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can appreciate I felt decided four children have just don't unfortunately a little taller than I am for children that are in your school district that I recently become a guardian I'm obviously way too old having sixth graders to a senior and so I really started this and I'm really hoping that as a place and help is available the last time a service for my students - enourmous very self-motivated machine well but sherry had AIDS and so you know but she still did the work minutes of trying to do the best good because she knew she didn't have to because and I see now that that's not going to be an issue this time right right my child is a fifth grader isn't there taxi difficult child yes [Music] Dudley and right i it was all I could do to keep them to do an allergy to working day and that was really anything care how he did it just did it and so there was no accountability and that wasn't as much as I am is there accountability for the students too and for the school district because if I'm not mistaken our funding the schools funding so it comes from students attending school and not to be late just answer the question because I was fightin so actually the budget isn't proof is actually based on our enrollment last year but we don't want to just say it's about the dollars wherever we are so committed just because we usually front about the Navy a model your attendance get you the dollars but this time we're actually for this current year coming out we're actually funded off whatever we received last year we'll get the same without the whole budget another conversation but but yeah so it's a different model for the coming school but is there capability for the students to check in on a daily basis yes so that they're attending school where there's some funding or discouraged yes that was missing last year yes and I know the plan came out and my hat was I 301 two freshmen sophomore and senior and I know that there was a plan that came out that said okay they're going to go to classes 154 from 90210 they're gonna go to classes 4 to 6 you know 4 to 8 from but that never happened there was no checking in there was I mean there's like you don't have to get up and jump this is ridiculous and they're sitting on they get up they do some work you know and then we had a consequently we spending two hours a day with my just saw down and the rest of subjects there was just no way we've got a chance even Joel and his ready stay the same so they went down visually but they basically stay the same so those of us those are the struggles and I'm home but I'm not a teacher I'm a teacher and I owe them too I've been grant I didn't owe it to them grandmother an equivalent to a grandparent so I've got a few years you know above all of you as far as trying to get on the school is what Davis mentioned earlier and besides that there needs to be some way to help some parents like myself dealing with the life of the technology-based Google and Aaron is tricky and my sister was helping me lost and I'm trying to I can't trust the six of the beverage and his assessment as to what's big turn in and we can never get it to match ever you're not you're not the only one don't feel like you matter and I don't think that we're totally inept either you know so I mean I have you know the equipment the kids need and I haven't services that I hopefully you have a computer they have printers they have Wi-Fi of Anya but just between the technology that's being juiced now we should I know we're all furnace so so I don't know that that is a problem hoping that Lisa awareness that we made you know workshop that the parents did we offer just to make sure we're all on the same page to know how to help um again and what mr.

Wilson he has four kids I we learned a lot so we love to hear from your experiences as well you know we're gonna do the email phone call I said the reason I mean an email phone call to let us know the experience only helps us I mean it really doesn't and that's where we want to make this a better experience we know there were some great experiences witness but there were some not so good experiences so yeah so yes we recognize them you know it was very hard to get it I don't think one of the things I found most effective when I understand I understand an election where the race but basically telling the students went up front that your grades couldn't go down just that just check down or or they sell Cal check out of the seven office work on my math lab I'd event up so that's what they did and so that was a problem in my mind you know in terms of their overall learning loss that so I'm sorry cook that I think I am or what I would think might have so any to write well and one of the things I think news is mentioned this who teaches at deadly was saying that Lee's already working on it so we're we're already looking at how could we do some of these because we know Google classroom stuff on people with well we weren't Vincent didn't we didn't happen so and we'll get you our contact information so you can reach does the same thing with packets I mean I don't know hire kids BB doesn't I would think elementary physics rating having the actual paper packets that they have before this happened yeah is still a viable all you know background it does not make it all I mean because well carrot wasn't counted so he just went Khan Academy and it was all done online and he just went to the problems or just did multiple choice so he's not actually working problems and and it was just very hard to focus on yeah parents look and they have no clue oh just give us unless I listen to the Khan Academy I I was able to help him with 5th grade math but that's about his part when it got his eighth grade math there was no way so I'm already lost in that scenario if it wasn't for his older sister so anything in terms of both sides of subjects that can be done in some kind of micro class or you know when you're talking about the students of four to five students at a time in certain categories I think you're asking kids to always an integrated bath which again never existed his older sister didn't have that she's in the Sac State now two years ago she ever had integrated math so he tried to help them is a whole different concept how its taught so anything like that up those difficult two one two and three four those I would tell you that I would think the even 90% reparative most not every be able to help them I appreciate that thanks for being here [Music] and it was unfortunate that sorry Caleb said that you've got to hit me in the face today when I found the news by eating it on the B before there's Bennett decision but you know and I'm sure you all are familiar sorry I was in interviews and I saw pop up on my phone and I was that it's not well used by the role in life but you know say oh no that's not us so they pass it back to you guys but I'm saying there's no way we can make a decision with that kind of information but it's just it's just unfortunate I put my mom that we're going back to school and so I said I need a mask for every day so that they can be laundered and so then I brought a bag full and my two sons with our Center my students and myself we have 20 max color-coordinated yeah so I'm good as Mason CT president and I were to say that I stand by the teachers who worked very very hard in March and we were notified 2 o'clock on a Friday that means we're not going to be in school for so May and then that was you know extended obviously they made it work with the materials they have and the knowledge that they had but now we all know more and so because we know more we can we do a better job and so and then we'll be awesome at it comments from the previous four group remark what is that in Google classroom parents can request to be a part of the classroom and get notifications so I suggest that parents who are watching and parents there's teachers who are watching that that is part of the protocol that takes place when they set up their Google classroom you invite the student using the student email and then you invite the parent using the parent email that way there is none of the my son said this she he or she only got one day notice they are all where they're getting a million emails from the teachers right along with the students so that is definitely a big part for parents to have so that they know everything that's being asked if their student CTA sent out a survey last week to our members asking considering the health and safety of others and themselves how comfortable were they returning forward so in plan one we had 161 responses for the surveys without of 240 members 73% of our stats that they were absolutely not comfortable coming back to work in plan to again 161 responses 49 percent said they were not comfortable returning to work in bio two in plan three asked about their health and safety six percent said they were not comfortable returning now I'm not sure if that meant they were going all online and they were uncomfortable with it academics of it but I'm just reporting the results so at this time based on those that de su T at this point is only supporting plan 3 for the fall semester and this is based on the survey survey us also asked them questions and I'd like to read a few of those this is I don't have the names here so I don't ever there at who wrote them I feel uncertain that we will be able to provide equity output adequate compliance with health recommendations listed in the playbook for both students and staff at first there might be a honeymoon period of compliance but when coming to school is once again routine I'm afraid that compliance will taper off and the children will behave like children another comment substitutes what do we do about substitute preparing materials and instructions for substitutes when we're teaching on the 4060 hybrid who's gonna suck another question how often will teachers be tested for Kovic another question comment I'm sorry teachers will spend more time being the hygiene hygiene police than actual genes and I mean these worked pages of comment and they had lengthy comments to say about coming back to school under either the plan water plan to another comment it is important that administrators consider the number of individuals teachers would be coming into contact with as well as students and see no value in the 46 to plan which expose teachers to the same number of students this has the effect of exposing all classmates to each other by the way of the adults it also aggravates planting time differences in order to take on 40 or more students and no funds budget this would be really another comment I don't feel like the additional exposure to them specifically the secondary teachers due to having multiple classrooms has been given enough consideration elementary teachers will be interacting with one group of about 30 students secondary teachers will be interacting with around 150 students per week teachers and staff are going to be exposed to multiple students and we don't know how seriously those households are taking the virus and what precautions have been taken and how much exposure they have had not to mention with the population of students this is a special ed teacher there are already severe ID issues and I honestly can't imagine that my students are going to be able to tolerate wearing masks all day so if we go back to a hybrid schedule I'm being put that great risk and so are the students [Music] so that was just a few a synopsis of what they're saying but overall nobody supported any plans of their death plant reading in the comment and I understand that we're going to need to toggle back and forth possibly from plant 32.2 I shared a letter with staff today that means I'm very clear that despite their comments if in the end we go from plan to plan 3 to plan to the hybrid model that the matrix that's used considers the safety first above all because you cannot support staff if you don't found you can't support the students if you don't have healthy teachers and puppies the NCAA representatives cleaning the rooms providing the lunches driving the kids to school every day so I feel that it's vitally important that safety comes first in this new climate where and Sandra my remarks are there any questions okay [Music] there's princess [Music] because they know I'm not used specifically I just think we hear like four there is a minute in April where people who are like oh my god teachers are miracle workers I can't believe they do this with 30 students I can't even do it with one and then I feel like May parents and students gave up and that gave everything that all the energy that had been put into the process a really bad rap like it's too hard I can't do it my students won't wake up I have two of my own experienced very similar results um but I just think we have to thank them for working so hard and then knowing that again we're asking them to do something we've never done and I think my favorite post on facebook was a woman saying my kids have been kicked out of schools that is they had a good time with it but it was very frustrating for a lot of parents yes and I understand the technology and the training wasn't there but again we also didn't have the training and so we were under I'm teaching I'm trying to respect our teachers for I mean literally hours notice you know and they picked up and went on with it online without much of an effect at all as far as I know my recommendation to make things a little different for next year is that we issue them the prom book as well as any textbooks because as I'm processing through the meetings but seem to be never-ending the whole picture if you're on everybody if we're on a distance learning model or what was the new virtual learning for virtual learning the virtual educating model the students are going to need their Math workbooks their language arts workbooks because even if we come back to plan 2 on the hybrid model they will be distance learning three days a week they will still need the workbooks and the manuals and whatever at home so ice my suggestion is give that to them from the get-go and not run a bunch of packets because the packets are not a fruit the textbooks are but every single person in this this dream I think every one of you you've all pulled together and pulled it off and in a wonderful job of it the minutes notice and all those are so large thank you to do that it's been noticed and we thank you comments passion let's tuck it president and first off I would like to say regarding what might had to say we have two counties and the two counties are way different in the way they are seeking whether or not to comply any of our government so in the fact that we have people that live in both counties that's going to be a concern from a lot of people's standpoint as to how people are going to be willing to pushback from people they feel that their county isn't as strict as our county in Sacramento and so we do need to be with my mindful of that on another note I will give a business office and take off my union hat for a moment as an employee that works in the business office and we're on a hybrid model right now where we work every other day we have two teams 1/18 and obedient or a group of people who I'm sorry would even call us because gee all the schools are closed so what are all the phone messages when the schools are telling you number which they do parents want to know so when as a decision that we made how do I register my child do I have to wait until the schools are back within the schools back they're very concerned about a lot of questions that we don't have answers to and so inasmuch as we progress with the teachers being able to hand all the questions that parents have it would also be good if classified in the offices have some learning about what's going on and how we can support what the district is doing I think it would be helpful that help people in the offices of the schools be able to field some of these questions that we've been trying to feel I have a lot of people this week especially SP when there's a decision going to be made so I threw it on you guys and said well if the board is going to make a decision Wednesday night you should be seeing something Thursday or Friday on our webpage so please tomorrow something out there some of those people but again it's it's a matter of we're all in this together and the support staff is part of who's in this with the teachers and so I really appreciate all of the effort and I know the teachers have been incredibly text over what they've needed to do and trying to help parents but I've also heard from parents who are incredibly frustrated with their kids not being able to get responses back from teachers with their kids not being able to understand how to get into the technology and so I think professional development for the teachers for some distance learning and for classified and for parents is going to be really part of a very critical piece if we're going to move forward no matter what moment we have even is there's still going to be some distance learning no matter what model we do because some people are just going to be little more comfortable with them so I implore you to think of all of those different scenarios for all of us you know I'm pretty but you have that fun [Music] our community we will we've shared the playbook with all employees so that process and then as far as work-related processes you know marine said oh I work every other day they actually work home the other days we've set people up with with virtual off you know laptops some of the things I agree for example would be receiving checks and some event that has to be done here so the process is associated with their work yes we're training those event and then as far as informing them about the processes yes we are will communicate the same so Friday afternoon I got a text from Vanessa letting me know that the teachers were doing a survey and I really appreciate that because we've been kind of wanting to know how our people feel and we went ahead and did a survey as well based on the one that the teachers did so pretty much the same questions how do you feel as far as option one two and three on plan Y which is everybody event like regular 68% were uncomfortable I'm uncomfortable 25% were comfortable and 52% said yeah I had to come back to work plan to 33% were uncomfortable 41% were comfortable 73% said I'd come back to work plan three 14% were uncomfortable 67% were comfortable and 83% said yeah I come back to work on the problem is for classified there would not be work to go back to except in as much as we involve the para educators foodservice people and the transportation folks and some of the office people but there would still be some that would not be able to important a return to work so that leads me to what I have to say is your new president I believe it is the desire of memories centered on Unified School District staff member to see all of our students and families have a positive and successful educational experience I think we would agree that the preferred way to teach students is in a classroom setting where they engaged and assisted and we lived in a perfect world we would not be this conversation we took a survey of our classified staff a large percentage are willing to and ready to come back to school or work but they have strong reservations and many questions about what that would look like we feel the regular school the full open model is not a safe option due to the health and safety of students and staff no masks and no social distancing are not okay the hybrid model is a good option to stay engaged with students but there are many concerns about social distancing adequate PPE wearing a mask cleanliness of classrooms etc there should be a lot of discussion as to how all the protocols would be standardized or site-to-site there are economic concerns as well that may be alleviated by the hybrid model preserving jobs health benefits and keeping people from losing their homes there is concern that the district had laid off employees during a lack of work if distance learning was the only option what I already need to lose health benefits because of a potentially deadly virus there is concern that the needs of special ed students and those without peace cannot be effectively met by we trust that the district is going to monitor and modify the learning model for Center Joint Unified School District as the data from public health organizations is available to ensure the safety of students and employees thank you how much proof do we have to play with those positions as far as putting them to work or keeping them working repurposing I think that that is something that we will be discussing in negotiations and as our union will be putting together an MoU with the district as to how to reopen and what we need to what we need to be able to do to make sure that as many people have jobs as possible so we will be putting some language together that will help us to hopefully have more flexibility because there are a lot of people that could update emergency carts there's people who could you know be doing other stuff in offices that they may not be able to do right now because they've been in the classrooms but they could still be an aid in helping to get the information that we need to be able to make sure that everyone's in in service so yes I think that that's something we will consider I just can't say how flexible some people are going to be to work outside of what they think their job description is if I can say that it's hard it's hard it is young always because we don't want to see people lose jobs either thank you so I know I appreciate that question because that's something that we're looking at but also something that we're going to need I don't know that I can say we need assurances but we are looking for the best way to keep people employed because down the road as we go to we're gonna need those people yeah weeks and there's nobody else place else for some of them to get jobs so if they're laid off they can lose their homes they'll lose their health benefits it's a struggle to get bus drivers now if you like won't go we may never get a man right so I appreciate crystal ball after all it's not gonna it's not working lately so thank you very much you raise something that I probably don't know if I should ask God and then show you all three of you but it's something that's very real and it seems like everybody's kind of been avoiding it if people follow that obviously there's a tug of war going on between state California and Washington DC and a couple times in the last week and a half the president has tweeted out if you don't go back to school you're not getting federal funds has anybody discussed and I know people don't want to discuss how vs money etc like that but it could be a very real scenario especially when you consider that we're doing our taxes receipts today so it's been pushback businesses have been closed and the federal government makes up 40% of our budget right so we don't do all our own but it's so-so and if you haven't had the discussion that's fine I'm just I'm trying to think a step ahead if you don't open but I'm thinking people and and they withhold those funds we're laying people off anyway so is there is there been any sort of know what I know what I'm trying to ask but I haven't formed and that's because I could be a very real scenario right and so I'm just trying to think I don't think anybody here I mean we're small in that district we don't know each other so do we want to lay anybody off no but especially with what some people are predicting what is coming in today there's actually I don't know if you know who Chris Street is but he's the first guy who predicted the Orange County bankruptcy and and I got a chance to talk to him and he when he first said Orange County was going bankrupt a year before it went bankrupt everybody's like put your crack pipe down blah blah blah he's saying once these receipts come in California doesn't have cash flow to last more than 90 days but that's true I mean I don't know if that's been talked about thought about but those are kind of things that go through my mind like cuz I look Adamic how do we ever get out of that I don't know how we did everything I'm not pretending I have the answers that but as I'm looking at these things lining up in the dominoes falling I trust Chris Street a lot he was he was the only one that did when if it was just some random guy saying California's out of money cuz look at it but when he's the first guy who called the Orange County system would the tax receipts come in we don't think California has more than 90 days of cash flow we're just starting to school year than even if we were back in school so now if we're not going to get those federal funds so I guess I just kind of throw that out there for people to think about because this might be bigger you know the people in this room sure and CFC DEA is giving us guidelines weekly as to how to negotiate going forward and how to look at the different scenarios going forward - you know as much as his lies within us to be able to look at some of these scenarios as possibilities and what what happens then so so what I think that you know is Lisa is built you know when she came to us we did know three years from now we had an issue them in California magically changed the budget and I think we've all said that there's a lot out there that we still don't know and to me if there's a deficit you can kick it down for a little bit but that is gonna come so that's why forgive distance learning not distance learning all that there it's gonna come to roost at some point so we have to aggressively work at filling whatever hole it has your scenario your scenario would be much worse because it would you know caps traffic but locally I've not heard anything from what the president has shared for our groups Lisa was at a Directors meeting I think Monday morning did not hear anything that I'm aware of so we don't have not heard that but it doesn't mean it's not true or it wouldn't happen but I would say that we're still working to build budget and on August 19th me and Lisa will have to finish that facelift our dashboard won't be able to see where we lie now based on the current but my concern still revolves around I don't know they're saving money by some trickery like they did in the past and it's gonna come to roost so we still have to be fiscally very very conservative because it may not be this year but it's gonna happen so that's why and unfortunately in the layoffs things like that do that's a big bulk of our budget so we can't guarantee anything and I know that's not what you're saying but I mean I add that I don't think betweens make policy I'm not a government expert so I would exert to my government teacher here other would but I don't believe that the whole of the federal would stop funding schools and 41 states are considering closing to do just that's just my belief of safety there I mean we close down with three cases and now we have 58,000 in this country just well no I mean that just it's I understand what you're saying but the scenario they're laying out even if the feds don't withhold that money I mean how many trans have we issued in the last ten years started in 2008 when we had to go up and have the money again one somebody fight for all this aggression we're just asking to be a part of the conversation we're asking to be acknowledged and to be a part of whatever we can do going work for our district hopefully at some point we'll all be able to be back together in the classroom and possibly met wearing masks and then nevertheless thank you Thank You Marie Gerald you up on line cars [Music] she said her son [Music] I have how many 15 some are questions some are comments and some of them may have already been addressed but let me read through them here but just the point of order I would just obviously we're receiving public comments so after each one usually a board would receive the comment maybe after that if there's something you want address in your comments but I don't know from an efficiency standpoint if we want to cash out every single question I think we'll have the face well and I think some of them would be things that later we would need to forward to mr.

George was saying in terms of the times brands and the timer set a class I guess I'm a extrapolate from that that they actually are going to go to period one and they are going to have a live class row let's say ninety nine thirty and math one from 10:00 to 10:30 in English yes correct so they'll have to be on their computer at that time participating it'll be like develops get the leprechaun yes we did not have that left no we learn from that mistake no and I'm sorry the accountability piece of that is if and this is now in actually law if three days we don't see you in there not you'll into your students we need to do outreach and document the outreach so that's a lot different than just a lot different yes there was no checking a balance and of course in eligibility factors and so much you know again my forget there's hard they figured it out you know I led you three things a day and give you those three things in 20 minutes you know that he can go back and play for my so but he got through what he was supposed to do but it was so minimal that it really did count and you know I can't pay him - no it was her money and I told my Pam so that's another thing however some of the things I have questions on I guess I'm just trying to say is that we just need to make sure that work whatever planet comes up and bottle this this is what's assignment we just make sure we have to all work together because what happened us trimester rule it was pretty much loss my senior is an average has been an average for 40 years climatologists destined to be in violence last it's going to be helped help me make that transition that's gonna come right away that's gonna come in September I have a senior as well so I know that's on the high bar but you're done so where does splash into the start let's start dating thing as of now it's the same August right it's [Music] I think other than that you made basically I have the two children that have I six radar to be that's still going to be something are going to have a case manager with yes to work with and to help them about counseling behavioral counselor get six Raider yes that's it counseling through Dudley well that that will continue and we're working on systems and one of the things too is I'm looking at majority overseas special imports as well we'll both be of our contact information because the questions you're asking there are great questions that we want to get out to people so even as an experience like I joke about mr.

Jordan and he can address their questions all right so this one is from Jan Parker Shilpa my sons are high school students Spring online school was very disorganized as a whole some teachers were pretty good and others did absolutely nothing at all there were very inconsistent class meetings and the times sometimes conflicted with each other what is being done to ensure that classes will be held regularly and students will be covering all that they would normally cover [Music] yeah yeah so what what we can do is anything here if we can make sure that we get those but I think he did cover that in his presentation and while she's looking just say no before that these all came in during the board meetings on the city most these people are like watching seven position if they start with us this one is from Latoya Jenkins says regarding school is the district going to help parents with any extra school supplies also since we are doing distance learning it's social workers should do they will check on kids so thinking out loud why she's going what I'll do is I'll take each of these is that the Ryan Moran a question it will actually work three of these different questions as well so we'll we'll get those all right the next one is from again Latoya Jenkins regarding school how is this going to work for kids with special needs [Music] Michelle sorry if I have to run through Fujita distance-learning I would like to know the exact learning platforms that you plan on using for each subject not Khan Academy or Google classroom they were total failures last year [Music] this one is just as Laurie distance-learning if the kids are not being taught at the school and parents have to provide the environment for the learning internet supplies computers etc is the school's funds being directed to us from the government as we are doing the work and providing all necessary supplies Sylvia Anderson comment on tonight's meeting I just wanted to say that I loved the idea having the high school distance learn in the afternoon hours studies show most teens need extra rest in the morning and do better with the later start time so I'm all for pushing back their start time has mentioned by mr.

Wilson he has four kids I we learned a lot so we love to hear from your experiences as well you know we're gonna do the email phone call I said the reason I mean an email phone call to let us know the experience only helps us I mean it really doesn't and that's where we want to make this a better experience we know there were some great experiences witness but there were some not so good experiences so yeah so yes we recognize them you know it was very hard to get it I don't think one of the things I found most effective when I understand I understand an election where the race but basically telling the students went up front that your grades couldn't go down just that just check down or or they sell Cal check out of the seven office work on my math lab I'd event up so that's what they did and so that was a problem in my mind you know in terms of their overall learning loss that so I'm sorry cook that I think I am or what I would think might have so any to write well and one of the things I think news is mentioned this who teaches at deadly was saying that Lee's already working on it so we're we're already looking at how could we do some of these because we know Google classroom stuff on people with well we weren't Vincent didn't we didn't happen so and we'll get you our contact information so you can reach does the same thing with packets I mean I don't know hire kids BB doesn't I would think elementary physics rating having the actual paper packets that they have before this happened yeah is still a viable all you know background it does not make it all I mean because well carrot wasn't counted so he just went Khan Academy and it was all done online and he just went to the problems or just did multiple choice so he's not actually working problems and and it was just very hard to focus on yeah parents look and they have no clue oh just give us unless I listen to the Khan Academy I I was able to help him with 5th grade math but that's about his part when it got his eighth grade math there was no way so I'm already lost in that scenario if it wasn't for his older sister so anything in terms of both sides of subjects that can be done in some kind of micro class or you know when you're talking about the students of four to five students at a time in certain categories I think you're asking kids to always an integrated bath which again never existed his older sister didn't have that she's in the Sac State now two years ago she ever had integrated math so he tried to help them is a whole different concept how its taught so anything like that up those difficult two one two and three four those I would tell you that I would think the even 90% reparative most not every be able to help them I appreciate that thanks for being here [Music] and it was unfortunate that sorry Caleb said that you've got to hit me in the face today when I found the news by eating it on the B before there's Bennett decision but you know and I'm sure you all are familiar sorry I was in interviews and I saw pop up on my phone and I was that it's not well used by the role in life but you know say oh no that's not us so they pass it back to you guys but I'm saying there's no way we can make a decision with that kind of information but it's just it's just unfortunate I put my mom that we're going back to school and so I said I need a mask for every day so that they can be laundered and so then I brought a bag full and my two sons with our Center my students and myself we have 20 max color-coordinated yeah so I'm good as Mason CT president and I were to say that I stand by the teachers who worked very very hard in March and we were notified 2 o'clock on a Friday that means we're not going to be in school for so May and then that was you know extended obviously they made it work with the materials they have and the knowledge that they had but now we all know more and so because we know more we can we do a better job and so and then we'll be awesome at it comments from the previous four group remark what is that in Google classroom parents can request to be a part of the classroom and get notifications so I suggest that parents who are watching and parents there's teachers who are watching that that is part of the protocol that takes place when they set up their Google classroom you invite the student using the student email and then you invite the parent using the parent email that way there is none of the my son said this she he or she only got one day notice they are all where they're getting a million emails from the teachers right along with the students so that is definitely a big part for parents to have so that they know everything that's being asked if their student CTA sent out a survey last week to our members asking considering the health and safety of others and themselves how comfortable were they returning forward so in plan one we had 161 responses for the surveys without of 240 members 73% of our stats that they were absolutely not comfortable coming back to work in plan to again 161 responses 49 percent said they were not comfortable returning to work in bio two in plan three asked about their health and safety six percent said they were not comfortable returning now I'm not sure if that meant they were going all online and they were uncomfortable with it academics of it but I'm just reporting the results so at this time based on those that de su T at this point is only supporting plan 3 for the fall semester and this is based on the survey survey us also asked them questions and I'd like to read a few of those this is I don't have the names here so I don't ever there at who wrote them I feel uncertain that we will be able to provide equity output adequate compliance with health recommendations listed in the playbook for both students and staff at first there might be a honeymoon period of compliance but when coming to school is once again routine I'm afraid that compliance will taper off and the children will behave like children another comment substitutes what do we do about substitute preparing materials and instructions for substitutes when we're teaching on the 4060 hybrid who's gonna suck another question how often will teachers be tested for Kovic another question comment I'm sorry teachers will spend more time being the hygiene hygiene police than actual genes and I mean these worked pages of comment and they had lengthy comments to say about coming back to school under either the plan water plan to another comment it is important that administrators consider the number of individuals teachers would be coming into contact with as well as students and see no value in the 46 to plan which expose teachers to the same number of students this has the effect of exposing all classmates to each other by the way of the adults it also aggravates planting time differences in order to take on 40 or more students and no funds budget this would be really another comment I don't feel like the additional exposure to them specifically the secondary teachers due to having multiple classrooms has been given enough consideration elementary teachers will be interacting with one group of about 30 students secondary teachers will be interacting with around 150 students per week teachers and staff are going to be exposed to multiple students and we don't know how seriously those households are taking the virus and what precautions have been taken and how much exposure they have had not to mention with the population of students this is a special ed teacher there are already severe ID issues and I honestly can't imagine that my students are going to be able to tolerate wearing masks all day so if we go back to a hybrid schedule I'm being put that great risk and so are the students [Music] so that was just a few a synopsis of what they're saying but overall nobody supported any plans of their death plant reading in the comment and I understand that we're going to need to toggle back and forth possibly from plant 32.2 I shared a letter with staff today that means I'm very clear that despite their comments if in the end we go from plan to plan 3 to plan to the hybrid model that the matrix that's used considers the safety first above all because you cannot support staff if you don't found you can't support the students if you don't have healthy teachers and puppies the NCAA representatives cleaning the rooms providing the lunches driving the kids to school every day so I feel that it's vitally important that safety comes first in this new climate where and Sandra my remarks are there any questions okay [Music] there's princess [Music] because they know I'm not used specifically I just think we hear like four there is a minute in April where people who are like oh my god teachers are miracle workers I can't believe they do this with 30 students I can't even do it with one and then I feel like May parents and students gave up and that gave everything that all the energy that had been put into the process a really bad rap like it's too hard I can't do it my students won't wake up I have two of my own experienced very similar results um but I just think we have to thank them for working so hard and then knowing that again we're asking them to do something we've never done and I think my favorite post on facebook was a woman saying my kids have been kicked out of schools that is they had a good time with it but it was very frustrating for a lot of parents yes and I understand the technology and the training wasn't there but again we also didn't have the training and so we were under I'm teaching I'm trying to respect our teachers for I mean literally hours notice you know and they picked up and went on with it online without much of an effect at all as far as I know my recommendation to make things a little different for next year is that we issue them the prom book as well as any textbooks because as I'm processing through the meetings but seem to be never-ending the whole picture if you're on everybody if we're on a distance learning model or what was the new virtual learning for virtual learning the virtual educating model the students are going to need their Math workbooks their language arts workbooks because even if we come back to plan 2 on the hybrid model they will be distance learning three days a week they will still need the workbooks and the manuals and whatever at home so ice my suggestion is give that to them from the get-go and not run a bunch of packets because the packets are not a fruit the textbooks are but every single person in this this dream I think every one of you you've all pulled together and pulled it off and in a wonderful job of it the minutes notice and all those are so large thank you to do that it's been noticed and we thank you comments passion let's tuck it president and first off I would like to say regarding what might had to say we have two counties and the two counties are way different in the way they are seeking whether or not to comply any of our government so in the fact that we have people that live in both counties that's going to be a concern from a lot of people's standpoint as to how people are going to be willing to pushback from people they feel that their county isn't as strict as our county in Sacramento and so we do need to be with my mindful of that on another note I will give a business office and take off my union hat for a moment as an employee that works in the business office and we're on a hybrid model right now where we work every other day we have two teams 1/18 and obedient or a group of people who I'm sorry would even call us because gee all the schools are closed so what are all the phone messages when the schools are telling you number which they do parents want to know so when as a decision that we made how do I register my child do I have to wait until the schools are back within the schools back they're very concerned about a lot of questions that we don't have answers to and so inasmuch as we progress with the teachers being able to hand all the questions that parents have it would also be good if classified in the offices have some learning about what's going on and how we can support what the district is doing I think it would be helpful that help people in the offices of the schools be able to field some of these questions that we've been trying to feel I have a lot of people this week especially SP when there's a decision going to be made so I threw it on you guys and said well if the board is going to make a decision Wednesday night you should be seeing something Thursday or Friday on our webpage so please tomorrow something out there some of those people but again it's it's a matter of we're all in this together and the support staff is part of who's in this with the teachers and so I really appreciate all of the effort and I know the teachers have been incredibly text over what they've needed to do and trying to help parents but I've also heard from parents who are incredibly frustrated with their kids not being able to get responses back from teachers with their kids not being able to understand how to get into the technology and so I think professional development for the teachers for some distance learning and for classified and for parents is going to be really part of a very critical piece if we're going to move forward no matter what moment we have even is there's still going to be some distance learning no matter what model we do because some people are just going to be little more comfortable with them so I implore you to think of all of those different scenarios for all of us you know I'm pretty but you have that fun [Music] our community we will we've shared the playbook with all employees so that process and then as far as work-related processes you know marine said oh I work every other day they actually work home the other days we've set people up with with virtual off you know laptops some of the things I agree for example would be receiving checks and some event that has to be done here so the process is associated with their work yes we're training those event and then as far as informing them about the processes yes we are will communicate the same so Friday afternoon I got a text from Vanessa letting me know that the teachers were doing a survey and I really appreciate that because we've been kind of wanting to know how our people feel and we went ahead and did a survey as well based on the one that the teachers did so pretty much the same questions how do you feel as far as option one two and three on plan Y which is everybody event like regular 68% were uncomfortable I'm uncomfortable 25% were comfortable and 52% said yeah I had to come back to work plan to 33% were uncomfortable 41% were comfortable 73% said I'd come back to work plan three 14% were uncomfortable 67% were comfortable and 83% said yeah I come back to work on the problem is for classified there would not be work to go back to except in as much as we involve the para educators foodservice people and the transportation folks and some of the office people but there would still be some that would not be able to important a return to work so that leads me to what I have to say is your new president I believe it is the desire of memories centered on Unified School District staff member to see all of our students and families have a positive and successful educational experience I think we would agree that the preferred way to teach students is in a classroom setting where they engaged and assisted and we lived in a perfect world we would not be this conversation we took a survey of our classified staff a large percentage are willing to and ready to come back to school or work but they have strong reservations and many questions about what that would look like we feel the regular school the full open model is not a safe option due to the health and safety of students and staff no masks and no social distancing are not okay the hybrid model is a good option to stay engaged with students but there are many concerns about social distancing adequate PPE wearing a mask cleanliness of classrooms etc there should be a lot of discussion as to how all the protocols would be standardized or site-to-site there are economic concerns as well that may be alleviated by the hybrid model preserving jobs health benefits and keeping people from losing their homes there is concern that the district had laid off employees during a lack of work if distance learning was the only option what I already need to lose health benefits because of a potentially deadly virus there is concern that the needs of special ed students and those without peace cannot be effectively met by we trust that the district is going to monitor and modify the learning model for Center Joint Unified School District as the data from public health organizations is available to ensure the safety of students and employees thank you how much proof do we have to play with those positions as far as putting them to work or keeping them working repurposing I think that that is something that we will be discussing in negotiations and as our union will be putting together an MoU with the district as to how to reopen and what we need to what we need to be able to do to make sure that as many people have jobs as possible so we will be putting some language together that will help us to hopefully have more flexibility because there are a lot of people that could update emergency carts there's people who could you know be doing other stuff in offices that they may not be able to do right now because they've been in the classrooms but they could still be an aid in helping to get the information that we need to be able to make sure that everyone's in in service so yes I think that that's something we will consider I just can't say how flexible some people are going to be to work outside of what they think their job description is if I can say that it's hard it's hard it is young always because we don't want to see people lose jobs either thank you so I know I appreciate that question because that's something that we're looking at but also something that we're going to need I don't know that I can say we need assurances but we are looking for the best way to keep people employed because down the road as we go to we're gonna need those people yeah weeks and there's nobody else place else for some of them to get jobs so if they're laid off they can lose their homes they'll lose their health benefits it's a struggle to get bus drivers now if you like won't go we may never get a man right so I appreciate crystal ball after all it's not gonna it's not working lately so thank you very much you raise something that I probably don't know if I should ask God and then show you all three of you but it's something that's very real and it seems like everybody's kind of been avoiding it if people follow that obviously there's a tug of war going on between state California and Washington DC and a couple times in the last week and a half the president has tweeted out if you don't go back to school you're not getting federal funds has anybody discussed and I know people don't want to discuss how vs money etc like that but it could be a very real scenario especially when you consider that we're doing our taxes receipts today so it's been pushback businesses have been closed and the federal government makes up 40% of our budget right so we don't do all our own but it's so-so and if you haven't had the discussion that's fine I'm just I'm trying to think a step ahead if you don't open but I'm thinking people and and they withhold those funds we're laying people off anyway so is there is there been any sort of know what I know what I'm trying to ask but I haven't formed and that's because I could be a very real scenario right and so I'm just trying to think I don't think anybody here I mean we're small in that district we don't know each other so do we want to lay anybody off no but especially with what some people are predicting what is coming in today there's actually I don't know if you know who Chris Street is but he's the first guy who predicted the Orange County bankruptcy and and I got a chance to talk to him and he when he first said Orange County was going bankrupt a year before it went bankrupt everybody's like put your crack pipe down blah blah blah he's saying once these receipts come in California doesn't have cash flow to last more than 90 days but that's true I mean I don't know if that's been talked about thought about but those are kind of things that go through my mind like cuz I look Adamic how do we ever get out of that I don't know how we did everything I'm not pretending I have the answers that but as I'm looking at these things lining up in the dominoes falling I trust Chris Street a lot he was he was the only one that did when if it was just some random guy saying California's out of money cuz look at it but when he's the first guy who called the Orange County system would the tax receipts come in we don't think California has more than 90 days of cash flow we're just starting to school year than even if we were back in school so now if we're not going to get those federal funds so I guess I just kind of throw that out there for people to think about because this might be bigger you know the people in this room sure and CFC DEA is giving us guidelines weekly as to how to negotiate going forward and how to look at the different scenarios going forward - you know as much as his lies within us to be able to look at some of these scenarios as possibilities and what what happens then so so what I think that you know is Lisa is built you know when she came to us we did know three years from now we had an issue them in California magically changed the budget and I think we've all said that there's a lot out there that we still don't know and to me if there's a deficit you can kick it down for a little bit but that is gonna come so that's why forgive distance learning not distance learning all that there it's gonna come to roost at some point so we have to aggressively work at filling whatever hole it has your scenario your scenario would be much worse because it would you know caps traffic but locally I've not heard anything from what the president has shared for our groups Lisa was at a Directors meeting I think Monday morning did not hear anything that I'm aware of so we don't have not heard that but it doesn't mean it's not true or it wouldn't happen but I would say that we're still working to build budget and on August 19th me and Lisa will have to finish that facelift our dashboard won't be able to see where we lie now based on the current but my concern still revolves around I don't know they're saving money by some trickery like they did in the past and it's gonna come to roost so we still have to be fiscally very very conservative because it may not be this year but it's gonna happen so that's why and unfortunately in the layoffs things like that do that's a big bulk of our budget so we can't guarantee anything and I know that's not what you're saying but I mean I add that I don't think betweens make policy I'm not a government expert so I would exert to my government teacher here other would but I don't believe that the whole of the federal would stop funding schools and 41 states are considering closing to do just that's just my belief of safety there I mean we close down with three cases and now we have 58,000 in this country just well no I mean that just it's I understand what you're saying but the scenario they're laying out even if the feds don't withhold that money I mean how many trans have we issued in the last ten years started in 2008 when we had to go up and have the money again one somebody fight for all this aggression we're just asking to be a part of the conversation we're asking to be acknowledged and to be a part of whatever we can do going work for our district hopefully at some point we'll all be able to be back together in the classroom and possibly met wearing masks and then nevertheless thank you Thank You Marie Gerald you up on line cars [Music] she said her son [Music] I have how many 15 some are questions some are comments and some of them may have already been addressed but let me read through them here but just the point of order I would just obviously we're receiving public comments so after each one usually a board would receive the comment maybe after that if there's something you want address in your comments but I don't know from an efficiency standpoint if we want to cash out every single question I think we'll have the face well and I think some of them would be things that later we would need to forward to mr.

Jordan thank you [Music] from Karen masse why isn't the board member wearing a mask does he not abide by state mandates or care about public health shall he be making decisions about our children's safety the next one is from Teague Plummer a five oh five oh four questions for junior high well 504 accommodations for the students change because of distance learning students with bio fours and I EPS struggle as it is how are we going to be able to meet their needs the next one is from again Michelle Fujita learning one hour a day if there is not a structured program my child will be leaving and going to a structured homeschool program it sounds to me like there has been no time spent planning this what about accountability for the teachers again teachers are teaching only one hour a day they should be live-streaming for four to six hours a day next one is melissa connelly online learning doesn't work my daughter was on the honor roll in junior high she was struggling with online learning and she cares about her grades and the last week she gave up I have never seen her so defeated with school before ever and as far as parents go how do we work and support our kids online are you going to provide me a paycheck and medical to support my children I don't just have a high school student I have a second grader and I'm about to have another baby are we really going to experiment with our kids education this didn't work and I agree my kids tried so many times to communicate with her teachers and I will say science we were lost some classes need instructional in-class instruction the Xoom classes were a joke if you ever sat in on them especially the first grade school kids and as far as grade school parents this far is graceful parents don't know Common Core math we were lost [Music] this one it is from Melissa tirado preschool /tk when they mentioned preschool do they mean TK will TK have the option of getting a Chromebook as well since they do not have much work like the older grades oh that's right yes yes then from I did have someone inquire about the PlayBook that you guys were referring to wanting to know at the playbook for parents if it was available for parents to view during the meeting because she had parents asking so I did forward the link to the court packet then from Becky Eastwood says thank you the new plan is amazing thank you I would like to know I would like to know that there is a process in place for parents at any age level but specifically at the older grades to reach out if we find classes are falling short of meeting the needs of our students even for the honors class students [Music] this one is from Nicole Lapointe 20:21 school year planner I have a new student enrolling into your district this year sixth grade my concern is how he will be assessed with the curriculum is coming from a private school and the proposed plan has less time academically than when he was spending last year with distance learning if there is only virtual interaction with instruction what other interactions will be done to assess whether he's being challenged enough there was reference to social-emotional activity I'm assuming it's peer interaction of some sort but as a new kid what will be done to ensure he feels connected to his teacher and peers what about physical activity is there PE at the elementary level and how will that be measured anymore this one is from Becky Eastwood parent and Google classroom I have never been included to be a part of the Google classroom please make this a requirement for all teachers to include us we can always opt out as needed this one is from Becki PE virtual learning question one of the challenges last year was the teachers not understanding how to use Google classroom and not communicating effectively when there was a problem for example my then 3rd grader would upload a completed document and the document was somehow safe blank the teacher assumed he was not doing the work at turning in blank assignments she would respond in a private message on the assignment however my son didn't know to check his email frequently to see these messages this went on for two weeks before the teacher contacted me to tell me he was going to lose points in class dojo for not completing the work this was unfair to my son and the teacher was unwilling to work with me on the issue my son had to redo two weeks of assignments in the course of a few days situations like these especially in the current public health emergency should be met with compassion and understanding so my question is will the teachers be trained on using the booth virtual platforms and also be trained on working with families and students when issues arise and will there be some type of guidance on when to reach out to the parents of an if a teacher is seeing a problem the preference being spinder rather than later is also from sea another virtual learning question from Rebecca he will parents be given the choice to not toggle back if they choose I want my kids to do virtual learning and I'm not necessarily comfortable sending my children back just because the state says it is safe to do so so will parents be given the choice to continue school for their students completely virtually even at the district moves to a hybrid model yes and that answer is yes all right [Music] I'm have three of them here from Bonnie Shiro so I believe they were comments when our two union presidents were speaking so in regards to textbooks I believe that was when Vanessa was speaking as she said we are checking them all out textbooks and Chromebooks if needed for a class so I would say that she was answering for the high school and then she said notification the high school principal has been sending out updates continuously we had someone in our office until June 30th accepting enrollment packets and answering questions and emails have been answered third one when Marie was speaking about our classified possibly not working Bonnie commented they still get paid [Music] oh I have some more that just came in another one from Bonnie Shiro oh sorry Bonnie it says don't read mine all right this one came in from Jennifer Franco parents who work what is to be done for parents who work I cannot adjust my schedule and I cannot supervise my son while he takes these classes and so much work was put on the parents as teachers were not available for help [Music] from Brian started the school year can will the start of the school year be delayed in order to give teachers an adequate time to build and design their programs [Music] oh and then the lady that I passed the link to she said thank you she passed the link along and I have another one that just came in this is from Esteban Rodriguez says thank you for being transparent and that's all I got at this time I think that concludes our business [Music] well now will direct those to the appropriate things a lot of those were answered hearing mr.

Jordan and he can address their questions all right so this one is from Jan Parker Shilpa my sons are high school students Spring online school was very disorganized as a whole some teachers were pretty good and others did absolutely nothing at all there were very inconsistent class meetings and the times sometimes conflicted with each other what is being done to ensure that classes will be held regularly and students will be covering all that they would normally cover [Music] yeah yeah so what what we can do is anything here if we can make sure that we get those but I think he did cover that in his presentation and while she's looking just say no before that these all came in during the board meetings on the city most these people are like watching seven position if they start with us this one is from Latoya Jenkins says regarding school is the district going to help parents with any extra school supplies also since we are doing distance learning it's social workers should do they will check on kids so thinking out loud why she's going what I'll do is I'll take each of these is that the Ryan Moran a question it will actually work three of these different questions as well so we'll we'll get those all right the next one is from again Latoya Jenkins regarding school how is this going to work for kids with special needs [Music] Michelle sorry if I have to run through Fujita distance-learning I would like to know the exact learning platforms that you plan on using for each subject not Khan Academy or Google classroom they were total failures last year [Music] this one is just as Laurie distance-learning if the kids are not being taught at the school and parents have to provide the environment for the learning internet supplies computers etc is the school's funds being directed to us from the government as we are doing the work and providing all necessary supplies Sylvia Anderson comment on tonight's meeting I just wanted to say that I loved the idea having the high school distance learn in the afternoon hours studies show most teens need extra rest in the morning and do better with the later start time so I'm all for pushing back their start time has mentioned by mr.

Jordans presentation so we'll cut through those like there was one I can remember there's one I don't know someone else' thought of so we'll go through them home I love the mall plan so we have a motion and second oh yeah you're just a point of water budget Scott dr. Scott I feel like the PlayBook is a [Music] or not improving of approval of policy invited battles before making a decision on duty opens day in the playbook you know and it's based on metrics from County Public Health or give all the 12 the district administration and so I mean when we move back and forth between these stages out of state to we would start today would you propose when you start with steak taste their every day so everybody get out of stage 3 quickly we're not going to come back to the board tonight that's going to be like we're making this decision dizzi administration based on policy that we implemented like every other policy this policy that they did what safely are not a multi decision as a could be is nothing I'm saying it doesn't fall within our purview think I understand where Scott is trying to be in a ball on a state hey I'm not saying you shouldn't make this dish weren't going to but when we address these kind of things in the future it feels like we're kind of going on it I think I think I understand what you're trying to say I'm not sure where your I understand it okay and kiss there is a staff recommendation that we start a particular step so I think that not that we're walking into that unless of course there's certain parameters and business-y raised what I praise because I think around that's their rhythms we are locked in to that and they don't but I think staff is asking for commendations starter or more making the recommendation is it okay to start on answering right so what this quickly make their own a recommendation to go from three to two that's not going to be an update guys back tonight that's nothing we're coming back and then I'm not the one thing I was gonna seek clarity on because obviously I communicate with you guys I would 100 not just gonna oh by the way yesterday we went back I mean mostly have kids you know but we would certainly informed but it would be nice if we have that direct discretion and input from you guys as well and I think I shared if we enter in phase 3 I'm hopeful that we'll then move to and then one but there are there could be indications as we could get to two and then let's say something change we have to go back so if that's the clarity I would seek from you guys are you G you want to come back to a board meeting to enter the phases or are you comfortable with the three scenarios and then obviously as we communicate through those staff would make that determination public house official I mean I can look at the plan and say this is a good plan follow these procedures as you move through these stages and this is what's good for kids down you know they get its ID but for me to say I'm the best person to make it whether it's safe for kids to come back to college I mean that's not my purview right so I invited a plan and say yeah this is this is good you're consulting all these people we plan we move between these stages we're not that's okay I understand it's already agendize and we're going to do that we're running to either support or not support this recommendation right but thank you for the clarity on that too because what we went when we laughed I think I was not clear in my mind when I said we would come back with a recommendation for where wouldn't start so that that might have been mine picks up on that as well but thank you the clarity because if the board approves this plan the entire plan and says you have started plan three then that gives us the latitude to go between with guidance from multiple individuals and to donald's point of correcting that one thing we would not use that as the only metrics to return to phase 2 or baseline so an action item on the table right house to approve the playbook and starts going to stage 3 that's correct and that's my point if we move so quickly I mean even since we received a packet it's James which is less than a week or again so we're not going to agenda at this every sixth [Music] and we and he's fired along with the rest of Canada [Music] I did get two more comments so two more comments this one is from Ryan says teachers what will the teachers do with their children during the day if the district chooses to do distance learning will they be given the option to work from and now this one's just popped up from Nick Bryant are you guys allowing volunteers [Music] I believe the motion is to test that recommendation beginning stage stage manners because the motion to bring it to the floor and you guys voted to bring it to the floor so I think you would be a tout a new motion to do we so do we have a motion mostly that pretty good but before you vote to Penn State one thing just I just got a text to talk up Dry Creek and just announced they also please starting at different so just they win our cool one minister proves to be a second second bed mrs.

Jordan thank you [Music] from Karen masse why isn't the board member wearing a mask does he not abide by state mandates or care about public health shall he be making decisions about our children's safety the next one is from Teague Plummer a five oh five oh four questions for junior high well 504 accommodations for the students change because of distance learning students with bio fours and I EPS struggle as it is how are we going to be able to meet their needs the next one is from again Michelle Fujita learning one hour a day if there is not a structured program my child will be leaving and going to a structured homeschool program it sounds to me like there has been no time spent planning this what about accountability for the teachers again teachers are teaching only one hour a day they should be live-streaming for four to six hours a day next one is melissa connelly online learning doesn't work my daughter was on the honor roll in junior high she was struggling with online learning and she cares about her grades and the last week she gave up I have never seen her so defeated with school before ever and as far as parents go how do we work and support our kids online are you going to provide me a paycheck and medical to support my children I don't just have a high school student I have a second grader and I'm about to have another baby are we really going to experiment with our kids education this didn't work and I agree my kids tried so many times to communicate with her teachers and I will say science we were lost some classes need instructional in-class instruction the Xoom classes were a joke if you ever sat in on them especially the first grade school kids and as far as grade school parents this far is graceful parents don't know Common Core math we were lost [Music] this one it is from Melissa tirado preschool /tk when they mentioned preschool do they mean TK will TK have the option of getting a Chromebook as well since they do not have much work like the older grades oh that's right yes yes then from I did have someone inquire about the PlayBook that you guys were referring to wanting to know at the playbook for parents if it was available for parents to view during the meeting because she had parents asking so I did forward the link to the court packet then from Becky Eastwood says thank you the new plan is amazing thank you I would like to know I would like to know that there is a process in place for parents at any age level but specifically at the older grades to reach out if we find classes are falling short of meeting the needs of our students even for the honors class students [Music] this one is from Nicole Lapointe 20:21 school year planner I have a new student enrolling into your district this year sixth grade my concern is how he will be assessed with the curriculum is coming from a private school and the proposed plan has less time academically than when he was spending last year with distance learning if there is only virtual interaction with instruction what other interactions will be done to assess whether he's being challenged enough there was reference to social-emotional activity I'm assuming it's peer interaction of some sort but as a new kid what will be done to ensure he feels connected to his teacher and peers what about physical activity is there PE at the elementary level and how will that be measured anymore this one is from Becky Eastwood parent and Google classroom I have never been included to be a part of the Google classroom please make this a requirement for all teachers to include us we can always opt out as needed this one is from Becki PE virtual learning question one of the challenges last year was the teachers not understanding how to use Google classroom and not communicating effectively when there was a problem for example my then 3rd grader would upload a completed document and the document was somehow safe blank the teacher assumed he was not doing the work at turning in blank assignments she would respond in a private message on the assignment however my son didn't know to check his email frequently to see these messages this went on for two weeks before the teacher contacted me to tell me he was going to lose points in class dojo for not completing the work this was unfair to my son and the teacher was unwilling to work with me on the issue my son had to redo two weeks of assignments in the course of a few days situations like these especially in the current public health emergency should be met with compassion and understanding so my question is will the teachers be trained on using the booth virtual platforms and also be trained on working with families and students when issues arise and will there be some type of guidance on when to reach out to the parents of an if a teacher is seeing a problem the preference being spinder rather than later is also from sea another virtual learning question from Rebecca he will parents be given the choice to not toggle back if they choose I want my kids to do virtual learning and I'm not necessarily comfortable sending my children back just because the state says it is safe to do so so will parents be given the choice to continue school for their students completely virtually even at the district moves to a hybrid model yes and that answer is yes all right [Music] I'm have three of them here from Bonnie Shiro so I believe they were comments when our two union presidents were speaking so in regards to textbooks I believe that was when Vanessa was speaking as she said we are checking them all out textbooks and Chromebooks if needed for a class so I would say that she was answering for the high school and then she said notification the high school principal has been sending out updates continuously we had someone in our office until June 30th accepting enrollment packets and answering questions and emails have been answered third one when Marie was speaking about our classified possibly not working Bonnie commented they still get paid [Music] oh I have some more that just came in another one from Bonnie Shiro oh sorry Bonnie it says don't read mine all right this one came in from Jennifer Franco parents who work what is to be done for parents who work I cannot adjust my schedule and I cannot supervise my son while he takes these classes and so much work was put on the parents as teachers were not available for help [Music] from Brian started the school year can will the start of the school year be delayed in order to give teachers an adequate time to build and design their programs [Music] oh and then the lady that I passed the link to she said thank you she passed the link along and I have another one that just came in this is from Esteban Rodriguez says thank you for being transparent and that's all I got at this time I think that concludes our business [Music] well now will direct those to the appropriate things a lot of those were answered hearing mr.

Pope mrs. Anderson I really might prefer to be plant to that I understand you can't go there supplant three three all right so mr. Dennison go time this is a vote of those I'm mr. Mountford it's five bucks I chair boats no that brings us to advanced future planning August 19th 2025 p.m. at this location we have any suggestion to Gentiles yeah I brought it premiere budgetary plan we're making necessary reductions so we're not looking [Music] even and spread with a blur yes and she will be bringing forward she's adjustment I so that meeting will do it and we also I think Madame Inhumans front and said recommended we do a budget committee that gun soon we didn't want to start it until we knew a little bit more solid with a number it'll be so she's was putting together what we do based on the budget and then we'll work on that processor next month we should have a good indication of where we are based on what we know can we put a placeholder on the agenda to discuss anything that makes them up you between distance learning and you know just like an update on mrs.

Jordans presentation so we'll cut through those like there was one I can remember there's one I don't know someone else' thought of so we'll go through them home I love the mall plan so we have a motion and second oh yeah you're just a point of water budget Scott dr. Scott I feel like the PlayBook is a [Music] or not improving of approval of policy invited battles before making a decision on duty opens day in the playbook you know and it's based on metrics from County Public Health or give all the 12 the district administration and so I mean when we move back and forth between these stages out of state to we would start today would you propose when you start with steak taste their every day so everybody get out of stage 3 quickly we're not going to come back to the board tonight that's going to be like we're making this decision dizzi administration based on policy that we implemented like every other policy this policy that they did what safely are not a multi decision as a could be is nothing I'm saying it doesn't fall within our purview think I understand where Scott is trying to be in a ball on a state hey I'm not saying you shouldn't make this dish weren't going to but when we address these kind of things in the future it feels like we're kind of going on it I think I think I understand what you're trying to say I'm not sure where your I understand it okay and kiss there is a staff recommendation that we start a particular step so I think that not that we're walking into that unless of course there's certain parameters and business-y raised what I praise because I think around that's their rhythms we are locked in to that and they don't but I think staff is asking for commendations starter or more making the recommendation is it okay to start on answering right so what this quickly make their own a recommendation to go from three to two that's not going to be an update guys back tonight that's nothing we're coming back and then I'm not the one thing I was gonna seek clarity on because obviously I communicate with you guys I would 100 not just gonna oh by the way yesterday we went back I mean mostly have kids you know but we would certainly informed but it would be nice if we have that direct discretion and input from you guys as well and I think I shared if we enter in phase 3 I'm hopeful that we'll then move to and then one but there are there could be indications as we could get to two and then let's say something change we have to go back so if that's the clarity I would seek from you guys are you G you want to come back to a board meeting to enter the phases or are you comfortable with the three scenarios and then obviously as we communicate through those staff would make that determination public house official I mean I can look at the plan and say this is a good plan follow these procedures as you move through these stages and this is what's good for kids down you know they get its ID but for me to say I'm the best person to make it whether it's safe for kids to come back to college I mean that's not my purview right so I invited a plan and say yeah this is this is good you're consulting all these people we plan we move between these stages we're not that's okay I understand it's already agendize and we're going to do that we're running to either support or not support this recommendation right but thank you for the clarity on that too because what we went when we laughed I think I was not clear in my mind when I said we would come back with a recommendation for where wouldn't start so that that might have been mine picks up on that as well but thank you the clarity because if the board approves this plan the entire plan and says you have started plan three then that gives us the latitude to go between with guidance from multiple individuals and to donald's point of correcting that one thing we would not use that as the only metrics to return to phase 2 or baseline so an action item on the table right house to approve the playbook and starts going to stage 3 that's correct and that's my point if we move so quickly I mean even since we received a packet it's James which is less than a week or again so we're not going to agenda at this every sixth [Music] and we and he's fired along with the rest of Canada [Music] I did get two more comments so two more comments this one is from Ryan says teachers what will the teachers do with their children during the day if the district chooses to do distance learning will they be given the option to work from and now this one's just popped up from Nick Bryant are you guys allowing volunteers [Music] I believe the motion is to test that recommendation beginning stage stage manners because the motion to bring it to the floor and you guys voted to bring it to the floor so I think you would be a tout a new motion to do we so do we have a motion mostly that pretty good but before you vote to Penn State one thing just I just got a text to talk up Dry Creek and just announced they also please starting at different so just they win our cool one minister proves to be a second second bed mrs.

or an update so that maybe members talk to us we have questions or you have the new plan or whatever comes up that we can discuss it in open session so we could have it just for my clarity like just an open discussion about it right there yeah that's on Trenton just to let my mentor George make it update world so we would encourage feedback and so I don't know if that would be too soon or if it would be I get your point is basically you want the board to be informed on how its billing is well just a place on the agenda that we can bring up things and ask questions so directly concerning the Cova and the way it's working out so I would put on to that day that report update on our distance learning piece and then that would open up to questions and comments on agenda that the other pieces I just wanna remind is with the big filling the vacancy it may be if we have multiple applicants we have to schedule another separate meetings so all it will keep you posted on that if not it would be on that August 9 competing which is probably to be pretty packed so just brace yourselves [Music] so one of the things we're going to work on is live-streaming it the room here to get multiple people in we're better off to use the live streaming and the model that we're using we have some seats in here but especially if an escalated in our area I would not want to gather even more people it kind of goes against what I'm trying to make my favorite guitar well I'm sorry I was yes we could do that or we could do zoom or we again sorry my my mr.

Pope mrs. Anderson I really might prefer to be plant to that I understand you can't go there supplant three three all right so mr. Dennison go time this is a vote of those I'm mr. Mountford it's five bucks I chair boats no that brings us to advanced future planning August 19th 2025 p.m. at this location we have any suggestion to Gentiles yeah I brought it premiere budgetary plan we're making necessary reductions so we're not looking [Music] even and spread with a blur yes and she will be bringing forward she's adjustment I so that meeting will do it and we also I think Madame Inhumans front and said recommended we do a budget committee that gun soon we didn't want to start it until we knew a little bit more solid with a number it'll be so she's was putting together what we do based on the budget and then we'll work on that processor next month we should have a good indication of where we are based on what we know can we put a placeholder on the agenda to discuss anything that makes them up you between distance learning and you know just like an update on mrs.

Kinney all right right now Joe is just thinking about that board member Malad Bailey did not have anything to do with his death had nothing to do with the Kovach 19 my develop cancer just within weeks after he ran for school board father Chuck battle wonderful man be going Katie bears love kids you'll be missed [Music] okay we got motion to adjourn do we have singing we have a second mrs. Pope mr. Anderson - Anderson Anderson but though time is hot chocolate airboats I'm eating is return

or an update so that maybe members talk to us we have questions or you have the new plan or whatever comes up that we can discuss it in open session so we could have it just for my clarity like just an open discussion about it right there yeah that's on Trenton just to let my mentor George make it update world so we would encourage feedback and so I don't know if that would be too soon or if it would be I get your point is basically you want the board to be informed on how its billing is well just a place on the agenda that we can bring up things and ask questions so directly concerning the Cova and the way it's working out so I would put on to that day that report update on our distance learning piece and then that would open up to questions and comments on agenda that the other pieces I just wanna remind is with the big filling the vacancy it may be if we have multiple applicants we have to schedule another separate meetings so all it will keep you posted on that if not it would be on that August 9 competing which is probably to be pretty packed so just brace yourselves [Music] so one of the things we're going to work on is live-streaming it the room here to get multiple people in we're better off to use the live streaming and the model that we're using we have some seats in here but especially if an escalated in our area I would not want to gather even more people it kind of goes against what I'm trying to make my favorite guitar well I'm sorry I was yes we could do that or we could do zoom or we again sorry my my mr.

and we knew however that there was a going to be a press conference from the governor with and we had some advanced notice of what might it might contain um but remember this is a presentation this is um information so that you kind of have the most recent facts on the ground and some responses regarding survey data and um we can answer further questions but the decision um that we about opening school physically present at school has essentially taken out of our hands today by the recommendation or rather that guideline which is that counties on the monitoring list um 30 i think two or three counties that were on the monitoring list that were shown which includes san bernardino county cannot open physically for schools students to attend until they're off that list for 14 days so that's the guidance we got today haven't seen it in any kind of official form but that's verbally what we heard so we'll go through this and um we'll answer questions that if we can so just a quick background just for the public that's watching and and for you just to remember that in march we had the state of emergency in middle of march we closed but we continued meal distribution uh before we distributed devices uh teachers came in for training or online training and then we did continue to deliver content although the state did give us a mandate for a whole harmless grading so it was quite different but those students knew their teachers already they've been in those classes and it made that a little easier this will be a different situation we did survey parents and staff in may got good information we'll be sharing that in contrast with what we learned in july um in june we met with some teachers about remote learning some experts who we knew had had background in that so we could get begin to build that because we knew already at that time that some families wanted to maintain in a remote environment no matter how we opened so we wanted to be ready to serve them then in june we did get approval from the county department of public health to move forward with the cif and national federation of high schools plan for conditioning in athletics so we started on june 24th by july 6th that had been suspended where does that stand right now suspended no used athletics none and so uh we had a two weeks of conditioning or nearly not not quite and then in july right about that time we did do a second survey to parents and a survey to all staff and we got just over a thousand responses so we got incredibly good responses from the staff 6 500 responses from parents almost half of our i should say 6 500 responses which indicate one response per student so just about half we received which is an incredibly good rate of return and then finally um last couple of days tuesday and friday of this week we've spent a couple hours in the morning with online sessions with over 100 employees from all job classifications almost mostly teachers the uh avuta representatives included with incredible input we've broken up into sessions we've heard feedback we've come back to um principles and other leadership gone back this morning with further questions and input and every time we find that their every group has outstanding um ideas we've been gathering and collecting those in a document that they can all see and so it's really guided us we have a clear sense of their concerns um the tools they feel they need the training they want the concerns they have for things like grading parent education so i feel we've made great strides in that direction and now we've agreed to meet in smaller groups so more on that as we go through i just want to reiterate also that we are subject to an unbelievable number of guidance documents from federal state and county level this is just a short list of those documents and of course we check in with our insurer and the jpa to make sure that we are complying with those recommendations as well and then the last one listed there's maybe the most important for us because it really is for us the law and that's senate bill 98 the trailer bill which guides how we must conduct ourselves in this very unique climate and we'll talk more about that so the lay of the land really this we've got government layers of different kinds and a little bit of conflict sometimes from for example the federal government and the state government we've got policy guidance and language had several position papers and editorials you've seen them um good survey data over time and then we've of course got local case information the number of cases both in our county and in our school district which we'll show in a moment and then number six i hurriedly added while he was talking we have a new governor's announcement which i just talked about so we understand this there's a range of options uh that that would be possible even given the language of the governor's announcement that from complete virtual and remote learning which we've all spoken here and i agree with mr raleigh's comment it's not ideal and it's not what anyone wants i shouldn't say that there are people who want that and for that group for whom it fits wonderful we will deliver an excellent remote learning programs but we do believe in person instructions our best option and so it could be that we move as we move right on this continuum as we head toward a full return to school that there might be stops along the way and you can understand why because we have these requirements for six feet of spacing for small numbers in say a cafeteria for staggered arrivals so it could be that we bring back for example special education students and career and technical education and foster youth and homeless first those in greatest need then may we go to half students on every other day or some kind of hybrid alternating program then everyone who wants to be there can come and that could get us a little bit closer to full return and so on you see our goal is to move to the right serving all students all the time but serving them in person more and more as the situation allows so what would allow them what are the factors first community transmission rates that's what they're watching for us the number of cases both in a seven day rolling average and the number of cases in uh in sort of a constant watch of of of a number for 100 000.

call the meeting to order roll call dennis bender donna davis absent maria ocara present rick rawley here wilson cell here can we stand for the pledge of allegiance mr raleigh will you please lead us in the pledges of america and to the republic for which one nation under god indivisible with liberty do we have any public comments we have no public comments pertaining to closed session at this time okay now we need to read go into closed session to discuss the following public employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave titled certificated and classified employees public employee appointment resignation retirement reduction title certificated and classified employees conference on litigation government code section 54956.9 a current litigation three cases ci vds 3952 civds1907172 ci vds 193 704 government code section 20192 to 2020 or 7 2019 to 2020 08 0809 conference litigation will real property negotiate negotiator government code 549568 a negotiating parties matthew schulenberg apple valley unified school district b1 apn number 3112-241-71-000 cjc holding llc b2 apn number zero 3087-171-07-000 frontier land holdings inc b3 apn number 0439-019-20-22 [Music] omni-20.12 apple valley llc b4 apn-04 [Music] omni 20-12 apple valley llc b5 apn number 0439-012-2200 omni apple valley llc conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization apple valley unified teachers association conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization california school employees association conference with labor negotiator a agency negotiator trine nelson b employee organization unrepresented superintendent evaluation now and i asked for motion to go into closed sessions any opposed no so we have a vote of four to zero i'm calling the meeting to order can we leave the pledge of allegiance mr raleigh will you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance yes i pledge allegiance [Music] thank you now before we begin i need to uh let you know why the my superintendent is not here and the president of the board is not here as well they are both tending to a personal family emergency thank you we don't have any actions taken in closed session the board may approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from the consent agenda for the discussion and or action we need to adopt the agenda as is so move any opposed kylie do we have any public comments we do our first public comment is from shawnee kumo it reads dominic kumo will be a senior at avhs this year he is medically fragile quadriplegic and trach ventilator and oxygen dependent i have two concerns he is in desperate need of a working tobii eye gaze communication device to complete schoolwork the current one needs to be unplugged approximately 15 times an hour to reset and does not meet his needs miss wells has submitted a request to toby and is awaiting a quote my concern is how long he will be without a working device this school year a second concern during the spring distance learning dominic was not allowed access to his paraprofessional and therefore not able to participate in classes a video conference plan for the paraprofessional needs to be in place for the fall schedule ap government and econ english agricultural business geology baking 2 and 3d animation at bbc thank you i have one additional public comment that was received it is from david and crystal figueroa with all due respect and to whom this may concern our concerns as parents of our four students within the apple valley unified school district are as follows due to confirmed radiation from long-term wi-fi exposure that has a negative effect upon health we are not comfortable putting our children in a position where their entire day is in front of a computer in regards to mask wearing for long periods of time this po this poses many health risks which include increased inhalation exposure of carbon dioxide and nitrogen which are both toxic gases and proven to be health risks including lowering the immune system the masks are known and proven to be insufficient in protecting against viruses the three ways of exposure to viruses are inhalation ingestion and absorption through mouth nose eyes and skin the mask only covers the mouth and nose and this is if the mask is being worn correctly completely covering the mouth and nose lowering the mask below the nose makes the mask completely useless the only true protection against a virus is a class b hazmat suit such as what's worn in a laboratory that deals with bacteria and viruses we are not comfortable with either of these methods and do not agree with exposing our children to these toxins we are respectfully requesting an old school homeschool program that involves hardback books and lesson requirements we can provide our own supplies there are many other parents who feel the same way concerning this if computer use is needed for either check-in downloading homework assignments or testing we would be willing to comply with these requirements however long-term exposure radiation and toxic gases are against our physical well-being and health practices for our family thank you for your time and consideration thank you uh the superintendent uh comment no superintendent um board members do you have comments mr sir yeah i i'd uh before i made a comment i was going to based on this public message sent in do we are we able to help these students like without the paraphrasing in terms of overcoming this learning deficiency yes absolutely the for example in the items mentioned then the first request from mrs kumo the new toby i'll check into the details of that purchase but that's something we can absolutely make and expedite dominic is an unbelievable young man whose um uh incredible intellect needs to be nurtured and he needs to continue so we're going to get on that i that's the first i've heard of this so we'll we'll chase that down as far as conferencing with his aide as i mentioned um this year's distance learning whatever form it takes or time period will be characterized by just that live teleconferencing so we will be making those contacts and we'll we'll check directly in with her yeah okay uh on the board comments i do have a couple items let me just point out i read a uh email sent to back to the board member from the superintendent there was a comment made so the district have our staff administration staff and a board review after they made the presentation just on our budget and we didn't make a comment if we don't watch out what we spend some point down there we will have have cuts to stab i believe that's we have made the account comment that was a response back from a buddha which i feel that's you know unprofessional he was saying that well that the district is established mismanaged the district in essence i was going to warn him in that case the board is mismanaging the district but we never do as a board okay so i think i think this is a responding he made back to the world and said don't make that comment again in my opinion okay the other thing is that as mrs opera point out last time we attended a session offered by csba region six for region 16 board members yeah the one issue come up is the black lives matters and and so i i hope that maybe we can understand and help we can look at what is a power current policy within our district okay if we have one if not uh mrs o'para and i might say volunteer she's going to take the lead and we'll put together one and the whole idea is that once we put it together is that the board members step minister staff will get some training but at the same time i i did comment last night was to csva staffers if they offer trainings we want them to come down here so that we can hold a session so our teachers can attend it'll be helpful for the teachers to learn from it so that's my my comment mr bender no i just say it either we're in uncharted waters here and um everybody's gotta turn the thermostat down a little bit get along yeah thank you thank you mr rowley i know we're going to have a presentation on possible i mean the opening of the schools i just want to make a comment that um you know that the issue with mental health with the children is very important as well and that has been proven that kids really need to get back to school i think there's everybody in this room here agrees that the schools need to open as soon as possible and it's unfortunate that we cannot make that decision you know based it's going to be left in the states hands at this point but um i had a question it was um the the wearing of the masks uh the kids that are online they don't have to wear a mask to be online if you're in your own personal home correct right i think so that's it thank you well i have a comment obviously um my comment has to do with uh school opening um uh it is uh particularly important for for us to pay close attention um to all of the parties all now some all i had the um i have the honor and and i was truly truly humbled to have met with about 88 teachers and at that meeting they were not shooting down the school district they were really concerned about how school is going to start if school's going to start and all of the little things that had to come into play and and to be included in the discussion uh because they are in the front line you know whatever we say here they're the ones that will see the kids the bus drivers will be the ones that see the kids first if they're going to be transported to the schools the kitchen staff will also have to see the kids because they have to prepare meals for for them the classified staff will see the kids because they're going to have straight up hands on but it was particularly interesting to see to hear from the teachers their concerns which were really genuine there was no concern that wasn't genuine um and my job was just to listen and to take the information back to the superintendent which she has so i gave all of that to the superintendent and and she assured me that she was going to respond to those the things that are very critical and i must say that i am really happy to know that you extended the invitation to the teachers association to participate in the process i am hoping that their participation is going to be really listened to that when they give you suggestions that is not just suggestions and we already have a thought already set up in mind [Music] whatever we decide uh as a board to give you directive on where we are going as a district i want us to keep in mind the teachers and the challenges they are going to face i would rather keep the schools closed and have the teachers teach whatever the governor has requested than to attend any funeral so my job as a trustee is to be sure that i take care of all employees and i'm really looking forward to a good start of the school year where people will at least be satisfied we won't satisfy everybody with that but at least a good number of people will be satisfied i also attended that um the equity conference and i have attended quite a bit of the equity conferences in the dis in um that is offered by california department of ed and some are offered by um csba and the big question that keeps coming up is equity and and the materials that we use for our students i would like as a trustee that we begin to look at our history books to be sure that our history books will be teaching our kids about their heritage um quite a few of these history books are not up to date or obviously you know if these two children come out and they are not learning anything about um ethnic studies i would like really like a study in this district that says ethnic studies so that those students will understand who they are as individuals and to train our teachers so that there will be more uh understanding of that um but i am waiting for the tr to for the uh presentation so that i can ask questions at the end the other thing that came up that i really want to get answers on was this lawsuit that was that they had out at the aclu and all the other agencies that participated in that lawsuit and named apo valley school district in the conversation i would like when we come back to our next board meeting that somebody comes out and explains to us why we were named in that process that's it i agree with that okay we have a presentation mr buchanan i can then i can just go to board temp and take over that screen okay yep there it goes okay give it a second to kind of catch up start that all right so the presentation you have um in front of you um was accurate at 11 59.

are those cases high are they in decline which is what the governor has said we have to get off that monitoring list and stay off or is it totally gone and vaccine responded and confidence has returned some numbers this was on the 13th this is um the incidents per 100 000 by school district i know this is really tiny font and i apologize and so the reason i put them all so you can see all 30 districts or 33 districts are i think are all there and you notice there are some zeros mount baldi and trona have no cases or at least didn't on the day of this printing this was the 13th of july we were at 329 per hundred thousand which is odd because we don't have a hundred thousand residents we have less than that but if that's the ratio but you look down at colton and san bernardino city with very high numbers at the bottom of this chart so to go down is to get worse three days later we got data for yesterday we moved to 450 so we're about in the same place but our case counts up for our school district boundaries right this is a straight gis number the boundaries of our district with the number of cases identified within that boundary so we are on the incline not the decline that's the public health reality that the public health department is is kind of watching for us um they also break this down by children ages 5-19 essentially school-age children and our school-aged children count that that was presented to us through this county public health and this is all publicly available is apple valley had 14 and now has 20 this is again that same three-day change from the 13th to the 16th and that's without the schools being open that is without the schools being open that's correct so the other factors trenay has made contact with the local hospital administrators and is in um communication with them frequently and we have been told that there are at the moment um there's little capacity and that the icu beds are full at st mary's hospital they only have 40.

and we knew however that there was a going to be a press conference from the governor with and we had some advanced notice of what might it might contain um but remember this is a presentation this is um information so that you kind of have the most recent facts on the ground and some responses regarding survey data and um we can answer further questions but the decision um that we about opening school physically present at school has essentially taken out of our hands today by the recommendation or rather that guideline which is that counties on the monitoring list um 30 i think two or three counties that were on the monitoring list that were shown which includes san bernardino county cannot open physically for schools students to attend until they're off that list for 14 days so that's the guidance we got today haven't seen it in any kind of official form but that's verbally what we heard so we'll go through this and um we'll answer questions that if we can so just a quick background just for the public that's watching and and for you just to remember that in march we had the state of emergency in middle of march we closed but we continued meal distribution uh before we distributed devices uh teachers came in for training or online training and then we did continue to deliver content although the state did give us a mandate for a whole harmless grading so it was quite different but those students knew their teachers already they've been in those classes and it made that a little easier this will be a different situation we did survey parents and staff in may got good information we'll be sharing that in contrast with what we learned in july um in june we met with some teachers about remote learning some experts who we knew had had background in that so we could get begin to build that because we knew already at that time that some families wanted to maintain in a remote environment no matter how we opened so we wanted to be ready to serve them then in june we did get approval from the county department of public health to move forward with the cif and national federation of high schools plan for conditioning in athletics so we started on june 24th by july 6th that had been suspended where does that stand right now suspended no used athletics none and so uh we had a two weeks of conditioning or nearly not not quite and then in july right about that time we did do a second survey to parents and a survey to all staff and we got just over a thousand responses so we got incredibly good responses from the staff 6 500 responses from parents almost half of our i should say 6 500 responses which indicate one response per student so just about half we received which is an incredibly good rate of return and then finally um last couple of days tuesday and friday of this week we've spent a couple hours in the morning with online sessions with over 100 employees from all job classifications almost mostly teachers the uh avuta representatives included with incredible input we've broken up into sessions we've heard feedback we've come back to um principles and other leadership gone back this morning with further questions and input and every time we find that their every group has outstanding um ideas we've been gathering and collecting those in a document that they can all see and so it's really guided us we have a clear sense of their concerns um the tools they feel they need the training they want the concerns they have for things like grading parent education so i feel we've made great strides in that direction and now we've agreed to meet in smaller groups so more on that as we go through i just want to reiterate also that we are subject to an unbelievable number of guidance documents from federal state and county level this is just a short list of those documents and of course we check in with our insurer and the jpa to make sure that we are complying with those recommendations as well and then the last one listed there's maybe the most important for us because it really is for us the law and that's senate bill 98 the trailer bill which guides how we must conduct ourselves in this very unique climate and we'll talk more about that so the lay of the land really this we've got government layers of different kinds and a little bit of conflict sometimes from for example the federal government and the state government we've got policy guidance and language had several position papers and editorials you've seen them um good survey data over time and then we've of course got local case information the number of cases both in our county and in our school district which we'll show in a moment and then number six i hurriedly added while he was talking we have a new governor's announcement which i just talked about so we understand this there's a range of options uh that that would be possible even given the language of the governor's announcement that from complete virtual and remote learning which we've all spoken here and i agree with mr raleigh's comment it's not ideal and it's not what anyone wants i shouldn't say that there are people who want that and for that group for whom it fits wonderful we will deliver an excellent remote learning programs but we do believe in person instructions our best option and so it could be that we move as we move right on this continuum as we head toward a full return to school that there might be stops along the way and you can understand why because we have these requirements for six feet of spacing for small numbers in say a cafeteria for staggered arrivals so it could be that we bring back for example special education students and career and technical education and foster youth and homeless first those in greatest need then may we go to half students on every other day or some kind of hybrid alternating program then everyone who wants to be there can come and that could get us a little bit closer to full return and so on you see our goal is to move to the right serving all students all the time but serving them in person more and more as the situation allows so what would allow them what are the factors first community transmission rates that's what they're watching for us the number of cases both in a seven day rolling average and the number of cases in uh in sort of a constant watch of of of a number for 100 000.

they only have 40. now it did not say exactly the number of those patients that were covered positive but i can tell you that there is no surge capacity at this moment that's another factor that the cdc requires in order to be talking about opening schools now again that was prior to the governor making it you have to be off the monitor list we were looking for other guidance prior to noon at afternoon we have pretty clear guidance monitor list or not which does make things easier but unfortunately for us we were talking earlier we are a large county with demographically or regionally different data and so we're not sure how that'll be handled yet again all i have is what i heard from the press conference so some survey results we you need to see this because these are the the folks we serve first the parents uh over 10 000 responses across the two surveys i made the error on the first survey of having folks only fill it out one time and so they many uh asked if they could fill out one child which we did on the second survey and when asked just over a quarter said that they would prefer in may they would prefer to remain in a remote learning experience and so um that was good for us to know that early so we can begin to tool up for that now of course we at that time did not know exactly how many were at each school what grade level what subjects what content but it's over a quarter in july that number increased to just almost 30 percent with another 20 saying they'd prefer a hybrid which was an interesting uh second question or additional question we asked on that survey and then um with over half just over half 51 saying they would want their child at school as frequently as possible then we asked about their concerns oh i'm sorry we did this survey as well in spanish the second one um we did both of them in spanish but i was able to aggregate the data in the first survey because it was all the same but just translated second one we sent out a spanish language only survey the response is although smaller in number a great majority of those small that smaller group did want to maintain an online learning environment staff first we did may certificated only in may and this was the breakdown the question was would you be willing right um almost it was 47.2 and 52.8 47.2 said i'd really rather be in front of students face to face the other 52 said they would be willing to teach remotely if needed this was back in may when we everyone kind of believed we were going to be back in school in august or at least we certainly hoped that um we asked them what hybrid model they prefer if we had to do that and the overwhelming majority there of all the groups thought that two full days per week would be preferred maybe it's a monday tuesday for one group and a thursday friday for another with that wednesday minimum day in the middle being some kind of day of prep that was the idea we had in mind or maybe it's a monday thursday tuesday friday then in july first we pulled all staff in july we wanted to hear from everyone the great majority were teachers we heard from uh you know hundreds of teachers uh just over 500 certificated staff members if you include counselors which we put in a separate group speech and language pathologists we put in a separate group but as far as bargaining unit members we heard from a great number um we don't we have about 640 so we heard from um you know five six or more and so what did they say first their concerns this is how they did it they ranked their concerns the main concern for staff was exposure to sick individuals there's definitely half the students who said that is their largest concern half the staff members that's from all employee groups the next highest concern was providing for their family remember not all employee groups in that survey are covered by any kind of guarantee for no layoff for this year so that might be what's driving some of that concern um there's great concern about face coverings not worn that was brought up verbally also in the teacher meetings that we held what will we do if they don't wear them if students won't wear the masks we did hear from the governor today that if schools are in the counties are allowed to open all students are to wear masks grades three and uh there's there's definitely a concern yeah and if you look over at the parent list of concerns a requirement for face coverings for 36 percent of them was a major concern they did not in that case feel as though a mask was they didn't they weren't comfortable with that so we have an issue there when we get to a hybrid model we'll have to be clear about the the face covering requirement and articulate our stance there based on the public health requirements so what do we do with a staff member who says that's my constitutional right i do not want to wear mass what is our position as a district because you're definitely going to run into staff members who will say i don't i'm not doing this yeah at the moment what do we do at the moment it is if they are in a public setting where they're interacting with other people it is required it's it's a public health requirement and as a entity that employs people we can have a we can have an expectation of public safety so i think i'll pau i'll leave it there and leave that for the the folks who do the hr work but at the moment we have we have it as a requirement um so you can see those considerations there i mentioned earlier that parents are very concerned as we are about socialization and the mental health of their children their need for interaction both with their peers and with teachers and with the and with the system and so what might more specifically those phases look like and how those might happen have to happen we if we get the ability to bring students back to school after this period of remote learning it could be that it's for again a small number but they at the moment and that's the rules change would have to wear face coverings and be socially distant and lots of sanitizing required every step of the way even now at any building we're using and then of course you know working toward more in person our thought before today was that we would re-evaluate in four-week chunks we have a natural chunk of time between the open of school and labor day it's 23 days then from labor day to our october break finishes the quarter that's another four week chunk of time now we will be watching the monitor list for our county and those case numbers but we will continue to update our community and you about where we are on that but our goal was to be out we wanted to make the chunks small enough so that we were out as little as possible and yet give ourselves time to make a chunk of time that we can build the instructional unit so we don't know now what the because we don't have that i don't have no sense of when we'll be off this monitor list if we were to start today we don't meet the requirements we have to remain fully distant that's been cemented by the governor's announcement so we will be offering staff training for distance learning that training is going to be informed by the staff requests for training that were made this morning we have teams working on that and texting me right now it's been excellent there are this will be robust and um and and meet the needs of our staff as best as we can who can then go out and meet the needs of the families and children uh we will be as dustin mr comrade said we'll negotiate with the associations to make sure that their return to work process is unified with our you know um path forward those are those have been characterized by a willingness to work together at this moment and of course we'll keep reevaluating as the public health as these data points keep changing we'll keep reevaluating hoping that we can push toward phase two or phase three so aria is a concern we know that even if we don't come to school we've got to be checking on homeless youth foster you our students with disabilities the law requires that the english learners still have those integrated and designated supports if the law requires when they're at school those students performing below grade level and of course the great concern is there has to be some accountability and connection distance learning now means according to the governor daily live interaction now interaction doesn't necessarily it's not doesn't say that it has to be synchronous sometimes it could be a recorded video perhaps placed there we know some children are forming the function of child care provider for a younger child or going to work with a an adult parent so that that lesson can sit there for when they come back but any day the student does not interact or engage in the learning is a day of absence we must take daily attendance even in this distant system pat is there a time a time that the child has to be online i mean i know in the springtime some of the kids were getting stuff done like 10 15 minutes yeah good question there is a there are time requirements in the law and we talked about those with the group this morning or on tuesday the law says that we have to meet a minimum day so 230 or 240 minutes there's actually some continuation is 180 but we're thinking of it as a minimum day 240 minutes now that's 240 minutes worth of work not 240 minutes of live time in front of a machine now it could be that they're on the computer for some or most of that time but it doesn't mean 240 minutes of uh in class with your teacher remotely but there is an expectation that there is enough work that would equal roughly that much work time at a minimum so yes there isn't the law has been clear about we must provide for that amount of work and the district has a way of monitoring that we don't have a way of monitoring it down to the minute here's what we have kind of like with independent study we can get a sense of how long an assignment ought to take that there's a video to watch and comment on that there's a lesson to do that there's a 30 minute check in with the teacher that there's those kinds of things spread throughout the morning but no just like doing they're in seats we can't monitor whether they're paying attention the whole time we can't we can't guarantee the exact number so there's just an expectation that a certain project or lesson plan would take 60 minutes to to read yes complete and is there testing gonna be involved with that as well testing on a subject that's one of the topics that came up so working on a secure and appropriate way to do testing easier in some and the lower grades than than up then perhaps at the higher grades but yes there's we're going to have to sort that out the longer this goes on these kids are so smart pat i have some questions yes um based on all of what's been happening in our district and we do have a risk manager uh how often does our risk manager contact personnel to find out how their mental well-being is happening during this time they are our employees what is happening to their how are they feeling about what everything that's going on it seems like school got out they went home we told them what to do but we've not checked in to see how are they really doing you know how often do we check on our employees classified and certificated management you know how are things going you know i would like to note see that we are doing things like that to take care of our people you did also say something about gradual return yeah for those students who will gradually return to school um i'm not sure i can visualize how that's going to work in terms of busing because if if all the kids on my street choose to be the ones returning to school yes they will all be in separate classrooms but they're riding the bus together so have we had the conversation about how the busing will look like because obviously our buses are set up for three children to sit on one bench and they're so close to together are you going to have more buses uh how's that going to work so i like to know how all of that is going to look then you had um you had something about your your survey you send the surveys i'm i'm interested in knowing if you give the same survey that you give to the parents to the teachers did they get that exact same survey or was that a change in survey the que the reason i asked that question is that you might have some teachers who are also parents those those and so they're getting different survey and they're having conversation with each other so you know i would like to see a survey that measures on both sides so that i will be clear on how they really see things because you might have a teacher who has four children in the district and gave you four different answers and the number changed and your percentile changed um so that was one of my quick questions i'm sure you're gonna answer all of that so you go to your rank of concerns it talks about exposure to sick individuals the many of the teachers says 53.

are those cases high are they in decline which is what the governor has said we have to get off that monitoring list and stay off or is it totally gone and vaccine responded and confidence has returned some numbers this was on the 13th this is um the incidents per 100 000 by school district i know this is really tiny font and i apologize and so the reason i put them all so you can see all 30 districts or 33 districts are i think are all there and you notice there are some zeros mount baldi and trona have no cases or at least didn't on the day of this printing this was the 13th of july we were at 329 per hundred thousand which is odd because we don't have a hundred thousand residents we have less than that but if that's the ratio but you look down at colton and san bernardino city with very high numbers at the bottom of this chart so to go down is to get worse three days later we got data for yesterday we moved to 450 so we're about in the same place but our case counts up for our school district boundaries right this is a straight gis number the boundaries of our district with the number of cases identified within that boundary so we are on the incline not the decline that's the public health reality that the public health department is is kind of watching for us um they also break this down by children ages 5-19 essentially school-age children and our school-aged children count that that was presented to us through this county public health and this is all publicly available is apple valley had 14 and now has 20 this is again that same three-day change from the 13th to the 16th and that's without the schools being open that is without the schools being open that's correct so the other factors trenay has made contact with the local hospital administrators and is in um communication with them frequently and we have been told that there are at the moment um there's little capacity and that the icu beds are full at st mary's hospital they only have 40.

have we thought about the substitute teacher you're going to bring into the classroom where the teacher has then contracted covet and now you're going to bring a substitute teacher where some of the students have already they already have it and this substitute teacher is now traveling you know some of the things that we do in schools is you have a substitute teacher and during the prep time you tell the substitute teacher to go and sub in the other class now the substitute teacher is not just seeing 50 students he's seeing maybe 150 students and those 150 students go home and pass this information this thing with their parents and now we have a real problem and we're shutting down though i will contact tracing with the substitution i will contact tracy with the students okay so that's a question that i am not clear on and what we're going to do with that the other one is if a teacher is exposed and they say the teacher stays for 14 days get out and go home for 14 days and the teacher keeps coming back and the teacher keeps getting it every time they're coming the teacher is exposed another 14 days i'm just curious about how we're going to manage that in terms of that teacher's sick leave because now we that teacher is using uh burning up their sick leave because of this thing that is going on in this school so i really want us to pay attention to how all of that is going to play out or the kids who are going to come in and they have an elderly parent at home and now they are going to go and pass it on to their elderly parents providing their teachers who are providing for their families i'm curious about when this actually when we begin to phase back into the classroom those teachers who have health issues or these huge concerns if we're going to give them first priority to be virtual teachers until we get a handle on this covet so if that if that caretakers to a person who is really ill at home or if they have their own personal concerns and are willing to be trained on this online program could we give them priority to do it at home just to safeguard their health okay so that's important uh for me um obviously we have social distancing are we gonna do the plastic thing like they do in stores uh to protect the students i i'm looking when i look at that i go back to matt what does that cost we're going to look at the cost the state has said that they will give each child a certain number based on their account a certain number of mass it won't work i'm going to say it right now the number that the state is putting out will definitely not work because if a child loses their let's say the child is in third grade and they lose their mass we are going to give them a replacement mask and they can lose it three or four times we're gonna give it to them three or four times it's already eaten into the states 60 that they said or 50 they said per child that will not work so we need to also factor that in when matt is doing his calculation on what that cost is going to be the teachers are requesting um shield like kylie has what is the cost so that we can provide them the shield if that's the way they want to give the instruction so all of those things are playing a role and i'm thinking about it and yes the parents want their children to socialize i am really really looking forward to that time when i can get up and hug somebody as you guys can see i'm not wearing a mask but i'm about 10 feet away from all of you um because i you know if i if i if you come any closer i will cover my face um but i you know i like to get the um figure out how we're going to socialize these children when we set up our online course perhaps when we set it up we should be encouraging the teachers that their first five minutes or their first their last five minutes they just leave the system so the kids can socialize with each other they can have that time so it's up to you guys who are in the field um yes i am also in the field but not in your kind of field um to be able to organize that so that parents will have that you know we can do drive-by at their neighborhood and wave at them and give them what they need i'm very very you know when you look at the concerns that's where my biggest concern comes i really want to see that yes the hospitals are filling up and yes vic said mary says that they are full but we don't know where they send others to people when they get it because if they have 40 uh um best for the coveted or 40 icu beds when you 40 icu beds so if you have 50 people where do they go so transport to coasters hospital yeah we're working on jumping uh we have asked a lot of questions if i may and i'm not sure staff or even ourselves today we can be really resolve it yeah that's why i gave it to him i'm not expecting answers i want him to just write them down so that he can bring it back to us when you mention that i think we get teachers like what connie has that'll be a good protection but for to the kids may not be feasible no we're not asking the kids the teachers and i have tried several different mayors i tried to flow away i got it from my dad's daughter she just said boy a day throw it away i never did in and and i got a search a washable mess from my medical doctor's daughter and it's a very uncomfortable okay very comfortable even i don't like to wear it maybe it's some special one that that man is wearing you know and and i have concerns i'm raising i said how we're going to keep this on the kids okay and it's because the safest is to make sure they're distancing and still cover your you know because the kids can be a carrier but they don't get sick okay and so there's no perfect solution even i talked to my a new friend that i have and they have a hospital they heard about that there's a special steam machine saying that the kids come in you can expose yourself a couple of minutes of hot steam and the steam will kill within that time frame will kill all the virus this particular virus is very successful to being killed by the steam in their temperature range i'm just going to start by saying that i don't think we have really really a good solution here in just forcing the kids all these questions are going to be answered by the state anyway you know right and we also need to pay attention to the second parent who wanted everything that on this um contact of the parent concern that we heard that is talking about all of the health issues and the excuses that came up um you know if you would please make contact with that parent so that will you know you can at least reassure them that they are not getting carbon monoxide and all of those things yeah i will do it and i just wanted to just make sure i'm not being non-responsive but many of the logistical challenges you presented at the moment we have a little bit of time to gather information and answer them yes because we don't have students coming so for example busing and substitute teachers at the moment is not an issue um regarding the survey i did want to say that the the areas of difference had to do with questions that were specific about whether you were a teacher or you were a parent if you were a parent and a teacher you got both service okay so we did get that data and then um yeah as far as the uh a couple of things that came up had to do with the first priority i always want to defer that to the negotiations because that was an item in that document so that will be in that process but it is voiced eloquently by what you said as far as those concerns so um we'll just defer that to the negotiation steps but that um that the online socialization and creating a classroom culture was one of the items first requested by staff and something we'll be putting together so they'll have some training on how to best do that because that is critical so yes thank you for those um ideas we'll gather some of these we just need a little time to gather information and come back there i do have one comment regarding some of the personal protective equipment uh cal oes office of emergency services has allocated some masks and face shields uh we are in receipt of some of those supplies at this point not all of them but we do have some of that ppe and are continuing to attempt to procure personal protective equipment as we move forward but i would like to let the board know that the global supply chain has been disrupted by this coronavirus and as as equipment comes in as equipment becomes available we are doing our best to procure all those types of stuff and i have to say the apple valley school district did well at the beginning because we didn't think that we will need we will be writing this all the way to here and we donated a supply set to the hospitals um and now here we are yeah i mean even that would have been just a just a small amount in the in the requirement for like you said the thousands that will be required so thank you for those ideas we will bring uh as information becomes available bring information back about those specific questions and continue to answer them thank you i'm sorry i dropped off that no no uh screen there mr buchanan that's the end of my presentation thank you very much thank you okay discussion i i just want one more thing for the staff if there's a need all right of course the board holding for me and just create a lot more work for you if there's need to have a couple extra meeting we can do it that's actually an item on the agenda 2020 oh schedule that's the next item you are a perfect segue mr so thank you um yes we may and here's why partially the state has um instead of an el cap this year they've come up with a new document that will be the one-year plan the learning continuity and attendance plan which now stands also for elcap which to make you know matters worse that learning continuity and attendance plan must be board approved by september 30th however there are some requirements to gather stakeholders at least even digitally we would like to do that during the month of august bring it to a hearing at the regularly scheduled meeting of september and then do a special meeting in september to approve that prior to the 30th also in august we think it would be appropriate to have a second meeting so that we can bring information to you so we have two proposed uh meeting dates to add as special board meetings is that the correct term did you give it to us did we have that i will propose them now and you can discuss them they are august 20th and september 24th august 20th and september 24th [Music] got it this is discussion no action so um discussion information yeah tony is the thursday august 20th they're both thursdays yeah both wednesdays yes so if you could check your calendars and when we meet again in august we could confirm these okay yeah the august 16th does that work yes it does okay i i really like the fact that we are doing uh two uh per month until we get a handle on this thing thank you at the same time i i i'm okay i block it already you've got you've got it on your calendar okay thank you mr self do we have a time or not i would defer to the group i i like him during the day i like during the day so that i can see i would suggest that the august 6th um a discussion action item would be agendas and the board can discussion and take action and schedule the dates and times at that point okay thank you man in august fifth year and douglas six is still um at the one o'clock right is it about one o'clock no august 16 should be at the regular time regular time yes the adopted board meeting uh list at the moment says 5 30 p.m for public comments and then go to closed et cetera i mean until until we go where the public can come because it's hard for the public during the day but since they're not allowed in if we can do as many as we can during the day and then when this ends we can go back to the evening so that kids can come and get presentations parents can come after work and participate but yeah we moved the meeting to watercolony because of the time that something to do with attack but i think we can go stay with the regular time we okay right yeah i think that would be appropriate to discuss it was the october september was what the proposed date for the additional meeting was the 24th okay thank you very much 24th yeah the august 6th meeting however is has been scheduled and agendized for the regular time you uh but we at that time could make a change okay i think you just need uh 24 hours to make a change well we yeah i think so long as we're ahead of the post hosting run we can make the change for that and like matt was saying you know it's already it's discussion information topic today for uh action next time and perhaps we could take action at the next meetings at the moment we don't have it's this item isn't infrared we cannot take action it it says regular meeting it's not one o'clock that's okay the light's still out at five times if we am if incorrect if the board gives direction that prior to posting to have the august 6th at one o'clock correct we would we would be permitted to post okay we'll still be able to do it within 72 hours right one o'clock is fine august one o'clock is signed one o'clock okay discussion action action oh no um uh matt presentation you have another presentation oh i have yeah i do have a presentation thank you sure great yeah all right there we go my disclaimer as i always this is based on what was presented at the school services of california finance and management conference which was held virtually this last tuesday morning on july 17.

they only have 40. now it did not say exactly the number of those patients that were covered positive but i can tell you that there is no surge capacity at this moment that's another factor that the cdc requires in order to be talking about opening schools now again that was prior to the governor making it you have to be off the monitor list we were looking for other guidance prior to noon at afternoon we have pretty clear guidance monitor list or not which does make things easier but unfortunately for us we were talking earlier we are a large county with demographically or regionally different data and so we're not sure how that'll be handled yet again all i have is what i heard from the press conference so some survey results we you need to see this because these are the the folks we serve first the parents uh over 10 000 responses across the two surveys i made the error on the first survey of having folks only fill it out one time and so they many uh asked if they could fill out one child which we did on the second survey and when asked just over a quarter said that they would prefer in may they would prefer to remain in a remote learning experience and so um that was good for us to know that early so we can begin to tool up for that now of course we at that time did not know exactly how many were at each school what grade level what subjects what content but it's over a quarter in july that number increased to just almost 30 percent with another 20 saying they'd prefer a hybrid which was an interesting uh second question or additional question we asked on that survey and then um with over half just over half 51 saying they would want their child at school as frequently as possible then we asked about their concerns oh i'm sorry we did this survey as well in spanish the second one um we did both of them in spanish but i was able to aggregate the data in the first survey because it was all the same but just translated second one we sent out a spanish language only survey the response is although smaller in number a great majority of those small that smaller group did want to maintain an online learning environment staff first we did may certificated only in may and this was the breakdown the question was would you be willing right um almost it was 47.2 and 52.8 47.2 said i'd really rather be in front of students face to face the other 52 said they would be willing to teach remotely if needed this was back in may when we everyone kind of believed we were going to be back in school in august or at least we certainly hoped that um we asked them what hybrid model they prefer if we had to do that and the overwhelming majority there of all the groups thought that two full days per week would be preferred maybe it's a monday tuesday for one group and a thursday friday for another with that wednesday minimum day in the middle being some kind of day of prep that was the idea we had in mind or maybe it's a monday thursday tuesday friday then in july first we pulled all staff in july we wanted to hear from everyone the great majority were teachers we heard from uh you know hundreds of teachers uh just over 500 certificated staff members if you include counselors which we put in a separate group speech and language pathologists we put in a separate group but as far as bargaining unit members we heard from a great number um we don't we have about 640 so we heard from um you know five six or more and so what did they say first their concerns this is how they did it they ranked their concerns the main concern for staff was exposure to sick individuals there's definitely half the students who said that is their largest concern half the staff members that's from all employee groups the next highest concern was providing for their family remember not all employee groups in that survey are covered by any kind of guarantee for no layoff for this year so that might be what's driving some of that concern um there's great concern about face coverings not worn that was brought up verbally also in the teacher meetings that we held what will we do if they don't wear them if students won't wear the masks we did hear from the governor today that if schools are in the counties are allowed to open all students are to wear masks grades three and uh there's there's definitely a concern yeah and if you look over at the parent list of concerns a requirement for face coverings for 36 percent of them was a major concern they did not in that case feel as though a mask was they didn't they weren't comfortable with that so we have an issue there when we get to a hybrid model we'll have to be clear about the the face covering requirement and articulate our stance there based on the public health requirements so what do we do with a staff member who says that's my constitutional right i do not want to wear mass what is our position as a district because you're definitely going to run into staff members who will say i don't i'm not doing this yeah at the moment what do we do at the moment it is if they are in a public setting where they're interacting with other people it is required it's it's a public health requirement and as a entity that employs people we can have a we can have an expectation of public safety so i think i'll pau i'll leave it there and leave that for the the folks who do the hr work but at the moment we have we have it as a requirement um so you can see those considerations there i mentioned earlier that parents are very concerned as we are about socialization and the mental health of their children their need for interaction both with their peers and with teachers and with the and with the system and so what might more specifically those phases look like and how those might happen have to happen we if we get the ability to bring students back to school after this period of remote learning it could be that it's for again a small number but they at the moment and that's the rules change would have to wear face coverings and be socially distant and lots of sanitizing required every step of the way even now at any building we're using and then of course you know working toward more in person our thought before today was that we would re-evaluate in four-week chunks we have a natural chunk of time between the open of school and labor day it's 23 days then from labor day to our october break finishes the quarter that's another four week chunk of time now we will be watching the monitor list for our county and those case numbers but we will continue to update our community and you about where we are on that but our goal was to be out we wanted to make the chunks small enough so that we were out as little as possible and yet give ourselves time to make a chunk of time that we can build the instructional unit so we don't know now what the because we don't have that i don't have no sense of when we'll be off this monitor list if we were to start today we don't meet the requirements we have to remain fully distant that's been cemented by the governor's announcement so we will be offering staff training for distance learning that training is going to be informed by the staff requests for training that were made this morning we have teams working on that and texting me right now it's been excellent there are this will be robust and um and and meet the needs of our staff as best as we can who can then go out and meet the needs of the families and children uh we will be as dustin mr comrade said we'll negotiate with the associations to make sure that their return to work process is unified with our you know um path forward those are those have been characterized by a willingness to work together at this moment and of course we'll keep reevaluating as the public health as these data points keep changing we'll keep reevaluating hoping that we can push toward phase two or phase three so aria is a concern we know that even if we don't come to school we've got to be checking on homeless youth foster you our students with disabilities the law requires that the english learners still have those integrated and designated supports if the law requires when they're at school those students performing below grade level and of course the great concern is there has to be some accountability and connection distance learning now means according to the governor daily live interaction now interaction doesn't necessarily it's not doesn't say that it has to be synchronous sometimes it could be a recorded video perhaps placed there we know some children are forming the function of child care provider for a younger child or going to work with a an adult parent so that that lesson can sit there for when they come back but any day the student does not interact or engage in the learning is a day of absence we must take daily attendance even in this distant system pat is there a time a time that the child has to be online i mean i know in the springtime some of the kids were getting stuff done like 10 15 minutes yeah good question there is a there are time requirements in the law and we talked about those with the group this morning or on tuesday the law says that we have to meet a minimum day so 230 or 240 minutes there's actually some continuation is 180 but we're thinking of it as a minimum day 240 minutes now that's 240 minutes worth of work not 240 minutes of live time in front of a machine now it could be that they're on the computer for some or most of that time but it doesn't mean 240 minutes of uh in class with your teacher remotely but there is an expectation that there is enough work that would equal roughly that much work time at a minimum so yes there isn't the law has been clear about we must provide for that amount of work and the district has a way of monitoring that we don't have a way of monitoring it down to the minute here's what we have kind of like with independent study we can get a sense of how long an assignment ought to take that there's a video to watch and comment on that there's a lesson to do that there's a 30 minute check in with the teacher that there's those kinds of things spread throughout the morning but no just like doing they're in seats we can't monitor whether they're paying attention the whole time we can't we can't guarantee the exact number so there's just an expectation that a certain project or lesson plan would take 60 minutes to to read yes complete and is there testing gonna be involved with that as well testing on a subject that's one of the topics that came up so working on a secure and appropriate way to do testing easier in some and the lower grades than than up then perhaps at the higher grades but yes there's we're going to have to sort that out the longer this goes on these kids are so smart pat i have some questions yes um based on all of what's been happening in our district and we do have a risk manager uh how often does our risk manager contact personnel to find out how their mental well-being is happening during this time they are our employees what is happening to their how are they feeling about what everything that's going on it seems like school got out they went home we told them what to do but we've not checked in to see how are they really doing you know how often do we check on our employees classified and certificated management you know how are things going you know i would like to note see that we are doing things like that to take care of our people you did also say something about gradual return yeah for those students who will gradually return to school um i'm not sure i can visualize how that's going to work in terms of busing because if if all the kids on my street choose to be the ones returning to school yes they will all be in separate classrooms but they're riding the bus together so have we had the conversation about how the busing will look like because obviously our buses are set up for three children to sit on one bench and they're so close to together are you going to have more buses uh how's that going to work so i like to know how all of that is going to look then you had um you had something about your your survey you send the surveys i'm i'm interested in knowing if you give the same survey that you give to the parents to the teachers did they get that exact same survey or was that a change in survey the que the reason i asked that question is that you might have some teachers who are also parents those those and so they're getting different survey and they're having conversation with each other so you know i would like to see a survey that measures on both sides so that i will be clear on how they really see things because you might have a teacher who has four children in the district and gave you four different answers and the number changed and your percentile changed um so that was one of my quick questions i'm sure you're gonna answer all of that so you go to your rank of concerns it talks about exposure to sick individuals the many of the teachers says 53.

i'm sorry on july 14th um school services prepared several slides and the majority of these slides are school services prepared slides that i'm going to talk through there are a couple slides about halfway through the presentation which are apple valley unified specific information uh so here i go uh if you uh have you've been following the economy we've had kind of an economic crash over the last several months well can with the economy in the state of california with the closure of the states uh and the national economy and the state economy have been significantly impacted recovery started a little bit when states started to reopen but you see it slowing now as states begin to close back up and we do have some record job growth loss unfortunately due to the coronavirus pandemic some economists are predicting that we're going to begin to recover when we get into the latter part of 2020 this fall into next year and have predicted that the gross domestic product on a national level will reach pre-pandemic levels sometime during 2023 so they are predicting a fairly quick economic recovery in the terms of past economic recoveries the one statement that really kind of caught me on this one when the nation gets a cold california gets the flu because california really is significantly impacted anytime there's a national recession you'll see the national unemployment numbers peaked in april and have declined slightly into may as states and cities and counties and businesses began to reopen california not so much we still have record unemployment in california what's happened also in california which has a direct effect on school district finances is the extension of the tax filing deadline i do believe it was the 15th uh this month two days ago was the tax filing deadline so the california is operating on projected tax receipts and revenue at the state level so in the next few weeks we'll have a much better idea what those tax receipts at the state level are which of course will affect california's operating budget which trickles down to us as a school district uh this is just a quick slide of what the general fund budget summary revenue was i apologize it's not quite all fitting on the screen here in the room but you have a paper copy of the presentation at your desk you can take a look at one thing the governor did do is he implemented the budget stabilization account and has used about half of that budget stabilization account at the state level to attempt to balance the state budget but he had about 7.8 billion he could use toward about a 54 billion dollar deficit so it did not balance the state budget but it did help one of the things they built into the state budget which has a direct effect on us is the hope for additional federal assistance now we have some federal assistance already in place and in the current state budget which has assisted local educational agencies us included but they're hoping for another federal relief package which will then bring more federal funding to the state and will assist and help with what cash deferrals are in place currently and i'll go into a little more detail in the cash deferrals that we're facing this last month already and then during this fiscal year so there are a lot of risks to the state budget one of the things that we're still faced with is a possible revision to the state budget this fall as they figure out their tax receipts as any federal additional federal aid may or may not come to the state of california so as we look at our budget we may have to adjust again sometime this fall if california makes material changes this is a quick look at our lcff funding from january to may to the enacted budget we kind of went on a roller coaster ride with what was going on because if you recall back in january the economy in california was ticking along with one of the longest sustained economic recoveries we've seen tax receipts were up personal income was up and school budgets were up then march happened we closed shut down the state economic and the may revision was huge cuts 10 and now in our enacted what we're faced with now is level lcf funding from last year what the state has done is they basically said whatever you got in 1920 is what you'll get in 2021.

have we thought about the substitute teacher you're going to bring into the classroom where the teacher has then contracted covet and now you're going to bring a substitute teacher where some of the students have already they already have it and this substitute teacher is now traveling you know some of the things that we do in schools is you have a substitute teacher and during the prep time you tell the substitute teacher to go and sub in the other class now the substitute teacher is not just seeing 50 students he's seeing maybe 150 students and those 150 students go home and pass this information this thing with their parents and now we have a real problem and we're shutting down though i will contact tracing with the substitution i will contact tracy with the students okay so that's a question that i am not clear on and what we're going to do with that the other one is if a teacher is exposed and they say the teacher stays for 14 days get out and go home for 14 days and the teacher keeps coming back and the teacher keeps getting it every time they're coming the teacher is exposed another 14 days i'm just curious about how we're going to manage that in terms of that teacher's sick leave because now we that teacher is using uh burning up their sick leave because of this thing that is going on in this school so i really want us to pay attention to how all of that is going to play out or the kids who are going to come in and they have an elderly parent at home and now they are going to go and pass it on to their elderly parents providing their teachers who are providing for their families i'm curious about when this actually when we begin to phase back into the classroom those teachers who have health issues or these huge concerns if we're going to give them first priority to be virtual teachers until we get a handle on this covet so if that if that caretakers to a person who is really ill at home or if they have their own personal concerns and are willing to be trained on this online program could we give them priority to do it at home just to safeguard their health okay so that's important uh for me um obviously we have social distancing are we gonna do the plastic thing like they do in stores uh to protect the students i i'm looking when i look at that i go back to matt what does that cost we're going to look at the cost the state has said that they will give each child a certain number based on their account a certain number of mass it won't work i'm going to say it right now the number that the state is putting out will definitely not work because if a child loses their let's say the child is in third grade and they lose their mass we are going to give them a replacement mask and they can lose it three or four times we're gonna give it to them three or four times it's already eaten into the states 60 that they said or 50 they said per child that will not work so we need to also factor that in when matt is doing his calculation on what that cost is going to be the teachers are requesting um shield like kylie has what is the cost so that we can provide them the shield if that's the way they want to give the instruction so all of those things are playing a role and i'm thinking about it and yes the parents want their children to socialize i am really really looking forward to that time when i can get up and hug somebody as you guys can see i'm not wearing a mask but i'm about 10 feet away from all of you um because i you know if i if i if you come any closer i will cover my face um but i you know i like to get the um figure out how we're going to socialize these children when we set up our online course perhaps when we set it up we should be encouraging the teachers that their first five minutes or their first their last five minutes they just leave the system so the kids can socialize with each other they can have that time so it's up to you guys who are in the field um yes i am also in the field but not in your kind of field um to be able to organize that so that parents will have that you know we can do drive-by at their neighborhood and wave at them and give them what they need i'm very very you know when you look at the concerns that's where my biggest concern comes i really want to see that yes the hospitals are filling up and yes vic said mary says that they are full but we don't know where they send others to people when they get it because if they have 40 uh um best for the coveted or 40 icu beds when you 40 icu beds so if you have 50 people where do they go so transport to coasters hospital yeah we're working on jumping uh we have asked a lot of questions if i may and i'm not sure staff or even ourselves today we can be really resolve it yeah that's why i gave it to him i'm not expecting answers i want him to just write them down so that he can bring it back to us when you mention that i think we get teachers like what connie has that'll be a good protection but for to the kids may not be feasible no we're not asking the kids the teachers and i have tried several different mayors i tried to flow away i got it from my dad's daughter she just said boy a day throw it away i never did in and and i got a search a washable mess from my medical doctor's daughter and it's a very uncomfortable okay very comfortable even i don't like to wear it maybe it's some special one that that man is wearing you know and and i have concerns i'm raising i said how we're going to keep this on the kids okay and it's because the safest is to make sure they're distancing and still cover your you know because the kids can be a carrier but they don't get sick okay and so there's no perfect solution even i talked to my a new friend that i have and they have a hospital they heard about that there's a special steam machine saying that the kids come in you can expose yourself a couple of minutes of hot steam and the steam will kill within that time frame will kill all the virus this particular virus is very successful to being killed by the steam in their temperature range i'm just going to start by saying that i don't think we have really really a good solution here in just forcing the kids all these questions are going to be answered by the state anyway you know right and we also need to pay attention to the second parent who wanted everything that on this um contact of the parent concern that we heard that is talking about all of the health issues and the excuses that came up um you know if you would please make contact with that parent so that will you know you can at least reassure them that they are not getting carbon monoxide and all of those things yeah i will do it and i just wanted to just make sure i'm not being non-responsive but many of the logistical challenges you presented at the moment we have a little bit of time to gather information and answer them yes because we don't have students coming so for example busing and substitute teachers at the moment is not an issue um regarding the survey i did want to say that the the areas of difference had to do with questions that were specific about whether you were a teacher or you were a parent if you were a parent and a teacher you got both service okay so we did get that data and then um yeah as far as the uh a couple of things that came up had to do with the first priority i always want to defer that to the negotiations because that was an item in that document so that will be in that process but it is voiced eloquently by what you said as far as those concerns so um we'll just defer that to the negotiation steps but that um that the online socialization and creating a classroom culture was one of the items first requested by staff and something we'll be putting together so they'll have some training on how to best do that because that is critical so yes thank you for those um ideas we'll gather some of these we just need a little time to gather information and come back there i do have one comment regarding some of the personal protective equipment uh cal oes office of emergency services has allocated some masks and face shields uh we are in receipt of some of those supplies at this point not all of them but we do have some of that ppe and are continuing to attempt to procure personal protective equipment as we move forward but i would like to let the board know that the global supply chain has been disrupted by this coronavirus and as as equipment comes in as equipment becomes available we are doing our best to procure all those types of stuff and i have to say the apple valley school district did well at the beginning because we didn't think that we will need we will be writing this all the way to here and we donated a supply set to the hospitals um and now here we are yeah i mean even that would have been just a just a small amount in the in the requirement for like you said the thousands that will be required so thank you for those ideas we will bring uh as information becomes available bring information back about those specific questions and continue to answer them thank you i'm sorry i dropped off that no no uh screen there mr buchanan that's the end of my presentation thank you very much thank you okay discussion i i just want one more thing for the staff if there's a need all right of course the board holding for me and just create a lot more work for you if there's need to have a couple extra meeting we can do it that's actually an item on the agenda 2020 oh schedule that's the next item you are a perfect segue mr so thank you um yes we may and here's why partially the state has um instead of an el cap this year they've come up with a new document that will be the one-year plan the learning continuity and attendance plan which now stands also for elcap which to make you know matters worse that learning continuity and attendance plan must be board approved by september 30th however there are some requirements to gather stakeholders at least even digitally we would like to do that during the month of august bring it to a hearing at the regularly scheduled meeting of september and then do a special meeting in september to approve that prior to the 30th also in august we think it would be appropriate to have a second meeting so that we can bring information to you so we have two proposed uh meeting dates to add as special board meetings is that the correct term did you give it to us did we have that i will propose them now and you can discuss them they are august 20th and september 24th august 20th and september 24th [Music] got it this is discussion no action so um discussion information yeah tony is the thursday august 20th they're both thursdays yeah both wednesdays yes so if you could check your calendars and when we meet again in august we could confirm these okay yeah the august 16th does that work yes it does okay i i really like the fact that we are doing uh two uh per month until we get a handle on this thing thank you at the same time i i i'm okay i block it already you've got you've got it on your calendar okay thank you mr self do we have a time or not i would defer to the group i i like him during the day i like during the day so that i can see i would suggest that the august 6th um a discussion action item would be agendas and the board can discussion and take action and schedule the dates and times at that point okay thank you man in august fifth year and douglas six is still um at the one o'clock right is it about one o'clock no august 16 should be at the regular time regular time yes the adopted board meeting uh list at the moment says 5 30 p.m for public comments and then go to closed et cetera i mean until until we go where the public can come because it's hard for the public during the day but since they're not allowed in if we can do as many as we can during the day and then when this ends we can go back to the evening so that kids can come and get presentations parents can come after work and participate but yeah we moved the meeting to watercolony because of the time that something to do with attack but i think we can go stay with the regular time we okay right yeah i think that would be appropriate to discuss it was the october september was what the proposed date for the additional meeting was the 24th okay thank you very much 24th yeah the august 6th meeting however is has been scheduled and agendized for the regular time you uh but we at that time could make a change okay i think you just need uh 24 hours to make a change well we yeah i think so long as we're ahead of the post hosting run we can make the change for that and like matt was saying you know it's already it's discussion information topic today for uh action next time and perhaps we could take action at the next meetings at the moment we don't have it's this item isn't infrared we cannot take action it it says regular meeting it's not one o'clock that's okay the light's still out at five times if we am if incorrect if the board gives direction that prior to posting to have the august 6th at one o'clock correct we would we would be permitted to post okay we'll still be able to do it within 72 hours right one o'clock is fine august one o'clock is signed one o'clock okay discussion action action oh no um uh matt presentation you have another presentation oh i have yeah i do have a presentation thank you sure great yeah all right there we go my disclaimer as i always this is based on what was presented at the school services of california finance and management conference which was held virtually this last tuesday morning on july 17.

so we're operating on that assumption at this point so kind of what that did to us over the time when you look at last year we received a just a little over 134 million dollars in lcf funding last year the january proposal when the economy was ticking along for this year we were projecting almost 139 million dollars in lcf funding based on the governor's january proposal his main proposal cut that for us for apple valley unified down to about 125 million but now with the state adopted budget the assumption we're making is we're going to get exactly the same funding we got last year flat funding zero percent cola there are some one-time funds that are in the state budget to assist local educational agencies and apple valley unified that top one is sb 117 that actually came last year that's a state one-time funding for calif for immediate coronavirus response needs the cares act federal money we have a few different pots we're looking at there we have some coronavirus relief funds you'll hear those referred to as crf funds uh that was based on our lcff and supplemental and concentration allegations and the use for those funds is learning loss mitigation now learning loss mitigation is defined as funds to further student learning supports provide additional core academic support for students who need it integrated services that support teaching and learning such as student and staff technology needs mental health services staff professional development and student nutrition so anytime you hear learning loss mitigation that's really what the federal government has intended those funds to be used for the governor's emergency education relief gear funding that was additional federal funds that came to the state of california that governor newsom has identified for additional learning loss mitigation and you'll see those deadlines over off on are when those monies have to be spent by so i'll go back up to the crf funds that's a pot of money that needs to be spent here in about six months the end of december the gear funding uh we have about a little over a year to spend and finally our esser funding which was the first part of federal relief that came to us we actually have a little more flexibility and have until september of 2022 to spend and here's the dollar amounts that we're receiving in those different pots of money california sent us 218 thousand dollars back in the spring that money has all been expended the crf the coronavirus relief the gear and the esser that's all the federal funding with those different spending timelines and you'll see those dollars in the budget as one-time revenue and we will have some expenditures booked against those again based on the timelines to spend that crf we have to spend within the next six months gear by september 21 and then esser by september of 2022.

i'm sorry on july 14th um school services prepared several slides and the majority of these slides are school services prepared slides that i'm going to talk through there are a couple slides about halfway through the presentation which are apple valley unified specific information uh so here i go uh if you uh have you've been following the economy we've had kind of an economic crash over the last several months well can with the economy in the state of california with the closure of the states uh and the national economy and the state economy have been significantly impacted recovery started a little bit when states started to reopen but you see it slowing now as states begin to close back up and we do have some record job growth loss unfortunately due to the coronavirus pandemic some economists are predicting that we're going to begin to recover when we get into the latter part of 2020 this fall into next year and have predicted that the gross domestic product on a national level will reach pre-pandemic levels sometime during 2023 so they are predicting a fairly quick economic recovery in the terms of past economic recoveries the one statement that really kind of caught me on this one when the nation gets a cold california gets the flu because california really is significantly impacted anytime there's a national recession you'll see the national unemployment numbers peaked in april and have declined slightly into may as states and cities and counties and businesses began to reopen california not so much we still have record unemployment in california what's happened also in california which has a direct effect on school district finances is the extension of the tax filing deadline i do believe it was the 15th uh this month two days ago was the tax filing deadline so the california is operating on projected tax receipts and revenue at the state level so in the next few weeks we'll have a much better idea what those tax receipts at the state level are which of course will affect california's operating budget which trickles down to us as a school district uh this is just a quick slide of what the general fund budget summary revenue was i apologize it's not quite all fitting on the screen here in the room but you have a paper copy of the presentation at your desk you can take a look at one thing the governor did do is he implemented the budget stabilization account and has used about half of that budget stabilization account at the state level to attempt to balance the state budget but he had about 7.8 billion he could use toward about a 54 billion dollar deficit so it did not balance the state budget but it did help one of the things they built into the state budget which has a direct effect on us is the hope for additional federal assistance now we have some federal assistance already in place and in the current state budget which has assisted local educational agencies us included but they're hoping for another federal relief package which will then bring more federal funding to the state and will assist and help with what cash deferrals are in place currently and i'll go into a little more detail in the cash deferrals that we're facing this last month already and then during this fiscal year so there are a lot of risks to the state budget one of the things that we're still faced with is a possible revision to the state budget this fall as they figure out their tax receipts as any federal additional federal aid may or may not come to the state of california so as we look at our budget we may have to adjust again sometime this fall if california makes material changes this is a quick look at our lcff funding from january to may to the enacted budget we kind of went on a roller coaster ride with what was going on because if you recall back in january the economy in california was ticking along with one of the longest sustained economic recoveries we've seen tax receipts were up personal income was up and school budgets were up then march happened we closed shut down the state economic and the may revision was huge cuts 10 and now in our enacted what we're faced with now is level lcf funding from last year what the state has done is they basically said whatever you got in 1920 is what you'll get in 2021.

so the flat lcf funding this is really a slide that school services has produced that really kind of illustrates what we're faced with on an annual basis with all the different costs or some of the different costs we face if you look on the left you'll see s and c growth and base growth that base growth that represents the increase in our lcf funding last fiscal year 1920.

so we're operating on that assumption at this point so kind of what that did to us over the time when you look at last year we received a just a little over 134 million dollars in lcf funding last year the january proposal when the economy was ticking along for this year we were projecting almost 139 million dollars in lcf funding based on the governor's january proposal his main proposal cut that for us for apple valley unified down to about 125 million but now with the state adopted budget the assumption we're making is we're going to get exactly the same funding we got last year flat funding zero percent cola there are some one-time funds that are in the state budget to assist local educational agencies and apple valley unified that top one is sb 117 that actually came last year that's a state one-time funding for calif for immediate coronavirus response needs the cares act federal money we have a few different pots we're looking at there we have some coronavirus relief funds you'll hear those referred to as crf funds uh that was based on our lcff and supplemental and concentration allegations and the use for those funds is learning loss mitigation now learning loss mitigation is defined as funds to further student learning supports provide additional core academic support for students who need it integrated services that support teaching and learning such as student and staff technology needs mental health services staff professional development and student nutrition so anytime you hear learning loss mitigation that's really what the federal government has intended those funds to be used for the governor's emergency education relief gear funding that was additional federal funds that came to the state of california that governor newsom has identified for additional learning loss mitigation and you'll see those deadlines over off on are when those monies have to be spent by so i'll go back up to the crf funds that's a pot of money that needs to be spent here in about six months the end of december the gear funding uh we have about a little over a year to spend and finally our esser funding which was the first part of federal relief that came to us we actually have a little more flexibility and have until september of 2022 to spend and here's the dollar amounts that we're receiving in those different pots of money california sent us 218 thousand dollars back in the spring that money has all been expended the crf the coronavirus relief the gear and the esser that's all the federal funding with those different spending timelines and you'll see those dollars in the budget as one-time revenue and we will have some expenditures booked against those again based on the timelines to spend that crf we have to spend within the next six months gear by september 21 and then esser by september of 2022.

you'll see on the net right next you have step and column you have stirs increases and pers increases and then special education contribution that varies so much from district to district now what this slide illustrates is the average ada revenue and expense for the average school district in the state of california this is not specific to apple valley unified so you'll see in the 20 20 21 year the year we're now in we have no cola our lcff growth is zero but in that next column over we are still faced with increased costs we do have a stirs rate decrease due to a buy down the governor has put into the budget so our stirs contribution on behalf of our certificated employees actually is slightly going down however we have step and column for all of our employees that's an additional cost pers is going up slightly and we will have increased special education costs as we work through response to our current learning environment and again in 2122 school services is recommending a zero cola and you see there's those other cost indicators step and column purrs and stirs and you see in that last year there is no relief for stirs so you see a big jump in the stirs rate increase the pers rate increase and then step and column continues at current zero cola recommendations by school services and this slide illustrates those cola recommendations you see we did have the 3.26 cola last year in 2021 the estimated statutory cola of course was 2.31 and that was recognized in the governor's budget however the funded cola is zero the department of finance is then recommending approximately a two and a half percent colon next year and a little over three percent in the second year however those calculations were made prior to the governor's may revision in the department of finance has not revised those calculations yet that dotted blue line is what school services estimates the statutory cola will be calculated at but that solid black line you'll see that's zero in the current year and the next two that is school services recommendations as we prepare our multi-year projection is a zero cola one of the things the governor um implemented in the legislature implemented are deferrals and they're they're back with a vengeance they started this last month uh our entire june apportionment was deferred to july along with some of our epa apportionment which fortunately we did get that cash posted to our account this morning so we are not in a cash deficit currently however we are moving forward with the tax revenue anticipation note um this fall to borrow for possible mid-month cash deficiencies so we will have some borrowing costs related with some cash borrowing and i do project due to some of these deferrals in the spring we will have to borrow significantly more money to make cash so you will see a resolution in the future which actually will increase our borrowing limit last spring you approved up to 15 million and we anticipate needing to borrow between 25 and 30 million dollars in cash in the spring to cover these deferrals so that just that's kind of a graphic that illustrates what happened in june the state was due to pay education about 4.2 billion dollars but they did it but they did pay it in july what the state does is that allows them to recognize a decrease in expenditures in one year because they don't they don't book it in both years they only book it in one that's a little more detailed i will skip that so this is what we're faced with in the spring we're faced with partial deferrals across the months of february march april and may and a complete deferral in the month of june and you'll see what months they're planning to pay those that additional federal aid that the governor and the legislature are counting on will help to relieve these deferrals starting with february if the feds approve additional coronavirus aid and money comes to california that february deferral will be reduced or eliminated if the feds send money that covers february then they'll look at march and possibly reduce or eliminate march and so forth and they'll work all the way down and eliminate the deferrals that they're able to so this is a quick illustration of what we're faced with in the current budget year in february march april may and june we get nine percent of our annual share that's that first column normal share of annual apportionment it's it's the five five nine schedule they're deferring 45 percent of february of march april and may 100 of june so you'll see the resulting share is five three three three zero which means we're losing about 32 percent of our cash in those five months hence the need to borrow significant cash towards the spring with the state adopting a budget which is significantly different from the one we adopted because we adopted based on the may revision and change significantly at the state we will bring we will be bringing forward a budget revision at the august 6th meeting for your information we will better demonstrate or more thoroughly demonstrate the adjustments to our revenue based on the state adopted budget both state revenue and federal revenue and do our best in estimating expenditures that have changed based on our response to the pandemic and our current learning environment and this kind of lists those different areas that we have to take a look at our lcff our stirs and pers contribution rates any additional federal funding lottery revenue which is an unrestricted revenue from the state close to us any expenses for cash borrowing contributions to restricted programs and of course position control and budgeting that's all i have today unless anybody has any questions well i i probably won the onboarding board member had been exposed to transforming that when i first got elected it is scary that this this state government situation has created this treat creates tremendous impact on us this is the reason i made a comment say they have never experienced that and and now you you have to borrow money you know yeah so people don't understand that even with the so-called few the million dollar that we reserved that we saved but eventually we spent it all yes my question has to do with um the federal monies that we are looking to hopefully get in light of what the president stated that if we don't open fully he will hold back the money is this money that is already in the state's possession or is this money that we are waiting the federal government to give because the the federal government can only withhold money that they will send to us the state has the money for education so i'm curious if we are hoping for the federal to send us the money or to send the money to the state for for it to be dispersed and now we are saying we're not opening school the way you want us to open school is there a possibility that we will not get that federal money i think with the current administration in washington there's always a possibility i we have not received the federal money in terms of cash as of this point um all of it we have received some of it i believe the the esser funds or a portion of the esser funds are in our possession uh but i will double check with my director of fiscal services and i can bring a little more detail to the next board meeting as to what we actually have received thank you certainly thank you thank you in discussion actions it is recommended that the board or trustees discuss and take action on the following items approve the contract with exact x act technology solutions for security camera system bid so any questions i can answer them i just wanted to make sure that the board knew this was a long time coming uh item that we've talked about it is it's every school side operation center here everywhere that's good you did as an extensive job lock mr buchanan and his team have been working on this to build the infrastructures that these cameras will plug into something so they'll be able to operate um this has been years in the making so although it comes it seems untimely these are funds that are for capital outlay and um this is i think something that is actually in even in our first lcap so we're pretty excited about it and uh we're excited that we've got a good process that we're very comfortable with so okay okay remove the item yeah who seconded it dennis dennis thank you um all in favor aye any opposed consent item it is recommended that the board of trustees consider approving a number of agenda items as a consent list consent items are routine in nature and can be enacted in one motion without further discussion this procedure conserves meeting time for a full discussion of significant issues consent items should be approved in one motion one through eight or second okay all in favor all right i in your post have vote of fourth zero [Music] if any items were pulled or tabled okay no we don't have any um no staff reports uh kylie do we have any public comments we have not received any additional public comments thank you uh board comments mr cell no foreign mr bender no rick raleigh yeah i just wanted to bring one thing i forgot to mention earlier uh this week i was speaking to a local police officer here in apple valley he told me that the calls for service involving some of the really young kids and families are way up for for disturbances because of some children's behavior i know the school district has school psychologists on staff i thought maybe we could maybe reach out to the local sheriff's station and let them know that we have i'm not advocating that these school employees go to the homes but that if parents need some assistance that they can maybe make arrangements i'm not sure how the school psychologists work based on their workload and how they actually handle cases but i thought that we may be able to utilize them to help out with some of these issues that these young kids that are part of the district are having because they're not going to school that's what they attribute it to is just some behavior problems because you know they're not seeing their friends and they're cooped up and there's you know there's tensions and things so i'm not really sure if that would be something that would work but i'm throwing it out there anyway to help maybe maybe uh just reach out to the sheriff's station we have some business cards if the deputy feels that you know this this child may be helped with uh you know some counseling or something that they parents can reach out to the district and schedule something at a later time yeah i think that um the captain locally and trenay have a good relationship they can talk about finding them filling their needs especially when we get started because we do have a responsibility to make contact with students and feel the need so i think that's a good way to go about it we'll make the connection just broke the topic with them yeah i was kind of shocked to hear that they said it was the calls were way up this starting in the spring when this all came about so anyway got it take care of it yes yes all right well i the only comment that i have is during this time i think the community has really known the value of teachers um you know we've they've been taken for granted for quite a while and now they really understand uh what a teacher goes through and and they will do just about anything to get the students in front of a teacher even if it's for seven hours um i also would like you to really look at us creating a course of study of ethnic studies because the mr thurman is promoting it from the state level the state superintendent so i'm attending his virtual uh instruction that they have every tuesday at three o'clock and is virtual so they show all of the ethnic groups i think the other one that is coming up next tuesday is on asian americans they've done the african-american they've done the hispanics and now asian-american it's just a weekly series and the the main thing that everybody is talking about is to provide ethnic studies at the high school level i would like to see it across the board but at least at the high school level it's of course for uh the period of superintendent comment i'd like to be so bold this time will you please yes i've already passed that yes just just a single item regarding the aclu's um case against san bernardino city superintendent of schools yes and and just to clarify that what's that i'm sorry san diego county office of the superintendent that's right thank you that's right it was not that district it was the county we were not served our district name is in as one of the districts that they approved the lcap for but we were not served or named as a recipient of that suit so i just wanted to there's a shade of difference there that's important we are not a defendant in that case but what it so what it circulates around is this that in our lcap for the 2016 year we included after consulting with the business department at the county level everything that was above the base program you'll remember that term right above base even if it was not using supplemental and concentration grant dollars and did not count as our proportional um increase of services we included it so we included things like the police department because technically it is above the base it's not required to have we included things like our busing that had been our busing zones had been walk distances had been decreased class size reduction is technically not required it's required to continue to get the funding but you don't have to have a 24 to 1 experience in california but you do have to to keep the class size reduction grade span allowance so we included everything that was above base that was in excess of our supplemental and concentration grant dollars that was approved by our district advisory committee our board and then the county the suit alleges that the county approved that and should not have but it isn't that we've i just want to be clear that we did not use supplemental concentration grant dollars um to do anything but what those dollars were intended to do so well you know since you brought it up because i was hoping that it will be something we will not have to deal with today the actual format says apple valley's 2019 2020 lcap counted more than 5 million in district-wide security measures including law enforcement as contributing to the increased and improved service requirements apple valley did not even attempt to describe how this action is either principally directed to effective yet san bernardino county office of education approved its healthcare with its entirely unjustified expenditure moreover apple valley's own data demonstrates that this action has been unsuccessful in meeting the intended goal of closing the discipline gap for black students and students with disabilities although overall suspension rates have declined black students are still suspended at more than twice the rate of all students which is exactly the same disparity revealed by baseline data san bernardino county office of education should not have approved this lcap instead it should have intervened and provided technical assistance to support apple valley in making different investments that actually increase and improve services for high needs students allowing districts to count police as contributing to their increased and improved services requirement diverse critical funding and effort from services that are provided are proven to close opportunity gaps or high knee students um so this is the portion i read every portion of whatever it is but this has to do with apple valley so i this is why i said go if you guys have time go back and look at the actual statement that is put out there for public consumption and to be able to use this the district um uh legal service to draft a response so that you know this is not something floating i got it from an email i wouldn't have noticed it and and once it came to email i decided to go deeper and search so this is public knowledge yeah um if pardon me okay but the paper didn't go through because these are pages and pages of this stuff so you go back and look at it and you say okay if the money was meant if the money was meant to assist the black and the brown students in the district then we need to see how that money was actually used to service what i would have liked to see is to truly truly encourage the students who are first generation to sign up for avid how do we get these students to be in avid and what kinds of trainings do we offer in avid do we go out to the schools that are exceptional in avid so that our children who are falling behind will see really a pathway to go somewhere yeah um so those are all things and i'm i read this and i thought you know i'm just gonna have you yeah go back and do some more homework and get us back information i just i think you read it when you read through that that the the the allegation is that should have not have been approved correct and um and if you look back at any lcap presentation during this the last year that item is out yes and it's been purposefully taken out so i appreciate that chance to sort of give some more background but more will come if needed thank you all right all right um closing um any opposed i secondly okay thank you we're done you

so the flat lcf funding this is really a slide that school services has produced that really kind of illustrates what we're faced with on an annual basis with all the different costs or some of the different costs we face if you look on the left you'll see s and c growth and base growth that base growth that represents the increase in our lcf funding last fiscal year 1920.

i believe that ccosd 93 not offering the de classes to the enrollment aoa students is discriminatory as parents we are making tough decisions for the health and safety of our children my children live in a household with an autoimmune deficiency member and need to attend the aoe as a given choice due to this disability not being able to register and attend de classes that they are currently enrolled in for the 2021 is unacceptable this is discriminatory and deemed completely unfair as we have no other choice in our situation my daughter is a senior this year and is enrolled to attend english 101 de and my son is a sophomore who was enrolled to attend pre-calculus de my children have been very successful in de classes in previous year and in fact my daughter completed her geology 102 course online at the end of last year pvcc fall 2020 courses are all online therefore the classes would be fundamentally online as it stands by not offering the classes in the aoe option you you're knowingly going against the anti-discrimination pledge that you have all taken cc usd 93 is encouraging in discrimination on the basis of a disability and not offering these courses in an equal opportunity to those students who attend the option 2 aoe program the governing board of beliefs clearly states that every student will have the opportunity to learn in a safe environment furthermore it also states maintain accountability to parents and students to ensure the highest level of curriculum by not offering an equal opportunity education in both options you are disregarding your goals and beliefs as well as your duty to serve our community i respectfully request that you implement the dual enrollment classes at minimum for our children in option 2 aoe program the children can easily take these classes online through pvcc and submit their course curriculum and grades to captive shadows in order to achieve this opportunity please do what is right for those who are forced to stay home during this pandemic the next comment is from shelly dunn of cave creek what is the exact protocol and procedure set in place for when students and or staff test positive for the virus you stated on the website children that may be exposed to this individual will be sent home for three days the children being sent home what can they do to be able to continue studies with their classroom after the third day children return and then ten days later another could test positive for the virus and children who might have been exposed or sent home again for another three days the cycle could continue and the children will be losing instructional time and get behind and suffer for not having the ability to participate with their class live online what happens if a teacher tests positive does the entire classroom go home are there substitutes in place are there enough substitutes to use that's the end of ms dunn's comment next comment is from nikki harrington of cave creek her concern ib students have been given no options they are required to be on campus if they cannot attend on campus then their hard work and rigor that they have earned will be lost and the benefits of the ib program will no longer be available affecting their future opportunities for earning the ib diploma in college and career options situation my daughter is an ib senior you are asking her to give up the last three years she has committed to her ib program that is years of rigorous academic work and the opportunity to earn her ib diploma which affects her opportunities of being accepted into colleges and her future she is unable to attend on campus due to our family taking care of our 80 year old mother and also having asthma and a family member being immune compromised she is not willing to give up her hard work and ib to attend the online academy that is not affiliated with cactus shadows high school and does not offer ib classes we also do not want to affect teachers and staff if ever we become contagious request i ask that you consider working with the ib students to give an alternate online option from the cactus shadows campus since they may not be able to offend physically some ideas may be working directly with the ib world organization with the ib teachers and the administration to work with alternative methods such as webcams and classrooms independent study canvas zoom to guide these ib students they are independent learners and can work on their own if guided by cactus shadows teachers staff and leaders they showed they can work independently already from their work when school was shut down from march to may 2020 we ask that you would be willing to work with ib parents to come up with solutions and help the teachers staff and faculty we support you that is the end of her comment next comment is from kristen pozen of scottsdale as our family makes a choice for the 2021 school year we are making it with more than our household in mind we have friends who are teachers and teachers who have become friends we are very concerned for their health and safety as well as that of the admin support staff bus drivers etc i am not confident that option two will keep anyone healthy and safe there are so many unknowns with the virus many time more time is needed to come up with better solutions my preference would be to wait until there is vaccine before anyone returns to school at a minimum wait until second semester to see how our state's cases have decreased my son is enrolled as a sophomore in honors and ap courses so he is not given a choice he must attend school on campus not only endangering himself school employees but then possibly our extended family we are blessed to have three sets of grandparents near us in scottsdale in phoenix we have been extremely careful and we we were early mask adopters as were they is it really worth it to risk lives masks on campus should be mandatory and the buses should be half full neither of these guidelines were listed in the document up for a vote tonight a robust online school offering to include honors ap and ip is the only choice we should be making considering at this time let another school district be the test case for now this will work and let's learn from that example thank you that is the end of her comment the next comment is from emily petty upon reviewing the recently announced district offerings for the 2021 school year i have suggestions about two alternatives i do understand that the district is under pressure from families with various points of view luckily as a nonpartisan school board you can rely on statistics and data to make your decision rather than politics public educators are trusted to provide our children with information that is unbiased and based in fact they bear a responsibility to also make administrative decisions based in fact rather than theory the research shows that children especially elementary age should physically be in school when possible but it also shows that there is little we know about how covid19 affects children as they have been mostly at home since march excuse me one moment many teachers are in high risk categories yet they are being deemed essential workers without being given any of the ppe or other accommodations that our other frontline workers require in order to do their job safely ccusd should follow the lead of other innovative school districts around the country by implementing the following measures delay the in-person start date for all district schools until local copit 19 numbers fall to a rate of no more than five percent positive cases for 14 days or more as recommended by the aap as you know arizona is still experiencing a percent of positive cases over 20 percent this indicates that the virus remains widespread and uncontrolled in the area an arbitrary opening date while better than august 17th is less helpful because data should dictate the safety of opening schools not a calendar prioritize in-person small group learning for students with ieps in grades case six this could be accomplished by implementing flexible learning pods with teachers and aides supervising small groups of students in tandem until full-time regular instruction is advised this model has been proposed in other districts around the country as research has shown the importance of in-person learning for children in special education and for early readers enable virtual synchronous learning for all students this can be accomplished by live streaming classes without having to hire more teachers unfortunately the online option that was chosen is subpar and it will encourage many families to leave the district to find a more robust online alternative for their kids the edmentum program does not offer the quality diverse curriculums or the caliber of instruction that ccusd teachers provide the lack of immersion programs electives and honors and apib de classes shows that admentum is clearly not a fair and equal choice for district families by installing webcams in each classroom student students can have the benefit of live teacher instruction when they are unable to attend in person especially when they will inevitably experience 14 day quarantine due to covet 19 exposure that was the end of time the next comment is from judy greene our rising seventh grader will need an instructional model not currently offered in ccusd's reopening plan specifically a live teacher-led interactive remote classroom i believe this is how your option number one is set to roll out if one were to select the return to brick and mortar eventually option we are appreciative of this format what we desire is the ability to continue in this remote yet live interactive and synchronous mode once and after campus is open and some elect to physically return to class the asynchronous online academy of excellence isn't a good fit for our learner and we are certain we will not be ready to send our child back to campus at the governor's behest will there be an opportunity to remain home yet benefit from live real-time interactive instruction at stms once campus reopen and some students physically return to campus and option number three thank you for immediately addressing our concern and providing an answer that's the end of her comment the next comment is from mark and erica popenhagen please explain to us in detail how a hybri hybrid model is too expensive to consider there are several ways to do a hybrid and i am certain that a creative yet effective model could be implemented safely in a cost-effective manner if a parent is exposed to or tests positive for covid19 their children are expected to self-quarantine for 14 days regardless of whether or not they test positive this could be very challenging for children of healthcare workers who may be exposed frequently the aoe program does not have enough teacher involvement for money children and seems to have been downplayed by many school staff what kind of learning opportunities will be available to these kids if the students can't simply bounce between in-person and the aoe because the programs are so different then there is a significant risk that these children's educations will suffer similarly the classroom are small and social distancing has been the keystone for controlling the virus while we understand that the students are mandated to wear masks masks are not suitable for social distancing both are important and have been found to be the most effective how is the district going to address this we do not understand why students cannot have temperatures taken when they arrive at school if we can test over a thousand employees at the hospital for which i work as they enter why can't we test a couple of hundred kids especially since we've been told that they will be staggered entry into the school why can it be why can it not be set up that a camera is focused on the teacher while she he teaches the lessons of the school that is then broadcast excuse me broadcast in real time to students so that they can have the benefit of the lesson as taught by their appointed teacher and all of the information that we have received from the district and from the our direct observations the teachers at ccusd are excellent children who opt to learn from home should be able to have full access to that excellence we have been told that we do not have the resources to do this in every classroom but the teachers all did this at the end of the last year from their computers so we know it can be done finally we beg the district to follow science and not emotions or budget when making decisions regarding the healthy and well-being of our students teachers staffs parents and community thank you so much that is the end of their comment next comment is from vlad malkin of scottsdale we would like to thank the board and the cactus shadows for working tirelessly in these trying times to charter the safest and most academically productive path forward during the covet pandemic that is the end of his comments the next comments are from jill willaby of cave creek what is the maximum class size for the high school will you be adding lunch periods in the high school and if not how will you meet the state requirements for group gatherings of less than 50 people will the high school close if a teacher or a staff member tests positive if so for how long if the academy of excellence is teaching a different curriculum than cactus shadows how can a student transition back to face to face after the first semester those are the end of her comments the next comments are from dr kathleen king thorius of cave creek dear superintendent burdick president hill and school board members i am writing as a parent of a ccusd elementary school student with public comments of appreciation and concern about the process and outcomes of ccusd's decision making regarding school reopening i acknowledge the complexity of this decision i miss rapid increase in cases of copin 19 and developments in state and federal guidance and mandates i greatly value the work of our educators and community members in what undoubtedly has been a painstaking process of making such consequential decisions particularly within a socio-politically charged context i respect deeply the tough decisions families and parents are making at this time as well as a public educator for over 20 years across k-21 settings in three states including arizona i appreciate what appears to be a particularly educational decision making process through the involvement of many district stakeholders in weighing available information i have particularly appreciated the communication of bms bmes pto president jessica spencer who has been a true liaison between families in the district she has both filled in gaps and so clarification and information that had not been provided through district communications particularly related to the equity implications for participating in special education and related services dual enrollment ap classes across access to technology and instruction for emergent english learners thank you to mr owsley who has provided detailed information to our families and continues to demonstrate a willingness for open communication at the same time i expected more transparent and timely reporting of the roles and information considered by the district along with the process utilized for the reopening committee to make the make and communicate decisions my concerns and related questions to the board and superintendent are as follows surveying ccusd families and staff was of utmost importance however the family survey was not designed to prove to prevent completing and submitting multiple times despite this reliable issue the instrument data analysis guided district decisions about return to school options i do not know if this was the same issue for the staff issue since i do not have access to that link but i assume the design was the same how many of the family's responses were repeat responses did the district track this information next families are in the position to choose between a face-to-face option and an online option that unenrolls their child from their public school the online option has been described in formal communications in ways that allude to district funding in educator and staff job security that is time on dr force's comment the next comment is from sean mcmillan of cave creek what is ccusd plan when children and or teachers staff get sent home due to covet exposure and or covet illness it seems like children teachers will consistently get sent home due to covet exposure and or covet illness therefore how will ccusd ensure consistent and effective learning for the students if a child is at home for 72 hours or 10 days as required by cdc and that occurs multiple times how will effective learning take place what needs to occur for the governor to shut down schools again once they get reopened what can the parents do to help besides follow cdc and ccusd guidelines besides not sending sick kids to school how can we assist in these unprecedented times what can we please do fundraise or make donations to the pto for covet-related related items please tell us please consider webcams at all schools classrooms so that once back brick and mortar return occurs but students get sick or don't feel safe returning they can still receive live instruction can parents help make this happen thank you so much and stay healthy [Music] that's the end of her comments next comment is from aaron boyd of scottsdale why is there not an option to continue online school not the virtual academy choice in conjunction with the in-person option as a third choice is is this a technology issue because live streaming equipment can be expensive or is this an educational decision or is it something else i feel the guidance being provided on how to handle masking social dish distancing hand washing etc needs to be much more detailed less vague less gray and consequences need to be clearly outlined for students who do not follow the provided instructions and how will you ensure this information is effectively communicated to parents and to students prior to schools physically reopening i have seen detailed manuals across the county that have already been distributed to parents not just a listing of facts on a website the instructions need to be clear concise and in accordance with medical professionals guidance and or cc cdc guidance for the safety of every person physically at the schools there can be no gray or room for personal interpretation in the instructions that is the end of her comment the next comment is from cynthia ray abraham of cave creek in regards to online school to transition in person my question is if we choose the option to return to traditional face-to-face schooling and then our child either one becomes ill with covid two has several severe seasonal allergies that makes their nose run sneeze and cough three sometimes gets low-grade fevers due to allergies non-contagious all of the above would require our child to stay home from school this would mean most likely for my child many more days would be missed from school than technically has allowed how would that be managed in regards to rules and also in regards to missing so much classwork would there be an option to do any work online on the days you cannot come due to things like this the scenarios above a zoom slash live or recorded video from the class an option there is likely to be many more absences than before how will this be managed so children do not fall behind thank you cynthia ray abraham that is the end of her comment next comment is from monica french of cave creek everyone knows that some parents have sent their kids to school in the past when they are sick or had fevers so if we aren't checking temps when kids enter school how will we know that isn't still happening what procedures will be in place to make sure infections are reported how will an exposure be handled if someone in my child's class is exposed will the whole class have to quarantine how will that work for learning and attendance records teachers already have so much on their plates how do we expect them now to make sure kids are properly wearing masks and also making sure class supplies door handles desks etc are cleaned and sanitized between use who was responsible for deciding our back to school programs i see keep seeing committees but why can't we as parents know who make up these committees why was the aoe offered to parents before it was ever approved by the board what are we doing to protect our teachers they come in contact with a hundred plus kids a day how are you keeping them safe that is the end of miss french's comments this is the final comment president hill it's from ashley flowers of scottsdale i would like to see the ccusd 93 consider allowing children to submit their antibody tests at some determined frequency to allow the child who have a coven 19 antibodies to attend school without masks similarly adults who also have had the antibody test would be allowed to volunteer in the school classroom once the schools are able to reopen for anyone who does not understand antibody testing antibody tests check your blood by looking for antibodies which may tell you if you had a past infection with the virus that causes covid19 antibodies are proteins that help fight off infections and can provide protection against getting that disease again immunity antibodies are disease specific for example measles antibodies will protect you from getting measles if you are exposed to it again but they won't protect you from getting mumps if you are exposed to mumps antibody tests for copin 19 are available through healthcare providers thank you for the opportunity to address the governing board during this ever-changing climate better that is the end of the comments for item 4.1 president hill thank you ms moscato uh item 4.1 presented by dr burdick and dr miller president hill governing board members and dr burdick um i'll go ahead and start since the return to school portion is listed first in the agenda item um i will assume that everyone has read this document and if not or if you have questions about that we're going to take the questions when we finish the entire item so i wanted to start off by just letting everyone know that we've had a return to school committee that consisted of parents teachers administration and staff and our committee work we've had nine meetings and we have stopped the committee work for this committee until after august 5th when school returns so that we can regroup and reassess and see where we are with what the governor is recommending what arizona department of education is recommending um and of course cdc so initially when we began our work the arizona department of education had sent four learning models that were potentials for schools and so we looked at all four of those models and we initially started a lot of work on the hybrid model and we actually had developed six potential models that might be used and what we did as a committee because this information was just to make a recommendation to the superintendent about what we were suggesting and um we voted or we did consensus and we landed on two models and even with the consensus everyone on the committee was we were landing on two models but everyone felt that the hybrid model was not good for kids and that is simply because of if we had when the arizona department of education said that and the governor said that we were going back to school we would have some kids going back to the classroom and alongside that model we would also have to have a hybrid and we're unable to run two models in a school building at one time so for instance at the elementary level if we did a hybrid we would have to designate a elementary school would be the hybrid model and then the other schools would potentially be the face-to-face models when everyone has to return and so we know that our parents are not going to want to displace their kids from one of their elementary schools to another elementary school at the middle school in high school for example if we ran those two models alongside each other um we would have to designate buildings at the middle school and high school to be the hybrid and then some buildings would be face to face and so we just determined based on that information we would make two recommendations but we don't we didn't feel like they were good recommendations then the governor came out with then his next um executive order and told us that we were going back to school on august 5th and we started looking at the two models of return distance learning plus face-to-face and then an aoi or an arizona online instruction school and prior to covid um this year we had determined that we were going to move forward with an online school and that was to capture students and parents that wanted an alternative from going to brick and mortar schools then we had covered 19.

50% a year ago expenditures are at 98.69% compared to 97.1% a year ago these um percentages are pre- audited figures and might change slightly after we work on audit some audit entries this month the district received imp fees of $54,900 came in over budget 73414 19320 of the $700,000 budget transition fees also came in a little over budget um 17 72,5 124 of the $50,000 budget bills payable for um the final June run and the month of July are typical this is the time of year where we pay bus leases our insurance um annual licenses Chromebooks a lot of big um lot of big expenses in there we need to schedule a special board meeting to review the tenative budget so if you guys go look at your calendars in close session and let Dr St know um the week of the 10th um when would be best on June 16th we held our electricity supplier live RSE auction um D energy came out the lowest price there were 65 bids from 10 different suppliers we did accept a four-year term for um 0562 kilowatt per hour um with services to begin in November of 2020 the expected savings for this is about 6,000 a year so it' be about 24,000 over the foure turn then on August 10th we have our annual audit starting question I have a quick question have we have we uh in within the numbers here we seeing any extraordinary costs due to um changes or arrangements for Co are they included here at all yet um there are some expenses that are related to the covid like the masks and the um sanitizing guns and stuff like that um purchases probably in maybe in last War's meeting could have had some in there as well okay but any significant numbers or not CU I can't see anything um I don't think it's been that significant yet thank you have we received that already car's dollars yeah are they what if we receive those at all yet we have not not received any money yet just like just like um question regarding the state supplying Mass the state said they would but there we haven't heard any guidance from the regional office or anywhere regarding that PP equipment we have an indication of the amount of money we expecting under the cash program for the cares Grant uh somewhere between $275,000 for our district is what we were given as an allotment indication but we've not seen anything come from the regional office it's supposed to come from the state to the regional office right then to the districts and that's from a giant bucket and then the dispersed correct from the state it could it could be where it's dispersed like our four different payments where we may not get it till I don't know six months from now 12 months from now basically we're writing up a plan for car's Grant and anything we're expending currently under covid we're putting in that budgetary line item okay um we'll readjust we won't readjust next this last year's budget for anything for next year we'll automatically readjust to spend all those dollars first and then anything that's an excess of that will take out of District funds do we have any other indication on impact on Revenue coming year uh Point those two for next year yeah you want to talk a little bit about the impact of revenue for next year um I'm going to go further detail in our budget for next month but um right now when I was looking at different different pieces you know um lunch revenues were down because we didn't have launches our taxes came in you know a lot lower than had anticipated um with the state 20 uh we did get um our our extra payment for the categoricals that we were not thinking we were going to get so that was good news um but for the next year we have no clue on how far behind they're going to fall it's going to be that whole where I have to report how far in the hole we are before we get our payments so um they haven't talked about Pro rating but that's always on the table um for our payments and stuff like that so I'm going to try to come up with the best plan I can for the budget and lay that all out for different where we were under where we're over and is the do the state given us any timetable on this yet no we've heard we we keep hearing from the media and Todd talked the reg Office of Education they're not getting any feedback either from the state in terms of when those dollars are coming through uh partly what Dana talked about here in the budget she she took a lot of our large expenditures and we paid out for two or three years um to get in preparation because we had some dollars because of March April May being shut down so we Ed those dollars to offset soft for licenses we might have learning management system some of those things that we use that could be extended out we got extended uh contracts with better pricing and try to pay out as much as we could to put us in a position where we have some dollars hopefully to work with next year that we already put and paid into this this year's budget we're a little ahead of the game Bas we're hoping yeah okay good thank you let's just dispense with the logic there steuart that's probably the safest assumption we've got a lot more people listening today so I think that background information I me seriously right yeah yeah right yes yes M yes yes R yes Crown I yes a motion in second I require to discuss and approve and amended 2020 to 2021 school calendar second so I placing two options in front of the Board of Education and you heard um some of the public comment related to the calendar we because of the the governor making the November 3rd election day a state holiday we had to amend the calendar anyway when we're looking at putting together a reopening plan and having everything in place and providing training to our staff we realized that we needed more time um committ commes are continuing to meet our reopening plan that we'll be sharing a little bit later with you is still fluid and we continue to gather feedback and look at look at best practice one of the things that's clear is that we need to be able to provide um frontload professional development under the under the current closure uh we are allowed up to five uh days of student attendance that can be used for staff professional development so the calendar options you have in front of you instead of the traditional 174 calendar day because of the two parent teacher days in November it goes to 169 and we frontload the professional development before students return we took into account that families if we started later would not want their children going late into June so throughout the school year we REM many of those professional development days and we basically put them in the front so um the reason why I'm recommending that we have our first day of school attendance be on August 31st is to give us um the administrative team the Committees the various groups even a little bit more additional time um to tweak the plan and have everything in place that we feel we need to including training we could make we could make either one of these plans work but it is my recommendation that we approve the August first start date I was a little concerned about the later start date later end date early start date hopefully next year um I see you did it that's June 3D would be the last day of school if we started um August 3r 3st right because by taking those other days throughout the rest of the year we were still able to complete the school year in early June of course we still had to include emergency days but under the August 31st start date the last day of school attendance would be Thursday June 3D OPP no there's all there's whole different statutes that apply to having e-learning days to be approved so that's why we built the five emergency days so it's not like we can't switch gear right we just can't say oh we're going to use an e-learning date Falls underneath different rules and statutes than the remote instruction do okay and I think what we had said to for the 2122 school year we revert to it later so theoretically on paper that would be the 18 next year a year from now right in 2021 if we stick with the same rotation we would have gone a week later correct so we're also not going to like the 11th next year August 11th we were supposed to be the 12th this year we pushed the week later I think that Wednesday is the 18th off the top my head right now because I'm a calendar it sounds um so you know so I think that at least adds another little buff in there so I know there's probably anxiety in the part of parents myself included who you know we've had short Summers before this was a really really long summer especially if we add on not mean it lasted a lot longer as well I still get to leave the house so to go to my office so I'm okay with it uh but uh you know when I heard that this was on the table I mean I breathe a sigh of relief I'm not an anxious person at Baseline and the last few days and talking to teachers and talking to parents and talking to people in this room um has been extremely anxiety inducing for me and so I I think just knowing that there's something like this on the table I think it allows you guys as ad ation us as a board to support that right but allows you guys more time it allows our teachers to have uh the ones that I've spoken to directly to breathe this s of relief to say okay do we want to start late or no but you know what it helps us feel better prepared for whatever it is that we are ultimately going to do and we're being more conscious of how we are building in uh PD and we're you know peer leadership if we we as a board decide we're going to bring some people in to help us with that that's the thing those are the things that we need to think about and I think that just an extra 2 and a half week just feels a lot better to me than starting in 23 days that just does not seem palatable because of the uncertainty that still exists I think something that Jeff Gorman and I talked about too just along these lines of the timing of all this we just happen to have these other schools have board meetings earlier than we do and so it feels like we're behind the eightball and really we're just doing the same thing at our board meetings that other schools did two weeks ago and some last week to be fair I think that's another source of anxxiety just the way that we've always third Monday at least since I've been here uh it just it's like bad timing to help sort all this out so I think it just buys us more time and I understand parents concerns believe me I do I have a lot of my professional and personal and all this stuff but I I think that this to me uh mostly for our teachers again whatever ends up happening I think this building these days in I think is extremely important so we are not scrambling because teachers already feel the uncertainty parents feel the uncertainty everybody in this room at this tea this long table feels the uncertainty and I think I think I I am absolutely in support of that while not ideal I think it's the best option we have now to feel even a little better prepared or hopefully notice that we better prepared yeah I would no sorry well I mean things are actually moving to of as actual properly planned remote learning process as opposed to the crisis system we had in March right is that going to be enough time because we need to start training we need to start setting up I mean curriculum I mean the whole the whole thing literally have to start from scratch now right I hope not no it allows us a chance to bring the faulty back for full five days before students come back and um this allows us some additional time for our committees to continue to work and refine the plan um we continue to re receive feedback and guidance is changing on a regular basis yeah so it gives us a chance then to be able reflect on that as well so I believe it's a measured approach and um while other districts have announced their plans I'm sure that many of their plans are much like ours that are fluid and um I know that you know they could consider updating and changing their plans as well yeah I would agree that you know having that extra time and then the teachers have requested personable development for remote learning and that it's definitely that's something going to be addressed and then since since we do have a little bit larger of an audience could you discuss those committees what the Committees are and then who they're made up of because it it seems you know I'm getting a little bit of feedback that is just happening in a bubble from the community and I know that's not the case I just want somebody else to be able to understand that it's who's what the Committees are and then who's in those committees what type of people doesn't have to be named but what type of I think it's actually on the website we have's listed up there in the reopening plan so like everybody can see that um I think first it's it's I think what people have to understand is you can't build a plane as you're waiting for people to come up with decisions so you put a plan in place and you know that you're going to change it and we've said it all along we've never said this is the plan we're going to stay with this plan we're not moving it's all draft it's all based on guidance it's all based on information we're receiving from community members from experts in the field um and we have a lot of experts in the field out there in the community that are responding to us and as we're getting information we're having conversations taking it back to committee work and trying to decide which way is the best way to go uh the Committees we have we have a governance committee which is made up of a primarily Administration that's taking all the committee work that comes to the governance committee and then we try to set policy because policy has to come to the Board of Education um and that's where we'll look at attendance policies grading policies policies about individual education plans um how do we meet the needs of all of those things that are legal um in terms of meeting the guidelines for um operations you know forming machines sanitation uh how do clean the the classrooms how do we make sure we get the large units taken care of um that's all coming to governance from governance we have um we have one called Wellness Wellness is uh made up of they're all made up of except for governance they're all made up of support staff um parents teachers Administration so it's a combination of a multitude of those we did limit the number obviously because the larger a committee gets the less work you get done and so we tried to limit the committee to a reasonable amount um we did ask for volunteers from the teaching staff and the teachers that all the teachers that actually volunteered but two were able to be placed on a committee um to to be working with us in addition we have our CA president and vice president who did not take one of those seats that are sitting on on four different committees um we have Wellness which really covers the nursing it covers social emotional learning um it covers Michelle and Mike actually uh kind of do that can you guys talk about else you're covering in their committee I you guys move to micophone two people text me you can't hear me well this this thing feedback I'm getting on my phone and I can usually talk loud well good evening Board of Education so it's Mike and Michelle and we are overseeing the wellness committee for the school district um we've talked about those variety of topics obviously we're talking about safety we're talking about health care um we're talking about some of our procedures within the nursing office or students that might be symptomatic um we're talking like lots of those types of topics personal protective equipment it's been a big conversation as well cleaning all of those types of things so some of our conversation does overlap you know like with buildings and grounds and and other committees as well but those been major focuses we then broke out into subgroups we have a group working on the visitors procedures we have a group working on kind of the the health procedures within the building as well like visiting the nurses office Etc and we also have another committee that's done some great work looking at social emotional learning and maybe what we can do within addition to meet the needs of our students so we have them really coming up and generating some procedures and some plans for us that we're reviewing then and then we're going to present in more detail as we move forward too with the governance committee so that's been a major focus of the wellness committee and then these meetings are ongoing I mean they've happened about once a week some cases we're doing two weeks okay depending on what information we have on our agenda and if we were able to get to the material the other committee that's running is special education in English language Learners again uh Mike and Michelle are fronting that because that's out of the student service department you want talk a little bit about what you discussed at that meeting sure well we we talked about the guidelines that came out from isby and idph relative to special education they did speak to that um We are continuing to focus on providing special education services to our students um and what that's going to look like with a blended model with a remote ladel and partnering with curriculum instruction on that so that's obviously service deliver is a major focus of this committee and what that's going to look like for our students with the various models that we have available um we also talked about compliance types of issues like IEP meetings making sure we're meeting deadlines for an reviews making sure we're meeting deadlines for evaluations because we can do inperson evaluations now we've worked and partnered with some of our um evaluators about personal protective equipment what that situation is going to look like we've come up with some assessment guidelines with them as well so we're really looking at ways to tackle all of those particular subjects when it talks about special education compliance we are looking to do most of our iip meetings remotely um as we reopen school we had a lot of great success with our Google Google meet platform and our feedback from our families and from our staff is that platform had work well so we would anticipate most of those meetings would be held remotely um El we're talking about they have to do some screening and they're talking about Services you know looking at models of Service delivery pushin models versus pull out models so we're trying to um learn a little bit and work with our eel um we have the eel people on our committee as well and kind of helping guide them and what what some of those things we're going to look like when they're trying to um you know screen students and service those students that have related needs so that's been a major focus of our community lots of different topics and we've had some great Partnerships with our stakeholders a lot of good feedback a lot of great questions some questions that continue to come in that we're definitely thinking about some that were read about you know tonight at the board meeting that we're continuing to review and and make sure we give good clear communication and guidance about what's to be expected so I'm glad we're adding some more questions to the FAQ and uh we're we're continuing to address those as as well as as a as a district so oh good to hear I mean we have three more committees yet we're we're not Clos don't want the answer all right we'll step back from this one that's theirs now the next two committees that we we have that kind of um overlap a little bit one is facilities the other one is operations Dana leads up the operations uh committee and Dan pa um does the facilities facilities we have a subcommittee of custodial staff buildings grounds and maintenance that work with him on the sideline some of them participate as well talking about cleanliness of buildings how do we train our custodial staff what do we need inside the building for foaming machines how do we make sure that we have locations for sanitation on ends of hallways how many can we put in each building um what kinds of sanitz can we use inside the office what do we put inside the classrooms with the high school going to a more of a traditional schedule how do we ensure that there sanitation in every single classroom partly we don't see sanitation one of the questions was why not every classroom every Elementary School for the most part has a sink inside their classroom so they can wash their hands inside their classroom there's soap and water right there kids can go right to the sink to do that so there's not a need necessarily for us to put um the what's it called hand sanitizers in there so Dan has walked all the buildings and he is currently working with the facilities Department to put all those things into place Dana Works operations and I'll let her talk a little bit about what she does but she's dealing more with Transportation lunch some those operational type things um yes both of those agendas kind of Co mingle but um on the operations agenda uh food service we do have um a subcommittee out of the food service so all the head Cooks so all seven schools are meeting um we've been meeting weekly just to kind of come up with more what kind of containers are we going to use what's what's our menus going to look like um how are we going to get the food from if we're not serving it on a tray for the elementary to get it to where they're seated um a lot of the you know can we adjust our schedules on deliveries and things that are more at the specific levels for food um and then on the transportation side same thing how how we're going to get the buses sanitized in between routes and um making sure um the entry tickets are being you know the drivers will have to look at the entry tickets and stuff like that so um director Porto is working with a subcommittee of of some bus drivers and they've come up with some other ideas and questions to and through the committee we just try to figure out the best possible solutions and um a lot of good ideas coming out of them and a lot of questions coming up that you don't think about um free and reduced students how do we feed them on remote days um just came up today so we've had two or three meetings and new things come up all the time so it's just a running agenda and we just try to get answers as we can get them so and then the last committee is the instruction committee so the instruction committee is made up of CCC members who whoever wanted to participate as well as we offered additional teachers to join that um as well as uh we have our CA president that's part of that conversation parents that are on that conversation we have paros uh that are on that um Brian Tobin's on it as technology to make sure we're covering all of the elements in that committee we're talking a lot about you know um what's the grading going to look like what do we do about attendance policy how are we going to go about instruction what might we want to be doing here how do we you know we're going to get to how do we adjust our stand standards how do we assess students as they enter our doors to make sure that we know where the students left the doors in the spring and where do we have gaps in their learning and how do we close those gaps um what does vertical articulation look like between the grade level teacher last year to the new grade level teacher to make sure we know where we have holes inside of our curriculum once we assess those students um in the first three week three or four weeks then what how do we go about differentiating how do we make sure that they're getting the the new standards the new curriculum yet folding in the curriculum that may was Miss missed last year so all of those questions are being handled through the instructional committee um so as when we talk about a plan everybody's asking for a plan so we did put a plan out there to try to give people an idea of what we're thinking about because we had a lot of anger and a lot of angst out there about okay you're not doing anything well we have a plan but it's not fully baked um so we're putting stuff out and it you know we're building it as we're flying I hate to say that but that's the reality of the situation we're in so as guidance comes we keep adjusting it we're going to go through a pathway to reopening tonight by no means by no means you know is it even close to being completed uh but it is a draft to get us going to think about things to get some questions answered for our community members our staff um so that we can try to alleviate some of the stress that they're feeling um that being said we have a lot a lot of work yet to do uh to be prepared for this school year no thank you I mean think it's you know that from what I've been hearing and just like Eric had mentioned and Stuart had mentioned there is a lot of anxiety and uh you know that it's all these decisions are being made in a bubble and uh you know you know fortunately I'm on the inside and I can see that it's just you know we've got 500 people listening today I don't think we've ever even had 500 people total in a year actually paying attention so I think it's good to hear that you know there are committees and it's not just a few people it's you know it's community members parents it's teachers it's admin you know it's you know Direct s of facilities and things like that so cool thank you you're welcome there's there's obviously a lot going on and a lot to do and that will change tomorrow as you quite rightly say right yes the the the the question of discussion right now is the question of the calendar for the coming year at what point and how will it work well somebody says we're just not ready I mean there has to come a point when mean the last thing we want to do is open an open badly right going to do it going to do it properly as you say there's a lot still to discuss to work work out and again that will change how does that process work when somebody says listen we're just not going to be ready not and then so the calendar has to be reviewed again oh I don't think the calendar will have to be reviewed again I think that's our Target you know even if you said no tonight our Target would be to hit the mark where we have to hit it we won't hit it no I understand every's working towards that but I mean there comes a point where say listen either technolog is there or the the the training's not there or something I'm seeing particular the remote learning we it we have training working right now we have I have my instruction coaches building PD as we speak all that's working behind the scenes and have no doubt they positive to get it done but y I mean our our options are to leave the current calendar in place and just replace the November 3rd date I'm recommending the extension of 31 because we need additional time to work through this and I couldn't agree more with plan and get our get our plan you know even more polished and ready I'll wait addition guidance we hear sometimes that additional guidance will be forthcoming so it gives a little time for that as well so I raised a couple questions earlier today on the two weeks extension of beginning of school and we all know this in this room anyway the strength of the Illinois Teachers Association what they came out today that they don't want to come back to school to teach they want everything online so more than half of your planning is for in-person instruction I would I would say um what happens in two weeks when their shackles are in so deep that we go to online learning I actually have a two-tiered plan in this Pathway to be opening that we'll go over in a little bit where we're looking at alternating I I think the the reality is it's not if we'll go to remote learning it's really when we'll go and so I think uh to be prudent we have to plan for both and so we are trying to do a tiered two-tiered system to make sure we prepared in in my mind um I think we have to look at what's the best way to educate students it shouldn't matter where they're seated right if we educate students with the mindset that we're always educating them as if they're in our face to face and we're trying to adjust our curriculum and our our pedagogy to meet the needs of students regardless of where they're sitting I think as a district our teachers are very qualified and very you know very good teachers I think they can get that done it's a matter of how do we train them and help them to support them to be able to do that and I think that's a plan we have to put in place as we look at professional development uh to make sure that they can see it from both a face-to-face perspective and a remote learning perspective how do you meet those kids behind the screen and how do you make sure that you're using the time um that's relevant and researched based on the students's age that's appropriate for screen time um and still getting a much better education or learning from our mistakes if you will learning from what happened last spring we've heard from many parents um you know of what they'd like to see and so it's really taking what we've heard and trying to um develop a system that will work for us I think we have to be prepared for both and in this plan we do have this is what it looks like alternate and this is what it looks like remote because the reality is we gave parents an option for both and so we have to be prepared to do both I would agree but the my question I guess is pointed at the five days well the three additional days before school starts for teachers so I understand administration's working today you know for this plan um but that helping teachers with professional development it's not like they're going to have an extra two weeks well I think one of the things uh Dave Chapman cea president said is you know we can offer it to teachers it doesn't mean that they have to take it but I I do think there's a lot of teachers that will take the time we have Central PD which we do a lot of online university we call it central PD right Central University uh where we're doing a lot of professional development that can be done online at home streaming kind of looking at it from that way it's been built that way in canvas and I think there are teachers I think Dave's correct that there are teachers out there that would be willing to to do that there's some teachers won't that's okay we'll pick them up in those three days but some of those teachers are going to go on do that themselves our instructional coaches are building stuff uh we just talked I just talked to them today you know we've got six different modules coming out and as we build those modules and we have those ready to go for teachers to look at I think it'll help them hopefully alleviate some of the anxiety that they have um so that they can take it while they're at home more on their time frame not sitting here in three days because you're right three days we can't get it all done right but we'll do the best that we can so maybe the better question I think to Jeff and I spoke briefly about this last week you know so what if it was the 24th like maybe how do we arrive at the 31st as opposed to the 24th well 21st was teachers right so it was really to make sure we could get everything up on Central PD make sure we get teachers uh communicated with and what we had to offer make sure they had time to actually complete the training if they chose to do so um from their home before we actually started school um so we had a little bit of time for to offer that to them at their home um and then hopefully we have some teachers that take that advantage of that and then when they return we look to say okay how do we mitigate specific either grade levels teachers to make sure we're getting them the the training that they need where I can utilize my seven instructional coaches to actually go and support those teachers face Toof face because maybe they are not online Learners and they need that more face- tof face instruction as well and I think something to point out for those people at home too you know in week three and week five also two built-in remote learning planning days there two Wednesdays completely off again for the benefit of teachers ideally right that over the first yeah we 12 school days they can identify where do we need that extra support right now where do we need to get in two weeks as we continue to collaborate right right one of the things we heard from some teachers was that it would be beneficial to have front loading of PD kind of work on it tweak it then as we're moving along we may need to tweak it can we have time to actually tweak it and so those days provide that time for them to make adjustments and things that maybe aren't working to make it a little bit better and a lot of that came out of your your committee discussions then correct well it came out of a discussion we had with Union representation yes and then PD for everybody home is a personal development right PD would be professional development professional devel I'm lost with these initials now and I'm sorry yeah we have a lot of acronyms anyone else okay we would we what are we voting are we voting which one we want we know we need someone to make a I don't think we think the mo to discuss but not which one we're voting it was just discussed so someone it was the amended it was the amended calendar two calendar shown yeah but I brought two present we get a motion in second to approve the amended calendar that starts in 2020 2021 school year on August 31st for students for students for students we write can you write any f f faster Pam got it because I can't speak faster ready kellenburger yes Dolan yes P yes gra yes Brown I yes yes next any Motion in second to discuss and approve the release of Clos session items Mo second uh memo is included in your board packet along with the agendas and the Personnel reports issues addressed in executive session from January 2020 to June 2020 include items related to Personnel uh the sale or purchase or lease of District property and student discipline the Personnel reports are public information any items related to student discipline or ongoing discussion related to the sale or lease of land and litigation will be kept closed in that release for public review the agendas and personal reports are included with this memo questions Nolan yes yes R yes Brown Johnson yes helenberg yesman yes move on to information items the central 301 Pathway to reopen schools uh for for our community members that are listening to the board meeting uh remotely you can access this plan through boardbook on the district's web page so on on the district's web page under Board of Education you can go to board meeting and then under board meeting you'll see a link called board book the agenda is there right there and board book and this document you'll be able to access so that you can review it as we're talking about it so this I want to begin by saying this is a draft document and is subject to change as conditions and guidance from government agencies is updated this is our Central Pathway to reopening and it includes Wellness instruction operations human resource and communication it's currently a 19-page document I don't believe it will become shorter if anything I believe it will become lengthier as we continue to navigate through this process uh to cover a brief summary and I think Dr mongan already covered this pretty well over the past month we've been working on different uh Pathways to reopen for next school year the district continues to prepare for educational plans and operational protocols based on guidance from the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Public Health we also work closely with the K County Health Department and the state's five-phase reopening Plan called restore Illinois in that plan um it's linked in this document for your review one of the things that we're going to stress continuously is that it's important to note that during any phase of the reopening plan if staff students anyone if they're feeling um ill if they have any of the possible symptoms on the covid list that they please stay home we're currently in phase four of the restore Illinois plan which is revitalization during this phase social distancing guidelines are in place Gatherings of 50 people or less and designated space are permitted and um and we also will be following the the rules set forth by the state and the Illinois High School Association for athletics one area that we've spent and continue to spend a um much time with is health and wellness uh which is documented in this uh guide We are following guidance from the Illinois Department of Public Health the Illinois State Board of Education and the Center for Disease Control and prevention using this guidance we've developed protocols to allow for a return to in-person instruction I cannot overemphasize the importance of good hygiene among our staff students and visitors and this includes frequent handwashing and sanitation of the buildings one of the questions that have been asked numerous times um either in public comment and through our FAQ is what happens in the event of a confirmed covid case well it's outlined here in the event of a confirmed covid case we've been asked to notify the King County Health Department and then we have to notify people that had close contact and close contact is currently defined uh by someone being within six feet of the infected person for a sustained period of 15 minutes or longer if that is the case then those individuals must s self-isolate at home and be alert for symptoms students will stay home for at least 10 days and must be fever free for 72 hours or have two negative covid-19 tests in a row with testing at least 24 hours apart of course as new guidance emerges these guidelines may change then there's guidance for classrooms too and you'll be able to read through this in the document but I want to highlight some some major areas we're going to clearly Mark classroom areas where to sit stand line up for six feet spacing if possible we're going to emphasize sanitizing hands whenever anyone enters a classroom this could be done in different ways through a hand sanitizer through a restroom sink through a sink in the classroom um we're going to maximize ventilation in the building uh we have increased our filter replacement in the FAQ we've added coils for disinfecting to our air handling systems and we will display clearly visible signage to remind everyone of social just distancing just like we have here in our inperson meeting tonight for preschool uh pre kindergarten uh Early Childhood classrooms we want to limit student Movement we want them to stay within the same group throughout the day we want to schedule and coordinate restroom and handwashing breaks throughout the day we want to have clearly Merk common areas we want to refrain from sharing school supplies and we want to coordinate Recess by classroom to minimize student mixing in kindergarten through th grade we will have um the same classroom group throughout the day uh we'll take precautionary sanitation measures utilizing small group instructional uh spaces and when there has to be close contact with students face Shields and maths are um available as well as some partitions in grades 6 to 8 students will remain in the same classroom throughout the day they order to maximize social distancing as best as possible we're going to stagger transition times and again as I mentioned before in and we're going to stress proper handwashing and sanitation in grades 9 to 12 we want to maximize social distancing within classroom spaces it is required that teachers provide assigned seating for students and require students to remain in their seats to the greatest extent possible we want to stagger transition times and coordinate activities by grade level to minimize student mixing in our specialized programs we want to take extra precaution for sanitation measures when utilizing these small group instructional spaces P if I could um one of the questions that was asked was U one of the questions we keep getting from parents is how do we manage students in an AB schedule um and so we're not taking desks out of classrooms if you can imagine that say there's 24 kids in a classroom there'll be 24 Des but the social distancing would be that the a students they the kids that are coming on that Monday Thursday would be dispersed six feet apart have their own desk with their own supplies all maintained in that desk that they would keep all year when the next rotation comes in they would take the opposite desks that have not been sat in and put their supplies in so they'll have an own desk that will be located in there uh the numbers in the classroom will be what allows us the six foot distancing U but the desks will remain as they are in the classroom so I think some parents felt that we going to keep the same desk or use somebody else's desk that's not at all what we're anticipating we plan them having their own desk with their own supplies at the middle school level that was a little more challenging for us there's a lot of discussion out there it's in our instruction committee um we're thinking about having um some kind of a bin that students would have their own personal bin where they keep their supplies by their desk uh because we don't want them using lockers at the um the middle school or the high school so we really have to try to readjust how we're going to take care of some of those personal supplies that they may have they probably have in their backpack but there may be some things like a whiteboard markers that teachers will want to use that we might put in bins for each student so it's only a student material and not shared across the the classroom and we're not planning putting Plex CL desk no uh we have plexiglass for students where there's not six foot that could be maintained we' have plexiglass uh reading interventionists might be working closely with a student psychologists might be testing students social workers may be working closer with students students with special needs sometimes that distancing is difficult so we have face Shields masks and we also have some plexiglass whatever if works best for the student and the teacher okay we also have um included in the document guidance for common areas for cafeterias restrooms hallway main office areas uh for expectations there one of the of areas will be marked in the restroom um certain urinals will be closed so that there's distancing that even takes place in using those bathrooms and they will have a extra scheduled disinfecting throughout the course of the school day um it's important to remind everyone that we are requiring face coverings for all students and staff while inside the building when you're outside the building in Social distancing can occur at six feet or more it is permissible to remove a mask can we address that perceived discrepancy because there's a lot of stuff online about that this idea that it said in fq that kids would be able to take their masks off it's one thing like I've just done right like we're doing and drinking and putting it back on um so can that be addressed what because that was confusing to me I think it's difficult to to respond I mean if if a kid has water in their classroom they're going to have to remove their mask to drink the water if they have a snack break during the classroom they're going to have to remove their mask to do the snack um so I guess we could say no I mean right now we have breaks built into the schedule because I think they're going to need that we talk about breaks we talk about snack breaks water breaks those types of things we can remove that so maybe the way we we worded it in the FAQ could have been I think the wording was if they're working quietly at their desk that's different than a snack break and that's different than a 30 second water break where everybody holds their mask and you know like again I said to people like my kids love that like you know you got to figure it out I think there's a huge modeling component right for how teachers approach it how parents approach it how I approach my office with kids who are anxious about it or parents that are anxious about it right like I mean you know I'm wearing I'm wearing a mask I don't see people in person but I put mine on to show kids like the different ones that I have right and I think we can do that uh so I think that Clarity is really important because I think there's a lot of distress and we had a couple you know letters about that and idph guidelin so I think that makes perfect sense to me because you can't do that we want kids to be hydrated especially if we're going to have more movement braks and it's 90 degrees and they're going to be outside twice a day even for just 10 minutes to run around the building one time I think that's all fantastic uh so thank you for clarifying that I think that needs to be there I'll redo the the FAQ I think it's that simple okay and the there is another point that there are masks and masks by the way right I mean is the element of saying well somebody just basically putting a the rag over the face is not a mask I'm assuming there be some control for for the not wearing a face mask for the students yeah yeah we'll have part of our student parent handbook uh adjustments we have quite a few adjustments that will come to the board a couple of our principles and Stacy work come out instruction again working some policy regarding attendance the next piece will be working on discipline regarding face masks um and what our expectations is because we obviously we expect them to wear them and there will be consequences and there be guidelines what and at some point right if if we if it escalates I think the the final point will be that they'll actually be remote learned you know we remove them from the class from the school if they can't wear them my question is basically will there be some guidelines as to what actually a a acceptable mask is right oh we a drawing in the handbook that says a bandan is not allowed we we will make sure there's no profanity and we'll we'll talk about what the face mask should have standards mass for Mk just like it is for t-shir we just haven't gotten to that point yet that'll be in the handbook as well as we start to work on policies a lot of that's coming out of the student parent handbook that will come back um we'll probably end up having a have a special board meeting to get all of those things passed through but that will be the next step of policy the other thing I've seen a lot of recently the last few weeks is the whole question of whether the teach teaching staff will be provided with n95 masks no we are not will not supplied with n95 masks they'll be provided with cloth mass then there's no requirement for that there is no State requirement that we reply staff with a 95 Mass long as be an evaluation I think the the purpose of a mask is to protect the person I'm talking to not to protect you yeah um and so I think it's remembering what the purpose of the Mask is and reading the CDC guidelines and the idph um and so does not require an n95 mask for for teachers uh it really is to protect the students or the students to protect you know the teacher right that give them take I'm protecting Chrissy Chrissy's protecting me yeah um and I mean just just to clarify again I know because M the mosque issue is an issue I don't quite know why but it is an issue that we're very clear that no masks no entrance basically no if there's a medical reason for no mask uh which we can have a doctor's note that gives students and and staff wear face the right to not wear a face mask um they would be given and granted that we can't kick them out if they have a medical there we have some students who would maybe have sensory issues um other health type issues and we have to take that into account and meet their needs as well and in those cases a face mask uh a face mask may not be reasonable and which at which time then we would expect a face shield to be worn okay well we try sheld if we couldn't do that we would try to put together some kind of individual education plan but we are going to deal with the situation whereby a student comes to school and says I don't have a mask because I'm I don't need one refusal no refusal will be dealt with yes and you know there is I it was a few weeks ago I don't know if it's was a 301 families or hbt thing and I don't comment too often on those for obvious reasons but there was one that very clearly was my first amendment right I can wear I want well back at Central when I was here you could still wear Johnson t-shirts and that one way very quickly by the time I left high school because they were grossly inappropriate and eventually you just said no we have you know it's distracting in the school environment you could imagine what a kid who willfully is not wearing a mask would do to the other kids in the classroom it would be grossly disturbing to the academic environment for that to be the case which is a threshold that we use for that kind of stuff so I don't I think the discussion is done right I mean I think as long as we're on the same page and again as a physician who has worked very closely with 303 more so than our own Support Services people that we have in here and kind of how notes get written for let's say Homebound and stuff like that I want to monitor pretty closely what kinds of notes we have coming in and who's going to ultimately be that I know if you have an MD behind your name you can kind of say whatever you want but that doesn't mean that we can't follow up to kind of assess the overall medical needs I think there needs to be a diagnosis on there that allows for that not just patient is not required to wear a mask which is my concern and maybe that's pessimistic but just that is my concern that we're going to have going to the family that we have who's a doctor and and is is it once it's come in do we just not ask any questions are you're on the wellness committee I mean what are we going to do for for families who who have opted very vocally in some of our public r i mean you can choose to do what you want to do but we also have to educate our children in the safest way possible and so what are we going to do if we start getting what could be perceived as nonmedically necessary notes but that are signed by a doctor what are we going to do about that I think we'll be looking at every every know it on a case-by Case basis we know the medical history of all of our students we know you know the historical context of all of our students we have documentation records uh so if if a parent were to come in and you never saw anything we would definitely be verifying and double cheing and doing some followup in some capacity you know many students might have anxiety that we're not familiar with and they're seeing some other you know getting support services that do does not impact them in school as well but those are things we would want to follow up on on a case-by Case basis and given obviously what I do I think there is so much of this projection of Parental anxiety and I the vast majority of kids barring in the underlying sensory stuff primarily from my perspective as a child psychiatrist are not going to have issues of anxiety I mean for me this is like a great way to further uh demonstrate your personality what you like my kids all of a sudden like Pikachu because a friend of a friend made him a mask that had Pikachu on it they didn't even know who Pikachu was but now they love Pikachu because it was on their face right so I I think that again back to the modeling component I think that's huge and I think that all parents are obligated to to do this even if they don't necessarily agree with it or understand it but that's bottom line that's going to be our expectation so parents can start working now to support their kids their friends kids their whomever they need to to help make it easier not perfect but easier than it might seem now I think it's very important that we make the regulations clear there is no doubt I mean and so that there isn't a an ongoing conversation it's either yes or no at time I think medical exemptions are the only out correct what's that medical exemptions medical exemptions that's the only reason you must have a medical exemption yes under under our guidance uh for common areas we're also um providing access to school buildings to authorized personnel only and anyone who does come into the building must undergo a pre-certification form uh for health screening and that's covered later on in this document also include included guidance for shared materials and that um it's very important that any shared materials if it must occur you want to keep it to a minimum but if there's any sharing materials then disinfecting has to take place right away and then um that's true for not only classroom materials but athletic materials as well and then he screenings it's important to note and I said before if if anyone has any of the symptoms associated with covid we ask that they please stay home students will not be penalized for missing school and are encouraged to stay home when not feeling well and then it lists all the various symptoms of covid and what we are asking is if you have any of those symptoms you must remain home students will wear a face mask covering and remain in the quarantine area if they come down to the office with the simp symptoms and then um the trans they will Arrangements will be made for their parents to come and pick them up and they will be supervised in the quarantine area until they're able to leave um the next area addressed in the plan is hygiene so staff and students and I mentioned this earlier staff and students must sanitize their hands at either a hallway foaming station a restroom sink or classroom sink upon entering a classroom hand sanitizer will be placed in common errors throughout the school building each building will place signage reminding people for proper hand hygiene in the appropriate areas so um assisting students May sometimes require close contact hand washing or sanitizing must be done before and after contact with students then we go into the illness procedures any individual who tests positive for covid or shows any signs or simp for illness should stay home and then we will follow the guidelines of the CDC and the Illinois Department of Public Health it is recommended that if you are medically fragile and imuno compromised students consult with their medical provider before attending school again any individual who shows symptoms will be immediately separated from the school population and they will be sent home we have those spaces identified in each school they're going to be well Wellness is working on those currently do you guys have spaces to step I think it's going to be conference rooms or yeah we're looking at conference rooms in all the buildings because I was even going to say I mean you know when I hbt let's say during the day during lunchtime there's a good portion of teachers for their three separate blocks are are in there two three or four blocks are in there um are we even going to encourage teachers to like be pres I mean as it can be like you're kind of relegated to your rooms and that's a nice open spot like an hbt right near the nurses station just thinking about SE soide obviously yeah we're asking staff to pretty much isolate as much as they can and not going into commoners who who actually would do this separation would it the nurse be doing this or would be the the the actual the actual class teacher if if there are symptoms shown and they have there symptoms that be sent to the nurse's office and the nurses would work with their building Administration and so the teacher the class teacher would take them down to the nurses room or send them to the nurses room if they broke out a symptom during class yeah yes as mentioned before face coverings must be worn at all times that includes even on the school bus even when social distancing is maintained it's important to note that Central 301 will provide three class masks to employees one to wear one to spare and one to be laundered and a face shield to staff and or students when needed students will be expected to provide their own face masks I know that the state is promised to provide us PPE equipment but and I hope that they do but in the spring we also put in a request for PPE equipment and we never received uh the equipment that was promised so I think we have to have a fallback plan are we uh I think somebody asked this maybe at last meeting are we procuring um gel at this point like what are we doing for hand sanitizer I mean as a school district we have like different access I know on Amazon I as a physician I can go on and have access to different large quantities of we're working with our vendors to provide us with stations and with San hand sanitizer and then it's important to note that we have two types of sanitizer that we're able to use we have electrostatic guns that use one type of sanitizer but it has a 10-minute dry time then we have another sanitizer uh that is food based sanitizer that is EPA approved for covid which has a shorter dry time for other areas so that's not for hands hand San that's for oh in hand sorry thank you yeah we have we have gallons gallons that we're buying that we would fill uh we have Fort ones we have foaming stations so you actually walk up to foaming stations we're currently working on the high school because that's our biggest challenge at this point just because of the structure of how their schedule doesn't work like a an elementary and middle school was able to adapt it um but based on that we're trying to get hand sanitized in every classroom um and so Dan is currently working with his vendor to see we can't get the machines the the actual you know like you walk into a censored one we can't get those they're not available but definitely we can get pumps and then you also mentioned that each of the Elementary classes has a SN most of there are some that I I don't think the lake has sinks if I recall but I believe the other ones all have sinks in their classrooms and then there's some classrooms that may not have them in those cases we would offer hand sanitizing uh for their classroom correct it's important to note that immunization and physical requirements of the state of Illinois have not changed so we would still expect that all of our families are compliant with immunization and physicals by the exclusion date of October 15 then um as I mentioned earlier about social distancing we'll have visual reminders throughout the building and in the hallways reminding people about social distancing handwashing uh we will be staggering bus loading and unloading and passing periods meal times bathroom breaks to ensure student and staff safety and then training we're going to uh require staff members uh to be receive training related to physical distancing face covering and hand hygiene procedures and then um at the beginning of the year we'll be working uh teachers will be working with their students also training them in those protocols and then uh visitors will be restricted as I mentioned to essential personnel only visitors to any building must always wear an appropriate and approv face covering and Report Direct to the main office for a wellness screening and then the wellness screening is identified below that in the document so we're basically saying the visitors remain in the in this the lobby area they would remain in the office area until the screening is completed including a temperature check and the questionnaires and then then there per no we we're limiting any uh visitors to the building at this time with the exception of uh parents for an IEP where they want to come face to face they can still be done legally uh via Google meets or some kind of digital means but if a parent really wants to come meet with the team we would allow that for individual education plans otherwise we're really we're not taking volunteers we're not doing the normal things we would generally do inside of a school system we'll be at a halt um as a matter of fact we talked a little bit today about is there a way for us to use Alis Thomas had developed a QR code where parents can actually scan a QR code and they can answer a bunch of questions for their student that may be tardy or whatever so they can get into the build and then we talked about even having our secretaries walk out maybe and having parents sign their kid out instead of having them enter the building we're still working on those procedures and protocols but uh definitely bringing somebody else in we're trying to limit that as much as possible in every building on the question of IEPs I mean and and and know it was mentioned earlier that you're looking to actually make those remote where possible right yes correct I know that some of those meetings can be can have a lot of people in them yes right both internally and externally people right do we actually have the locations to be able to do those the actual physical spaces where we can actually maintain social distancing properly well you could bring them here we talked about coming here because you definitely could social distance here I don't think most parents want to come here I think uh if we use the conference rooms like they're talking about for wellness that's one of the larger spaces but we could always use a classroom okay um and then clean it I mean the issue is the cleaning but you I don't think we'll see a lot of those I think many of them will still be done virtually we didn't have a lot of requests last year did we there pretty you happy with virtual that is correct and it depends the fa like the high school there's a couple different confer room and a couple the larger so social could you even could you even do a mix whereby you've got some in person and some some remotely yeah yeah you could do we' actually doing that for committee meetings that want to come this we us have here come in we people but generally they be encouraged to be Remote Full Stop yeah okay parent teacher conferences open houses that'll all be done virtually I got a couple questions so back on page five when we're talking grades 6 to 12 it's talking about transition time so are we those students in those grade levers are switching classrooms or the high school is switching classrooms every period just like a normal schedule um the Middle School it depends so physical education we'd like them to take them outside uh if we can't get them outside on a ready day we'd like them to maybe use the way um extend those students out six to get them moving and those types of things that's the transition we have students that get intervention services uh special education services maybe they get Social Work Services there's were some transitional pieces the overall groups in uh 68 will be in a classroom and the teachers will go to them but there will be some movement depending on what a student schedule is at the middle school to meet some of the needs that they have um at the elementary we still haven't gotten to the intervention piece to figure out what that's going to look like right now now we're thinking pushing that may not always work so we may have to look at how does that look in a pullout model and having some movement again for our elementary as well for those kind of special services and then my other question related to sports um there were several questions about that can you kind of give us an update where we're at with that I'm kind of I guess well the that we not in Texas people well so about a couple weeks ago we were ready to hit the ground running and then we had a School District close by who was shut down for Co um and at that point the ihsa um stepped back a little bit and started to change the guidelines a little bit during that whole time and Dr Sterns and my conversation with uh Steve dersy the athletic director the the challenge was how do you manage this how are you going to guarantee that you're going to keep these kids safe why why are the guidelines for athletics different than the guidelines that we're seeing underneath the Illinois State Board of Education and coming back to school so Steve asked uh ihsa we was trying to get some clearance on that um and they said well we're going to revamp this now just recently ihsa came back out and said listen we're going to follow isby and idp's guidelines and so now we're waiting to see what those guidelines are we can start many districs have um and we've asked some of our coaches to actually put together plans and take a look at what their plans are um the reality is is that you know it's a liability we're trying to figure out what the liability is I want a waiver to be signed and we're waiting to get the way we're back from the legal council uh to to mitigate any issues that we may have and so all of that is kind of happening as we're um a waiting ihsa's new guidelines which they still have not presented ihsa meets again deflected IDP they deflected idph and is they they have um a special meeting uh scheduled for this week so we're hoping to receive the the guidance at that point and that high school that was affected that was it was 36 students 36 students that were I didn't want to see the distri well I he said it not me he said it not me I just wanted to it was it was a big big cluster and we found out that it was due to people going to different parties I think outside of the you know and connecting oh sure across the way but again we don't know where our students have been so um well yeah there's no question that continued contact with a with with a with somebody that's sick your likelihood of getting sick is very very high so so we're airing on the side of caution okay and we know it's not a popular decision but until we get clear guidance from ihsa we we're kind of hedging on waiting to see what that guidance is do has there been since that this was obviously all parents I mean do we have um just generically coaches especially for fall Sports here who are getting frustrated that they're feeling like their hands are tied or we're understanding and we're frustrated or we don't want to practice anyway because this is D I mean like what are you hearing from our staff our no I think our coaches would like to get going um a couple of our coaches have definitely put plans in place part of our challenge was okay well how does this look if you have to if you have to practice football and you can't touch what are you doing what does that look like how are you cleaning I forget what they're called those Sledge you know as they push um how are you cleaning those after everybody's usage are you running the same Five Guys down and then bring it back and running it again so we wanted plans and clear guidelines from the coaches on what that looks like like um the reason we want it from the coaches is they had to administer it so we felt if they wrote it they would know what they wanted to do cross country is a little bit easier they run some distances the challeng is when they compete right they run fairly close together um basketball was a camp so we're not talking about flaw Sports we're talking about camps we're not talking about fallaw sports we're talking about camps and our question was is it worth the risk for a camp if we don't even know if fall sports are going to be occurring especially for like basketball boys basketball girls basketball which really has Happ happening in the winter or late fall is it worth the mitigating issues that we could have given for Camp if we don't even know what ihsa's guidelines are um so I'm sure there is some frustration out there uh Steve's been pretty relaxed in talking to coaches I've not talked directly to coaches I don't think Todd has pretty much has been between Steve and his coaches we have seen some plans come across our desk though uh to take a peek at and we have a little bit more of a liability issue than a club sport wood as well so I mean a little bit yeah I mean I'm you know just being perfectly Frank so we we've definitely got a little bit more skin in the game and need to act conservatively to be able to address it many other districts are running many are not what's that putting up any and that 8 I'm I don't know I will follow up with him tomorrow on that good question Jee I don't know I believe football's doing a virtual where they're getting I think that most coaches have been trying to send plans for kids to at least keep them up and and endurance and some of those things um but I I don't have a I don't have enough information to give you a full report on that there's a lot of information in this document I appreciate everyone's efforts that went into it whoever they may be Dr M would you like to address instruction sure so next one's instruction and a lot of information isn't here um because we're still working through the committee and uh trying to determine what that will look like and so as we're continue to work I couldn't give clear guidelines uh but this basically is walking through what we plan to do if we return in person and then what we're planning to do if we end up going out completely remote learning um a lot of the elements I had to remove until I can figure out what that's going to look like and so you're not getting a lot of direct conversation you look on remote learning we just talked about the guidelines that we really want a parent to make a choice up to winter break we know we've had some parents that say could you do it by quarter the ration out for winter break is um High School grades go off of semesters um and usually we don't go quarter by quarter um we don't if we have kids that come in mid quarter and we have classes set it's hard to add a kid in um like we talked about before it's much easier to take a kid from a classroom take them out because we have class siiz rules that we're going to following so to add additional kids in the middle of a quarter will be very problematic um we did just kind of talk about what the rules are for that then we have the learning guidelines which you don't see there those will be guidelines for each of those four levels so parents will be able to access and teachers will be able to access what do the guidelines look like inside my classroom for Early Childhood if I'm an elementary teacher if I'm a middle school teacher or a high school or if I'm a student at those levels um they're not quite ready yet driver's education behind the wheel current Curr ly behind the wheel is running with these guidelines uh it was passed over the summer late summer that we able to offer behind the wheel for the first time and uh Sarah farington who's our department chair at the high school has done a great job of making sure that she got that up and running we have many many drivers who are taking our kids out getting them caught up you can only have two students and one instructor per vehicle they must wear a face mask you must clean the vehicle after they're using it and so they have their own equipment that they're cleaning those vehicles um and then they have to avoid any unnecessary stops so no stopping at the Dairy Queen for an ice cream should be posting anything about the remote learning question that was brought up at the the high school yes so remote learning will still be able to do behind the wheel it'll just be signed up after hours and working within that so yeah she'll she can address that um as we get closer um the extracurricular activities again we don't know we're in phase four we have a gathering of 50 we don't have clear guidelines from ihsa we don't have clear guidelines from the IESA which is the elementary athletic Association so we're still wa waiting for those guidelines to see what activities look like can we have after school activities you know Scholastic B some those ones that are smaller probably as long as we can do six foot distancing but we have to kind of work our way through that um and determine what that's going to look like that'll come again out of the instructional committee um I am dealing with algae Community College dual credit remember that we've shifted a lot in terms of how we educate students at the high school level where we now do a lot of dual credit with our neighboring and partnering District um our ECC so you can see the guidelines for our students um for Elon Community College non-lab classes um they're originally scheduled to meet face to face um but they're going to be changed completely to online now if there's a lab class they will come on site for a few lessons for the lab and then they would go back out for online and then uh we've reached out to all the parents who are in the BSN program which is the nursing program to see if they were willing to have their students do some of their externships um out there all of the parents have submitted a yes so we do have I have a waiver I'm currently working on to have those parents sign as well um for their students to be able to access that through Elon Community College music and theater this one's a challenge um the guidelines inside idph and Illinois State Board of Education and um Janis uh pitz who's our keyboard person at the high school has been here for many many years she actually sent me a study which was very interesting that have been done as well and they're saying that if you use an instrument you need to wear a mask um because when you're either talking or blowing an instrument or singing saliva the small particles actually the large particles like when you sneeze or cough they're are larger particles they drop to the ground and they're not as dangerous as when you're singing in those small particles that can get into the Airways and so they that's actually more detrimental than sneezing that being said we're trying to we look at what do we do with music in terms of chorus band and theater um are there different options there Elementary music teachers sent us some good ideas in their spreadsheet we're looking at some of those options um I know Matt is talking to his middle school teachers I don't know if Chris has really talk much to Jeff or or Jim um but I think this one's going to be a challenge for us um band is huge in our district um the marching band is huge in our district a lot of kids exempt from PE because of marching band um so I think we're going to have to be creative the space at the high school is problematic they say if you have a window or a door that can open you're better off um if you think of where our music is located it's in the second floor inside the building zero ventilation coming through there and no way to open a window or door so that one um it's pretty vague because we have no idea that's that's one of our biggest challenges I think and how we're going to deal with that situation at all levels we only have 20 kids at the Central Middle School that have signed up for us one of my questions today was can we go ahead and drop that course for 20 kids and uh use that teacher at LLY Lake to make us have a full-time teacher there um to help us get the um specials that we need to have throughout the course of the day only 20 kids at CMS yeah well they usually sign up later in the day year sometimes they get going but yeah currently we only have 20 scheduled so we may choose to just drop that contact those students and have them go somewhere else because music's problematic I don't know we just have to figure that out um again we deal with personal protective equipment for instruction um proper hygiene making sure that we're not sharing equipment all those same types of elements that we have throughout the whole document um English learner program we just talked basically that we're still going to hold TBE and TPI Services which are the type of services we give for our students that are language speakers if we have over 20 students we're supposed to offer TBE within a building we have bilingual teachers will continue to service those students uh we don't anticipate that that's going to shift it just may shift in how that platform is or what that parent chooses to do with those PE gyms playgrounds and locker rooms um we will not have students changing for physical education so we will not be using the locker rooms for changing uh PE uniforms at this time uh PE we really want those teachers to take the students outside if weather is permissible uh to get them out and moving um and trying to get those m off and get them a break from that so that is our attempt to do that if the weather is not um as inclement then they have to used markers inside the gymnasium um for Central Middle School Prairie NS Middle School the high school we have curtains that drop so you can drop them and according to our guidelines we can run 50 in one room and 50 in the other as long as a curtain is between them um Elementary we don't always have the curtains to drop so we have to look at partitions or other mechanisms to be able to manage uh the physical education facilities at the elementary school you can see that any shared equipment has to be cleaned so we have to talk about that with our physical education teachers how are you going to clean that who's responsible for it um as they're using balls those types of things maybe keep it to feet not to hands um they're really just going to have to think about how they're going to instruct physical education and what how that might be different for those students that are in the house this year we know social emotional learning is a big part of what has to happen with our students they've been out since March um know that um they really haven't been communicating face to face so we want to try to make sure we're meeting those social emotional needs the wellness committee and uh special ed has even started to get into that a little bit as well they're dealing a lot with the social emotional elements and now we just have to talk from the instruction side and try to bring all those together so we can see what that's going to look like there's lots of conversation happening about what that should look like student services um we know that Co has really impacted our most vulnerable students the students with special needs students um of course our kindergarten preschool k123 those kids that are learning early literacy early numeracy um so those are our populations we really have to try to look at and student services is working again in their special education committee to kind of mitigate some of the issues that are here and to try to come up with strategies that we can employ this year to help us with that population of students um and then you can see we have some guidelines that will be coming soon for both middle school high school student services and then for the 301 special programs like leads and aop and those types of programs questions on instruction I have a question if uh if teachers were going to live stream a class what are the student privacy rights on that um we actually have that question with our legal councel we're looking at it from um both a human resource perspective and from a student privacy perspective so we have uh multiple Avenues being looking at that um and we do not have a response when I get that I will send that to you do I any responses back from the survey compar yet in terms of how many are coming would like the two day or the 4 day or I have the timing is right for that now oh yeah I do have um survey results back from parents and we have about a 50% response rate that want to come to school four days a week W um so it's it's a fair large 50% of people responded or of the responded so far and we have about 50% of our parents who have responded um that and it's been pretty consistent across the way in terms of um what they have and what they would like to have I'm trying to see if I can find My overall so we have um 821 parents currently that would like the ab schedule 1,443 that would like the 4day option 23 that are choosing not to attend Central 301 next year 425 that would like remote for semester one and 111 remote for a year we currently still have 16 1,672 parents that have not responded but we had received many parents who wanted to hear tonight's presentation first before they actually responded what was that number again for nonresponders non respond 1,672 there's a deadline we've given them a deadline respond we gave a deadline for coming this coming Wednesday so they have the board and then so we can start to make plans but uh we definitely have a large proportion of our parents who would like to be back in person instruction instruction because that puts the rest of this into like a huge complext basically right yeah yeah it's pretty similar to the last survey I gave to parents yes um in terms of the numbers and the percent so not a lot changed their mind since the recent um media we continue to go go the route of in person were there any thoughts or plans to bring in someone to assist with managing they remote learning they did yeah if they did a live stream too couple things we're looking at is um because we have quite a few parents and are requesting a 4-day option could we marry a teacher up for 4 days so those 4-day kids would be there and maybe with this teacher the numbers when I break them down by building um we definitely have at least one section if not two the question becomes what's the cost if we offer that to everybody and then we need to keep that class size because remember you're taking a 24 class size to 12 or or 13 um so it would take you two teachers to do one so we'd have to look at some cost options there at the middle school looks like maybe one team could have a 4-day option and the other team could have the two-day alternate option so I think it's being creative in terms of what parents want and seeing if we can work those kinds of options out um so that's one of the things I think we could do I think this my big concern as a parent is the lack of parity between kids who are in school four days a week and kids who are in school two days a week we have a stay-at-home parent so it's hard for me to justify saying yeah my kids need to be there my kids are just as social as I am I want them to be in school four days a week it's better for them for a variety of reasons um so we said oh we'll do two days a week but as I'm thinking about this there's no way my kids would get the same instruction being home two days a week with the kids that ear in four days a week well I think we're hoping that we can get something that marries that um that's what we're working with our instructional committee on and with the you know the union to to determine if we there's some way for us to get something that is married right uh a student should have it shouldn't matter where they're sitting how do we get them the same education regardless if they're in the face to face or they sitting at home do I think there's some challenges with that and definitely do I think face to face that's why we believe in education way we believe in it right I mean teachers are important um because they service them in so many different ways than just academics and when you get that relationship you can get a lot more out of them and you make that relationship usually when you can meet them face to face more so than in a a remote you know Avenue um but I don't disagree and I think we have to figure out how do we mitigate that and give the students that are at home the same approach to education and if we can't four days a week can't be an option I mean honestly if we we can't come up with a way to make two and three the same as four plus one it cannot from my perspective feasibly be an option on the table we cannot bridge that Gap as close to zero as possible it is not appropriate why I believe we have the staff that can do that it's just how do we get it accomplished in building that structure right next area is operations so um spending a lot of time with our facilities and how we look at our facilities there were numerous comments about cleanliness of buildings and how we're going to disinfect even though we're going to deep clean on Wednesday and Saturday we're still disinfecting the building every day so the building will be disinfected every day we've purchased um electrostatic sprayers we've trained our staff in the proper cleaning procedures and then we're going to increase disinfecting of high touch areas throughout the school day um soft surfaces such as carpets will be cleaned daily and then um we may adjust Personnel schedules to meet the reopening uh special needs and cleaning schedules but that's a for this plan to work the disinfecting is a high priority it has to to be there on a daily basis I think a a good really important piece here that I know is not popular we've talked about in our restruction committee is that we need to declutter the classrooms to a lot for as much space as possible which means we're going to need to have removed you know rugs that are not District rugs bean bag chairs those types of things to to provide the space we need inside those classrooms to be able to clean more effectively because the more materials that are in there are not ours takes custodial staff much longer to clean and so we're going to have to purge some of those classrooms and have it be a little bit more sterile in terms of the environment than we're used to um as we're working our way through um this pandemic yeah the classrooms have to be decluttered as much as possible so that we can increase social distancing in the classroom there have actually been a number of comments throughout in terms of the fact that the questioning whether we actually have the Personnel today to do that prop are we comfortable that we do Dan is very comfortable he does yeah food service so serving and seaing areas will be established indoors and Outdoors I know that there's um been concern in the community about um students eating outdoors and bees and bee stings we are looking to the greatest extent possible to have our plan in place so that we can social distance appropriately in the lunchroom and be able to serve lunch um groups will be limited to the maximum Gathering size based on the store Illinois plan where we're at meals will be individually plated or packaged as grabbed to go Foods um non-disposable Food Service items will be handled with gloves and washed with dish soap and hot water and a dishwater dishwasher and where students conern their meals will be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected even in the lunchroom uh people would be required to wear their mask when they're not eating um our food service Personnel will use a appropriate PPE uh while preparing and distributing food and then students are required will be required to um bring in only disposable items with their lunch there will be no lunch boxes allowed and please make sure to use only paper and Plastic Products no lunch boxes no ice packs no cold lunches so and then [Music] we probably have in the cafeteria I think that was when people felt that students were going to be eating in a classroom we'll still have like a peanut free table area for those students that have allergies and then hide hand hygiene will be promoted prior to and after eating meals or consuming any food items then the health offices as well we be providing sling their water bottles yes like thermoses and like uh they're going to keep them in their classroom so yes thermos but no lunch box I'm hung up on the lunch box I think the the lunch box is it has to be transported between classroom to cafeteria and back to classroom and the way they do it now is they deposit that in a sometimes they go in the bathrooms whether at lunch they touch other people's lunch boxes I just I think to mitigate any of the transferring we're trying to eliminate as much transfer as possible they can't just carry their own back and forth in their backpack with their books that each is responsible to carry their own we're open to it I'm something we look at can surely look at that I think it's trying to mitigate as much as we can stuff coming from home and not and have to go back out so trying to keep everything at school comes to school thrown away at school and they go home looked into putting bunks and having the kids sleep at school just saying all in favor say I really creative Mitch is going to build them give teacher some iens for some overnights come on yeah our current protocol is the lunch boxes get thrown into like a laundry hamper and then they wheel it down so to mitigate all of those being in a thing and then if they do go out to recess after that I'm not sure they you going to put them and then go back and grab them in cross contamination between the different paper bags it is people we could do it by different levels maybe middle school and high school don't go out for lunch recess but they don't use carry boxes either you know so we are still looking to offer our before and after school Child Care programs however they follow the guidelines of uh DCFS and they also have limiting numbers so that can affect their their ability to serve the community but we will continue to offer those programs in our schools and then um transportation you know there there's been much talk about students entering the bus and being pre-certified and we continue to look at other options but right now the pre-certification form is our best option one of the recommendations that came out of one of the Committees was to provide students with a lanyard that the precertification form can be placed in so we are going forward with that recommendation um at this time uh that said uh we're also looking at other options as well for for that but right now this is our pre-certification uh program and a selfer program at home on a daily basis how do we deal with a situation whereby a parent stretch the truth because they have a big need work so we have to depend on parents being honest it's like I mean I understand there be some sanctions involved going forward right what's that some sanctions involved going forward some sanctions like what do you want to penalize the parents if they send their kid when they shouldn't okay just check it well to be fair I mean you know people I mean I've gotten in trouble for sending my kid to school because it was 23 hours after May vomited and they wanted me to come pick her up and I said no because by the time they called me it was 20 minutes left and so we got you know was like they should have sitting for 20 more minutes and then she hit 24 hours and so I think there are parents who do that already it's just something different right so oh my kid had diarrhea this morning but they ate something bad and or they threw up because they stuff themselves with ice cream but is that the same as being sick I mean that happens all the time already so I think again you just have to trust that people are by and large going to do what they're supposed to do and we have to assume you know that whole social social good and relying on each other hasn't been all that successful sometimes but you know I will be optimistic that here in 301 we can make it happen so seriously what if a kid has allergies they're going to cough and sniffle all day but we know that right those are things that parents know I know but it's the perception but it also says do not come to school with a runny nose I know so it's it's it's like this weird perception Jud yeah I mean I hate yeah we're doing our best to follow guidelines that have been issued byb and Illinois Department of Public Health to well I think I think the reality is it's unfortunately we live in a litigious District litigious time and we need to make sure we're following the guidelines as established and we have to trust that parents are going to follow the guidelines that we put forth um we've gotten a lot of questions about why why do they have to bring it on the school B us the interesting thing about our district is this we're the only District short of maybe kin where almost all of our students ride a school bus so many districts that aren't doing this and they're asking for the electronic form that's because they don't have 85% of their students on a school bus we are actually bringing you know eight out of 10 students are coming on a bus to our district buildings and so we can't get an electric form at 6:30 or 5:30 and then get it to our bus driver so they know every student has got issues on their buses so we're asking for that pre-certification great idea came out of operations which was the lanyard with a big plastic piece where we slide that seat in there non-touch for drivers they show it their driver knows what they're looking for student sits down with it on they come to school we'll figure out how that's working one of the things we're talking about because there is a lot of administrative tasks that we increasing Administrative Assistant tasks um and maybe even nursing tasks that maybe we hire temporary administrative assistance for every building one per building to help bu with some of these factors that we're talking about you know checking this in uh checking with parents when they're dropping their kid off dealing with the QR codes tracking all the documentation you need to track um because I hate to hire something they terminate them right so when you're temporary at least they know it's a temporary position and so we're trying not to hire somebody and say thank you so much for your service but we have to let you go CO's over um and so we're trying to be thoughtful um we're looking at Staffing patterns as well to make sure that we're doing that in a way that's I think we have parents who might be willing to do that right if the kids already at school and we can do a shared thing we're like I'll just be there when my kids are there I think that we might if we can justify that on our side and have clear guidelines as to what that would be and it's a nwe contract so if we're out of school all of a sudden we're not paying somebody which I we want to be responsible with that but I think that there's ways to do that that would meet the needs of let's say our support staff and at hbt since sign know that so well you know our two admins that we have up front to help navigate a kid running in late to help navigate kid need to come and kind of be on a walkie and really be helpful I think that's a really great creative way to help support our staff you probably have a pool of people out there that maybe are temporarily unemployed maybe that could help step it could help bridge their Gap while they're waiting for this to kind of end so they can get back to what they would normally be employed for idea right or you have college kids that are just out of school that can't find you know you have a gene pool of right employment opportunities where if there they doing nothing something is better than nothing you like to address Human Resources um so this one's really hard and I've got I'm I'm saying this to everybody to hear me because this is a draft document and human resource is very unknown at this time and I have a lot of staff that have reached out to me and I have to get back to them and I'm hedging because I don't know where we're Landing yet um what we do know is that we will be monitoring illness for staff um there is the family first Corona virus response act out there that does provide up to 10 days um for an employee to get some pay if they're out due to a quarantine um the question comes up of what happens beyond that I don't know for sure I'm guessing that you'll have to use the paid time off that you have but I don't know that for sure the first um the the FFC that's out um does not require them to for the 10 days use any of their current paytime off they have it's basically just a 10 free days that they get for the purpose of a quarantine so we'll be doing a lot of tracking of what's going on with staff we will require doctor's notes medical certifications from staff that end up out on covid-19 if they're on a quarantine we'll talk about the procedures that that's going to look like and the documentation for that um we do have a list that we have to provide to all community members of testing centers in the area because when we send students home we will ask that they be tested um we be asking for our staff to be tested so we do have testing centers remember that it's free to test for covid-19 um I hear it's not a great procedure uh but definitely something that we're going to require um we're going to try to F not going to try we're going to be following the Cane County Health Department the idph um guidelines as we move forward with this um the next thing I have is a staff return plan so a staff can read about what that looks like um you know we have the authority to determine who returns to work um so but we're going to follow the executive legislative guidance obviously as we're looking to do that and to make sure that we get safe staff back safely and as they would want to be um when it comes to absences you can see the requirements there again it's it's still a little fuzzy we know you have some family first that you can take and then it's the other elements that we're still trying to work on um Staffing level we are doing a survey to substitutes to see who is willing to come back and sub uh who is willing to a come back and sub face to face come back to sub face to face or remote come back only for remote or not willing to come back at all and we'll see what our levels are for substitutions and then based on that we'll determine how that impacts our staffing levels and what we need to do um currently if we look at the response coming back from parents and we look creatively at how we're going to offer for these Services we'll look to see if there's additional Staffing patterns that are required there as well to be able to administer what we have um set forth um taking in account what what Eric said you know um if we can't service all students the same way do we not service do we service them all in ab and not in a 4 day those are discussions that I think we we have to have as well um to make that determination I believe we have the staff that can do it well on the question of the the FSC you mentioned eligible employees who would be eligible um any employee that's working at least 30 days is eligible okay so theoretically new hires in the first month would only be the ones who correct would not be eligible correct y it's 30-day limitation then they start and testing cost definitely confirmed to be free or cover covered under under health insurance right uh it's free it's covered under health insurance but I think all coover 19 right now is free anything with that attachment on it gets paid and and and I mean obviously we we know that the test and come back instantly they take three to four days 3 to four days we're expecting obviously people to to be absent for that 3 to 4 days while we wait we are but I think the the part that's not quite figured out yet which um I think that they could work right if they're just quarantined if they want to work from home remotely and change your class from being face to face remote do all remote I think we could work that out where it wouldn't be anything but I think those are things we have to work out between you know right the union and some conversations about what that might look like I think just WR there since you just brought up all remote um I talked to Todd on Thursday and I talked to Jeff on Friday and really one thing that hadn't been talked about is starting the school year all remote Y and and and doing that because with the presumption being we're going to be remote at some point now again I'd love my kids to have a few weeks in or something like that or six weeks or whatever and obviously there's a lot of unknowns and so you know with you know with our luck if we decide to do that for instance being missed the whole semester cuz something would have happened you know is that likely no um and so I think it's it's it's just a crapshoot and I fully appreciate that but I think that this is something that needs to Beyond because what we talked about especially adding uh the extra time in and PD so five full days if you will of prepping and I think about like the collective energy and anxiety that parents and you guys doing all the leg work our administrators uh the board as I said somebody who doesn't typically feel this kind of anxiety all of the energy could be put into continuing to make an even more robust remote learning plan and we can just do the best and be the best at that around here for when we need it that was just something that was absent in the conversation from my standpoint and so uh it looks like u46 tonight just announced that they're going to be essentially largely remote except for their support they they're doing a soft start with all remote right higher need students through the first quarter not saying we need to do that but that to me at least has not come to the board I should say and any that that was anything on the table so I don't know if you guys part of the reason why that has not come to the board and we are planning for the remote option but when you look at the guidance from the from the state the guidance from the state want the students in school to the fullest extent possible so again we're just trying to follow the current guidance well I think to the American Pediatrics right we're trying to look at what's best for kids um and staff but you know how do we get them back into a School environment I think the challeng is if we go all remote which we can the challeng is about how do you make parents and students understand the game changed right from fourth quarter yeah it's nothing like it was when you exited in the spring and how if they haven't been here for any kind of you know meeting with teachers have no relationship with any of the you know when kids move up the reason kids are motivated is they usually like their teacher if they don't have that relationship they don't have any kind of commitment to anybody it's very difficult to get start relationship I chrisy and I talked about this too you know this idea especially at the grade school level yeah where that is let's admit it grade school teachers have different relationships with their kids than Middle School and High School teachers do so there certainly is that component and and again I think we could if if this is something that we get thrust upon us you know my hope is as sooner or rather than later critzer is going to make the decision with the if whatever it is Federation of teachers and then you know with CTU coming you know all that stuff I mean to me it's just kind of potentially heading in that direction um but you know it would be unfortunate if he did that because then you know Christy and I were talking about you know you could schedule a half hour with every kid in in the building with with your teacher right to get someone on one time to do small groups just like we did in kindergarten my kids year was the first year that they had a social part where they had the kids together or the year after mine or something like that I mean think that there's things that we could do and while it's not ideal because again I want my kids in school my husband wants my kids in school for very different reasons probably but that's okay you know but I think that you know I want that and I just want to make sure that we're doing our best to kind of Step and say like great we're following the guidelines but if the guidelines aren't going to work best for us in this community we I don't care what other districts do I really don't care we need to do what we think is best for our district and that includes our families and that includes our students and our staff our faculty and staff and those are clearly competing and I think we have to acknowledge that they just given the comments that we read tonight for an hour and the questions read tonight opposites a lot of them and there's so many interdependent variables here that we can't grab onto any one thing and sort anything out because it's a it's a web of everything and everything touches everything else and I think that the lack of certainty as a parent is where my anxiety comes from too right like the teachers I've spoken to over the last four or five days sometimes it's like we don't care what the decision is can we just have something so we know what we're working with so we know what to expect so I can start making plans if it's videos if it's live streaming if it's reworking my curriculum for my for my middle school for my high school for my grade school what is it I don't have that answer and I know you guys are working diligently to move in that direction there are Dynamic forces absolutely um and so that's that's to me what at least is appealing about considering that that at least we take the dynamic forces out of it because we say it's not ideal but again if we can do better with this group there's parody we can potentially have our special ed kids in for certain things and again if the pritzer doesn't remove that ability to do that obviously it's a whole other story there I I think the challenge is that we have to ask ourself what's best for kids right and we when we survey teachers again the teachers that have responded so far I'm at 80% that are are willing to come back in my support staff When I Survey them again I at 88% that want to come back I've had employees who have returned in the support staff side that have thanked us for bringing them back because they were feeling depressed they were feeling isolated they felt they needed some connection so I I think there's more to coming back than just I mean for me remote learning would be great because I wouldn't be spending you know hours doing that that would be awesome um but do I think that's best for kids instructionally no um you know as the assistant soup giving the board my thoughts I believe we need kids in school to some capacity I believe our teachers need to be back in some capacity do I understand there's fear out there yes do I understand it's real yes yes do I understand we have to figure out how to deal with that yes um those are all really difficult things to to manage and and I'm glad I don't have to do that by the way so thank you very much and and you're trying to take all of everything you're hearing from parents from staff you know um even from students and you're trying to make a decision I don't think there's there's not going to be a right decision I think we have to make the decision on what we think is best for our community and for our our staff um I think I think you know just another variable that we we we obviously have to talk about is you guys continue to work with the ca leadership to try to find what what is it going to look like for for uh the the admin and the board here to say hey how can we hold teachers accountable how are we going to empower teachers and staff to hold our students accountable right and parents accountable like nobody was able to do fourth quarter I think that that's just another variable obviously right so that that to me is the most dynamic part of this how do we work with the ca right to make sure that you know everybody compromises in some capacity it has got to be the case we know teachers as especially fourth quarter asked to do things that they we're not used to we're not comfortable with and we're going to have to do the exact same thing again but to me it's the same way that we're asking our students to be uncomfortable with what they're doing differently it's the same thing we're asking our parents to do differently as far as them doing something they've never had to do want to do anything like that in the same way we're asking our administrators to kind of operate differently inside the buildings everybody's got to do something and I'm just hoping that we're able to come to some sort of agreement but that to me another variable that we just haven't mentioned tonight but but just to clarify the reason we have to offer an AB schedule is because we don't have the resources to do everybody here at once we can't manage we don't have the facilities right to do the social distancing of getting the class sizes down we looked at only doing Elementary full-time yeah and leaving Middle School and High School remote um and we did look at what's the capacity we'd have to move students across the entire all seven buildings the challenge with that is we have some staff members that had um internet issues um at their own home so they may have to come on school but we definitely can do that we could take our four Elementary spread them across all seven buildings put our four and five at say you know Central High School because it's a bigger facility and Central Middle School and then kind of work around there and just do a K5 completely face to face five days a week and then do um remote 612 612 mean that was another option because those students are a little bit more independent can function better uh take some of the dress off of parents and community members um because the ab schedules really complicated things obviously right in terms of um it's a it's a total unknown for everybody I don't think the ab complicates it I think the the challenge is that we would like to see to Eric's point the education the same for our students who are remote and our students are face to face so we want our kids to have the same experience all four days all five days of getting good instruction regardless of where they're sitting whe they're sitting at home or they're sitting in the classroom and we're not saying that has to be you know sometimes instruction in classroom may happen 10 or 15 minutes of frontloading information and the rest of time is activities or doing you know those kinds of things so we're not saying a student sitting on there for 45 minutes we're saying for that piece that it's there and then you work on how do you incorporate what's going on in that classroom outside the doors in the home um that's what we're looking for we talk about live streaming we're talking about that 10 minutes instead of a teacher doing um a plan here and then videotaping it for the remote why not just turn it on for that 10 minutes they get to see your instruction and you're done but if if they want to do twice the things if they want to do both a video and that or whatever they think we'll talk to you know to Dave about that but I think the challenge is we're trying to alleviate stress and uh mono work for teachers we're not trying to add to it um and I think we're just having a hard time articulating what it is we were thinking I would agree and I think that you know the anxiety I think we just heard a couple things tonight about the the small children and this idea of like sitting in front of a computer and I think that there there was this oh my God is my kid GNA have to sit in front of a computer from 910 until 3:35 for our elementary school buildings well of course not because that's not realistic right we don't have kids sit for 45 minutes they have an hour of math every day hbt or 50 minutes or whatever they're not learning math from a teacher the whole time right it's learn practice learn practice talk and so you know you'll get that when you're in person and you wouldn't get that other part of it right uh at home which which I think is is part of just an educational component right about how does teaching actually work right right you don't stand in front rarely I should say I don't want I got all the teachers listening right now I it's pretty rare to sit up front for 49 to 50 minutes and lecture that's just not how it works at this level and so I think that that that kind of um understanding and and kind of getting feedback from teachers about hey on an average week what percentage of my 50 minutes at the middle school and high school level for instance are are spent directly teaching versus collaborating versus watching small groups versus walking around the classroom versus student Le and that's one of the things that I heard from a teacher friend of mine was you know a lot of my stuff is student Le and so how do you go from a 90% student Le class to something different if you have people watching and and I don't have that answer I'm not a teacher I I fully acknowledge that but I think again this idea of how do we push everyone to be uncomfortable the same way asking every other stakeholder to be everyone needs to be a little uncomfortable and how do we find those limits while still having an adequate and the best education we can facilitate with the limited options that we have so we don't have facilities that for you did AB because of our facilities but I thought the guidelines stated that we could do when social distancing isn't possible you do the face mask Technically when possible we could go up to 30 it would be very difficult cuz they have face mask yes we definitely could do that like the BS with 50 it's the same day classroom is much bigger that's something that I think that needs really needs to be talked about too right well yeah I was just going to say could you which just furthers the that masks not coming off right and again maybe we look at different for K1 versus 45 right which is a whole other need of body awareness and all of that we're not we're talking about our you know to be very clear we're talking about our middle of the road kids without special needs who are developmentally intact who you know who who have the capacity to do that I I certainly understand that so maybe that's 10% of our students GRS that might fall outside of the large capacity to do that but that to me is a clearer option right like do can we have you know if we're what 25 or 27 and 35 I forget where we are for three five capping um you know do we go we go to two thirds of the class right recogniz the equality you were talking about earlier so you do all five days you have the equality if it goes remote everybody's remote otherwise I mean you have your remote in person but but again you would have you still have a percentage that be remote anyway right yeah yeah I mean for this in person would be all together yeah for the A and B plan to work we have to have a certain number that want to stay home and a certain number that want to go all the time you know could you talk a little bit about that plan because wise uh well not well the the thinking behind the ab having you know Monday and Thursday and Tuesday and Friday versus having Monday Tuesday and Thursday Friday I mean talk about because that was you know that was brought up here in our questions and that was brought up in the committee I understand the reason but I don't know if everybody else understands the reason the rationale initially was that we want students so coming off a spring students had some habits that we want to try to mitigate and to do that we wanted to have students in front of teachers at least twice throughout the week well if you do back toback Monday Tuesday that means a student can shut down on Wednesday Thursday Friday and then they have the weekend to come back on Monday same thing a student be Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday and they come back on Thursday when it was a Monday Thursday Tuesday Friday the student comes on Monday they go out remote on Tuesday everybody's remote Wednesday they come back Thursday to have to discuss with the teacher have accountability to what they were supposed to be doing same thing for that Tuesday Friday student's there on a Tuesday he's back on remote Wednesday still out on Thursday Friday there's another check in with the teacher that was the rationale behind that but while it could be inconvenient for child care it's best practice or best plan for student engagement I think it it we think I think it definitely I agree I'm just I'm just asking the question to you know clarify some of those questions we definitely have heard from other people saying they prefer Monday Tuesday they think that you know we weren't sanitizing we're sanitizing every night M we're not asking students to share desks they all have their own separate desks I think there was some misunderstanding out there in the community that we were having them come to the same desk use the same student materials that's not happening at all um you know I mean physically the room's going to be the same you know you're not moving desks you're just you know day a day child B's here whatever day he's she's in another I think the challenge with all students coming back because that was the question why did we go to AB logistically lunches I don't know how you possibly manage 50 kids in a lunch you'd have to start feeding them when they walk in the door and finish them before they exit the door because of the number of students you have 1,200 kids at the high school you have you know 750 at pre perals and in middle school has you know three CMS 375 CMS in ly Lake probably the easiest the other buildings not so easy to feed 50 only getting them through a lunchroom having time to sanitize in between all those students shifting that logistic that was a major major logistical issue we had um comfort with staff being with all students even though they have their face mask on just the perception that it's not as safe to be with 30 as it might be with f just a perception thing you know hearing those kinds of things kind of let us off of that so there's some of those logistical things you know um how do you manage the how do you manage the hallways because then we couldn't do home rooms like we're doing now you'd have to try you can't move all those teachers and all those students so we'd have some you know issues with bathrooms some issues with hallways so in order to use that and to do the social distance with the urinals or some of those other things we really need to get that number down in each building to be able to function uh in the way that we could and so the best way to do that was to go on AB schedule so as we've kind of relooked at all these options that's where we landed um it's kind of I guess our trajectory no I appreciate the Insight but again I mean if just knowing the classrooms of my kids have been you know there's a reading corner right and if all that stuff is going to be shoved up against the wall and you're eliminating that 9 by9 corner where the reading stuff was where three or four kids are sitting at any time right during their free time um and you know how much room are we adding and maybe that's one or two desks but if we again if in a kindergarten classroom we get to instead of just 12 out of 23 or 24 we can get up to 16 does that allow more parents to choose that four day option where then people who want it can have it uh again but if as long as to me as long as everybody has that option and again the parody issue is is the most important thing that comes out of even having that as an option um so you know the other districts I think are are are allowing you know the the all remote for those families who choose that which I am fully in favor of uh but then essentially exclusively right it's it's AB like that's just what is existing um so you know I think it's it's it's very difficult for me to say you're going to have parody I couldn't guarantee that it's that's dependent on every single teacher you know I mean and and the professional development we give them but again it's still about you know a teacher being able to adjust their instruction learn all that and it's a big shift it's a big shift so I I could never guarantee the parody so if if that's where we're at then I think we have to remove the four day and go only a two day those are kind of conversations I think you know you've got 50% of your community members who have consistently said they want their kids back in school um that's been a consistent pattern certain am I the only one who has a concern about parity here like equity and education we have four kids in person you know every we talk about it because you know when I was thinking about this so I've got four kids you know and I was going to have them on the two-day schedule simply to allow for everybody to have the option for the two-day schedule I mean because we've got space restrictions within the building that for everybody to be able to have you know equal options that you know what some of us are going to have to take two days some of us are going to have to take stay at home you know the 4-day option is ideal for everybody but it's not ideal for us to make it work so it's you know you know that's the the only option to make parody a possibility or solution we might have to address it we might have to also address that could be a lot of concerns from parents for child care providing as well which I which I certainly can understand but my point is like we oh no no I mean I see the big picture yeah so it's I'm super concerned with that I just don't think you'll get that this year but I don't know that you get that you won't get the same thing from remote or in person right I guarantee it well I think he's discussing parody from 4 day to two day because I think I mean I think the all remote option for a teacher who's especially the grade school level for instance when you can teach kids from all grade school areas right it doesn't matter who where they are I think that that you know that's almost appealing to me in some ways too because of the structure that they can provide and they're going to dedicate all their effort to remote learning um so I think there is some benefit to that and I think that it's that hybrid it's that difference between the two and the four the four plus one to the 2 plus three that that is conc to me and since that's the choice just like it's a choice to be home for all five days and that's a family's choice to do it feels like there isn't the choice for everybody to choose four days who wants it I was taking an altruistic approach saying again I have a stay-at home parent but then I thought about it I'm like well God I want to sacrifice my kids's education just because we happen to have somebody who stays at home like I so there's that again it's not going to be fair across the district I certainly understand that um but that's where my head is putting that parent hat on like I don't want to screw my kids over uh by not getting the four days because we have a stay home parent and we had the ability to not be in that and I don't I feel extremely badly for people that are doal working parents and trying to navigate this I hope that doesn't come off as insensitive that but it's about my children and that's why I'm here in this building right now is for them and for the community so that's my concern well I don't think everybody who selects four days is going to get four days either so that's another is I mean that's that's my point right is then it's a lottery system and then I mean you know because the people that are wanting for days are really in 4 days and I think a lot of it is necessity and I I absolutely appreciate that and understand that and then I think we're going to have the luck of a draw which to me just adds a whole other layer of really significant complexity when you have let's say arbitrarily 50% of people that want four days a week don't get it and then what happens and then the ranker that comes from that in this you know that it just it just adds another layer of of crap on to trying to sort through something when there's more uncertainty about that when do you do the lot when do parents actually have to choose that is it a week before is it like next week is it because we still don't have any final stuff some are pushing that further and further and further getting closer even with the delayed start date of August 31st now we're pushing that further and further as we're trying to make these plans Dynamic which creates the uncertainty the parents desperately want to IM but if we don't get a response by Wednesday then we decide they go AB I mean that's where we lock in so at that point everybody just goes to the ab that so the 1600 would go up literally that we that we couldn't handle everybody on 4day and not have an a agent so 4day and remote as the two options you're talking about elementary only full day or you talking about oh you talking K12 we do not have the facilities for food services and to to maintain the guidelines established um so that's guidelines are too restrictive to bring everyone back how are these other districts doing that they have more space than we do what I really think may they have more space or more maybe they have larger lunchrooms you take like Country Trails the lunchroom is very small hbt at least they have a lunchroom and they right you could do 100 Kids CT you got one space um Lily Lake you got one space you know it's smaller Central Middle School um you know we're going to put some people outside if they want to go outside right that'll help us but you got one space um you know the high school is much bigger we could kind of partition that off and get more people there because you have to put partitions between them you have those Dynamics you have the Dynamics of spacing so like you said whenever possible so they excuse me they do 375 people they do one grade level at a time at the high school so we're way off that's seven sections now for us that we have to figure out in that 50 combined so that's where you became issues almost eight right I mean it seems to me that there that there's certain students that would maybe benefit more than others for a day or AB uh just based on their their their their history history yep um and those kids you know I absolutely we need to we need to almost we need to almost identify them through their teachers you know through their history and say and offer it to them um in order to get them educated properly it would defin be very clear what the criteria was and I think I think to me the clarity is just you know any kid who's receiving his an i is receiving like you know push in or plot like that that they clearly are the ones and you get a little it's a little fuzzi when you say oh but we have these kids below the 30th perc time for instance pick whatever 20th or 30th we talked about in the board meeting six months ago that gets a little bit more challenging I think because kids can be below in math and perfect def find in English and then you're left kind of dancing around that but I absolutely agree we know our our kids that receive any sort of formalized Support Services need the extras need to be in the building I I completely agree with that well it's good feedback for us to take back to our committee groups and well I kind of like to know a little bit more about where we're at not going to lie transp yeah trans well transportation is I mean that's def because you have 50 we we have enough buses to bring everyone back well we'd have do in a rotation right scalable School Day a different type of schedule and time I think what I already said too I mean we we can determine even as a board to give you recommendations about what we like but there's still again this you know this Administration you guys working you know to figure out what's going to be feasible so I think that again that that is a big variable that we can make three different recommendations and that's going to just I think help maybe eliminate some options maybe make some options more on the table than not on the table I mean I don't know so we can say what we like but that's going to be variable so even my comments about the two days versus four days right like what those kids are doing on the two days that they're not there and what our teachers are feel able and equipped to do is going to make that get to determine whether or not that should be on the table from my perspective again to be very clear for those people listening to like the board is not making this decision I think that needs to be clear right like we're not voting on this correct this is ultimately an Administration decision with our support presumably right we want to be we need your direction right which I I want to make that clear so people don't think that this is you know a board seven people here that decision we're hoping to guide you and and hoping to to you know funnel us away from some things and towards other things um so but I already said the interdependent variables start how do we even say what we want how do we even come to any conclusion at this point I think i' made very clear what my concerns are about the 4 day and the two- day that is my biggest issue as it as exists right now especially for the elementary school kids for K well I think the challeng is that we we can reduce all fours U with the exception of special populations which I definitely think our English Learners our students with special needs all have to come in as frequently as we can get them into the school day um some of our special programs our aot program at the high schools the leads programs most special programs that we have as well um I I just think that we have to I think you have to weigh this we need the board right you have to weigh what the community wants and and think about that as well so um I get where you think there's no parity between and I couldn't guarantee that right there's no way I could guarantee that either so I think that's a decision we would need from you guys if you want us to move away from the four I think that's that's go low C I think we should go up down you think we should go up with what we should go if we're going to move we're going to move the mix the mix should go more towards four rather than towards all everybody going to four days versus going to no I don't think that's the direction we're going I mean we clearly have don't have the space restraint we clearly don't have the space for six feet between students in our present facilities that's why there is the ab schedule I mean correct me if I'm wrong I mean because we we it's not class it's lunch and well lunch and class but you know primarily Su yeah primarily it's I mean it's classroom for sure too but you know the hinge pinge lunch hallways it's all the pass movement those kinds of things all of it yeah so I mean it's it's SP it's the other operations piece that makes it difficult that makes it difficult because my original thought is that's that's what I wanted I wanted um everyone to come back to the greatest extent possible but as we spent more time looking at the operations piece it wasn't Fe feasable under the guidelines to be able to just do that so no I think you continue with where you're headed because once you get the other 1600 parents to respond you know you're going to have all those AB days and seriously I mean you're not going to have that much space for four times right we just have to decide what we have right and you don't want to take it away because again if we have the capability to do it it's obviously better for those parents and those students so why not give them the opportunity if we can do it but with the focus on providing four day schedule for those who I should parents who are electing it though that's the issue right parents are electing into this no but it's not that's not their sole thing they have to select AB with the option of going for if it's available they gave their preference right but they're select and we can do as best as we can to accommodate those preferences but children with needs greater than that you know our IEP kids our kids you know are all the kids that uh you know are you know freeing reduce lunch everybody like that they get the priority because obviously they need it well this is where I said I didn't really want to go but if someone is just has poor grades I mean you can't say that they should go four days a week I think the problem is if you're trying to set schedules for students and teachers and you have a Max cap you're trying to keep at so let's say we do alphabetical AK right and L and Z we can't if they switch at quarter those classes are already capped we can't shift the class mid quarter we we're we're readjusting all CL I'm saying students who say I got a 2.0 grade point last year and someone else got three we both want 4 days so are you going to I'm just making sure we're talking about the same thing I want Clarity on that you do it based on grades at all we talk about Lottery other than IEP and whatnot but somebody who needs more education is are those individuals not someone who just got poor grades last year that correct that would be a lottery at that point so we would we would skim off the special education students students with English language issues those students first would get put them if they wanted four to give them the services some of them may still be choosing to do remote and then it'd be a lottery to fill up classes at that point and we' have to look at the cost it could be cost prohibitive that's why you know it's it's an idea if we find out that we have to add 10 teachers or you know there's no way it's $500,000 we're not going to do that we don't have those kind of dollars to sit and do those so that could be Pro cost prohibitive and we may have to go right back to everybody going AB with the exception of special populations I think you guys came up with a good plan we need to continue and decide so everybody can make their decision and move on I I would we add a board meeting in two weeks another update to this I really think we need to do that um and so you know that's that would not that just used I think you're three weeks out the the week of the 10th for her budget is three weeks she won't be ready that week so I mean if we the budget one I think is always super short right typically so if we added a separate I mean if we have a separate meeting in two weeks Monday again and we had talked about looking at reallocating our dates a little bit um I think given that Wednesday cut off I think that that again something else like this maybe not this long obviously if it needs to be it needs to be but something else to have open access to the community like this I think will be I think it's important I think that's a good idea just because we can keep the community updated on our plans and how they're progressing so we'll work on scheduling something kin does two a month I believe so yeah they do 13 a year right all right anything else on the reopening plan going once all right to approve fo we did have one fo from Smart procure if you remember this is the the quarter Lea Foya that we received and so uh we have a spreadsheet already built and we're able to reply to that for request right the motion second to adjourn Open Session and go on close session second yes bra yes Brown hi Johnson yes kellenberger yes ran yes Gman yes thanks for everybody to everybody for joining us we'll be back just after executive this thank you so ladies that attended is it everything you thought it would be super exciting