenues are $373 million as you can see the Lion Share of it is state revenue approximately 92% of our budget projected for next year will come from the state of California and so what we know from that is as the state economy goes so does the school district economy and that's where we're seeing issues right now um the economy has been a bit challenge because it was already starting to enter a recession but then covid-19 exacerbated that and now um we have a lot of um unfilled um informational gaps at the state level which then translates into um budgetary issues for the school district another way of looking at that same data how how do we receive our dollar and and so you can see most of it again is through the state and so we want to watch that one of the areas we receive money funding in is our unduplicated pupil count and I'd added this chart last year just to remind the board that this has been um what may not seem like a large percentage but a very volatile figure for us we've been as high as over 74% and projecting to go we've gone down just over 71% and this is based on three categories of students our free and R reduced lunch students our foster Youth and our English language Learners um with our free and reduced lunch students it will be interesting to see in the next year if we maintain waivers from USDA and all children can eat for free there's not going to be a motivation to turn necessarily turn in that free and reduced lunch form and so at that point I think we would be reaching out again to the state to advocate for some sort of hold harmless for a duplicated pupil count and this percentage translates into additional supplemental concentration Grant dollars for our our district which allows us to um increase or improve services for our children that are on duplicated pupils so once we have our money we need to look at how we spend our money and So currently based on next year's budget that we're presenting to you we have 84% of our budget going towards salaries and benefits a point to note is that that is an increase from um second in at second interim it was 71% so as our budget shrink we have made we've been able to make some reductions outside of our salaries and benefits and so it our salaries and benefits are now becoming a larger portion of our district expend budget expenditures again a same similar way to see the same information so when we built the budget we again worked on the assumptions that were provided through the governor through school Services of California and through the Orange County Department of Education and currently right now the recommendation is a 0% what they're now calling Cola and augmentation and that refers to the cost of living adjustment at second interim it was projected to be I think it was 2.29% there was a um it was actually um predicted it would raise to 2.31% and then when it came through it it's now predicted at zero what's considered a 0 perc but also if you look under that in red there's a budget Grant pration rate and that is a Nega 7.92% so if you just take the dollars that we received last year as a school district not only are we not receiving Cola but we're receiving 7.92% less dollars than we received in 2019 20 you'll also see a decline in funded Ada of 504 students because we are a um declining enrollment District that 504 student decline is based on last year's um decrease in enrollment and Ada so not based on on our additional ad for the covid this is based on last year's data our duplicated percentage is a 73.015 and our three-year rolling average which is what we're funded on is at 73.2 n% So within that budget our our changes to our expenditures we did um Jerry did an amazing job at going into each line item looking at at where we could continue to tighten our belt where we where we could look at where we had money um we made reductions for Staffing and enrollment declin we made the appropriate increases for step column longevity Health and Welfare person stirs and again contributions to special education but also it is very important to note that the board understand that we have a global reduction of $10 million in response to the governor's May budget proposal what that means is we did not we have not identified those reductions we have not made those reductions what we are saying is that the Govern in order to pass our budget we need to make beginning July 1 of 2020 so 12 days away we need to the process to identify $10 million in reductions for the 2020 2021 school year we as um as explained a little bit earlier as a school district because of ensuring that we are fiscally solvent because we are such a large responsibility to our employees we are required to provide that we are fiscally solvent for the current year and two out years we do project a third year out and we'll share that with you as well so based on the next three years they are putting a cola figure in so in 2122 it is 2.48% but then they are saying that there is a puration of 12.18% in 2223 they're saying there is a cola but then it's a peration of 14.9% and the same thing in 232 before they're assigning a cola but then they're PR rating it and which in effect means they're they're taking that Cola away and still maintaining that 7.92% um reduction of our budget in decline in funded Ada in 2122 you will notice the decline in funded Ada of 650 students that is due to the number we previously held there based on our projections again along with a a a figure of approximately 290 students that we anticipate we could lose due to covid-19 due to people leaving the the area because of the economy or not returning to schools and so that we did we were conservative in that um I know we've talked previously of numbers that could be up to 5% there's no way to project this so we we did a projection that we feel is adequate but we also feel is conservative in some ways as well our unduplicated count percentage it stays fairly stable of small loss each year projected and then you see the declines of 573 students or Ada and 347 Ada we did not make any additional reductions to those those are the numbers that are being projected for the future we had felt that the impacts because of of covid would occur in this first year and if we see that that is continuing into out years we will make those reductions at further budgets so the budget stabilization plan was actually a document created by our district and adopted by our board back in 201617 it was a projection with reductions scheduled in each year we actually were very fortunate that because as money became available we were able to work collaboratively with our associations to be able to shift some of those reductions out um to outter years to again be able to um save position as long as we really felt we could um so we do have we've added to this we still have the same reductions we've had previously um but we have all which U we have moved some of them up we have moved up three assistant principles they were slotted for reduction in 2021 22 we were able to do that early for savings we reduced two counselors as well and then identified reductions at the end of this year or for CSA it's December of 2021 we still have one assistant principal one counselor 26 teachers as a result of the student load mou 11 office assistants two campus AIDS and three attendance supervisors what is new to this document is this in the last bullet which is the inclusion of $10 million in ongoing reductions for each of three years so in 2020 2021 10 million and then it's an additional 10 million in 2021-22 which would mean overall a combined 20 million that year the third year 2022 2023 is an additional 10 million which again would be 30 million in in cumulative reductions by that year how we put them into the budget because they've not been identified is we divided it it up utilizing the the same percentages as our expenditures so we didn't want to um put that in put all them into um either our supplies or our um external Services because we know that it's going to be across the board and so we put it in by percentages so that we were able to put it in to what would look like something that may actually happen but that of course would be up to a committee or a group that would need to convene to identify the the reductions and then we will report specific recommendations for reductions at either the 45-day budget revision or at the first interim budget report in December our multi-year plan as you can see um I start you always by saying if you'd go to the bottom right hand corner you will see that for 2023 2024 we did not attempt to make that positive that would have been as you can see another approximately 10 million dollar and ongoing reductions we would need to make to make that year positive in the change in fund balance line you see four red numbers which means that each year we are spending more than we are receiving in Revenue so our fund balance is decreasing over that time you will also see that if you go down under the projected ending fund balance under assigned is that through this budget that we are presenting we are slowly eliminating the additional 3% Reserve that the board allowed us to carry for um volatility in our budget and so we've taken a little bit out of it each year until it is gone at the end of 2223 and the other thing that this budget um contains is that we had we've been able over the past few years to build up a solid budget for textbook adoptions and so that would look the same thing we took some of it each year and this would zero out that budget um again things that we don't want to do but we would need to do because if not we would have had to increased that $10 million in ongoing reductions our reserve for economic uncertainty we are always legally required to have a 3% Reserve if you were to look at that 2023 24 school year obviously to make that n negative 9 million zero we would not have our negative 3% Reserve we would only have about two two um million dollars of that so about 20% one area I always caution you to look at is our structural deficit within our district just like in your household if you spend more than you receive each month eventually you will will um utilize your savings or max out your credit cards and so with a school district we we have our ending fund balance which would be thought of as our our savings account and so each year we are spending more than we are receiving and you can see that that number with the governor's proposal grows to in 2023 2024 $33 million in um structural deficit and so what that would show is even though we're negative 9 million in 2023 2024 if we added in that 9 million when we get to 2024 25 if there's not a change in how schools are funded we would have to make a significant amount of additional reductions so from there we now have budget scenario two and what we tried to predicate this on was what we assume from the legislative proposal and so so whereas we made some assumptions of this personally because there is no proposal out there that contains all of the data we need we actually we added um we this is how we we created this particular scenario we based it on fully funding the Cola in both 2020 2021 and the out years which also included the elimination of that prated figure we restored the CTE G money which again is approximately $1.6 million a year for our school district we continued to include the $2.3 billion do that is in both budget scenarios for funding relief for the employer statutory contributions towards stirs and purs and then we from the ahd perspective we eliminated the $10 million in reductions in each of the years that we had put put them in so based on those budget scenario assumptions this would be what our budget would look like we would still be having a a reduction in our ending fund balance every year but you can look at that bottom corner of our available reserves that that is a much healthier number moving from negative 9 million to positive almost 31 million we still continue to have a structural deficit and we continue to watch it grow and so again something we would have to um grapple with and work to eliminate if we're going to um continue to have funding in out years um and so what are the challenges that are leading to these issues obviously first and foremost is the covid-19 and the funding from the state but really one of our biggest funding issues continues to be the local control funding formula model was fully implemented in 201819 and we are currently living in a cost of living adjustment or Cola environment right now Cola is slotted to be zero for four years um it has been between anywhere from zero to Mid threes in the past four to five years yet School services will say based on our needs for steping column our needs for Health and Welfare for stir and purs and for basic increases we need approximately 4% and so every year this implementation of an Educational Funding model that is is a deficit model in itself it's not fully funding schools it's fully funding the local control funding formula um we need to see a change there we also have our student enrollment Decline and I'll Show a slide so next year if based on our 504 Ada that we are declining at a cost we typically receive $1,415 per student on average our lost revenue for that is $5.2 million so then you look at how do you how do you um account for that in your budget so if you just look for for what typically is changed that it it's the teachers we typically at the end of each year we evaluate how many teachers we do we need for the next year so if you looked at 5004 Stu students um it would be 16 teachers at our contractual 32 to1 ratio and that's approximately $1.6 million School Services created this model and they estimated about $400 for Ada and miscellaneous savings so that's still $1.8 million what that means is outside of the the the classroom and that that relief of teachers for the number of students reducing the district still needs to identify 3.4 million in reductions to offset that and so that's often the part that that we don't look at each time we have a decline that we need to keep in our our um L um line of sight so if you look at our funding decline overall this would be the projection over the next four years so in 2023 2024 simply for the one factor of our declining enrollment we would be receiving approximately $20 million less than we currently receive stirs and purs this is actually an area where we have we've had some level of relief the last year and uh two years actually now but you can see that back in 12 2012 13 we paid 8.25% um for stirs for our certificated employees and 11.42% for our classified employees you can see those numbers have continued to grow I'm not sure if it would be statistically exponentially but it feels expon exponentially when we place it in our budget and So currently for 20 um 20221 we are seeing a 16.15% for um stirs and a 20.7% for uh purs so what that means is for every $100 that we pay for a teacher salary or certificate an employee salary that includes our Administration we pay $16.15 toward the employer contribution for their retirement for a classified employee that dollar figure for every $100 would be $20.70 this year again the governor last year and this year the governor has applied some level of relief and so that is why we see the decline in in um stirs and not as quick an increase in purs but if you look at the three piles of dollar fig or dollar bills at the top of the page you can see the back in 12 20123 for every student we were paying approximately $594 towards retirement when we come out to 2023 24 for every student will be paying a537 so that's over tripling of the cost of our sters and Pur based on a per student Factor Health and Welfare and this chart is a little misleading so I I want to take some a moment to explain it so as I always say we have an outstanding Health and Welfare committee I know from our Board of trusties we have um trusty piery and trusty Smith on the committee and they know the hard work that goes into it you can see that back in 20091 we were paying about $ 39.9 million in our benef Health and Welfare benefits for our employees um for 201920 that amount is estimated to be 54.2 million we do a fabulous job at Cost Containment and trying to reduce the cost of our Health and Welfare we also know that as all things go up over time Health and Welfare ALS also does so you'll see that for 2020 2021 we are projecting a 53.1 million do and part of the reason for that decline is not that we were able to do anything that created that savings that is based upon a reduction of employees due to that the staff we've already reduced early this year as well as that $10 million in employee reduction that we are assuming we will make so we were actually anticipating um Karen or did a calculation for this and we were anticipating approximately a $1.9 million increase in Health and Welfare from last year to this year in overall costs so the decline you're seeing is not Apples to Apples from 201920 to 20221 that is with a significant 10 million reduction which approximately eight million of that is out of salary in Health and Welfare fa we continue to see the cost of special ed increase um we are funded we have been typically funded on an ADA model and as we've seen Ada decline in school districts we have seen case loads in special education increase each year we are consistently adding special education classes to meet the needs of our students as well as wor seeing um placements in a non-public schools or in smaller class sizes based on the needs that they hold um over time you can see that we are in 201718 and again I haven't seen this updated yet we were paying as a district approximately 66% of the cost of special education was funded by school districts with 88.4% being funded by the federal government and 25.7% funded by the state government so although this is a Le Al mandate it is um a woefully deficiently funded mandate however this year we do have um good news um in on the horizon in both proposals um there is support for additional funding for special education um based on an additional dollar figure for Ada and So currently right now we receive approximately $552 per Ada of all students not just special education students for special education the governor's proposal is to raise that to $645 um I believe the legislature's proposal was around $625 at the $645 that would generate approximately 2.5 million in additional dollars for special education but that we would still be having a general F contribution and tens of the millions of dollars from our general fund to still support special education but we do appreciate and applaud the state for recognizing this impact to school districts and for both sides making recommendations to help start to mitigate that so next steps are that we would um in another item we will ask the board to take formal action to approve the 2021 adopted budget and then we will submit it to the Orange County Department of ation by June 30th again as soon as the budget is a adopted by the um the governor and the state we will begin to analyze it plug in the figures that we receive the assumptions into our budget and be able to come up with something because when we look at the tale of two budgets we have what I feel like we have is two extremes I think that everybody out there and I saw this in csba in an article yesterday we don't think it's going to be the governor's budget or the legislature's budget we think it's going to be somewhere in the middle and so at that point we need to see where that middle ground lies we also need to be cautious to remember that even if the budget is is approved on June 30th there's still a lot of unknowns at the state level um property tax or income tax was delayed until July 15th so the state does not know what type of completely property taxes they're going to receive we don't know how long our our um economy will be impacted by covid um and the and so those are things we still need to be cautious and um we need to be conservative in the future because we could still have unexpected declin regardless of which budget was passed so I'm GNA stop sharing and say um any questions that I can answer for you today wow how was a roller coaster ride no I shared with our superintendent that you know I either can take a budget crisis or a pandemic but we can't do both at the same time so somebody needs to figure that out for us because one is hard two two is rough but ultimately like I think jiren shared at the end and I actually I think you shared it um president Randall tro we have an amazing team we have tough decisions we have to make but we're making them and you know we always have the vision of the board knowing what is most important in in in educating our children and as well as keeping our employees safe and so we have that lens to look at every decision through thank you I just think we need to really shout out to federal government to start funding more that they're supposed to they're supposed to fund 40% and they're down at eight this is outrageous you know these unfunded mandates and we all need to start screaming loud and clear not just for state but for federal it just really irritates me Ah that's very true anyone else have any questions comments I'll just uh I'll just say Jennifer as always it's a great presentation and uh I know we got some tough times ahead but I think uh as a team we've always pulled through so I know that we will come through on top with this uh I I do want to give a shout out to all our uh uh affiliate uh Union leadership and the team I think they're basic basically one they understand the uh crisis that we're in and I'm glad that they're all working with us uh closely to get things done uh it's it's a tough now having said that I just wanted to correlate your I know it's not a specific budget question to this particular presentation I know we got the Corona virus or Corona relief uh I think it's about what six million correct Jennifer so they're actually gonna be four pots of money that we will receive for Coronavirus relief the first one was sv17 money which was approximately uh 500,000 the second was what is called the Esser money from the cares act that was about 6.8 million there will be something called gear money deer which is a learning um loss mitigation funding and then there's a fourth pot I actually read about last night for the first time and they have not figured out how they're allocating it yet Z so far what what has come to the district I know they're all allocated but in terms of us having it in uh uh on hand to so the only thing we have received currently our district is the initial $500,000 I believe that the the the es Mone I've not heard that we've we've received it as yet we've set up the budget we're applying expenditures there that it is coming um but we' not my okay so the second question that I have I know when Diana Di was making her presentation uh she had mentioned and and I think uh even Manel making presentations on purchasing you know kits for our uh vapa students and all that I'm assuming all that is going to be coming out of these pots which we are receiving correct it absolutely it runs out we weed up the money as a Cabinet um where we felt the money should go to to set up the budget knowing that it needs to be and flexible we started with approximately I think it was $1.25 million for technology because of the lead time on that we needed to get that spent quickly we're also assigning budgets to each site and some of the major departments for PP and cleaning needs so that they have access to that we've assigned the $400,000 that we've spoken about about vaa and art we also allocated $200,000 for some software for instruction and then we're just and we've also put the money into salaries for some of the work that's being done with um recruitment for C to retain students in this virtual environment because we know families are bring their children back and we need to be able to reach out them um and then working on this whole tracking and tracing piece as well okay so uh while I was on this meeting I know I received a text message right now asking how many uh masks we need as a district uh so there is an organization which is willing to donate so I guess we'll take it offline and you you and I could talk about uh uh maybe asking a considerable amount of mass donation absolutely we would love it thank you Brian or Kathy well um I want to tell you that I admire and respect your work and I think that when you're dealing with such a huge unknown it is put you out in a plane that's very difficult to figure out and I really understand that what your concerned and what you're having to deal with and I just want to thank you thank you Dr root as always your presentation is very understandable not only to the board but I think to General Public which we certainly appreciate and we know it's a difficult situation that you're under in trying to give us the information that we need in order to properly um maintain uh fiscally sound District so we appreciate all that you do for us and look forward to hopefully some good news at the end of the month that we can celebrate with even though it won't be where we really need to be so thank you thank you thank you I say another thing too I failed to say to Jennifer good job and it was really good presentation I was just insense because when I looked at that one chart it irritates me it has irritated me for a long time so but I apologize for not saying first what a good job you've done I actually appr I actually appreciated your outrage a little more than even your think that outrage me too this is true and and I was just thinking that I'm so glad the legislature came through there are a lot of organizations out there advocating uh and csba is out there as well so I think you know they listen to us I almost wish that they would have um you know pushed it a little bit over the top uh instead of yeah you know go over EST go over more so that you know the but the governor could push back and say okay we'll you know we'll leave it even now I think there's too much room to take a little bit um from us uh that we were that we were expecting so um it's it's just a sad uh turn of events um but again thank you Jennifer you're um always very um I don't want to say enthusiastic but you you give us hope and you make us feel uh uh um you know good about uh about what we're doing in the district and that um it's a team effort um I know you're you're taking a lot of time um in putting this together but thank the team and we appreciate you so much uh with that I close public hearing moving on to items of business resolutions 11.1 resolution number 20920 db-8 adjustments to income and expenditures general fund resolution number db-9 adjustments to income and expenditures various funds and proposed budgets all funds action so second second okay uh questions or comments uh Mr O'Neal actually hit this is what I'm going to do if you have any comments We'll add it to your vote so we're not going through twice is that that will be okay if you have questions I guess I thumbs up thank you okay uh uh Mr O'Neal hi Mr bar I miss piery I uh Miss Smith I and myself I uh 11.2 resolution number 201920 db-2 education protection account action item so moved second okay moved and seconded any comments or questions okay uh call for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Mrs piery I Mrs Smith I and myself I item 11.4 resolution number 2019-20 dbot e oops d-06 black lives matter uh action item did we skip 11.3 11.3 sorry we're at 11.3 yeah I apologize I didn't page over sorry going back 11.3 thank you resolution number db-21 emergency resolution for repair of weight room and gym floors at catella high school action item so okay may I speak quickly on this item just to give the board an update and first and foremost I do want to apologize um it was brought to our attention we did not send um information out about this and so um what happened was we all know our buildings are getting older just like we are and we had a pipe break at catella high school we were able to work incredibly quickly George Moreno our um maintenance supervisor did an outstanding job in communicating to us internally what was going on but because of the fact that it was water and water left sitting creates damage you can't wait to enact the repair so we did need to enact an emergency resolution um the surface we we knew would be clean would be um repaired restored prior to students ever being back on campus even if we were coming back for esy so we knew there was no impact to our our staff or our students with this in in moving forward but because we did need to do it in emergency resolution similar to how we did the Kennedy um project about a six months ago I think we do have to have a a vote for all people and with emergency resolution it is a unanimous vote from the the board that is required thank you Jennifer and I I remember you talking about this you gave us information maybe you just didn't give the followup but I I remember you reporting this I don't I I mean I know I asked a question too because uh as a board I know we we were not but you know completely agree in terms of uh everybody's overwhelmed and you needed to get this J done really fast so I have no problem with it it was just a matter of us knowing as board members that this happened was crucial information so and and we've established I worked with my team so within our communication protocol internally one of the questions now is do we need to communicate this to the board so we're always driving you know it's never about the blame of of whether or not it happened it's about how do we fix it for the future and so we we've added a step in that we will hopefully not have that happen again again my apologies well that's good you know and I agree with with Al things will happen but it's usually you know we get a call from Mike saying hey this happened and so that's you know basically all it needs you know and then we're all kind of gonna be behind any emergency me me you know measures that need to be taken but I you know it just is kind of like oh how come we weren't notified that's that's just a a thing so hopefully it won't happen again okay uh it was moved and seconded uh call for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss pery hi Miss Smith I and I vote I okay now 11 point for resolution number 2019-20 dbot D6 black action item moved and seconded I'll second okay all righty uh we have some um public comments on this item we do uh there's a number of public comments so I I will go ahead and and read those to you uh the first com from Libby folman uh and she says I strongly support the staff recommendation to adopt resolution number 201920 db- 06 affirming that black lives matter as is stated in the resolution stating that black lives matter does not in any way diminish one anyone of any other race I further hope that all schools in the district will participate in the black lives matter at school week from February 3rd to the 7th 2021 and in the first weeks of instruction of the 2020 2021 year both this resolution and the educational piece will allow Anaheim to set a positive example for other districts in the area the next comment comes from Reverend D Thomas of Anaheim uh Reverend Thomas States I believe that we need to educate people people that black lives matter the major impact that black lives have had in society and the detriment to society by killing of unarmed black men they have been murdered by the police almost daily oh yes having the school speak on this the first week of Black History Month February will be very educational and informative to other cultures not for one moment saying that all other lives don't matter it is just at this time we would like to bring attention to the black lives that have been taken unjustly and no justice has been given to the families by The Taking of these lives by the police our next comment comes from Tristan Mt daily board please take up and pass the resolution in support of black lives matter as a SoCal resident with four children ages 17 to six I consider this to be of the utmost importance our next comment comes from aah breno chairwoman of the democratic party of Orange County dear Board of Trustees thank you for your service to the community I am writing to express my strong support of your resolution and support of black lives and urge you to pass this important agenda item passage of this item will send a much needed critical message to black students and families and students and families of color during these challenging times we need positive actions like yours that lead through inclusion please pass this item thank you aah breno our next comment comes from Rabbi Steven Einstein uh congre congregation sedc uh in Fountain Valley dear trustees I write to you as a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Fountain Valley School District I understand very well the influence School boards have on their Community it goes well beyond creating education policy it truly sets the tone for the culture in which people are living today one of the gravest problems our nation faces is racism all people of Good Will must work together to battle this Scourge in this light I urge your board to issue a strong statement in support of complete Racial equality and opposing hate in all its forms Respectfully yours rabbi stepen our next comment comes from Rachel Pok uh who states dear Board of Trustees thank you for your hard work for Anaheim students families and faculty please vote Yes in support of the resolution for black lives matter now is the time for change and communities need your leadership to move us forward this is a meaningful action that will do a great deal of good thank you the next comment comes from Sheena inocente uh mssw and she states dear Anaheim Union School District I am a social worker who was born and raised in Orange County many of the clients I serve are suffering due to racial biases held against them hearing that leaders in their Community Support black lives matter would communicate care and concern for them it would also serve to show them you are listening and hearing what they are saying black lives matter is being supported by many young people although it sounds cliche we must keep reminding ourselves that young people are the future I strongly encourage you to support black lives matter by passing the upcoming proposed resolution thank you for your time on this matter our next comment comes from Joanne fley who states hello Board of Trustees superintendent matsuda and the cabinet members I am in support of the resolution it may be useful to know that two weeks ago a petition was started to remove the name of plumber from the historic auditorium at Fullerton High School in two weeks over 27,000 people signed the petition based on the comments people outside of Fullerton joined the cause the name was removed at Tuesday's meeting of the Fullerton joint Union High School Board of Trustees meeting I am proud to have put the removal of the name on the agenda that move indicated support for our for the movement in our community and Nation to recognize the damaging history to support our students of color I teach government at Cypress High School where I am also the black student union adviser I respectfully ask that you approve the black lives matter resolution thank you our next comment comes from Dr Fred Calhoun president of the Orange County California branch of the naac over the last few months America has experienced a very barbaric part of the land of the free and Home of the Brave this part of America seems to be known only to God and the millions of African-Americans and some other diverse Americans this is not a condemnation of white people as a significant number of them have fought the good fight for all Americans however all the evidence that has been presented to high American officials has not resulted in appropriate Justice for African-Americans and some other racial groups America has been selfish related to Justice now is the time for the nation to step forward and address Justice for All Americans in all professions and opportunities the stability of the nation is more than ever before now contingent on Fair Play for all Americans in addition I strongly support the resolution of the Board of Trustees the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees resolution number 201920 dbot d06 sincerely Dr Fred S calhon our next comment comes from Andrea Gusman an Anaheim Union High School District resident who states to whom it may concern I am a graduate of the Anaheim Union High School District I attended John F Kennedy High School and currently still live in the city of Anaheim I'm writing to you today in support of the resolution in support of black lives matter the ahsd student body is diverse black and brown students need to know that their distinct Val that their District values them and is taking concrete steps not just symbolic ones to prove it thank you Andrea Gman our next comment is from Dr shaa eagin and Carlo uh Davis uh employees of the district good morning president Randle Board of Trustees cabinet and Mr matsuda I am Dr shaa eagens director of student Support Services on behalf of African-American Educators and employees of ahsd we would like to thank you for putting forward the resolution 11.4 black lives matter this resolution demonstrates your commitment as a district to raise awareness for our community our staff and our students about the racial disparities across all sectors of soci society as in true ahsd fashion we are a district that values Civic engagement and being on the forfront of to take action Mr Carlo Davis teacher at catella high school and I will co-lead a task force that will meet with superintendent matsudo regularly this group will be a coalition of Educators within the district that will focus on issues impacting African-American students families and staff in ahsd again I would i' like to thank Mr matsuda for opening the door for conversation for his leadership on this issue and for the board's support for this historical moment in our district and our final comment let me verify that it is in fact our final comment comes from Alfredo Heredia of Anaheim who states there is no such thing as a city of kindness without Racial equality I would hope that the city of kindness' school board would understand this by voting for resolution 11.4 black lives H black lives have been the most targeted by our institutions and schools should have should be a Haven for these young men and women who need to be given an opportunity to find their voice to defend themselves from systemic and legislative violence a week devoted to Black Excellence will be sure to achieve that for them it will provide non-black students the chance to understand how to be an ally and advocate for racial equality while uplifting the voes that have been silenced for the sake of comfort through convenience and order through oppression I'd go so far as to say that a black lives matter week should be required at every ahsd school and in ethic studies course be mandatory like our neighbors in Santa Ana have done do the moral thing and let our black students know that we won't stand for their silencing that concludes comment thank you Carl for reading uh the uh public comments and just to uh remind the board members that there was uh an amendment to um to the uh item and that I will read it for uh the public at the end it says be it further resolved that the Board of Trustees of the Anaheim Union High School District requests that the superintendent convene a task force to advise the district on matters affecting black students and staff and if there um are no questions and we'll just go ahead and call okay yeah let me I not necessarily a question but a clarification Shauna's comment referred to this Coalition correct isn't that she's part of that oh okay that's what I thought because so she and let me see uh Carlos Carlo Davis Carlo Davis uhuh yeah okay so they are they're the ones heading up this okay good so we've already done it it's not GNA be done done okay that's excellent okay it is it is the uh um uh the there was a convening of uh employees and they um they gave uh emotional testimony as well as uh instructions and uh this was uh one of the things that had come out of it and um and so um um Michael matsuda appointed um shaa and Carlo as to be the co-leaders of this task force and uh as you're voting I guess if you want I'd like to ask a question okay when is when is that going to convene the task force yes uh I I don't know I don't have the details of that that's not up to me it's it's up to uh shaa and um Carlo I would like to be told because I would like to come and listen and I would like to hear what is shared in that uh task force I think this is timely because I left a message for the mayor um probably 10 days ago a week ago about starting that here in Anaheim and um it's timely and I truly think it's the good thing that we need to do okay and I have a question too now because we have stated the first week of Black History Month you know is going to be acknowledged but also the beginning of school now what is it that we have established or planned for that first week of school has it been done yet I I think that was just a comment from um was that Reverend Thomas's comment I no in the in the uh resolution it's on the resolution that we are establishing the first week of instruction of uh 2020 to be a black lives matter at school week as well uh besides so I I think those are uh questions that Mike and probably work with the team and I'm sure the task force will have input on to uh um to implement certain programs so our our yeah thank you Mr Jabar and thank you for that question u m piy it's my understanding that it's just uh giving permission to create awareness kind of like we did the covid-19 uh project it's not nothing's going to be imposed on teachers or um but I think it's uh working with this uh task force um coming up with suggestions on creating maybe projects are more awareness about um this challenge so um I I see it as something like the covid-19 piece okay as long as there's some direction or suggestion for the teachers in other words because I saw the statement and I thought well what what are they going to do and so let's let's give them some direction of what they could say or just hint at or just say come on let's all get behind this yeah that's why it's important um I'm glad that shaa is or sha eagin is uh um working on it she'll be uh obviously we all know her and Mr Carlo Davis the teacher I don't know as well but he really he sent it a a very articulate uh letter to the district and um I think that and and by the way a number of teachers who are not African-American but across ethnicities have U expressed an interest in learning more and uh about ways to integrate curriculum bringing in um more you know diverse voices and models into U appropriately into their curricular um areas so already we know that in vaa they there's it's very Multicultural there's a lot of teachers that already do that but um I think this the teachable moment for the teachers and to bring um more diverse diversity into the curriculum good point uh Michael and just remember everyone Grant shuster's um report that the uh teachers union has created a a a social justice um a t Task Force if you will as well um so um I'm gonna make a couple of comments uh I thought that we were going to go with the vote but um I I just want to say one I i' like to acknowledge the teachers union and Grant Sher with a statement I know I read it was emailed to us last night too so thank you grant and ASA for it I was fortunate enough to uh play a small role in uh leading with couple of teachers who live in Anaheim to organize a uh black lives matter uh rally on June 1st uh for our students so that they have the opportunity to not only come out and express their concerns but also to express frustration with the system um as a board member I know that uh I'm very glad that our board recognized and took action regarding the Savannah High School mascot this was all um uh old news but I think it's appropriate to kind of mention it uh in the Confederate statue that was in display at Savannah high school so I'm glad that we as a board took action on that I'm glad that the uh resolution is calling for a task force so that is very important uh rather than us sitting here and just passing resolutions I think ahsd has always been in the Forefront of not only passing resolutions but taking meaningful action to make sure that it reflects the resolution so I want to thank uh our board and also superintendent matsuda and the leadership for uh recognizing that I also want to take this opportunity I actually spoke to jiren about this I had a lengthy conversation about access to ethnic studies in our district and uh jiren I would like you to give a little bit of information about the access to exit studies for our students throughout our district but at the same time I want our board to join me in asking to establish a task force to see how we could Implement uh ethnic studies as a graduation requirement for Anaheim Union High School District so jiren let me go ahead and uh ask you to comment on that for me please yes thank thank you trusty Jabar So currently um we have ethnic studies and I want to say how proud I am that um you know prior to um everything that's been happening in the last few months uh we have already been offering um ethnic studies in our district so I think we were already ahead of many other districts in that sense although not a requirement we have been offering ethic studies to our students so I'm really proud of the fact that we were kind of out in front of that area as trustar said we've offered it in two different ways uh we have courses that our own teachers have taught as you know Paulo mgal who was a teacher at Le he was one of our first teachers to to have taught the course as a standalone course in our district it's been off program and of course the wear high school as well but that is the course is taught by our teachers we have also been fortunate in our partnership with our local community colleges through our pledge Cypress and flon college we've also offered ethnic studies through our dual enrollment program so Anaheim High School Anaheim ilc Savannah High School Western High School have offered um the ethnic studies course for our dual enrollment it has also been offered at some of our other high schools like Magnolia Cyprus Kennedy and catella but unfortunately at that time due to student interest or low student enrollment it wasn't able to continue however I would suspect especially given our current climate in in community that interest may have changed um so that's something our our sites will revisit uh in the fall in terms if that's something we can offer now to truste jabbar's other point in terms of um developing a potential task Force just so you all know as board members we have already been engaging as a district uh with our ASA executive board as as this is a possibility what this might look like if it became a requirement just so you know as board members really there are three potential options that that we could look at and we are looking at putting a task force together to explore these opportunities probably headed by our director of curriculum Carlos Hernandez one option is where it would be integrated into existing content or existing courses so that way as an example it could be built in or integrated into Social Studies classes like a US history class or an AP or a government class could be embedded into an English curriculum so where students all students who have to take those courses would now have access to this curriculum um as part of as part of their experience the second option is it could be a standalone class like we have right now as an elective option it could be a standalone where that becomes a required course in our district again this task force would need to look at would it be best suited in Social Studies English or other content areas and then a third option where it could be a combination of the two where it is a standalone course but it's also integrated into other content areas so I think that's where the task force and I'd work closely with Grant and his team because we definitely want teachers to be part of that process to help determine where it might best fit if it was a standalone where it might best fit if it is integrated and of course there's a process we already have the curriculum for the Standalone but if it's integrated what that might look like where it would be integrated into those content areas and then of course um not just embedding that into the curriculum but as you know there's a lengthy process in building capacity of teachers and doing a lot of training as as Mr matsuda said about the importance of not imposing we want to make sure that teachers really are familiar and comfortable with the curriculum that we'll be using and that it's done in a thoughtful and intentional way so um we've already begun the process actually to begin a task force at looking at what that might might look like um and of course once teachers return back um from the summer is when we would begin that work and we would have some ideas probably through um the first semester in terms of what that would look like to be able to give you some updates and then going through the process and training and if need be writing curriculum where that might be a good fit if it's integrated and I know as a Cabinet we've talked about the integrated approach as well as something that that we could also do so that's kind of the upate J what will be a reasonable timeline for us to expect a report to the board uh probably sometime in the F during the first semester when we have the task force conven and we start um and we can give you updates along the way but I think sometime around that time we'd have a sense of where we are as a committee and what it is we might want to do um moving forward okay I will I will bring it up again during our agenda uh new agenda item so that I could maybe place it on the agenda thank you okay uh does anyone uh else uh with to uh to share anything I just want to make a comment on what Dr freed just talked about and that is U our Forward Thinking uh as a district our our uh staff uh led by the cabinet and Mr mattuda and how they are thinking ahead out of the box and taking action to bring it back to the board for U what they are are are looking at I I think that just a small example of of of the type of leadership we have in our district and and why we are leaders in the educational field so that is just on a basic topic but for the uh resolution it's it's said that we have to have a resolution like this but it is so important that we have a resolution like this and that we are all on board as a as as a district as um as trustees and giving the the district um support and moving forward uh as we've been talking about up until now thank you thank you Mr O'Neal okay I will uh call for the vote um and I call roll call yes yes yes yes uh I am just thinking that uh I didn't mention this before um I Echo all of the uh the comments and the sentiments that everyone else has and I want to thank uh the public for weighing in um on this um you know historic uh resolution I wish Brian we wouldn't have to do something like this either but it's necessary and it is um very meaningful um and the meaning uh the meaning comes within the work that our district does with this uh the task force and um you know we're already talking we already have 15 uh democracy schools I know that our teachers are going to be um allowing our students to uh voice their opinions about this subject matter uh um when they're when they're doing their soapbox they uh speeches and and such and um I can't wait I think this is going to be a momentous year I also want to acknowledge um our leader our um superintendent for actually uh taking the time to uh meet with our employee oneon-one uh his letter was very eloquent as uh Mike said but eloquent in a lot of Anguish and hurt and so uh you he took the time to to meet with him and then convene employees together to listen to uh their stories um and it's not always easy to hear uh some of the blemishes that you have within your own district and um and employees uh not doing the right things and not making the right calls but that's what our district does we we we have those courageous conversations and um this is just I think the beginning of uh healing for our employees and it just sends a message of uh hope and it sets uh a tone for our students so um thank you every everyone and I will call the vote uh Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar I miss piery I miss Smith I and I vote I thank you where are we 11.5 thank you uh 11.5 board policy first reading multiple policies it's an information item uh did anyone have um any questions or comments on this item yes I have a question I wasn't able to get this in beforehand because I got my agenda too late I mean I needed it I needed more time um the first uh board know exhibit G the one for naming of a facility I looked at that and I saw no changes but yet it says revised and so I had no idea what was the revision I mean there were several of them that you know all the rest of these are are new because we're adding a lot of policies but I I I just I'd like to know when we revise something what's revised and if it's the entire thing is revised then we should have a notation that the entire thing was changed so there's no you know way to just outline so trusty piery so in regards to this with most of the policies they are because we are following the csba um policies so every everything that we've been doing in Business Services has followed those with this particular policy though we started out adopting fully adopting the csba policy and then we realized there were some things that were lost that we felt were important to our policies and procedures internally to Anaheim Union High School District and we added those back in which I'm guessing what we probably did was add it to make it like the original one to start out with and I don't think we knew we had done that we just we were we were we knew we needed to add some pieces back in So typically um they are fully new policies because they are the csba policies this one may have been just a combination that ended up going one way and then going back so we will note that and if we have any that are alterations we will do it the with the lining out okay or just even say you know so many changes were made this is a totally revised so we we know ahead of time it's to new okay thank you any other questions okay moving on 11.6 board policy second reading multiple policies action or information item I'll move it yeah okay okay second moved in seconded any questions or comments on these I'm assuming the same thing on a couple of these that said revised and then there was no outlining or whether so they kind of just then went with the with cba's form right so revi the Revis typically mean that there was a board policy that was similar to it in nature and so we tied it to the old number but it was was the new csba um policy okay that's good all right thank you okay uh call calling for the roll call Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piy hi Miss Smith I and I vote I 11.7 grant award no kid hungry action item okay second moves in a second questions or comments no we'll take any dollars we can get exactly uh colleag uh for the roll call vote Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar I miss Perce I miss Smith I I vote I 11.8 a denim agreement Transportation contractor greater Anaheim special education local plan area gasela and blessed transportations and Associates action second second second any questions or comments okay calling for the roll call Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi miss piy I miss Smith I and I vote I 119 contract for renewable compressed natural gas CNG fuel transportation action item second mov to second in any questions or comments on this item okay calling for the roll call Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piy hi Miss Smith I and I vote I 1110 agreement Pace payment system and I3 verticals company action item so move so move second hey move been seconded any questions uh I did uh I was wondering when we moved to the new system with uh and we did away with school pay uh did we um lose money when we uh when we let uh schools pay go when we when we renewed this contract or made a new contract with this company no because we we pay by the transaction and so we still have school pay for our for other parts of our district we moved over so yeah there was no loss and it was a wonder I have to say it was a wonderful process engaging with the ASB directors and the the text and they're very pleased with this move okay and thank you for saving our parents some a little bit of money too on each transaction with this I will I have to give kudos to Karen or and Esther yanz they were the two that led this um give them our props okay calling for the vote uh Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piery hi Miss Smith I and I vote I as well moving on 1111 adoption covid-19 operations written report action item so moved moved in seconded um I was going to read this but I think I'm just going to move on or jiren did you have anything to add to this Okay no Okay moving on this is a long agenda any questions from the board okay uh seeing none calling for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi miss piery I miss Smith I and um I vote I 1112 revised policy 7807 parenthesis 7807 R A 6158 independent study second reading action or information or action item action so moved yes second moved in second any questions or comments NOP independent studies moving forward calling for the vote Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar I miss P I Miss Smith I and I vote I thank you 1113 Master contract behavioral Learning Network action item so moved second second moved in second any questions okay hearing none calling for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piy I miss Smith I and I vote I 11:14 professional service contract thriving you University LLC action item so moved second moved in second any questions on this item seeing none calling for the vote Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar hi Miss Pierce hi Miss Smith hi I vote I 11:15 memorandum of understanding Islamic circle of North America so mov I moved in seconded questions comments I just wanted to uh make a quick comment I wanted to thank T and arali from uh Anaheim and Sycamore for coordinating to get this uh ball rolling because we had the organization which approached me wanting to uh give out about 2,000 food uh items or baskets to our families we set it up at Magnolia and uh it was amazing the the actually the the line just wrapped around uh circles in terms of uh even the streets so I want to make sure that you know they both of them get kudos for working on it really fast to put this on and they're willing to do some more uh Food Bank uh projects till end of June so thank you Mr Jabar thank the organization for reaching out to you uh more and more we're needing um to help our our communities and it's just heartwarming to know that these organizations are reaching out and helping our families so thank you so much um calling for the vote if there are no more uh comments or questions Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piery hi Miss Smith hi and I vote I 1116 memorandum of understanding Saddleback Church action item so move second move to Second questions or comments on this item I I know that uh I believe this uh happened at Savannah and I heard uh nothing but good reports uh for this organization's um generosity as well uh so uh any hearing um no more comments I will call for the vote Mr I was gonna wait until my vote to comment remember you said wait until your vote so I been wait that's fine that's perfect uh Mr O'Neal we didn't hear you Mr O'Neal did you unmute there you go uh Mr Jabar hi Miss piery hi and I want to say you know it's really nice to see these organizations come you know jumping in and working with us on our campuses because the schools have become so Central to helping out families in need so again it it's nice to see both the Islamic Circle and and the SAT back church and anybody else that is was willing to help so definitely I miss Smith I and I vote I as well 11:17 School sponsored student organizations action item so move so moved second he moved and seconded any questions or comments on these organizations I'm going to jump in and comment right now because I was reading through these I'm you know I was looking at these all put these in before we got suddenly cut off and went to co you know quarantine so it'll be interesting to see how they can adapt and maybe you know continue to do these especially like mock trial which is you know but U hopefully they will find ways to continue just the same yeah and trusty piery when when we present in a couple weeks with Manuel and we go more deeply with the schedule we do have a structure where it allows for clubs to interact on certain days it's just it's going to look different uh so we'll talk more about that but yeah right M trial some of these it is going to look very different depending on what the clubs do um and given the guidelines we're up against at that time so we'll talk more about that in a couple weeks okay sounds good right Jared it's a new normal right so um calling for the vote uh Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi I'm also giving Civic lessons to my daughter who's right here asking why are we moving and why are we seconding ah all right fantastic and um Miss piery I and Miss Smith I and I vote I human resources 1118 agreement Power School Group LLC action item moved and seconded any questions or comments on this I have a question you know I read over this a couple times so basically this is a new computer program this is my question for personnel yes it's a it's it's an a platform that provides a number of uh tools uh to um um that will greatly increase efficiency but especially especi we were already looking at this prior to covid actually uh but but given that Co um happened uh really critical now uh because we're going to be able to do uh so many more things efficiently um at you know this you know online okay yeah because I I just thought you know that it we're just getting more efficient and more online with some of our programs it you know I can think back to years ago when we started doing grading online you know and what a what a energy saber and time saber so again I hope that's a a saber for you guys with effort and time okay any more comments or questions okay hearing none Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi miss piy I miss Smith I and I vote I 1119 extension revision of employment agreement with superintendent action item so moved second second any questions or comments well if there's no other comments I I'll comment I think I mentioned this uh to all the board members but I wanted to kind of uh make sure that I say this out publicly too uh one noteworthiness is that you know Mike in the cabinet has actually not asked for a race um which is great for our district and but also uh shows their leadership second I wanted to comment on Mike itself as a superintendent being an authentic leader uh we are so glad that we had the opportunity to hire him when we hired him um and since then I know that a lot of folks we talk about you know to turn around a district it's kind of like moving the Titanic but I think uh with Mike's leadership we've got the opportunity to really look at how we could move the ship around in a quick fashion and we put together some great team uh I think the cabinet which is the next agenda item uh you guys have done a fantastic job um making sure that we are not only investing time in our community but Mike specifically you I've seen you work with our students students and really investing in our students uh genuinely listening to their stories and following through and following up with them uh and I think that makes a big difference especially in a community like Anaheim and Cyprus and laama and bu aart um and Stanton and I think uh to look at what we've done these seven years uh that you've been at the helm as superintendent you put the district on the map in terms of uh not only being invited as a educational leader nationally to sit on panels but locally you are solded after uh in terms of sitting on panels because of the great work that we're doing at the district so I want to thank you publicly for that and I want to make sure that we acknowledge you um that even during this uh this pandemic uh you were pretty much looking at out of the box thinking going ahead and uh leading our uh whole team uh to a stable condition so I want to thank you as a board member and as a community member and future ahsd student parent so thank you thank you Mr Jabar any other comments or questions i' just like to uh comment on uh that we just went through the evaluation Pro process and unanimously uh received um High marks and high Kudos uh and um many sentiments uh as expressed by uh my colleague uh you have uh shown such great uh leadership and many times I think we do take we take it for granted uh because you are out there uh in in and being a leader in in um in all areas and uh you know when we stop to really take a minute and and look at all of the initiatives there just too many to even um you know mention there's just so many uh entities that you have created and um we're thriving as a district and yes we were going through a pandemic and yes we were going through um you know uh another another change but I think we were so well prepared as a district uh when I listen to my colleagues and and they talk about you know that they're still kind of waiting for direction we were already moving forward we've already been moving forward as a district and so and that's just seems to be our theme um all because of your Visionary leadership so uh I commend you as well so I I just have one thing to say Mike are you sure you want to stay another year you're asking for another year in addition so that means you're planning on three more years okay the rest of the cabinet H mind let's V that's something if they're willing to you know say yeah another three years okay that's good no bailing no bailing very good okay all right uh Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piery hi Miss Smith happily I and I vote I as well 1120 extension revision of employment agreements with the superintendent Chief academic officer and District Council action item so moved moved in second questions and Com or comments I'll start off with my comments uh I always I think the entire cabinet probably knows and they've got to know me pretty well that I sometimes send text messages at all times of the hour I appreciate all of you and I know that each one of you without a hesitation when I ask you to respond to uh parent questions or student related issues you are on the ball so I appreciate that and all the work that you're doing especially during this time I think I've never seen a hardworking group uh such as you so and then you're very knowledgeable about the issues and you're also very courteous to make sure that you're getting to all the issues that we as board members throw at you at all other of the time so thank you very much thank you Mr Jabar any other comments I also uh agree uh calling it all hours of the the day and night and and if you don't get to me that night you'll get to me first thing in the morning or an email is sent and I appreciate that so much A lot of the times as uh my colleague mentioned you know parents want answers yesterday and you're accommodating not only to us but you're accommodating to staff and you're accommodating to uh parents as well and um we appreciate you so much we um I have to acknowledge that um none of you uh took a spring break and um you know all the hard work and all of the time and energy and I had a meeting uh right and miss piy and I had a meeting with the parent um we'll talk about the subject but it was just um I finally had to tell this parent we're our staff is exhausted you know they're not tired they're exhausted there's 's just been so much coming at them and you guys sacrific that and um I I just really want to commend that you put your heart and soul into everything that you do for this district and it just show it shows so um we appreciate you so much and we're so blessed to have each and every one of you thank you okay and Marie I forgot all about what we said at the end of the meeting it'll have to bring it up okay because I was going to do that in close session and I forgot about the parents request and I said we'd bring it up to the rest of the board I'll do that at the end but anyway I want to thank you guys because I call you all also individually and herang you well know and I really appreciate the time that you give me because I almost feel like I'm harassing you sometimes but uh you're all very eager to answer and and make me feel like it's okay so you guys are doing a great job and believe me uh it is amazing how much time I know you have all put in since I mean you put in a lot of times before but when I get a call back from somebody at six o'clock because they're they've been busy all day I truly truly appreciate it and and I feel guilty sometimes because come on go home so anyway thank you all yeah I don't want to be left as the only one here not to thank them because they do deserve thanks they you respond verbally text wise and email wise at whenever it whenever the request comes in it's amazing uh the support that they have given to the whole um our our all the trustees and all their the people that work with them it's amazing how how great this this um this district is because because of their knowledge their expertise and their leadership and it's very obvious we don't have to say a word it's just very obvious what is going on and uh we thank you I thank you for all that you do and that includes obviously the superintendent as well not just the cabinet thank you Mr Neil roll call we will do that Mr O'Neal all right Mr Jabar hi Miss piery hi and Miss Smith in full gratitude I and I vote I as well take a day off please all righty 1121 agreement danis wolver Kelly action item so moved second okay move to Second a questions or comments hey hearing none uh Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar I miss piy I miss Smith I I vote I item 1122 agreement with radio Busa cor action item Mo question wait we gotta move it first say it's moved and seconded then you can question okay go ahead go ahead um I'd like to know about this I don't recall us ever dealing with a radio Corporation and I'm just curious how this all came about quickly if you could explain yeah thank you uh trusty Smith um it is part of our outreach program uh for not only uh branding for the district and it's also branding for the new um CVA Cambridge Virtual Academy so Garden Grove School District has been doing this for about 10 years and this particular radio uh program has a broad footprint throughout uhu Los Angeles and Orange counties and even into um down south San Diego a little bit but um the uh cabinet felt that this was um very um worthwhile it's a cost of $7,000 and um right now I mean not not only I mean I don't think all of our outside uh applicants can be attributed to this but certainly I think that this is making a difference we currently have about 52 outside applicants um um it's that want to transfer to the Cambridge Virtual Academy so I think it's uh um money well spent as you know um for every I mean you guys know what it uh what it means for the district to have outside applicants as well well I would just hope that we would monitor this and re-evaluate it after a year oh yes I we don't intend to really extend it it's just really trying to get our our footprint uh at this particular point out there so thank you thank you and and I just want to add that it's really great to hear to it's another um vehicle to get the message out um about all the work that we're doing in our district you know when you say branding Mike it's also uh kind of alleviating um you know a swaging um anxiety out there that we are you know fully functioning and that we're um you know we're we're all moving forward it's going to look different um of course but um we're we're we're we have capacity and we're you know we're always moving forward and I think that's just a really great message to get out there um and that when you when you speak you're giving confidence to um the public that uh that we're capable and and we're we're going to um we're going to move forward as safely and we're going to continue um educating our our students um so with that uh I'll call for the vote Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar I miss piery I and Miss Smith I and I vote I as well 12.1 California Association of school business officials uh membership did I skip page going to thank you I keep flipping my pages we're on 12 calendar consent calendar yeah okay uh 12 I I have three I want to pull three I do two um okay can I go first or who who's gonna go first I would like to go first I would like to put a poll 12.33 okay all right I okay who's next go ahead Anna all right I wanted to pull 12332 but I want 1230 and 12.39 okay Mr Jabar do you have anything to yes I have uh 12.3 12.13 and 12.33 Mr O'Neal 1220 I think we just need to go each item because I wanted to pull but mine will be very very brief uh five five six and seven and 121 call for the um balance for the balance move the balance second okay uh Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi miss piy I miss Smith I and I vote I okay um I wanted to take uh 125 six and seven Al together oh wait um was there something 12.3 sorry Mr Jabar 12.3 first yes uh 12.3 I had asked this question uh moved it sorry move uh 12.3 and I'll second it thank you the question that I have is I I wanted to make sure since we are spending about $5,000 a month uh one wanting to make sure that we have an out clause whenever we wanted to uh leave the contract but I also wanted to find out what type of uh uh funding we brought to the district based on uh our agreement with uh towns and public affairs uh I got the answer and I wanted to make sure that uh everybody knew and maybe Mike you want to go ahead and talk a little bit about it because I want to make sure that the public knows that when we get into an agreement like this we are doing doing it for a purpose and not just throwing money uh getting a consultant on on record so go ahead thank you Mr Jabar I'm gonna uh defer to Dr root uh because she has the most updated information thank you Dr root so yes so we've entered into this contract and they Advocate on our behalf the the three probably um largest grants that they've supported us with included um one that I'm sorry I don't have the the title but it was a CDE Grant was about $700,000 they also um supported us on a grant we had written for transportation which was about $3.7 million and then our a grant we wrote with the Department of Justice that not only did they they wrote the entire grant for us they found the grant for us we would have never heard of this Grant had they not brought it to us and that brought over $400,000 in um school resource officer support to our schools which we know is desperately needed additionally um they're always out there add advocating for for school finance and like um trusty piery said we need someone to advocate for schools that's what they are doing on our behalf they're also supporting us right now on FEMA reimbursement I know that was something um important to you they're looking into a few questions we've had regarding FEMA reimbursement before we make um some moves to ensure that we could be reimbursed um as well as they are now working on the the um outcome of the elimination of the cteig grant money from the budget that impacts our budget of $1.6 million a year and actually more than that with some other um issues related to it and so they're looking at outside sources for us to not only augment that money but if they can get that money and cteig comes back we would have even more money and so they they've been a huge advocate both being proactive in finding things for us that match our schools and match our district and match our vision but then also when we found things that we've implanted they support us and inuring it navigates the process up in Sacramento so they've been a great help yeah I just want to highlight that just based on the question that I asked in the document or the write up that I received uh besides the ROP IGT one uh a CTI program uh we have closer to about $5 million doar worth of grants that we received uh or in the words of receiving because of this contract so I want to highlight that that we as a group yes we are spending about $60,000 a year but we are reaping the benefits of having them on um as on retainer having called that I I'll call for the question okay thank you Mr Jabar uh Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar sorry I pery you bet you I because I've been wanting this for a long time we need Grant riders in one way or another and they're bringing them in and helping us out and getting us lots of money so you bet you I'm totally for it thank you so much Mrs Smith I and I vote I uh I would like to take uh five six and seven together may I get a motion some mooned second he moov a second and I just wanted to point out that if there's anyone out there to educate them uh the public because you see these um you know quarter of a million dollars uh and when we're talking about deficit budgets and just um Jennifer just quickly yeah briefly just explained the pockets of money that come out of our measure our bond measure funds and it doesn't come out this is not coming out of our general funds it's Etc so so in regards to these three items they are recommended by our facilities department and they are to manage primarily the ongoing construction of measure H and therefore supported that there are you will see that in the budget implications there is mention of general fund money and that is so if we have a project that we one of the things Patty does beautifully that she shares with you she Blends money she Blends projects together to get things done at the most expedient way and so there may be times where there may be a project on a measure H site where there may be some general fund money being used to do a different part of the project um but primarily The Lion Share of these three contracts are in regards to um our work with measure H and our our last issuance we have there and and explained briefly that uh we can't use um we can't use General funds to build facilities that's why we have to go out for the bonds and I think a lot of people um you know now that they're paying more attention to uh you know the districts and the schools and they can they can hear our presentations a lot of them don't understand that um why are you building if uh you you you don't have enough money absolutely very gra grateful to our community and the passage of measure H that money when voted on has very very explicit guidelines of how we can spend it and what we can spend it on it is it is for building and for refurbishing our buildings that are aging and we do need the money for that that money from measure H is also audited by our Auditors to ensure that we have used it for the intentions that our community set forth which for our bond in particular is our construction and renovation at our schools so it's not general fund money can't be used unfortunately for salaries um sorry or um supplies must be used for facilities thank you Dr root thank you so much and we also have a Citizens oversight committee that oversees uh the uh construction projects as well so uh with that I will call for the vote Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar I miss piery I miss Smith I and I vote I I believe 1211 is next can I get a motion so moved second okay moved in seconded oh that was um me that's what um I just wanted to highlight this um um a lot of times when I hear folks talking about you know that Anaheim elementary school is feeding kids I just wanted to point out that they're they have a contract with Anheim Union High School District um and yes they are have they have the facilities available too but just to get that out there that Anaheim Union High School school district has been feeding uh students across the districts um for um you know since the covid-19 and then we're going to continue to feed um our families our students um until August and so that was all I will call for the uh vote Mr O'Neal see I did hear you Mr O'Neal hi thank you Mr Jabar I miss uh piery I miss Smith I and myself I bless you Al all right uh 1213 is next may I have a motion so moved second second in Mr Jabar yeah I I just asked uh questions from cabinet regarding this as to why we have the increase and they did explain to me about the uh uh I mean obviously the reason that we want to make sure that we have enough uh folks out there in our campus to uh dissuade people from doing criminal activity on our campuses so as a result my only U ask of the community if they're watching and which I will also talk about it during uh community events is to make sure that as a community we got to keep an eye on our schools so that we're not spending a lot of money on uh uh any of this NE various activities so thank you very much for putting this uh program together I know they've been very successful thank you call for the uh vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi miss piery I miss Smith I and I vote I moving on to uh item 1220 second second okay uh Mr uh Neil uh thank you Mr uh Jabar I miss piery I miss Smith I and I vote I we are on to 1230 may I get a motion I'll move second and uh Miss piery okay I pulled this because when I was reading this it says this contract is for services provided June 20th of 2020 to June 30th of 2021 yet it says this agreement will remain in full force and effect for five years and then shall renew thereafter automatically for fiveyear terms and I looked at the exhibit and tried to find the dates on the exhibit but I couldn't find them but shouldn't this date be for June 30th of 2025 if it's a fiveyear agreement yes but I don't I don't know that it is for five years I'd have to conf well then maybe that was shouldn't be in there but in other words because when I looked at the exhibit I couldn't find a date yeah it's the last line of the um the agenda item this agreement will be remain in full force and effective for five years and shall thereafter renew automatically for fiveyear terms H so you know it's saying five years but it's only showing one so you know one of the things that I would suggest is I would um I would pull it and we can talk to Adele and bring it back for July because I'm not gonna be able to get a hold of her I think we need to do that because there's yeah okay so how do what do we do we have to vote on pulling it we have to Carl uh no you can just not call it it's fine if you put it on the table just put it on the table okay okay we'll just table it good catch Miss piery there was a lot to read in this agenda oh I know and I mean and I didn't get started until Tuesday because I didn't get it until you know anyway ex so anyway next one is 12:33 huh thank you uh do I get a motion I'll move that second okay questions comments okay well I got quite a few okay I'll start but um I've had a lot of of negative comments about this math program I I am not in favor of it okay I have I have talked to um students who just are totally snowed uh when I went into a math teacher's classroom and you know when they first started this thing they didn't have any book they had these packets that didn't explain anything uh when I listen to Juan's comments he's a math teacher and his comments about it and some of the other Math teachers that I've talked to I mean I had some okay I talked to an imrc member who was reviewing this and did not like it because it did not explain anything and it and it created a problem where if a student came from another school district and you know transferred in they would not have the a clue as to what's going on and then it's not explained like Juan said the book expects you to do things but it doesn't explain how to I mean Carnegie is a difficult program and I don't and I I you know and to me if this is something that was going to be put into the Math teachers that all of them should have had an opportunity to say yay or nay in other words I would like to survey all the math teachers about how they feel about this program that was supposedly piloted and I realized it was but but was it piloted and led by a few people and what did the majority of the Math teachers think I I just think there's too many things that you know aren't clear I don't I and I don't understand I mean I also don't understand how for years we just were doing these packets run off on the I on the Xerox and that's what the kids worked with they had no book where they could read and follow directions or or refer to as a reference book and all of a sudden now we're going to buy this Carnegie program at over what two and a half or two and a quarter million dollar and I'm not sure that this is really you know what from what I've heard the greatest idea okay and that's that's my comments right now Kathy I have a few questions just a minute just just a minute based on what the teacher from Sycamore stated and what Anna said and what I have understood and things that have come to me I think this needs to be AED and evaluated and this can be put off until we are all comfortable that this is a good direction okay so um Madame chair I got a few questions here go ahead I've actually uh about eight eight teachers uh reached out to me I've met with two of them uh virtually to go over some of the questions and I think uh the superintendent and JN and Carlos and Manuel know that last year I sat down with them including Julie to kind of go over some of the concerns that they teachers had um but it looks like it has not the concerns have not being addressed so my question I do have so to kind of paint a good picture out of it is that one the teachers that I spoke to except for a few of them all like the mat part of the Carnegie uh uh I would say the bundle right they liked it and they said that you know so most of the time they're uh having able to uh do much better with that rather than the uh uh actual uh book itself now there is concerns about the pricing of that and you know the availability of K Academy and how that could be uh substituted for Maia that's there the other question that primarily concerned me was I think all teachers that who approach me brought up the issue of how this Carnegie uh learning is or I'll call it cl cl has not been very user friendly for El students and specialed students I know jiren and I spoke about it so I'm sure jiren you're going to jump in and explain a little bit more about is and the other concern is for me I I like the process I like to know the process and I jiren I also want you to touch on this is how did we put together the group to evaluate CL right did we ask a few people from each of the districts uh each of the campuses uh to be a part of the uh uh task force or or the committee which evaluated it how long did we evaluate it did we evaluate a different uh curriculum uh so that teachers had the opportunity to take a look at different uh curriculum to see which worked best for them did they get an opportunity to give input um did we again did we pilot other textbooks right and then um I what I've heard is I got about eight email s uh since I spoke to the two teachers is that their challenges within the textbooks itself right there's not enough review of standards for students um if you know uh from prior years if they they it assumes that they should know all the standards which is a good thing but in reality it doesn't happen uh there are issues about math problems being wrong for students as well as in the teacher guide so the teachers have to do double work not only having to uh uh find the wrong answers but also to put together the right answers for their teacher guide as well and then I had the question of the second Coast I think I made a note right here math 4 having challenges right so they mentioned that there were some issues with uh some aspects of Cl which was communicated to the task force or the committee which they went back but unfortunately when they revised it uh they messed up the whole thing so that's another question uh the geometry content was not enough for our students is one of the concerns that I heard um when they did the huge overhaul of the curriculum um although it's you know different slightly every year they did not fix the math four issues they ruined the math 3 and math 5 texts the issues were had with the first part of math four are now issues they have with the whole sequence uh they talk about the text assumes that the kids remember the whole concept uh from uh five years ago right uh there is constant change on tweaking of the text so that's a concern that was brought up uh then the other issue is uh the the Common Core aspect of it I I realize that we want to make sure that we give enough literacy to our English learner students embedded in math so that way they're also you know increasing their uh knowledge or increasing their uh uh uh literacy knowledge but when it comes to math I mean I had this issue where you know Ma math is not my strong suit but if you put some uh more challenges in front of uh these students in this case English Learners having to read through uh bulk of the text it kind of throws you off of map so I mean it happened to me when I was going through Matt you know Matt was not the strong suit you know it may have been the teacher it may have been the booklet uh which I was working on if it threw some challenges in front of me it was frustrating as a student right so I put myself in that uh uh area and then the other concern that was brought up which I don't know jiren you could also address this is that that the state is actually rewriting the math standards so why are we investing in it for three years right now with this particular uh uh program I'm trusting you because I know you guys are the professionals but at the same time we also have professionals who are in the trenches who are working and who are giving feedback and I want to make sure that we listen to their concerns uh it it might be that we do have some teacher leaders who are part of the team who are talking about hey let's implement it but if we have a good number of teachers in this case eight of them reached out to me right uh if there are eight who reached out to me I wonder how many out there who have not reached out to a board member or any any one of you who are just kind of putting the head down and saying you know district is implementing this let's just go forward with it so I want to make sure that we are giving the opportunity I think Anna mentioned this is to figure out how we bring some of our teachers uh who are very engaged in Special Needs students and English learner students so that they give the input and we pick the right uh right one for our students now I don't know if it's too late but you know I know with the situation that we are in in covid-19 it's hard to create a task force it's hard to review a new uh uh uh model to kind of uh implement but at the same time I want to take a look at how we could bring a task districtwide math task force together so that they could uh all these concerns could be addressed and we look at a long range uh solution to this uh not just for this but a long range math task force which will take a look at our deficiencies as a district so having said that I'll yield the floor thank you so I know a number of questions were asked so I'll do my best to answer all of them and I and I want to first start off by acknowledging I know we only had uh three public comments and we had one teacher that actually was in favor of the curriculum he had Juan's piece uh which there's Merit to his comments as well so I don't want to dismiss what he said there are certain merits to the things that he had pointed out and then another was from a math tutor uh so a couple things to to address this piece so yeah and speaking with Carlos Hernandez our director of cric instruction also with Julie spikon who led the process uh she did have representation on throughout the process from both Junior High and Senior High just so you know the high school version began actually with Paul savano and he was the assistant superintendent so the high school have been using Carnegie for quite some time as you may recall U our Junior highs were using UC Irvine and I think trusty Pierce he mentioned the packets that's what was being used before and as you might recall back when we began UCI we faced a lot of resistance with UCI as well because it wasn't a textbook and there were a lot of consumables and there just and that was also when we began our integrated approach to mathematics um when we did make the adjustment to the pilot um all of our Junior highs with the exception of two participate in the pilot and that was their choice not to that was Sycamore and Dale uh we now have all of our Junior highs using uh the Carnegie as a pilot and much like UC Irvine it has been mixed with um the feedback from from folks uh Julie did have that task Force involved there were teachers who worked with English Learners and uh who also worked in inclusive settings or with students with disabilities also in that task force I know Tracy olssen before she became a curriculum specialist she was using um this material and had high levels of success as Elite sharp in public comments mentioned when people use the curriculum uh it can have tremendous results with kids the one thing that the math tutor mentioned is absolutely true that when you look at the textbook it doesn't give all the specific instructions and that's because what's different about this text versus previous text and I want to take you back when you were students in math a lot of times the teacher was able to go through the textbook where we finished a lesson today the next day we just turned the page and that became the next lesson this textbook is very very different it doesn't allow for that this is going to require the teachers to engage in lesson design and really think about the way that they approach math and that is very different and that is a challenge and that is something very new for a lot of our folks if you think about other content areas in English you can give them a novel but the novel you don't turn page to page and that's the that's the lesson for the day the teacher has to engage in lesson design same thing with social studies same thing with our baa and even in science there's a lot of lesson design that has to go into building those lessons and in math that's the way that even when I used to teach that's the way we were able to operate now under this new text it doesn't allow for that you really do have to engage and and trusty Jabar you're absolutely right this text is very literacy Rich which if you speak to Dr Bryant you speak to Diana Fujimoto uh it's something that they appreciate because it does ask and then require students who need opportunity to engage in language in language acquisition to to get those experiences but again if you go through the text without the scaffolding and the differentiation by the teacher which is lesson designed it is going to be challenging we have devoted a lot of time and energy to building capacity in our teachers but clearly it's not a oneandone it is something that we have to do over time we spent our last October at the Ed Summit doing a lot of work where the Math teachers were actually separate from our teachers in general where they were doing work directly with Carnegie we actually have plans or had plans this this October to do the same and I know Julian Carlos and Joe because of the low performing student block grant have been doing a lot of other work we've as you may recall we had the math lab coaches that were also used to support Math teachers in this transition as well so so again there's Merit to the things that are being brought up uh the one thing I also wanted you to know is when we were going through this process we also work through an agency called edreports or they are a group that analyzes the different textbooks out there and its alignment with the standards and where we're at and as I think i' mentioned to a few of you we're still relatively new in the transition to even the mathematical practices and when we initially went to Carnegie there weren't a lot of textbooks out there that were aligned they were still very very traditional where you would turn the page and it was very much about math calculation as you may recall under the Common Core it's not just about math calculation which is the actual doing of math there's also the conceptual piece and the literacy piece and that's where the Carnegie really did stand out and if you look at their assessment of the carne M materials it is highly rated is one of the highly most highly rated texts in terms of its focus and coherence around the standards around its rigor around the mathematical practices and also its usability that includes the students with disability and our English Learners um again the challenges that onean and others have brought up they're legit it's just requires a lot of a lot more work on the teacher end um to make the adjustments in the scaffolding which is where the professional development is going to be critical um so so those are all things that we had to look at um I agree trusty Jabar that right now given the covid-19 cabinet had this discussion in in detail when before we had brought this item up for uh your approval and we agreed this isn't the best time to go through a textbook adoption process because of all that our teachers are being asked to do not just with the content standards but in the way that they deliver content because it's online and as you all know we're having to spend a lot of time this summer training our teachers on just the National Online standards because we know that we're GNA have to deliver content through that virtual format and to change this mid shift would would just add to the stress of teachers as well and as you heard from leise sharp in public comments she talked about that sometimes it takes three to five years before you see the impact which we know is true via research and to change right now in the middle of that process could also be detrimental so this gives us a little bit of time to continue to implement uh the mathia has been productive it does it's a it's a online platform which does work well into this remote setting that we're currently in and what's nice about the matthia piece is it is customized so when students begin interacting with the mathia if students get things wrong the curriculum is done in a way where there's algorithms on the software where it adjusts the curriculum to go back where the students are at so it helps them move throughout that program whereas if a student does well and gets it right they continue to be enhan and it continues to get more and more rigorous as they progress um we do think too in two or three years we're going to have more options that might be a better fit where some of those more traditional texts right now may be better aligned in a couple of years uh so those are all things that we're having to weigh um we don't know that there is um the perfect solution but as a Cabinet this is kind of where we were at the time where we felt it was the best to continue with the carneg because of where we are and as you heard from leise sharp although we do have folks who have concerns we also do have teachers who are using the curriculum and are having success and are in favor of it so um so there is there kind of all sides of the coin that we're having to look at and that's constant with what we dealt with with UCR curriculum back several years ago we had that same kind of resistance along the way as well so um hopefully that answers him your questions um you know I know Carlos is watching the meeting and he's been texting I I haven't read the text as I've been speaking to you but I know there are some things that we can do with the task force to re bring people to together to kind of see what we need to do moving forward but I I'm I'm also just worried that if we don't have this I'm not sure what math curriculum in terms of a textbook might look like when we come back in the fall uh so because we haven't we haven't gone through that process with other options uh right right now I would like to add something too uh jiren thank you for that but um you had mentioned you had mentioned Ed reports um and I um there is Ed reports is an independent nonprofit that evaluates instruction materials for quality and standards alignment it is a gold standard leader in helping teachers and administrators to identify highest quality instructional materials so um according to Ed Reports car Carnegie Learning Blended solution is now the highest rated High School mathematics Pro uh product on Ed's Ed reports.org so um and they've earned a near-perfect green light foror from Ed reports K12 independent uh evaluator so you know this is a new Rel relatively new as many I mean the the the Common Core overall very controversial the transition has been very tough uh across the country but um I I uh I think that if we if we take a pass on it and put a pause on it as uh jiren just mentioned we are that means we really don't have anything going into next year so um it's it's a tough decision but I I I um you know I I I think that the the the committee and the Ed division is recommending that the board approve this I have a question is there a way uh that we could um we could just use it for the next year and put some uh support more support systems in place for the teachers that are um that are struggling with it um I mean I'm just thinking outside the box I know we're we're you know we're we're team players here and we uh we always try to support so is there is there a way that we could um you know provide extra support for this program because I I'm thinking the same thing like we need a math program we don't have time or energy to go out and get another one and I'm just saying maybe compromise and use this just for one year instead of a three-year um and um take a look at it well that that was going to be my uh question as well uh trusty Madam president uh try to see if we have an opportunity to go in and maybe implement it as a one-ear but I don't know what that does to the cost and I don't know how that what that was going to do to uh the entire program uh again I think part of what jiren's saying is I understand that you mentioned that you know there teachers need to put a lot of time into it but my concern is this if you have teachers who are already struggling with it and reaching out and talking about it um then I have a concern for the kids because you know you are going to I mean yeah Juan emailed and I mean his comment says pretty much you know how it works but at the end of the day the comments that I've received from other teachers as well who struggling with how they approach English learners for me that's huge right my district uh Anaheim you have a lot of kids who are going to struggle with it and if the teachers are saying this I take their word for it and this is why I talk about bringing enough representation or making it a good representative task force which will allow to get good feedback uh um in terms of a commitment of you know 2.23 million or 2.2 million is huge uh and if you're hearing a lot of teachers and then also if you create that task force I want to have students in there so that they could see they could give us the uh their opinion of how it works for them as students right so um it's a concern for me so jiren I I don't know if that's an option to make it a one-year deal yeah so so what I was going to propose I've been texting with Carlos um we could and Carl I'll need your guidance on this because I know we're fortunate that we have uh in two weeks another board meeting uh I know it's obviously geared towards the study session around uh the opening of schools but but perhaps that'll give Carlos Hernandez and Brad Minami enough time to reconnect with Carnegie and maybe work on some one-year uh commitment it will trust you do probably add cost to the price because obviously when you do things over a greater period of time you get Ty a lower price point but but we could propose a one-year deal where that gives us time with Carlos Hernandez leadership to propose that or build that task force and really deeply revisit other options let me also ask you this Jaren what happens if we don't do anything I mean I have reservations in other words first of all I don't want to vote for this unless I know a little bit more and right now this means nothing to me matthia that's my first recollection of this there needs to be more explanation to me to what this is I I'm not in favor of it until I get some more information to you know about what's going on as far as this math we've been struggling for a couple several years on on this whole change in math and it's still struggling and I I just want more information I'm not comfortable voting for this and and and Dr Fred I I I don't know if you're asking exactly this question but um I don't know what this would do to timelines we do have the July 2nd meeting it is going to be a special meeting and yes this could be an agenda item on that meeting yeah that's what I was asking if this could be a special item on that on that agenda so we can look at a a potentially a one-year deal and to go back to your question trusty Jabar if we U did not have this approved then I don't know that we would have a math textbook to begin the school year we still have curriculum the standards are the curriculum so but they just wouldn't have a textbook to to use with it if this isn't uh approved so how long have we not had a textbook no we have we've been using this textas and this is to extend it now for the three years which is why the teachers are saying they don't like it okay is there a textbook right now yeah it's it's it's the Carnegie so that's what they right so they don't like the textbook they have right now right so you're proposing a different textbook is that what you're saying no we don't we're not proposing a different textbook right now I think Anna Anna you you're probably referring to the UCI packet that they used to have they no longer have that they've been working on no I'm talking about a tech yeah I know they're not they're in textbooks now right but what textbook do we have now any yes the Carnegie text Books Okay the one that you're looking at today yes right so we're looking at buying more or the new in it Anna Let me I think I understand so these are a consumable math book They're not a hardbound book like what we what we picture in science or other curriculum areas so every year it costs us about $800,000 to purchase the new consumable math books this is the same adoption um Joe Carmona and Julie spikerman and their team worked with RAB to create this new contract to enter into a three-year agreement to continue our use of the same thing we've been using but we have to order every year because it is a consumable math book that kids get they write in their books okay and because this is I'm sorry controversial um obviously because there's been questions raised I'd like to see one of these books I want to see what you're talking about I want Anna let me stop you for moment I'm going to make a suggestion we have between now and July 2nd how about if you and I sit down and have a face to face with the teacher that spoke to address uh this issue and he and look at the books and see firsthand and then come up some ideas and then uh the June the July M uh second meeting I want to see them I want to talk to him face to face and and I'd like any other input that other teachers can give okay because I'm still confused I mean I want to it's not just talking with the teacher that's just one teacher but I want to know what the you know an explanation from cabinet or at the education department you know what does what are you talking about when you refer to matthia platform now in other words is this what we've been using or is this something new okay uh I I want to see the book and I want you to explain to me you know how they use it in other words um I just want to know a little bit more I'm just not in other words because of the comments I've heard not and this was before I heard what Juan had to say okay so Juan is just more and you know I already had reservations okay and they went back a few years and and and with students have I heard who are struggling so I just want to know more I'm not going to vote for it until I learn more so what I'm hearing from the board um is that we need to this issue until July I move to table to the next meeting do I get a second I I'll second that I'll third it okay we can do that I can have I can have uh Mr Hernandez and I can see if Miss Spiker I know she's uh on teacher schedule so she's on vacation but we can work on maybe some type of presentation where you can see what that looks like I'm available Dr fre I have a question what grade level we talking about it's grade seven through 12 we we we are math one math two the junior high and up through the high school so this takes into consideration calculus um uh trigonometry geometry Etc well it we use it for the integrated maths so the math one two three and three and four the integrated okay are they all the same book or is it different books no they're different based on the but based on the concepts that are being taught okay so they're grade level books well they're content specific members integrated so yeah so math one typically is seventh graders so that's a different book than what they would get math 2 versus math three okay and they're all consumable books yes okay okay so students can also interact with the book and write in it okay so we'll be looking forward to a presentation and then um I would uh suggest uh those of you board members get in touch with the uh teachers as well and um I Al you've brought your concerns and uh look at that um cabinet and look at the concern concerns and see how we can create some of the some solutions to those concerns and uh then we can talk about it on our next meeting so uh Mr O'Neal we're voting to table this I don't know that we need to vote to table it I think we can just table it if there's if there's no objection you can do the same thing and just not take action okay Al righty uh and the last one 12 uh 39 may I have a motion some moved second that's yours uh Miss piery yeah I brought this up because I have a question I mean how well is this being use in other words when I read it is our district really utilizing it is it worth it in other words we're looking at what $70,000 a year are are we getting a value out of this is isn't this what Liliana heads uh yes yeah and and she's actually here so um um she can she can also speak to this as well so um we track um quite a bit of data in in all of the areas and the services um in terms of um uh usage in all of these areas um we feel that this has been an over overwhelming success over the last several years has started with kimay uh and and Liliana has been our program coordinator um we get consistent and regular feedback from our employees all over the district on uh on the benefits that they receive from all of the services that are provided and it's really proactive um uh thinking for an organization to provide all of these kinds of supports Wellness uh to its employees um we eliminate so many things on the back end I know that Liliana and Wendy have also done um presentations in the insurance committee uh meeting uh have shared um a lot of that data um Liliana I'm not sure when the last time that you guys uh uh presented uh in the meeting uh last time we presented was in the January insurance committee meeting yeah and so a lot of that data is embedded in that uh in in and shared and discussed as well okay I just I just was wondering whether if we had evaluated it you know dollar-wise if it's really benefiting us then that's fine I mean I know I I can vaguely remember the report Liliana gave I mean because I'm on the insurance committee but I just was questioning it right now as I know we use it but I didn't know how widely or I couldn't remember how widely so it was just a question and hey just reinforce for me again that yeah it is worth it that's good okay thank you so I if unless anybody has any other questions I'll call for the question Amry you're muted sorry okay uh thank you so much and it was good to hear from you Liliana too oh and you know it just dawned on me I forgot to ask all of you to introduce yourself when we got on back on oh my goodness four hours ago you guys should have reminded me to long for everybody to come on I forgot all right uh Mr O'Neal hi Mr jaar I miss piery I miss Smith I and myself I moving on to uh superintendent staff reports no report thank you you're reported out Brad no report from me okay thank you okay I'm seeing no no all righty thank you uh Board of Trustees reports Mr O'Neal yeah I'm not going to go over the things I've been doing unfortunately I've been able to do something but while we have been talking uh during the last what six hours um there was um some conversation about what was mentioned on the um the Student Activities on Kennedy site and we have come up with nothing so if anybody is listening that has information about what was mentioned earlier the beginning of of our day concerning activities on the Kennedy site please get to uh whoever you want to get to could be um um the principal Adam Hernandez or Dr freed myself uh someone and tell us specifically what is going on so so we're aware of it and we can do something about it thank you thank you Mr O'Neal Mr Jabar yeah i' like to keep it short too I think I already went over the uh black lives matter rally but I also wanted to give cudas to my boss supervisor Doug chaffy who actually uh donated close to about $6,000 to the PTA for to purchase the uh uh 3D printer and supplies for the face shield uh I also wanted to commend Anaheim High School on their uh good process of uh the drive-thru graduation I think parents are very satisfied with what went on and um uh having said that I also want to say in terms of covid-19 supervisor Cha's office me as a healthcare Agency leaon for his office uh I have requested the healthcare agents to convene a uh School District uh meeting so that we could give some input as Healthcare agency uh to all the schools so that's going to be uh coming up pretty soon so keep an eye out for that uh as in terms of our staff so that's about it and I'll leave it that thank you Mr Jabar Miss piery well I haven't been too much um being one of the older people that are are in this quarantine thing but I did uh visit the drive-thru graduation for Cypress high and it was very very nicely set up and done um and then I watched the you know graduation things and I think we did a phenomenal job that company did a great job for our our virtual graduations um and I think some of the comments that were made earlier a lot of the parents thought it was great I had one in my neighborhood who thought it was fantastic because they it was a personalized type of thing so a lot of people were happy with that virtual graduation and you had your principal speak you had your ASB you know presidents and or Val victorians and so and some of them had the bands perform and the choirs so it was I thought really well done along considering the normal thing but an Marie and I did have a meeting with a parent because this area was just adamant that they had to have their regular graduation and they wanted to ask us to help them put on a actual Original in-person Graduation at the end of July I think it was and basically I said well I'd bring it up to the you know I would let the rest of the board know but that's all I you know I I fulfilled my promise and told the rest of the board you know know that this was something that they wanted but you know um I didn't get I forgot about it in Clos session but it's something that would be a costly thing and we just don't have the money there's no we can't we can't spend any more money on any graduation so but unfortunately that you know if that parent is watching this is you know in lie of the budget presentation that was done we're hurting to start with so we don't have any extra money to try to you know support anything that this community wants to do un fortunately so that's about all I've done I I don't even remember whether I went to another Insurance meeting in this part this time or not I know we're still G to be having another one to decide on that the third party administrator so that's it for me thank you Mr okay my turn I wanted to explain that we have gunfire over here in West Anaheim one to three nights a week and the fireworks that these kids have been shooting off are causing a tremendous amount of pain and discomfort these fireworks many of our clubs uh and organizations sell fireworks and there are so many people that are in just distress and I'd say PTSD between the gunfire and the fireworks it's unsettling and a neighbor reported to me that Tre houses over by Dale Jor high school burned because of these uh fireworks and number two I want to remind the uh Administration when we start school that we have to change behavior and that we speak that we do not put our fingers in our eyes our mouths or our nose and that we understand that is a common thing that people do but it's need the kids need to be reminded every day number three I ran into a con a custodian in the parking lot at Ralph's and he told me how thrilled he was to be at work and how proud he was to clean the school and he could do nothing but praise the teachers at his school so the school's not going to be named but I'm going to tell you that's an overall compliment and then number four I went to pick my dog up at the U a pet uh groomer and she was explaining to me that because of the taxes and that people did not know she had remained open and her business had gone down that she was in a great difficulty time and I said if I pay you in cash would that be helpful and when she told me what she paid visa and to for the charge cards fee and the rental of the machine I am suggesting to people if you go out and use familyowned businesses restaurants Etc if you pay in cash you will help them build their businesses back up thank you one and all for everything and Marie can I uh comment on a couple of things that uh truste Smith said real quick yeah go ahead uh trusty Smith on the uh issue of fireworks uh it has been an issue all around the cities um not only in Anaheim uh and it has nothing to do with our clubs selling fireworks because they have not even sold theyve not even started to sell uh fireworks yet these are what you're seeing in the community is illegal fireworks that are being purchased and uh set off and metre yesterday we had a conversation with uh council member Moreno in our district and they are asking the local police department to post uh signs and make sure that to be more Vigilant uh I know you live in an unincorporated area and I will take that issue with the sheriff's department number two uh you had mentioned about a local business owner or pet Grom I'm assuming they're either in Anaheim or in unincorporate area please let's get in touch so that way we could uh give them some information about a uh program that's coming out from supervisor duck Cha's office thank you thank you Mr Jabar uh I um too want to commend uh all of our schools for taking the time to do those drive-thru graduations I know that um it it was it was an extra thing um that they did and they did it um because they wanted to do it and they did it uh fully and uh I drove through Anaheim and I drove by uh Gilberts um and I actually attended catella and savanas and um uh leras uh drive-throughs and oh boy a lot of celebrating uh and the uh the most unusual uh vehicle that came through was an actual boat somebody put their kid in a boat and drove them through so uh you know people were in the celebratory mood and and it was really amazing uh to see in the in the you know just to see the the students and uh and and they could receive their Kudos uh again the virtual graduation uh was phenomenal um but what I understand um uh a lot of the work was put on on the admins who had to actually input all of that information so I was in touch with shaa uh a lot because uh and I said you know we shouldn't have to pay whatever we paid if staff did most of that work um because that all that information had to be uh put in and then had to be reviewed because if students were writing personal messages they that all had to be checked and then that day I actually sat and watched um I had I had three at one time because uh hope had theirs at noon and so it was it was an amazing day and uh on top of that John was was actually looking at all of the comments going through and capturing uh not so nice comments that were people were just putting up and I thought because I was watching them and something I thought I go oh oh it wasn't a cuss word but it just wasn't it it it wasn't right and uh and he got it right away and I I was so amazed and Shana was the one that told me that he was actually monitoring that and I don't know if there was there were other people I just heard heard heard that so it's like we thought of everything so that that wasn't a spoiled day you know and um it was it was just just amazing um I think think that's probably going to be a tradition that we're going to be doing even if we do do the uh the uh the the regular graduation I think drive-throughs are going to be a big thing decorating cars and I think people are going to want these these videos now because it was absolutely phenomenal so everybody that worked on that um uh just fantastic um and that's all for me I attended many webinars and had been have been um in contact with a lot of the orange um County uh board school board members just really trying to advocate for um our dollars um and uh to to just not cut my gosh in the middle of all of this um in advocating for our our our kids so with that uh can I just say one more thing too you mentioned webinar uh csba has been putting on some interesting webinars I and I you know I kind of joined in on a couple of those and I'm looking at a few others but I I forgot to mention that because it doesn't hurt if you've got time to sit in on the webinars so absolutely they've been they've been um really pushing them out um and then uh Orange County um our delegate assembly members wanted to reach out uh to all of the board members and so we're going to convene as many as can uh can uh come on a webinar so uh everyone will be invited to weigh in um and so that was the suggestion that had come out from from those meetings uh agenda items suggested agenda items Mr Jabar did you have one yeah uh so I I like to uh bring back that idea of a task force for making graduation requirement e studies making a graduation requirement and I know that we already have something on working so maybe have an agenda item which will give us uh uh an update on it I'll second at that thank you Miss py did you want to uh ask the board to agendize that item or you were you just suggesting and getting a feel for uh the graduation ceremony because I just second it I'm not seconding it no I I just want I mean I really don't want it as an agenda item I I just did what I said I would do I would bring it up to the board to make them aware that there was a group here in Cyprus that wanted to put on a real inli gradu you know in-person graduation and was asking the school board you know to jump you know well join in with them yeah for it too well yeah because there's a cost factor and you know without even telling her no I said I'd bring it up but I doubt that you know it would be anything uh I could bring it up but somebody would have to second it and it's not gonna go anywhere you know so I just wanted you to be aware of it you know you're aware that they are but I would not be in favor of it because it's it's a cost factor and we can't afford it and I'm not even sure it would even I mean we don't know where things are going I mean we can't even get 10 people together in one setting so that was right I mean not they're not suggesting large groups yeah it was unfortunate did did the councilman by the way did he declare that Saturday uh a graduation day for Cyprus city of Cyprus did that Council I no I have no idea no um you're talking about uh Morales you know councilman Morales yes I actually suggested to him that what he could do to help the students and make them feel better is to u to the city uh you know a happy graduation day and so that um maybe they could get a buy one get one free if they came in their gown or they could get you know Billboards put up and sides to just make Saturday A celebratory day but I guess he didn't do it unfortunately I have no idea to be honest yeah so okay uh with that uh I will um so MO Jour second all right

Keyser we will vote on the remainder of the consent calendar and take a vote a voice vote all those in favor Tom hi Robinson I'm Griffin hi honey hi okay okay we got a mom so that has been approved so John what about seven point three point three [Music] thank you for clarifying that yeah thank you for bringing that to attention okay so we have this last item in our consent which has to do with this quote for goguardian would anyone like to approve to the motion to approve it some ways to approve the contract item seven point I'll second that motion a motion by doing that hubby's second by I mean Robinson all those in favor please say aye thank you okay that was the consent calendar and to our discussion and the first item is educational services this is with regards to resolution 15 18 20 is regarding racial injustice Azure resolution regarding racial injustice so the answer is this team would like to bring this resolution for to the board for discussion and action regarding the racial injustice what we've been with countries been going through and we just we have been prior again at the beginning of the year when we looked at our data and our data was telling us that we were letting some students down and so looking at that data led us to take action over the course of the year and Johnny has really led this particular aspect of the action with our color and our african-american characters but I'll let Tom go ahead and speak to that briefly so the last four meeting we talked a little bit about the the outreach for the different student groups that are struggling within our school system and realized that we have we have a few and to try to address everyone's needs all the time is definitely a goal of ours at the same time we wanted to hone in on some some specific the group's so as we talked before and is in the setting we do have some some relationships with chief of State University and process cultural leadership center there and also with a private entity down the Sacramento that's doing the same kind of work with schools in the Sacramento Unified School District with the goal of creating mentoring opportunities ideally we'd have a cascading mentoring program that would include Chico State students mentoring our high school students than would then mentor our middle school students and ideally we'd have been mentoring or elementary students so we were really focusing on after the african-american males knowing that we're also going to move into during the during 2021 building relationships with women and excellence which is the counter or the collaborative group at Chico State much like the men in Chico so the goal was to again create mentoring programs and for those specific student groups however since the civil unrest that's just been been a major focal point for much of our policy has again risen to the forefront we feel like me to expand that conversation so we've been reaching out she has been reaching out to different community members who we feel and influence even deeper conversations about racism bias in general with the idea that we are much more systemic and organized in our approach to identifying elements of bias in the community and the specific banner system so for example on Friday we have quite a few members of our community representing different groups and different cultures and the reason I emphasize cultures is we're it's we're not just talking at the cultures we're also talking about professional cultures for example we have an African American urban raised police officer joining us in this group so he's going to bring a perspective to this conversation about racism and bias that many people in that group won't be able to to represent so we appreciate our community members being involved in those conversations we have some goals of really needs not necessarily just staying in our lane but ultimately we want to deepen our awareness of bias within our system specifically when we talk about racism right before spring break which before [Music] however one of the things that we talked about we really want to be sure that we do is we don't want to perpetuate the white Caucasian influence by making policy and curricular instruction without getting direction from the group very groups that were trying to we're looking to the group that John is meeting with we're looking to you are ever in American parent group to help us look at are there policies that get in the way of equity are there policies that perhaps meet you racism within our system so that's the cynical look but trying to look at it from another viewpoint just then and I would like to go ahead and read the resolution oh okay you see you're just a little picture of her for the time into this project one of the things that that makes it so important to me as a white American is that as I watch and observe what's going on right now in our country I have become aware of how little I really know about racial let's see we get taught like we and the Americans in our Texas we get taught things like there was a civil war [Music] we consciously recognize ethnic racial groups making contributions [Music] we don't embrace that you know Cathy did you want to say something yes thank you so the context of this is that we have refraction around ethnic or racial identity including the Native American of which I have grandchildren and great-grandchildren but I think it's really valuable that we've gone through the resources that keep the state these are leaders that I have worked with very closely over my want to miss out on the awake because they were letting other kids other parents ask the questions and then they were answering them so I think one of the things we want to do as many of these sorts of things we can find that out not just our teachers but also families who are often blended identity thank you okay thank you Kathy I'm going to go ahead now and read the resolution whereas this Chico Unified School District Board of Education is heartbroken and frustrated by the in justices experienced by people of color in every city in our nation and is troubled by the inequalities that have plagued our nation for so long and whereas the Board of Education is committed to maintaining a safe positive school environment where all students staff parents guardians and community members are treated with respect and dignity whereas the Board of Education believes that the diversity that the district's community of students staff parents guardians and community members is integral to the success of the district's vision mission and goals whereas to bring about true and sustained change that chica Unified School District Board of Education urges the community of Chico to come together in unity and create impactful dialogue on racism and inequities and work toward positive transformations that address racism and inequalities whereas Chico Unified is committed to continuing to develop and deepen community relationships and partnerships through student groups specific community forums and student groups specific mentoring programs such as the men of Chico and women of excellence thereby providing our students a venue to express their perspectives on bias in the school system and identify ways to combat racism now therefore be it resolved that the Chico Unified School District Board of Education stands strongly beside our students of color staff families and community and vows to reflect upon its policies values goals and missions to ensure its commitment to all via FURTHER RESOLVED the Board of Education vows to work to proactively identify class and cultural biases as well as practices policies and institutional barriers that negatively student learning from Hetch away achievement gaps and impede equal access to opportunities for all students in order to eradicate institutional bias of any kind including implicit or unintentional biases and prejudices that affect student achievement and to eliminate disparities in educational outcomes under all right to sing Thank You Tommy all right we will move forward then to a discussion action item this is is this actually to be something for a vote it's more of a discussion I have to okay an update on our Co code 19 responds in the 2021 school year planning and recommendation of co-curricular and extracurricular activities summer planning so there's a few different things that we want to give you updates on just on the cover the update again we're going to be talking about possible schedules for next year we have some athletic do we want to bring you by so we want to so what we want to do is give you these are some of the pictures coming through different of our graduation or drive-throughs and I know some of you have seen these before begin they were very successful for how quickly that our schools headed put these on and we're very proud of what they've done alright so here's where the graduate number is from each one of our junior High's and high schools and CEOs the junior High's are pretty close between 301 and 306 to comprehensive high schools 439 at 417 then you all in ninety-three graduates this year so the wonderful thing the next thing that we are working on actually Jonathan spent a lot of time on this and I've just spent time on zooms and so it's Kelly we've been working with our Eastern athletically that's a league that our sports teams planned so we can have a common message in a common protocol when we can open up camps and possibly some type of practices so we're going to click on that and then so you can continue to see it but it it's come a long way over the last three weeks and we're pretty excited the fact that that we have a common message from our and just some background like Jay said we're trying to get three distinct districts coming together as part of one league to agree on you know in sportsmanship sports would like manner to agree on how we're going to approach summer activities but just to make sure I can understand this is just a summer conversation we're not talking about fall sports yet this is really just July 24th so in response to the California Department of Education guidelines the National Federation of high school sport guidelines some County guidelines from shasta county Tehama County and Butte County we basically synthesize those guidelines and were able to create a document that could guide a summer participation for our student athletes we're not going to go through the whole document just want to reinforce that there are opportunities within this document or for wellness checks for coaches to demonstrate in their plan and must be approved at the site level at my level and then at the senior cabinet level specifically where they're where they're going to be hosting their their participants how they're going to interact with them the safety precautions again following those introduced guidelines there are also some waivers that basically identify the school district and explain to parents and the students our expectations as we as we invite these kids back on our campuses our maintenance and operation folks have been instrumental in streamlining this process to be sure that who their staff are safe right the bringing these kids back on the episode it's not fair to those staff who've been working diligently extremely diligently to prepare those campuses for for next year so in a nutshell we're able to after about three weeks of working through this document were able to make it happen so we're excited in it we've noticed regionally this process has been emulated you know different districts not involved regulating this comes so it hasn't been through the coach brings it to the athletic director brings it to the administrator that's in charge of athletics on their campus then it goes to John the administrator on Kent State it goes to John then it goes to me and then I share it with senior cabinet so there's no surprises and we've asked some of the coaches or people that are leading this campus init some photos and some time so we can share with what it kind of looks like when they're doing their six foot distancing and going ten or less students and different groups and how that looks and so they said they will do that for you we could share with you guys the future what's really impressive in those pictures are the facilities just the standardization of those facilities so another piece to thinking about next year we know we're going to have some kids who may be eligible based on the code 19 distance learning in the second semester and so we added and this will be addressed later in the board agenda but we added some language to a word policy that in event and I'm not going to read it to you but basically in the event of an emergency declaration a student would be granted an additional probationary period right so then there's going to be some tracking involved there but our abs and principals feel like that's something thing I do and so things are both his kids won't eat it but we want that safety net sorry clarify that because other people may have seen as I did this blood last night which actually was featuring paradises female volleyball team so way to take more than a second for somebody to realize that this six high schools don't reckon if you don't comprise all the high schools that they typically play a game with each other so is there any framework of referencing which schools that might end up playing one another we have some sort of a similar agreement or we just you know three six hang together and then paradise will hang with whoever and say thanks for the orbital high schools I'm trying to get a sense of the public understands that what was on the news last night was very specific so this came about from a league perspective and since our league is the EA L that's why we group together because we wanted fairness among those that competed and we see I am fleet play but you know it's my party mentioned there has certainly been adaptation of this document across Buick County and talk to the dress Lexington yeah Kathy just to to put it in the 30,000 foot level of context every summer schools handle their summer activities differently right some schools have way more activities for one sport than other schools and that variety of reasons resources being number one facilities being number two he only had one gym you can only do so much for volleyball and basketball during the summer and so we feel like across the section right the next level up from the leaf each league I can't vouch for every leaf but it sounds like most leagues are having similar conversations and as you know when one school district finds out someone is getting a little bit of an extra bump people are competitive right so they're going to try to figure out how they can do something similar this one make sure people understand that these are voluntary camps that these kids are are going into so we on my desk I go on the cheerleading one a football one wrestling one a basketball one and so again you know everybody's really excited to be able to but again it's the parents are still feeling uncomfortable even with these guidelines there's just voluntary doesn't hurt a child's chances of me making that team later on when those sports okay yep um question about the scheduling of summer sports it is something that I did not familiar with do do the summer activities end with enough time to leave a two week window before the beginning of the school year yes so the way this system has been set up these activities will cease on July 24 school doesn't start until August 17 however all sports do start on August 3rd what we felt like is stopping on July 24th would give folks a little bit larger window to Reese Anna ties areas that needed a little more Reese anat ization as we prepared for students and staff coming back so there's a stop date on July 24th with the first you know nine days giving us some time to Reese other things about the open up data if you got the Sierra Facebook live it was alright we started trying to figure out with different colleagues our community is really talking about the bit that understand what schools going to look like next year and Kelly gets quite a few emails asking those questions throughout the week and she does an amazing job of answering them we have to do TV interviews radio interviews newspaper interviews on these questions that are constantly long we tell them to just keep coming back for updates so we wanted to make sure again that we're following the guidelines suggested guidelines that we are giving to and if they become mandated guidelines what were the skills that would look like at that time so we are also at this time looking at what other just a lot of districts right now are putting out plans or what they're telling their parents and so some of the stuff that we're gonna said that looks pretty good so listen let's use some of the stuff that they're going forward and I know some people are looking at the stuff we have we have to go over it with a chem suits meeting tomorrow because they saw the Facebook blog some of that's been going on it's great we've also let me decided in my you guys know that we've been working with teachers and our Union and our classified and our administrators to come up we want we want them part of this whole thing it's gonna affect every one of them so I believe in our last one we had close to 70 participants and Arzu meaning when they came to talk about then we broke it out and on Johncock we broke them out the elementary level secondary level these guys do a great job that when they break everybody out root we had a special ed group and so they will be able to break out what would schedules look at that how that going to affect their programs they're obviously different from elementary to secondary just what specialness names are so it's pretty amazing during that we've had to a lot of another one on Monday we're hope to give you another update on next Wednesday on the twenty fourth meeting we want to continue to narrow it down so we can come down for some things say do you guys say what do you think of these we think we've narrowed down these choices what are you putting your thoughts on that we will also get parents involved also because we want to know as a parent what do you think and they were very involved in it basically I mean we had over 2500 views of that yeah we had 260 on at the time to 68 but then over the course 24 hours the wonder clear over 2500 so that's great one way with me too and we will continue those things come up Diane Wilson it's going to do a special ed one Kevin when he misses both one knows more about what the budget is gonna look like we hope in the next 12 days well how about feelings but you know we can reach out to the community to see how is that gonna affect our education - when it comes to cuts or non cuts and stuff like that so we're hoping to do another one of those and then we will follow up probably another one with Kelly and I about scheduling I wanna the next one it's kind of what this is how when we break meet with those our educators our teachers and our administrators these are versions of what it looks like what they're seeing so yeah if you could just stop there because so what we're trying to do is separate out the conditions for reopening from the models that would be opening and so because we would like our conditions to be all as as encompassing as possible and so we've been listing out the conditions for return to school knowing that this isn't everything we're going to have consider but as you can see there are everything ranging from the timeline that we're talking about now to how to really address positive cases what would physical distancing look like and there's three three things already that we need to be thinking about so from from a input perspective we're asking our staff and parents and some students to think about what are the conditions and as Jade mentioned earlier people are receiving quite a few emails about their opinions about conditions and then the models that would be in place and these conditions would apply to those models and so from the rest of the document we don't need to read the whole thing knowing that there's not a one size that fits all just a real quick scroll please so we started to categorize our options and I don't think we're in a position tonight to go through each one of these specifically but just to see that we oh we already have an online learning model you know we already have a very strong traditional model that may have those conditions applied to it and then the last option here is is blended learning models and so if you can scroll a little further so we have a series of ideas that range from a three by three block schedule with kids completing 30 credits of work in one semester and we and some completed schedules have am/pm shifts just so basically is you know maybe vernacular buffet of options that we can start to we can start to investigate research knowing that all of them have pros and cons they're all going and really we really would love to see a traditional type of model with safety precautions but in that's our ultimate goal we're hoping that this state allows us an account allows us to do that what we're seeing in our surveys and I'll talk about that just minute from our family scene really we love to have some time in traditional models will succeed Hodgins with antenna sides are stations which we have them all in portable ones in every classroom right now for that the teachers to me I'm good to do that we hope to have them in gate entries where when they come on they have to do that these also are hoping to have them in our busy type of common areas where I think our kids are going to get really used to the fact that this is going to be happening all time the Elementary's with their sinks in their classrooms and stuff like that we've ordered yeah we we ordered 800 thermometers so the the wand so we could have them at our schools and if that's what we're out we want to go where we're testing on those are all conversations that we will come up with to you guys gonna get down to the nitty-gritty on lines perfect Oakbridge does that very well our Oakbridge online option didn't change when we meant you know when the kids have come off the campus they continued with their model of their online instruction so there's in sampling and so that's really a second option to parents don't feel comfortable with sending their kids into that model if the state gives us open guidelines allows each district to kind of do theirs we have that model even now move down to k5 we've now just we purchased two different models it's going to be the I already toolbox and one nurse online program so those are going to be Petite Sirah eventually hit they need to go on mommy and that means to Dibble meet with somebody every week so I want people to understand online option still needs with their meeting with the teacher if they need to all right we'll have them out you know they need to that ambassador would need that but they go in to me if one time week and they start falling behind we usually go one for two week two days a week to three and we do have tutorial times if they start sternly an insert so I think that we do need definite the other models that we're talking about they're the ones who were kind of struggling if the mandates come in and say they have to be six feet apart you know in deposit where you can only pretend in 12 kids and impassion the actually the end of the models come in two three by three or that a and P and shifts and that kind of thing so whether we like it or not part of our role of school is when kids are at school we have the children so that parents can work and so we're trying to look at this is a big picture is what we want our economy to recover our economy drives education fun yet education allows parents to be in the workplace driving the economy it's that big cycle and so we are hearing from parents that you know I can't afford to stay home I can't afford childcare I need to be able to go back to work and you buy a child at school so those are all part of the discussions that we're hiding but all of us know there's lots of demands meeting all of them it's a challenge that's why we're having looking at lots of different models here I think we talked a lot about it in ed services and I think John mentioned a fourth of the faith I think we want to make sure that a smorgasbord of options out there and check so we want to have different options so families feel comfortable coming back in on the new world with these kind of guidelines and plays for this provision of the place they're comfortable without we can offer that to them but they are feeling for different health or security reasons whether their family they want a full-blown online version we can offer that but then the middle one is for kind of a blended model so if families are feeling there might be some reason that they are comfortably on campus a little bit of the time maybe they're half the time is what that would look like and here's how we could operate that and here's kind of the structure in the form you put that together with also so because I've been taking a lot of input from teachers and staff we're going to talk to parents coming up and get a lot of feedback from them as well I put those things together and they're all those what things we're not thinking about even to come up like Jay said we've been running different sessions and throughout the elementary one for an hour Kim hands is taking notes in there [Music] thank you yes you can get up one of the concerns the impact emotionally we are we already know as a district that we have some very very needy children with social and emotional deficits that are tragically not being met in any kind of an online situation so from my perspective of the board members anything we can do that keeps our targeted children [Music] yeah there's to keep our kids to me get still back to saving those kids social and he every kid a lot of drama why is everybody work why did everything get closed down you know it's it's been a lot for kids to digest so I appreciate that I mean that's actually we've been kind of putting together the parameters of what our online students and that came out very loudly their teachers so like Jay mentioned there's actually a weekly expected check-in whether it's in person or online not just for academic support but to check in and see how that child is doing also I could allow that referral to happen if they're you for kind of some support whether it's in-person counseling or whatever it may be also teachers are very Commons and he said we want to make sure these kids are doing okay while they're at home online things are put together one of the things that ice that I felt was missing was a student's ability to actually see and hear their teacher giving an instruction even if it's only a 10-minute dialogue on you know what the introduction of a new chapter something yeah it's gonna be on their Chromebook but they still need to see and hear that live person giving them you know part of the conditions because in their endings the teacher groups were working with they said teachers should be on there four times a week there any math lesson four times a week to the reading to be a lesson and it could be a partner ten minute lesson does never be an hour-and-a-half lesson so there was a built-in expectation from teachers sorry to keep hiatus and I'm going to thank Kathy I'm just shifting the last bullet on there Kathy just so you know we're opening our preschools back out July 6th we got to go ahead from licensing so Kathleen's been chomping at the bit so we're gonna open up all four preschools there are some social distancing components expected needless to say Kathleen's working out all those but we are expecting to open July 6th with about ten students in each one so she's kind of going through and creating the criteria right now to get those things ready to go so think about it hopefully start helping some of those childcare things and in kudos to Kevin ball tonight and John Carver because that wasn't in their plans and all the sudden a day later it was in their plans and accommodated great well one last thing too that I want to bring up his and one of the programs that they mentioned in there was to addressed this issue of what type of programs might be helpful to students and there's a with interrupted education with interrupted formal education especially to avoid furthering and deepening the the gaps [Music] one one one thing because we've already I think covered the other two bullets we will we've already had the one survey that we put out in May we will put out another one for our parents and one for our certificated and you do one for classified and one for classifying also again what are they considering alright what are they comfortable with traditional with safety because we want to add what traditional looks like it's not somebody just said traditional so some people thought that meant traditional with six feet Stacey or traditional with a lot of safety I think so we want to be able to list what traditional looks like what our online option I think most people know what that is we will again we want to let him know that he's still do get to see a teacher what a blended model website and just to get again a feeling after we get closer to doing these board meetings about giving schedules what they look like and how comfortable they're feeling and then we will do one again probably around the third week of July after our July 15th board meeting so we want to put out a survey again so we we have to really start or concreted yeah more green let you guys and this is the concrete ones we think and with your approval we really have to stop looking at staffing and budgeting and that kind of stuff and how that the schedules are going to do and how that reacts with what we've chosen so we want to be able to tell our teachers okay we've got this video for eating this may need to go to here and that one of the things that was said was professional development we've also been working with on Kevin ready and Charlie Schneider there any meetings with us let me see about these different schedules that were looking at so one usually is in the elementary and ones usually in the secondary and they've asked you this do professional development which we approved a week with pay the teachers for their four hours one on ingenuity that's our platform for the six to twelve online the I'm ready to a box and the wonders for elementary teachers and then we will also be doing some professional development and if we have to go back to distancing distance learning how to make that transition because before you know we have 48 hours basically you're going to distance learning so teachers are wanting more help with that but some teachers did it pretty well and some people struggle with it so they've asked us to put on that we will at the beginning obvious that we first week of August we will put that out so I just wanna you know we're reaching out to we might need more teachers to go to Oak Ridge so we just want to make sure that people are ready to go all right okay so one thing I did want to talk to the board about clearly we have we've got our teacher group meeting every Monday and they're going to meet again this next Monday and our hope is to bring you some solid workable options then what I would like to do is schedule again you guys again not like this part but schedule another board workshop and maybe during the day where the court can really looked and take an in-depth look at the options of our prepending because the court ultimately you are our policy makers you set this so the board will have to make a decision on which model is resolved in the direction that we go and July 15th really is pushing the envelope because school starts August 17th so if we can I'm looking at work with your calendars but a board meeting is an extended look at options for workshop for the reopening of school sometimes the week of July 6 7 to 8 in there that will allow us to have an in-depth discussion and lead us to making a decision what it is the model the conditions we know may vary based on what the state can the counties tell us what is the model yeah I think that was inevitable we began you know we absolutely need to be part of that and we need to dedicate enough time to but it can't just be something that's squeezed into a board meeting and we need to be fresh and we need to be you know our brains functioning fully to digest everything that is going to be discussed and decided so what I what I personally would like is if we could do this as some sort of like morning session time where we have coffee we get together we talk about all of this and we spend as much time as we need to these are these are big decisions and there's going to be a lot of parents who are really impacted and concerned about this and you know coming back to us with milk you know why did you do this this would be a meeting like are we going back to open session where parents well I think that day I think that you guys have been gathering a lot of the parent feedback and so yes a lot and we would get we've been reading um and also with the serving information since there's going to be more surveying that's and that's being done so gathering that kind of information I think we would have that we necessarily I would say that at some point to open it up to where with social distance we're going to try to put one out immediately after the June 24th that's with Wednesday so we can get it out oh yeah I mean it's gonna be a short window their parents mode we can put it on there as good in kitchen and getting say we have to show we look at important right and we've been talking about we talked about about the Facebook live as well that you know we will be sending out more service yes yeah the word of the last survey you know anybody that didn't participate complete I didn't get it right so there is no awareness of that you need to communicate was it is Michael the absolute drop-dead date for the board to make a decision as to which options will be available is July 15 and it will be do it sooner that is even better and once that is made then there are the options out prepares to begin making those decisions and registering in which our program they want to register it at that particular point wraps up our presentation we didn't want to exclude all the different means of transportation for our graduations so we want to ensure that equally often where all the cars that were decorated and everything from horses to limos to a truck that came through with sand in the beach our kids are 380 then they need the best the challenging time it's really proud of the parents of the kids [Music] okay okay so we have a motion our song we have promotion a second buddy by dr.

this is it is this it I think so hi miss sd's hi Nick how's everyone doing we had a last-minute link change can you believe it so it's good to see that there are lots of people on this broadcast and I think we'll give it a couple more minutes found everybody we want as many sixth graders as we can get because today is their day to celebrate what they've achieved exactly and we want to make sure that Wildwood staff are here and also families and friends the one thing about doing it this way is that families and friends from all around the world can join us so please if you're out there and you want your family to come to this live staying strong together sixth graders moving on graduation ceremony send the link so you might notice as we're getting settled find a comfy spot wherever you are that we have a chat for this that's another feature necessities could you say a couple words about the chat yes definitely yesterday we had a wonderful experience with the chat with such encouraging kind words that people were sharing to support each other please make sure that you are supporting each other with kind words because this is a day to definitely honor all that you've been able to do at our in your wild foot home yes so the chats on the right hand side of your screen and I think we'll get started in a couple months so find us find it another thing that's different is that hopefully you're sitting with your family so if we were in the gymnasium one thing would be it would be hot today's gonna be way hot so hopefully you're in a cooler spot without a few hundred people but we're connected through the internet through this virtual world so find a good spot and the other thing that's different miss Estes is that students can sit with their families how beautiful is that yeah normally that's not what can happen and there's there you have to do all these things so separate from each other but in this format they can have anyone they want to join them and you can be sitting right next to the people who love you exactly because this is a celebration we like to think of these celebrations as interactive where families get to participate so families out there are you ready I also see that there are many staff members that are with us a welcome Wildwood staff that's something else that's different about this way of doing it is that our staff members can be with you connected are we ready to get started I am oh my gosh I think I heard so many people shouting yes let's do it all right here we go mm let me straighten up might I get my collar top okay so um welcome sixth graders and the families and friends from all around the world this is the Wildwood sixth grade stayin strong together a graduation ceremony moving on and every graduation ceremony I like to say that this transition from being in an elementary age as a child to a young adult this is something this transition this tradition has existed for hundreds really thousands of years all over the world and this is one way this is our way of doing that you're surrounded by adults both in your rooms in your homes and around the world who love you who are urging you to go forward and be happy and successful and so this is a ceremony of love so let's do it and we're gonna first celebrate all of you and imagine us walking in together so here we go this is called a processional so let's all send out our love and happiness to this incredible group of sixth graders [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] whoa one thing I forgot to say business this is that people are welcome to dance but I was ready seeing all those beautiful faces I thought that was just so it gets me Soper Klimt when I think about it I haven't seen them all for so long and check out the comments coming from all around the world from grandparents parents from friends and from many teachers so many wonderful things to say amazing I'm feeling it's like this is such a wonderful opportunity I mean I see John Paul on I see yet Joe Ellis on I see so many didn't I see people from other classes here too yes yeah isn't that great fantastic Emma mr.

Mars really loves all of you and cares about you and he's the one that's really going to be there for you as well to guide you through the rest of your years and a Murs so here's dr. Mike Morris hi this is your Superintendent Mike Morris and I'd like to congratulate the graduates of the class of 2020 you've made an enormous impact on your elementary schools throughout your time here I'd also like to congratulate the families of the graduates for the essential supports you have provided that have contributed to your child making it through their elementary school experience in terms of what I wish for the graduates I wish you to retain a sense of optimism for the future you're a graduating elementary school at a time of great stress both locally nationally and around the world it'd be easy to focus on the challenges of the past few months while overlooking or forgetting the experiences and impact you've made at your elementary school as you depart from the school I encourage you to allow the positive to occupy as many of your thoughts as possible and you can think about start that right now by considering and reflecting on the many accomplishments and experiences you've had during your elementary school career Arthur golden stated that our adversity is like a strong wing wind it tears away from all of us the things that cannot be torn so we see ourselves as we really are I believe the challenges of this spring have certainly removed some of the wonderful sixth grade events that you would typically have had at the end of your elementary school career but based on what I've seen and heard of the last few months it has not affected your strong sense of connection and community with your friends and peers it has not affected your dedication to intellectual pursuits nor your commitment to make the world a better place more than ever we need young people who understand and can model what it take that it takes novel and creative approaches to solve the remove the inequalities we see in the world and that have been magnified in the current kite crisis if the world took its cues from this graduating class I think we'd be a step in the right direction you've been well educated by the talented teachers of your elementary school to be successful in whatever pursuits you choose in the future and I believe each of your distinct paths will lead to a more equitable world for all of us in the future I am honored to be a speaker at your graduation and I wish you the best as you depart your elementary school experience I cannot wait to see how you will take what you've learned here and use it in the future congratulations and best of luck Thank You dr.

yep there already okay we're live okay good evening everyone today is Wednesday June 17th and I call the regular meeting of the Brookfield Board of Education to order so let's 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 with liberty and justice for all okay we have all of our board members in attendance tonight so we can move on to public comment and I see that we have quite a few people joining us tonight which is nice so I just wanted to remind you guys to all mute yourself for now and then just sort of there's like a little raised hand reaction down at the bottom of the zoom taskbar just raise your hand when you want to talk and then you can I'll call on you you can unmute yourself just state your name and your current address for the record I know that some BHS alums are here so just sort of maybe say what class you're from and then each speaker will have three minutes so um who would like to go first okay adonai it's all yours good evening everyone my name is Adan I Sebastin BHS class of 2013 and my book filled residence is at 14 Bell Road I was one of four initial alumni along with tests Bridget and Jack Haggerty who approached superintendent Burrell and the Board of Education members regarding the response to the murder of George Floyd and the black lives matter movement I'm here today along with others to share our emphasis with the Brookfield school system which highlight the gaps in our education regarding racism and the experience of black people in our country and the absolute necessity of using this moment in history to create sustainable change in our schools though I am NOT black I would still like to share one experience I had during high school which might not seem on its surface too problematic but which does highlight in the complexity of the topic at hand and the necessity of anti racism training for both faculty and students one of the rare instances during my education in which race was discussed was during a class discussion on white privilege I was the only person of color in this classroom while my classmates began making well intentioned remarks into their own privilege I began to feel increasingly upset but also confused with my own emotions because no one had made any overt racist remarks it was not until college where I learned about white Savior complex that I understood why why I had felt upset that day during that class a well-intentioned discussion on white privilege had turned into a show of white Savior complex in which I felt that I was being pitied by my peers it's somewhat humiliating to feel pitied when you have pride in who you are as a person of color this experience of mine speaks to two specific points first even the most well-intentioned discussions can fail to meet the mark the nuance is associated with how you phrase your language and discussions are not easily learned by anyone and these discussions must be created carefully and led well this means that all faculty need to undergo professional diversity training led by black individuals so that faculty feel confident in their ability to lead students in such discussions secondly the perspectives of by POC black indigenous and people of color must be included in every single decision you make many of these anti-racist educational initiatives will be Syst white students to become more knowledgeable about race however you must consider the experience of by parking these teaching moments as well the focus of any durational directive regarding anti racism should be to foster interracial discussion furthermore minorities are not exempt from displaying racist attitudes and neither should any person of color be tokenized for their perspectives in such discussions to address this concern you must include black individuals in all decision-making in the future that pertains to addressing anti racism initiatives and finally when I was younger I used to let microaggressions slide because I felt that people were well-intentioned and that was good enough given the current movement and the higher standards expected of us now good enough is not good anymore thank you for your time and consideration thank you very much anyone else okay Kiana it's all yours hello my name is Kiana Shabazz Williams my residence is 207 whisky near Road so I wanted to talk about my experience fall in the Connecticut public school system I'm from Danbury and I recently moved here so my experience is a bit different however I feel that is still very relevant so African American history is American history although in schools never seen this way we talk about the same few topics such as slavery the Civil War and Martin Luther King so those topics um they always water down and I was never able to see myself in history I feel as if there's a lot more that needs to be taught that is being ignored right now for example black Walshy the school to Prison Pipeline in the various black Americans that made history and helps build America I wasn't able to learn about my true history until after eighth grade when I became homeschooled and my mom and I were able to take real charge of what I was learning education is the best way to combat ignorant and if you don't learn your history you're doomed to repeat it it is extremely important for everyone to learn the true non whitewashed version of their American history and I wanted to discuss a little bit more about this because I decided to organize a black lives matter rally in Brookfield and that is on Saturday on the 20th oh thank you okay thank you canna anyone else Oh Angela the floor is all yours thank you my residence is a 1089 9th Street Durham North Carolina I'm an alumni of the BHS class of 2013 like many white people across the u.s.

at the town hall we certainly hope to see you all there thank you thank you Hayley and thank you everyone for taking the time to come back to speak to us you're all very articulate and it's it's nice that you saw the connection to Brookfield I'm not going to address any of the questions directly at this point but if you would I would encourage you all to stay for the rest of the meeting where we do have an agenda item that addresses this and of course if you still would like to submit your questions and writing I do encourage that as well okay anyone else for public comment I think I got everyone okay okay so we can move on to written correspondence okay Ron Jaffe shared information on available resources during school closure and a link to a Sesame Street virtual Town Hall addressing racial justice and a Dona Sebastian Haley Goodrich tests Haggerty Bridget Haggerty and Jack Haggerty wrote regarding a statement from the school district on current events and racial injustice that's okay thank you on to approval of Board minutes I move that the board approve the minutes listed below the regular meeting on June 3rd 2020 and the special meeting on June 11th 2020 second thank you Bob any discussions questions edits on any of these okay so all in favor all right okay motion passes thank you the superintendent's update Thank You Rosa and thank you for the folks from for public comment to die and the Haggerty siblings who met with me last week and it was an absolute pleasure i opening exciting to see successful reckless and alumni and i thank them for their time there was time well spent on this exact topic that they spoke to this evening a public comment so I have a few things I wanted to talk with kindergarten enrollment update fresh off the press from mrs.

anyway yes we can hear you - I can't hear anyone of course Gladys Cooper yeah I'm sorry I'm a little out over here just a Fritton Rachel Zaleski Kate caneta present Gladys Cooper present Lauren Daly Joe DaSilva Carol I know she's here your honor you can see that's all yeah um Katherine Hutchins here Richard Ginelli yeah Alan Russa Ami's Bellino here tonight it's we then take place do the workshop in two parts we're going to start off with the discussion about the budget and I'm gonna turn it over to mrs. Ginelli dr. Tsao and Courtney thank you thank you just for those that not part of the Finance Committee in a previous previous presentation my own comment is and also for the new board members that this budget is a unique budget in that it's not normally the way we are appropriating now funds for the budget historically the city of Danbury gives us an appropriation and then we allocate those monies to various expenses as we see necessary this particular year in addition to the city's appropriation and I'm assuming because of the virus in addition to the low figure we got from the city there are other sources of revenue that has been I guess legally allowed us to be used that in the past we weren't able to use these sources such as one is a carryover of monies that were not spent this year in our budget that historically has been you spend it where you lose it and two there is a cash act funding from the government that's been given to us because that a virus situation courtney has put together a very detailed budget I think simplified very very nicely for something that's extremely complex and she will take you through the steps in showing you where the allocation of these various resources are and what's been utilized to be spent against them and I think you'll find it extremely extremely interesting it was a very complicated budget to put together but the presentation I think makes it very very clear and simple based on the reaction that we had from those who attended the Finance Committee so with that I'll pass it over the Courtney thank you very much Courtney can you give me a second please yeah yeah yeah so thank you for having the meeting it was a great idea I know Courtney reached out to a few members if they had questions I think some of the most of them are answered but of course any more will go down I just want to make a statement to the board I think Richard alluded to a the return on investment the information that we got from Chris I think that one thing with the board's help we've managed to use limited resources in ways to achieve our goals this budget will not reduce individuals which I am ecstatic about but it does create some movements for and and and those movements will continue to reinforce the work that we're doing although we can use the money differently the board's got to remember that the Alliance money was very explicit about closing the gap this is not something that could be used in a way that would not add to that value to that those goals it took some work to do it I commend Courtney for braiding these things and following up and making it happen the city has been helpful the city has been helpful for us tremendously dave has stepped up I'll make the statement publicly the mayor said look well do we need to make this thing happen and there's some reserves Courtney will talk to you about input I would not be able to say that everybody gives me but I don't think everybody is going to be happy I'm not entirely happy with the budget but I did I think what it does is a poor it needs to be concerned about it's going to treat youngsters fairly it's going to give them more direct services and it's going to attempt to redirect some of the practices that are going on in the buildings that may not be the most efficient I just think you know sometimes necessities a mother of all invention this allowed us to do some deep thinking so with that I'll turn it over Courtney but I do want you to know that it's been a yeoman effort night thank a cabinet and rich for your help with the coordinating and shepherding through this process so Courtney can you go thank you okay thank you dr.

Sal mentioned so we we did not spend our full city budget this year because of savings on transportation and the energy we weren't using subs all the things we've spoken about before it's about two million dollars we're going to put that aside for some unknowns you know insure up our reserves because we don't want to put that one-time money into an ongoing so for insurances for special ed technology and emergencies destiny has allowed us to do that so you're familiar with this you know I shared this a few times now with the board so this is showing our original request here was 146 250 for the mayor in the city are giving us 136 236 here's how it breaks out the thing that changed and the thing that paused us I'm voting on the budget in the most recent board meeting was this the matrix money it's no longer in last year's funds so we had didn't remove it from here the base and we had to remove it from last use of it decrease their city fund balance because we didn't get the matrix money this year we do anticipate that we'll get it next year and we're planning on it in the budget for next year and the mirrors agreed that it's a high likelihood and that we could we could account for it in the budget the other funds that you see over here Alliance this is our general increase that's remained steady over the years to give up to two point seven in addition to the 12 point change that we already have and then the cares money we mentioned the new federal this is the grant carryover and the city fund balance so the reason we're showing this braided approach is because you know in order for us to do any of the initiatives we need to do we wanted to show you you know the resources that we have available are about one hundred and forty five million now of that about six point five is one-time money and that's going to be important when we talk about it you know in the in the budget document so I'll just take us right to that can you all see the budget document now yes okay it did share okay great again I do apologize that it's detailed um but I did think it was the right approach because I think the board needs to see the information um so I just want to walk through and I've done this for folks that were at the Finance Committee so bear with me the top section you just saw this is 146 to 54 when it was a original BOE request and this is the current city funding so 146 down to 36 to 36 8 portney haha surely I don't think I'm looking at the right I don't think I see the right document no we don't I apologise thing that happened to me last time to let me reach it how does that mean how do you see oh yes okay always seen our numbers I'm dreaming that's what you need the numbers yeah I'm sorry again it's so detailed okay so I'll go back over the first column is the original budget request you'll recognize our number we had a 136 986 we had a one point two seven three that the city mid-year added and we had 10 more million that we were asking for for this total amount this year you can see that now that base has removed the 550 because it's only 130 for the city gave us one two five and we've got an extra 550 that we're anticipating to get we're calling it matrix it's also the summit project what I think matrice is a developer so the risk is to the board if we don't get it so we're going to be falling they'll put them there and making sure that that's the counted borne that we do achieve that money this year we have a good relationship there so okay so that's 136 236 Alliance money we talked about and the way that this works is that I'm showing you the budget on the top so the the resource load available and then down below I'm showing you how we spend it this section is talking about what I'm calling the base so it's just the carry forward and and then the next section is the new request so it's summarizing what we're asking the board to do newly and we laid it out in the categories that you saw before like what did we originally asked for and what are we doing now and then that gets us to a total that balances and the overall city budget is going up here you can see from 134 for 36 to 135 686 0.92% you know a lot lower than what we asked for so we've had to be a little bit creative with how we utilize the funds okay so I'm going to pause are there questions about the overall structure of the deck or any questions so far that folks have for Courtney I have one on the matrix funding sure we were assured all last year that the matrix funding was coming and it didn't unsurprisingly because they cut the developers about ready to do that yet that's right Shirin says if anything we have from the city exam birth at the matrix Williams actually coming this year because again it's dependent upon a third party doing something and yeah it is the last year and the city didn't make up the fact that we didn't get it even though they promised it to us what assurances do we have that the developer going to actually do what they need to do to trigger that way this year it's any right yeah I mean exactly right yeah we were under the impression that the revenue risk land side side of the city and it was actually on our side so we did have to make those adjustments but but the mayor is pretty confident that this is going to come in so he did tell us the same level of confidence we had last year that it was coming in right well I was a hero said as Jim that's exactly right as the money came in we were told if it when it comes in and get passes through if it doesn't come in next year we have nothing to be passed through yeah and we are counting on it to balance our budget so it's something we're gonna have to monitor very very closely right so we Joe the answer is it doesn't come they probably won't get it Yeah right so the assurances are worthless because this is about a third party and we've heard of nothing from the city on the teeth yeah the only thing was if they give it to the city city of no burden Courtney is something wrong with them yeah I couldn't hear you I think you might have had an internet connection there thank you we're still if we're still having a challenge of time if you want to write it out in the chat box I could read it if there's another comment question Jo shall we move on or we're going to get the amount or half of that amount we're due to get the 550 did you say yes the five hundred six thousand we're supposed to get the full amount when quite a few people they didn't seem to know what I was talking about but anyway that was come in come in this year when it comes if it comes next year we'll get the full amount that's correct and we're supposed to continue to get it your years after so we're counting on it for a multi-year the checks in the mail the budget the proposed budget neck's million two hundred and thirty six thousand dollars this is you know we're spending 146 million based on the various revenue sources but if nothing else happened the city gave us no increase next year they'd obligated to give us the hundred and thirty six million so that's our 136 that's what we're for the way that we're interpreting it yeah okay and so if you look over here these are the budget account codes so salaries so the way that it works is our original BOE request was 76 to 40 this is what I call the base budget and then we also asked for down below you'll see maintenance and the restoration of the one to 73 so on the base budget we asked for an additional amount for contract increases of 2.7 which gets us for all of our actually mandated Collective Bargaining increases the steps are accounted for here so this doesn't account for any of the new things this is just the roll forward amount here or less we were talking about before and you'll look okay it's a wait a minute we asked for 76 but now you're down to 74 but we the base is up to seven seventy five eight ninety when you consider Alliance and the grant carryover money so there's a certain portion of what we are doing in our base that we're basically shifting because their gap closing activities and we can we can categorize them under Alliance and there's a there's a number of things also that we're accounting for the grant carryover so you can see that our actual you know base only goes down by 350 this is the difference and the 350 is because we classing some of those things that were not appropriately classed back to federal one and and so forth and so on so this line shows a difference because from our original ask because we felt that we have a lot more people retiring for every person that retires we count on about thirty five thousand dollars of savings because they're coming in at a lower salary just because their retirees have been with us a long time they have longevity and initially we were counting on 20 and now it's only about ten that were because people are just not retiring at the rate we anticipated because of the uncertainty with the economy and everything and just uncertainty in general and that could change and we'll revisit that with you if that does change but that's what we see today custodial salaries part-time that overtime so it this just keeps it the same it just shifts some things into cares and ESS are the one of the big changes is the insurance adjustment here basically we have been seeing that trend upward in insurance for a few years and because of last year you all lived with it there was a big anomaly a big blip and the insurance that happened last year we accounted for that in the budget this year I'm just right sizing it and saying based on our actual assessment we've worked with our Gallagher the company that works with us on our insurances we're seeing that last year was just truly an anomaly and and so we're actually see some savings on the insurance next year or even accounting for the increases associated with COBIT so briefly I'll explain that it's just saying comparing not this year's spending but this year's budget to next year's budget will be seeing we need we can do a reduction to the budget overall spending is still going to go up on the on the benefits and insurances it's just not going to go up as much as we thought it was going to and the and then everything else is the same except for here we'll get down to sta this is the adjustment I talked about this is just saying all things being equal we are getting those savings on the contracts that we've agreed to with SDF 441 K in the maintenance portion I account for the fact that we also have to increase by the contracted rate of three percent and so an additional enrollment is accounted for as well down below which I'll get to everything else is staying you know flat but we're shifting some of the supplies into cares yes SR I'm grant carryover and then we get to the new pieces I call this the new requests which was part of what we spoke with you about which seems like the eons ago back in january/february but school climate social-emotional originally we were asking for an investment of two million now our proposal is about four hundred eighty five thousand and that includes funding for I'm just gonna have to change that includes funding for two safety advocates and I've had a question about this I'm not sure if you saw my email out basically it if you looked at the safety advocates we had last year we had seven we're bringing that number up to 11 the reason we only needed to to do that was because we hired some this year mid-year already when we realized that we had some funding in the budget to do that so because of the safety issues we brought some on board a little early so the net impact of the budget changes to people but were actually going from 7 to 11 so really adding a total of four and we also want to revisit that because what we want to see what the high school is going to look like well as we figure out what the plans look like for next year whether or not everybody's gonna be oh no you thought I guess or what what what its gonna look like in terms of number of kids it also funds a district-wide school psychologist a BCB a crisis counselor team social-emotional professional development and two counselors at DHS and we delayed the elementary assistant principal and climate specialist positions and again I mentioned we reduced the need for safety advocates due to the fact that we hired some this year in addition there was some funding that we were asking for to be able to draw down more of a state grant and I'm a technology side we think that we can take care of that with a different grant so we remove that out of the budget and I'm just gonna pause and see I guess if anybody has a question or I actually to have Kelly talk a little bit about the district-wide school psychologist BCBA crisis counselor and the social-emotional investments that we're making Cal so one of the things in our reopening plan and we're still at the initial stages of that um is that we know the social emotional needs of our students and staff are going to be significant and above what we've seen in the past so this would be a team of individuals in addition to the existing supports that are currently in building that could help district-wide with behaviors crises intervention and any emotional supports that either Sapperstein Kelly you know I think this is a good upper I'm sorry yeah I'm off to do good opportunity and there's been a recent court case I just want to at least aware have the board aware what is happening with that and that's been a lot of time on it cuz it's very well sure you want to mention that um so as recently as last week I don't recall the day um we Reese I think it was Wednesday we received information that there was a special hearing decision regarding a group of students that were aging out so they age right now that you receive special education services until in Connecticut is age 21 um so the way it works is the year in which you turn 21 you finish out the remainder school year through June 30th so you know some students get the benefit of an extra month or two where others could get an extra you know eight or nine months depending on where their birthday falls in the calendar the decision has come about saying that Connecticut State statute is in conflict with the federal law for the individuals with Disabilities Education Act and they the hearing decision did say that Connecticut that these children in particular are entitled to education up until age 22 so that could mean that some of the students currently in our district we have 14 that are aging out at age 21 um could return back to us for another year for some of those students they would continue in current existing programs it would increase their uptick the enrollment slightly above what we were expecting um but we would be able to manage for other students they are potentially students you know that are out of district placed or so on and so forth and could have a fiscal implication above and beyond what you see in this existing budget so the reason why we're kind of waiting is that our legal counsel which is Shipman and Goodwin for special ed services as well is currently interpreting that guidance to kind of advise districts on next steps as far as what that means so we are kind of sitting tight and waiting on you know to what extent and how will this roll out across the state of Connecticut Danbury is not alone I've spoken to all the local directors and we're all anguish anxiously awaiting kind of next steps the State Department of Ed has also let us know that they may need to revise some of their guidance to us and so that they're currently working with legal counsel to kind of figure out next step so I'm hoping that in the next couple of weeks I will have a further update to kind of gameplan and roll out but I am already working with my team on a plan should these students you know return to us for next year what that would mean and you know I really couldn't say until we get further guidance whether or not it will be all it'll be a portion um we just are not sure at this time thank you in reduce that we do have we'll get to later on it's not necessarily was intent it wasn't intended for this purpose but we do have a reserve set up and we'll get to that that could account comedy some of that need I hope was to have that be one-time emergency needs but I'm so okay before you continue uh-huh how is a district-wide psychologist going to serve our 12,000 students um so the purpose of it would be to have a highly trained psychologist with an area of expertise in crisis intervention work alongside our behaviorist which is our BCBA to work with teams to develop on plans so it would support the team in the school building so for example to push into a school building in which there's a school psychologist or social worker already working with a child but struggling with that student and provide additional strategies and resources and time to support that team so it would be a system of kind of like referrals that we would we would work to let those teams know in which areas do we need to push in some additional support to briefly get students back on on track and then move forward on for example in the rollout we are anticipating some of our self-contained programs so students with more significant disabilities as well as some of our students with emotional behavioral needs that have you know that tend to respond to disruption you know it with even it's it tends to I'm interfere with their ability to access their education more so than a typical child and so we would start with having a higher level of support in those programs to make sure that they get up and running and so that students can meet with success very you know very quickly and then utilize that support to kind of spread into different buildings where there is a need okay thank you okay yes yes so um Kelly doctorate south so the district-wide school psychologist and the the BCBA crisis counseling team this is not new right this is or this no so we currently have three be CPAs in the district they support all of programs from pre-school all the way up through high school and they are very carefully kind of selected what schools and programs and buildings that they work in to math to maximize their support and services so this this would build on that model and partner them with the school psychologist do to kind of the unusual nature of the time that we're in we know that students are going to need support above and beyond what some of you know some of the supports that we we currently have an existing fix in existence I apologize in our buildings that we need to kind of layer in that additional person on the ditch training so the school psychologist will come in with more of a crises management background then a Juris the BCBA comes in with the behavior modification to be able to put in plans for students work with families refer them to outside resources if needed and to support the school team to successfully reintegrate those students I mean I mean one of the things and just just from thousand miles up it's kind of like a hub hub and spoke kind of a model she has a small cadre of a hub team that spokes out to all of the schools and bring Kelly brings them together and then infuse you know either implementation plans advice parent meetings with them so you know you could always use more but I think if that hub-and-spoke kind of a system we've been using because it resources quite frankly I mean we would love to add additional pupil services support to every building and in this budget that's not a it's not a reality um and so I think that this is the best way we can maximize and support all schools across the district and build on the BC BI system that is currently in place as we've done with 3b cities okay and I just want to okay I'm sorry Tony can you hear me yes we can hear you Cathy this crisis management person would that be to identify problems or they happen or would they so it be identifying show what exactly it's their job description I guess I'm getting food so two things we would first defy and returning to school certain pockets of students and programs that we know need additional support we've stayed highly connected with all of our students during this distance learning we are keenly aware of some of the social emotional needs that are in place and so we will you know kind of front-load those programs that require an additional level of support then what we will do is utilize a referral system within districts with that buildings can reach out to this team to say listen we have you know either building principal we have this program that needs some additional support this resource or an individual student or family and again we will send the team to there - quite an additional level of support yeah okay and I I just want to be clear because I think it may be it was not entirely clear when this this when I'm talking about this in what it includes and what we delayed it just means from the original request so this whole section called new new request is all additive so it's what we're doing to enhance what we currently have if that wasn't clear so okay the next one is a special education sorry right here special education and teaching supports we're looking for the 732 K and that's gonna fit fun three special education preschool teachers and one speech-language pathologist as well as the staff for the new Granville special at preschool and that includes one teacher and an inner stand a security safety advocate we're delaying an assistant director from what we originally asked for one of the speech-language pathologists are reading consultant two of the original request for special ed teachers and we're going to be sharing a custodian for the Grandville site which is going to be named soon so we won't have to call it Granville anymore but we're going to be sharing a custodian there with the Sacred Heart site likely one way to redeploy so that's the difference you see there ESL ll programming we're asking for 475 in this budget and it's all being funded out of alliance its funding for 5.4 new ESL l teachers an additional one additional sigh up coach we're delaying the implementation of the sll program at Rogers Park which which would have required you know for splitting it into two two sites which is the goal would have required resources that we don't don't have this year the goal is still to do that but it not for this year and it's a delayed implementation of instructional pairs of the middle schools we also just budgeted for an additional three es ll staff this year with those enrollment expansion funds that are going to carry over into next year's budget so if you looked you're over here it's a pretty big commitment to expanding the ESL ll teachers a year over a year okay this should read I'm just gonna fix it right now cuz someone pointed out to me and I apologize I didn't fix it enrollment of graduation requirements so it's it's funding hundreds of cak for new high school teachers to meet the credit requirements and two point three middle school teachers and one in school pair at the middle school we're reducing it from the original request of fourteen teachers mainly because we reassess the needs of the elementary school and we're also delaying the implementation of a reach expansion that we were hoping to do this year or delaying that so just for the board I mean this is really cutting it close we're taking advantage of folks that we've had it but the new graduation requirements specifically with health education for students if delays it just forces kids that to move up and take it a different time so we have to watch it real close but right now that's what we have on the docket to move forward to meet those needs as best as possible so we'll have to watch you closely for technology yep I'm sorry just a and if this isn't the right time to ask this question but no I'm saying the words merely reassessing needs the elementary school there is no question 14,000 teachers what degree budget adjustments affect the number of elementary school teachers in class size I thought as you're getting bigger and we're supposed to socially distance those two things seem somewhat opposite and impossible to juxtapose or am I wrong no so this this budget um takes into account all the staffing that we have is rolling forward and it's gonna be the staffing that we need and we can afford with the enrollment growth that we projected at the high school you know some of it was funded this year and some of it is being funded for the increased graduation requirements and there's a small increase to the middle school everything that we have to do associated with social distancing is set aside as a separate bucket that we'll get to but it's not in this part of the budget because it's still unknown so we had to kind of park it as a big bucket so if for example one of the strategies is to split classes and you need a pair in one of the classes or whatever the that looks like that's part doing a different funding stream because it's not yet clear how that's gonna be handled with ourselves do you want to say anything more about that yeah it changes every day yeah and I think Jo whether it's 20 kids 22 you know it's it's it's you know class sizes in general we're getting larger just as a general statement and we're kind of we're also have problems with space you know we have kind of like the perfect storm what his court just said until they tell us you know I'd hate to go down this too but I had them going I think I mentioned how many move desks around and what we could do we think 12 to 13 is a lot of kids so it's going to be a twofer no matter what I do if it's 30 or 24 we still need two classrooms and teachers so the money Courtney's talking about the question is whether it's going to be enough depending with the state makes us do we'd have to go and dip into that to help supervise those other classes if that's what it comes down to of course we need the space as well as the staffing short thank you yeah which which brings me up back up to the budget cos thank you for I skipped two things because the way this is rolling I apologize I'm going to go back to the it's really important for us to point out because there is some money part in our curriculum public needs and resources budget that could be flexible for some of those things that you brought up Joe that we might need to do so here you can see that you know our original ask was 576 it's it's about 598 there's no major change we're reprioritize them to support distance learning technology and supports were software curriculum development manipulatives and a portion of that we've left a broad category because we could also use it for some of that other support that we might need if we need additional staff and resources to meet whatever distancing needs we have to accommodate in addition we're we're also putting in funds for Student Support Specialists and s RBI and some funding to meet the knee ask requirements it was formally planned in alliance so you don't see any city funding here but it includes Student Support Specialists teacher technology and curriculum development the current year included an addition of a high school and a bilingual counselor so we wanted to just point that out to you although the budget doesn't reflect it as a new need it is in the budget and then I'm just gonna scroll down I apologize it's a little awkward but we did enrollment right technology we were initially planning on 150,000 to funds additional portion of the lease but we can prepay two years of the technology Lisa can you speak a little louder oh sorry please yeah I apologize can you hear me better now yes okay um technology we initially planned about 150,000 in next year's budget we prepaid two years of the lease so we have some savings in the next year and the following year budget out of the surplus we had this year in addition the maintenance budget you know the reason you see it just broken out into two pieces here is because originally we included the one 273 and what we were talking about is me and then so I'm just showing it to you in the original way but basically we need 3 million dollars to set aside to fund contractual increases for benefits we mentioned before transportation special ed facility related it includes an increase for special ed tutors this is all the things that we are doing today that we would need to roll forward even though we're going to be modifying some of the things we do next year based on based on the state guidance and what our individual plans are for Danbury but this gets us to carry all of our staff forward and all of our assumptions about our bus and everything else this is just showing you the enrollment add-ons that we're just accounting for that in the budget it included three hundred and thirty thousand for teaching two hundred and fifteen thousand free ESL bilingual features three hundred thousand for sped tutors four hundred in ten thousand for transportation and fifteen thousand for appointment that was because we had that big bump up in enrollment last year that we needed to get funds for you know the city didn't really restore that directly per se but we have to account for that in the expense so so that's your total like additional what I'm calling new projects or new things that are above and beyond what I call the base budget and it's about eight point nine million which is what I'm highlighting right here then you get down to something I think is really great that we're doing in spite of having a challenging budget season because of kovat we had some savings this year so this is the reserves we're going to forward about hopefully 1.2 million into the insurance reserve and what that does is it funds people asked questions about this I just want to be clear we hold in reserve what's called IBNR it's incurred but not reimbursed we're required to hold aside a certain amount in reserve for things that could hit us in the future related to insurances it means the cost has been incurred but it hasn't hit us as a bill yet and we have that amount set aside with the city in addition we can fund up to 125 percent called corridor for for one-time insurance needs and next year might be in here that looks like that we could have something anomalous that could happen because of the unpredictable nature of kovetz so I think it's prudent to do that and because it's the city balance normally the city would probably take back those funds or they might allow us to we wouldn't have this bit of a big of a balance but I'm calling city fund balance so it's a good opportunity for us to increase that reserve but not place it in a base budget where it could be risky because it's only one time technology we're increasing our reserve by one hundred and fifty K that's for a one-time type projects it's not for something I'm going but we can use it for something that's a one-time like software purchase where it's not the maintenance but it's the purchase of the technology special ed education reserve Kelly mentioned a risk you know that we're going to be clarifying soon in the budget so that would be one thing that we can use and we hope to grow the special education reserve it's really good the city of great to do that with us for the first time and we also are setting up an emergency contingency fund of 540 K for some of the unknowns that might happen next year the city's agreed to that as well so that's about two million dollars in addition from the cares money we've set aside eight hundred thousand dollars for medical PPE bus and other things that could come up that we don't yet know or have defined yet we have a list of all the possibilities Kevin's leading the re-entry plan and sort of really operationalizing every aspect of what could occur and we're quantifying all of those things and so we think based on our you know today that we'll probably need about Andrew Kay to handle those you know scenarios so I'll pause there because that's love information do we have additional questions before I go to the next schedule Courtney I know I've asked you this before and I appreciate the information that you gave me earlier today I just have a heart I guess I'm a very visual person I the year-over-year is what gets me yeah you know what we get in our binder back in January is very different from you know what was given out at the Finance Committee meeting versus and even what you gave me today is differ from that so I really don't have anything to compare I want to compare year to year yeah is it possible to provide the board with an updated budget by line item yes yes but what I sent you earlier today if that wasn't what you were looking for because that shows this year's budget compared to next year's proposed by the object category well you know now I did have to show down below the line let me see if I can pull it up here mm-hmm below the line these I don't yet know where they'll be at the reserves are not not to be allocated it's not going to be in the budget but I'm showing here but the tech distance learning and yes curriculum this piece I can show you the details of it but I don't yet know what object categories it will hit until we do the final planning for it because this is the kind of code unknown related piece and there's medical PPE and bussing because it's a little amorphous this million dollars it was hard for me to schedule out but I'm able to show you sort of what this year was this is the current proposal for city all of those funding sources and the total I guess what I'm asking is do you need additional detail behind this so that you see all the line line items or just something the same as what we had at the Finance Committee uh-huh at the oh when we originally rolled out the budget to you right sure yeah yeah I could do that okay okay are there in Rachel I know you had you had one or two other questions I don't know if we got to answer I think about the SRB I and about counselors all right yes wondering how many we currently have and you know from again year to year like how many how many counselors at the high school do we currently have and how many do we expect to have next year I can answer that at the high school and we currently have 12 counselors that includes 11 counselors and then one department head of school counseling for a total of 12 I'm in in this budget there is the addition of another counselor position which would bring us up to 13 mm HM and the that's I can't remember what my other question was so it was got the SR the SIOP coach Rachel I think so how many of those do we currently have so right now hi it's Kara right now we have three at the elementary one at the middle school and one at the high school and so the the ask this year the original ask was to add an additional two when an elementary one at middle school and so we ended up with just one adding one in four k 5 + k 5 is the area and the you know the rationale for that is that we are unrolling out the e L achieve program which is the systemic eld program for ESL students and so that's what we would need the additional support and and things like the delaying implementation of L at Rogers Park our principals brought into those conversations as to you know how we decide one verse over Parra's or you know how you pick and choose well I mean we have discussions with them it depends on how we're going about it I mean we don't it's not lately gone everybody doesn't like the way we do it there are those larger places that want more and it's really hard for us to come down on exactly what everybody wants but they're involved in helping us figure things out when it does come to fruition yes but I can say that at this point everybody is well we haven't shared a lot of it because we didn't know as exactly what what venue we're going down but if we make a choice where for example this year you hadn't accepted a high number of kids over Rogers Park that we had hire additional staff we worked with dr.

Peter Parker Picked Peppers but run rocked rymes Mr Rubio and Miss Hill bonales congratulations is hello everyone do we have our board members with us yet I'm here amme and I just want to give you a heads up uh in terms of the uh Pledge of Allegiance a moment of silence I'd like to insert something for a moment of silence after you mention what you have prepared absolutely uh trusty or uh Al would you lead the the Pledge of Allegiance for me please sure I told everybody to take a break but I didn't specify how long I should have said a short break who are we missing anarie uh let me see I don't see I see Brian but I you know is Kathy on is Kathy on John no okay okay thank you I appreciate hey John does the public have uh are are they type is there any way that they could type in correct okay I was just wondering if there were any um dignitaries out there to identify themselves and that uh at uh that time in the meeting if you could give them a shout out I'm looking at the uh list of folks who are in here I don't see anyone um not in hour hour but maybe out if they're out and they're watching on YouTube I don't know if uh John could figure that part out okay okay we will reconvene as soon as we have uh Cath happy Thursday everybody yes with our glorious June Gloom I know what was that this morning yeah it's all right a good morning to be in a meeting because there's nothing outside I believe Mrs Smith has um been able to join okay good okay all righty uh welcome everyone to our June 18th uh regular board meeting Anheim Union High School Board of Trustees meeting and it is about 102 sorry to make you wait um we will begin with our uh Pledge of Allegiance uh Mr Jabar will you please lead please rise and uh our out of your heart and follow I pledge allegiance to the 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 Y Mar do you have anything to say for a moment of silence I do I do so in thinking about this um we've been uh enduring challenging times uh with covid and now we have this um uh travesty so the things that came come to my mind is um seek to understand and as we're all trying to process the events in recent um I my immediate response was seek to understand find a way try to put yourself in the situation Read Literature ask questions and talk to people what if this was you or someone in your family seek to understand please don't look at this as a tragedy no it was a crime and until Justice is done there can be no peace for many people seek to understand instead of becoming offended about protests seek to understand and I will insert of course we do not condone violence and we do not condone uh property being stolen and things of that nature but protests peaceful protests and sometimes angry protests seek to understand and bu this systematic injustices uh seemingly of people of color specifically black men and women until it's acknowledged there can be no peace so seek to understand Mr jaar yeah thank you andar while you uh mentioned that I also want to uh keep in mind when we go into a moment of silence uh the appreciation this morning the Supreme Court cited with our dockor student students uh I know uh about a year and a half ago we actually passed a resolution supporting our DACA students when the Trump Administration uh decided to end the program and today with a big victory to our students the Supreme Court had actually said that what the Trump Administration tried to do was wrong uh I also want to underline that about 800,000 people over the years have participated in this program uh which has provided a chance to uh uh get our uh students to get into a legal uh pathway but also more than 90% of the docker recipients are employed and 45% are in school according to one government study and Advocates also have said that nearly 30,000 work in the healthcare industry especially during this covid n uh 19 situation I want to keep them in mind and uh celebrate the fact that it's a victory for our doer students and families with that I'll go for a moment of silence thank you thank you and now the uh Clerk of the Board of Trustees will report actions taken during close sessions Mrs Smith Mrs Smith it appears that your line is on mute uh in order to unmute if you could press star six can someone call her maybe to let her know that that would be the line I believe that she's on it it looks like um the call was disconnected that's what I meant is like to call her so that we could uh get her to do it the right way so why don't we move on to and uh while we're getting her back on uh move on to item seven uh our kindness matters Awards and I believe um Rita Ray hello item okay we e are you am I still echoing you're okay okay that was the craziest thing I'm so sorry okay 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent no salary increase was asked for 4.2 no reportable action taken regarding anticipated litigation 4.3 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 50 approve the settlement agreement in oah case number 121016 resolving all issues in students due process complaint by providing independent educational assessments a compens compensatory education fund and $14,000 in reimbursements 4.4 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5.0 approved settlement agreement in oah case number 0995 resolving all issues in students doe process assess complaint by amending students IEP and conducting assessments providing compensatory education transition support independent educational evaluation and providing $11,500 in reimbursements 4.5 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5-0 approved the settlement agreement in o o ah case number 0447 resolving all issues in the students due process complaint by amending students IEP and conducting assessments providing compensatory education and providing $3,512 in reimbursements 4.6 no reportable action taken regarding negotiation 4.7 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel 4.8 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to suspend without pay for 5 days employee HR d201 9-20 d05 and 4.9 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointments Aaron Chow assistant principal Magnolia High School Mary Joe Durkin assistant principle Cyprus High School Kyle Hendrickson assistant principal loera High School Poppy Hill B Bales assistant principal Dale Jr High School Lynn ruthenbeck assistant principal Savannah High School Sean feifer assistant principal Cyprus High School Israel Rubio assistant principal Savannah High School Angela calvo assistant principal at Lexington Junior High School and lastly Carl Charles C who assistant principal at Bale at Ball Junior High schoolo thank you Mr congratulations everyone H thank you for your report um I think what we're gonna do is I'm gonna have um Brad Jackson introduce you individually and uh then you may be allowed to make uh some comments and allow the board to congratulate you uh good morning everyone uh first of all congratulations to all of our um assistant principal appointments um I'd like to invite um uh each of you as I call your name to uh uh please um say a few words and also if you have your family with you we we would love for you to introduce your family as well uh so let's go ahead and start with uh Poppy Hill bonales thank you um I am so excited to be able to serve the families at Dale Jor High School I am incredibly excited to be a part of the Lancer family and I want to use the last few seconds of my time to thank two amazing mentors in the Anaheim Union High School District so a big thank you to Manuel cologne and jiren freed for continuing to guide me on my leadership Journey thank you thank you poppy um we have uh Lynn ruthenbeck hi there thank you so much um I just want to say that um this is my 27th year in the Anaheim Union High School District and at Savannah also so I am grateful and humbled to be able to serve my Savannah family as an assistant principal and this would not have been possible without the progressive thinking of the board and Cabinet in developing Innovative programs um like lead um it was such an amazing opportunity and experience and I'd like to thank Dr freed Mr cologne Mr Jackson um Dr root and superintendent matsuda for all of your support um you are not only great instructors but um really showed the district's commitment to Leading learning and I can't thank you enough thank you Len uh next we have Mary Joe Durkin Mary Joe are you there okay uh we'll come back uh to Mary Joe jerkin in just a moment uh next we have Kyle Hendrickson good morning all I just uh wanted to thank the cabinet and the board for uh the appointment as well as the opportunity um to grow as a leader in our district um I'm really excited uh for next year a little nervous of course um but very excited and um could not have done it without all of the support of my colleagues as well as my wife Tara and our supportive baby Onyx so thank you I don't think we we didn't we didn't see can you can you pan over one more time please oh okay there you go he's very supportive thank you Kyle and congratulations okay um next we have um uh three assistant principles that are moving from the junior high school to the high school uh level uh and I'd like to introduce Aaron Chia thank you Mr Jackson good morning everyone uh I would like to take this opportunity to thank our Board of Trustees and the cabinet um I am very grateful and very blessed to be able to work for our amaz amazing District um I feel very lucky that uh first Le I have a job and I'm still able to do and serve um our community during uh this time uh to be able to work at Magnolia is a great honor for me um I would do everything I can to support our students our families our staff and community and uh to fulfill the trust and the expectations that uh you have in me so thank you very much I'm very excited thank you eron congratulations uh next we have Sean feifer hello everyone uh so nice to be here thank you so much for the opportunity to the board uh the Ed division has been a great support for me uh Len I got you beat this is my 308th year in the district starting at Lexington in 82 um then uh matriculating through uh Cypress high school with that said I understand the uh U the expectation and the responsibility you place in us as assistant principles and I'm very excited to fulfill that role and uh go back to my alma moer thank you Sean and then we also have Israel Rubio uh thank you Mr Jackson and thank you so much to the board of tristes and to uh the cabinet for this opportunity I'm really excited six years at Dale has been an exciting amazing time and I've learned so much uh thank you to uh Dy Hammer Mrs Moreno the principal that I've had when I was at Dale just for your guidance and and Mentor mentorship I also want to say thank you to all the other assistant principles um it's a great Community um we've learned from each other over these years and I'm just really excited to continue uh at a new side at Savannah so thank you so much and and who do you have with you I have my wife Brena is here uh with me so she's joining me and very supportive and awesome hello good sa Brad thank you so much all right you can pay me my five pay me later all right and then I'd like to Circle back to uh Mary Joe Durkin okay is it working it is okay I'd like to say thank you to everybody um for this opportunity and this next chapter in my life I um I really appreciate your trust in me as a leader um I'm extremely excited and um I couldn't have done it without my backbone here this is my husband Kevin Durkin um so I'm grateful to all of you and I look forward to serving Cypress Community and and the staff and and all the families there so so thank you great congratulations okay uh thank you um all of you and uh congratulations and we're looking forward to a great um year with all of you and your new positions thank you Bard if you have any comments you want to share uh this is the time if you'd like well I certainly would like to congratulate all in one and I know this is a new challenge in our lives not just in this chapter of our lives but it's affecting all of our lives in so many ways and we know that you're competent people and you'll work together to get it all working thank you yes and I'd like to say welcome aboard to all of you um it will be an interesting year for some of you in a new position especially so let's all face it on and work hard this year and and again welcome aboard and congratulations on your appointments I just want to say congratulations welcome to your new positions you have a big challenge ahead of you that would be under normal circumstances now you have a a fantastic challenge ahead of you during this covid-19 situation so welcome look forward to uh hearing about you and the good things you're going to provide for us this is Trusty albar again congratulations to all of you I know that you're all proven leaders so uh there's no doubt that you guys are going to be very successful where you're at uh I want to take this opportunity to thank each of your significant others because I know that uh all the time and effort that you guys put in you won't be able to do that without the support of them so thank you to all of you and uh Al knows everything all about significant others and being supportive of them you can go ahead and share your news right now if you you'd like I'm just waiting any minute now to uh my wife's ready to pop out our third child so yeah just like that pop it out so easy but I just like to uh congratulate everyone thank you for uh those of you who participated in the program uh I know that uh Mike and jiren and Manuel and Brad and all Jennifer they're not easy uh they they didn't give you easyas I in that program I know that they it was very rigorous uh and you had to spend a lot of time and effort uh going through those programs and uh everybody I really appreciate it you've hung in there with us I mean 38 years my goodness uh and and this is a wonderful place to um work and you're just enhancing um all that we do by stepping up even further and so thank you very much thank you very much uh and I forgot to uh give a shout out um who's on watching us she is our new uh student trustee her name is Elizabeth o so everybody say hello to her and welcome and we can't wait until uh we meet with you all righty and we are going to move on to um item seven I believe uh kindness matters Awards uh Rita Ray congratulations everyone again good morning everyone my name is Rita Ray I'm a director of human resources and I have the honor of presenting um the kindness matters Awards this morning so let me Begin by reading beginning recognizing and celebrating kind acts is a priority of the Anaheim Union High School school district and its Board of Trustees we know that even the smallest act of kindness has the power to change the lives of our students staff and community so with that in mind today we honor 15 individuals nominated by a student a staff member or a Community member the recipients are I believe my screen is being shared for me Paulina yes Rita we can see it okay thank you all right our first first recipients are Brittney Diaz Chris Pavia and Sylvia Alexander community members besides exuding kindness these three community members have devoted hours of their time to helping our students Brittney Diaz is the store manager at Smart and Final in B Park her store team works with our adult transition program as well as our independent after school students Chris Pavia is a store manager at Walgreens which has been a strong supporter of our workability program for over 15 years and he also works with our independent Afterschool students lastly as the manager of HomeGoods in Huntington Park Sylvia Alexander has personally mentored students in our adult transition program nominator Gail steinbrick says all three are deserving of this recognition congratulations to them next we have Nick puga instructional Aid hope school Nick goes above and beyond to support the students and staff of Hope School according to his nominator Destiny Garcia Nick is at every hope school event including cheer competitions school plays and dances during this pandemic Nick has volunteered his time to to deliver School lunches to students homes another example of putting our students first next we have Michael Cipher Community member Michael is a former student of Lera teacher David sporn who nominated Michael because of his generosity during this time of covid-19 Michael has been making face shields on his 3D printer in his home garage it takes him about six hours to make two masks but he is producing them around the clock he pays for the materials out of pocket and then donates the shields to hospitals and Cancer Centers throughout Orange County sporn writes that Michael does this out of love and kindness as he is currently unemployed next we have Peter Doos teacher Cypress High School Peter was hired two years ago to work one-on-one with a student with a severe disability administrator Daniel claser writes that not only has the student flourished but Peter's kindness and compassion has extended to other students as well he mentors students who are struggling academically or emotionally by building relationships with them in one instance Peter volunteered to Mentor a student with the troubled Past who was returning from alternative education with Peter's help the student was able to get back on track academically and behaviorally next Jeff Fuentes teacher Sycamore Junior High Principal Gary Brown writes that when Jeff learned that the parent of one of his students was ill and unable to leave the house he arranged for the student to receive grab andgo meals for a week and the technology needed for distance learning Jeff picked up the hot spot for the students technology even stood in line with all the families and then drove Dr to the students home to deliver it he went out of his way to ensure the student could continue with his education next Brian Garcia he's a student at Savannah high school during this time of shelter and place orders Brian began making mass for healthc care workers after his family purchases the materials out of pocket Brian stays up late to help his family members complete the mask he shared with his nominator who wishes to remain anonymous that if he can make more mass than the day before he has done his part very inspirational next we have Lisa hormuth she's a teacher at Dale Junior High Lisa made a connection with Santa Margarita high school and every year during the December holidays families from Santa Margarita adopt about 50 Dale families and provide them with gifts Lisa facilitates this process which begins in early October by Distributing paperwork to needy families and assisting them with completing the paperwork Lisa has also organized a hygiene drive for students which included distribution of shoes and blankets nominator Susan Miranda says Lisa deserves to be recognized for her kindness next Angie Meer instruction Aid Magnolia High School many times on late start Tuesdays students will arrive to school early and simply gather on campus Angie saw an opportunity in that she volunteered to tutor RSP and general education students on late start days as well as during Saturday Academy during this time of shelter in place Angie has connected families to food banks supported students in schoolagy and helped pass out technology on campus nominator Cindy teting writes Angie's passion to serve Magnolia's students and staff is amazing next leani M Mill Community member leani is the assistant City attorney for Anaheim a busy position yet she volunteers her time with loera's students she has been the attorney coach for the school's mck trial program for the past three years with her help loera high school has participated in the Orange County constitutional rights Foundation Mock Trial Competition the only School in the ahsd to do so loera students have received individual performance Awards each of the three years nominator Richard Martin says Leone's hope is to one day attend the swearing in ceremony of one of her mck trial students next Katrina Mundy teacher Magnolia High School Katrina was instrumental in organizing food delivery for students and families during the time of covid-19 as the organizer she ensured that a system was in place for shopping for food and the delivery to homes to help with the efforts Katrina rallied Magnolia staff for donations of food money and door time and she made sure that needy families received deliveries for Easter her nomin Ator Lindsay panan says Katrina exemplifies the heart of Magnolia High School and the Anaheim Union High School District matish Patel Community member during the covid-19 crisis nitish has used his nonprofit Each one teach one to ensure that families in Anaheim and La Palma have food for their families over 8,000 meals have been given to families he has also reached out to business businesses to provide food to First Responders and medical providers he secured monetary donations to pay local restaurants to prepare these meals thus allowing them to stay in business while helping families nominator Jennifer root writes Mr Patel used his time resources and influence to create opportunities for those in need next Ashlin vantes student at catella High School Ashlin has been a Beacon of Hope For Students struggling to navigate the unfamiliar Waters of distance learning according to nominator Andrew Barrow Ashlin has become a technology tutor helping other students on her own time to become familiar with how to access use and submit assignments digitally her acts of kindness have benefited many of Mr Bar's 178 math students many of whom Ashlin didn't know prior to this time of distance learning and that concludes our nominees or our recipients I should say our recipients for this year's kindness matters Awards I want to say congratulations to all of them thank you Rita what a wonderful presentation board members do you have comments I would just want to say thank for one and all and uh that is really what creates a community and you're all exemplars of kindness thank you yes and I would like to say thank you and congratulations and I wish we could shake your hands and thank you personally but of course at this time it's not possible so you know here's a shake I just like to say thank you to all for their help with our student students and the community during this difficult time and not just during this difficult time but during the normal educational year thank you for all that you do I Echo the sentiment thank you all for doing what you're doing uh that makes a great Community absolutely I Echo the sentiments and uh kindness kindness really matters in uh times of uh like these and distress and uh it just you know even just the smallest things really matter and um small things kind of tumble into into greater things and so each time you do something kind it just uh permeates in the air and I I could use uh some help with the technology so I'm going to get in touch with one of those recipients so thank you so much Rita for your help can I U and Mar can I just mention to Rita maybe we could uh hold on to these nominees I know the uh my boss uh supervisor Doug chaffy for Orange County uh usually does a kindness award uh in November so we would love to have all nominees be nominated to that process so if they live in the district um and I could get in touch with you and give those cities uh so that way we could honor them at our uh kindness event great idea great idea thank you than you Rita good to see you thank you good to see everyone thank you all right wonderful presentation and thank you for taking the time to do that that's an extra Duty that you have and I know it's a um it's a labor of love for you okay uh moving on to 8.1 report of the associations and I can't see all who's here so I'm just going to go ahead and call out the association I think I saw Grant is AA I am here that is correct all right thought I saw you there okay uh good morning uh board cabinet ahsd staff and Community these are truly unprecedented times for public education as a whole and for us individually as we set out to educate our students and support our teachers and staff in uncharted waters since we last spoke covid-19 questions have been joined by the demands regarding social justice ASA is proud of our teachers board members and community that have stood up to support our students have as they have found their voices and been provided platforms to be heard uh Asa has also created a social justice committee as we realize more must be done to rid our institutions of racist policies and construct we must set an example for our students and community that demands inclusivity of all members while encouraging those who have been traditionally unheard to step forward and make their voice part what guides our organization um as a side note I emailed to the board um asa's press release regarding our support of the black lives matter movement and our support for uh creating these uh constructs inside of Asa to help our members of color uh aspire to leadership positions and make their voices heard so you guys have that on the covid-19 front we must also speak out for our students and Community we appreciate the representation teachers have had on the opening schools task force and the opportunity to voice our concerns and get answers to our questions as we continue to move forward it remains important to acknowledge that the public health circumstances have continued to deteriorate during the time campuses have been closed the board is left with a decision of extreme consequence we will all continue to work towards creating the safest possible environment that Pro provides our students with a quality education I encourage the board to continually re-evaluate the public health situation during the decision-making process that will determine how and when the different models of opening schools will be implemented in our district in addition when the decisions are made it is important that people remain our Focus safety assessments at sites protocols for campuses uh open to students and employees as well as the monitoring of testing and possible contact tracing of every stepping foot on a campus must be clearly imparted to our students staff and Community as you all understand the import the decisions we make and the implementation of the protocols adopted cannot be overstated when it comes to the educational program carried out through distance learning or any hybrid it is also important that every teacher and staff member have all of the tools necessary to teach and support our students as the final eight weeks of last year played out we found found many teachers struggling to patch together reliable internet access and bandwidth of their own with equipment that allows them to provide the best education possible under less than optimal circumstances with the support of the district we would like to ensure all teachers have access to the technology needed to teach during this continuing crisis I would like to reiterate that ASA appreciates the open relationship that our association shares with the district whether the cabinet is meeting with our executive board teachers are meeting with District staff on the opening schools task force or our e-learning teachers are working with District leadership to expand online options for our students we look forward to being part of finding solutions to problems and Pathways forward during these truly unprecedented times um and just before concluding my report I I would just like to acknowledge that when we had students looking for a way to speak out and have their voices heard um it was great actually without any bureaucratic leadership that individual teachers like Juan Alvarez and Liz gracian some of our our board members Allan amarie that people just stepped forward and said we need to provide a place for them to speak and have their voices heard and not worry about um any sort of of violence involved with protests or any sort of um you know confrontation with police and it was truly inspiring to see students out in the park making their voices heard and being able to express uh their frustrations with the system as it exists today and trying to change it moving forward so with that I conclude my report thank you grant okay do we have anyone from uh asme present okay I'm going to move on uh anyone from Ala I'm here anamarie okay I thought I saw oh let me put a video on hi and go ahead and introduce yourself hi good morning everybody Prest Randa trle B Tres cabinet and Community my name is H Vasquez and I am the Alta president thank you for the opportunity this morning to uh tell a few words um I have not um spoken in a little bit we've been um busy with uh the end of the school year and planning next year as well uh I'd like to start by congratulating our new members so shout out to Poppy and Lynn and Kyle and MJ um I want to just let you know that we are definitely here for you and you're coming into an incredible team as you know even in a district and so um thank you Board of Tres for uh adding to the amazing administrative team in our district um I want to highlight and recognize and as um Grant mentioned it has been unprecedented on chartered Waters right it's it's very um unique time and and we're living history and I just want to thank our district and our teams and leaders for their flexibility for their willingness to find solutions for being student centered and for really just being committed to Quality education and also to finding Solutions as things come our way and change daily and so um it has been amazing to see um the end of the school year come to close with um amazing virtual graduations uh recognition ceremonies and all the work that went into making sure that even though we were not able to physically connect with our students with provided uh those opportunities and those connections and um activities for students um additionally I also want to thank the leadership at the sites and at the district level for again as Grant mentioned providing safe spaces and coming up with Solutions I know um our sites worked also with OC human relations and making some virtual meetings right um about empowering student voice and making sure that they um were heard in a space that they feel um comfortable in maybe they were not allowed to go outside and participate that so they provided a virtual space not just for students but also for staff members and so really just wanted to again um leaders reaching out and finding Solutions and being connected with students and empowering them and our staffs um also wanted to again say that you know as we move forward I really really appreciate the open conversations of transparencies um our willingness to work together uh and the priority that we place on the safety of our students our staff and our community as we are thinking to reopening or or readdress what we need to look at um want to give um Mr cologne a a shout out for taking on our opening schools task force and uh it's a a huge team uh necessary for all the voices and so again just being very conscientious from every single level and uh being open to to suggestions um the last thing that I I just wanted to say is that you know as we are continuing the work um we are working over the summer and being in the distribution centers for food I was at Savannah this morning it was great to see so many families and uh you know want to just again thank all of our administrator ERS and leaders and and also uh let them know that you know um it's great to uh work as a team too and and we appreciate them and we hope that they're also taking some time to uh refresh and re rejuvenate um as as they can and so um oh before I forget I also want to talk about a little bit about our sites we're currently doing a lot of the risk assessments so want to let you know that those are going really well um in terms of site um administrators walking and working together with plan managers and any other staff members that is required about making sure that we have um safety and um the social distancing in place right and we are we're reviewing those plans and putting those togethers and so again just a little update and want to thank you for um putting um all these things together and the systemness and just really appreciate our commitment to Quality educ ation in the safety of our students and staff and our community thank you Hilda for very comprehensive and wonderful report we really appreciate it thank you welcome is uh anyone from csca present okay uh MMA and last but certainly not least uh apga thought I saw Brian and Anar it looks like Adrian may have joined Adrien did you have a a report would you like to uh give a report today yeah good morning anary um I just like to thank the board for everything they're doing uh allowing us to get back to work uh our custodians are hard at work right now along with our food service people and uh trying to get schools ready to open by August 12th um thank you for that and um you know everybody stay safe and just on that note um thank you because for for for um you know advocating and letting us know that uh you know your employees wanted to come back to work you know that's really commendable when uh people are nervous about you know the covid um your team just really wanted to get back and and start trimming the grass and and you know um they really take pride in their work and they really wanted to have make sure that they had enough time to get everything ready uh for the the new coming year and um With all sincerity uh please thank everyone for their dedication to um to our family dedication to our student students and dedication to our staff um that was very commendable so I'm so glad that they're all back thank you thank you and uh apga okay I thought I saw Brian Banning here it looks like he may have left the meeting okay all right thank you so much and uh did we have any representative from the uh PTSA online I know it's summertime okay moving on and Peggy's here oh Peggy okay okay sorry it wouldn't let me unmute my mic so good morning everybody good morning Peggy um so this is my last month of the term of presidency for the PTA for our Council and joining us this morning we have s e Cruz Perez who will be our president um for the 2021 school year s are you here she is but she's on mute hi I'm here hello hello welcome welcome thank you for taking on the the tremendous job you have H shoes to fill great job and we appreciate all of her dedication to our our students so uh we know that we're gonna you're going to do a wonderful job and welcome yes we're excited to get um sat in this position we've had her as our parliamentarian for the last couple years to help learn all the rules ins and outs of PTA so we're excited for the new year with her um right now some of our um ptas are still doing their elections um those that have already completed their elections are working on their Reflections programs for next year and our theme this year is I matter because wow so we think this um is a great thing to have especially in these times um so we're excited to get the students started to help keep them busy over the summer um with this wonderful program that we have also we are pleased that we've been able to partner with Walker Junior High School teachers Jack gupton and Nick takahara and Cyprus high school teacher Kevin dwire on their face Shields and ear saver project this past week they along with other Anaheim Union High School District volunteers distributed over 500 face Shields to our students and parents working in inal essential jobs they have also donated over 600 face Shields and several hundred ear Savers to healthc care organizations and nonprofits um we'd like to thank the Anaheim Public Utilities Katrina's Club Anaheim un high school district teachers staff trustees parents community members and ptsas that have made a don donation to expand this wonderful project and I definitely want to give a great big shout out to these wonderful teachers um who have dedicated many hours to making these ppes um their dedication knows no bounds as they are planning to continue making face Shields and ear protectors through the end of July well they'll have to get start getting ready for the new school year so hopefully they'll be able to make a lot more of these face Shields with an additional laser cutter that will be purchased from a donation that trustee aljabar was able to facilitate from um supervisor Doug chaffe's office so thank you Al for that donation facilitating that and if anybody else is interested in making a donation um or a request to receive these face Shields or ear Savers you can go on to um Facebook to the school district site and there'll be a link there so that is the conclusion of my report than very much thank you so much uh Peggy you've been a joy to work with and I you're not going anywhere right no I will I'll be just I be your vice president of um leadership so I'll be helping with be helping with the training and things oh my goodness such a wonderful ful organization um they grow uh very uh wonderful leaders and so Peggy I'm I'm counting on you to continue uh so thank you so much and uh welcome Miss uh Cruz we appreciate it and uh Peggy you matter Miss Cruz you matter well thank you so much than you moving on to our public comments uh our uh District Council will be reading um those uh Mr Carl W wiel yes thank you um there are a number of public comments this morning on a variety of topics uh specifically there's quite a few related to item 11.4 so with your permission I'll read 11.4 when we get there if you could remind me to do public comment um and then I will go through the the more General comments now the first comment that we have this morning is from Adela Ariano of Anaheim regarding math books uh her comment is I am a tutor for a student in the ahsd I wanted you to see the textbook the student was using what the student showed me was not a textbook it was a collection of pages that gave no information nor guidance about the concept I used my own resources to tutor the student please provide students with something useful a textbook that they can access on their own not an endless list of questions about something they do not know our next comment this morning comes from Susan Stanley uh who is a district resident concerning covid-19 and Kennedy High School campus closure please consider having students on campus three days per week rather than one day per week one day is not enough to grow and interact with other students teachers as well as participate in sports our next comment comes from Elise sharp of Anaheim concerning carnegi learning for math I'm disappointed that we are having a conversation about a textbook we have only used for two years it takes on average five years for a teacher to stay or quit why aren't we giving the book the same amount of time I think the bigger problem is this district has too many teachers even new ones coming in who are more comfortable with a traditional style of teaching it is easier to stand in front of the room demonstrate a few problems ask kids to turn to a certain page and practice the work 25 times where is the common core in that where are the 5 C's where is the writing Journey as far as meeting the needs of students who are second language Learners or are in special education I have never in all my years of teaching seen a book that specifically addresses those needs it's our job to do that it was supposed to be part of our training in our credential program I will say the book should be paired down there is too much to go through especially at the junior high level when we only have 46 minutes to teach we should have had a group of teachers who are committed to Common Core work with Carnegie learning to pair down some of the material regardless I continue with the book as I was trained in fact during distance learning I found I was a during distance learning I found was able to get through a lot of the material using schooly conferences and breakout rooms sadly not enough students showed up to benefit from it but it was possible and it was possible because I spent three days with carnegi learning last summer and learned how to use the book better now if you decide it's better to switch keep in mind the book must still follow the Common Core Curriculum and that will still create a headbutt between your teachers who Embrace Common Core Curriculum and those who prefer something more traditional a better approach is go back to curriculum committees that can work with carnegi or whichever Textbook Company chosen to honor the Common Core Curriculum and maybe they can work in those pieces that help more traditional teachers feel more comfortable with teaching that curriculum where math teaching in this district is concerned we are a broken District it's often been Junior High teachers versus High School teachers when Common Core came in that Not only was emphasized but added to it was Common Core versus traditional because departments were becoming divided something does have to change however I think it's less about the book and more about the unity with the curriculum thank you for allowing me to share our next comment uh comes from a district resident concerning Corona virus and Athletics band and cheer as we are parents and alumni of the school district we are very concerned for our children's safety during this pandemic and the upcoming school year and the resuming of Athletics team programs several sports teams throughout the district have started to meet virtually and some have even started to have the student athletes for in-person practices and meetings with zero information given on how the schools programs expect to practice safe procedures and keep the students safe we are very concerned that precautions are not going to be taken seriously there has been no discussion or even information posted on any of the schools websites as well as the ahsd district website this is very concerning as transparency and communication during a time like this is key I personally have witnessed students returning to campuses within the AHS to begin sports music cheer programs in person with students attending sports like football baseball and programs like band and cheer during the summer there is a large concern with the lack of physical distancing the proper use of masks and the community use of items like footballs tackle dummies exercise equipment musical instruments and locker rooms with large groups of students Gathering while the pandemic is still happening and the numbers of infected people are climbing daily within the community the meetings are irresponsible students are being pressured by peers and coaches to attend these in-person meetings and practices while at home families are very concerned with the lack of safety measures causing a major distress at home throughout our community on the matter we feel that the student safety is being compromised for the benefit of the school district and the school's athletic programs money is not everything it is understood how school districts receive financial benefits for each student in attendance and sponsors from families within the area contributing to the programs however exchanging the health and safety of our children for money is Despicable what safety procedures are going to be installed where is this information why is it not posted anywhere why are students currently on ahsd campuses without procedures in place if they are in place then why are they not being enforced when will the district inform the public of the intent of the district and how the upcoming School sports year will be conducted safely how can we feel safe sending our students to a campus within the district without any precautions being taken now how are you going to prevent the pressures of attending such activities without repercussions to the students or families one of your duties as a public school district includes you ensuring the safety with students teachers coaches Administration volunteers in your attendance please advise of how to obtain the answers to the questions posed and how the public can be made aware of these actions and precautions thank you from a concerned family with multiple students so Carl H this is Trusty albar uh just as a clarification Point uh superintendent matsuda it was my understanding that we're still looking into it and I don't think that we are encouraging any students to come on campus or start practices can you comment on that please M mute thank you very much Mr Jabar um the coaches and the athletic directors have been informed of the district position regarding uh any activities happening prior to June 29th um any athletic uh activities which are prohibited so we will look deeper into this and toh determine if there's uh something that we need to follow up on um we appreciate the comments from the uh family member and we assure you that safety of our students and staff and families are the board and the District's number one priority so thank you for that input thank you very much and please follow up with the board thank you right and also I'm um I'm not picking up on identity of our public comments and I certainly hope that we still have that so we can reach out to these parents in other words I this was said it was a Kennedy parent and that was all so Carl I hope we still have the identity of who's making these comments so we can respond to them yes I I am providing um the names and if they provided the city that they live in or if they're District resident I'm I'm trying to make that clear uh some people did provide contact information it is it is a part of our solicitation form some people chose not to so if this one in particular was anonymously submitted I wish we could let our parents know you know please don't make Anonymous comments because we can't get back to you and you know if you don't let us know when we have a meeting people that come forward for public comments have to State their name and you know you know usually of residents so we know who's commenting so I wish that people on the online would do the same they're sending this in but we need we need to know who you are and where you are so we can respond okay yes AB absolutely and we do provide that opportunity um unfortunately we cannot require the disclosure of a name but we do encourage people to do that cor and uh Carl I'm sorry excuse me I'm I'm getting um I I'm I know that uh our athletic um our field uh team is out there and they're saying that they're not seeing this activity out there but you know um we will D we will double check we know that the anonymous was from u kenned high school and especially at if we know that much so we will double check in that area want to make it clear to the members of the community though that um there should be no u practices allowed until after June 29th we are still in the process of developing procedures and policies and that goes with all Student Activities they should not be um at the school sites and uh we have a a chain of command regarding that this is a public health pandemic that we are in the midst of and uh Public Health takes priority over everything at this point hi aren't aren't the campuses locked so these uh people cannot access the the fields and within the schools without having somebody there to unlock that is correct Mr O'Neal but it is possible because U there are designated people who have um keys and uh we will do some further digging and um sort of uh about this um claim and Mr Man just to follow up we also have um ocps on our campuses 247 um right well from when we're we're not there working right now and if they see folks on there they are reporting back to us and they are asking folks to leave if we have outside people on our campuses that we are not aware of but currently there are no facility agreements in place for anyone to be on our campuses Mr have have we had any reports from uh the security yes we we have had reports from security and anytime we've had them we have followed up with the school site to ensure um that that is not occurring if it has occurred or if it's outside folks we've reviewed cameras to see if we can figure them out who it is so that we can stop the process and we've been successful each time thank you Dr root okay so there are there are a couple of more uh comments the next comment comes from one Gabriel Alvarez of Anaheim my name is Juan Gabriel Alvarez I am a d math teacher at Sycamore Junior High I am about to start my 16th year of teaching in ahsd and my son will be entering seventh grade at Sycamore this fall I'm writing to urge you to vote no on item 12.33 the G carnegi learning extension for three years at a cost of approximately $.24 million the map this math text is not the right fit for our students especially emergent bilinguals and special education students the lessons it facilitates are text Heavy hard to follow and confuse most of our students by making nonsensical far-fetched connections that do not relate socioculturally to our student as a teacher I find myself scrapping the lessons in the text in replacing them with self-created lessons or lessons borrowed from other auhsd teachers that are more engaging and help students more efficiently attain mathematical Concepts I find ways to create instances of equity and access for my students that are not feasible when using the carnegi materials that's provided frankly I have found the text and the lessons contained within the text to be barriers for many of our students the Carnegie Learning Materials were provided to teachers in ahsd as a pilot to supposedly test typically a pilot involves teachers looking at different Publishers with a process in place to have conversations about the pros and cons of each curriculum based on how everything has panned out it is clear that there was no real intent to Pilot the materials now the curriculum is up for consideration with no formal adoption process there has not been a credible process for vetting the curriculum no formal process to compare the curriculum to other options no formal process to assess the cost or compare with other Publishers and no forum for real dialogue regarding Effectiveness most Math teachers districtwide would agree that carnegi text is doing more to distant students from math than it is in making them feel connected within the first eight years of my career as a teacher I felt like I was able to connect with students and create mathematicians now it just feels like we are purposefully stifling their chance at connecting to mathematical thinking thinking and disenfranchising them then there is the online component math if someone can help me with this it's Capital mat a is it mathia or Maia mathia Maia okay matthia a closed $1 million expenditure for the Maia platform would be a uh mismanagement of money that can be used to invest in teacher training and classroom materials especially when the exist with the existence of free platforms a platform like KH Academy provides content specific review and assistance with personalized feedback and an easier to- manage interface at zero cost again I urge you to vote no and consider holding a real math curriculum adoption where stakeholders review multiple options before we make the mistake of disengaging our students from math for three more years knowing that carnegi learning is the curriculum that my son would have to work through worries me I have the privilege of being being a math teacher that will be able to fill the gaps for him at home what about the rest of our students that do not have that luxury I want better for my son and for all of the students in ahsd we have an equity and access issue at hand teachers have tried talking about this and our concerns with the Department chairs principls curriculum Specialists and cabinet members on several occasions to no avail please vote no your time and commitment to our families is appreciate it and then our last General comment before we move on let me verify it is the last one it is uh comes from Michael Arnot uh Michael Arnot is commenting on the budget our organization children's cause Orange County has received input from Anaheim Union High School District parents and students that we work with that there needs to be more report for the following Community priorities in the fiscal year 2020 2021 budget number one Alternative forms of discipline including restorative justice approaches and improving School climate number two Mental Health Resources parents and teens are concerned about a reduction in this area number three more support for parent engagement number four resources needed to ensure that 100% % of students are college ready we encourage the district to continue to improve mechanisms for parent and student input on budget priorities throughout the year especially in light of pending covid-19 federal funds availability that will be determined in the next few months that concludes public comment he did a great job thank you so much we appreciate it and thank you you all for your comments we appreciate Excuse me yes ma'am Amry I would you please I would like to have the uh teacher from Sycamore whose son is going to be starting in the seventh grade math teacher I'd like to know the number that he's asking us to not vote on I thought it was 12.2 it's 12.33 okay I need clarification on that I did not fully fully get everything he was saying thank you all right thank you Miss Smith item 10.1 presentation School dismissal and distance learning uh Dr jiren freed thank you board president Randall tro so for this morning we have four items that we are going to share with you related to our covid-19 School dismissal and distance learning process uh just to give you a quick overview of what we're going to be talking about this morning I will start with A Brief Review and recap of our how we finished the school year out with our seniors and talk a little bit about our graduation process for the request of trustee O'Neal and then from there I will hand it over to Dr Renee Bryant who will give a detailed update about the work that we have done to support our English Learners much like Celeste Krueger did a few meetings ago Dr Bryant will have the same opportunity this morning to do the same with our English learners then from there Dr root will give a brief update uh some timely updates as it relates to Food Services and then we will finish our updates with our reopening School updates with Mr cologne and Miss Getta I do W to I do suspect that a lot of the questions you might have are centered around the reopening of schools um but I just want to remind the board that in about two weeks we're going to have a very special board meeting that's going to go very deep with the reopening of school so I would suspect some of the questions you might have will be answered definitely uh during the next two at the board meeting the next two weeks weeks today's update is more timely around Athletics Bap and some other things that Miss guy and Mr colone want to make sure you're aware of uh so so it's because it's timely to what we're doing at this time um having said that uh as you guys know if you have questions by all means ask them but I do request that if you hold your questions to the end because we may address some of the questions you have if you let us go through it and then we'll take the time at the end to answer whatever questions you might have as a pertains to English Learners graduation um the reopening of school or food services so with that I'm going to go ahead and begin and I'm going to talk just briefly about the graduation so um as I as as we've stated before um we were in unprecedented times and had to really rethink about how we wanted to um support our graduating seniors in a meaningful way while at the same time being mindful of safety safety for both our students our families and of course our staff and I am just so grateful for the work of our side administrators specifically our assistant principles who oversaw this process and of course our district leadership more specifically Dr eagens Vidal Valdez and then also Brad Minami they did tremendous work in supporting our sites through this process as you may recall it began with um the week of May 25th through May 30th where we did our drive-thru uh diploma pickup or our drive-thru graduations and again being mindful of the guidelines and keeping people safe um we gave the schools the charge to keep things as consistent as we can so one school wasn't upping another school but then also making sure that we were being um mindful of the guidelines that have been outlined by um the county by the state and of course um our local County healthcare agencies uh and our schools did a tremendous job as you know we did face some um resistance from some from some families who were obviously concerned and wanted the more traditional graduation but I'm proud to say um after going through that drive-through diploma process some of the parents that were vocal about their concerns came back and said how pleased they were with the way that it went the schools really did a masterful job of making students and families feel safe and also feel celebrated in some cases you had some families joking that they may prefer something like this in the future because they were in air conditioning they got to be right next to their student when their pictures were taken they didn't have to sit through 400 names uh they weren't in the heat so there were a lot of benefits obviously through this process but of course we understand the traditional ceremony is an important one and we're hopeful that next year we'll be able to to go back to that process uh then fast forwarding as you know as a board we went above and beyond not only do we do the drive-through diploma pick up our graduation but we also offered a virtual graduation and I'm hopeful you were able to see at least one of those ceremonies again making sure we were consistent across all of our sites but uh the team did a fantastic job working with our outside vendor and our schools you saw Mr matsuda give a welcoming um all of you participated to some extent doing the certification at the end you had student speeches and then you have of course the naming of individual students with their pictures and even many of the students had an opportunity to have a little quote or a saying to recap their their four years here with us in ahsd so all overall a lot of positive feedback in terms of how it went we recognize it wasn't ideal because of the situation we're all faced with but I'm just really proud of the work our sites and our district leadership went through to make this meaningful and relevant for our kids despite the parameters that we were faced with so I'm real proud of the work that went on and that is our update with graduation um I know that uh our team was was pretty tired after the 30th they spent a lot of late nights working with the vendors to make sure everything was in line uh and it wasn't an easy process it was a lot of loose ends that need to be tightened up but uh great job nonetheless so that is our update with graduation I would like to now uh turn it over to Dr Bryant who will give you an update regarding English Learners and how we've supported uh these students uh during the covid-19 and how we're continue to support them during the summer as as well so Dr Brian I'm GNA go and turn it over to you thank you board president Randall tro Board of Trustees superintendent matsuda executive cabinet thank you for this opportunity to talk about the amazing work our teachers classified staff counselors and administration did supporting our English Learners emergent bilingual and multilingual students during this period of emergency distance learning the systems of strong support we have for English Learners and emergent bilingual students in the preco 19 team work we did with our English learner task force recommendations district and site level English learner task force teams belief modules English learner shadowing English learner conferences teach effects English learner road map English learner roadmap teacher toolkit newcomer task force newcomer education plans and more made the transition to emergency distance learning more seamless for us and our students than other organizations to ensure support of our English learner emergent bilingual and multilingual students we provided the following World language and English language development resources were curated and shared with our teachers via email and distance districts distance learning resources links devices and hotspots were provided for English Learners in need of both bilingual instructional AIDS were added to our schooly platform English language development and content area courses by teachers and continue to provide assistance remotely to students they continue to reach out to students as they normally do via email and phone to provide extra support to students and families our language Program Technician and language assessors checked in with over 300 newcomer students and their families using both the newcomer script we created and the tea health script we were trained on by Dr Dr Adela Cruz transferred the paper to pencil Sealab by literacy exams in Spanish Korean Vietnamese and Mandarin to Google form online assessment assessed students for the seala by literacy exam and supported the calpads work our district English learner task force continued to meet monthly and our El task force recommendations were updated by our team our site English owner task force teams met monthly sites continued their work with the belief modules and California English learner roadmap teacher toolkits during remote teaching and learning sites like Dale Junior High School continued facilitating professional learning based on the AFF forementioned modules and toolkits to help increase the capacity of their teachers to serve English Learners in a distance teaching and learning formats sites reached out to English Learners of all typologies making personal phone calls our newcomer task force met and continued planning and improving services for newcomer students English learner English Learners at the emerging and beginning expanding levels continue to reach receive designated and integrated English language development and English Learners at the emerging through bridging levels continue to receive integrated English language development through their content courses Dr freed Mrs Fujimoto and I presented the district work with English Learners on The Californians together secondary integrated ELD webinar on May 5th 2020 for close to 300 Educators all over California the presentation was entitled integrated ELD during covid-19 making learning meaningful relevant and engaging with the covid-19 Capstone two District English learner deac presentations were held in April and May with near 80 people in attendance multiple meetings were held in support of our English learner emergent bilingual and multilingual students and to keep English learner and multilingual Services team members informed and connected elm's translation and interpretation Services continue to be provided in Spanish Vietnamese Korean and Arabic the team provided emergency 247 services for crisis communication and completed over 300 IEP interpretations and preep family me meetings they also provided multiple language interpretation at virtual Delux Cambridge Virtual Academy superintendent Town Hall meetings and also did screencasts of schoy schooly directions in English Spanish Vietnamese Korean and Arabic World Language department chair meeting and dual language emersion leads we met and collaborated to decide how to support students earning the Seal of by literacy Pathways of by literacy among other agenda items we also shared best practices resources presentation screencasts articles from El experts and distance and online Innovation experts with our leaders our become project Grant a grant made up of our district Anaheim elementary school district Westminster School District Cal State Fullerton and the national Resource Center for Asian languages participated in our final become project module 3 year 2 pathway B participants this event our this marked our final activity event for our become project which is funded by the California Department of Ed bilingual teacher professional development project and increase the capacity of our teachers our classified employees and our administrators to serve our bilingual and multilingual uh students we continue to update our 2020 multilingual master plan for emerging bilingual World l language and dual language immersion students to include remote teaching and learning best practices update with guidance from CDE and federal guidance and this plan will act as a living document to guide our district for serving our English learner emergent bilingual and multilingual students in order to have the best and the most updated information uh for that plan I did attend many CDE Federal Californians together leie uh webinars to stay current on the latest guidance to be able to serve our students and finally I want to end the report with two celebrations first our seala by literacy and Pathway to biliteracy 2020 data the first year this is a year that we exceeded both the number of sea by literacy Awards and Pathway to B literacy awards given both by our district in Orange County Department of Ed we were able to recognize over 1,096 students for earning the Seal of biliteracy in 15 different languages that does deserve a collap and over 500 Junior High School students earning the pathway to biliteracy from our district and also the Orange County Department of Education Pathways to biliteracy award thanks to our students our teachers our counselors our coordinators our assistant principls our principals and our English learner multilingual Services team for their diligent work we were able to make sure that all those rewards got to the sites in May so our students could received their Awards so again just as a reminder there were 1,096 students in Anaheim Union High School District more than last year during a pandemic that earned the Seal of biliteracy and 41 of those students earned uh Tri literacy Awards and we and again in 15 different languages and I want to let you know that we added five new languages so this year we were able to add harati which is from India uh Kamai which is a Cambodian language pashu Native to Pakistan Romanian and Russian and um not that that wasn't enough good news but I do want to let you know because this is extremely important to us the 845 of those students are English Learners and reclassified fluent English proficient students it's very exciting so last but not least I wanted to give you an update on our California School Board Association golden award-winning program summer Language Academy uh we planned it and then we pivoted it to uh virtual professional learning and courses for students and the SLA teachers both certificated and classified received virtual professional learning in culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy best teaching practices and we know from the four years of the research that Cal State Fullerton has done on summer Language Academy uh that our teachers carry this these practices back to the classroom with their own students and they also share them with their teams uh we're excited that the six Educators um from Anaheim high school and Sycamore Junior High School uh will go back to their sites and continue to use these virtually uh culturally responsive uh best practices with their team teams and with their students so real quick with some SLA demographics this year we were able to serve 58 students in three different classes from grade level 7th to 11th and we have nine students uh or students that are from nine different countries and speaking eight different languages and we just want to remind you that we have a great celebration planned um unfortunately we can't be face Toof face like we normally are but our celebration is planned for Thursday June 25th at 10 a.m.

okay bye - call to order the regular Board of Education meeting for June 17th 2020 I'd like to announce that we have a closed session prior to starting this meeting and there is nothing to report out from that meeting if you would please okay so we shall begin with our [Music] announcements does anyone here have any announcements they care to share anybody ate out there have anything they want to share the way of announcements okay not hearing any excellent our next item is like Kathy are you waving your hands I'm being yourself Kathy so I just wanted to note that Kamini had noticed given to us that Chico State Humboldt State and awarded promote leadership and teachers and school district and that was a really positive thing because differently so I hope that anyone who's interested in that kind of huge kudos to John Shepard Liz Metzger and Tim Kean and Kristin Bauer who did the bulk of the work on that they were outstanding it glows all right okay Thank You Kathy we have items from the floor next are we going to okay we received one item for comment and we will be showing it on the screen at the present moment for those who are watching since we will have three minutes for public comment it is going to be on the screen for three minutes okay this will be posted on the website under public comments for this agenda okay I don't have control of Americans sorry Liz we can clarify that we don't make any responses to Yes Doctor that is true we are not able to discuss or make comments on any items from the floor sometimes when we have people who come in person we direct those people to a staff member but that is not the case here so anyhow two more minutes to come yeah okay you sign in as well and provide any comments is that correct if you have any that you have okay already so this is a process we have to use because we are restricted as far as who can be in attendance we are hoping that by our next meeting participating our meeting in a way so for right now unless there are any further comments or people who are here we will move on to our next item that would be a negotiations update Mr Hammond just a quick [Music] okay that's great to hear preparing for the next school year our next item is the consent calendar is there a board member or any more fiber good like to pull an item from the consent calendar okay okay anyone else do I have a motion for the remainder of the consent calendar okay motion by I mean Robinson second by dr.

Kaiser this is to approve the extracurricular cooker each other activities summer plan yes all those in favor please say aye hi okay thank you for that the next item is an information item also this is with regards to the 19 2019-20 focus goal of the grade 11 plan for Kurt Elling instruction and assessments I'll get this started I just want you guys to try to go back Riko bit about that was her glass school when it came to an assessment we wanted to finish job 11th grade was our last one and obviously don't give us new goals for next year but this is our last assessment goal and so I'm going to just have to finish off yeah like Jay said this is taking us back to pre coverage era and so what I'm gonna do is just briefly go through what PLC the processes that be able to use to finalize our plan like the Jay said started a number of years ago at this point and I say finalized with quotation marks around it because it's always got to be under revision and we've got to keep looking at it make sure it's it's getting better and better each year okay since working I just want to think we do that DLC members joining us tonight because what I thank them for joining us just in case there are any questions with LC in general since Bobby connectional sorry so TLC was formed years ago at the conduit of information from the district to the sites and vice versa and to help us with with making decisions providing the teacher about perspective they have done a wonderful job and I want to thank the DLC members on this slide this is secondary DLC and in particular for tonight my purpose is the ones are with us so Thank You Stacia Wenonah chase dibala air loop the shade and I think cables and had it had to get off the collet Indiana hole and for joining us tonight at home they'll be available for questions normally they would be the ones talking but due to the current circumstances you got me but they're available all right so as you know over the year the LC is involved in a lot of decisions is to highlight some of what they did this year in addition to assessment plan development and revisions Cobin 19 related planning they've been huge and talking about a grading policy coming the plans that John and J just went over indispensable input always and this is you know when x is tough we need that people more so secondary lcd's math and english will meet every other week and then the big larger group needs together once a month the assessment schedules that we've been shown me over the past years have just continued to mature they're still linked on the district website for easy access for teachers and the teacher to do is click on it and jump into the assessment okay this is not meant for you to read but kind of more more meant for you to see the breadth of the work that's been done and the how teachers access this information so that is that is junior high and this is our high school you see math see I am one and I am too around in this column each one of those has I would say nine years well assessment then there we just kind of wrap up in a tight package so this year with the completion integrated map reading format they continue to revise the existing assessments that have been put in place map I am - and Massey were just rolled out this year for the first time but as well so there's work that need to be done on that they're really working towards mimicking smarter balanced test items as they build tests that we're fortunate to have the technology and access to that make that happen these assessments are short of focus oftentimes five items are given by a chapter so as teachers go through their curriculum they're missed rings of assessments moving forward we need to rock the map i integrate amount of three assessments with teacher training new the way scheduling is done many of these I am three teachers have already experienced you know item two assessments or I am one assessment etc so it shouldn't be that heavy overload and a focus moving forward after we'd be fine I mentioned that that's so important for assessment planning to be healthy is to continually refine otherwise we'll just kind of die on the vine being very thoughtful about the higher percentage of depth of knowledge higher level depth of knowledge skills on the im3 assessment so it would start lower at a map a and all the way up with much more complex depth of knowledge levels in the oh yeah we've talked over the last couple years of our take and more pointedly this year about our our math scores essentially flatline over the years yeah and we see that consistently amongst all race ethnicities yeah we see that across the state and other demographic of student groups we have made it's unfortunate really this year that we don't get to see the fruits of our labor think about it in particular in math because I do feel like we made great strides this year and I feel like we're not gonna have the measurement to really quantify that that feeling but I also agree that you know we talked about Ecklie we are going that mr.

Spees I'm gonna take myself off the screen so you can say a couple words - okay okay thank you so I've been really thinking hard about you and what I wanted to say to you and I put together a little something but it's not necessarily perfect but I figured it's always better to share what's in your heart even if it's not perfect so this is what I wrote for you last night as I was thinking hard about you you're taking off you're taking flight it's your time to on the light of Education laughter and fun making friends and wondering about the next stage about the curve jumping over and taking swerves it's not a race you're you'll tumble and fall but don't forget that through it all your family is here at Wildwood you've walked our halls you've run through the grass and you sat together with your class growing and changing becoming you and we've watched you and hoped and wished that all of life will be your dish Henry Hickman Comeau bust SDS and Nick are just a few who you can call on no matter when no matter what no matter how far Wildwood is your family so this is it didn't know you wrote poetry when I'm good I will write poetry and I'm very emotional about this class I think they're lovely and I just want the best for them and they've gone through so much they mean so much to me it really came through in your poem so this is this is a time for us to feel our feelings so let's get our tissues our handkerchiefs with me I'm gonna move the head one thing we do at graduation is we recognize how many years people have been at while to it and we usually do this when we're together we stand up and sit down so because that beautiful class came together this year and one of the wonderful things is that people have been here from since kindergarten but all the way some people just arrived this year so let's take a minute if you gave the Wildwood ins just sixth grade and you joined us you can stand up in your livering living room or wherever you are and how about those of you that came just in fifth grade okay how about those of you that came in fourth grade and then third and and some of you came in first grade do you remember that do you remember your first day at Wildwood all of us can remember that and finally there is a group that came in kindergarten so let's all remember how we felt on our first day at Wildwood and that everybody should be standing right now yeah how did you feel and those of you that came in sixth grade what a year it's been and you've made an impact so now we're gonna move on and hear a few words from our superintendent like Mars and dr.

Morris you know mrs. STIs a couple things that he said that really connected to me one is that it's important for all of us to hold on to the memories that we had the good memories we had at Wildwood and so one way we can do that is coming right up and it's a little bit of a surprise if people haven't seen it yet so here alright ready for this hello hi Jenny hello welcome to the Wildwood yearbook you can get to the wild with your book a couple of ways but probably the easiest way is through the Wildwood online learning site there's a button right here for the Wildwood digital yearbook you can also get there through the Wildwood library same button and when we go to the digital yearbook and welcome to Jenny take it away so hi sixth graders and families we really felt it really important that we still brought the yearbook to the Wildwood community this year even though we were limited with photos and we didn't have a lot of the end of school events that we normally cover this this particular digital yearbook we really wanted to dedicate to you guys the sixth-grade the 50th anniversary class of Wildwood and like you guys know you guys each had the opportunity to create and personalize your own slides which we have never been able to do in a print edition and so under that sixth grade drop-down we have pages for each one of your homerooms that include the class pictures and all of your personalized slides and there is a slide show here that Miss wells put together that celebrates you guys some of the other things that we had pictures for we're a couple of the events that you guys had it that were special Corps six traders which were the Moores held field trip and the Egmore egg-drop challenge so scroll through those pages when you get a chance and try to find yourself we have events that throughout the year and one that I really wanted to highlight for sixth grade today was our almost math night I had to include this in here because our math link a block worked so hard on their math games and we even played them even events during the closure like our car parades can be found on the yearbook both car parades are on here with pictures and video just like Miss wells was saying the benefit of the digital yearbook is that we can not only include interactive components like videos but we also aren't limited and we're not worried about cost so one of the things we thought was great is we could go back into the archive of pictures that Miss wells and I have thousands and thousands of pictures and we were able to with the help of some of your teachers also dig out some pictures from you and your friends from kindergarten through fifth grade so under the sixth grade drop-down there's a blast from the past and we've just created a big photo collage and we've separated them by grade but from kindergarten and second grade on you'll find your class pictures and some of the candidates that we had taken over the years and those were the days huh look at that if they weren't great it was it was a it was really fun to go back in time with you guys well I think that brings you to the end of your Wildwood journey congratulations Wildwood we'll miss you it was really great getting to know all of you guys and working on this last little bit of yearbook and remembering all the fond memories we have of all of you good luck at the middle school that was great that was awesome I want to shout out to Jean Paul for giving awards and medals to Jenny Thank You John Paul and Thank You Jenny and miss wales for created the online yearbook it's going to be sent of just a comfort and a place of joy for us to go to during the summer so let's do a little bit of what we would call it Wildwood a turn and talk think-pair-share because you can do that at home right there with your family so for just a minute we would like our families to just turn to each other and with your sixth-grader just share your favorite memory Jenny and mrs.

in reaction to the murders of George Floyd Brianna Taylor and countless others these last few weeks have shocked me as I became aware of the depths of my own ignorance prior to this moment I had failed to truly understand the pervasiveness of the violence against black Americans and their lived experience as Claudia Rankine described in 2015 of the daily strain of knowing that as a black person you can be killed for simply being black this ignorant led to complacency I didn't see myself as part of the solution to racism in our country as a person who professes to care about social justice I have been asking myself how could this be when I think back to my education and my experience in brookfield I certainly learned about rights I learned about the history of slavery and the mistreatment of black people up through the civil rights movement as well as in English classes from works such as To Kill a Mockingbird and a Raisin in the Sun but for the most part in brookfield racism was taught to me as it was taught to me felt like part of our past I assumed that as King had said the arc of history bends towards justice and that even if we hadn't eradicated racism yet but that was our eventual destination and if we simply waited we would arrive there I also didn't feel like I personally was responsible and had a role to play in combating racism because I didn't hold any personal racist attitudes and while I may have intellectually understood the fact that racism is about systems we live in that advantage some people and not others in addition to just individually held beliefs my white defensive missile ow this understanding to truly sink in and to change the lens through which I saw the world or the way I acted day to day I was called to unpack my invisible knapsack of white privilege but it wasn't long until I put it back on and continued to carry it around with me blindly in the past few weeks white people all over the nation have suddenly started questioning very similar beliefs and realizing that these beliefs have caused us caused us to be passive and prevented us from taking more active and assertive action that is necessary to undo systemic racism brookfield Public Schools has an obligation to ensure that the leaders of the future are better equipped than we were with the true and robust understanding of systemic racism that will fuel them to make this country better by working against oppression brookfield public schools must provide its students with tools that will allow them to dismantle systemic racism and to build a more just society thank you thank you Angela anyone else Liz go right ahead hello everyone my name is Elizabeth Murphy and my current place of residence is three Wilton Drive in Wilmington Massachusetts although I lived in Brookfield for eight years at one Stoney farm Lane and I would have graduated from BHS as a member of the 2018 class I'm speaking tonight to share with you my experience as a mexican-american woman in the Brookfield public school system I'm here as a concerned alumna calling for the implementation of discussions on race inclusion privilege and practices of anti racism I largely credit my academic and professional success to the education I received at Brookfield however in my time I felt unheard by the student body and administrator endured ignorant and racist remarks and struggle with my identity I want to speak on one incident that occurred and still weighs heavy on me my freshman year at BHS in 2014 I was one of a handful of Latin ex students among the roughly 90% white student body a half Mexican boy came to BHS from Danbury high school from the moment he came he was called hood ghetto and various other racial slurs by students I recall one day in the hall when my friends pointed him out and remarked look you and him basically make up one whole Mexican in that instance my identity had become a joke to my peers and the perspective my peers had of me and this young man became painfully obvious while their intention perhaps was not to hurt me the impact this experience had on me did cause long-lasting and significant emotional pain it might be difficult to believe that in that moment I was unable to do anything but laugh along with my friends why aren't you better at soccer do you have your papers you must really be able to jump high after jumping the fence can I buy marijuana from your mom these are just some of the things I was told and asked never did I feel that I could go to a teacher or administrator for help it is important going forward that the Brookfield public school system recognizes internalized racism which is defined as the acceptance by marginalized racial populations of the negative societal beliefs and stereotypes about themselves the experience I just shared proves to be an effective illustration of the relationship between racism white privilege and internalized racism while new humanities reading material the introduction of global themes as a course and the addition of diverse resources is an excellent place to start there is so much more that must and can be done it is necessary that teachers are trained by professionals to be able to effectively engage in courageous conversations with a diverse student body and that the education of terms like internalized racism colorism tokenism anti racism and more are included in the school curriculums it will be impossible to build a strong community in Brookfield while black indigenous and other students of color do not feel as they will be heard and appreciate it thank you for your time and consider Thank You Liz Elijah the floor is all yours thank you uh Elijah healing the third I live at 34 hidden book tribe in Brookfield also work at the Brookfield high school I would like to start by acknowledging and thanking Steve Baldwin the athletic director for working with me on a statement that we released from the Brookfield athletic department but given the state of our country everyone should be taking a step back and really taking a good look in the mirror there's no longer space for people to quote stay quiet or refuse to quote take aside everyone must be accountable for their words and actions lack of words or actions at this point is equally disappointing and frustrating Desmond Tutu said if you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor well Brookfield is not at all a diverse town or School District that doesn't mean the issues of institutional racism racial profiling and police brutality are not important the school statement that was emailed out on June 2nd fell inevitably short of the mark in my opinion no issue was actually addressed and I quote we want to reassure you that the Brookfield public school staff are here to provide students and families with support as they may view unsettling images as we watch our country grapple with these issues end quote at no point did the email actually say racism murder or discuss what the quote issues are further they included a link of quote books with characters of color first reading a book with a person of color does not address the situation and if the school wants to suggest said books why aren't they already in the Brookfield curriculum whether we choose to see it or not we are not doing enough to address the issues of our country we need to ensure when kids go through the Brookfield school system they're prepared to join a world that is much more diverse than Brookfield I recognize that I too have more work to do to help educate kids that I work with in fact I spoke to ten current and former athletes who are also minorities they all agreed that the teachers in the Brookfield school system are good for the most part but every single one of them had been called a racial slur multiple times while in the Brookfield school system most felt they had they just had to try and ignore most instances of racism because quote nobody would really do anything about it anyway of the ten people I spoke to none of them could remember having a minority teacher other than world language or a couple of substitutes I believe we can do better I believe we must do better I leave you with a quote from one of the ten kids that I spoke to he said in my experience with Brookfield there is no visible problem with the teachers but there is with the community families among our town are still racist and it's time for the school to step up and teach if prejudice can be learned it can also be unlearned and it starts in our school system at this point I would not raise my children in this town only for them to be labeled as quote bad influences as I was many times it's time have you wrap it up a little bit Thanks yep almost done it's time for the temperature from acceptance more than they ever have before and teach the children about privilege and systemic racism end quote thank you thank you anyone else sure staff go ahead hi I'm Steph Ferrari I currently live in 75180 West Lexington Avenue in West Hollywood California my brookfield address is one Lexington Drive I there for 22 years I was in the Brookfield school system from kindergarten until graduation in 2014 in reflecting on the town's lack of diversity I could point to many ways that my peers of color were whitewashed erased or other how attitude in our town painted Danbury essentially as a dangerous ghetto or the blatant stereotype slurs and inappropriate jokes that went unpunished unnoticed and even encouraged since my graduation in 2014 I have lived in Boston Los Angeles and New York where I've been closer to diversity and race wealth sexuality and gender than ever in brookfield when I first got to college I had no idea how jarring it would be to confront my own privilege and I had a hard time relating and being a good Ally to people of color in hindsight it would have been nice to have some preparation or better understanding of what dynamics were really at play in the world before I left Brookfield because I missed out on potential friendships point of view and challenges and other benefits of diversity that I was a bit too insecure and defensive to really think about I think that a lot of students going through the Brookfield school system would benefit from Frank and candid conversations with their teachers parents and peers about privilege race class and other real world issues that we see on the news but don't necessarily experience in our town so I could see this taking form as a semester of required civics classes where students can reflect on their world with reading speakers and workshops about racism sexism classism and other isms that present the world much differently than how we live it in Brookfield these classes could be complemented in the high school with assemblies and speakers similar to those we had on drug abuse and drunk driving which also had a corresponding pair discussion it also is up to the parents to engage with their children to discuss what the world is like outside of Brookfield where cops do more than hand out speeding tickets and bus parties and voting rights aren't always right furthermore it is up to the teachers parents peers and the entire community to hold each other accountable and furthering racial tolerance by speaking up against microaggressions slurs and hate in this way we can make our students better prepared for college and moving to more diverse places and we can make our students of color feel more welcome and supported thank you thank you Steph okay it's all yours thank you good evening my name is Mary Kate Chloe Jersey Brookfield High School alumni that graduated in 2009 I wanted to take a moment this evening to describe my experience as a student of the Brookfield public school system and to voice my concerns around the lack of education and discussion surrounding racism that are currently status quo in our schools like many others I could describe my experience of growing up in Brookfield and going through the public school system as a suburban bubble race was a topic that was rarely delved into beyond surface level lessons on the civil war and the civil rights movement of the 1960s much of the complexities of the histories of by pop were left out of our history books leaving us with an education that centered around white people partly due to this I'd spent a large part of my life assuming that racism was an over their problem no only to realize that the viewpoint itself was extremely problematic as an adult it's taken me up to this point of my wife to realize that I am actually part of the problem as I reflected on my life to come to a reckoning with how we have continually come to this place as a society ever I could realize that ignorance is the worst excuse as to why systemic racism lives on in this country the simple antidote to this ignorance is education children need to have the exposure to the complexities of race to have open honest and respect conversations about them we too often think that we need to shield children from these complexities however it is absolutely necessary for this education to occur I don't want my experience being sheltered in my education to be the norm for our younger generations and I'm asking the Board of Education to consider reviewing and amending curriculums to include anti-racism work and more accurate and inclusive portrayals of by ACOG by Park and American history and culture in addition I'm also asking the Board of Education to consider implementing a diversity task force to consistently and continually review the dynamics of our public school system to ensure our schools are safe place for by Park students thank you for your consideration and your time this evening Thank You Hayley the floor is all yours hi I'm Hayley BHS class of 2013 my family address in Brookfield is one derby court and my full-time residence is 1236 specific Street Brooklyn New York so you've heard from a number of us already so I'll make this brief but we actually represent a group of students alumni parents and residents over 215 strong who are committed to actively teaching and embodying anti racism and the Brookfield education system many of our group are watching this live stream tonight and many of us will continue to watch how the board moves to address structural racism oppression and privilege in our school system first I want to take a moment to actually thank all of the speakers who prepared remarks and came up to the public comment tonight I appreciate that it's not easy to share such personal stories and I've won them grateful for the strength of the mind and heart that you Beach demonstrated and showing that for our community tonight so thank you I also want to recognize a particular conundrum that's been top of mind for me as we've listened to these stories so how can it be that while students of color and Ord covert and sometimes overt displays of racism ever filled schools their white peers myself included had to leave our hometown for our education on race to begin something and then there doesn't quite add up for me I also be the first to acknowledge that progress has been made since I last walked the halls of the Brookfield public schools and I'm also here to say it has not been enough we are here tonight to show you that the Brookfield community cares about seeing the work of anti racism brought into the classroom we are prepared to offer our time energy and professional expertise as teachers school counselors social workers artists and more as a resource to the Brookfield school system we are ready to hold ourselves each other our school faculty and staff and our democratically elected officials accountable for the timely and deliberate implementation of anti-racist initiatives within the Brookfield education system and to that end we have a few questions we would like to submit to the board for consideration and I will be following up with these over email as well we're wondering what changes are you currently considering towards the curriculum on what time scale can students expect to see these changes enacted in the classroom and while we understand that curricular changes are a long-term ask we ask are there interim measures that can be implemented for the 2020 2021 school year are you considering anti-racism training for teachers and finally I'd like to highlight again the black lives matter rally that is being organized by Kiana Shabazz Williams we heard from tonight and her sister SIA happening this saturday june 20th at 4 p.m.

diamond now are at 100 thank you and there are 13 more eligible that we're aware of that have not begun the registration process but the school is working to connect with them and that puts us at around 171 that we're expecting which is still our projected enrollment at this point of course a lot will happen over the summer and progress or lack thereof we coded and the public health information obviously will affect that as parents washing things very closely just for reference point front year we have 181 students to start the year and we actually have 183 enrolled right now and that's something we always talk about it watching that uptick in enrollment so we're in close attention to that and I just like the thing this is diamond for getting that update to us extended school year enrollment update the board is well aware that for our students with special needs there are a number of students who qualify for services over the summer and I'm happy to say that about 170 that qualify 165 that qualify about 160 are enrolled we're running a virtual program at this point this year the parents the super majority of parents were very excited to hear that that was the way it was going to be done it is a synchronous program and there's a lot of live instruction so we're really excited about that and of course that starts July 6th after the up to the holiday break and we're really excited about seeing how that works out on the special education administrators working with dr.

salia and I want to echo that just tremendous thank you to rich and also to Rachel for asking clarifying questions into cabinet and you know everyone forgiving me the feedback from the last meeting for those of you that were on the Finance Committee attending two weeks ago I apologize it's going to be redundant I wanted to be sure to be clear to the folks that weren't there we got the feedback that the presentation helps to understand or clarify so I hope even you'll even take in a little bit more and it'll be helpful and you'll have additional questions and our goal is to be very transparent in the budget process as well as in the budget itself so without further that I'm just we go right into the presentation just bear with me this part is a little new to me okay can everybody see that yeah I see right yes yes okay so um basically broadly speaking what does the budget do so it adjusts the base budget by when I talk about the base budget I mean if last year's budget was $100 we'd expect next year's budget to be $100 except for the adjustments that we're making so here it adjusts what I would call the base budget by 1.8 million due to an sta credit and insurance savings that were accounting for with the reserve and I'll get into that when we go into the detail budget but you know one of the things that we were able to do was when we negotiated with our transportation provider for the closure period we realized that we didn't need to retain all the savings for this year and they were able to give us a credit into this next year's budget we also through Rich's help identified a way to account for what we what we were calling the cliff I mean I don't want to call it a cliff because that's not I don't think I have to think of a better word for it but you know the risk that we have to shore up and account for so the budget book the SDI budget will go back up again and I will show you later on how we account for that in this budget as well it invests about 8.9 million in new initiatives and I know everybody was shocked and said well how can you do that if the city is only giving us 1.2 million I hope after the presentation you'll you'll see what what we're proposing and that's why we had to use this bridge and approaching that as a way to show you the budget it meets the needs of distance learning some nice requirements for faculty technology provides for some special emotional supports for faculty and students as well as it funds the budget maintenance required to move forward and a big piece is the Student Support Specialists also that we'll get to in the budget and that Karen will be able to speak to overall the the model that we were putting forward it braids the funding to continue operations and fund our required activities and it reprioritize --is the alliance funds and it uses a multi-year approach with the liens as I said rich really helped us think through a lot of our baby portion of our money and we'll talk to you about that as one-time funding and it's because of the nature of Co vid we have some additional opportunities of one-time funding but we had to use a multi-year approach with alliance because we know that that's projected to be a new amount next year and will grow again the following year so I'll explain a little bit more about that as we get into the detail and and I'll pause at certain points for questions because this is a workshop so I want to encourage people you know at certain points to be able to ask their questions if you can save them and then I'll pause and we can we can move forward it sets up a reserve for unpredictability we've done this Jo set this up he set this in place already we have a relationship with the city to do this the mechanism to do it we need the board approval to do it but we've done this with our insurances and with technology we're newly adding the reserved for special ed tuition and for emergency purposes that shouldn't lead kovat it should meet emergency purposes it does provide emergency related funding through a reserve and Kerr's funding of 1.3 million and 800,000 for social-emotional and curriculum so those are addressing some of the unique needs of next year so what are the new funding sources we'll just keep talking with you about it as of the year goes on because there's we have guidance from the state about it the last time we spoke we weren't certain about what methodology we would be allocated this first bucket that I'm highlighting here it's it's the federal cares act funding the education portion that we're talking about here is the Elementary and Secondary Stabilization Fund recovery funds so it should say our F but and initially there was question as to whether or not how it would be allocated it would be allocated based on enrollment and the private schools would get some funding but we out be allocated based on our title one which benefits you know damn very better and that damn bears it city but the public schools better because you know the title one funding methodology is based on need so the state decided to go with the title one methodology which gives us about two point two eight six million it's about eighty four percent of our title one allocation is how it was explained to us by the Kathy Dempsey the CFO at the state and there's a chance that that could change in the federal legislation because there's a conflict between the way that's being spoken about by the Education Department and how the legislation is written so Connecticut's interpreted this way there's a risk it's about two hundred thousand dollars we've set up escrow for that because of that that potential risk that they're saying you might halfway through the year it could change so but what does this fund it's pretty broad even down to you can see it listed out here but even down to the protect protection of educator jobs so we can use it for existing positions we can purchase education technology training and PD and we'll show you in the budget when I get to that shortly how we're proposing to use the Karis funding and the grant carryover this is also as rich alluded to earlier is new normally we can carry over depending on the grant source about anywhere between ten to fifteen percent of a grant or nothing at all but this year the state has made an exception for our titles Alliance and the IDE a grant that we can carry over a full bounce the unspent funds so for us this year it's gonna be about two point two six eight million and that'll be important when I show you that the funding screen next as well city fund balance dr.

Zelena to do that and that's how that would roll out but that they do participate on on that portion of it and that's how you did ask them to prioritize so when we were there part of the process in submitting their priorities no that's true too right and then dialogue and in the press thank you forgot because it's been such a long drawn-out right thank you you never make everybody happy right no I know marriage you know what I guess I'm saying that you mean when we had that initial shot over the bow Thank You Courtney we said that administrators look guys you know what what do you gotta have that you can't live without I mean basically and I think Kevin and they they put some things sword and we were turning mindful of trying to give him that and I think the board that's been on for a while has heard from our teachers who need some hands-on folks to help us with kids for so many of them so you know we've had to reallocate and rebalance and things to do that and I think that in itself was the highest priority I can tell you particularly k5 and at the middle school give us some folks with hands on so that's a week that's what we did and then we worked our way back down to try to make the bottom line work Wow as I went as we tried to close the gap question sure um if I had this right uh-huh our contractual increases this year just what we're obligated by existing contracts to do is 2.7 and the budget increase we're getting from the city is 1.2 so we're a million five short of meeting our our existing obligations that we did not one thing new based on the budget the city of Danbury is proposed it's actually more than that because that's just the staff in contract increases so we talked about the mate and it's carry forward budget I would I would say it's closer to four and change almost five million dollars because it includes all the bussing and so if what we call our turn the lights on number if nothing else were to change we need about five million dollars so that's right yeah thank you yeah I'm sorry one more thing sure just I know I've mentioned this to you before but the the sca adjustment being the only kind of adjustment with schools being closed for three months mmm is that correct so now how do I explain that because that is complicated it this is saying that everything would if pretending Coco had never happened which it definitely is happening then what would we need to roll the budget for next year the the savings this year you're seeing as part of the city fund balance so this is proposed for next year's budget it's two million dollars because of all the ups and downs mainly because of Kovach closure that's why we're seeing that City fund balance so the only impact to next year's budget that's going to be like a decrease related to kovat is because of SGA we front-load of those savings but actually the transportation costs are going up because in addition when you look at the maintenance budget down below this is accounting for a 3% increase to the to the to the transportation you know so we're counting for the contractual increases we're saying all things being equal our busing would still need to be the same for next year and then we're gonna whatever we're gonna do is going to either have to fit within that or the city's gonna have I mean the state is gonna have to come up with more money for busing because it's just not going to be possible yeah thank you I forgot yeah it's it's weird with what a great crazy year yeah okay so when we talk about this so one of the really important things that rich brought up is okay braiding but but how what does that do for you next year and so all of these funds that I'm highlighting here are one-time funds so that total is six point five four five million when you add these three things together so this is what rich is calling the cliff and I'm calling planning for future contingencies and it's the six five four one-time money but with ongoing there's some ongoing expenses so we need to account for that and I'll just say that more carefully like in a budget world if if our operational budget is $100 then it's a hundred this year and next year and the year after that until something changes so we call that the base fund and it's kind of ongoing expenses when you have a one-time funding stream usually you just like to buy one-time thing so you buy you buy you know what you know some fixtures you buy books you buy things that you know are one-time mate in nature so we broke out the one-time funds of six point five and we said okay about one point six of that is one-time expense and about one point nine is one time because it's just increasing the reserve so it allows us a little bit more confidence and fiscal prudence but then you have ongoing expenses in there of 2.8 million I'm breaking them out here so you can see what those are these are all the things that make up that ongoing expense of 2.8 million but we're saying that portion of that can be shifted to next year's Alliance increase so all things being equal if the city was still in dire straits and the state still in dire straits we can still pretty likely count on getting another 2.7 million of Alliance money of which some of these things we're doing next year could be shifted into a lion so I'm showing here of that ongoing expense about 1.8 could be funded with Alliance and that would leave us with a million dollars that we need to fund next year's priorities for this year's priorities for next year so when I say this year I'm talking about the upcoming fiscal year 2021 and then 21 22 we need another million the mayor is aware of that he's supportive of this approach to the extent that we're able to next year you know he's committing to helping us with this budget so the future is uncertain but this is a certainty something that we know and it's a risk that rich wanted the board to be aware of when we thought it was important to share with everybody I don't know does anybody have questions on this I've got a quick question Cortney sure thank you for breaking all that down and especially on the one-time funds that that sort of paints a clearer picture of what we're doing as far as you know the multi-year budget here the matrix money that we were talking about before is that a one-time or is that multi a I always confuse that it's supposed to be multi it's supposed to be an ongoing commitment it's not just a one time I think I heard K ten years then that's what I think they threw out last year I don't think we should count the first year we can get input sure should we did using this year oh yeah I'm on it to pay for our brand valise you know so and and dr.

Keyser we will vote on the remainder of the consent calendar and take a vote a voice vote all those in favor Tom hi Robinson I'm Griffin hi honey hi okay okay we got a mom so that has been approved so John what about seven point three point three [Music] thank you for clarifying that yeah thank you for bringing that to attention okay so we have this last item in our consent which has to do with this quote for goguardian would anyone like to approve to the motion to approve it some ways to approve the contract item seven point I'll second that motion a motion by doing that hubby's second by I mean Robinson all those in favor please say aye thank you okay that was the consent calendar and to our discussion and the first item is educational services this is with regards to resolution 15 18 20 is regarding racial injustice Azure resolution regarding racial injustice so the answer is this team would like to bring this resolution for to the board for discussion and action regarding the racial injustice what we've been with countries been going through and we just we have been prior again at the beginning of the year when we looked at our data and our data was telling us that we were letting some students down and so looking at that data led us to take action over the course of the year and Johnny has really led this particular aspect of the action with our color and our african-american characters but I'll let Tom go ahead and speak to that briefly so the last four meeting we talked a little bit about the the outreach for the different student groups that are struggling within our school system and realized that we have we have a few and to try to address everyone's needs all the time is definitely a goal of ours at the same time we wanted to hone in on some some specific the group's so as we talked before and is in the setting we do have some some relationships with chief of State University and process cultural leadership center there and also with a private entity down the Sacramento that's doing the same kind of work with schools in the Sacramento Unified School District with the goal of creating mentoring opportunities ideally we'd have a cascading mentoring program that would include Chico State students mentoring our high school students than would then mentor our middle school students and ideally we'd have been mentoring or elementary students so we were really focusing on after the african-american males knowing that we're also going to move into during the during 2021 building relationships with women and excellence which is the counter or the collaborative group at Chico State much like the men in Chico so the goal was to again create mentoring programs and for those specific student groups however since the civil unrest that's just been been a major focal point for much of our policy has again risen to the forefront we feel like me to expand that conversation so we've been reaching out she has been reaching out to different community members who we feel and influence even deeper conversations about racism bias in general with the idea that we are much more systemic and organized in our approach to identifying elements of bias in the community and the specific banner system so for example on Friday we have quite a few members of our community representing different groups and different cultures and the reason I emphasize cultures is we're it's we're not just talking at the cultures we're also talking about professional cultures for example we have an African American urban raised police officer joining us in this group so he's going to bring a perspective to this conversation about racism and bias that many people in that group won't be able to to represent so we appreciate our community members being involved in those conversations we have some goals of really needs not necessarily just staying in our lane but ultimately we want to deepen our awareness of bias within our system specifically when we talk about racism right before spring break which before [Music] however one of the things that we talked about we really want to be sure that we do is we don't want to perpetuate the white Caucasian influence by making policy and curricular instruction without getting direction from the group very groups that were trying to we're looking to the group that John is meeting with we're looking to you are ever in American parent group to help us look at are there policies that get in the way of equity are there policies that perhaps meet you racism within our system so that's the cynical look but trying to look at it from another viewpoint just then and I would like to go ahead and read the resolution oh okay you see you're just a little picture of her for the time into this project one of the things that that makes it so important to me as a white American is that as I watch and observe what's going on right now in our country I have become aware of how little I really know about racial let's see we get taught like we and the Americans in our Texas we get taught things like there was a civil war [Music] we consciously recognize ethnic racial groups making contributions [Music] we don't embrace that you know Cathy did you want to say something yes thank you so the context of this is that we have refraction around ethnic or racial identity including the Native American of which I have grandchildren and great-grandchildren but I think it's really valuable that we've gone through the resources that keep the state these are leaders that I have worked with very closely over my want to miss out on the awake because they were letting other kids other parents ask the questions and then they were answering them so I think one of the things we want to do as many of these sorts of things we can find that out not just our teachers but also families who are often blended identity thank you okay thank you Kathy I'm going to go ahead now and read the resolution whereas this Chico Unified School District Board of Education is heartbroken and frustrated by the in justices experienced by people of color in every city in our nation and is troubled by the inequalities that have plagued our nation for so long and whereas the Board of Education is committed to maintaining a safe positive school environment where all students staff parents guardians and community members are treated with respect and dignity whereas the Board of Education believes that the diversity that the district's community of students staff parents guardians and community members is integral to the success of the district's vision mission and goals whereas to bring about true and sustained change that chica Unified School District Board of Education urges the community of Chico to come together in unity and create impactful dialogue on racism and inequities and work toward positive transformations that address racism and inequalities whereas Chico Unified is committed to continuing to develop and deepen community relationships and partnerships through student groups specific community forums and student groups specific mentoring programs such as the men of Chico and women of excellence thereby providing our students a venue to express their perspectives on bias in the school system and identify ways to combat racism now therefore be it resolved that the Chico Unified School District Board of Education stands strongly beside our students of color staff families and community and vows to reflect upon its policies values goals and missions to ensure its commitment to all via FURTHER RESOLVED the Board of Education vows to work to proactively identify class and cultural biases as well as practices policies and institutional barriers that negatively student learning from Hetch away achievement gaps and impede equal access to opportunities for all students in order to eradicate institutional bias of any kind including implicit or unintentional biases and prejudices that affect student achievement and to eliminate disparities in educational outcomes under all right to sing Thank You Tommy all right we will move forward then to a discussion action item this is is this actually to be something for a vote it's more of a discussion I have to okay an update on our Co code 19 responds in the 2021 school year planning and recommendation of co-curricular and extracurricular activities summer planning so there's a few different things that we want to give you updates on just on the cover the update again we're going to be talking about possible schedules for next year we have some athletic do we want to bring you by so we want to so what we want to do is give you these are some of the pictures coming through different of our graduation or drive-throughs and I know some of you have seen these before begin they were very successful for how quickly that our schools headed put these on and we're very proud of what they've done alright so here's where the graduate number is from each one of our junior High's and high schools and CEOs the junior High's are pretty close between 301 and 306 to comprehensive high schools 439 at 417 then you all in ninety-three graduates this year so the wonderful thing the next thing that we are working on actually Jonathan spent a lot of time on this and I've just spent time on zooms and so it's Kelly we've been working with our Eastern athletically that's a league that our sports teams planned so we can have a common message in a common protocol when we can open up camps and possibly some type of practices so we're going to click on that and then so you can continue to see it but it it's come a long way over the last three weeks and we're pretty excited the fact that that we have a common message from our and just some background like Jay said we're trying to get three distinct districts coming together as part of one league to agree on you know in sportsmanship sports would like manner to agree on how we're going to approach summer activities but just to make sure I can understand this is just a summer conversation we're not talking about fall sports yet this is really just July 24th so in response to the California Department of Education guidelines the National Federation of high school sport guidelines some County guidelines from shasta county Tehama County and Butte County we basically synthesize those guidelines and were able to create a document that could guide a summer participation for our student athletes we're not going to go through the whole document just want to reinforce that there are opportunities within this document or for wellness checks for coaches to demonstrate in their plan and must be approved at the site level at my level and then at the senior cabinet level specifically where they're where they're going to be hosting their their participants how they're going to interact with them the safety precautions again following those introduced guidelines there are also some waivers that basically identify the school district and explain to parents and the students our expectations as we as we invite these kids back on our campuses our maintenance and operation folks have been instrumental in streamlining this process to be sure that who their staff are safe right the bringing these kids back on the episode it's not fair to those staff who've been working diligently extremely diligently to prepare those campuses for for next year so in a nutshell we're able to after about three weeks of working through this document were able to make it happen so we're excited in it we've noticed regionally this process has been emulated you know different districts not involved regulating this comes so it hasn't been through the coach brings it to the athletic director brings it to the administrator that's in charge of athletics on their campus then it goes to John the administrator on Kent State it goes to John then it goes to me and then I share it with senior cabinet so there's no surprises and we've asked some of the coaches or people that are leading this campus init some photos and some time so we can share with what it kind of looks like when they're doing their six foot distancing and going ten or less students and different groups and how that looks and so they said they will do that for you we could share with you guys the future what's really impressive in those pictures are the facilities just the standardization of those facilities so another piece to thinking about next year we know we're going to have some kids who may be eligible based on the code 19 distance learning in the second semester and so we added and this will be addressed later in the board agenda but we added some language to a word policy that in event and I'm not going to read it to you but basically in the event of an emergency declaration a student would be granted an additional probationary period right so then there's going to be some tracking involved there but our abs and principals feel like that's something thing I do and so things are both his kids won't eat it but we want that safety net sorry clarify that because other people may have seen as I did this blood last night which actually was featuring paradises female volleyball team so way to take more than a second for somebody to realize that this six high schools don't reckon if you don't comprise all the high schools that they typically play a game with each other so is there any framework of referencing which schools that might end up playing one another we have some sort of a similar agreement or we just you know three six hang together and then paradise will hang with whoever and say thanks for the orbital high schools I'm trying to get a sense of the public understands that what was on the news last night was very specific so this came about from a league perspective and since our league is the EA L that's why we group together because we wanted fairness among those that competed and we see I am fleet play but you know it's my party mentioned there has certainly been adaptation of this document across Buick County and talk to the dress Lexington yeah Kathy just to to put it in the 30,000 foot level of context every summer schools handle their summer activities differently right some schools have way more activities for one sport than other schools and that variety of reasons resources being number one facilities being number two he only had one gym you can only do so much for volleyball and basketball during the summer and so we feel like across the section right the next level up from the leaf each league I can't vouch for every leaf but it sounds like most leagues are having similar conversations and as you know when one school district finds out someone is getting a little bit of an extra bump people are competitive right so they're going to try to figure out how they can do something similar this one make sure people understand that these are voluntary camps that these kids are are going into so we on my desk I go on the cheerleading one a football one wrestling one a basketball one and so again you know everybody's really excited to be able to but again it's the parents are still feeling uncomfortable even with these guidelines there's just voluntary doesn't hurt a child's chances of me making that team later on when those sports okay yep um question about the scheduling of summer sports it is something that I did not familiar with do do the summer activities end with enough time to leave a two week window before the beginning of the school year yes so the way this system has been set up these activities will cease on July 24 school doesn't start until August 17 however all sports do start on August 3rd what we felt like is stopping on July 24th would give folks a little bit larger window to Reese Anna ties areas that needed a little more Reese anat ization as we prepared for students and staff coming back so there's a stop date on July 24th with the first you know nine days giving us some time to Reese other things about the open up data if you got the Sierra Facebook live it was alright we started trying to figure out with different colleagues our community is really talking about the bit that understand what schools going to look like next year and Kelly gets quite a few emails asking those questions throughout the week and she does an amazing job of answering them we have to do TV interviews radio interviews newspaper interviews on these questions that are constantly long we tell them to just keep coming back for updates so we wanted to make sure again that we're following the guidelines suggested guidelines that we are giving to and if they become mandated guidelines what were the skills that would look like at that time so we are also at this time looking at what other just a lot of districts right now are putting out plans or what they're telling their parents and so some of the stuff that we're gonna said that looks pretty good so listen let's use some of the stuff that they're going forward and I know some people are looking at the stuff we have we have to go over it with a chem suits meeting tomorrow because they saw the Facebook blog some of that's been going on it's great we've also let me decided in my you guys know that we've been working with teachers and our Union and our classified and our administrators to come up we want we want them part of this whole thing it's gonna affect every one of them so I believe in our last one we had close to 70 participants and Arzu meaning when they came to talk about then we broke it out and on Johncock we broke them out the elementary level secondary level these guys do a great job that when they break everybody out root we had a special ed group and so they will be able to break out what would schedules look at that how that going to affect their programs they're obviously different from elementary to secondary just what specialness names are so it's pretty amazing during that we've had to a lot of another one on Monday we're hope to give you another update on next Wednesday on the twenty fourth meeting we want to continue to narrow it down so we can come down for some things say do you guys say what do you think of these we think we've narrowed down these choices what are you putting your thoughts on that we will also get parents involved also because we want to know as a parent what do you think and they were very involved in it basically I mean we had over 2500 views of that yeah we had 260 on at the time to 68 but then over the course 24 hours the wonder clear over 2500 so that's great one way with me too and we will continue those things come up Diane Wilson it's going to do a special ed one Kevin when he misses both one knows more about what the budget is gonna look like we hope in the next 12 days well how about feelings but you know we can reach out to the community to see how is that gonna affect our education - when it comes to cuts or non cuts and stuff like that so we're hoping to do another one of those and then we will follow up probably another one with Kelly and I about scheduling I wanna the next one it's kind of what this is how when we break meet with those our educators our teachers and our administrators these are versions of what it looks like what they're seeing so yeah if you could just stop there because so what we're trying to do is separate out the conditions for reopening from the models that would be opening and so because we would like our conditions to be all as as encompassing as possible and so we've been listing out the conditions for return to school knowing that this isn't everything we're going to have consider but as you can see there are everything ranging from the timeline that we're talking about now to how to really address positive cases what would physical distancing look like and there's three three things already that we need to be thinking about so from from a input perspective we're asking our staff and parents and some students to think about what are the conditions and as Jade mentioned earlier people are receiving quite a few emails about their opinions about conditions and then the models that would be in place and these conditions would apply to those models and so from the rest of the document we don't need to read the whole thing knowing that there's not a one size that fits all just a real quick scroll please so we started to categorize our options and I don't think we're in a position tonight to go through each one of these specifically but just to see that we oh we already have an online learning model you know we already have a very strong traditional model that may have those conditions applied to it and then the last option here is is blended learning models and so if you can scroll a little further so we have a series of ideas that range from a three by three block schedule with kids completing 30 credits of work in one semester and we and some completed schedules have am/pm shifts just so basically is you know maybe vernacular buffet of options that we can start to we can start to investigate research knowing that all of them have pros and cons they're all going and really we really would love to see a traditional type of model with safety precautions but in that's our ultimate goal we're hoping that this state allows us an account allows us to do that what we're seeing in our surveys and I'll talk about that just minute from our family scene really we love to have some time in traditional models will succeed Hodgins with antenna sides are stations which we have them all in portable ones in every classroom right now for that the teachers to me I'm good to do that we hope to have them in gate entries where when they come on they have to do that these also are hoping to have them in our busy type of common areas where I think our kids are going to get really used to the fact that this is going to be happening all time the Elementary's with their sinks in their classrooms and stuff like that we've ordered yeah we we ordered 800 thermometers so the the wand so we could have them at our schools and if that's what we're out we want to go where we're testing on those are all conversations that we will come up with to you guys gonna get down to the nitty-gritty on lines perfect Oakbridge does that very well our Oakbridge online option didn't change when we meant you know when the kids have come off the campus they continued with their model of their online instruction so there's in sampling and so that's really a second option to parents don't feel comfortable with sending their kids into that model if the state gives us open guidelines allows each district to kind of do theirs we have that model even now move down to k5 we've now just we purchased two different models it's going to be the I already toolbox and one nurse online program so those are going to be Petite Sirah eventually hit they need to go on mommy and that means to Dibble meet with somebody every week so I want people to understand online option still needs with their meeting with the teacher if they need to all right we'll have them out you know they need to that ambassador would need that but they go in to me if one time week and they start falling behind we usually go one for two week two days a week to three and we do have tutorial times if they start sternly an insert so I think that we do need definite the other models that we're talking about they're the ones who were kind of struggling if the mandates come in and say they have to be six feet apart you know in deposit where you can only pretend in 12 kids and impassion the actually the end of the models come in two three by three or that a and P and shifts and that kind of thing so whether we like it or not part of our role of school is when kids are at school we have the children so that parents can work and so we're trying to look at this is a big picture is what we want our economy to recover our economy drives education fun yet education allows parents to be in the workplace driving the economy it's that big cycle and so we are hearing from parents that you know I can't afford to stay home I can't afford childcare I need to be able to go back to work and you buy a child at school so those are all part of the discussions that we're hiding but all of us know there's lots of demands meeting all of them it's a challenge that's why we're having looking at lots of different models here I think we talked a lot about it in ed services and I think John mentioned a fourth of the faith I think we want to make sure that a smorgasbord of options out there and check so we want to have different options so families feel comfortable coming back in on the new world with these kind of guidelines and plays for this provision of the place they're comfortable without we can offer that to them but they are feeling for different health or security reasons whether their family they want a full-blown online version we can offer that but then the middle one is for kind of a blended model so if families are feeling there might be some reason that they are comfortably on campus a little bit of the time maybe they're half the time is what that would look like and here's how we could operate that and here's kind of the structure in the form you put that together with also so because I've been taking a lot of input from teachers and staff we're going to talk to parents coming up and get a lot of feedback from them as well I put those things together and they're all those what things we're not thinking about even to come up like Jay said we've been running different sessions and throughout the elementary one for an hour Kim hands is taking notes in there [Music] thank you yes you can get up one of the concerns the impact emotionally we are we already know as a district that we have some very very needy children with social and emotional deficits that are tragically not being met in any kind of an online situation so from my perspective of the board members anything we can do that keeps our targeted children [Music] yeah there's to keep our kids to me get still back to saving those kids social and he every kid a lot of drama why is everybody work why did everything get closed down you know it's it's been a lot for kids to digest so I appreciate that I mean that's actually we've been kind of putting together the parameters of what our online students and that came out very loudly their teachers so like Jay mentioned there's actually a weekly expected check-in whether it's in person or online not just for academic support but to check in and see how that child is doing also I could allow that referral to happen if they're you for kind of some support whether it's in-person counseling or whatever it may be also teachers are very Commons and he said we want to make sure these kids are doing okay while they're at home online things are put together one of the things that ice that I felt was missing was a student's ability to actually see and hear their teacher giving an instruction even if it's only a 10-minute dialogue on you know what the introduction of a new chapter something yeah it's gonna be on their Chromebook but they still need to see and hear that live person giving them you know part of the conditions because in their endings the teacher groups were working with they said teachers should be on there four times a week there any math lesson four times a week to the reading to be a lesson and it could be a partner ten minute lesson does never be an hour-and-a-half lesson so there was a built-in expectation from teachers sorry to keep hiatus and I'm going to thank Kathy I'm just shifting the last bullet on there Kathy just so you know we're opening our preschools back out July 6th we got to go ahead from licensing so Kathleen's been chomping at the bit so we're gonna open up all four preschools there are some social distancing components expected needless to say Kathleen's working out all those but we are expecting to open July 6th with about ten students in each one so she's kind of going through and creating the criteria right now to get those things ready to go so think about it hopefully start helping some of those childcare things and in kudos to Kevin ball tonight and John Carver because that wasn't in their plans and all the sudden a day later it was in their plans and accommodated great well one last thing too that I want to bring up his and one of the programs that they mentioned in there was to addressed this issue of what type of programs might be helpful to students and there's a with interrupted education with interrupted formal education especially to avoid furthering and deepening the the gaps [Music] one one one thing because we've already I think covered the other two bullets we will we've already had the one survey that we put out in May we will put out another one for our parents and one for our certificated and you do one for classified and one for classifying also again what are they considering alright what are they comfortable with traditional with safety because we want to add what traditional looks like it's not somebody just said traditional so some people thought that meant traditional with six feet Stacey or traditional with a lot of safety I think so we want to be able to list what traditional looks like what our online option I think most people know what that is we will again we want to let him know that he's still do get to see a teacher what a blended model website and just to get again a feeling after we get closer to doing these board meetings about giving schedules what they look like and how comfortable they're feeling and then we will do one again probably around the third week of July after our July 15th board meeting so we want to put out a survey again so we we have to really start or concreted yeah more green let you guys and this is the concrete ones we think and with your approval we really have to stop looking at staffing and budgeting and that kind of stuff and how that the schedules are going to do and how that reacts with what we've chosen so we want to be able to tell our teachers okay we've got this video for eating this may need to go to here and that one of the things that was said was professional development we've also been working with on Kevin ready and Charlie Schneider there any meetings with us let me see about these different schedules that were looking at so one usually is in the elementary and ones usually in the secondary and they've asked you this do professional development which we approved a week with pay the teachers for their four hours one on ingenuity that's our platform for the six to twelve online the I'm ready to a box and the wonders for elementary teachers and then we will also be doing some professional development and if we have to go back to distancing distance learning how to make that transition because before you know we have 48 hours basically you're going to distance learning so teachers are wanting more help with that but some teachers did it pretty well and some people struggle with it so they've asked us to put on that we will at the beginning obvious that we first week of August we will put that out so I just wanna you know we're reaching out to we might need more teachers to go to Oak Ridge so we just want to make sure that people are ready to go all right okay so one thing I did want to talk to the board about clearly we have we've got our teacher group meeting every Monday and they're going to meet again this next Monday and our hope is to bring you some solid workable options then what I would like to do is schedule again you guys again not like this part but schedule another board workshop and maybe during the day where the court can really looked and take an in-depth look at the options of our prepending because the court ultimately you are our policy makers you set this so the board will have to make a decision on which model is resolved in the direction that we go and July 15th really is pushing the envelope because school starts August 17th so if we can I'm looking at work with your calendars but a board meeting is an extended look at options for workshop for the reopening of school sometimes the week of July 6 7 to 8 in there that will allow us to have an in-depth discussion and lead us to making a decision what it is the model the conditions we know may vary based on what the state can the counties tell us what is the model yeah I think that was inevitable we began you know we absolutely need to be part of that and we need to dedicate enough time to but it can't just be something that's squeezed into a board meeting and we need to be fresh and we need to be you know our brains functioning fully to digest everything that is going to be discussed and decided so what I what I personally would like is if we could do this as some sort of like morning session time where we have coffee we get together we talk about all of this and we spend as much time as we need to these are these are big decisions and there's going to be a lot of parents who are really impacted and concerned about this and you know coming back to us with milk you know why did you do this this would be a meeting like are we going back to open session where parents well I think that day I think that you guys have been gathering a lot of the parent feedback and so yes a lot and we would get we've been reading um and also with the serving information since there's going to be more surveying that's and that's being done so gathering that kind of information I think we would have that we necessarily I would say that at some point to open it up to where with social distance we're going to try to put one out immediately after the June 24th that's with Wednesday so we can get it out oh yeah I mean it's gonna be a short window their parents mode we can put it on there as good in kitchen and getting say we have to show we look at important right and we've been talking about we talked about about the Facebook live as well that you know we will be sending out more service yes yeah the word of the last survey you know anybody that didn't participate complete I didn't get it right so there is no awareness of that you need to communicate was it is Michael the absolute drop-dead date for the board to make a decision as to which options will be available is July 15 and it will be do it sooner that is even better and once that is made then there are the options out prepares to begin making those decisions and registering in which our program they want to register it at that particular point wraps up our presentation we didn't want to exclude all the different means of transportation for our graduations so we want to ensure that equally often where all the cars that were decorated and everything from horses to limos to a truck that came through with sand in the beach our kids are 380 then they need the best the challenging time it's really proud of the parents of the kids [Music] okay okay so we have a motion our song we have promotion a second buddy by dr.

Shepherd said earlier we're have been going down that road and we will continue going down that road we recognize that that kids needed to be have equitable access to to any course that is in their best interest to take we made changes to that end we may change the English honors selection as well and I want to add like in in addition to our work with the community and then certainly and got into our kids on fund inequities racial inequities just a social emotional support that were able to provide now with the work that's been done over the past few years so so here it is back to the back of the slide in with regards to equitable access to higher level courses we're moving towards basically data-driven recommendations for higher level courses as opposed to teacher recommendation so there's more objective hey oldie teacher recommendation still does play a part of it but we're trying to make it as objective as possible however I need to add here because we cannot deny access just because someone doesn't get a teacher recommendation or because someone doesn't score high enough on the test we have a class them whether it's an AP class was DLC making recommendations so junior high continue to adjust their windows we rolled in the smarter balanced interim assessments in place of I ready for the winter time across the board second all secondary English teachers after they get an assessment they're asked to fill out a survey to provide feedback for that bill for next year's revisions ok 1885 refined protocols and we will continue to do that and also examine how to better utilize the interim test become available and more widely used and then just real quick I don't want to leave special education out because the particular Gail Olson and Dana Feingold I've kind of enjoyed high power at the secondary level well kind of led the charge and implementing the use of common goals and IEDs and leading to common assessments to measure those goals they definitely do new programming language live we've seen high high success rates of moving our special education students reading skills about at the elementary level they know work on a continuum of assessments they piloted that this year so students are assessed on the skills the next skills that they need to progress rather than by what grade level they're at and that we're calling that a pilot because we're also talking about doing that at the elementary level and that kind of pilot that we did with special ed it was extremely important okay I already mentioned we assessments for evaluating people's and refining the language that teachers use when they're recording the parents what doesn't a mean - a zoom in a bog moderate/severe setting versus the generalized setting and how do we progress okay then I got thrown out just real quickly kind of enclosing for Spanish teachers at both high schools there's an amazing group of people they are self-starters like we literally give them money to get release and put the room for them and they they come up with a Spanish one and two assessments that unfortunately did not get to be administered this year because of it but they meet them and they were common yeah Spanish Spanish one started to teach two school years ago and the Spanish to was ready and they're just stopping running that's all I have for you really I wanted to speak brief I know you've heard this on before but to make a long story short the goal have you thought that what we do need to keep refining okay so what we brought before you this evening is a resolution that would allow our senior classes at Chico high and Pleasant Valley High School to carry over their school class ASB funds for an additional period of six months due to Tobin 19 many of the events that will plan the end of year school would not be participate in their yearbook delivery for instance was delayed so the request came from school citement from the leadership school leadership and be it work with our auditor in autograph they have reviewed this and made one minor recommendation so is our recommendation of the board would adopt this resolution allowing Perry or ASP pension to see in class four period no longer six months to be useful to class activities specifically and noting that this is also then suspends current board policy but is not pretty impressive moving forward on second the motion okay any further questions by anyone about this Kevin pretty straightforward it seems okay we have a motion by dr.

Mars really loves all of you and cares about you and he's the one that's really going to be there for you as well to guide you through the rest of your years and a Murs so here's dr. Mike Morris hi this is your Superintendent Mike Morris and I'd like to congratulate the graduates of the class of 2020 you've made an enormous impact on your elementary schools throughout your time here I'd also like to congratulate the families of the graduates for the essential supports you have provided that have contributed to your child making it through their elementary school experience in terms of what I wish for the graduates I wish you to retain a sense of optimism for the future you're a graduating elementary school at a time of great stress both locally nationally and around the world it'd be easy to focus on the challenges of the past few months while overlooking or forgetting the experiences and impact you've made at your elementary school as you depart from the school I encourage you to allow the positive to occupy as many of your thoughts as possible and you can think about start that right now by considering and reflecting on the many accomplishments and experiences you've had during your elementary school career Arthur golden stated that our adversity is like a strong wing wind it tears away from all of us the things that cannot be torn so we see ourselves as we really are I believe the challenges of this spring have certainly removed some of the wonderful sixth grade events that you would typically have had at the end of your elementary school career but based on what I've seen and heard of the last few months it has not affected your strong sense of connection and community with your friends and peers it has not affected your dedication to intellectual pursuits nor your commitment to make the world a better place more than ever we need young people who understand and can model what it take that it takes novel and creative approaches to solve the remove the inequalities we see in the world and that have been magnified in the current kite crisis if the world took its cues from this graduating class I think we'd be a step in the right direction you've been well educated by the talented teachers of your elementary school to be successful in whatever pursuits you choose in the future and I believe each of your distinct paths will lead to a more equitable world for all of us in the future I am honored to be a speaker at your graduation and I wish you the best as you depart your elementary school experience I cannot wait to see how you will take what you've learned here and use it in the future congratulations and best of luck Thank You dr.

wells brought up so many possibilities the sixth-grade Moore's Hill trip some of you go all the way back to kindergarten so what is your favorite memory at Wildwood and I'm gonna take myself off the screen and we're gonna give yourselves about a thirty Seconds to a minute to do that you well Thank You Katherine music sharing about the sixth grade ukuleles what was your what was your favorite memory from this year do you have a favorite there's so many to choose you know this looks grade it had such a special place in my heart and when I think about the opportunities that I had to just spend time with them and the cafeteria they don't know that see they don't know this about me I walk in it and I watch them and I see them being happy and I see them having fun with their friends it just means so much to me to just watch them be themselves and I think the cafeteria because everybody is together in a smaller space I get a chance to see that I also watch them on the playground - I have they do have such spirit and their voices I would really I always like going into their classroom and just see how spirited they were in their discussions with their teachers and that's something that dr.