so that brings us to the current year and you'll see right away i'm just going to cut down to the bottom line on the number of drivers we're down to 19 drivers right now some of the are on leave average age of our drivers is older and there's some concerns with covin and you can see by the number of students that we're transporting there is definitely that focus on special education that currently we're already transporting 247 students again compared to last year at that 302 so you can see those ramp up more quickly and then we have the free reduced homeless and then the special number so we're still developing those applications for our students that that fall into those categories as well so just an update on where we are now under an am pm model currently we're operating 14 am am routes 17 midday routes and 13 pm routes and that's really due to bell schedule times and reduce an attempt to reduce the number of students on a campus as they're coming in to the school itself and this is one of our biggest challenges is our buses are cut in half related to their capacity and even then we're not able to meet six foot social distancing we measured it out and we're able to maintain maybe three feet but we are requiring masks and we are going to keep the windows down to the greatest extent possible related to the weather but you can see based on a drastic reduction in the number of drivers and the capacity on our buses being cut in half um we are going to have some challenges so as a reminder by law we're required to provide transportation to special needs students and our homeless students and we're still receiving those requests even today our goal then would be once we have those is to send out an all-call or another communication that would go out to our parents and and community and start accepting applications for home school our priority really is going to be able to try and meet our legal requirements and provide transportation for those students that are almost outside of the city boundaries we really do not have the capacity we don't think at this point in time to provide a lot of transportation as we've done previously in town and we provided those board policies and administrative regs for you as well so also as a point we provide other transportation services that are going to be impacted field trips and athletic events there and i list them the different requirements for drivers related to the number of hours they can drive the amount of time they have to be off before they can drive and then historically our practice has been to keep two large buses really earmarked for each of our two high schools that they can use to use for extracurricular athletics certainly the bulk of that but maybe band or something else um our transportation fees just as a reminder once we get down to that priority level we do charge for services for those that don't meet those those qualifications are free and reduced and you can see it's not a lot of money that the district receives because quite frankly we don't have the capacity to take on a lot of those students and i list the amounts that are in there and that we currently are charging but kind of the last piece here in our next steps is that for the current year 2021 we do intend to provide some additional communication and regarding parents regarding transportation accepting applications we need to finalize our driver trainer we've had a person on staff who has been ready and completed all their testing behind the wheel but they have to schedule a time with california highway patrol and due to kova they're not accepting and setting those times so we are hiring somebody outside and under contract to keep our drivers in compliance but we don't have our driver trainer trained in-house to be able to get that done even on a more regular basis which is the challenge again of going out and recruiting more drivers and getting them through that process so it's not like we're just accepting we're down from 29 to 19 throwing up our hands but our options for getting new people recruited and in the system are limited partly chp and it is partially chp just not being able to schedule that time for our driver trainer to complete that certification we are going to continue to accept our home to school applications and we will continue to adjust routes as required and again i already mentioned that goal of trying to meet our legal requirements and transfer those students that are the furthest away from their schools but again i just can't emphasize this enough this program is already constrained and every year at the beginning of school we are always making a few people unhappy because we just can't provide the service that is more impacted this year and we will have more people that we're going to have to talk to them about not being able to provide transportation services home to school which then also leads into some difficult conversations about athletics and extracurricular and field trips we're going to do our best to provide as much service as we can but i want the board to be aware of our challenge we'll continue to try and recruit drivers my last point when we first were working in transportation maybe seven years ago we identified four areas that we needed to work on one was pay one was their their work environment two was the quality of the buses that they were driving i had a fourth but i can't remember it offhand um but we've addressed all those uh we have increased the hourly rate we've done a really nice job with our bus fleet for home to school especially there's work to do on our type 2 buses i would tell the board that but our type ones are much better and we even put out a new office space for our transportation department out in the courtyard so we've tried to address those areas of concern but it is a challenge it's a tough job it's a split shift and it's an important work so we'll continue to try and recruit but won the board to be aware of this and wanted this to start getting out into our community thank you thank you kevin so since we just went through the information that john provided you wouldn't need these buses the two big buses for athletics until december late december that's correct it gives us some time to plan but i will tell you we have really good athletic directors who are already scheduling and wanting answers and we're not quite able to do that yet so okay that's just one of again the challenges we're faced with okay okay okay so that was information only thank you for that next up is discussion action for julie kissel is julie available julie are you available i can't hear her i no neither can we say something i still can't hear you so julie is uh trying to call in so if we can just be patient we don't have her nobody can hear her quite yet okay how about we go to the next item and then come back to this okay um if julie if you can hear us we will come back to you momentarily i can also call her from here if we need to you know i'm happy to take on julie does have a couple of items but then i have facility use and i could take that on now under item um five yeah why don't you why don't we move to five until we can connect up with julie okay if nobody objects no that's fine okay okay so under facility use um we note that while we're in red that we're going to start receiving requests for outside groups to start renting our facilities and so we want to have this conversation with the board and we do ask for really kind of four things from the board this evening and i'll go over those in a moment but just to let you know we've had conversations with our our principals our high school principals specifically and athletic departments and they are going to be severely challenged over the next few weeks just to deal with all of the events that are now going to be crushed into a shorter period of the school year so we think it's important that even looking at the administrative regs for facilities it has a priority listing and events that are specific to our schools get the highest priority and if you start having all of your winter sports and fall sports and spring sports really coming into the school year at the same time and the planning that's occurring now we really just don't think we're going to be able to open up to outside groups especially when we start scheduling because we need those facilities to be open and available through the next few weeks to be flexible related to what we're going to find out hopefully as we move forward and what the tiers may be so the other challenge we have is related to cleaning yeah with kind of the higher expectation of sanitation and cleaning for us to open up our facility to outside groups that would bring into our spaces we would have to have again additional staff working more overtime to do the disinfecting and sanitization that would be really required for our teachers i think our staff to feel safe so um i actually have four specific things that we're asking the board to do i'll pull those up we're asking that the board would consider following in the county tier assignments for gatherings for for indoor activities we provided you a summary of what those look like from the county so that's specific to indoor events we do actually ask that the board would allow for public use of our outdoor spaces on our schools after school hours beginning at 3 30 p.m until dark and then also on the weekends and again those would be outdoor spaces where a family may want to use kick a ball or something like that so we do suggest that those be open during those time periods but number three would be do not schedule any of our cusd facilities to any outside organizations until january 1st or the beginning of the spring semester really almost consistent to what you've done related to the am pm model 3 30 to dark because often our custodians who are on site go out and lock the gates when it becomes dark now would they have to be the use of these outdoor spaces would they have to be compliant with the face shields or masks they would yeah it's really more of a this is really not organized groups coming on this is your public who may go for a walk or something yeah yeah yeah i drove by uh emma wilson and um i don't know if that was it's the park i think that's right next to them right and there were you know a bunch of say junior high school boys playing basketball none of them were masked up or anything and i thought wow this is really a great opportunity to you know yeah it's not school yeah i mean i know those kids are really anxious to get out there and play and do those things but it seemed like that might be a real contagious situation there sure um certainly the board can consider that it was just really an attempt to yeah but i mean if we're gonna if we're gonna require people to you know based on the on what the um level is of danger that they have to respond appropriately wear masks if necessary you know whatever then i think that's that's a good thing okay certainly and then the last one is actually increasing our fee for outside organizations when we do open up uh to cover the additional cleaning and so we included an update to the fee structure to add hourly rates freely for the increased custodial time that we'll need to provide to make sure that those areas are sanitized and clean i would say administratively depending on what the board did this evening we would start taking applications i would suggest at the beginning of november and have conversations with our outside groups to start that conversation to give them hope and they need to plan quite frankly as they're scheduling their own seasons or practices or events as well so with that okay this is this is an item we have to vote on do you have any questions for kevin i do not um yes that's 8.2 5 i guess all right so that was a motion by dr kaiser a second by eileen robinson um any other discussion all righty all those in favor please say aye aye okay that passes and that was a four component um process that mr baltimore laid out for a second so julie kissel is available by phone okay julie are you there now okay julie can you hear me now here we go yes are you hearing me through john's phone or through the computer i don't know but we're hearing you but we can hear you i think you can still hear me we can hear you yes fantastic i apologize for the delay uh let's go ahead and get rolling um charter schools measure k facility committee have been very busy they brought forth three recommendations for the board's review they are for chico country day and inspire school of arts and sciences the first one for chico country day is an additional one hundred thousand dollars for the contingency fund for their current construction project unfortunately they have run into some significant underground conflicts with the um the digging of the footings for their new building i'm happy to say that we've gotten through them but they were quite costly so they need an additional 100 000 to be put into their contingency farm and then the two items for inspire um one is for additional planning funds for the architect they initially asked for uh 500 about 500 000 to get going with their planning and programming of which you know already they have accomplished that portion and now they are ready to continue on with rainforest growl architects and they're requesting additional 500 that will get them all the way through design review and approval by the division of the state architect and all the way through the construction of the project additionally they are asking for two hundred thousand dollars more for consultants that are going to be uh required to assist them in the design process and uh to assist them in getting through the planning planning and programming as it continues so those are the three things we're asking for you to review and approve this evening okay any questions for julie all right if not this is an action item i'll second oh okay and actually i do have a question i'm sorry that it took so long to buzz in sure sure go ahead julie can you can you tell me a little bit more about what the the consultants that are required uh for the inspire business yes um as you know or you may not know mike weisenborn was working with all of the charter schools as a facility's mentor and he has since retired again and so that has left inspire um with a need for a you know kind of a facilities uh person to inform them as they go in through the design process which will be very helpful for them i do not believe that they will spend all of the 200 000 but that's what they're asking for at this point is the the leeway to do that in addition it's the consultants for helping them with the charter school funding it is quite complicated and not something that the district is super familiar with since we're not a charter school so they will be utilizing the services of king and associates to help them get through the funding side of the project and your recommendation is that we move forward with this yes thank you thank you okay so uh we do have a motion and a second um are we ready to vote everyone now all those in favor please say aye aye all right that passes unanimously um next up has to do with pleasant valley high school career technical projects yes thank you uh the chico unified board of education approved career and technical education grant applications for pleasant valley high school almost two years ago and initially the statewide funding allocation wasn't at a high enough level to cover these projects but with the state supporting more funding for cte they've now been approved at the state allocation board and this is very very good news for our district and for peavey high school many many thanks to the staff members that took the time to write those grants and liz metzger for her leadership and priscilla burns for her leadership we i already provided to you the programming and planning booklets that describe the four projects and i'd be happy to answer any questions on those i don't want to take up your time in describing them again to you if you feel clear we'll move ahead if you have questions please let me know i did want to mention two really key pieces of information all four of these projects aim to provide accommodations for our special needs students in these cte programs and that is really critical and as always the district is wanting to attempting to applying to leverage these cte funds with any other available dollars that we can get our hands on the the three buildings that these projects will impact are slated for modernization down the road so we would hope to marry state modernization dollars along with these cta grant dollars to cte grand dollars excuse me to um get more work done than just simply the interiors of the classrooms for the cte and by that i mean putting on new roofs uh upgrading the power putting in new ceilings where needed adding data and media tools like the viewsonics which we already did campus-wide and new hvac equipment for those buildings um the value of the modernization funding ability um it hasn't been determined yet so on your lead sheet that i provided you see a tbd so we will apply for every product every project and every bit of money we can get our hands on but you should know that it will offset a project in the future because it will be a couple if not several years before we actually realize the benefit of those applications um so i'll open it up for questions but tonight i just want to reiterate we're asking for approval for all four of these cte projects and approval to enter contract with rainforest growl architects from the design process all the way through construction thank you okay i see a couple excuse me i see a couple questions uh kathy well i had the chance to go on to pv's campus when um i guess the pm kids were coming on and the amount of construction that's going on right now is quite awesome it's really amazing but as a member of the facilities committee we've gone through this as you noted a number of times and i'm extremely impressed with the projects and i certainly would move to approve this once everybody else gets their questions answered okay eileen oh thank you i remember when we didn't quite make it in on these projects when they were first submitted the first time around and one of the things that is just so exciting is the employability of students coming out of these projects these are career paths that are earning the the students jobs before they even get graduated out of high school these are fields that employers cannot fill and the wages and benefits of these career paths are absolutely marvelous and so i'm i'm i'm just so excited that chico unified is going to have the buildings that will allow us to provide these cte courses it's just so exciting okay any other questions all right no just one comment um you know the pv school was included in phase four of the facilities master plan which was part of the measure k measure i mean part of measure k which was communicated to the public and i just think it's very important that we continue to keep our promise based on what we said we were going to do we are increasing the scope but we're also leveraging these additional cte dollars which i think are the right thing so i just want to point that out this project was already in phase four we're just increasing the scope certainly within all the language within measure cap okay thank you for clarifying that okay so kathy i believe you made a motion i did i want to move 2.3 the pleasant valley cte uh projects okay second by eileen robinson all those in favor please say aye aye aye all right that passes unanimously next up bid approval for pleasant valley high school tennis courts project thank you so this project was brought forward by mr baltimore many months ago as one of the prioritized athletic projects for the high schools and it just bid today at 2pm and the lowest responsive bidder is santos excavating at 220 000 and so i'm asking for your approval to move forward with this project tonight for the amount of 235 000.
this school has offered me 20. look at the cost of the school and do the math before you make that decision and also take a look at those components of that offer some colleges will award um financing or loans that families are expected to cover the balance but that's not an award that's something you actually would have to qualify for you may or may not want it as a family every school could do that so what you want to look at is those are those attributes that would that would actually reduce your overall cost and then make that sort of final decision based on your out-of-pocket cost one thing that we spend a lot of time talking about is not necessarily your expected family contribution or the cost of the school look at your net price what is coming out of your pocket as a family and then make those comparisons looks like actually we have a very related question so let me the next question is once you complete the fafsa does it tell you how much financial aid you will receive or is it tied to a specific school's tuition anyone can grab that okay i'll go all right so so that's very interesting so the fafsa itself it will give you a number they call it the expected family contribution but the number you know it's marginally helpful you know kind of but in my mind really it's it's more you know colleges use that more as a comparison between students and families so so the reality is you really have to wait to get the actual financial aid award from individual colleges to know what it really is going to look like because i mean just as stacy said you know you could get piles and piles of financial aid from one college and less from another but if positive positive financial aid is a giant parent loan that's that's not money you necessarily want to have it's a big loan that you don't necessarily want so you have to wait the you know colleges interpret that expected family contribution number differently and their costs are different so definitely wait uh until you get those actual awards from colleges and then do your comparison one thing i think that we we find a lot is that families don't realize that when you complete the fafsa and the profile actually they're both centrally processed so you complete them you list the number of colleges that you have and i know kristin mentioned you can list 10 at a time that is then sent to a central processor and that information is all sent out to the schools and then the schools themselves do the analysis that michael is talking about so every school is going to read things slightly differently and they're going to make their offers differently i think we've mentioned too that there are some schools that meet full need about 80.
For example, the school resources available at their school, their Facebook. Yes, their circle of friends is going to change a lot, and the classes they take each day. They're also going to start the "way of living with the winds," Rafael, which is this way of learning in a good way. It started in a good way, or something like that. I've heard this before, but at the beginning of ninth grade, you have to pay close attention to your academic performance. Yes, because when you apply to universities, we're going to see all the grades and marks you received. From ninth grade onward, you also have to start participating in student organizations. For example, maybe you want to play sports, maybe soccer, maybe take a sixth form. But there are also other opportunities like Maxwell, Marc United Nations, and other organizations where you can participate in your free time outside of class.
some of that spend was last year's budget right it was not this year's budget so it's uh the net impact on the this year's budget's about 88 000 um and we'll continue to monitor that with the uh with the board of finance and there are other opportunities where we might actually have other underruns and that's where we will actually save a little some amount of money when we're actually not having kids in school for two weeks for example um so a lot of things a lot of moving pieces but i would say all things considered as a committee we concluded most of the news was good news so um and being well managed by mr post and uh and the entire administrative staff so that's kind of what's going on our budget we came in right up dead nuts on the two big risk areas on our budget uh the cobot stuff is actually coming in a little less than we expected and the savings are a little more than we expected and the board of finance got all our input and they thought it was a really good update that ken did when we were together a couple of days after that so that's kind of where we are on the budget and i'll kind of do it this year's going to be really tricky so we'll do a report on this um you know every time every month when we meet um as we as we go through the year i'll try to do it more on an incremental update as we go that was the totality of what we spoke about at our finance committee and i'll entertain any questions you guys might have sorry i took a little longer than i normally do that's all right a lot of information a lot of good information about what's happening and i hope i summarized it in a way that everyone could digest it easily any questions for bob thank you uh now we have uh sorry you probably should have joy did you mention uh your special facilities meeting in your gonna combine the two yeah great um so then we have cape i wanna say i'm so glad that bob is in charge of the finance committee because he does really do a great job of explaining things that are really complicated in a digestible way so i want to thank you for that bob um so we had a great uh cape meeting it was just last week and this was really joy had a great idea she said why don't we use the kate meeting to sometimes be updated on the initiatives that we're approving and budgeting so we can then bring it back to uh the full board and then the community who watches the board meetings so we had two presentations the first was from uh it was a stem presentation so it was from andrew hill who's the stem department chair at the high school and robert support who's the stem teacher and they gave us a demonstration of a software it's called white box learning software basically what it is it's an engineering type software that the students can utilize either in school at home as they're doing all sorts of tasks in developing you know different things that they would design so they showed us an example of uh something that they would make for somebody who was an amputee so like a design for a prosthetic um and they he kind of took us through the software so we could get a sense of what it might be like for a student so you know when we think about being in a hybrid or remote environment you know you think oh god there's so many disadvantages but with the right technology we can really uh maximize what students are doing so that was exciting to kind of learn about and see all the possibilities of our growing stem program at the high school and our second presentation was by dean renda our principal at the middle school and he updated us on a program that began last year this was a grant that um uh that we were a part of to integrate the arts into social studies and it was done through visiting artists and the idea was to bring the arts into the social studies unit of the american revolution and so what's happened is there's been some curriculum planning uh on how to integrate it unfortunately the unit was supposed to take place place last year but with the um you know us moving to remote it became difficult but they've salvaged it and they're continuing to work on it uh for this year instead and so um it's really working on really interdisciplinary type work where the art will be within the social studies class they're working out the logistics on whether the resident artist would actually physically be able to come to school maybe more of a zoom meeting might be more appropriate depending on where we are you know with everything but the you know the exciting part is it's really sort of bringing history to life uh through the incorporation of the arts so i'm sure uh our seventh graders at wisconia are gonna really benefit from that so so those were two great presentations and we start to see kind of the development of curriculum and uh get a real taste for how things are evolving in our schools jen can i say something on that yes all right um i did speak with uh john michael parker who is the head of arts it's arts for learning in connecticut uh we had a meeting this morning and uh we talked about um having virtual art artists um have it be virtual and what they would be able to do is be able to zoom both of our seventh grade social studies classes at the same time and we are setting up a time for our seventh grade social studies teachers and these artists to collaborate and prepare ahead of time so hopefully uh this will be off and running as long as he has the artists uh right after november 18th i think is the date we're shooting for so we're excited about it that's great thank you dean uh and that was the extent of our meeting okay any questions for jen all right thank you okay up next we have the consent agenda i will move that the board approve the items on the consent agenda which are new hires and the september 2020 financials second thanks joy okay all in favor okay that's unanimous thank you okay on to new business um we have the 21 22 budget assumptions and priorities so this is just an action item so i'll go ahead and turn it over to dr brill who can present the the priorities thank you rosa so um each year prior to um bringing a budget to the board of education we set up our board assumptions and priorities um what we want to do is really have everybody on the same page and have have very similar expectations going into the budget seasons of those core pieces that we all are essentially in agreement on um and so if you'll indulge me i'm going to just highlight and go through some of these pieces there also is a mention in there under operating budget about possibly budgeting and considering the cost of the pandemic as it may continue um i wanted to put that in there so we could purposely have an intentional point of discussion on that um and thank you eric and um you know when i it's this is a two-pager that's up on the screen right now when i get through with it because it's perfectly dovetailed tonight with the timing of mr belden's very detailed um uh overview uh of the finances and in code related costs and uh you know the board could uh if the board could help get some direction to the to the admin team be very helpful as most most of you know on the board the principals have been working along with their department heads diligently on the budget their budgets at each school i'm in each department those are due to tso on friday this week so you know with everything else going on they're also developing their budgets for next year uh it feels like the school year hasn't even started and we're already doing that i kind of say that every year so anyway um what i just want to briefly go through is um [Music] oh joy i see your comment there yeah we can share the screens eric has everything so he can definitely do that um so a couple of things that are really important in terms of uh supporting our our strategic roadmap as we go forward is that our operating budget should provide sufficient and appropriate resources promote continuous improvement afford sufficient flexibility to respond to changing needs and contingencies this is a very flexible board flexible team we've talked constantly about that and provide necessary maintenance and improvements to the school facilities and obviously represent value in the eyes of the community um the operating budget itself um the first bullet i put in there and i just wanted that's why i alerted everybody to it that i did put in there and again it's up for consideration this is this ends up being the board's assumptions and priorities um for budgeting is provide financial support required to sustain our operations uh in a pandemic and and we're all too familiar with that the operating budget also maintains our commitment to ensuring appropriate district and school organizational structures again align to the strategic plan maintain and continue to enhance our programs although all the while being responsive to any of the changing needs we have and that's why we have the dialogue we have and all the work we do we want to uh attract and retain uh the best employees we can make sure we recruit the best we can we want to maintain um the practices that we have in terms of class size uh and adjust our staffing patterns as necessary we'll change enrollment provide the necessary resources to address social and emotional needs of students uh we brought ruler in and been working on this for quite a few years but there has been no no more of a time in our public school history than right now that we need this uh social emotional supports um in addition to that it's moving there uh thank you eric um uh after school programming we want to make sure we have the resources for you know our stipend positions for all the after school activities and athletics and uh all the all the wonderful enrichment programs we do have here in town provide our uh support for curriculum uh instruction and assessment and digital learning that is a key piece especially now more than ever it has been highlighted for us during this pandemic provide the staffing support uh for the changing enrollment in pre-k and special education and we're going to go over the enrollment report tonight so you'll see some of the adjustments uh some of the enrollment there and we could talk about that obviously technology infrastructure and pd that goes along with supporting a digital learning environment it's a key piece in our strategic plan of course meeting all the compliance mandates of the state and the federal government meeting funding requirements for all of our contracts not only in terms of collective bargaining but for transportation technology purses purchases and all of the um business items that go into to the cost of doing business in uh in public school providing the funds to meet all the board of education policies and practices so if we have something in writing and say if we say we do it we must support it and reflect continuing cost containment efforts which we always do our best to work on including participate in our regional efficiencies group which we are in the western connecticut group gonna start bringing back around um uh now that it's budget season for all the superintendents uh under curriculum assessment instruction this is where you'll see probably um you know more more changes than you saw in the first page um of course we're gonna maintain support for our uh curricular tools the digital curricular tools um that impact hybrid remote learning we just talked about that a little bit we want to continue to support the integration of technology and resources into our daily instruction and we need to support access to digital texts um the kids are on chromebooks even when they're in person in school they are always working digital not always often working digitally we want to expand continue to expand our classroom libraries and make sure that they are standard aligned and integrated with our curriculum continue to support faculty capacity excuse me align to student assessments and teacher evaluation data and that's again being responsive as an organization continue to develop assessment literacy of our professional staff uh support our curriculum development align with the standards especially for social studies that we know are moving in that direction support ongoing development of standards aligned assessments to support standards-based rating that has not gone away there's a big project k through four that we continue to have to work on and we'll continue to work on that uh in our schools analyze the outcomes of the standards grace beta standard based grading and reporting and utilize professional development time to enhance that practice continue to research and identify our curriculum tools on making sure that we're pushing forward in our high school science and k-12 social studies development of our in-house and elect analytics and data warehouse we were slowed down a little bit last year that is going to be a priority this year working to continue our implementation of rubicon atlas we do want to um update our talented and gifted process that's one of mrs wagonic's goals she's going to be working on that this year uh when dr sapala moved on um that that project uh was pushed to the side and mrs wagon bringing it back to the forefront this year um we want to meet the needs of our english language uh learning students uh and math intervention needs of our students and these you will recognize as enhancement items uh that we worked on last year having this year's budget and with obviously the major costs and concerns with um the overage in special education and also the unknowns what was what things were going to cost us with covid um we had to curtail some of those investments and so we will be going forward with our um uh pushing forward with our tesol teacher that we need in the district that we've talked about for a couple of years um the math interventionist vhs and um uh exploring the need for tutors at the center school and at huckleberry in leadership we want to continue the improvement of our leadership through the analysis of instruction and providing targeted feedback to faculty and you can see that dovetails back with under curriculum and assessment working with teacher evaluation data in our faculty so there's a lot that goes into that in the student assessments and then finally under operations and facilities uh we we need to evaluate and plan for the transition to the new elementary school this involves certifications of teachers um structural uh structure of the organization in terms of leadership structure and how we're going to work on that and and we really are in that process now a little bit delayed because of covid and all the reopening work this summer but we're gonna be moving on that on our master planning timeline uh this number one is uh due for conversation in january february publicly at the board um we have to look at transportation we obviously got our start times enrollment there's a lot that's going to go into the new school a lot of planning number two we want to make sure we implement our safety and security plan inclusive of the security task force recommendations um the assessments from homeland security and of course always working with chief purcell and his team at the brookfield boys department we want to upgrade our classroom presentation and digital integration technology at the high school uh and begin at wisconia that slowed a little bit with some of the curtailing we had to do with budget from last year's development to this year as well as the needs for other digital technology rather than purchasing some of the presentation stations in this current year continue to advocate and plan for the upgrade of our athletic facilities in the ball fields that is actually under the auspices of the park and rex department but we obviously they're a big time partner of ours and we want to work together with them and then obviously uh mr post has mentioned this a couple times and he's talked to the finance committee about this um we'll be coming up this year to get ready to bid for a new transportation contract so quite a bit there and we don't even have a budget presentation yet but there's a lot we have to do it helps give guidance to the board guidance to central office and certainly to our dedicated building administrators who are developing their school plans uh budget plans right now so i don't know if anybody has any questions joy raised her hand okay um it's not so much a question but um a comment so you know an expectation i feel that is going to be really important to see is an item under curriculum assessment instruction that addresses you know our new gaps due to covid or our current you know regression you know we're going to need a lot of remedial help for so many you know all content areas are taking a big hit but i think writing has taken a huge hit given the challenges you know for real authentic writing experiences so you know before we hit the budget head on you know i ask at least that you really think about you know how how are we going to really truly create a budget you know without solid data to support these gaps or address you know this regression that we're facing right now um like yes we need to continue to push forward the curriculum absolutely but you know how are we really going to adapt this regression so i think we really need to have something under that topic um and i don't know if you've had discussions about that or have had that in your mind no joy it's great maybe i can update the language on that a little bit but it really to me applies under specifically under number 14 and it could fit in other areas but those are some of the known intervention areas that we needed to work on and to your point there will be other gaps we are moving forward through this fall with our district assessments to see where the students are and that's one of the things that was on the master planning timeline for last meeting was talking about that and our building administrators um to your point won't have all the data necessarily by this friday when they produce their budgets for us but we have to meet our timelines um but we'll be that's an iterative process as we go through this for sure there's no so i know we have number 14 but that was kind what we had really as a budget assumption last year too so that to me that's not like a current need because we had that need last year we've kind of always wanted that i almost feel like we need more yeah no i think it's great is that dr ruby yeah so joy just so you know um we have been talking about assessments um we always talk about assessments people don't always want to hear about assessments but um we've been talking about our benchmark assessments and i can tell you that one of the one of the conversations we had this week was um doing the evaluation of writing prompts at the middle school so we are assessing and we are provide when we have that assessment data analyzed we will continue to provide um support for students and i acknowledge what you're saying it's not the same as it was previously but i i don't want and i don't think you're saying this but i don't want anybody to think that we're not assessing students um we we in fact are we changed our assessment window a little bit this year to allow for the integration of children into the system and for our teachers to focus on acclimating kids back into school after having been out for so many weeks you know at the end of the spring and the whole summer gap and our focus was on um acclimating integrating and social emotional development but that was not at the expense of our curriculum and so we are as a matter of fact we met today because with the closure yesterday it was just as much of a surprise to you know to all of us as it was to all of the community and we um we had made a decision early on um in the year that we were not going to be doing um remote testing with say for example star we're going to find a way for our remote children to be able to come in so that we could could preserve the reliability and validity of the assessments but given the fact that our window is closing quickly for um first the first benchmark assessment we made a decision today to do our star assessment for reading math especially at the middle school in a remote way because renaissance learning which is the company that provides star provides for remote assessment and you know we have safeguards to the best as we can to ensure the validity and reliability of the data that we um obtain so all that said i just want to assure you that assessment hasn't gone by the wayside nor has our dealing with the assessment data to provide support to kids so i don't know if you have any further questions that maybe i can either answer now or get you answers on no well i want you to understand where i'm coming from so i'm not insinuating that we're not assessing you know i know that there's a pause on that especially with star um given the situation that we're in i don't doubt that we're going to continue our practices and our best practices for you know assessing and evaluating students my concern is we are facing regression with the students and there are going to be gaps so how are we going to reflect a budget that is going to close those gaps um i'm also thinking personally in my in you know working with children every day i see them you know on the forefront writing being very glaring because it's so hard to do that online and given that so many of our students are remote and all of them right now well yes all of them right now and some are you know homeschooled based on the situation so i think that we're entering a you know a new era of we're going to see a drop in scores and things like that so and so joy if i can just address i actually absolutely uh agree with what you're saying and so just to um provide you with some other information um at the middle school because uh wisconsin our title one school dean and i have been working um to use our title one funds and i wrote the grant for um tutors for literacy uh and for math to um because that's that can be considered supplemental it's not something that was primarily the responsibility of the school district um so we're providing um we actually have on our recruitment site um positions for tutors for literacy and for mathematics and we're very stringent about what the qualifications are for uh literacy tutors and one of the things that i think the reason why um dr rohl was referring to number 14 is because where we see the largest gap in um in student proficiency is with our um our immigrant students and our el students and we currently are um [Music] you know not staffed to capacity um to to keep those kids and a lot of our al students are remote for um cultural reasons um so you know that that right now right there in number 14 that's very important for closing gaps and we have the tutor situation and then in human resources we look at the human resources that we have and how we're deploying them and so when that um when the benchmark or beginning of the year the boi benchmark data comes in that's when i will sit and and deb varys will sit with both um melissa and mary rose in the elementary schools and look at how we're utilizing are our human resources in terms of reading teachers and special education teachers relative to the the alignment with what the data are telling us and uh because we they're not title one school so we can't use title one funding for support there but don't i think you know that um you know people don't always like it but i'm not shy about letting you know what we need so when we have that data um which will be coming in over the next two weeks we will be looking at that with uh very wide eyes and if we feel that we need um more support we'll definitely be asking for it i will tell you the other thing dean and i have been working very very closely and we have just recently designed and gotten approved using our title one monies projecting what you're exactly what you're saying and we have just recently actually about seven days ago got an approval for using some of our title one funds for um summer school for next year for um you know being able to catch kids up so it is absolutely on our radar and i appreciate the fact that it's on yours too because we need your support and although i think you know it's important for a wisconnier type being title one but um i think a lot of our energy needs to be at the elementary level too i mean our most vulnerable children at such a young age um you know for example first grade i mean they they're coming in really you know i think they're the most vulnerable grade level at this point um so i agree to you know i don't think i agree and so i hope you won't be surprised if you see in the budget um a request for funding for summer school for the um elementary schools so that we can provide um extra support for those children when we look at our eoi data because like i just shared we have it kind of covered for wisconia with our title funding but we do not for um uh center school and huckleberry and when we look at all the efforts that we put forth for this uh current academic year given the situation that we're in when we get that eoi data at the end of the year we anticipate at this point in time that we are going to need funds just to support services for um children over the summer so you kind of preempted that i i would be i'm definitely looking for that in our budget request good that's great i have no doubt that you won't be wearing rose colored glasses yeah thank you very much i appreciate the fact that you brought it up it makes it easier for i me do appreciate you bringing that up because that is you know it's so early in the process uh i don't present till i think december second um we're working a little you know after that with the finance committee and then and then obviously through december and january before we turn things over to mr dunn so um there's still a lot of work to do and we don't we don't move without our principles and their leadership and what they bring to us you know directly from from working with their staff is there any other questions or anything anybody else wants to talk about regardless does that does you know does all of that sort of um uh is there something else that you wanted does that sort of suffice does that answer suffice from yeah i just wanted to um you know put out there my expectation as far as um these budget priorities and to make sure we had that keeping that in the back of our head in our mind i am curious though when dr you mentioned you know summer school for elementary school which um may be appropriate but you know i think just kind of reflecting off of what joy said if there's if we're not just looking at sort of you know special populations of students and if we might see you know more of a widespread sort of issues and gaps in learning you know is summer school really sort of the answer for that or is there you know something that we can be more proactive about you know doing during the school year to kind of so that we're not addressing problems after we are so that's a double-barreled question we absolutely are addressing problems um during the year um but what when we get to the end of the year we know that we're gonna have kids that are still needing support and this is not for special populations this is for regular ad populations so if i can expand upon what i was talking about with the title one funds for our whiskaner population since that's the school because of the size and because there's a variety of um variables that go into identifying which which school or which grades are title one when we have money that we can use legally for title what for title one services that does not preclude having other children included in there so this is this is not a special ed um um or solely special um population services we are we're looking at because we have the summer the summers program for special ed students this is a general education um initiative and we're not gonna i don't want to give anybody the impression that we're gonna it's like a wait and fail um um program absolutely you know that would be ridiculous we would never do that but we can with certainty say that given all of the variables that families and students and and the educational system is dealing with during this year there are going to be children who will not be at the place um where we would expect them to be under typical circumstances and so we want to be thinking ahead and providing for those and that will be in this budget because that will be for the next budget year now were we to have the ability at this point in time to ask or more tutoring support at the two elementary schools and as well as at the high school we knew that we needed last year we knew that we needed math interventionists at the high school which is why we asked for that but if we were in a position right now to say oh board of bed by the way could you help us out because we really believe that we need to have more um support services in our schools because of the situation that we're in it you know we certainly would do that but that's not we're not in that budget year we're with that but that ship sailed so we will be using all of the personnel that we currently have and redeploying them as is most appropriate when we evaluate the the data from the boi assessments but we're not we're not like waiting we're not sitting back and going oh well we'll just wait till the summer and i don't i don't think you thought that i said that but i just want to make it clear not saying that yeah yeah no i think i think that was clear i think i just you know i just wanted to be sure that we're we're looking at the sort of proactively and thinking you know is is that the best way to make sure that every kid sort of you know is getting what they need throughout the year so but thank you anybody else with uh questions on this yeah debbie go ahead i guess um what i'm wondering is you know now that we're facing sort of the second wave of covid um is there anything that we can say we've learned from going through this that we would change for next year you know we hope that after this year we don't have to worry about covid or any other kind of pandemic but in the event that something else happens next year you know we don't want to look back and say oh well we should have added this or um you know done things differently so i know that it looks like you've included a lot of technology resources but just in terms of staffing or programs or curriculum maybe around the topic of mental health and support for students um maybe staffing in terms of nursing staff you know do you do you feel like we've do you feel like there's anything we would do differently going forward to be better prepared for a public health crisis like we're dealing with now and maybe maybe it's all in here but that's just sort of what i keep thinking yeah i think deb um we've been doing a lot of reflecting and have a lot of lessons learned i think a lot of it's reflected in here um it's going to be interesting to see where the principles are coming from on on friday with some of the things they're seeing in real needs i think we had a big discussion on it just now with the things we learned um i would say maybe proactively we budget for a coveted coordinator so i don't have to do it again next year to be very honest with you considering the cost and that goes to nursing and health staff and things like that um the continuous investment in um all kinds of of technology not only learning technology but the hard hard technology like devices you know we really need to make a move there i'm going to be working with eric and his department quite a bit because the reality is with being victimized frankly like like many school districts not only in connecticut but across the nation and across the world in terms of the supply chain um it's been very difficult to ensure that all the kids have a proper device at home for exactly the circumstance we're in but also hybrid and in person even when we're hybrid or eventually in person with all the digital work we do and the fact that the kids you know really can't congregate and collaborate like like we used to so um i'd say you know right off the top of my head those are some of the biggies um and any evolution and that's why i said the budget development process is iterative as we go through the fall um because we continuously collaborate and generate the ideas based on the data and the feedback we're getting and the questions that you the great questions you guys are asking tonight okay and then i just wanted to i if i have a question for the board i wasn't sure um the board's comfort level um or feelings about how and we don't have to answer the question pragmatically how we go about doing it um but budgeting for a pandemic when i put that on page one as the uh the first bullet under um it's important that the board's operating budget be ready for that is you know and i think we can talk about it maybe at the next finance committee meeting and get some suggestions from the group but uh and i know mr post has some ideas but really thinking through almost on is there a parallel budget that we keep track of uh or do we integrate it into the regular operating budget because we we're living through those costs right now we have a great handle on them so um i think it's important that we're paying attention to it and we are budgeting for it and then whether we include it in the actual operating budget or it's a side piece that we're very communicative about with the i i need some advice on that and that's why i wanted to make sure it was in this document so we could talk about it either a little bit tonight and then you know at our next meeting as well let me suggest we talk about it at our next finance committee meeting okay uh and bring it back because i i actually think that's a tricky dribble with this budget um and it's gonna need to be very transparent and maybe have cases right you know if we have to be hybrid here's the range if we have to we're going to be out here's the impact i'm hoping it's a lot less than this year because we i did a lot of the physical hardware stuff we needed to this year already but i fully expect there's ppe related things and and some of the staffing things and things like that here okay so i do you know i'd like to hear mr post's ideas i'm sure the finance committee would do it but i think in the end as a board we're going to need to be very transparent in our thinking on this topic so thank you bob anyone else have any questions or comments [Music] okay so i think we can move on and um let's move on to the district enrollment report and this is also just another action um and i will allow dr brill to go through that all right so we have a enrollment report the state department of education uh has each school district by october 1st you all know this reporting officially on its enrollment this was quite a difficult task this year with tracking where the students are in the option for remote and again the pandemic is really the the the uh the underlying theme of every decision we're making you know it's just changed how we operate so you have uh we do a four-year comparison typically each year uh pre-k through 12 we also include the special populations on here it's important to note that this is a snapshot in time and literally every single day enrollment changes there's puts and takes move-ins and move-outs every single day in our school district is not unusual and so this is what the enrollment was on october 1st and then the special populations that i'll review with you are the number of outplaced children just a general statement on the report on that um and eric actually if you could scroll um to the to the next slide and also a um report on pre-reduced lunch english language learners and our um uh what was it our general special education um in terms of the overriding number for the district it's also important to know that next week dr ruby will presenting the class size reports which dovetail with this report it's kind of the order we put this in so there's a there's a coherence and logic to how we share this information with the board and the public um so what you can see is as you go down the very uh the right-hand column um is the comparison of last year to this year which is the 2020 uh october one and as you can see uh in our primary grades um in pre-k and in kindergarten we're down right now um uh by a significant amount in kindergarten we've been talking about that reporting out since july it's been a concern of ours and certainly mrs diamond since um the springtime when we were doing kindergarten registration we'll talk a little bit about that i'm sure there's some questions on that i want to finish this part of the report uh as you can see you know there's always puts and takes we're up a little in first grade overall um we're down 53 at center school and again that's because of kindergarten enrollment and we'll talk about that in our and also how it relates to budget and our planning you can see at huckleberry we are down a net of uh what is it about 13 there as we look at things and again our primary students many of those students there's there's kids who parents made decisions for home schooling and other things we can talk about that a little bit more detail at the middle school we are we are down um about 42 students overall there was a major bubble grade which was last year's eighth grade that is now in ninth grade and you can see that that is reflected actually um in the the brookfield high school report by grade there's there's an uptick in students there uh on october 1st it was 902 i think last time i talked to mr belland it was 906.
so we got pushed back even further now we're looking again what is the new guidance now we've got to readjust again our next uh guidance came out uh august 10th our school year's already started by then uh we're looking at that guidance and this guidance to be honest has been interviews i'm not trying to these are hard times for everybody some of it is good some of it is is uh not so good um there is no silver bowl there's no template out there but we need guidance to make sure that we're following uh the new attendance policy so that we continue to receive funding uh we need to follow the guidance so that we're meeting all this the health and safety guidelines that is continuing to change uh again i mentioned earlier the last guys from cde that changed everything again came out last week that that changed how we're going to be doing attendance and everything else again so it continues to change uh as we go through now the schools that are open now they've been they've been in the tier where they could have opened a long time ago it took them a long time also to get to the point where we are we've really only been allowed to to reopen for like a week and a half the 13th i believe it was in october it was the first potential date and you don't know until that day when you're going to get the guidance to be able to or the clearance story so we've been working tirelessly behind the scenes uh and again things keep changing and we keep adjusting adjusting adjusting adjusting adjusting you'll notice that some of our surrounding district san juan twin rivers have already picked january it's for a reason because of these moving parts these moving guidance that we've done we right now also you can't just turn the light switch on it doesn't work that way and everybody comes back as we talked about earlier we've got health techs that we're trying to find but we don't have even applicants we're going to have teachers we're going to have to replace in some crucial departments i'm looking at a special ed department on one of my sites i mean these three people that's significant we've got to find those people in order to come back we've had some retirements that were kind of unexpected in the last couple of weeks uh last couple months we're trying to find people to replace those so staffing it takes time it takes time to get applicants it takes time to get them clear it takes time to get it drained up get them back in unfortunately these things do they take a lot of time in the meantime doing all these things and building these plans we're still running the school and the school is running in a totally completely different way than it's ever run in the history of schools teachers again are having to learn all new hardware all new software i hear repeatedly from teachers i'm working way more hours now than i ever did before if this virus would go away i would bet teachers would much rather be in class because to be honest it's not as hard and i don't mean that it's an easy job but it is a very difficult job they're doing now and the rate of emails that they're getting is doubling and triple from families you need help you need help i don't understand this can you answer that you can answer this and i know teachers that are working on weekends and answering these emails because they didn't have time during the work day absolutely mr jordan let me help you out a little bit because i'm a parent that asked that question i'm looking at schools around us that are open i know what you're saying about why are we talking about the ninth or the thirtieth or the fifth but i don't think that addresses like if i'm a parent asking that question so really it doesn't lie with us at all the governor has set out color-coded counties and they decide the color codes the governor puts out a directive that then the california department of health feeds down to the counties and the counties are following the governor's lead so it's it's not in our hands at all if we're simply following the county guidelines this is something that's coming from one person in sacramento this is not where we get to make the decision so yuba or sutter county has been cleared from up top they're moving forward before we're moving forward not because we're dragging our feet correct but that's what's coming down from on high so the short answer to anybody out there if they ask that it's no it's not a law the local decision making process has been bypassed by sacramento that i mean so i mean i appreciate your answer but i'm just thinking for the people they're answering that they're like you've never answered but it's not it's not a decision we're making we're not making the decision to not come back the county will be a director from sacramento is making that decision for us that is correct it may be a misunderstood question i yeah apologize thank you it's probably then a duel because you you are correct because i know a lot of parents are just like come on when are you gonna get my kid back in school right it's a little bit more i mean i'd like to say hey next week but i know it's a little bit more complicated than that so i've heard a couple of those questions myself it was october 13th at exactly three o'clock p.m when the health order came out and we didn't know what it was going to be until that time that schools in sac county can reopen and if you go back and look at we sent our surveys out before that in anticipation that that could happen so we were already anticipating uh but we want to make sure that we send that survey out as close to the time we're actually going as possible because you know people are we've had people change their minds even in lots of two weeks uh what they want to do as more information comes out it's a hard decision for families i've i've read some heart-wrenching emails from our staff who are really torn you've got people with pre-existing conditions at home they don't want to bring this home to them and they're torn on what to do the reason why i ask the question is because there is another school within antelope that has started school um right and that's why i asked the question because they are living in zapper and they do reside in sacramento county but they're opened and we're not so that's why i was asking mr jordan to give moved out of the tier a long time ago and even the whole tier thing has changed and i would also state that there are still classifying districts that aren't open yet and they've been cleared forever if not several weeks months i would go on and say but anyway um the other question for you mr jordan is um somebody asked me about the ppe and safety protocols for special education can you just give a little highlights on that please are there going to be different protocols for for special education students in regards to that yes so we we have we've made sure that there are there's an abundance of ppe and again that's mass facial we understand that in some situations that the six feet of social distancing is not possible so for example we have some special ed students at all middle high an elementary toilet you can't maintain six feet of social distance with that so we've got gloves goggles masks uh face shields gowns we've got all of that stuff and because we recognize you in some of our uh somewhere special ed students so for students with ieps excuse me um there is going to be a need to be closer than succeed we still want to make sure everybody is as safe as it could possibly be um i think that's going to be a really difficult population to deal with it's it is challenging us um we did mention that we do have coal hearts coming back and we will continue to have some cohorts coming back is that true yes um is there going to be a soft opening for some students that need to come back that have the extra meat or extra that need extra support other than the special education students so we're looking at the specialty population our homeless population we're looking at our el population as well uh all three to have some some smaller cohorts there are there there is legislation we can actually it's up to 16 uh persons including teachers and students to come back for those types of of uh interventions we also have some one-on-one counseling going on there's some emergency counseling really where we can do one-on-one when it's a critical situation and we've had a few of those we're also doing one-on-one and have been for over a month of idp testing one-on-one we have both in-person iep 101 as well as instead of a virtual testing room where the psychologist is in another location but the student is there and they're taking the test with a camera on the computer and so on but when we have a soft opening for those students as opposed to just putting them in a forward i'm not sure what you mean by socks are you suggesting that possibly some students would come back with their teachers earlier than others i think help me um and i'm not sure on the soft opening term but i think what i think what you're saying is would they come back like maybe half the class or something like that or possible yeah so so for example i would just say we depended upon our mou and what we have our volunteering and stuff like that but that could be a possibility as we get more cohorts coming yes couldn't be sort of for example here will somehow riley's mrs price just has her class um they've been back for the last two weeks now almost two weeks um and so then her class of her age and they're working with her kids and she's also doing synchronous with the families who just won't come from we have the same lyricist spots down with that i'm spindle one more question that's okay um how will he handle contract tracing and who's going to handle that so mr brian's went to a contact tracing uh training he is going to be leading up to all the contact tracing in terms of how that goes in with the assistance of our nursing staff our health tech staff and then we are also in constant contact with the county department of health when so mr grimes has taken the lead on the contract racing organizing it through the personnel department in conjunction with our health staff and then from that he went through a johns hopkins uh contact tracing certification i believe it's called and then tomorrow even from there there's another course through it's a local sacramento county public health is putting on on contact racing and making the connections with our local health department so those are both there he's our expert and then we'll share them share it a little bit has anybody brought up maybe the school sites doing testing uh so testing for students has not been considered by us some districts have talked about that we do have the ability for our staff to be surveillance tested once every 60 days for free of charge to them and then if there is a situation that testing is needed then maybe there is for lack of an award and outbreak we have some classes uh there's a mobile sacramento county club that has a mobile unit that they would send out with staff to actually do testing on site if need be but as far as the individual testing of students prior to coming back that has not been considered by us anywhere not many days one district i've heard in this county is talking about it if you do go back to the purple and you're in the hybrid model it would be close or real or stay open so the the current county order is you would stay open and you would quarantine uh according to their protocols so that may be individuals maybe in class maybe a cohort i may i think though the question is if a school is open while they're in the red and the school opens and if the district or if that county goes back to purple that purple status that school can remain open if it chooses if if it chose to go back to distance when they would not have to but they because the status within the county changes to a higher level you don't have to go back and shut down immediately you could stay open thank you my next question is from mr diesel hi mr diesel um there are some curtains about the current ventilation in our schools could you express if we are going to update those ventilation systems or what are we going to do to uh we're replacing filters and we have been holding off as long as possible because they're not scheduled to be changed yet but we're upgrading our filters to merv 10 filters um and the type of filter you can put into an hvac system is based on recommendations for the system so if you put like let's say you know everyone wants a we're 13 filtered or they want to put in a hepa filter it can't pull and some of the units can't pull enough air through to run them so then they would break down so we are putting the highest merv filter that we can in every single unit my my maintenance department actually started this week and they will have everything completed in the next two weeks with complete new air filters we're also opening up the um the outside air controls to 100 to bring in to turn the air over faster we're getting ready to do a screen replacement program so that they can open windows while the weather's still good without the dreaded mosquitoes coming in and we also have purchased hepa pair sweepers for the nurses room and the isolation rooms um to provide an additional amount of filtering that you know can't be done in every single classroom thank you very much one more question mr jason when we do come back in hybrid november december january whatever date is chosen um but we still have the emergency drills that we currently are using um right now we've been meeting with our safety committees still but we have decided that while students are not on staff we're not gonna obviously have fire drills for the staff we're hoping i'm going to be checking with the local fire departments on what the what they want to do with this but we're hoping not to do the drills in the short time with the students that the students are here until we move back into uh in two phases phase three phase one phase one but we'll have to wait and see what the what the direction is from the fire department thank you so much thank you mr jordan i appreciate your time the only other thing i have to say is as mr jordan repeated or said earlier between november 9th and december 18th is 24 days of instruction so um just keep that in mind if you decide to open up in in november 9th there's only actually 24 days of school is that correct yes january 9th and december 18th before people want to break um so we've got to take that into consideration as well we aren't choosing to date because do we want to disrupt our lives or our students lives with going to school taking a break going to school taking a break that's that's a lot of disruption for the students and the families and our staff thank you in the family gatherings and thank you questions uh i have quite a few comments here okay um so we mentioned that we received a lot of emails on this topic um i i want to reassure everyone i read every single one of those emails at least once most of them two three four five times some of them were incredibly moving we received some comments from the teachers union and i read every one of those comments there were comments suggesting that we opened later there were comments suggested we opened sooner i felt every single point of view was useful to to learn from just to summarize things for the public um the people that were arguing that we should open sooner are concerned about things like equity issues the mental health of students i've heard um people concerned about who's now on years of athletic eligibility essentially because you only get to be young once um also got an email from a teacher who's participating in one of the cohorts and saying that their students are thriving and things are going really well the the people that are suggesting if we start later um one of the main points is we're opening up and then veterans day and then thanksgiving and then christmas and so just as students are starting to get reacquainted with being in the classroom they're taking a break and another break and there's going to be instructional time lost with each of those breaks as you have to re-establish the classroom routines especially with new routines being in place and that's especially challenging when you have the very young kids such as the pre-k or the middle and high school students where they have to do it every single classes multiple times a day and that results that's that would result in a significant amount of time lost also uh they are concerned about if we have to quarantine teachers students whatever how that's going to disrupt students lives and that they are arguing that our current distance learning actually provides better stability for them one of the other big concerns is with thanksgiving and christmas a lot of families are going to go against recommendations and have large family gatherings travel you know and there's a very real list of a spike in infections other points that they made other districts in our area are looking towards january to start a high percentage of our students which i believe is district-wide somewhere around 40 plus percent are preferring distance learning uh that doesn't that's the ones that are saying that they want to come in aren't necessarily saying that that's their first choice that we reopen but that if we are going to be open that's what they'll choose roughly 80 of the teachers are saying they prefer to wait until january there's concern about students or staff members not taking the recommended precautions when they're outside of school therefore increasing the risk of them bringing something in and exposing others there's the potential of having to shuffle kids to other teachers as you mentioned in your presentation students that are choosing distance learning may lose the problem with her teacher and i've seen concern about that both from the teacher and the student and the parent perspective where that's a concern of theirs some parents say they feel like they're going to be locked into a choice once they make it they're not sure how much flexibility they're going to have if they decide that that's not working out for them districts in placer county have had to quarantine teachers and students since reopening and that's a real concern what really affected me the most though in these emails were the stories of teachers and students and spouses and other family members who were high risk that this could put in danger i i saw an email from a teacher who said she's in tears because she can't afford to go on leave but her husband's at high risk so she feels like she's having to choose between paying her bills or risking her husband's life another email said some teachers are talking about quarantining themselves from their spouses long term another email was discussing that teaching is not a profession where you expect to be putting your life on the line like police and firefighters in the military do but they feel that that's what they're being asked to do another email the teacher mentioned having some severe health complications and being a single parent and this puts her child at risk of essentially becoming an orphan another email described losing five people close to them to this disease including two family members these are real fears the the teachers that were emailing us aren't looking for vacation in fact many of them described they're putting in more hours than usual right now from the tone of their emails it was obvious that these are people that care deeply about their students many of them were talking about how much they missed interacting with their students one teacher was upset about not being able to hug a crying student or high-five a celebrating student these aren't teachers who are looking for an easy way out these are teachers who are feeling torn many of them are afraid to return but saying that they will because they want to do what's best for their students when we have 80 of our teachers speaking up about an issue i think we need to listen i know we had two from earlier that we said we'd put on part c he seemed pertinent okay and while kelly kelly comes up just to thank mr jordan for taking the lead on this and doing that thank you mike thank you so much mr carter good evening um obviously i'm not here tonight to talk about this i'm here for the purpose but i'm really glad i'm here um because i do have a very unique perspective on this i work for the california department of public health very intimately involved in the code response just spent the last two days reading all of the county's equity metric reports which is now a part of the metrics that they have to meet in order to move from tier to tier so i'm really familiar with what's going on and i just want to clarify that it is not coming from one person it's coming from thousands of scientific experts doctors public health employees scientists doctors data scientists who are analyzing this data on a daily and by hourly basis to come up with what they feel are the best recommendations that they can come up with in order to protect everyone and believe me mental health is at the top of their list so understanding that yes the need to get back to some sort of normalcy is definitely taken into consideration so i wanted to just kind of put that out there um next i wanted to talk about the 41 states that are showing significant increases in hospitalizations i see events that are becoming scarce um the school the states that where the schools have opened i know people have said oh children don't get it well children do get it but we pulled them out of school before it can become ridiculously bad and so those numbers were skewed to begin with that's probably more opinion on my part than scientific information but i believe that is the scientific consensus that yes children do get it maybe not as high of a rate showing symptoms but they do get it and the evidence has shown in the states where the schools have reopened that there's been a sharp uptake in the number of children who have the disease and immediately following that there's a sharp uptake in the number of older citizens who also get the disease so they are taking it home and they are spreading it to their families so this is very real we are in a worse situation now than we were in march it is not going to get better in the winter so the idea of opening up in november is frightening at best on the other hand i do understand parents are like my kid is going crazy they need that interaction i can't educate them and do a work at home i'm not able to go to work i can't feed my kids i mean there are real issues around not bringing kids back to school and i understand that and i am thrilled to hear mr diesen's plans for all of the ppe and the air filtering and all that i know he's going to take the precautions that are necessary oh one more thing i wanted to say about the tears so the reason if anyone out there is still not clear on why we can't move faster when a county moves into the tier that can allow schools to reopen there's still a waiting period where they have to maintain those steady statistics that that data in order to say okay yes now the schools can begin to reopen and so it's a very long slow process because we want to make sure that we don't end up having that spike again that we've had before so there's that um and the main thing i wanted to talk about was something that mr bronze was talking about as far as not being able to guarantee teachers their option and explaining to them the leads that are available to them the teachers the faculty and staff in this educational community are equal citizens they are not lesser or servants they are equal citizens in educating this community you've afforded the option of making a decision for the parents and students who want to return their students to school and that same decision should be given to all of the teachers and staff without the risk of them losing their job or having to take leave that upsets me if i was on that side of the table i would go on about it for days but you heard from me today thank you thank you kelly stay there for a second please um that was a that was a good segway thank you for bringing that up so um i understand what you're saying about cases my concern with so much fear going around is that in march there's been this great baby switch so in march it was we need 15 days to flatten the curve because we're going to crush our health care system without 15 days to flatten the curve that has now been switched to we've got to prevent anybody and everybody from getting it so i think there needs to be a separation between in march when they thought there was going to be a 10 death rate because that's what the death rate was in italy to people getting it you know i i see all this politicization going on like the united states has more cases yeah we're doing more testing than everybody so so the scientific studies i've read because i see a lot of people say that they're like science okay this is a science item france has done a context study germany has done a contact study iceland because they don't have the same constitutional protections we do they've probably got the best contact study out there i don't know anybody who says kids don't get it they say kids don't die from it unless they're in a risk group and they say that then part of the reason why we flattened the curve because early on they say elementary school kids don't get it but we gotta prevent them from taking it home and giving it to grandma and grandpa and telling grandma and grandpa unanimously and if there's another study i'd be happy to look at it if you tell me about it but germany france iceland all said kids don't die from it unless they're in a risk group and they don't pass it to grandma and grandpa so um you know when when i look at it our case is up yeah but when you test for the case you're gonna get a case when this started we were measuring the death percentage and now we've kind of gone into this huxley and thing and i would encourage everybody to be re-braving the world and then the brave new world revisited into this we're going to protect everybody from everything and nobody's going to get it that's not a realistic goal and so when you look at we went from 15 days to flatten the curve to we're going to shut off socialization i think that's what a lot of people are looking at and so you know i don't know if you know of any other contact studies other than those three that show a different conclusion but every contact the those are the only three i know of so if there's 18 of them out there then that means i don't know about 15 of them but you know i and that's a concern to me because you know when we were in march none of us thought we'd be here in may in may we're like that time summer's over we'll all there's no way we're not going back to school in the fall right and so i'm sure people are sitting here like if we put it back to january 5th it'll be solved by that with the fear that's out there that people are sewing when we get to january 5th there's still going to be people like i still can't go back so what i would like to see is more scientific information put out there so people feel better if you're in a risk a group it makes sense why you're concerned about it but you know if you're a if you're a single mom with a seven-year-old with a kid who's not in in a risk group we shouldn't be instilling that moment with fear about putting you back in school i mean at least not according to this there should definitely be precautions and there should be an understanding that this is a high risk activity to return your seven-year-old child into a classroom with however many other children is definitely going to be high risk no matter what when you look at it but the risk versus reward if that child is abd or needs special ed services or is just basically can't can't learn at home in the home environment or the parents can't now now can't go to work and put food on the table then obviously the child needs to go back to school but to say oh it's perfectly safe is absolutely irresponsible it is not perfectly safe and that's the bottom line there's been data on a daily basis coming from all the states across the country that show that when the kids go back to school the numbers go up not just with the kids and yes kids are dying and not necessarily in high risk groups kids are dying kids are giving you this inflammatory disease and dying a very painful suffering death they're taking it home not just to their grandparents not just a high-risk people but to everybody they're taking it home and they're spreading it just like people who work at the so which study shows that because the three studies i know of deny that okay so i don't know what studies they are i see the data that comes across my desk which has been pulled from numerous different data sources but i also watched you know the news and the governor's reports and the all of the reports coming across the country that show that the numbers go up two weeks after the schools are reopening so it is happening i don't think that that's like a forgive a a you know predetermined outcome i think that the precautions that we're taking are what are going to prevent the spread and it's going to make it so that we can return so in con in to to talk about what we were talking about how it went from 15 days to slow the curve to now we don't want anybody to get it well people are still getting it people are still dying a lot of people were still dying if you look at the numbers up until just recently we had almost 200 people a day dying just in this state from coven so to say that we're trying to prevent everybody from getting in is just ridiculous we know that's not possible experts know that's not possible what is possible though is to try and minimize it so that our icu units can handle these patients and possibly not let them all die so no it hasn't gone from a switch of vape or whatever let's use the baby switch whatever it was you said it hasn't gone from that it's gradually gotten more detailed information and so it's become more understood it's become more detailed as far as what can we do to stop what are our positivity rates how many people in a hundred thousand are coming up positive and yes we're testing more people so we're going to get more cases but that positivity rate gives us a different perspective that tells us how many of the people being tested are having them that's why the science and everything is changing is because we have more data and if you say there's not enough science then i strongly encourage you to go to code19.ca.gov and look because there's lots of science it's updated every single day people in my office are the ones involved with providing that data to the governor is not the government making the decisions autonomously he is listening to the experts and making decisions that will help everybody so that's all i can see everybody state level uh reports saying that um let's see where it was state number reports that's publicly available later on child proven 19 cases in the united states the american academy of pediatrics and the children's hospital association are collaborating to collect and share all publicly available data from the states on childcover 19 cases and the number that they report is 10.9 of all cases and states reporting cases by age over 741 000 children have tested positive for coca-19 and that doesn't count the asymptomatic ones who have not been tested so yeah pretty significant so how many of those kids it was supposed to kill us all and it's not well my understanding when it began before we get too far off into the bushes on this they were bringing it to flatten the curb they were bringing it down so that they could stop up on all the supplies and hospital rooms and stuff that we would need to be able to deal with that would have wired everything out and they've gotten to that point now if you look at what's going on back on the east coast it's built up again and it's starting to get bigger numbers than it was in the beginning and coming this way not only that but i heard recently that there's a man overseas somewhere in bloomsburg that has gotten a second form of coping and there's also [Music] there was one other thing he got a second form of covenant and then in china i'm sorry can we do a sidebar on this because it's already imported came there are about 26 or eight public comments that you might want to hear before anything sorry misspoke but are you are you ready for that sorry okay sure okay this one is from jason barinsky our children currently attend wilson c riles we plan to continue with distance learning because it is the safest option for our family but we have some comments concerns that we would like addressed one based on what we read in the plan our kids will possibly be getting all new teachers because we choose to continue with distance learning to us it seems very disruptive to switch all the teachers in the middle of the school year we have children with special needs and my wife is in constant contact with the teachers to get accommodations and such having to rebuild those teacher and parent teacher relationships is going to add stress to what already is a less than ideal and stressful education experience what is the district and wilson c rile staff going to do to help this transition be as smooth as possible number two we also don't understand why you are looking at putting students and staff back in the classroom when covet is spiking again and most experts expect the numbers to increase even more in the winter even though we are choosing distance learning we are concerned of the impact that a coded outbreak at the center unified schools will have on the community we hope that the school district is making decisions based on science and not politics what is the district going to do if there is a major outbreak will all students go back to distance learning from a cjusd teacher please consider setting a return to school date of no earlier than january 5th consistent student education as well as providing a safe and healthy educational environment for cjusd students teachers and families must be the main priorities as we deal with coven 19.
that's a contingency added on that will help us to pay for the nets that the district will be providing and the wind screens on the fence that the district will be providing as well okay any other questions can i have a motion i will move the 8.2.4 the pleasant valley high school tennis courts project sure i'll second this one okay i wanted to give you a chance okay motion by dr kaiser second by tom lando um all those in favor please say aye aye aye okay unanimously it passes all right next up is going to be thank you julie um next up is going to be a discussion action item on the gan appropriations limit and that will be jacqueline krueger good evening board the most stimulating topic all night [Laughter] so in front of you is the gan appropriations limit it basically was established in 1979 and is at this point kind of a pro forma calculation that is done as part of our unaudited actuals so i'm here tonight to ask for your approval on this form barry any questions okay any questions for jacqueline no i'd like to move approval okay all right we have a motion by linda hubby a second by dr kaiser all those in favor please say aye aye aye all right takes the record for speed tonight man all right next is um 2019 20 unaudited actuals financial statements yes so this evening marie hartman and myself will be presenting the 1920 unaudited actuals and there is a presentation that can be brought up please this was such a great surprise to see this make me happy a little short okay um the unaudited actuals report represents actual revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year this isn't a budget um it's really how we ended up at the end of june 30th 2020.
only about 80 schools that meet full need that's kind of important to know so if you're looking at that efc number and you're thinking wow you know our efc is only whatever it might be in the school cost this we're going to get a lot of money you're only going to get a lot of money at 80 schools the rest of the schools are going to give you as much as they can but then there might be what is called a gap the gap between the cost and what you've been given also becomes the family's responsibility so just know that it's really important to wait to see what each individual school comes back with and then you make those comparisons other questions it's so early in the process but yet it's going to be over before you know it i i always think about october and it's like oh may is you know tomorrow i'm already starting to refer to my daughters as an almost senior because it feels like it's that close so um for parents of seniors this is not an easy time we definitely recognize that especially now it's it's astonishing to me going through this right now but you know go through it and just know you know in a few short months it'll be may 1 and you'll be making that decision and hopefully everything is is a little a little a little brighter then other questions hmm it's looking pretty good it looks like we've hit everything answer all the questions all the financial aid yeah exactly or you have no idea what to ask right right whether it's the good or the yield you can probably find us so yeah actually there's the massachusetts they have something called fafsa day.org and normally and and uh dj's probably send something out to families about this but normally we would do an in-person uh fafsa night at the high school and we're not doing that this year but uh fafsa day.org they're they're doing online process where they go line by line through the fafsa so if you have not done it yet and there's time before your deadline definitely take a look at that website and it's an opportunity to to sit in with a zoom or however they're doing it electronically to walk you through the process and uh in case you have individual questions about specific lines that that seem a little funky and if you get to a place in the process the the department of ed can sometimes help there's a there's a phone number you can call with fafsa questions or you could call a financial aid office if you if you're grappling with a video question and uh if if i were you i would just call smith college oh actually our phone systems are down right now you can send us an email don't call us but you can certainly send an email to smith and uh and ask questions there too okay looks like actually it looks like we just got a question that we really haven't spent much time on so let's let's dive into the pr the notion of private scholarships and i i'll start and i know we all will have something to say so what is our perspective on big national scholarships i'm going to go broad and just talk about private scholarships in general so we've spent a good amount of time talking about school-based scholarships and we know that a lot of those are available we do hear a ton about families saying what scholarship should i be searching for what kind of private scholarships are out there and i don't want to be a naysayer but i do want to encourage families to spend their time on the things they have to complete first and what i mean by that is college applications financial aid forms homework life if you have extra time searching for private scholarships can be worthwhile however i would do it in a way that you're you're focusing locally first and i know that our college planning office at the high school is extraordinary with providing these opportunities start there then look locally have you been in big y lately and seen the big banner that says we award thousands of dollars in scholarships annually then focus sort of more broadly what types of clubs and organizations are your family associated with um or what types of groups that would be my next my next stop and then finally if you have the time and the inclination to continue this process i would then look at some of those big national scholarship programs not that i don't think they aren't wonderful and some of them are extraordinary but the reality is the universe of folks applying for those is vast so you have to meet all of the qualifications um i've seen families apply for 100 private scholarships and get none i've seen families apply for four and get two so what you really want to do is do sort of a real analysis how much time do you have what is the benefit and how many of the criteria of those programs do you meet if you don't meet all of the the large national ones move on um they're great but you know we used to hear back in the day there was that sort of big book of scholarships that left were left unclaimed every year i don't think that happens as much anymore um but that's just my perspective and i'd love to hear others yeah stacy that was a great assessment i mean i think that's exactly true i mean those big national ones that uh that we'll periodically see in our college fund in our financial aid offices incredibly competitive incredibly rare and uh and you know and stacy said i mean we all we all have limited time and we need to focus decide where to focus our time and energy and i i think the order you gave stacey was right on the money with college applications for admission for financial aid do those do a lot of homework and uh and then live life and uh and if you get a little extra time i don't know hour here and there you know look start by looking locally and then move out from there yeah i totally agree with that yeah i don't have anything to add you both i love this question um is there an income level that you would say it would not be worth completing financial aid forms i know we could all cover this one michael you can take take the first shot oh dear that is a great question there um so so the person asked about income you know is there an income level where where we shouldn't bother with the process uh you know i would try the net price calculator at individual colleges to see what impact that has because income comes into the into the calculation assets come into the calculation and even the number of dependents number of kids that you have in college comes into the equation and that can have a big impact so uh in the expense of the college so an expensive college like smith college where the cost of attendance is over seventy thousand dollars a year you know somebody with a fair lease significant income could still qualify their kid could still qualify for financial aid so um so again i would i would test that out uh with a net price calculator on individual colleges websites to see if if you're in the in the neighborhood of qualifying for eight and uh and then use that as your as your deciding factor um do you want to say anything about loans i mean you can still benefit from being eligible for loans and you don't have to accept the loans you could always get the loan look at the parameters think about it as a family and if you decide not to accept the loan then you can do that but it might be nice to have that in your back pocket yeah yeah that's a great point yeah the the fafsa form the federal form is what gives you access for students to federal student loans and then there's a federal parent loan also and uh you know for good or bad the student loan interest rate is actually pretty good right now and uh i wish i wish i could qualify okay so uh swap it out with uh other ones that i have so it's so uh so that's a great point kristin is that you know if even if you say to yourself i don't really want my kid taking that alone if you're if you're fortunate to be in that place that you want you don't have that expectation you may want to consider that as part of your broader financing perspective and say hmm maybe i will have my kid take out a 5 000 loan that only has 2.75 interest as opposed to me as a parent having to take some other type of loan or borrowing from a retirement account which i don't generally recommend or there's some other way of financing so uh so it's certainly that's that's an excellent point that that you may decide that that you want to put that into the mix of options you have available to uh to help pay for school i would agree and i would say to take it one step further i think in addition to the what happens if our income is different than 2019 question the question my team is seeing the most issue here is do we have to file the fafsa and the answer is you absolutely do not have to file the fafsa but you want to think about everything that we've talked about today do you want to have eligibility for student loans do you want to see if you are eligible and i will give one other thing one other note because we work with so many colleges and universities we do know that there are colleges that have policies that if you do not apply in your first year you would not be permitted to apply for institutional funds in future years you might think well i'm not sure we'll ever need it well you never know if your financial circumstances change from year to year you might want to just have that freshman year fafsa on file and make sure that schools have the the data to benchmark against um not hugely a thing but it is something that we see and in fact i've seen it at a couple of schools here in the valley um one of which i worked at so um it it is something to consider that you know you might want to just use sort of filing that fafsa as an insurance policy for future years and the option of borrowing um i don't think we can underscore enough that student loan interest rate is very reasonable and if it's not if it's if it's a subsidized loan which means the interest is not accruing it's pretty much a zero percent loan if you decided at the time the student graduates you want to pay it off then you've just floated some cash for a couple years so just another option to think about [Music] well it looks like we have uh exhausted our folks and we did a pretty good job of covering all the bases so i think we've got most of it and there's another session i think that starts at 405 or so so imagine folks are going to want to jump on to that absolutely right all right i think i think uh i'm not sure amanda wants to jump on and say anything but uh um hi excellent it's nice to say a big thank you to you all and a big thank you for all of our great questions um we really appreciate you taking the time to be here this is such a fantastic resource so thank you all so much and uh thanks for tuning in arahs community all right i think we're going to wrap up does anyone have any final final goodbyes good luck all right all right good job everybody ask questions exactly all right thank you take care bye you
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so um there's always kids uh moving in now as of october 1st we had a total of 2534 kids which is uh down from last year at this time um i'll play student number um as to being an outpost uh program and many of our other students either coming back to us or graduating or whatever the case may be um so that number has remained steady and this is why ghana continues to monitor uh those programs um and i'm sorry grand total 2564.
returning to school in january has the following benefits support of families and faculty almost 50 percent of our families have elected to stay in the current distance learning model 80 of the cjus teachers support a return date of january 5th 2021 or later distance learning has been a time-consuming challenge for all stakeholders a later return under the hybrid model gives teachers and families more time to prepare for completely new routines another change so close to the end of the semester is disruptive and difficult for students and teachers it would be better to start fresh at the semester by waiting we provide consistency to our students and teachers some districts in our area have already returned and within the first week had groups of students and teachers test positive several districts in our area have already voted to stay in the distance learning model until january additionally please consider these negative effects there is no guarantee that the hybrid model will provide a better education for students to students it's not the same quality of education that existed pre-coping many teachers are concerned and anxious about their personal health and the health of the their immediate and extended families this added stress is already taking its toll on teachers the progress of this pandemic could be much worse over the next few months cases are soaring uncontrollably nationwide and experts predict a spike in cases over the holidays rushing to return to school during the cold and flu season and during the time students and families are traveling for the holidays is not a good idea the district has gone has done a lot of work to create a plan to address safety and protection through mass and distancing but does not have the capability to update ventilation or provide proven testing to students and staff this prevents a completely safe return please above all prioritize the safety of our students and teachers in considering this option a return of no earlier than january 5th provides the consistency we need and a better chance at safely returning from jessica katzen i am an elementary teacher in the center joint district i just want to take a moment to consider this question what's the rush i feel this reopening is happening too prematurely as scientists and leaders have said we are entering the most challenging months of this virus flu season every year sorry every year i have the sniffles cough sneeze etc when the season changes along with countless staff students and families we will all be removed from the classroom every time this happens if it is a cold and not covered when can we return to in-person learning what about when kiddos have these symptoms how are parents supposed to take care of them when they have their jobs to attend to these are questions our district has not answered to yet do i miss in-person interactions with my students yes do i want to teach as i was trained to in the classroom yes but at the same time is november and flu season the best time to do this when the rest of the sacramento school districts have decided to start later in the year why do we need to reopen months before i think later in the year seems more reasonable and so does the majority of the teachers in center unified usb when surveyed most said a january and beyond start date is what they would choose let's have the colder months behind us and be able to safely return to in-person learning so i leave you with my first question what is the rush thank you and then this one is from karen i am disappointed until at least january this one is from angelina hughes if the mou is not signed or if the teachers union does not agree to the november 9th start date what are the alternatives or is there another plan for instruction [Music] and also again from angelina hughes does a student who signed up for hybrid in-person learning have the option to distance learn until after the winter break all right so just so people don't think we're ignoring them the district will follow up with you to answer your specific question um and i do have one that was thanking you guys you'd like to hear that one or would you like me to forward that to you guys um i appreciate all the attention and time that the board and all the admin have placed into listening to the concerns of the community and answering all our questions it shows that you have the stakeholder's best interest in mine thank you and again that one came much later but that was from angelina hughes and i still have more coming in so are they on this item i i'd say go through all of them [Music] all right uh angelina hughes said what are other sac county schools doing about reopening their schools and then she said there are only 24 days of instruction between the estimated november 9th start date and the hybrid plan until winter break thanksgiving break is in the middle of these instruction days which usually means that people will be gathering the family and friends outside of their household this increases the risk of our students staff and community of becoming exposed to the virus again with only 24 instructional days in my case with both my children in high school it is only about 12 in class days i'm hoping that we can hold off the start of the hybrid learning model until after the winter break this one is from naisha harris knott i saw on the news this morning that if a person has coven 19 and is asus a systematic it only takes up to 15 minutes for another person can catch coco 19.
um these numbers are presented before our annual audit is complete so these numbers could potentially change um the auditors were on site the week of october 5th and we will bring the audit back to you in january next slide please all right this is our graph of the ada trends over the last five years you can see we have been in the position of increasing enrollment and then thus increasing ada this will not be the case in 2021 but as we discussed earlier in the board meeting 2021 and that following 2122 will be based on ada next slide this is a graph representing our total revenue so it's just goes to show that that ada number drives the local control funding formula which is 75 of our 150 million budget which is about 113 million so that is a big factor in our funding next slide okay so this is our you know very baseline income statement we're going to show you a little bit more in depth later on but if you look at the far right column our total revenue is 150 million expenditures 148 and transfers and contributions were net two so we ended up at a positive change in fund balance of 4.2 million um this is a more positive change in fund balance than you guys are used to seeing from us there's a few factors at play it was an unusual year we have some other slides that'll explain kind of what happened next slide thanks okay you guys are used to seeing this graph this is where we spend our money salaries and benefits combined unrestricted and restricted are 86 percent of our total expenses which is not unusual our employees are our main cost next slide when you add in the contribution to special education that number goes up to 90 of unrestricted expenses so you can see that all the other little things services books and supplies they make up a really small amount of our total budget all right next slide part of our when we go through sacs for our year-end clothes we have to meet a calculation that we are required to spend at least 55 on classroom expenses this is defined by teachers and instructional aides and their benefits so we are at 63.18 in 1920 so we well exceeded this requirement and i will say some school districts struggle to meet that percentage quite frankly so i i do believe it shows that we're spending money in the classroom and directly on kids that's a great point thanks kevin so in front of you here is our estimated actuals of what we thought we were going to end the year with and the ua or unknotted actuals of how we actually ended so the on the unrestricted sides let me preface that so the change was 3.6 million better than we anticipated um at the end of june and that is pretty evenly distributed between 1.8 million in revenue and 1.8 million in expenditures so i will go through the detail on that so we go the next slide please the large change in revenue was related to our ada with our local control funding formula so we have the ability after we submit our p2 ada to go back and do what's called a calendar shift which is either to include or exclude the two weeks at christmas and by doing that we were able to capture an additional 50 ada so that came in at the very end of the year in working with our attendance folks the other piece that largely drove revenue was a quote unquote revenue entry which is the fair market value of cash which essentially says if we were to liquidate all of our money at county treasury there'd be 428 thousand dollars greater than the actual cash value because of the investments that the county takes with our cash into treasuries so it's not really a revenue but it is a required entry for accounting purposes on the non-people side so the books and supplies and the services what we found was because we closed school at spring break right after spring break we had very large site carryover from our sites as well as reduced travel for our teachers and staff and our utilities ended up being over budget so what we saw was the impact of a lot of one-time savings related to shutting down right after spring break through the end of june and the other piece on the net of transfers and contributions we got about 250 000 more in our rda account than 41 the reinvestment or redevelopment agency fund um so that did help us by about 250 000 so the next flight here is one that had the board has requested in the past of what makes up our contributions to the restricted programs so largely um of the 19.9 million 16 point almost 7 million goes to our special ed program so just to put it in perspective our special ed program this last year was 27.5 million dollars so the contribution from the general fund is the additional dollars that come from the unrestricted side to the restricted side is our routine restricted maintenance and that's three percent of our general fund expenditures so that's 4.4 million for last year and then the other which has this weird negative value of 1.2 million that is the district's share of maw dollars that we have been sitting on the rest on the restricted side of the budget because we thought there was this outstanding liability related to our mo claims the feds going back and auditing we have subsequently determined that that liability is no longer there so the district is taking our portion back and putting it on the unrestricted side because the other dollars for the staff portion of ma have already been distributed employees so we weren't going to ask for that money back so the district put their money on the restricted side as a potential liability payment transfers in from other funds there's about a hundred thousand that come in for developer fees so that's one area that has not slowed down in our office we are continuing to get developers coming in pulling permits and paying fees and again like i alluded to earlier 3.2 million from the redevelopment agency pass-through fund comes through and that covers a good chunk of that 4.4 million that goes to routine restricted so really you're looking at about 1.2 million dollars of unrestricted dollars that are helping to fully fund our maintenance department and those dollars will go away when the debt is absolved within the former redevelopment agency so for chico unified we have to look out to we think is the date but there's a large challenge within this budget of how we're funding our rrma our routine restricted maintenance that will go away in around 2037.
It also awards different degrees. For example, a technical degree might lead to a society certificate, but at university, after four years, it's a green bachelor's degree. And if you want to do a master's degree, like Rafael, you have to get a bachelor's degree before the master's or doctorate. This is what I want to say about the first few years. Rapping, anything else we should talk about before the jingle? Yes, I think it's important. Well, this year, as we know, has been a little special, so it has altered any normality we had before, but I think it's also very important to take advantage of the summers. Normally, students have three or four months during the summer to dedicate themselves to whatever they want. As Holly said, many want to play sports, others might be into motivation and debate. So, it could be that during the summer they want to prepare themselves to do better academically, they want to take a class at one of the community colleges in their area, or they want to do...
we include our output students and our numbers um special education we have 359 students identified this year that's down 22 from last year english language learners actually let me go to the total freedom reduce launch then i'll go to el students free and reduced lunch those are students that are economically disadvantaged it's down by four this year for 541 students and again much of this is affected by that those primary grades that you see especially kindergarten there's the the students in k those 44 kids many of those kids a number of those kids might fall into some of these areas interesting with english language learners a couple things to talk about there number one the state is giving us until november first for the official census um because student immigrant families are not moving into the country right now because of the pandemic you know there's significant limitations on that so we anticipate that we'll get some more we also have a bump in january typically or february because of the differential in seasons with the southern hemisphere um and students moving in at that time so we can't bank necessarily on being 26 down and is there some does this mean something right now in addition to that dr ruby alluded to um you know and not that it kind of doesn't count in the remote students but um there are cultural reasons um that have been shared with administration and with teachers for students deciding to not be enrolled uh as well so there's there's a lot of dynamics a lot of the for every student and every family there's a different story and so you know that's what we have going on there but that's the enrollment report and we'll talk about the impact on class size uh going forward i don't know if there's any questions or anything people are wondering about certainly open the floor john i just have a question about the ell is any of those is that number reflective of students that tested out of the program uh what's that wait i don't know we have that number we we always have students that are testing out but in past normal years we always have students that are coming in okay so the across the state the number of students coming in has been um decreased due to the difficulty for families from other countries to join their family members that are here that's what usually happens you know one family establishes itself and in our community it's typically in the greater danbury area and then we have people that have come to the united states in the greater danbury area and find residents in brookfield and then more of their family members when they hear about what you know a welcoming community it is and what a good life it is they join that hasn't occurred this year in our community um as well as in other communities in the state um due to the the situation that we're in so there is an overall decrease the it's anticipated that you know this is this is a short-term thing additionally um like john said we typically see an increase in our um our el um constituency in uh january when the students move from south america because of the break in their school year which is different from ours we don't know if we're going to see that in january you know it's going to depend on what the the covid data are are showing and what the immigration rules and regulations are but i i just want to make a point if we went back and looked at the data that we had when we were under 100 two and a half three years ago and we requested a second tesol teacher and because of our you know our budgetary constraints we gave you know we gave up that request and we went to two paris i'll parenthetically add in here that what we've done is we've developed a really wonderful training ground in brookfield for our neighbors and i'm sure they appreciate it um what we've done is we've brought in the tutors that were in our budget and uh kevin and our current tesol teacher karina um and thank you funding for professional development for our tesol tutors has created a situation where we've provided wonderful professional development on the kelp standards and on psyop and a number of other initiatives that we've taken in the district to our tutors so that they could better serve our children and they simultaneously a couple of them have enrolled in the alternative route to certification program for tesol certification at the state and they've been able to use their time in teaching our students in brookfield as their semi whatever is required student i'll call it student teaching because we all understand that and they have um they've become certified tesol teachers and they've been hired by danbury and new fairfield so they've left us so by having our tutors we've provided a band-aid for our needs in district but it hasn't served us well because we've provided them with the opportunity to do their student teaching and to have uh and our teacher tutor them and use our board funds for professional development and they've gone on and gotten full-time tesol positions in danbury and new milford and quite frankly we would have liked to have had those some of those folks as our own full-time employees so it's not while it's worked out um sort of for our children it hasn't worked out it's it's not been um you know if you talk about an roi it hasn't been a good roi for the for the district that was probably more than you wanted but i just really need to share it yeah i i really just wanted to know so are the number of students who are tested out is that minimal is what you're telling me just so we can have we do no we do a great job testing people out and that'll be we can give you that in our upcoming report yeah county can give us that people but it's an ebb and a flow as many we actually are one of the better districts in the state because we've had like i just said with our tutors we've done such a great job um and we've exited uh we exited at a higher rate and if kevin was here she could give you all those numbers off the top of her head um then other but we have what what goes out comes in it's kind of a steady flow this year the in has just slowed down because of the the variables that i explained oh yeah she can give us that data that information that'll at least give us absolutely perspective as far as dealing with that number and i'll tell you joy that um we actually the state department um in the el division refers other in the state to us to get hints on you know what are we doing because our data are are so strong in terms of the work that we do with our our folks but we put we put a tremendous amount of work into um the human resources that we have and then they bleed out so we're constantly redoing the same thing okay so could i ask a question about kindergarten and earthquake so the we obviously have a big drop this year um what do we know about the in any level of detail about why did it drop and then what are the implications about what are we going to assume for our budget next year i mean and let me just paint a picture if p if the parents are are they holding kids back from going to kindergarten and we're going to have a big bubble of kindergarteners next year um because that hold backs all of some are going to come with the regular normal enrollments and then there's more or are they doing kindergarten at home and they'll go right into first grade or i mean all of those have big implications for our budget for next year in terms of how many sections we're going to need in kindergarten our first grade absolutely true we have insights on why it's 130 instead of 170 and what we think what will mean for next year yeah so just to start start off and certainly um maureen or mary rose or ken please jump in at any time uh so a couple of things bob to to it's a great question because we need to know where where the students are right um so mary rose has information we are going to reach out uh to this between 40 and 50 number of uh students uh to their families to do a little survey and keep reaching out to them to see where they're at and what their intentions are but there there are some that is a very small amount to we have as home schooling we have one right now keeping home for an additional year but indicating that they're not homeschooling so we have those things going on remember kindergarten doesn't have to come to kindergarten um 11 which this is a very good sign are in private kindergarten four are at magnet uh programs right now um three move dot town so that was something we projected but they're not with us now there are six that by age are spending an additional year in pre-k but we have almost 20 that we don't have information on that we need to find out about so to your point bob we're on the case um we have some good we have more than half of the information and we know what those children are doing with their families and what their intentions are um in terms of budget implication uh right now i believe we have 18 total sections at center school between uh nine and nine k and one and um our projections for malone and mcgroom have been right on um and i know ken probably has that information with him and can talk to that if he needs to um and so what we've asked mary rose to do is she's been putting her budget together is to think about what needs to be done what do we need to be ready for so if we have that that concept of i'll just keep my child out and have them go to kindergarten next year a year older and we have a bubble in kindergarten that probably will impact first grade and we'd have less students in first grade and what does that mean for our teachers um projection wise our total projection for both grades has been spot on so we should know the number of students it's going to be those decisions in that iterative process over the course of the fall and into the winter um but i'd like to defer to mary rose if she had any other insights she wanted to share so we've been talking about this guy john or maureen please do you want to talk about the survey that we're going to do sure why don't you talk about it maureen please so we uh bob we've had exactly the same concerns and thoughts that you just expressed and so we have decided to for the you know mary rose and her team have been trying to track down everybody for those i think it was 20 students because that could be a class a little bit more than a class students that we're talking about that we're not really sure of what the status is we're going to send out a survey um it will be by the end of this week the beginning of next week to try to gather um data and intentional um disposition from the parents of those of students so that we know you know really where they are because as as you're probably thinking that could be a whole nother class of kindergartners which will present for the district in terms of future planning that um that bubble class that we see from time to time that would be not just for next year but would be a bubble class that would be moving through the system for the next um 13 years well we might have a bubble small class and a bubble followed by a bubble big class and that's equal to that's right i mean it actually has it's it's very and provides very interesting staffing issues that will live with us for 12 years you're right you're absolutely right so we're we are thinking the exact same thing that you're thinking and we are we're we're working on it as as we sit here basically so and so when we come back and look at the budget i think that's going to be a very important set of assumptions of what what do we what are we building our budget on uh we don't need the answer tonight i was kind of more interested in your insights for tonight but that was really useful to kind of go through what did we learn and if mary rose has other insights that would be useful too so no as uh that's did summer as we're registering and we had a different registration process this year as well so families because it was online when they were registering they they filled out a pre-enrollment form so we got their information um right at the beginning which doesn't always happen um sometimes parents will prior to that uh prior to doing it online parents could pull a packet they could download information we didn't know who was pulling that information or what their intention was so one of the advantages to doing it the way we did it this year necessity but hopefully this will be a positive outcome um is that we were able to really tell who was looking so we know that there are 49 students 49 people who were interested in kindergarten at center school who then did not ultimately you know enroll so we can go back and john was saying we went down we broke it back broke it down that way and we'll we'll we'll do the surveys maureen mentioned um and get more information but as both of them have been saying we've been talking about this since june uh since may really when we saw that the numbers were coming in like what are we going to do what are our thoughts you know kindergarten is an optional year um and so there's that whole piece as well you know some parents keep their kids out until first grade anyway so we want to have some conversations we want to do some really good assessments of students as they enroll and we know they're coming next year to kind of figure out where where their skills lie um and you know their age and look at all those those pieces to figure out what's going to make the most sense for each student as well as for us at the school so we're anticipating the same number of students it's just as we're saying it'll it you know how it breaks down and where they end up and and how we configure our our classes and our instruction is going to um be impacted by kind of who walks through the door and just to reinforce what mary rose is saying uh combined grade k and one our projection that we built our budget on for this year was 373 students and the combined k-1 projection for next year is 100 or 377. so it's only four students different so it may mix differently but it's about this it's it's more about marriage perception correct and i think mitigating that you were saying we again that that idea that we don't you know again the small bubble in the big bubble uh pose different issues as they go and it's going to get more complicated as they move through the grade so if we can try to figure out how to how to minimize that while also making sure we're serving students um that that'll be our our goal as well um all right change subjects i have one other question which was actually for dean um is i i one of the things i was looking at when we were when you were going through the numbers was i was looking at cohorts you know looking at last year's kindergarten to this year's first grade and last year's first grade of this year second grade and they're almost all you know plus or minus you know four or five kids with one exception which is the sixth fifth to sixth and was there a big thing that went in it was like it's double digits in terms of growth or was it just happened to be a bubble of kids who moved into town it's literally like that a bunch of years because we get the students that come over from ais um and then in the past i think uh you know we've gotten students from st joe's and obviously we have other moving you know with that move in but the bigger number usually is because of the number of students that we get from ais is a part of that but we average over the years last time i did it probably about 10 or 12 new students to sixth grade the difference from fifth grade to sixth grade and it's all right there is fifth to six that's interesting so when i started asking my question i heard you say fifth to six you knew i know exactly what you're talking about i noticed in fact if i kind of do that the cohort analysis all from in the whole district basically the minus 75 is we graduated a class of 202 and our kindergarten class is 132.
we are still in red in california i believe that we should not return until we are yellow and past flu season all right this one is from latoya jenkins hello my name is latoya jenkins and i will love to be involved in helping get the kids back in school also i would like to bring a physical dance group to all of the schools this one is from gabriela hughes she's a student as a student i feel that starting the hybrid learning in january january would be a better and safer transition for the following reasons one changing of class routines would be easier two it would give more time for the teachers to prepare for the transition three i feel that the risk of catching covet will be lower in the new year thank you for your time again from latoya jenkins will the teachers change in the cohort program from leia edwards what will happen to classified employees if we return at a later date in january like transportation will we continue to work on site before january and this one is from tanisha j why is it that when questions or concerns are posed to the board via comment section during the meetings there is no follow-up for resolution if there is no immediate answer or response and she refers to the last meeting where there were concerns that were brought up about distance learning and camera use this is just one example but isn't the first time i have noticed this during meetings unfortunately the lack of follow-up to things that are brought up by parents etc make the board slash district appear as though there is no concern from monica will there be a parent choice for am or pm selection for on campus at riles aubry drenin said why can we not come back to school early there are students having trouble learning online and they do better in learning in an in an in-school environment [Music] and from ron j moses the high school does not sound right if that's the case do the middle school and elementary the same from taylor uh it looks like taylor is a student in the district it's regarding blue slash gold how are students being assigned to blue and gold groups from kim baoni why has mcclellan not been addressed in the presentation uh from barbara if a teacher has requested to remain on distance learning who will be in the classroom with the students on campus from stephanie tempe november 6th or november 9th date for return i just want to point out at the elementary level that going back november 6th or 9th as i've been told means that the week prior teachers will be setting up their classrooms completing report cards and still teaching online that is a lot to do in that time span especially when many of us are already working many more than our contracted hours from macon in my opinion twin rivers got it right january 19th let us allow families to get through the holidays and have the gatherings we know they will have then give a few weeks before we put the kids back in the classrooms in case kovic pops up at a higher rate due to those gatherings this one is from [Music] uh angelina looks like she is also a student what is the exact licensing what exact licensing does a health care professional need how are you going to determine students online get the same type of education as those in class subjects of concern science and math and from monica my two children 11th grade and 7th grade are struggling and ask every day to return to campus we will take whatever we can get and are ready to return november 9th they understand the importance of following social distancing rules and wear masks in order to keep and wearing mass in order to keep campus open thank you this one is from lori it's understandable that there are some families who are afraid or hesitant to return to campus but they have the option to continue distance learning those who make the choice to return to school should have that option to return as soon as they can they should be afforded the choice on their situation just like those who choose to stay home one should not interfere with the other or influence when the options are available to either group so i have some new ones that have come in okay from lori okay the health official is fear-mongering the people of our community people need to be considerate to try and not get others sick but that is for any disease just like the flu which kills people every year but why is it okay for adults to go to work why is it okay for daycares to operate but schools cannot why can governor newsom's winery continue to operate if this is such a deadly disease which our children cannot be in school to get a full education if these actions and companies can continue to function then there is a double standard or what they personally feel is okay when it benefits them and what they feel is not this one is from hayden harris as a student at center high school i feel absolutely terrified that people on the board don't see covet as severe as it is i've chosen to stay with distance learning but i am now worried about friends and teachers becoming infected sending children to school and saying they have less risk does not mean that there is no risk also i take issue with the high school expecting students still participating in online learning to still get the same information and learn in class when it will be geared towards in class students i will now be expected to sit in front of my computer for way longer and with homework i am spending upwards of eight hours all ideas i have heard only leads me to believe students won't be completely safe and stress levels will be way higher another one from latoya i think the school district for trying so hard to return kids back to school we should just wait until after the break i feel if the kids do go back to school we should teach kids for 15 to 30 minutes about coven 19.
so that's for future boards and people to decide but we're trying to keep that information available so they'll know what they're getting into all right next slide please so the other piece that we want to show you is our unrestricted ending fund balance so we did surplus a significant amount this year related to the one-time savings for covid so you can see that in the kind of periwinkle color of the unassigned ending fund balance next slide please we do primarily speak about the unrestricted side because we have a lot of flexibility with those dollars but we do want to bring up the restricted side of the fund balance um of the budget i'm sorry of our actuals so these are kind of the main programs listed in front of you of programs that still have dollars remaining in them a couple large ones that stand out are lottery i will say our ed services team has a very strategic plan with how they are doing textbook adoptions and purchasing textbooks on an ongoing basis related to the williams act so while 787 thousand dollars may seem like a lot in may of this last year the board did approve the k8 science adoption for amplify that alone was a million dollars so this carryover and then part of the current year allocation will be totally gone related to that adoption another large component we have here is the low performing student block grant sites for allocated dollars to help low-performing students at those school sites and i'm aware that most of those schools have plans and that 600 000 will be spent by june which is what we're required to spend otherwise we send it back to the state so it's been a little bit of a challenge with kovid but sites are site administrators are very aware those dollars are there to be used to help those students so we always talk about cash is king which is really important we need cash in order to make payroll but i would say more than any other year at least since i've been at shooting unified is this year talking about cash so you can see on the graph in front of you we have 18 19 numbers we have 1920 they're pretty similar and the dashed line is our prediction for the current year and you can see it pretty much follows the other two years until we get to february so february is when the state deferrals come in and you can see that they are deferring part of our payments february march april may and june um it's basically a rainbow at this point so february will be paid back in november march will be paid back in october april will be paid back in september et cetera et cetera right so june will be paid back in july so it's kind of the opposite of we think how they would be paid back so we are actively watching cash on a monthly basis if not by bi-weekly basis at this point in time we are not anticipating having to get a cash loan before june for the school district it would be through a trans a tax revenue anticipation note in projecting out a 24-month cash flow which is best practice given the cash position that the state has put us in we are potentially looking at next summer for a cash loan but i will certainly keep the board posted and updated on that jacqueline excuse me did i hear you say the um deferrals are crossing fiscal years absolutely yes okay so we actually had one this last year our june 2020 payment we received in the middle of july but it was only one month and so we were able to right now we're talking about five months partial payments of five months being deferred into another fiscal year that's crazy oh my gosh thank you so just in wrapping up um the big takeaway obviously that we've talked about all night is covid so school closures in march led us to less spending at our school sites we had savings in subs we had savings in transportation so we ended up with a much better bottom line than we anticipated now we'll say in the current year we have federal cares act dollars that have really helped us get the online learning going but as we're all finding it's been very expensive and there's been a lot of things that have crept up that we didn't realize were going to be cost associated so i feel pretty confident in having this nice fund balance as we can move forward with transitioning out of online learning into an amp model and hopefully a traditional model at some point this year um and lastly i would just say what was kind of alluded to earlier the tax dollars that were received in 2019 is what drove the state budget for the current year which means that the tax dollars received in 2020 calendar year 2020 will drive the school budget for 21.22 and during many months in 2020 we had extremely high unemployment and so there is concern on the state economy side that there'll be less tax revenue so we are anxiously awaiting the governor's proposal in january to see what if any reductions will be made to schools and then lastly obviously locally we're going to be looking at enrollment pretty closely we are going to be funded on 1920 but as we prepare our first interim which we're working on right now is the first time we're updating our budget we do have to look forward to the next two years and what does that enrollment look like and how do we project that out so that's kind of where we ended for 1920 if there's any questions we can certainly address those yeah kathy so i had written myself this question on the attend oops sorry on the attendance data and i think it's probably a question that a lot of people would be asking like where do we think those students went in this past year but i guess the other side of it is are do we have visions i don't know snowflakes dancing on our dreams about how we might get more students back well i do know that tim karas has been monitoring when students have left and where they're going i don't have any specifics on that i don't know if kelly or jay can speak to that we just had this conversation with him and we are seeing a lot leave the area and leave the state but we can certainly do a more specific update on that at our next board meeting if that's the desire of the board yeah we've had tim carras and his team has been calling and and tracking down a lot of them have left our state and helped our city normally if we in the past we've had shifts to charter schools but mostly people have been leaving town and leaving state so we'll have that breakdown for you um we've had that from tim before you know what if i could jump in a really good analysis for the board is to think if we lose 300 kids at roughly let's just say ten thousand dollars a kid we're down three million dollars linda kind of mentioned that dollars before but then let's talk about reductions that we'd have to make because we have less students we would have 10 less teachers on average right 30 kids let's say per teacher well that's only roughly with benefits a million dollars so we're losing three million dollars in revenue and just in the direct instruction costs that we could potentially cut would be a million so what happens to that two million that we have to decide that's in the support dollars that's not an easy cut to start making it's a perfect example of how when you're in a declining enrollment it is very very difficult to make the cuts you need to make as fast as you need to make them going to be some challenging times ahead but the um the unaudited actuals look great it gives us the little cushion and i'm grateful to the staff thank you yeah eileen um yes the declining enrollment issues uh from years past uh we used consultants and others to try and project what our declining enrollment was based on birth rates and and all of those um other issues um do we have a standing process for doing that every year or do we need to make a uh you know decision to uh oh i guess we better go check that out yeah just as a clarification that data that we do every year related those studies that we have done really every year are related to making sure we have capacity to house students that really is not the same kind of look that we do with budgets because those budget dollars are one year to the next not what are birth rates what are the development costs so we get that question a lot like you're projecting increased ada or increased enrollment over the next 10 years well yes based on looking at it to make sure we house kids when you start looking at actual enrollment and ada you really the best you're going to be able to do is look at trend we'll now drop covet in the middle of that basically that trend analysis is out the door so we're just going to have to have good conversations with ed services we're going to have to have good conversations with really our community trying to do the best we can to come up with some number i will tell you we'll be conservative in that projection but it will be a real challenge we've had this conversation for six months now about how are we going to project what enrollment's going to look like i've been paying attention as you've mentioned the importance of making the cuts before you have to make the cuts because if you wait it doubles the amount you have to cut so that's why i asked the question i'm a little nervous with what we've heard that's kelly's favorite saying a dollar saved this year is two dollars saved next year so okay any more questions about this are we ready to take a vote and do i have a motion yeah i'll move the 219 20 unaudited actual financial statements and thank you jacqueline thank you jacqueline anne marie marie you got away without us introducing you and saying she's hiding back there okay so a motion by dr kaiser is second by linda all right if we're ready to vote all those in favor please say aye aye aye that's unanimous um thank you very much marie and jacqueline and kevin sorry i missed you marie they did all the work literally i know i just threw that in there to score extra points oh and by the way i'd just like to thank them as well for the new formatting on the accounts payable warrants that's really helpful so thank you okay next up is mr hanlon it looks like okay so um sadly we found ourselves needing to hire a new musical theater teacher at chico high school and in even the best of times that's a that's a tough fun to fill um there just aren't a lot of musical theater teachers out there we did find one um mr michael bone he is well known here in chico in the theater in the circle of the theater groups but he's not credentialed so we are coming to you to we are have applied for a provisional internship permit it's a one-year permit basically um it gets us through the end of this year until we can um do a uh state search for a teacher um but he is he has gladly stepped forward and has offered to to teach our musical theater sections um for the remainder of this year but we need board approval to get the pip certificate okay any questions i just want to say i appreciate mr bond's willingness to do this um it's a it's tough to fill and i know the theater community is very close i know that uh he is well known and respected and seen as a someone who can fill janiece's shoes and that's important absolutely okay do you want to make a motion yeah you want to do that yeah i'll move that sure i'll second all right motion by tom lando second by dr kaiser all those in favor please say aye aye aye so i do have a question so is our other teacher that we hired or did we move that woman over to from other classes because you had two that you yeah choir music the music piece we did find a credential teacher also um a teacher that is currently teaching at butte college she is going to uh because we split had to split the positions it's very difficult to get somebody grandchild in both areas um so we split the positions and so we have a an instructor um from butte college that his um is credentialed and we'll will fill in the other position for the remainder of the year okay the next one is a resolution to allow a credentialed teacher to teach any single subject class based on appropriate coursework so i bring these two each year we have a number of positions where we have teachers that are teaching out of their credentialed area but they have the the um they have the uh the amount of coursework required with the state to teach those classes as long as we have board approval for example we have a french teacher that teaches a section of spanish but has the requisite coursework to teach beginning spanish we have a social science teacher at chico high who's also a football coach and he's doing the weightlifting those types of things so we are once again bringing those to you for approval okay i'll second that okay we have a motion by dr kaiser second by tom lando all those in favor please say aye aye that passes unanimously next up resolution 1525-20 to allow teachers with a multiple subject credential to teach a specific subject below grade nine so when we added the sixth grade to the junior highs we brought a number of sixth grade teachers over the junior highs and while they are teaching they they must teach a certain number of multiple subjects within their credential but they also can teach um a number of i think up to two of english or social science or whatever area we designate for sixth graders but we need again board approval on a year-to-year basis to allow them to teach a single subject credentialed area okay do i have a motion okay okay uh motion by dr kaiser second by linda huvey um all those in favor please say aye aye okay thank you all right um our next is going to be items from the floor i don't see any i don't see anybody out there except if any of you folks want to go to the podium and say something all right we'll dispense with that any further announcements no okay then we will adjourn thank you everyone thank you
An intensive way to have a job or volunteer in different organizations in your community, so I think it's very important that you also use that time during the summer to rest, which is important, but also to be involved in different aspects of the academic community, or also to be involved in sports, as we've been saying. The only other thing, Rafael, is that this time of year is a little different, and the options during the summers, but also during the school year, are different, Rita, and we understand that, but I still recommend doing something you like, something interesting. Martin, yes, yes, of course, the truth is that the opportunities have changed a lot from what we normally have, and well, it's important to know that if you can't participate because there isn't the opportunity or it's not appropriate at the moment, I think it's good to let people know what's going on, and maybe if you need to work for any reason, also include that in that list of activities, as Holley said, because anyway you're using your time to make a difference.
and so there's 70 fewer net in the district just for that dynamic and and the rest is little pluses and minuses all the way up and down so and that one happened to be the biggest plus so okay thank you thank you anyone else with any questions or comments on the enrollment report okay uh so let's move down move on to the uh 2122 draft school calendar um another um just action item so um we can pull that up eric and take a look at it okay so we have a calendar here uh we built this calendar in a trade assuming a traditional year next year um as we all know we change this current year's calendar two or three times because of the pandemic so we need to start somewhere and we have a very uh solid calendar based on those uh traditional pieces just some quick highlights remember this is to receive to digest we could put it on the next agenda and ultimately approve it as a board or if it takes another uh iteration into early december to approve it that's fine too i know our families like to get the families and staff like to get these calendars as much in advance as possible but then again we're in a different world now and people have either become more patient flexible or uh more irritable either one so probably the sooner we get this done the better for everyone so anyways you know the couple of uh highlights there uh the um school year still starts toward the end of august and we have our days for new teacher orientation and our three days for teacher professional development uh teacher professional development also uh continues as a work day on columbus day where the students would not be in school but teachers would have pd as well as election day in november we also have built in uh throughout december uh january april and may it's kind of that pumpkin color uh is the uh plc days for more teaching more professional development opportunities uh we have our account our conferences built in we have our typical winter vacation shortened february break uh april recess built in there and um while we start before uh labor day in this iteration of the calendar we end on june 13th so those are the really the big highlights for everybody um that i just wanted to put out there didn't know if anybody had any questions or you know you had it in your packet since friday so i don't people have something that's come up that they were interested in talking about this is just a really small logistical can we pick like a different color i feel like the blue family green it's very they're very close and so it's a little confusing maybe like a red or a gray i'll take the blame on that because i have to thank mrs grambling for all of her work on that but sometimes i get a little overly involved in these things and i try to channel my inner artist and so i'll take the blame on that and we can adjust we can adjust colors to make them clearer for people and more to be able to differentiate but i do i need to thank lisa as well for the great work on this yes we love you lisa we appreciate it but you know any thoughts anybody's having or um concerns or you know a total different direction the way we approach the calendar any thinking and again we do not have to make and there's no pressure to approve this tonight we give people time to digest it think about it and put it on the agenda again under old business for an approval uh i think it's a november sixth or seventh meeting when is our next meeting guys our next stop we have november 4th yes after election day november 4th that's right and that's the only uh regular board meeting in november yep um so our our snow day policy hasn't really changed right and that also might change again because we might not have any snow days yeah um okay yeah so we we we add them till the end and then um it would have to be pretty catastrophic in the number of snow days if we even have to take them this year make up days uh to touch april vacation we really try to keep that safe right with people so people could count on that as the long vacation as well as the winter break so they can get away with their families let's hope people can do that this year next year anyone have any questions or comments on this all right um so john did you want us to approve this tonight or do you want to we well that's why i wanted to say that there's no pressure to it's still early we i think i think early in my tenure in brookfield the tradition was to break break this out into december for the first time and it took some time till february to get it approved so we really i was asked a number of years ago to move it earlier so we've done that um we have the gift of time we don't have to do it but again whatever if the board would like to approve it and everybody's comfortable we can again we could wait till the next regular meeting it's totally up to the board how does everyone else feel about this do you feel comfortable approving tonight or do you want to just wait because we are a little early in the in the year to be doing this i guess the only question would be is there anything we're gonna learn that might come up that might cause us to adjust between now and say february right because i prefer to just if there's things what might come up that we might say we'd adjust it i'd say hold off and let's learn that thing learn that stuff and then approve it as opposed to having it improve it and then amend it i mean in my view so but if you don't think there's a lot of forces out there john that would change things let's go ahead and approve it yeah i mean i we as as we all know we we never project predicted what was going to happen this past march right and then all the adjustments we had to make in june and july on our on the current calendar so other than that um you know we want to spread out our pd days and uh honor our conferences and and you know the different holidays in the year and so that's that's what we have laid out here and they're pretty coordinated with other districts so that like we've done in the past well what we do do is um lisa consults the regional calendar that advance puts out and while we don't have to adhere to that um it gives us a flavor of the region and so it's in relative alignment i would say but certainly not lockstep i couldn't say that do you think we'd anticipate any changes in the number of student days this year i mean obviously last year we couldn't predict you know the changes that we had sort of at the end of the year but yeah i mean we plan for the 182.
my kids miss their friends and teachers i have a child who is suffering from mental issues we can have a program for kids who are suffering from that and from hayden harris i feel as though you haven't heard student opinions why haven't you pulled actual students to see how we would like to learn on line or not [Music] moses i want to go back to school i miss my friends i understand to wear a mask and i will show by example please allow us back this is not fair i missed my sixth grade [Music] those people that have questions yeah so what we'll do is we'll either respond directly to the emails or someone that put in earlier the idea of like frequently asked questions that we can also put those questions in and then put an answer next to it that anyone go to they're saying sometimes going through the playbook is difficult so i'll work on that tomorrow morning to see if we can get these aggregated and put out and share wonderful thank you very much all right so i think we've had lots of discussion do we have a motion [Music] i would like to motion january 5th or after and i will second that motion okay um just want to make sure because of the way that motion is in order are we are we looking for something if it's safe to come back or are we just looking for is it january 5th assuming it's safe to come back then correct and i would want to make sure that or after is we would like it to be a specific date january 5th and with the caveat mr wilson that you said obviously situations could change all right would you take that as a friendly amendment with the caveat of it being cleared and safe that is a friendly amendment all right and your second still stands all right we have a motion and we have a second to assuming that uh conditions are safe and clear that it will be uh january 5th or after is that stated correctly yes all right any other comments on that are we ready for a vote okay all right we have a vote um do we have unanimous consent yes all right that is your canvas all right now that brings us to item d governing board vacancy candidate interviews um we only have two this time uh so it should not take as much time as the last meeting um um can we take a like three minute break this is uh anderson sure wait wait um if she if she's not back by the time i'm done take a little break so we have two candidates who i think are pretty well known to the board so i think that would make it all that much more harder because i think we like you both so why why couldn't one of you be mean so we shouldn't want to do that um so anyway it appears that we need a small break so um we're going to take just a couple minutes a hiatus and then we'll get back to newton [Music] okay so we're gonna ask some questions and we're gonna just so it's not always the same format we're gonna start with howard we're gonna ask howard question one and then we're gonna ask kelly question one and then kelly you're gonna go first for question two so each question we're gonna review first the order we got asked first we have seven questions um so howard if you'll come up and then nancy are you asking the first question if you want to okay okay what you see is the basic purpose of the public schools what is the role of the board of trustees in this moment of that purpose can you hear me i heard you yes thank you again so basic purpose of public schools would be to ensure that children's diverse potentials are fully realized and prepared to live a productive life through rigorous academic instruction and becoming good citizens learning to obey social and legal rules within our society and the role the board of trustees where that would be to be responsible for developing improving the districts mission and strategic goals and objectives and establishing policies relating to the district's programs and services and on a good citizen now that i like point out i'm very happy to see some of some of that here in this auditorium tonight over the stage and to the right of the stage i think that's extremely important as it relates to teaching our children in our school systems on how to be a good citizen and to make them fully aware through such facets such as these banners to instill that uh upon them thank you okay do you want me to repeat the question no so the basic purpose of public schools um obviously we need to educate our students but there's so much more that goes on at school that feeds into whether or not we're able to educate students that we really have a very complex and complicated role as educators making sure that the environment they can they come to is safe a safe could mean any number of different things it could mean that whoever a predator in their life is not there that they have a safe place to talk about their feelings that it's safe from violence but it's safe from bullying and abuse all kinds of things that feed into whether or not the environment is safe but we do need to create a safe environment so that students can succeed in what they feel passionate about not just about math reading history those things are all fabulous but building passion into that and building a desire to educate to learn is really the crux of what a school needs to do and it also is a place where we provide opportunities to build their moral fiber to be creative to share their ideas and to develop their self-worth how they feel about themselves and knowing where their place is in the world so it's pretty complicated but an education involves a lot of things thank you um and then mr you take a question too kelly this is for you can you hear me i was going to take my mascot too actually i'll try not to get too close to the mic what is your highest priority to accomplish as a board member the last time i was asked this question i said was to keep the district solvent let me explain why i say that if the district isn't solvent we don't have a district and we can't educate the students so the number one priority in my eyes is to make sure that we are making wise fiscal decisions wise hiring decisions that we're managing our budget and managing the funding and that we're advocating for funding and that we're using the funding wisely to best support our students family and community so for me the most important thing as a board member is to watch that budget would you like me to repeat the question though uh yes please okay what is your highest priority to accomplish as a board member so the highest rat i would like to ensure is the physical responsibility of the board having been a member of this community for the last 31 years since 1989 and learning of history prior to that this board in this district has been known for its physical responsibility which my understanding has made it rated one of the best districts in the state as it relates to how we deal with our funding our financing how we spend our money what we spend it on et cetera and so forth so there are you know lots of educational issues that face center and each must be resolved in order of priority i think musical responsibility is at the top of the list along with the actual education of our children of course and the security of those children when they are within the realm of our responsibility at our facilities uh so it's essential that we make sure that we have the finite finite revenues allocated to the district and make sure that they are sufficient to meet our needs and be sustainable and i would strive to ensure that would be my one of my highest priorities [Applause] thank you um so howard as trustee what would you see is your primary purpose and how would you fulfill that world so my primary purpose i believe would be to maintain the highest levels and standards and rigorous learning goals for the children in a safe environment as i spoke up a moment ago and ensuring that the children receive the highest education by having really high expectations from them research over the last quarter century has consistently supported that one of the keys to closing the achievement gap of students advantage and us advancing students and for raising overall achievement is to ensure that that there is always going to be high rigorous academic achievement having high expectations of that the best way to develop high achievement is to collaborate how to help the school environment combat negativism defeatism and resistance and having a solution orientated no blank professional environment that involves the efforts of students faculty staff parents and the community thank you so as a trustee what do you see as your primary purpose and how would you fulfill that purpose so the primary purpose in my eyes of what a school board member does is to work together with the other board members to ensure that the district is being properly run that we're meeting the community's needs that we're meeting the students needs the staff and faculty the faculty's needs making sure that things are being run above board physically responsible reviewing the safety that we're reviewing everything that crosses our desk that really is critical to have those extra eyes looking at everything and making sure that things are getting done the role of the board is to supervise the superintendent but we also are representatives of the community and that's in order to represent the community we have to know what the community wants and we have to take a very ethical approach to how we do that job making sure that we are doing the best possible job we can to review everything read everything listen to what people have to say and just ensuring that things are being done not only legally physically responsibly but just morally ethically that things are going well we're the extra set of eyes that the superintendent needs thank you five cents advice mr bruno what would you do if you believed administrators had not provided you with accurate and complete information for making a decision first of all congratulations mr bruno [Laughter] so if if i'm requesting information from an administrator it's going to come through the superintendent um i would never go directly to another administrator and ask them for information i might as a board member say we would like to see a report but that report would be would be routed through the proper channels and it would come to the now if i thought there was something inaccurate about it then i would definitely discuss that with the superintendent because he is the one that would need to then discuss it down the line to the administrator who provided the information so for me it's really a matter of the chain of command if information doesn't seem right i'm definitely going to question it but who will i question i'm not going to i'm not going to go to a kindergarten teacher and say how come your third grade your your children aren't learning their abcs i'm not going to do that i'm going to go to the superintendent who's going to go to the principal who's going to go to the teacher who's then going to report back up so you just have to follow that proper shade of command we can't be poking our noses into every little bit piece of what's going on operationally in the district that's not the purpose of questions thank you howard would you like your question repeated uh yes what would you do if you believed administrators had not provided you with accurate and complete information for making a decision first i would make sure i took a systematic approach to the issue and determined what i would need to evaluate and consider making sure that i was aware of any policy procedure guidelines for precedence that existed as related to the information that was providing me and the decision uh if a decision was made that decision was in fact made now we determine if it would be necessary to include the office of the superintendent of the district and try to not check that information if possible if the information was data driven i would attempt to go to the source and compare and verify that information for my my own information to be able to address the issue and if the issue decision had already been made i would attempt to ensure it comply with all appropriate rules laws and regulations at a district county and state level thank you mrs anderson how does an effective school board ensure opportunities for parents and community members to express their diverse range of views to inform board deliberations on important policy issues well first and foremost i think that he would have to be it's necessary and required to be open and transparent uh in order to address such issues and to also to ensure that things that we do as a district uh as it relates to transparency are being conducted so that there aren't any issues such as live streaming this board meeting as an example one of the things i noticed this evening is the participation from parents and staff that were piped through through carroll to the board that is not something i've seen in the past i think so that that's something that kind of opens us up to being able to better communicate with our community uh with our students with our faculty and staff and of course our students so other things like you would do would be to visit schools attend open houses and attend the various advisory committees that take place and then to lost my lost my place uh an example of some additional things that we could think about in the future would be um having a platform perhaps that would be connected to our website that would allow things like blogging ask questions or or some kind of a social media medium that we would control internally that where we could get information share information provide information to our students faculty parents and community okay thank you thank you [Music] yes how does an effective school board ensure opportunities for parents and community members to express their diverse range of views to inform board deliberations on important policy issues so how do we ensure that we're getting community input it's a really tough question um i mean there's a number of ways that we can do it how do we do it though really it's important and mrs pope you've demonstrated this over and over it's just really important to get out there and talk to people and i know [Music] probably cutting cutting myself off at the feet here but i know i'm not the best about getting out and talking to people on a one-on-one basis but i am committed to doing that um more i mean i've attended football games and worked this back bar and gone to plays and supported music events and gone to the top ten dinners and you know a variety of things that i tend to migrate to but i think it's really more important to get out to the schools when the parents are going to be there for open house and make sure that you make yourself available to talk to people and listen to people it's really important that they feel comfortable coming to you i loved what mr bruno said about you know gosh let's keep this open dialogue going this is fabulous i'm so glad that we got all this information we need to build that more with our parents and families as well and um i guess the only way to do that is to just get out there and talk to people and make sure that they know you're available and that you're listening and that you are not just listening but you're responding it's nothing worse than filing a complaint or making a suggestion and nobody even responds you know it's like oh why did i hold it so if people are going to provide information it's really imperative for us to respond to that information in a constructing a an organized manner i know that when i was the president it was my responsibility to respond to community you know requests and i think that that's a really good policy to follow that we're keeping one standard response and that we're not giving mixed messages or all over the board so sometimes it feels like people are not responding when in actuality what we're doing is we're ensuring that our response is is collaborative collaborative and and accurate before responding so yeah listen put yourself out there and make sure you respond thank you thank you let me do this and you can hear me please summarize the strengths you bring as a board as a member of the board okay um so i didn't spend eight years on the board here and enjoyed every minute of it and i think i contributed a lot to this district as well as learned a lot from the district in addition to that i have 11 years of experience working in education as an administrative assistant i worked with the maintenance and operations department i worked with the finance department i worked with the student services department all three completely different environments within the district uh and so in a really well-rounded experience in what goes on in various departments and offices and within the district and i come from the family of educators i love to teach myself i've taken many opportunities to teach classes in computers when i've had a chance to teach to my peers at work my grandmother was the first teacher in the state of arizona and my father was a teacher my sister's a teacher and we are just a very strong fan strong believers in education as a whole in addition to that i come with a new perspective and that is from public health where i've learned so many things not just about public health but about procedures and data and collaboration and just how to really work well as a team how to analyze data and use it in your decision making and bottom line is is that i really take the job seriously and i analyze everything i've always obviously always read at least the board packet if not further research beyond that to make sure that i'm understanding what the decisions are that we're needing to make um and then as i just mentioned in addition to that i will make a commitment right here now that i will get out and talk to the community talk to parents and students and families and bring that into my decision making as a board member that's two thank you shall i repeat the question should i repeat this yes summarize the strengths you bring as a member of the court um so i think in terms of efforts and adjectives honesty dependency partiality dedication and i could go on and on and on i think all of them are key to being an effective board member and i believe i have all those traits uh which i if you are or a strength that you're inquiring about i have a passion and deep interest in the mission of the district uh strong stewardship to others and the ability to understand uh the budget um on a personal more personally my moment with the district over the years has been uh if you see the banner behind me the susquehanna centennial i was a member of that committee and that 1858 uh i was actively involved in verifying that was the actual date of the year that this district was established um i didn't vote for that banner though you know we had like six or eight or ten they were all great and this one's great i love this one but uh i didn't vote for that one [Music] since 2000 2008 i became involved in promoting uh measure n a five hundred thousand dollar uh school bond that was passed by this community and i've been active on that uh was asked by this just clarification i think that was 500 million right 500 you're talking about the school bond authorization because 500.000 [Music] which is hopefully going to take us with school construction in this district hopefully through the next next 30 years so i've been involved on that um committee pretty much since the committee was i was asked to participate at the first grouping first the first set of terms of people that are participating on that committee uh last year i was voted by the committee to be the vice chair and also besides the susquehanna centennial and the boc i was also for a period of time up to about i'm not sure when you might remember better than i but uh was one of two of the community members that was part of the i.t advisory committee and so that's been my that's been my personal involvement and those i believe are some of the strengths that i would bring to this board thank you um we have one question mr bruno do you want me to take it or do you want to take it i'll go ahead okay so um identify a recent board decision that you felt strongly about and tell us how you would balance the community concerns with state and federal law student concerns staff concerns how on a controversial issue how would you balance all funding you should bring up that question we have this thing i'm going through right now called covant you might have heard of that man the discussion this evening by this board is a perfect example of such such decision making that has to take place and my my position is to do what is best for the children do what's best for the staff and the community it was interesting to hear this evening the discussion around when to return in fact i had the opportunity to spoke speak briefly with superintendent lair about you know a little bit about you know some of the plans going forward and looking at what this district has done in relationship to other districts uh and i've been keeping abreast trying to keep abreast of that and different keeping up on current news is not necessarily that everything should fit into to one one box one square box it um i think that the the the current path that this district is taking i was especially uh very interested in the surveys that were conducted i think that was a great approach to find out how you know your your teachers your students your staff and feel about moving forward and which direction they would like they feel that they need to go and to taking that all accountable in your decision-making process so with that said i think it's extremely important to balance communities and the students and the faculty and at the same time adhering to state local federal laws as as well as any board of education regulations so as it relates to my personal beliefs i think that what should i inspire would take places is that this board is a body should work together in determining what is best for the district based on the information that you're receiving from from staff and i think then you folks are doing a really good job that's fine thank you kelly sure so identify a recent board decision you felt strongly about and describe how you would balance community concerns state and federal law staff consideration student news so if there's like a controversial just how would you balance all of those points of views deal with it so it seems redundant to talk about code again but really that is first and foremost in everyone's mind and it's definitely controversial and it's definitely extremely important and you know i'd love to say we need to do what's best for the students and community and faculty but it's really not very clear what's best of what they want we get complete polar opposite you know opinions why are we open yet my child needs to go to school it's way too soon we need to open now it's just here it's people are dying i mean it's just the coin just flips back and forth and back and forth so how do you how do you analyze them um and i'm like howard i'm sorry i don't know how it's less thing but as howard said the the surveys were fabulous the input from the teachers thank you for providing you know a means for the board to hear from the teachers and all of that information is critical and even with all that information it still can get heated it still could be you know polarizing people not agreeing on what's the right thing because a point where you have to absorb all the information that you possibly can and make a decision based on that and then once the board makes a decision as a board then it's all for all for one it's not one for all it's all for one you know whatever the board decision is then we are all behind that decision 100 up to that point you really have to just do your research do your your debate make your points [Music] get your opinion in there and really just thrash it all out i mean sometimes putting an opinion out there is what gets your opinion changed because it opens the door to constructive and healthy conversation which is what happens in these board meetings is healthy constructive conversations so in addition to all the data and and your own opinions and your own um feelings about what is right and what is wrong you do have to work together as a board and make those decisions and then stand by those decisions [Music] we're very lucky to have such strong candidates for as many positions as we have all right so we've asked all the questions um is there any discussion yes it's gonna be a hard choice i think it's a hard choice it truly it truly is a hard choice both of you have experienced both of you have experience in different ways one of the things that and if i'm out of order tell me scott i don't think i'm out of order i thought both of you gave great response to question five just my own personal bias one of the things i think is important earlier in the meeting i called kelly back on purpose because one of the things that either one of you said that a part of really being effective i think is showing other people respect i know both of you believe that so i'm not saying either but the reason why earlier i pulled kelly back was to demonstrate that you know kelly and i have always gotten along we served on the same board we didn't always agree but we always treated people with respect i think if that had been in any other forum when especially on an emotional issue like this they degenerating the shouting matches name calling things like that so i think on my way out the door i wanted to take a chance regardless of which one of you gets picked i really believe that's why this board and this staff and the school district has worked the way that it has even when i haven't agreed with somebody you know and i jokingly always pick mrs woods or or whatever i've always tried to treat everybody with respect now the truth is we get along we sit next to each other at the football games we probably don't disagree that much other than when we're ribbing each other but but the point is that that's i won't be here so i guess it won't be my problem but that's kind of the legacy that that i would that i want i did that on purpose to illustrate because i really think that that has been the strength of us as a team not just this board but the teachers cuta csea we have made a deliberate effort to treat each other with respect now does that mean sometimes i don't like marie a little bit more because she brings me coca-cola chocolate cake well that's a different discussion but i so i i only bring that not to take us astray but regardless of who gets picked and you know there's another seat coming back i would love when i'm away to know that regardless of who's making what choices that that respect for everybody is still dead and so i i'll take one thing out of order but before i can declare it out order it'll be out of my mouth so i do love all of you um and i will miss you so with that do we have any more discussion on this or um any motion i have a comment to make when i received the packets i looked them over and actually the comment that i made in superintendent was not only do we have two candidates who are both legally qualified we have two candidates who are well qualified and after having interviewed you guys vatican has not changed you guys are both really well qualified and whichever one of you doesn't get chosen please apply for the upcoming vacancy i would welcome working with either one of you i don't know what he said yeah exactly come back to the next meeting please all right do we have a motion on the floor i know we don't have mushroom does anybody want to make it motion i will make a look okay again please there's another seat next month but i do motion for kelly kelly okay we have a motion for kelly kelly do we have a second a second we have a second by mrs anderson all right and i will do this the same way we did it last time unless you don't want to last time we took multiple can i say something with that sure that doesn't reflect anything on you howard please come back to the next position so i really don't came back it's really a tough decision um okay um do we have another emotion all right so what we did last time we took multiple motions and i will do the unusual thing i think howard at least deserves emotion so i will make the motion that we also consider howard is there a second sure i'll second that okay so we have the motion in a second all right so we have two motions on the floor we'll vote on them in order first motion that was made was for kelly kelly um any discussion on kelly kelly specifically or do we just want to go is it the pleasure of the board to just simply vote on it or do you want to discuss it okay so yeah somebody wants to discuss it is there any discipline so there's not all right so um mrs anderson there is a motion and a second to uh confirm kelly kelly to take this spot hi okay mrs anderson is i'm mrs pope all right it's pope design mr bruno hi mr bruno's eye so i guess i will do the same thing that i did the last time i see the writing on the wall so unanimous it is but um howard i think congratulations to kelly kelly but howard i i think you've heard enough from this board tonight that you will be well served coming back next month and i do not believe i'm out of order saying that i think we all know the service to your district your service to the district got to go over it a little bit a lot of it was behind the scenes but i think through this process you've proved to the people here that you would be the leading candidate for next month so thank you for your time and your effort and do not go away yes we won't let it okay i didn't have anybody left me up against um all right so future meeting dates regular meeting is wednesday november 18th 2020 at 6 pm uh here are there any suggested agenda items so there is the item on there for the governing board so we would have the oh you guys made a determination but we would vote on the resolution then it points her to that position that's right okay so keep that in mind we'll go back to that so um do we have a motion on so we already have the motion to make the person just going and see kelly kelly but i guess we need to go through a paperwork thing of putting it in the actual resolution all right i figured we'd do that at once but maybe not so do we have a motion to um a point in the resolution kevin kelly yes on motion we have a motion by mrs poe do we have a second and we have a second by mrs anderson i believe we've discussed this but just in case any discussion do we have unanimous consent yes all right so we're done with that so any suggested agenda items for the november 18th meeting not hearing any we don't have any reason for continuation of closed session do we have a motion to adjourn we have a motion by mr bruno do we have a second no second we have a second by mrs anderson do we have unanimous consent yes yes [Music] i just realized this past night that 97
Now we come to junior year, which is eleventh grade, and I think it's very important to maintain good grades and increase academic achievement, and by this I mean speaking a A little more about the classes available at your school. Many schools have general education classes. Other schools also have honors classes. Some have A&B programs, and others have the International Back College, which is a more advanced program. Other schools also offer the ICE World Cambridge program, which is another slightly more advanced academic program. They also have ABAD Placement, which offers classes that are also a bit more advanced. Finally, there's also informational courses, which means the student will take university-level classes while at school. So, there are several types of classes you can take, and this is a good year to start taking some of them. My recommendation is to take these classes in the subjects you normally do best in.
we need to always keep in mind our teachers work on are contracted for 187 so that we have to always keep those those two factors in mind uh this current year so we're not talking about that the state gave us the 177.