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so but as things change you know we might be able to but the disc will still have to be three feet apart now it's three feet right right that's where we're at right now correct oh yeah just one last question um you know as we just think about partnerships and i really appreciate that we're deepening our partnership with think together um well um have we had any conversations with the city right so they often have summer programming um you know they have like a day camp and do other things so have we initiated those conversations and if not like i think i would i would appreciate it if we could be engaging them because i think this is this could be a time and space to build those strengths and those partnerships with them as well got it we i haven't um i do i am aware that they are working on their summer programming but um we'll definitely we can reach out to uh to the city mickey carpenter um and talk about our programming and see how we might you know okay i mean you've been thinking about like swimming like you know it'd be really great to be able to incorporate that into it you know summer swimming as part of summer learning right we have a scheduled ad hoc next next week um so we can bring it up okay that'd be good oh okay thank you great thank you guys for all all your input and um your enthusiasm and thank you um mr uh frank chang um mr fernandez and dana for for this it's really exciting so you know seeing our schools open up and being able to provide instruction and the kids are really excited to come back um seeing that so as there's no further discussion or comments i will go ahead and move on to 13.2 2021 asusa unified school district annual survey presentation we have miss gen edict bryant hello hello sorry about that i was still muted i am going to start my presentation for you because this evening i am uh very excited to be able to um bring you actually hold on just a minute let me escape there we go i'm very excited to bring you our uh district annual survey results and so tonight i'm i'm going to borrow a word from baseball and say that i am your closer and i'm going to walk you through some a general broad overview of our district annual survey results so this year we partnered with an organization called youth truth to administer our student parent and family and staff surveys and one of the benefits of partnering with them in addition to some additional questions that we were able to ask that they had developed for our use is also to be able to have some comparisons with state and national data so we still get that same solid data for our schools that we can look at our own um schools and levels and then also do some comparison some comparing and some of that i'm going to show you this evening just a quick uh quick note youth troop youth truth is actually a non-profit organization started in 2008 a partnership with bill and melinda gates foundation and as the gates foundation was pouring money into um educational plants and projects they um they wanted to find a way to really measure progress and so that was kind of the birth of this this uh organization this arm that begins to survey students and then they expanded that to also create surveys for parents and for staff and so you can see from this slide they that when as we talk about our comparisons we're talking about you know 1.75 million students that have taken the surveys that we're able to to look at and compare with our students across 38 states there are over 300 000 families and staff that we also get to tap into that comparison data so we're really excited to be um to be partnering with them and this is our first year and we look forward to ongoing partnership in the coming years so let's look a little bit at azusa's data and our response rates are or what i'm sharing with you here on this slide um our rates especially for students are very very high our principals and teachers do a great job providing opportunities and encouraging students to take the survey there were 1134 more students who participated this year compared to last year and part of that is also that we added third through fifth graders to our survey um pool um our staff participation increased uh that's i'm sorry that's it's 787 and it is um up from 769 in the previous year and our parent and family response numbers increased by 724 from last year's survey so i know you're looking at some percentages in this slide and and the reason you see a 28 response rate it's really hard for us to gauge exactly how many parents we have so what we used to calculate that 28 was just the number of students we had and we know that a lot of our families have multiple children um youth truth shoots for about the 28 to 30 percent rate for parents so we're within that uh as well and so um overall we had a an increase in total participation uh we had 707 638 individuals participate and as always this continues to be um exceeded 99 confidence level and 5 margin of error in our our results so so let me share a few of um the survey results and our survey questions were categorized by themes and so it's the theme level data that you're seeing on this slide the percentages here reflect the percent of parents responding positively and so you know as if we're asking questions and this is our family survey that i'm going to share with you first they have a you know a five likert scale choice and so the positive responses or the you know agree strongly agree those top two and so um you can see that we have six key themes that the questions fall into that we're looking at just a quick review of those so you understand what what these themes are are talking about is that engagement describes the degree to which our families are engaged in their school and empowered to influence decision making relationships uh describes the degree to which families experience positive relationships in their school based on respect care approachability culture really describes the degree to which families believe their schools foster shared goals respect fairness diversity communication and feedback describes the degree to which there are open and effective communication lines between families and schools and resources describes the degree to which families believe their schools deploy necessary resources to support students and then school safety describes the degree to which families believe their school's a safe place for students so the data you can see on this slide shows you in the orange our districts our district's percent of positive responses and then this is a little bit of that comparison i was talking about you can see in yellow the typical youth truth school so that's a national comparison and then a typical california school and that's just looking at schools in california and you can see our results and our parents levels of positive responses are are really about the same um as others nationally in the state and you can see they're also very high rates this oh by the way the previous slide was our elementary parents this slide is now our middle school parents and we're able to look at the data in different groups and again you're you're able to see similar results from our you know with our elementary parents middle school parents are on par with the comparisons some of the highlights here include our parent positive responses in the area of relationships and communication and feedback if we look at high school parents who have responded again seeing fairly high rates um we do have some real areas of strong positive rates in the relationship theme and the communication and feedback theme and those are even higher than than you see compared to nation and state numbers so transitioning to our student survey results we're going to start with themes for our elementary students let me just do a quick description of these themes very similar to the parents but i don't want there to be any confusion so engagement really is the degree to which students perceive themselves as engaged with their school and their education academic challenge is the degree to which students feel they're challenged by their coursework and their teachers relationships describes the degree to which students feel they receive for support and personal attention from their teachers culture describes the degree to which students believe their schools foster a culture of respect fairness and diversity instructional methods describes strategies and approaches students report their teachers using in classes and belonging in peer collaboration describes the degree to which students feel welcome at their school and have collaborative relationships with their classmates so an analysis of data on this slide shows our general areas of strength such as engagement and relationships also points to areas such as academic challenge and culture these are areas of uh interesting to compare also um we we see that uh in culture where our schools are are higher but uh you know we have when we look at all of the themes we also can see some of the lower levels like culture looking at our own internal data between between all of the themes just looking at azusa so this is um our elementary students so middle school students had slightly lower responses which over time has not been different we usually see lower positive responses as we move up through the grades you also see that reflected in the comparison with the state and national results that are on this slide academic challenge is higher and comparable to other schools and districts and so that's that's an area of kind of success that we can celebrate so sorry to to interrupt um miss genetic brian i i do want to bring the time up to our board we do have a policy at 10 30.
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um i do want to honor that but at the same time i see that you're almost halfway through and we're kind of you know um looking at the time as well i i would like to go ahead and put it out on the table a motion to extend 15 minutes at 10 45 not to you know not to exceed um we don't have to take all the 15 minutes but if it's a minute or two after 10 30 at least we we have decided on that um can i please get in motion to to move to 10 45 or adjournment of our meeting uh actually can i ask first i'm curious i'm curious to know if if uh jen if you feel like we can how are you looking with the rest of the time shop for your presentation maybe we can i'm i'm probably halfway done the slides at the end are a little more uh detailed and complex um so i think i i i will i can commit to definitely ending at 10 30 if you'd like me to do that and then if you'd like me to come back or you'd like to reach out individually i'm more than happy to walk through in more detail or answer questions um at a later time so i again i'm going to put it on the table um just she like she said she's halfway through she'll end at 10 30 but if you have a couple questions it might go just you know two to five minutes at the most um so i'm putting out an emotion to motion to be able to move um our german to uh 10 45.
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can i please get it first um and so i have a first uh board member career second board member uh beau all in favor please raise your hand hi okay five zero thank you so much for and letting me interrupt you just wanted to make sure that we are all on on uh on gear here and please continue um and now that we okay yep no problem no problem at all thanks um we were looking at the high school results on this slide and just talking about again that lower level for our high school students but still actually very high and obviously in comparison to other high school students very typical when we look at our staff surveys the themes again very similar engagement the degree to which staff feel engaged in their work and empowered to influence schools relationships are the degree to which staff feel positive relationships in their school based on respect and care and approachability culture is the degree to which staff believe their schools foster a culture of shared vision respect and effective communication and professional development and support um addresses meaningful feedback opportunities to grow professionally and feel supported at work and school safety is the degree to which staff feel that the school's a safe learning environment for students and you can see the results there our staff shows higher than average compare when compared to others across all themes so this is our elementary staff when we move to our middle school staff uh same themes you can see the results on this slide uh response positive response rates are still very high when viewed in comparison to schools and districts across the state we have slightly lower positive response rates for professional development and support and school safety in with our middle school staff when we look at our high school staff responses and we see that overall these also align similar to others but also um again reflect uh some strengths that even exceed uh for example culture is while it's one of maybe not our highest area it is higher than high schools and high school responses in the state and in the nation those are our overall themes that we surveyed for all of our stakeholders um in addition we remember used the opportunity with our district annual survey and with our partnership with youth truth to gather baseline data for diversity equity and inclusion and so this is really from the ed services perspective as we talk about you know how that is being um kind of materialized in our classrooms we wanted to get the baseline understanding of our of our staff of our our parents and families and then really importantly of our students we've heard many of them share with us and so this is some um some some additional data that will help guide us as we plan for our 2124 lcap season and all of the work we're going to be doing with our dei committee just to share a couple of examples with you one of the questions asked all three stakeholder groups um the to respond as to whether or not they feel encouraged to speak out against racism and our students and parents had similar positive response rates at about 58 percent and our staff positive response rate was 66 so that gives us a good baseline that we can grow from we also asked if schools value schools in the district value diverse groups of people and we gave lists of groups and had the respondents rate the positively if if our schools and district value those groups and so those groups included people of different religions sexual orientations abilities genders family income levels race and ethnicity and country of origin and um similar levels resulted we had a 49 positive for gender that was kind of the low end and then a 53 positive response rate for race and ethnicity and country of origin and abilities and that's with our um with our families and students that so it's right in that middle range and and staff rated these things a little bit higher while the the student and the parent responses tended to be mid-level around between about 45 and 55 maybe some 60s on some questions our staff was in the mid 70s to 80s so that's really great baseline data for us to start with to use to dig into deeply as we're planning the areas which really is all areas of our functioning and our instruction that deals with data equity inclusion so youth truth allows us to really disaggregate and pick out differences and one of the things that the staff at youth truth told me is that as they went through our data and were looking at it they were they were surprised that we had no real trends of of student group gaps for what that means is there wasn't one group in particular that across the board seemed to be lower or higher than any others and so as we looked through them we did have some that had several differences but we kind of picked out a few of the differences that we could pinpoint and look at and so when we look at elementary school data this is some of the disaggregated data that we um we were able to observe there was some race and ethnicity data that we kind of took a look at knowing that the the groups that you see on this slide combined make up about less than two percent of our population which mathematically can mean differences uh that go up and down uh more greatly nonetheless it really also gives us pause to dig in and see is what can we do how can we make sure that even those groups with the smallest numbers have their needs addressed and so with race and ethnicity we see those groups kind of at the lower level of the themes and other than that the majority of race and ethnicities uh very little trends that are consistent no trends really existed between gender identity identification with students and um elementary although they did not have that question but homeless youth and virtual academy uh wasn't different and we did allow students to indicate whether they were in virtual academy or and that was an interesting way to dig into the data sixth grade level and seventh grade our sixth grade uh level we noticed some differences with the academic challenge theme and i wanna dig in a little bit deeper than that because we noticed that our sixth graders were had some lower uh response positive response rates so this this slide that i am showing you right now i want to kind of walk you through it because as we move into our partnership with youth truth we're all going to have to learn a little bit more about how to look at and and really decipher the data that they're able to share with us so i'm going to just pull up a little pen here and what i want to show you this is the academic challenge summary where we saw sixth graders with lower response rates and so this orange bar the orange bar um artistic skills could use some work but the orange bar is the national results and what it shows when you look at this white box this is where azusa elementary students fall it's an average if you if you look at their responses there's three levels a one two and three a low and a positive response and we average 2.6 if you add up those scores and this puts azusa at the 78th percentile and what that means is that when we look across the nation all of the students in in elementary schools that took this survey in this theme 78 of them had lower positive responses when compared to azusa's so we get this nice percentile and then the gray the gray bar that you see underneath and that's this one right here this is just california schools and then you can see the midpoint the average for california schools so when you look at these you're comparing and can see azusa when compared nationally and azusa when compared to the average of california schools for elementary so that's the way we read these these bar charts so digging into this academic challenge we see over here with the sixth grade as we disaggregate the data we see lower positive response rates and in particular you see that with this relevance question which is does what you learn in class help you outside of school and so you can see this is the biggest difference with 37 percent for sixth graders so one of the benefits of of working with youth truth is this comparison and then what we can do internally is begin to dive into these differences figure out where we can address the needs that are represented by them and then also celebrate the successes you know when we look at differences and changes so this was our elementary data similarly we were able to look at the disaggregated data for um for middle school students and this gives you a little bit of that disaggregated data got some grade level differences some race and ethnicity differences we have a difference with other special education students who actually rate higher positive rates in all themes than their general education classes and then we looked at some gender identity differences and if we dug dig into those we can see that our girls in particular when compared to uh to those that identify as male um have lower response rates in the belonging and peer collaboration measure and so when we break that down we can look at those numbers and in particular when we look at the questions here that make up the uh the questions that are in the belonging and peer collaboration summary we can see the the biggest difference is in this question about being myself and when we compare students who identify as female to students who identify as male and then also we see students that identify another way also with lower levels and this allows us to dig in and and plan for addressing those needs and just again as following this example we're looking at some high school disaggregated data we can see here with the differences between students who come from families who are who are low income families some gender identity differences and then some race and ethnicity differences one of the things that kind of surfaced was that our black and african american students rated lowest in culture and college and career readiness so again if we dig into the college and career readiness measure as an example we can look at everybody at the top getting some comparisons and then breaking this out by ethnic group we can see and and focus in on our our african-american students here and across the board see much lower and and i would say statistically significantly lower rates where despite that being a very small population in azusa is something that you know is that we would want to address and that we can share with schools uh as they're beginning to make plans and look at ways that they're going to be improving for students and and also addressing diversity equity and inclusion so i rushed through some of the more complex uh slides uh but let me tell you a little bit about what is next we have an executive summary that is being prepared by youth truth and and that will be shared with the board and then very excited about uh uh next wednesday now tomorrow next wednesday's uh meeting with our principals where youth truth will come in and be doing a virtual principle workshop so that our site leaders can now become oriented to the new data the different ways that we can now look at the data and the ways that we can now compare and so that that session will really help our principals look at the data dig into it and prepare to share it and then most importantly use it and act on it to to build their school plans and to begin to address needs with our with our schools so um thank you so much for extending the time and for allowing me to share kind of this this broad overview with you this evening uh thank you so much miss jen edith bryant for this awesome presentation we'll go ahead and start with questions comments i i mean i have questions but i can just follow up um and maybe come back at a future board meeting happy to do something any at this point um i i would have to agree um i just just want to comment that this is great um to let us know where we are in the nation where we are in california um this is amazing and so um i do have some some questions and and comments but i i think it's important we can go ahead and just bring this back just uh this next um board meeting just for us to be able to discuss a little further um because i know that i have a few things and i know other board members do as well and just to respect everyone's time at this point um thank you again um for your presentation and we will be coming back if you can please come and join us at the next board meeting um just to to you know to um to keep going um with our comments and comment uh questions that we we have um on this agenda item um at this moment we will go ahead and move to uh 14.1 adjournment can i please get a motion to please move 14.1 second we have a first by board member sabrina beau we have a second by board member greer if we can all please submit our vote okay hand since some of us are okay i said yes sir okay did not hear you thank you so much well it's a 5-0 it passes therefore it is 10 36 and asusa unified school district board meeting for april 20th 2021 is adjourned thank you for joining us tonight have a great have a great rest of your night we hope to see you guys at our next board meeting take care bye-bye
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cape may new jersey is best known for stunning beaches surf and victorian architecture but a less familiar chapter in cape may's history has now resurfaced long ago slaves crossed the waters of the delaware bay seeking freedom and harriet tubman the abolitionist and former slave worked and lived in cape may and helped others find freedom now there is a new museum which honors those involved and offers this living heritage to future generations it seems as though once we started the idea of the harry tubman museum all of kate may wanted to have a part in renovating the house and making sure that it was successful so many of the carpenters and the builders and the renovations gave their time or gave their materials but we were very fortunate and blessed to have so many people who just wanted to have a part in renovating the harriet tubman museum our challenge was that the smithsonian magazine had just named the harriet tubman museum of cape may as one of the 10 most anticipated museums in the world to open in 2020 so we had a lot of attention but not a lot of ways during 2020 to respond to it the harriet tubman museum actually is the george hau house and was originally our parsonage for the macedonia baptist church which is located right next door to the museum the connection with harriet tubman and kate may is harriet tubman's time that she spent freeing slaves included some time in philadelphia during that time in philadelphia she was able to connect with others who came to kate may to work jobs to earn money and with that money that she earned during the two summers or more that she spent in cape may she used it to finance her trips and to take slaves to freedom there are many wonderful exhibits historical exhibits in the harriet tubman museum some that connect to harriet tubman some that connect to the story of slavery and slavery's evolution in new jersey we also have a whole section that speaks to the abolitionists in cape may stephen smith whose house is right across the street from the harriet tubman museum we have videos we have the video of william still who talks about in his book the underground railroad the role of kate may and how many slaves crossed the delaware bay to get to cape may and then in cape may they either stayed with landowners in lower township and or people in cape may who hid them and got them up to philadelphia from philadelphia moving on to different directions to freedom what i what i hope that they take away is that we are so much better when we work together when we feel comfortable sharing our voices when we acknowledge our history when we can open up and and have strong voices and not be afraid to share them i want them to walk away knowing that it wasn't a one-person project it was a community project that came forward i want them to see that kate may values history all history so there isn't one story there's many stories we seized the opportunity to use harriet tubman as a springboard to say yes she did wonderful things but there were many people in cape may african-american and not who did great things to make kate may what it is today what i most like to add is that we are hopeful that the harriet tubman museum will be a regeneration to spark interest to all types of cultures and and people to return to cape may to bring its diversity back to bring its young people back to um have something here that everyone would be interested to come in and say what a great story and to walk away and say i can do it i can be better i can be part of the change i can be the change congratulations again this is an extraordinary day this is a welcome and wonderful addition to our state's cultural and historical landscape god bless you all thank you [Music] you
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good evening i'm going to go ahead and call this meeting to order dr foley roll call president reese members of the board please let the record show that all board members are present thank you we're going to go ahead and have a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance [Music] oh foreign we're going to go on i move that we approve the agenda as it's presented second any questions or comments regarding the agenda all those in favor aye aye motion carries 5-0 dr foley superintendents report president reese members of the board we begin tonight with our very favorite part of our meeting which is the honoring and acknowledgement and celebration of our amazing students staff and employees who and community members who make our district amazing and tonight we have both of the high schools in the house and so we start with we're going to start with hingley high and we will invite mr fields up so that he can call up and recognize his points of pride and that we can celebrate and honor them tonight good evening president reece and members of the board weekly high school is proud to be here to recognize our points of pride uh i want to first ask yvette worley our certified staff member to come up [Applause] yvette has been a foundational member of the higley high school math department for many years she's worked on geometry curriculum for the district consistently over the years and has also mentored many new teachers yvette has a can-do attitude and is always willing to help students be successful in her class there are numerous times over the years when students return to her asking for a sounding board share a personal experience or ask for advice the connection with students is truly wonderful to see and it's one thing that makes higley students experience in high school special aside from doing what's good for kids she's a team lead that reminds her teachers consistently not to stress i got this she makes copies for the department plans a week ahead asks for ideas to improve curriculum and checks on her teachers on a personal level i vet students know that she really cares about them and will do all that she can to help them succeed in math yvette didn't think twice about taking online taking on an online class this year in addition to her five sections of in-person geometry she never complains but always shows up to work very hard for her students congratulations event you stay up here [Applause] all right next if i could have our classified staff member katie davis [Applause] katie davis is the bookstore manager at higley high school katie has consistently gone above and beyond in her service to our school students and staff she's willing to step forward and assist in any capacity when there is a need during the pandemic she has organized and ran numerous collection and distribution events for students needs sometimes spending several days in a row standing outside in the heat wearing masks and gloves to collect or distribute materials to students and families katie has also been willing to fill in when the health aide is not on campus with all the changing schedules and situations we found are in ourselves in this year katie has worked very hard to keep everything straight keeping the calendar is a huge job on its own but katie also deals with club paperwork finances textbooks etc she's here for the kids and does everything to make positive things happen at higley high school don't get embarrassed so my girls came with me tonight so they're here and then i have a few others that are online hopefully if it's streaming watching because they couldn't make it and of course my girl amy up here and all her daughters thanks baby lifetime achievement now if i can have our student tia huff come up please [Applause] the best buddies champion of the year initiative is a 10-week campaign where community members and local philanthropy philanthropy leaders raise funds and awareness to generate countless opportunities for friendships jobs leadership development and inclusive living for people with intellectual and dis and developmental disabilities marking the third year of the campaign in arizona alicia thomason an education worker with strong ties to the higley unified school district was paired with tia huff of higley high school to buy for the title of overall champion of the year through making videos handing out custom-made business cards and a deep connection form between the two of them alicia and tia generated enough support to raise nearly thirty four thousand dollars to support best buddies programs in the state winning the title of arizona's next champion of the year as well as setting the high mark across all champion events across the entire country and receiving personal recognition from best buddies founder and ceo anthony kennedy shriver thanks to the support and awareness raised by tia best buddies in arizona will continue to support its current chapters as well as grow its mission of inclusion by using those funds to expand into new schools and bring more opportunities for integrated employment to the state of arizona congratulations tia thank you yes so i'm so offered to be my mom with me tonight starting my online brothers and i don't think my father and daddy to help me stuff every day good [Applause] two night thank you if i could have our volunteer brook garrett come up [Applause] brett garrett has volunteered at higley high school this year serving as the united kingdom booster club president burke organized and led club events throughout this year in support of the efforts of the united kingdom the club has supported staff and students as well as improve the school in many ways brooke has recruited many other parents to volunteer this year and continues to unite our kingdom in many ways the club has provided meals for higley high school staff during professional development days supported student transition from middle school to high school organized food truck fridays on campus sold higley high school spirit swag and organized welcome events for students and staff brooke's efforts help make higley high school a better place for all staff and students [Applause] thank you [Applause] thank you mr fields we'd like to invite mr tannebaum and mr fox to come up so that we can honor our williamsfield points of pride [Applause] madam president members of the board dr foley and cabinet thank you so much for having this this evening we're excited mr fox is here to celebrate as well um tonight so we're thankful for the opportunity to uh to be here and recognize our points of pride award winners tonight starting off with our certified staff member amanda johnson amanda can you come on up front [Applause] so uh these words are my words here so amanda johnson is by far the most talented school counselor i've ever worked with amanda's incredible talent and immense knowledge base has kept our school moving forward in this very unique year ms johnson has frequently been been commended for her kind and helpful nature as numerous students and parents at all grade levels have reached out to her for help a man with many with any task in which she has been asked and continually proactively seek out additional duties her positive attitude radiates through our front office and we couldn't imagine our front office without her gene truly exemplifies excellence in every endeavor and we are proud to call her a blackhawk thank you eugene thank you all right our point of pride for williamsfield high school student michaela if you want to come on up here all right so these are not my words they're the words of mr edgar mr rivera i'm not quite sure who it is exactly here but uh kind of a a tag team i'm sure on that one it is a genuine pleasure and honor for me to recommend michaela bago as our williams field point of pride i have taught and worked with mikayla for the past eight years as her band director and i'm delighted to recommend her for this award michaela has shown a tenacity and dedication towards constant improvement that is rarely seen in addition to being a natural musically talented student she continually pushes herself to improve above and beyond what is necessary to be successful in the school band program she has taken initiative to prepare music outside of school in order to audition into and participate in multiple honor ensembles including the north central region honor band the arizona all-state honor band and the phoenix youth symphony and she has also completed successfully in solo and ensemble auditions and festivals throughout her high school career as a senior micah achieved two amazing accomplishments she is currently principal clarinet in the phoenix youth symphony and she recently received first chair in the arizona allstate band and orchestra the first williamsfield student to achieve this over the past eight years she has consistently demonstrated grit and perseverance to achieve excellence in every musical endeavor she has pursued and her efforts have paid off for both herself and for our band program in addition to being a talented and hardworking musician michaela is also a prominent leader in our band she offers help and suggestions to peers in a kind and uplifting way and frequently volunteers to help wherever needed to support the band and her teammates she's able to critique and give feedback to peers in a way that encourages growth and confidence in the students around her makayla has demonstrated high levels of maturity through her willingness to put others before herself for the good of our band program she has mentored seventh and eighth grade students in our after school middle school outreach program north side wins teaching future band members both musical and performance skills and she continues to mentor these students when they come to high school as one of the top performers and musicians in the band she has remained one of the most humble respectful and caring students i have ever had the pleasure of having in my classroom micah is pursuing music composition at the university of arizona next year with this in mind we have worked together on her composition skills arranging a piano solo accompaniment for for clarinet solo into a band arrangement she will be performing this clarinet solo with the williams field symphonic band at our next concert in may i've been extremely lucky to have michaela as my student for the past eight years she has impressed me with her work ethic determination kindness and humility that she has demonstrated consistently i'm so proud to recommend her for the williamsfield point of pride for 2021 thank you [Applause] for our volunteer mr travis smith come on up please [Applause] travis smith has been an active volunteer with our program for the past four years travis is very organized a strong communicator and travis seeks to see the big picture and plan strategically for the future he actively seeks out seeks out issues and helps to find ways to address them travis was an integral part of the development coordination and implementation of the covet procedures which allowed our students to practice in a safe environment he is currently in his third year as the president of our black hawk band booster travis has done extensive research into the best practices from the top booster organizations in the country and started a band booster networking organization here in arizona thank you sir thank you president reece would you like to present the next acknowledgement [Music] all right we also have a points of pride from the board today is administrative professionals day so we would like to honor mrs darlene reach come on i don't know if you guys understand exactly what mrs reach does she takes care of six people plus she keeps our schedules organized she makes sure we get information she does so much in communication with all of us to make sure that we all know what's happening and where we need to be when we need to be there we could not do this without her so we want to say thank you for everything you do there isn't much that happens that darlene doesn't know about so i will hear about that later i know i will well that concludes our acknowledgments tonight and of course we want everyone in the audience to know that you are more than welcome to stay for the meeting but we also know that you have other things to do too so if if you want to stay you're welcome to but if you'd like to leave this is the time that we it'll allow you to do so if that would be more convenient thank you for coming tonight [Music] thank you hmm president reese members of the board we have some important upcoming events that i want us to to highlight the next the next month becomes super busy as we have lots of that this really doesn't truly capture all of the events on our calendar but but official meetings and important dates that we want to highlight at this point as you know we have scheduled a special board meeting for monday where we have a topic on face coverings that we will be addressing at that time we also have we're excited to honor our teachers of the year we have an amazing celebration planned for our teachers of the year at a time when we'll be celebrating during teachers appreciation week and so we're looking forward to a modified but beautiful celebration of our amazing teachers we also have scheduled a retiree reception because we have lots of people to celebrate and honor some of whom have dedicated 30-plus years to this district that we're excited to honor and celebrate we have a public hearing coming up as part of a legislative requirement for financials on may 12th and then a regularly scheduled board meeting on the 19th and so as you can see in addition to award ceremonies and other special celebrations we will be certainly busy this month this month and coming month and that concludes the superintendent's report thank you dr foley and i'm sure i'll hear about that one later too trying to operate in stealth mode is very difficult with darlene all right we will go on to board comments president reece mrs wilson last night we got to celebrate president reese and i were both um able to attend the higley high school underclassmen honors night which was amazing to see all those kiddos who got 4.00 and plus and getting to see their awards and then also williamsfield had make-a-wish the last two weeks and they raised a lot of money there and i want to thank everyone who made that possible also um i want to thank all of our community members who have sent emails we have been inundated i think would be a good word for that um i have not responded i this is my response i have read every single one i promise you i've read every word uh up until four o'clock today uh i read them i'm taking them into account but there's a lot of them so you will not be getting individual responses from me thank you thank you any other board comments president reese mrs holtz um i just wanted to say i was able to attend williams fields dance concert and it was amazing to be able to see them on stage performing and their artistry and everything and it was just great that they sold out um with their capacity that they were allowed so they had 600 and they had 600 people in attendance and it was beautiful and they were all amazing and so uh kudos to them and i am also reading all of your emails as well and going through everything and taking all of your comments and wishes into consideration thank you president reece i'll just say ditto on the emails thank you yes i believe we're all receiving them we're reading them when we have our meeting on monday definitely the information we are getting from our community will come into play as our cabinet still gathering information and we'll have a recommendation come monday so yes we are we are receiving them we are reading them they will come into play on monday's board meeting is there any other board comments i'll just add i just want to say thank you for emailing and thank you for giving us insight and perspective that we wouldn't have otherwise um and again i want to apologize like everybody else i started responding and then i couldn't keep up and i just i want to say it publicly that i am reading them i am taking them to heart and you all bring um attention to details that i didn't know about and so i appreciate you taking the time to share sometimes very personal information and i really appreciate it thank you perfect thank you all right then we will go on for our request to speak we value input from our constituents this time has been set aside for anyone from the audience who wishes to address the board please remember this is not an appropriate venue to evaluate discuss or criticize district personnel policy keb provides a process for complaints about personnel speakers should be aware that false statements about individuals may result in civil liabilities members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda therefore pursuant to ars 38-431-01h action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter responding to any criticism or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date we ask that you please limit your remarks to three minutes and we have mr chris gilligan [Music] madam president members of the governing board dr foley and members of the cabinet my name is chris gilligan member of freedom for gilbert and father of three teenage students at williamsfield high school three students with three distinct conditions that add a layer of challenge and difficulty to their having to abide by the face covering policy that the governing board of the higley unified school district currently supports asthma anxiety and autism each of these conditions on their own are a challenge for a young person to deal with on a day-to-day basis if you as educators leaders and mothers could do one thing to make living with these conditions better would you do it would you do it for my children would you do it for your own children would you do it for your students my children are a microcosm of williamsfield high school and the higley unified school district as a whole how many other children with asthma anxiety and autism as well as a myriad of other diagnosed and undiagnosed conditions have been and are currently being negatively impacted by the current mass policy we are beyond a year plus at 15 days of slow spread we've all learned a lot since then we've learned since then to to include that mass become collectors and retainers of pathogens that the mass wearer would otherwise avoid when breathing without a mask despite this and the negative psychological consequences to wearing a mask as a fear-based behavioral modification here we are still requiring five-year-olds and older to wear a mask day in and day out this can change governor ducey has sent the signal to the school districts of arizona to make a decision on the way forward leaving it to localized leadership face coverings feed the fear narrative fear creates separation now is the time to cast out fear and end the face mass policy i leave you with a definition of bodily integrity and a call to action bodily integrity is the involvability of the physical body and emphasizes the importance of personal autonomy self-ownership and self-determination of human beings over their own bodies in the field of human rights violation of the bodily integrity of another is regarded as an unethical infringement intrusive and possibly criminal my call to action to you as educators leaders mothers members of the community and members of the governing board is to do that one thing and the face mask policy for the higging unified school district just as queen creek ala and great heart great hearts academics have done thank you thank you all right we have no other requests to speak so we will go ahead and move on to our consent agenda all right i moved that we approve our consent agenda as it's presented second any comments or questions regarding the consent agenda all right all those in favor aye aye president reese members of the board i wanted to take a second to thank you for the did you finish the motion did you need to say something because normally no it passed 5-0 thank you thank you i i got so excited i i jumped the gun there president reese members of the board with with your action and consent you just confirmed that uh mr dan fox will be the next principal at sawsman middle school and we are very proud and excited for that [Applause] thank you did he bring his family will you introduce them to us please mr fox please so yeah i brought my family here with me tonight and we we are in varying states of uh getting ready to go do things and everything like that but i have my wife evelyn fox my son zachary my other son corbin and my daughter marlena so ah thank you guys thank you very much i'm very excited [Applause] thank you mr fox and congratulations and um we wish you luck at saseman i know you will be missed at williamsfield and we're excited to see the great things you do at saseman president reece mrs kaler just to comment yes congratulations mr fox and whenever we move somebody within then it leaves another hole somewhere else and i and so i know that now we have that position to fill and uh big shoes to fill in both places um and also i was just really excited to see some overnight staff traveling overnight student traveling out of state we're back i see a little glimmer of hope of some normalcy coming back to our school district and so i really appreciate everything that went in to get these approved and following all of our policies and procedures i appreciate very much president reece mrs wilson can i please just thank all the teachers with the teacher coverage as well we just approved a lot of teacher coverage for an hour or two hours when they've had to cover the class um due to college being out and i just appreciate them taking that extra step and doing that for us it's not a lot that we're improving uh money-wise but it was a big it's a big piece for me that they did cover that when we needed them so thank you to all those teachers yes thank you president reese can i add or were you gonna say something go ahead mrs anderson i'm so sorry i don't take up any extra time but i just want to bring it back to mr fox and miss fox i've had the opportunity to work with both of them and um i don't want you to go because i always drop your name when i talk about willing to be being a great place so thank you for your time at williamsfield because you've you've brought a lot of peace and comfort and some consistency to that site and i appreciate your time there and i just feel confident saying that you're going to do great at sauceman and what a gift to have you thank you for all that you have done perfect all right then we will go on to our information items we will go on to 7.1 our career and technical education update good evening president reece members of the board i've been asked to come here tonight and give you an update on our career and technical education programs and so here we go curtis so currently we're offering 10 different career and technical education programs between the two high schools they're listed here bioscience criminal justice digital photography early childhood education engineering film and tv production graphic design marketing software development and sports medicine all these programs are currently we just received uh news from events governing board that they were all approved for the next school year so the 21 22 school year that they're all in compliance and approved the enrollment of our career and technical education programs over the recent years has uh grown by uh 100 so uh looking at the numbers here between higley and williamsfield high school back in 2014 we had about 600 students at each one of the schools currently we're running just about 1200 students at each school and next year we're looking at a moderate growth in both campuses as well programs that are offering dual enrollment this is something that i think isn't uh always noticed with career and technical education programs but has been a big focus of mine over the last couple years is to really increase the amount of dual enrollment credits offered at our programs so here you can see our career and technical education programs are offering 63 credits of dual enrollment probably most notably there's the criminal justice program that will be offering 18 credits of dual enrollment with chandler gilbert community college next year so but all the programs are offering some type of dual enrollment ap or an industry certifications speaking of industry credentials one of the one of my big goals when i first came here was to get each one of our programs set up to be able to have a industry or national certification for the students as well as come up with a way to fund all of those certification exams through cte so that burden wasn't on our students so here's just a list of the different credentialing programs that each one of the programs is uh involved in currently um with that um this spring regardless of the pandemic and the the things that we've gone through we are certifying we have 375 students that are sitting for certification exams this by far exceeds any number uh that we've had in the past i think our previous number was 83 so last year was probably our one of our lower numbers in recent years because of the pandemic and closing down schools or going remote in the fourth quarter but uh this is our rebound and so we have uh 375 students currently sitting for these industry exams funding for cte comes through three different sources it comes through a cted funding that is funded through the eve at ctad that money is paid through a a property tax and then it goes to the state funnels through uh eva and comes back to us uh that's where the majority of our funding for our programs comes from uh since 2018 we've seen an increase of 66 percent uh in that uh that event funding so we are currently receiving about 1.6 million a year in additional funding for the district for cte programs our other two funding sources are the federal perkins grant and the state priority grant again both of these numbers are up over the recent years and the amounts are there and then two years ago the state instituted a new industrial incentive grant or credentialing grant and over the last couple years uh it's been kind of slow for us the governor grants a thousand dollars per student certification uh in a high needs industry so one of our programs has a certification that is in the high needs industry recognized by the governor then for each uh certification that a student receives we receive a thousand dollar grant or gift or not gift but a thousand dollars from the state government so uh the five thousand dollars is the amount that we would receive for our 2018-19 school year uh last year we will receive about six thousand dollars and you should expect that number to increase exponentially this year along with uh the the funding and the enrollment growth we also have some good news to here to uh to report uh with even with the pandemic we've been able to have our students compete in some state and national events this year and we have some students that are being recognized here for either state championship or state placement or national placement so our criminal justice program is being announced as we speak we our criminal investigations team has taken first place in the state and we have also um uh received first place in the uh criminal justice quiz bowl uh bioscience we have two students that have qualified for nationals alana dunn and peyton reese i believe one of you is familiar with that person digital photography our yearbook from last year actually was entered into a national conference through the journalism educators association and received 10th place nationally and two of their students emma nelson and lily saba received third place national awards as well in marketing we have uh two students rex maxwell and nick paris who have placed at the state level and are going on to compete at nationals right now in deca and then in film and tv this is the very beginning of this list but we're going to have a lot more here in the next couple of weeks we have three four students here maddie farrell michaela jones ethan nuttall and hayden ashton who have all received national recognition for their their work in film and tv can we just pause right there and see how many great students we have at higley just another like reward that we have another awards moment like to celebrate these kids that have worked so hard so i just i just want to pause just for a second and thank you for that list because that's awesome to see um next uh um points of pride some of the things that we're we're seeing as points of pride for this year um we have 507 students uh who over this last few days have sat for the state cte assessment in a year where schools have not had students in person they've been hybrid or remote this is the largest number of students that we've had sitting for the state cte assessments and i was just sharing with mr lotzenheiser earlier this afternoon the results from those programs are looking really good right now again the 375 students we're sitting for the national certifications we also have three teachers that have either received an award or have been nominated for a teaching award this year herb williams who is the first year criminal justice teacher over at williams field high school has been nominated for the cte teacher of the year and casey cook also criminal justice over at williamsfield high school or at higley high school has been nominated for new cte teacher of the year and then ms kellen escado is the marketing teacher at higley high school has actually received the decca rising star award so i'm very proud of that some of the future opportunities that we have in cte uh to help grow the programs and also grow ct heat here in the higley district is looking at an alignment of the middle school exploratory programs with the high school pathways to kind of uh create a purposeful pathway or continuation of programs from middle school up through post-secondary um it's something that uh some districts around us have have looked at and have set up those exploratory programs and it's something that i will be very excited to sit down with mr fox and mr varner over at cooley and talk with them about those opportunities moving forward [Music] back in the day we used to have a signature cte program at williamsfield and a signature cte program at higley high school at higley high school it was the engineering program and at williamsfield it was the biotech program we invested some capital resources and treasure into uh having those programs be signatures for each of the campuses and along came the opportunity to great a great engineering teacher when mr tana mom came along he brought an engineering teacher with him and so we introduced engineering at williamsfield high school and both those programs are doing really really well but it kind of took away that signature program that higley had and so i've been in discussions with mr fields and miss johnson about potentially adding a signature program back to the higley high school campus and the discussions we've had earlier have been about maybe offering a possible medical program a certified nursing assistant medical assistant or maybe a one-of-a-kind program and creating for the state called a patient care technician which is a position at the uh hospitals um there's just kind of a hybrid of a cna and a phlebotomy tech so the other opportunities uh strength to continue strengthening our industry and post-secondary partnerships to build our reputation and support for our programs through our advisory boards and then continuing our focus on program outcomes those certifications and licensures so at this time next if there are any questions i am open to uh i think you covered a lot we have some great programs and good opportunities for our students and we appreciate that and seeing them continue to grow more certifications and competing nationally is great to see for sure and that goes out to our cte teachers who put the time and effort in beyond the classroom time because those cte programs require a lot more than just the classroom time so we definitely excuse me appreciate the time and effort they put in and we're seeing that so that's so exciting president reece kaler it probably won't be in my tenure but um culinary i would love a culinary program on our campuses and i'd love to come try the food when it's done no but it's done you've done a phenomenal job with our programs and boosting them and getting those kids enrolled and staying and taking those certifications and and the tests and getting those college credits it's been a huge huge growth spurt in our district so well done president reese member kaler thank you uh again it goes to testament as ms reese said uh to the caliber of our teachers and their relationships to those students and and building that passion and those students for the programs that they teach [Music] president reese members of the board we'd and absolutely mr pearson talks about our caliber of our amazing teachers and administration but we'd also like to thank mr pearson for the work that he's done and really truly building and growing these programs for us to highlight and celebrate and we look forward to bringing more updates of excellence to you in the future well done this is exciting and i love the takeaway of purposeful pathways is that oh fantastic thank you for doing that thank you all all right thank you then we will go on to 7.2 our district medical premium and voluntary product insurance update chris martens good evening president ruiz members of the board my fellow colleagues as well as our husd community i'm here to give our yearly update as it relates to our medical premiums as well as our voluntary products so i just have one slide i'll give it just a second yes not that one thank you curtis so each year as all individuals know we sit here and we await what we are going to get in terms of our premium increase and as most individuals know and employers know that nationwide on average premium increases probably go up by eight to nine percent some years in my tenure at higley we have actually hit that if not hit that a little bit more and it's all based on experience last year in january december the district approved the hire through a process with our new brokerage which is hub international and so hub has been working with us very closely this past year and all of the different things that we're doing and one thing that was great was with our medical which is a continuation of what we have had um at least this is i believe the fifth year with united healthcare as our medical insurance carrier hub international worked with us initially we received an 8.6 premium increase and when we looked at our experience we get quarterly reports and monthly reports in terms of our experience of our four plans it was trending in that direction what they were able to do though is work with them and negotiate that down to a four percent increase and as what you've heard in previous presentations by mr gad and mr moore the district will be absorbing that four percent which is wonderful that they were able to develop that within our budget so then the increase that the board approved a couple board meetings ago will be a full increase that our employees will see with the exception in caveat of asrs asrs is increasing as of july 1.
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hi everyone uh we are going to uh call this finance uh subcommittee to order i don't know where to look because usually i'm looking at my computer um let's see uh ah miss joginski well call please yes here is here i pledge the republic allegiance which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all that was weird to hear everyone say it all the same time right we sounded like the vienna boys choir compared to what we sound like remotely so doctor is there any uh public comment there's not for this okay thank you um let's see federal grant funding uh i'm guessing uh mr maciana that's uh that's your report it's gonna be mostly a tag team solon yes yeah so i'll just kick it off first of all it's really nice to see all of you in three dimensions for the first time together in a very long time uh very happy to be back in person and look forward to the day that we have the public back as well so we've made great strides like i said happy to be back in person tonight i'm going to walk through with vin's help and marlene as well because i i don't want to give the impression that this is just jeff's ideas or bin's ideas this was really a collective effort um and marlene and kevin hanlon and our administrative team played a critical role in the development so without further ado i'm titling this bouncing forward and i got that title from a professor who works with resilience a guy by the name of dr steven flynn out of northeastern university who specializes in coming back from tragedy setbacks graces what have you and i think i i chose this term because it really embodies what we've tried to do from day one of the pandemic i think we organizationally have adopted the mindset that we're gonna there will be life post covet we want to be better as an organization after covid than we were before how do we do this how do we how do we attack it this way and hence bouncing forward we're not going back we're going forward as an organization and i'm going to talk a little bit about how we've done that currently and where we're going and moving forward you each have a copy of the presentation at your table as i appreciate that it may be somewhat difficult to read off the screen particularly some of the smaller numbers here but we received three federal grants the first is the elementary and secondary school emergency relief grant one uh better known as sr1 that grant had to be expended by december of 2020.
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all right perfect thank you and good morning fisher saints happy friday happy fourth quarter and we are pretty much almost done so with the school year and i can't i don't even know what else to say other than i can't believe that the year flew by that quickly i mean in my opinion i thought it went by pretty quick so i'm excited to go ahead and start off with our final student awards um assembly and i also hope that y'all had a wonderful spring break because this is the first time that we're together for quite some time um so with that being said thank you so much for being here y'all happy friday and i can't wait um for all of you to go ahead and celebrate each other and each other's accomplishments um so with that being said i will go ahead and pass the mic on to our principal dr clyden all right thank you miss abbad i echo everything that miss abod said it is a happy friday right it's been a long time since the last quarter assembly so welcome and thank you for being here so here's our quote just like quarter one and quarter two right we we come up with these quotes to keep us moving and so the quote today is from walt disney all right keep moving forward now you know we miss about and i we actually really find this quote to be uh inspirational for us as we're moving throughout the school year right and we as of monday we're coming towards the last 30 something days of this school year you guys have all worked so hard um and we'll continue to work hard right for the last 30 plus days as we uh finish up this school year so remember continue to move forward not just in school though but in life right when uh something knocks you down get back up keep moving forward okay decision you don't like or uh you don't win a game or something like that you dust yourself off you get back up keep moving forward so we want you to keep moving forward now thank you mr bob so here's what's happening not just at fisher but in alam rock school district all right this is a historic time for our district and let's talk about fisher though this is a historic time for fisher we we've never been in a pandemic in our lifetime right definitely not you guys i know we haven't um us as adults so we've never been asked to come back to school right uh during a you know pandemic so this is all new and this is the history this is historic time so this schedule here is going to start on monday your teachers should have been already prepping you uh yesterday regarding this new schedule so i'm going to really walk through the new schedule with you so uh period seven aka zero period stays the same okay no changes there morning meeting stays the same so your start time which is nine o'clock in the morning and your end time of school which is two o'clock stays the same that does not change all right so nine am two pm and the school does not change now what does change is uh the current schedule that we're on right now it has a period right after lunch correct so it either has third period or sixth period right after lunch starting monday that period where those two periods have been moved before lunch as you see here okay in order to do that we had to shorten some of the class time so for example period one is 44 minutes long which i think now it's like 74 minutes long right uh period two 44 minutes period three 44 minutes then you'll have a 60 minute lunch like like we currently do but instead of the lunch being at 11 46 we move that up 16 minutes right so it's a slight change in the schedule it's actually not too much of a change so uh 11 46 is our current lunch it is now 11 30 and it ends at 12 30.
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okay so archer as you're eating i'm gonna tell you something that'll give you some giggles so don't chop chop choke on your food um do you remember how you asked me to participate in kind of an interview thing related to a study they were doing for the state of california or whatever okay so i didn't get a call i didn't get a call i didn't get contacted and i figured oh they'll go through you whatever you know it's okay and uh so finally i get a call from my cta regional manager who's pretty high up the food chain and she said meg i was just in a meeting and they were talking about that they're doing this study and and they're including labor leaders and and that the leader from azusa refused to talk to them and so they have to put in the study that she refused to participate and and and she said meg i couldn't believe they were saying that and i said i haven't gotten called i haven't seen anybody she said they've emailed you they've called you they've left you messages and they're gonna have to put in the report and they feel so bad for azusa that their labor leader refused and she said whoa whoa before you do that let me call her i know her that's so unlike her so anyway she called me and i said i i never you know me i wouldn't i wouldn't do that you know so they gave her her my her um my phone number and the lady called and her name is supposed to be taylor albright well when she calls you on her cell phone the phone the name comes up sammy ilawi or something well that's her husband and so apparently i kept hanging up on him or her because i didn't know who it was anyway i had it today so it's i just thought that that was because me i refuse to do it i'm so indignant oh my gosh that's funny i'm glad it worked out welcome everyone it is 5 30 p.m and we're gonna start right on time um as we always do uh thank you for being here uh thank you for being an active participant on this team and uh again i just want to reiterate um how difficult this is this is not an easy task but i appreciate the fact that you have volunteered uh and stepped up to the challenge um of our purpose here of maximizing our programs and maximizing uh our facilities i want to reiterate again like i did last week um i know it feels this way and sometimes you know it's hard to to think outside but this is this is not an azusa issue this is affecting all of our school just all of our neighboring school districts um who live in this area i'm sorry who who have districts in this area some have moved faster or quicker some are moving at the same time and some i'm sure we'll follow uh after afterward uh number three i just wanna just reiterate i know that we i probably said it too many times last week uh but i'm gonna continue to to continue to say this that right now we as a team are not having conversations about this is the school that i like or this is the better school or why did we choose this school and not that school that is going to happen that is part of your responsibility our responsibility to have that conversation and bring out those ideas and and vet those those plans right now though we are trying to gain clarity on the models that we have decided that we're going to investigate model 4 this team super clear crystal clear no problem understood again we still have to have the conversation about model four because there's still other pieces that we take that we need to to bring into the table number one and the number two we need to have a conversation again about the school sites model three though was not as as simple or was not as decisive as we had with model 4.
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please stand for the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you can we have mrs lee here yes how come we can't see her so there she is cool all right the board met in closed session with cautious labor negotiation negotiator david grimes and discussed the employee evaluation for the superintendent no action was taken uh do we have a motion to adopt the agenda almost as an adult just point of order i do know i believe one member might have something that you want to pull from the adoption agenda miss lee i know dr lee you and i spoke about item 13 on the consent calendar was that something you wanted for separate consideration yes okay so item 13 being pulled from the consent agenda do we have a an adoption to all right a motion to adopt the amended agenda [Music] thank you mrs code and a second label and general consent yes okay what's going to order because we have someone called uh telecommunications i think we are supposed to be able to dr lee okay um next are the organizational reports from cuta can have president vanessa mason it's so good to see new people hi hi is it on can you hear me good evening so glad to be here with you in person um i have just a few things to announce from cuta uh last week cuta did a poll of its 230 or so members if they about vaccines so as an anonymous poll the first question was have you been offered the opportunity to receive your copa vaccine and of the 115 respondents all had said yes have you received the first dose of the coven vaccine of the 115 respondents 109 said yes have you received the second dose of the cova vaccine of the 115 respondent 106 said yes so that's the 93 vaccination rate of the of the teachers who replied which was 50 of our members so i think that's a great um way to look forward to the end of this year and ongoing into next year that people are getting the vaccine and um and happy to do so and then the other item on the agenda that we are looking forward to is participating in the covid funding brainstorming group so whatever that means if there's money involved we're interested i love talking money buddy and we appreciate it if you if you vote yes on the pay raise all right any more questions whatever it doesn't really matter right it does it does so i'm marie huggins and i'm the chapter president for uh csea center and in the board packet today there are two tentative agreements between the district and csea that are ready for your approval due to the time frame for signing the agreements getting approvals from our cse field office spring break ordering a ballot from cse headquarters etc we were unable to hold the chapter meeting until 4 15 which was last thursday and that allowed us to bring these agreements to our membership for ratification we survey our members in um prior to submitting our initial proposals in the fall so we know what interests of you know what our members are interested in we have provided monthly negotiation updates to the members to keep them informed as to the progress of negotiating a wage increase and other agreements i realize the board is hesitant to approve of tentative agreements without ratification from the membership if these agreements move forward the classified membership will receive the retro pay for our wage increase in the may 31st payroll i am confident that the membership will ratify these agreements we begin our 10-day voting window on 4 at 9am and will end on monday 4 26 at 9 am i would request your consideration to approve these agreements pending our ratification then i would also like to address the request for the board to discuss removing the pledge of allegiance from the board meeting agenda i have been chairing union meetings for over 10 years and we begin each meeting with a call to order and pledge of allegiance even if some of our chapter members or executive board members choose not to salute the flag we respect that decision and continue to move forward with the meeting just because some people don't wish to pledge allegiance to our flag or the nation for which it stands does not mean that the allegiance should be discontinued these people who do not wish to pledge should be able to sit or stand quietly and those who wish to participate should be able to do so freely we can all find things that we don't agree on and that define us when we stand together to pledge allegiance we can stand united no matter what the color of our skin or our political preference thank you very much look i'm sorry were there any questions okay all right moving on to add in 10 30 updates mr decent the best part of the agenda that's part of the show best part of the show that's right what all good stuff is going on well here we go um the kindergarten project is going great it's kind of like when you worked on a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle okay and you're getting down to the last 10 or 12 and they start going in real quick lots of things are going on but like the ending touches and it's really it's really exciting to watch it happen the buildings got placed on their foundations a couple of weeks ago it was a fun activity to watch the retaining walls that are going to hold back the soil along where the street sidewalks are but those are completed the first layer of the stucco went on the buildings today and i was really happy to see that happen because before that you couldn't tell if the buildings were coming up being built up or being torn down so we do have stucco on the on the walls now we've got a couple more coats and that'll be complete this week actually and the completion date is may 31st so coming up um for the for the new school site the um the construction documents the um the cd portion of the plan which is the last portion um there's 75 complete we also have the drawings into the california department of education so that they can look at it and make sure that we're meeting all the needs of the of the kids through their requirements and then june 1st it goes into dsa um it's in dsa for about six to eight months and then we start working on construction for about a year and a half and then when it comes to the business item i'm going to share just a little bit about this lease back for members who haven't heard about that delivery method before you've got three items before you um tonight and i'll go over those real quick so you kind of know what that's all about and then for our cte program over at dumb center high school they're also getting ready to go into cde it's kind of a big deal because they look at you know how much space there is and if all the rules of cdd applies to us are are set up in the classroom the way that they need to be but it's going in for a submittal in june and then construction drawings are in progress right now they'll be finished in august and then august 2nd we go into dsa the department of state architect and construction will start on 12 30 so right at the beginning of the new year next year and that's all i've got for tonight uh this evening the lord just approved the resignation of mr beason not yet oh yes never mind i can send thank you miss carol all right uh moving right along so um item 11 reports presentations status update transition to plan to mike jordan so so as mr jordan is coming up we just this is an item that kind of morphed a little bit more at the end of last meeting uh i think trustee anderson had asked do we have an overview of what the elementary schedule looks like and then it kind of morphed into well let's get a report of how things are going so tonight with us we have mr jordan who's going to explain what the elementary schedule is like and then we have individuals from each grade span we have actually it's kind of great to see we have a elementary principal with us we have two elementary teachers with us tonight we're going to share we also have mr barassi from uh ryles and mr ferguson from center high school so each of them are going to take a small part to give the board a little update on how things are going and progressing and then at the end we'll have an opportunity of any questions or things that we might be able to to answer for you so and just real quickly before you start i wanted to make a note to those of you who might be listening in if you have public comment related to the reopening now would be the time to get that submitted so that carol can read those comments while we are discussing this item so just for clarity this is a report so any item that came in on reopening would need to be done during public comment so i'm sorry so just so they can't comment on a report so the report will come in they'll get the report if someone has public comment it's this is not an action item on the agenda this is just a report staff board can ask questions but if something comes up public comment obviously we could try to address it there it it's okay sounds good but please get your puppet called it said thank you before we start the actual presentation i want to just give a sincere honest huge thank you to all of our staff they've been working incredibly hard all year but particularly in the last month and a half to get things off the ground to start into this plan too certificated classified admin cabinet people have been working seven days a week and it's amazing what they've been able to accomplish so i think that goes without a huge round of applause um i also want to thank our parents absolutely they've been wonderful i think the appropriate wait time i also want to give a a huge thank you to our parents who've been very cooperative and very understanding as we moved into this uh plan too that has been fantastic to see at all our sites as well so a big thank you all right what you said all right so moving into plan two uh this is our our hybrid model um we're gonna start with the elementaries steve mr jackson do you mind just taping it for us i don't know there we go all right we're going to start with at the elementary level so just as a reminder our elementary schools are split into an am and a pm group uh these groupings are two and a half hours each of in-person time or if they're on a distance learning model we do have a health assistant at every site those health assistants are not only monitoring our isolation rooms if we need that but they can also provide quick coping testing that's a 15 minute test a nasal test um they've been doing that for the athletes for a couple of months now it seems like but they can also do that on site so if a teacher is having symptoms as an example we can give a quick test and if they test negative then they can continue teaching we know that it's not coke or lady if parents give the okay for their child to be tested and they have symptoms we can do that as well and keep them in school if it comes to death maybe so that's a huge uh bonus for us we are in stable groups and our stable group plan was approved by the sacramento county department of health so our stable group consists of one classroom of students so that's the classroom of students and their teacher and if there's an a that is attached to that classroom as well that group sticks together throughout the entire day including their recess time they don't mix with other groups and that's the stable cohort they're stable group excuse me that we utilize at the elementary level uh uh there are built-in breaks both for in-person students as well as our distance learning students it's not just a straight two and a half hour block there are some built-in break times all right and with that i would like to turn it over to mr steve jackson thank you mike before you wander off on the class sizes for gene general through the district i guess how many are there in the elementary classrooms so the elementary we're over 70 percent coming back which is which is nice uh now it depends class in the classroom who actually decided to come back but there there's a lot of elementary coming back and then it's a little bit less at the junior high level middle school levels gives me a little bit less at the high school level which is very consistent with what we're seeing in placer county and other areas have we found or have you been able to determine if we've lost a lot of students in the district or are they just staying home for the computer work what do you mean i could take that one so yeah so we know an accounting of who's in distance learning and who's also in person so yes there has been kids that have left um but but as far as a transition right now we haven't seen kids leaving either mode they either stayed in one mode or went to the other mode okay thank you i follow up to that i'd be curious to know how many of those students who have left the district are we getting cube requests for their files or are they just disappearing off the grid uh we need to check i don't have an answer for that we'd have to check out the schools um yeah all due respect to mr diesen this is the best part i am steve jackson i'm the very proud principal of dudley elementary school and before i get going i want to thank all of you dr lee i i know you're zooming in on us you at the beginning of this whole fiasco that's my you trusted the district admin you trusted the site admin you trusted the staff to sit down and organize and create strategies we had the distance learning strategy now we've got our plan to strategy you listen to our opinions and our our thoughts and everything and you trusted that and all of us appreciate that very much we worked really hard to create a situation that is safe that is effective for all of our stakeholders our families our students our staff so thank you for that at the very beginning yeah so a segue to your question mrs anderson on our campus at dudley we have 440 students who are on campus learning and our attendance on those students we're well over 97 98 our daily attendance for those guys which is which is fantastic and then we have 162 distance learners so about 73 percent of our students are on campus about 27 percent are distance learning so that's just kind of business much more than that it's a major classroom uh stable group morning or afternoon it has about 10 uh ish yeah it it fluctuates but i would say the high end is around 13 or 14.
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good evening I'd like to call the April 21st Chico Unified School District Board of Education meeting to order and announce that we are going in to close session and ask if there is any comment on closed session from the public okay with none indicated um we'll go into closed session Unified School District Board of Education meeting for April 21st the board has been in closed session and there was uh no action taken so we'll move to the flag salute please I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank [Music] you um after uh well let's see uh superintendent Staley um I believe that you have some student reports today we do now that we are back in person it's really exciting to have our student reports back and uh we have students today we're going to f Fus on the high schools and we have some students from Pleasant Valley high school and a student from Chico high school so I'm going to call up Elise Miller and Emma Divine from PV to start us off and then summer you're on Deck hi my name is Elise Miller and we're here on behalf of Pleasant Valley student government this is my fourth and final year within the class and this year I've had the opportunity of being ASB president hi I'm CLA Jacobson I'm filling in for Emma today and this is also my fourth year in student government and the position I have this year as ASB secretary although this year has been unusual student government has done its very best to keep our students connected and involved despite the distance we are here today to highlight all the events that student government has put on throughout this year I would just like to preface with the fact that all the events that will be mentioned have followed all social distancing and safety protocols to our best efforts to start last semester when we were doing school virtually we were able to put on a senior breakfast drive-thru in hopes of creating a similar experience to senior Sunrise we had teachers in the drivethru to greet students whom they had not seen in person all year with snacks and posters showing their love for our senior class next in honor of our incoming freshman a freshman welcome drive-through was planned in coordination with link crew in order to make our freshman feel like a part of PB its staff and campus this included calling each student individually to invite them to this event they received PB swag a bag of popcorn and greeting from staff lastly while virtual a welcome back spirit week which was inclusive to all students on campus and was a way to add some normal SE to the situation at hand this gave students the chance to show some school spirit while at home the first thing student government did while back in person was decate our school to welcome students back this was an association with a spirit week to connect everyone on campus and was even inclusive to students still doing Zoom next we felt it was time to appreciate our wonderful staff which we did through a poster for each teacher's classroom and a succulent to show how much they do for our students to finish out the end of the semester there was finished goodie bags with snacks and spirit beads once back for second semester we found it important to put on a kindness week in which we decorate the school with streamers posters and balloons to kick off the week we we also chalked the school with s with sayings of encouragement and kindness not only that but there is a spirit week in class competitions to find hidden Ducks around campus during this week there are kindness grams available for parents to send to their students or friends on campus to send to each other which include candy and flowers if wanted lastly Student Government placed a note on every car in the parking lot to send a message about kindness to our students individually next in order to simulate a homecoming Court we did a quarantine king and queen for am for the AM and PM cohorts which was inclusive to all and had the band surprise to senior winners in their classes next we did a movie night fundraiser in association with Miriam Park and also an esack goodie bags to all the Juniors which included snacks and encouraging note for their testing currently we've been working on Sports appreciation and player posters each player on every sports team these past few months has had a player poster made for them individually by someone in student government not only that but we've decorated the stadium with streamers and posters for football field hockey and many other countless Sports and games lastly for sports appreciation we decorated the houses of all senior athletes band color guard and choir members to show that we are proud of them and recognize their hard work upcoming next week there will be a class competition spring week in which we will decorate campus and have a spirit week there will be fake hidden chickens to find around campus and socially distance outdoor games throughout this week such as cornhole and many others similar to pastels in the quad there will be a supervised chalking competition around campus the goal of this week is to bring students together and create lasting memories next up is the celebration of our senior class as graduation is approaching quickly through events such as senior sunsets and many others as for the rest of the semester we have many other events in the works and plan on ending the semester on a positive note although this year has proved challenging what we've learned most is the importance of community despite how frustrating this year has been our student government class along with the rest of our school has made the best of every situation although as seniors we've missed out on a lot of exciting we feel grateful to have witnessed the true care love and compassion our teachers and faculty have for us and the sacrifices they have made thank you all so much for listening we appreciate your time have a great yester your day wait wait wait wait don't run so uh I had the privilege of going to the first PB and Chico High football game and I was sitting with Chico High parents but um it was senior night and it was just a really really POS positive experience and a lot of uh very um good sportsmanship going on and it was one of the most tense football games I've ever been at it was two overtimes I mean woo so uh you guys really did a great job and I I know all all the parents appreciated certainly the students and Shephard here has a senior athlete and he'll be running out of here as soon as he can thank you you all right uh thank you Alisa and Emma and next we have summerson from Chico High School Sumer here okay so you know what we can do is um when summer gets here we can swing back around because Summer was going to share about some of the advocacy work going on at Chico high school and I'll just go ahead and transition right into the uh superintendent recognition portion of our program uh as we're all painfully aware we had to make a very quick transition last year from meeting in person person uh to online and the school board meetings were no exception to that uh transparency and government is really important to all of us and so we wanted to make sure that our board meetings were still accessible by our community but there were challenges um we got right off to our two weeks into the pandemic we had our first board meeting and it was zoom and we did have a lot of lag time that was going on it was hard to hear here then we kind of got that ironed out and we had some really techy techsavvy students that Zoom bombed a meeting so we were constantly having to uh make changes and upgrade as we went along uh but we did it I mean and we still are doing it we have access to our board meetings and that would not have happened without four people and I want to recognize those poor people and thank them this evening for helping us continue to have transparency in government and so those people are Erica Smith John Vincent Phil Morgan and Patrick bti and if you guys can just come up [Applause] here got it ser so once again thank you to the four of you for keeping us going even with all the curve balls that got thrown your way and that concludes the superintendent's portion and I'll turn it back over to you president Robinson thank you Kelly um okay I next is item number six announce an MS um does anyone have any announcements oh miss Doby thanks um I just wanted to uh let everybody know that on Saturday May 1st uh but environmental council is holding the annual endangered species Fair uh it's free virtual fund for all ages we're going to have presentations and workshops about um Regional efforts surrounding ecology and Wildlife um and safe biking and uh we even have a segment with Neil Bajaj um who is our student ambassador um and a chica unified student who will be presenting what he's doing in schools for um environmental advocacy so we're really excited about that um registrations online you can go to the but environmental Council website and check it out and um we're really excited to um be able to provide this even though things are still a little bit wonky due to co so yep that's all thanks thank you and good luck with that okay next is item number seven items from the floor do we have one person signed up to speak under items from the floor we do we have Jeffrey Hal is in person in person okay the um thank you and welcome uh during this segment uh there's a thre minute uh limit um Mr hanin has uh cards that will indicate 30 seconds to go or your time is up so kind of keep an eye on him and welcome good evening I my name is Jeff SLO I've given a million speeches in my day but I didn't want to give this one and I'm nervous a prosecutor told derck chauvin's jury that that their decision was easy because they could actually see everything everything I'm about to share has a document behind it written by your staff current and past and you can have a district attorney verify it I was once Relentless investigating a school district and doing battles for simple records all because of this document that you Kelly Staley and Scott Brown said didn't exist and the police said your staff would have been prosecuted criminally had we found this earlier I will share it in private with some of you it is Despicable but much worse was what was found of what your staff was willing to do to hire hi it Mike Walcott ironically wrote a column on Sunday about the murder of a reporter friend investigating a story I didn't want to ever be here again your top staff when we were searching for documents wrote this document this is your email Kelly and it discusses killing members of my family and others in this room who might share at a Schoolboard meeting what we found really Kelly this isn't locker room talk for any educator no educator circulates this what did you think would happen if this were found ask any student from Coline Sandy Hook Parkland what they think Jim I respectfully asked for the same extension you provided Grace Don's mom because her words outweighed the rest of your agenda your policy allows that it will only take a few minutes extra this folder is full of extensive documentation of deadly toxin issues in your schools that you hid from this community your decision to hide these documents had devastating consequences to countless victims my wife Sharon the finest teacher I ever knew taught in this district for 25 years in dilapidated classrooms teachers complained of year for years of leaks mold thank you Mr Sloan your time is up I lean no we have not extended the three minutes on other occasions we will not do so tonight okay negotiations update Mr hanlin okay so we have reached tenative agreement with cuta and they will be moving that forward to their eboard and for a vote from their members uh we are meeting with them again tomorrow and we will continue negotiations for the 2122 school year so we'll um continue on those with CSEA our classified unit we've also reached a tenative agreement they uh will vote and also go through the 610 process and um we will continue with them as well with negotiations for the 2122 school year our next meeting with them is April 29th so um if you recall we have did not reach agreement last year because of covid we stopped um negotiating so um the tenative agreement for for this year is the last two years so we're we're all caught up at this point and we should um we'll be moving on to the next year um immediately thank you okay on to item number nine the consent calendar um does the public wish to pull any of the consent calendar items does a board member wish to pull uh Dr Kaiser the Chica Unified District Career and Technical education that is pulled any other okay then we will um ask ask for a motion on approval of the consent calendar with the exception of 9.2.5 I move the consent caler I'll second that I have a motion and a second by um member landow any further discussion any comments from the audience okay thank you um we'll do this by Voice vote since it is our first of the evening um Miss Dolby Dolby I Kaiser I tennis I Lando I Robinson I thank you board okay Dr Kaiser you had the um need to pull five yes uh I pulled uh 9.2.5 because it is a five-year plan for our career in technical education and our success with Career and Technical Ed has been um extremely noteworthy um our teams have won uh in some cases National recognition certainly State recognition and this is a five-year plan that um is to help all students have a chance to explore various uh Pathways uh that not only would align with postsecondary institutions but uh also qualify them for many uh what we call industry certifications in other words industry recognizes this certification um and to have an electronic multi-year CTE academic planner for high school students so this is a a really critical uh plan um and I certainly hope that the parents of the uh new students coming in will take a to look at this there is a plan to extend this down into the junior highs an even mention of elementary school so I just thought for the audience what we have is at choh high a floral design ornamental horiculture welding sustainable Agricultural Science agricult architectural design engineering design software and systems development information support and services patient care and digital arts media what we have at Pleasant Valley is media arts graphic design Commercial Art architectural design engineering design Child Development education food service and Hospitality patient care Public Services welding and materials joining um I'm sure if you have had any experience with uh Medical Services in the community you realized how challenged they are uh very difficult to get into a specialist in any kind of timely way and um the students that are in the childhood uh program get to have experience actually doing that in a supervised setting so I just thought it was worthy of drawing people's attention to it because it is so significant and it is a fiveyear plan and with that I'd like to move 9.2.5 I'm sorry can I speak out a turn so you sit there and you telling me that you're going to do all this classroom work no no point of order please no I will go out of order and I don't care we are not in an open Forum you are not giving my child full child care education daily and then you sit there telling me that you're going to go and do all this and do that when you have am I I moved to approve I I moved to approve this agenda item explain this to you so you can move this um this there is a time for comments no um we're not going to do this and excuse me but it is my responsibility to conduct the meeting in an orderly fashion your M and I will do that I yes we'll take a five minute break and I mean don't so I'm sorry my taxpayer dollars pay for full child care education and you're not providing it whatsoever so I'm more ahead than we will be back in session and just reminder please that at the beig we're not on I'm gaving you us back into session after a five minute recess and just a reminder to the public that we have rules governing conduct at our meetings and we will follow them thank you board thank you public okay our um we were at the process where we were we had a motion and a second on 9.5 which huh 925 thank you Dr Kiser I think we had a motion but we have not had a second yes and I I did want to um inquire on that item earlier in the week I received a notice that we had competition of a CTE program from Chico high that was quite successful and I I cannot find my information um superintendent Staley if you have that please make the announcement so our um engineering class I believe it was at Chico High School won an award and it was one that I had not heard of before and they do not have it in front of me but they will be coming to a board meeting to share their success so we'll invite them to do that basically it was cyber security and a couple of of other issues connected with their Engineering in the the world of cyber security which we know all too well or need to know all too well okay um we're ready for the vote is there any uh comments from vors visitors on this item yes Tom was the second Mr Lando was the second okay see none where ready for the vote all those in favor signify by saying I I I I passes unanimously okay I number 10 discussion action calendar Educational Services this is uh the presentation of the reopening plan for school year 2122 Mr Marsha thank you president Robinson some background information on tonight's um presentation I just want to make um to put out there is to say that this to prepare for the start of the 2021 22 school year the information provided in this presentation will describe both at the district level and each individual site level the significant policies protocols and procedures related to the various options for returning to school these options include our Traditional School schedules Blended learning models and models reflecting Poss possible social distancing mandated from the state and local agencies to prepare for the start of the 2122 school year Chico Unified School District and staff have developed policies protocols and procedures to safely and effectively return to full-time instruction the operational information included in the plans will support the education development of all students including academic achievement and social emotional Wellness so to start with I just want to back up can we go to the table of contents it's right there good thank you up propose instructional models full-time inperson instructional model School site reopening plans Oakbridge Academy instructional model hybrid or amm in person instructional model distance learning instructional model and online resources okay let's go on up thank you one of the highlights I want to say is chica unified PLS returns to school in the fall in a full day inperson instructional model knowing this may not um meet the needs of all of our community members we will continue to offer our families the opportunity to participate in the Oakbridge Academy online independent study instructional model I just want to make sure that everybody understands that we still all have a distance learning online option available for families in the fall while we hope to return it to and remain in a full-time in-person instructional model for all 2122 year we are making consistency plans to ensure a smooth transition should changes to the school day be mandated by the state and we'll kind of go over all those different models in here tonight okay full-time person instruction again at any any point if you guys need to stop me I'm just going to kind of briefly go over this because um this is a public document and I'm H most of us gone through it but we're gonna kind of go through this for you can can I just ask a question really quick um is there anything in this document about Oakbridge particularly okay sorry yeah it's towards the yeah we'll we'll talk about it's at the end of the conation all right schools are back in full-time instructional models similar to the school day prior to covid-19 pandemic again and um we'll be looking at the state and our Public Health Department to give in these guidelines for safety considerations for facial covering social distancing and cleaning General General districtwide guidelines are in there to ensure a safe and welcoming start to the school year okay Mr M I've got a question for you um can you back up to that last little slide facial cover coverings as mandated by cdph I don't know if this that's kind of a more general statement and there are some more specific things in there do we have an independent masking policy for the fall here at Chico UniFi or is is what's written in this document and this plan purely an expression of regulations that are being imposed on us and the minute those regulations go away or reprieved our masking requirements here will also go away correct so we have no masking policy at Chico Unified that will need to be rescinded by an action of this board once those regulations are are withdrawn by by higher authorities such as the state and the county health department so this board will need to approve this plan and in this plan as written it does say that when the masking regulations are lifted Chico Unified will lift the mask regulations as well so there's a mechanism in this plan correct that when get the higher Powers the health department and the state remove the masking requirements it'll automatically go away and we will not have to have an independent vote that's correct if this plan is adopted thank you my question is about the with the athletes I know we have a separate organization that has set some specific requirements CIF so would would they automatically follow what the state's doing correct the cif's only responsibilities are eligibility and play everything else is under the cdph and and just to go back Mr tennis right there in the Bold it does say please note that these protocols will change in accordance with changes made by California Department of Public Health and bu County Public Health sorry that's not highly specific but but as long as we're all clear here that any changes from those higher authorities will trigger an instantaneous say withdrawal or or or Sunset of the masking here in a district that's what I'm getting at so thank you okay social distancing we went on Ingress egress but that's two and from to school and away from school each you'll see uh as we go through the document each campus has developed their own Ingress and egress um plans also I want to go with the social distancing in the classroom and meeting spaces as you can see as of right now the cdb says it's a 3-foot distancing in the classroom and you can see a uh a drawing of what the classrooms will look like at a three-foot and how many students we can fit in those classrooms we believe at this time that we can meet the needs of our of our students at the with that guidelines all right facial coverings requirements is what we just talked about what the state is telling us um the students again will need to have the mask on um unless they are eating if they're eating then the distancing goes to six feet if they're not eating then they can have them at the 3-foot Mark that's where our C cafeteria res recess protocols Co and extracurricular activities sorry jay can I just interrupt really quick um just to clarify Mr tennis's concerns uh on this page or the page that that Mr marant was just reading from page six bullet number two specifically says until the facial covering requirement is lifted by the state all staff must use face coverings in accordance with cdph guidelines so that would in that would that would definitely demonstrate that we are following the guidelines as mandated by the state so just so that everybody knows where it's at in the document and it's very clear that it's already in there I have a question what are the requirements for um children during recess for masking in particular I'm thinking of younger children it's right there under cafeteria and recess protocols students will maintain a six- foot of distancing when mask are removed for the purpose of eating and drinking where feasible multiple serving stations will be set up workers and other person's handling or serving food must be in gloves while wearing a facial covering students must maintain a three-foot distance during lunch and recess breaks okay Co and extracurricular activities John you want to step in on John's been doing the heavy lifting on this one sure so we should be familiar with these with the guidance here this guidance is uh should continue into the fall semester unless the bcph or the cdph decide differently and if they do we'll adapt uh to their guidance and mandates this is the same guidance that we're operating from uh currently Transportation School Bus guidelines are on there students must will maintain a six foot distance from the driver students will be socially distanced from other students to the extent possible within the confines of the bus bus windows will remain open to the greatest extent possible noting weather conditions base covering policies apply on the school bus and any vehicle affiliated with a district used to transport students each bus will be equipped with an extra unused face coverings for students may have inadvertently failed to bring one buses are disinfection disinfected after each bus route is completed the next is air quality and disinfection um air circulation AAC the district will utilize Merve 11 filters and all HVAC systems HVAC systems will filters will be replaced quarterly classrooms and work places not connected to the MV 11 HVAC system filter system will be quick with a low noise hea air filter device if you guys have any questions on that you're going to have to miss Mr boltim on that because I'm very limited on my HVAC Yeah clean and disinfecting daily clean and disinfecting of our schools shall be done by train custodial Personnel classrooms will be supplied with with our new water microfiber cloth and hand sanitizer sharing of equipment and materials shared equipment will be cleans cleaned on a regular basis with the new water again as you go down I'm not going to click but every one of our John if you could there you go all of our elementary schools our middle schools and our high schools have individual plans that they developed that follow these guidelines but are a little bit different on each one of their sites and Miss Doby you asked about Oakbridge Academy instructional model Oakbridge Academy will continue to be our dedicated online independent study school secondary students grades 6 or 12 will utilize genuity Elementary students K through 5 will utilize a combination of pathblazer and direct instruction online with an Oakbridge Academy teacher Oakbridge Academy offers Innovative personalized education form online learning grades 6 through2 and independent study grades K through five uh so my question about Oakbridge was just if um there had been any more consideration given to um looking at expanding that program to be Beyond just independent study um maybe to encourage uh flexx scheduling for students or families who might need it I think students are really finding some value right now and having a more flexible schedule to be able to work or do their extracurriculars and if possibly they could have some classes that were Flex through Oakbridge and some that were you know on campus um if we could provide more flexible options I don't know where we at in that conversation so miss go you you want Miss sty and I met with the staff and I'll talked to a little bit about we still will offer where students can take classes at the Junior highs um and the high schools and Oakbridge so they can take four at one and two the other um or five in one one in five at the high schools and Junior High so they can be flexible and still be able to play their Sports be pan be part of band choir and the things that we have right now but when we also met with the staff we talked about they're they're wanting to increase um in person like for tutoring and offerings on their campuses for for all the um core subjects um we have some highly qualified teachers at the secondary level that are able to do that with math and English and um science so we are um happy that they're willing and wanting to meet with kids um on different times that they'll be setting up tutorial hours and of course one of the best things that they like about is the flexible times that they have with their families that they talk to they will tell you it's more than just the set time that they work during the school day that they're constantly uh meeting with their families at night talking to them and they use Google Voice quite a bit with them to to meet with them and to go over modules that they might need some more support on Miss da I missing anything you pretty much covered it but yes we do provide that flexibility where students can take some classes at Oakbridge other classes um at the Comprehensive High School or junior high school campuses and then in addition at the elementary level Mr Sullivan is working with Oakbridge so that it does not have to be a program like a genuity on the elementary level the uh Pathfinder um that it can be we can offer some inperson instruction online know that doesn't but where the teacher is delivering the instruction um online to the students that maybe want more engagement than a A can program we also have the uh the Viking Academy at py and the panther Academy at Chico high and students um can do online courses only or they can do um online mixed with some um mixture of inperson classes and they that predates even covid and even Oakbridge so that's been available for gosh what how long john the last eight or nine years on on both those campuses ask a question about those programs you just mentioned thank you um what exactly is the the instructional delivery model for the Panther Academy Viking Academy is it um engineer like synchronous like Zoom style learning or is it no they actually have to attend um in normal times they have to attend um weekly or bi-weekly every twice a week um one to two times a week we it can be uity or it can be um bookwork um there's two different programs um some students do better in in one or the other but they there is an option um at the sites and then um we have had kids like take band in the morning first thing and then do the rest of their classes online you know that's an example but um they can mix and match classes as they see fit to accommodate often work schedules um when they then that income is important to the family those types of things or could just be other family issues issues I I do want to recognize too that we have students who accelerate using the Oakbridge program who are enrolled in classes all day and they also accelerate through Oakbridge so it's a viable opportunity all the way down into uh sixth grade we believe right now um you know right now we're sitting a little over 500 at Oakbridge and before um we went into the covid online we were about 100 students at that time we believe that we'll be hovering right around the 300 um student Mark at Oakbridge when we start school year through the conversations that our Oakbridge um staff has had with their families that's K12 yes i' I'd like to if you're if you're kind of ready to wrap up that slide I'd like to go back to the site specific um I still had one question about the oak Bridge go ahead thank you um so I guess my question uh just to kind of cap this discussion off about um Oakbridge and our asynchronous and Independent Learning um uh opportunities uh is just do we have or or do we know if our asynchronous opportunities have the capacity to help keep our in-person class sizes um a little bit smaller so in other words if we have a big enough capacity for this more Flex scheduling um could that help mitigate larger class sizes on campuses well we still have to hire the teachers for Oakbridge and there is amount of students that each Oakbridge can take um on um for Oakbridge um right now when it comes to the federal and state dollars we're hoping that's going to be at this time make our class size smaller but we still have to be able to that student that's one of the reason you go 42 or 51 because we have to claim Ada for that student at one of our campuses and so that still we still have to follow the Staffing guidelines that Mr bolma in our business department says that we need to do to make sure that we're physically responsible and so I just that's the way that we we look at that there's still still one student just a matter if we're claiming them at the school that they're taking their four periods out I but we're still going to schedule our class sizes because we know ahead of time when those kids are going to Oakbridge so we know that the other teachers can take on more students sorry Mr Ten um yeah if I may just back up a little bit to the site specific plans um there's some things in some of those that um concern me a little bit and that they seem to carry over a lot of the the protocols that we had when we were in the thick of the the pandemic if you will um such as um closing campuses um visitors on campus uh comes up in a couple of the site specific plans U maragold says for example that there are none allowed others don't mention one way or another I happen to know from personal experience that some campuses are in fact closed to visitors uh I've heard complaints from some constituents along these lines as well um do those rules that are in place right now apply next year and um what what's written in these site specific plans will that indeed apply in the fall the short answer is no we will be accepting visitors um however individual teachers and this is this has been long standing practice if individual teachers choose not to have a visitor in their room for example a or something they can choose not to um but that has been the case um whether or not um we had Co or not now if a parent wants to uh visit for the day they have a right certainly have a right to do that as long as they don't disturb the class can you can you repeat that a little louder please Mr hanlin what's that can you repeat that a little straighten the microphone please so the short answer is yes we will have visitors on campus we will have non-school Personnel folks on campus for example cave volunteers um teachers will have the individual choice of whether or not to have volunteers in their classroom um but that's been the case preco um they will um they of course if a parent chooses to visit their their child's classroom for the day they have a right to do that and we'll make arrangements for that but as far as volunteers um most teachers would like to have that they've been asking to have have volunteers in the classroom to to help with um the groups of children especially given the the learning loss and that type of thing but but the individual teacher could on some circumstances choose not to have volunteers in the classroom will parents be allowed to come to the office because right now there are a number of campuses that I'm personally aware of that that they can't I mean unless you have a cell phone to call in you can't get access to the so my understanding is they will be allowed um next year um as long as they follow the guidelines of social distancing and masking that were required to by the health department mhm um so mold's current plan list that there's no visitors allowed will that just as a matter of so that'll have to be corrected then that'll be corrected okay thank you um field trips and assemblies um some schools say virtual Andor with safety guidelines and other Neil da for example say that field trips will just be virtual um is this something that that's going to carry over into the fall or will that be corrected to we did talk about that in some uh meetings um with um with the different School sites so it depends um if it involves transportation we have toi abide by the distancing with Transportation which can be a little bit tricky but there's also a lot of walking field trips um for example um near schools um we have them on the University some of our Parks so uh obviously those are much more um easy to be flexible with so um those it just depends okay um masking during PE does that in any case qualify as a as an athl a letic event or or are we going to have our kids masked during PE we believe that they're continuing to do the social distancing as a plans in with the three feet um or past the six feet that they can take their mask off I don't know if we're going to be we're going to look to see I guess that's a great question for us to ask be County Health Department about PE if we're following the same guidelines as our athletic sports about because right now our at the time a lot of our Sports were happen sports players were happen to be tested um so we're going to need to continue visit that with PE I mean I guess I personally feel that we should op Pine to to the county um in the state of necessary that that we'd like students to be able to engage in a rigorous physical activity without masks um okay and then um the lunches the grab and go lunches I don't know who's the right person to ask a question about that too um but um these some of this stuff the prepackaged single-use plastic um you know is is wasteful but it's also pretty unhealthy um for example the uncrustable sandwiches have um 50% of a child's daily allotted sugar in one sandwich and um uh these are the Smuckers Uncrustables 40% of their fat for the day daily intake so not a healthy item um do we need to keep doing those grabbing go lunches and is there anything that could be done to make them more healthy and we do have uh Vince and Saro our director for nutrition services is on the zoom so Vince do you want to go ahead and tackle that one yeah absolutely um so right now we are doing basically what what Co guidelines are allowing us to do as far as grabbing go um we definitely would like to do more and when that opportunity comes available to us we will absolutely be jumping on that as far as the Uncrustables and the items that are being served right now every single School District in the United States is biting for all those same exact products and we are struggling to even get enough products in to be able to serve the students that we have and that's kind of a common problem across the United States right now because there are so few items that qualify that we can use um so we are waiting for the opportunity to cook again and do normal food again and the reason you can't is because of protocols that are being imposed upon you Vince by um Health Department mainly Health Department stuff as far as like things have to be pre-wrapped everything has to be pre wrapped so that limits us so much on what we can do as far as making hot food they don't get to eat at school they have to take food home so we have to make sure that things are temperature appropriate when they leave campus um and so it just gets really complicated from a standpoint that I don't know if you're going home with that food or you're going to the grocery store so we have to take items that can tolerate time out of the refrigerator also um when they're in when they're on campus absolutely we know exactly what they're doing they're not allowed to Le food leave leave campus with food so we know where that food is going um we know it's going to be consumed on campus and that's safe um but when we get into these situations where we have to take food off a campus it really puts us in a in a kind of a a safety protocol Hazard there well thank you very much for being on the call Vince I didn't even know you were you were on so I'm glad that you are and and I think I hear you saying that that if indeed we go back in the fall we're going to migrate as quickly as possible toward more prepared food and less of this stuff so we're not going to migrate we're going to Sprint okay my folks my folks are 100% ready to go um and excited excited when the time comes so my folks are are are ready to roll is thank you thank you very much Vince really really appreciate it um is there a role for Esser dollars in and possibly facilitating you know um some some of this this this stuff the food related things because we have a lot of Sr dollars as we've discussed we do and the board has already allocated $600,000 for some additional infrastructure that Vince has already put in place so that he can have more feeding locations on school sites that may allow them to do less of the packaging more of the producing and the Distributing at different locations because the challenge still is 6 feet um during meal time so we're not going to be able to serve all students in a multi-purpose setting we're going to find other locations on campuses to meet that requirement so Vince is right our staff is ready to go we really do want to be serving hot meals um and some of the money already allocated out of Esser is going towards that absolutely the board has the authority to um allocate more if you feel that that would be um um needed but I'd also think we would also want to come back to you what would we purchase with those dollars that might meet your your desire yeah so let me can I can I jump in really quick Yes again you can Sprint sorry so let me tell you the $600,000 thank you guys so much for approving that number one number two uh what we are using that for is right now a lot of our kitchens except for the new ones that we've had done are super Antiquated our equipment is old um doesn't come up to temperature doesn't keep things temperature the temperatures correctly and so that money is going to go to updating every single one of the kitchens that's not already had a new kitchen in the last four or five years they're going to get new all pretty much new equipment serving equipment so when we do go back to hot food we do have the ability to keep things hot and cold longer periods of time and if we did have to keep some of those things pre-wrap and those things we do have the ability to keep those warm so we'll still be able to cook and keep those things going so we've been meeting with contractors stainless steel contractors and we're ready to cut the POS and they're going to be doing the work over the summertime and we've been told that it'll all be ready to go by the start of school thank you very much Vince and Madam president and board yep and then the other piece to the puzzle is is some of that money is going to uh extra time for the staff this summer so that we can man all the schools Thank You Vince yep you bet if you have any other questions just let me know well I I'm gonna call on U Miss Dolby let's see what her question is yeah it's a just a hi Vince it's just a quick follow-up question um and maybe for you or Kevin um uh do we have a timeline of when we where there may be um regulations lifted um at all like do we have any kind of idea when that might happen or if might happen sooner than later yes I don't personally I have not heard anything it's nothing every it seems to be an a stalling pattern to be honest with you right now the information that I'm getting and so my I guess my question around that is if it happened tomorrow would we be transitioning into serving hot food as soon as possible is that what I'm hearing yes absolutely so the thing that with the biggest thing that would hold us up is is if we said Friday we're ready to go back to normal food we would need a few days obviously to get product back in I would say we would be at the most 7 to 10 days from going back to what we would say preco serving okay great and then my follow-up question on another comment that was made um is just about the food sourcing um and so this this these prepackaged uh sandwiches that Mr tennis uh mentioned um are are these items that we're purchasing um are we restricted to certain contracts with um uh with um food sorry we are we are on yeah we do go out to bid every single year um and we are contracted on the on some items but this year because most of those items I mean we do serve peanut butter and jellies in our program year round um but when when Co hit most of the stuff that we buy because we do cook a lot of stuff from scratch we have to Pivot and go to those prepackaged items um and so there are limitations on what's even available so I mean we we were lifted we could serve any any peanut butter and jelly sandwich let's say so if it was white bread before we were allowed to serve wheat bread now we can serve white bread only because they don't have enough wheat bread for us to meet the needs of all the kids um so they're just like all the manufacturers are just way backed up on production um so we can't wait till we can go back to cooking to be honest with you so so this so this is We'll order we'll order two pallets of something to come in for next week and we'll get one pallet but we don't know we're getting one palet till the day it shows up so we're constantly having to Resource new products and it's it's um it's a challenge for everybody so this issue so this issue of of selection um isn't just from this this current vendor it would be any vendor that we would be contracted with most likely yes I mean there are healthier foods out there that are prepackaged so I'm just kind of curious where we would be at in in that discussion um when when the time comes no but so that would go back to those Esra dollars so let me when we buy food we have we get a reimbursement rate from the from the federal government and from the state for every single meal that comes in and when we back out labor and we back out our cost we have about a11 12 to spend on a meal so that means the entree the milk the juice the fruit the the vegetables the tray the fork the milk if I already said milk I apologize any of those things that go on there we have about a dollar anywhere from a do5 to a15 to spend on that complete meal the rest of it goes into labor um so yes there absolutely are products out there that cost three and $4 for an entree but that just tripled my budget and I haven't even bought any of the other items that we have to search great thanks for clarifying that Vince I really appreciate it yeah absolutely and I don't know if we've mentioned in a I'm sorry I didn't know if we mentioned in a previous one of our board meetings but um Kevin and Julie kissell Kevin boltimore continue to look at adding shade structures also to our our campuses so again we can increase the amount of areas for our students to eat outside so that's another thing that we're looking at for our food service like Shad Ro entries all right we're going to move down our presentation okay one one one more thing here um are you done talking about Oakbridge because I that did jog to mind um the subject of uity which plays a significant role in Oakbridge um there are secondary classrooms here where kids get uity in person when they go to class um this is because of our Am Pm schedule or something like that um but is that going away in the fall because there are some secondary classes that play uity and I want to make sure that for in-person school we don't get uity at Chico Unified in the fall I can tell you if we have no a secret this time we will be using our normal um I'm guessing we're talking about math that we'll be using our normal math curriculum that we use our CPM math curriculum in all of our secondary classes we will be using Edgenuity at Oakbridge right um because that is our online independent study program and for those people that choose independent study uity they have not had issues with it it was when we put it in in place of in person that there were issues and there were issues so thanks just at Oak Bridge yes okay the hybrid or amm instructional model remember the hybridm model will only be utilized if we required to meet State mandates and we'll be using the same a amm model um unless Mr hanlin is telling me any different but one change to our amm model that I will be telling you is if a family chooses to do distance learning or online learning they will be doing it o Oakbridge and not on one of our um Elementary sites so if we do have to go to the amm and the family again I just want to make sure we're clear on this we will not be operating it on our elementary sites as we do now they will need to to attend um Oakbridge and we will make sure that we have teachers available for that I have a question about that Miss Doby thank you um so the only like red flag I can think about right now with that statement is just um for our students who have form T um I know that there's a concern when they if they have to go to Oakbridge let's just this is we're going to play worst case scenario things get bad again with Co the state shuts stuff down again we we are forced to go into the am PM model which sounds awful that's literally the worst case scenario um and there are families who don't want to have their kids in the classroom and they're form 10 so they are going to have to pull their student from that school put them at Oakbridge so that they're online Learners um I know there are parents who are concerned about that scenario because they don't want to lose their form 10 status when schools open back up I think we can easily work with that especially in an emergency situation we go ahead sorry k Mr Sullivan oh I'm sorry cutting you guys off I apologize we we have the ability to um create some flow in or out of schools by approving or not approving form tens so we definitely have the ability to kind of hold spaces at those sites if they have to go over to oakd for some reason and allow them to come back when it when it's safe for them to do those kinds of things or we change models yeah I'd like to see that be like a a definite yes we will hold the spot it doesn't matter if you're if you're form 10 you're not going to be giving up that form intend to go to an independent learning model during amm scheduling that yep that's what we've been doing currently and I don't see us changing that going forward from here at all either okay one of the reasons why we're making this statement is because if we needed to go back to the state mandat is but if they all of a sudden they open it back up and we can go back full-time it's a much easier transition for us to go back fulltime instead of having teachers half the day they're doing in person half the day they're doing online which we run into now where we have over 11 00 students doing that so that that's one of the major reasons we want to be we want to be able to be quickly to be able to go back and get our kids back on their campuses without um having to switch a bunch of teachers and then um as we go down again it's um we're just showing your schedules again what will we have already in place and what there will be next year if we have to go inm if the state mandates and then again our distance learning model you can scroll down and there'll be some schedules for all grades again perfect okay is there any questions go ahead Mr tennis Am Pm is a nightmare for my family and I know for a lot of other families um I don't know how practical it is but um I'd like to pour gasoline on the amm bridge and and light it on fire and and and and say that we're never going back that way [Applause] um um is it worth talking about um maybe doing that and um you know I I recognize that that you know people are talking about worst case scenarios and and things like that but uh um is there a way that we can not go back to AM PM under any circumstances is it worth talking about an AB plan or something that that could be maybe a better alternative if it's things did come to that so we do state here that the hybridm model will only be utilized if required to meet St State mandates so I don't think any of us ever want to be back in a hybrid model or a you know God forbid a a online learning model but we do have to learn from our past experience and one of the things which is why Jay mentioned we weren't going to do the site based online instruction we need to learn from the mistakes that were made this year and we did not have flexibility um when we went when we offered the site based online that really prohibited the flexibility in the movement from plan to plan but I don't know that we want to say um we're I don't know how much time we want to go back into renegotiating a model uh spending the time and money in that that we may never have to use hopefully never have to use um but if that is the direction of the board we can certainly do that I would rather put our focus on the full inperson full day reopening that will come in August but if there is direction from the board to look at alternative models if we have to socially distance again we can certainly do that yeah I think if we go back to AM PM and if the districts around us continue to be open as they are right now and if the private schools and religious schools continue to be open open as they are right now I think that our name is is really mud around here and um we should try to send as powerful a message as possible through tonight's vote that we're not going back so again I'll point out that it's only if it's required to meet a state mandate and if it's a state mandate then all of the schools um would be required to either socially distance or be online as was the case U with the stay-at-home orders Miss Doby um so when the discussion for a hybrid model was discussed prior to my time on the board um last summer I think what is it April now um there was a lot of discussion surrounding Am Pm versus an ADB Day schedule and the ad bday schedule actually came onto the scene a little bit later than the AM PM idea did it didn't get quite as much of a cooking so to speak um as the amm model did and there was a survey that went out to staff about the modeling but that survey was flawed it the questions were not well written it was confusing and it split the vote in a way that made it look like teachers preferred the amm model however if the data was disaggregated properly it actually would have showed that teachers would have preferred by very very very slim not statistically significant margin the amm model model and so I just wanted to give a little context about that because I do agree with Mr tennis that the ammm model is the least ideal for family schedules um it has worked out for some of our older students for jobs which is great um but but the part-time either in the morning or in the afternoon and for our staff who have kids who have to go pick up their kids and drop off their kids and get back to school to teach and it's it is a nightmare it is is a nightmare and um I I support the idea um of having a plane in place or at least um having the this the framework of a plan to be able to implement an ad day bday model rather than an amm model should we be mandated to go back to a a distanced learning or a socially distant learning smaller class siiz situation under worst case scenario of the covid pandemic so I think Mr mored has his hand up to address that because some of this was um keeping it as simple as possible in doing what we already know and have already negotiated uh in the great hope we never have to be there again so Mr Moretti thank you so there there's two one when when the um the amm model and versus the ad b day when we looked at that before the state mandate but you had have daily contact and so part of our conversation was how we were going how would we do that when you weren't seeing the kids every day and we had you know solutions that we thought might or might not work where the kids zoom in for 30 minutes and you check in with them and then the conversation went through how do you get a kid to zoom in for 30 minutes on their off day when there's no incentive for them and and that's how how that we ended up in the AM PM and I'm going to reiterate what Staley just said which is we know how this work we know we hate it everybody hates it but we know how it works for us to negotiate the a day b day and try to anticipate if we went there and what the state might require and what would we have to do then seems like a lot of work with given with things we don't know yet I also want to point out in the ad B in the I'm sorry that Jay just showed it show showed the 2hour um block we are still negotiating that there's been a lot of feedback that so that I I didn't want me think that set in stone we're still negotiating that that um that time period that teaching time period so that's I don't know where we're going to end up but I know that teachers and everybody wants it to be longer we just have to figure out some other things of regarding supervision and prep time of how to make that longer yeah thank you Mr Brady I really didn't want to bring up your guys' negotiations so I didn't know I didn't want to step on anybody's toes on that but thank you for bringing that up so do I understand people are negotiating the amm schedule right now yeah so we negotiated it for this year and uh we're doing contingency plans for next year again so we had negotiated an online mou a hybrid mou and a full dayou for this year we're doing the same for next year with some modifications um obviously the social distancing rules have changed um we know that the um the uh twice a day cleaning has extremely little impact so um and it interferes um as Mr mdy said with that big time in the middle of the day where we can't have kids in the classroom so we were looking at extending that instructional time we're running into some challenges so but anyway we are negotiating all three of those models currently so that regardless of what situation we're in in the fall we have um a negotiated way to do that to implement that whether it's the will of the board or if it's mandated by the state we can go into any model that comes up does that answer the question it's not what I want to hear because it sounds like we're negotiating for Am Pm in the fall and I don't that doesn't no we're negotiating we finished planning yeah we we're just planning for every contingency so we have already finished negotiations on the full day um it has to be voted on by the members but um it's very similar to the other one um it's modified from this year but it's very similar a lot of similarities we're still negotiating on a hybrid and an online so that um regardless of what situation we find oursel in we'll have a plan Miss Doby thank you um I have two kind of unrelated questions the first one I think is probably for Kelly um hypothetically speaking as a board if we were to decide to go against the law and it were to be mandated that we need to cut our our class sizes and go to six feet of distancing or whatever it might be and we say nah we're not going to do that we're not going to listen to the state we don't like what you're saying we're just going to keep our classrooms open full-time I want to know what what the consequences could be I can tell you because it happened last year it happened in the fall a private religious school can can that suit so thank you we put ourselves at uh great liability risk and we put ourselves at risk of C oia coming in it is very clear in the guidelines I was reading those again today that if we do not follow the directions that from Cal oia and from the California State Department of Health Cal Ela can come in and find us if uh a individual were to contract covid and uh we were not following the guidelines we're liable for that we can get sued for that so there's lots of risk involved in not going there especially as a as a public entity again um all of the things that we're hearing right now the state and the federal government really want us back in school they want kids in classes um we are being directed that uh we have to start looking at instructional minutes again to ensure that we're meeting the inperson instructional minutes and this plan is very much focused on coming back to school in a full day in-person model um similar to we had prior to covid and these are the contingency plans are exactly that only if we are mandated by the state and that would be true for all of the schools in the state everyone would be mandated to do that so I don't want us to get sidetracked um by them those I think that um you know my great hope is that we don't even have to ever look at amm or online only against anybody's will again um the focus really should be on the reopening plan but I also think that we have to learn from our mistakes and should something happen uh and we have to do that we need something that we can use for the period of time that it's mandated and then quickly transition out of when those mandates are listed lifted we did a sorry sorry I might have over anwered no you're good actually I just had a thought we we actually did a day b day this year um when we were online I just had that thought um it wasn't full class periods but yeah we we've done the ad day bday schedule just was when we were virtual and not on campus so that that exists um my other question was um thank you for answering that Kelly actually that was really good um that's what I I needed to hear and expected to hear I think um and uh I I had another comment but I forget what it is but the other question I had was just um how how we are supposed to vote on this document If part of it is still being negotiated so the details of the amm aren't in this um document it is the amm schedule if it changes any negotiation items that come forward do come forward back to the board yeah our our negotiations really mirror this um and there isn't a lot of um I'm speaking for cuta so jump in here Kevin there there it's they've been very amicable and positive we've been moving through it fairly um constructively so I don't see anything you know randomly coming up that is going to be um so far out of this plan that we have to come back to the board for something we're trying to work within these parameters um and U they're they're very similar to the parameters we were in this year so we'll I'm confident that we'll have a plan regardless of what situation we find ourselves in but like I said we concentrated first on the full day because we fully expect to be in full day in in there and that's where we started in negotiations and and we've completed that plan already thatou already okay I I don't want anybody to be under the assumption or take take my concern about Am Pm versus aday bday as as some sign that that's where I think we should be I I fully support being open full-time um I I'm 100% behind you all for your planning that and um I really appreciate all that's going into that um I just I know what it it's like to be on the receiving end in the trenches as decisions are being made last minute um for not having plans in place um and so um I'm just pretty passionate about making sure that we have our backup plans really dialed in for worst case scenario so that everybody knows what to expect should you know what hit the fan I appreciate that I would not be doing my job if we didn't have a negotiated plan for all any contingencies for the board to um to act upon depending on the situation in the fall so um I we just have to have every contingency um planned for and Mr Moret has his hand up again yeah I just want to agree with Jim we've we've everything that's been presented we've already agreed to in Theus we're just still trying to figure out that one 1 a.
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so there will be a slight increase there but that is wonderful because in previous years our employees have received increases but our medical premium increases increased beyond the increase so this is a wonderful thing that we've been able to do to not only see a smaller increase um that is outside of trend but also that our board is able to approve and with our budgets with mr moore mr gad as i said um the district absorbed that component with the five percent increase so that's wonderful outside of our medical premiums we also have what we have total dental administrator for our dental coverage as well as imed for our vision coverage and there are no change to premiums in either one of those areas you may or may not recall and i know some of our board members are new but for our dental insurance we're in year two of a two-year rate guarantee and when the employee pays 100 of those coverages and in imed we are in year two of a four-week four-year rate guarantee so there's no changes to premiums there and our employees pay 100 of those premiums outside of medical the district does cover life which you'll see on there underneath our voluntary products is going to be covered under principle so i'm going to talk a little bit more about that we do offer our array of services and products underneath our voluntary area so we have life voluntary life voluntary short-term disability critical illness accident coverage permanent life whole life slash and then cancer coverage so prior to this year coming up july 1 with an effective date those products have been covered underneath wards services and trustmark ward services was essentially what i would call a mini broker and that's what we utilize for our voluntary products one thing that we have had challenges with in the tenure that i have been with the district is our current platform for benefits is solarics and it has not been able to be maintained very well which has been making it very challenging for our benefits department in regards to making sure that the premium payments that we're paying out for employees are matching our active coverage and every year we've kind of had to work with them in regards to why isn't this matching up why are these individuals missing um and the the platform itself has just been clunky for lack of a better word um so when working with our broker hub international we shared our concerns shared what's been happening and they went out to help us look at what other types of benefit platforms are available that we could explore and look into they came back to us with three different options business solver platform was one of them and it was a product that which is great and some of you are aware of this in regards to 24 7 platform it's hosted via the web our employees will get a user id and access and they'll be able to view their insurance and their coverages at any moment anytime that they have internet access in addition to that any changes of benefits whether it's a life event to where they're adding somebody or dropping somebody they'll be able to go in and upload documents as well as add that and then there's a verification purposes that comes on our end that we verify the product and the information and that they're eligible so that's wonderful too because right now it's all a phone call process that's manual that our team enters and it becomes challenging in addition to that process but also then maintaining and doing open enrollment and or additional enrollment when we hire individuals and they're being able to enroll during their eligibility period so we're really looking forward to this product and the access that we have and some of you in your own employment might be aware and utilizing products where you have that access so we've been a little bit behind the game on that so i'm excited that we're able to move forward and have that availability for our employees with that though we had to look at making some changes in terms of who our voluntary products were with because of the fact that our previous voluntary products did not work with the business solver platform some of you have heard me say this in previous years in addition to the concerns and challenges that we've had with the platform we've also had some challenges in relation to some of those voluntary products in terms of the enrollment of that as well as the correct information both to the vendor as well as what's being relayed back to human resources in our employees and so it was a time for us to really assess our voluntary products too and again we got a variety of variety of quotes that came back to us from various carriers uh metlife aflac some of the more popular ones reliant standard and when we took a look at all of them and what worked with the platform and what were matching in terms of plan offerings for our employees as well as cost we looked at principal bankers and guardian and those were all programs and what we had that resembled either a premium cost similar if not less with similar benefits in which our employees were already getting and anticipating so we're looking at open enrollment in may which is traditionally what we have done in the past during my tenure here at the district and we're currently in the process of implementing business solver platform which is wonderful the human resources team specifically the benefits team have been working hard with getting our data and going back to kind of that data you know the term garbage in garbage out so we've had some challenges in terms of getting even the correct data over to principal and working with business software but we're working on that and we're working really hard so it's going to be a change for employees but i think a welcome changed and an exciting change so if there are no questions or i'll entertain any questions president ruth i i love the fact that it's all online and at the employees fingertips today alone i my own husband's company has always been online but there's a part of our insurance that it's not and it's only by phone that i can talk to somebody and it's always a 45 minute hour phone call and our staff our teachers we don't have time for that today to be on hold so i love this platform and i'm so glad that you are moving us in a very positive and um 2020-ish direction so thank you for that thank you miss kaler there will be some aspects of potentially needing to call customer service but for the most part you know everything is you know at your fingertips via the web which is wonderful you guys looking into the whole picture so that it's beneficial for everybody i'm sorry for not getting this question to you previously um so there's no change to premiums but um there's the coverage stays the same co-pays the um there's no change in like doctors or anything like that that usually kind of hits home so for our medical insurance that is correct so we've not changed anything for medical insurance there is a premium increase however as i said the district is absorbing that increase so for our voluntary products um there in terms of what the employee pays for those premiums that is correct they're either going to be the same or they're going to be less so with the voluntary products there isn't so much a doctor as it is a policy and depending on that policy and what they've chose you know they get paid out for example short-term disability if an individual meets that qualifying factor of short-term disability and they're determined that they're disabled then they receive the money monthly based on whatever election that they chose so with our voluntary products there aren't medical providers specifically for that that falls within our our medical as well as our dental and our imed which those factors are not changing so that the coverage hasn't changed i'm sorry i worded incorrectly the coverage isn't changing at all correct the coverage for the plans on our voluntary products are not changing thank you no problem any other questions perfect thank you and thank you for noting that in the past we've been able to give our staff increases and unfortunately the increase in insurance and everything else has been larger than what they have received so i'm glad that we were able to find that mr gad helped with trying to make sure that we had that available to cover those increases so thank you all right we're going to go on then to 7.3 our human resources the quality sorry quarterly educational services uh report good evening again president reese members of the board my colleagues and the higley community so this is purely an update something that we started this year we currently work and vendor out our district subs which include what we call rescue subs which is very new new to us this year so each site because of covid we implemented esi actually termed rescue sub um where we have permanent subs on each site at our high schools we have three our middle schools we have two our elementaries we have one and they're there and available if there's ever an incident or a situation in which we aren't having sub coverage or don't have enough sub coverage they're able to help anywhere they can and be put into a classroom as needed so in terms of our costing back in august the district board governing board pardon me approved approximately a 1.2 million dollar costing to cover these areas of substitutes rescue subs as well as our aids which fall into our paraprofessional area as of the end of third quarter we have paid out 540 000 just over that with the total remaining of 722 thousand so that's where we're lying right now we will say that we've had a little bit of a roller coaster year when it comes to absences you know at times we've had some heavy absences and it's been a little difficult right now and i hope i'm not jinxing myself as dr foley has commented about a couple of things this week we are steady and we haven't had a lot of absences so we're hoping that we'll continue as we have i think we counted approximately 26 instructional days left so hopefully we'll end on a high perfect thank you anyone have any questions great thank you so we will go on then to 7.4 which is our quarterly special education day school report ms miller yes president reese members of the board attached you will find the report for the third quarter um spending to date of our private day schools back in august we had approved a budget of 2.5 million to cover miller can i interrupt real quick i'm so sorry can you just for a moment um since we have two new board members can you just give a high overview of what it is that we're looking at absolutely thank you sorry so the list of schools that you see there are the schools that the district utilizes to provide services to some of our special education students that have needs that we are unable to meet on our sites they're a little bit more severe the goal is always for these students to go there receive the skills necessary to then return back to our campuses and and reintegrate back into our programs the number has steadily gone down over the years we have been extremely blessed to bring in an edp to our campuses that is able to kind of keep our kids close by which has been extremely beneficial but we still do have the need for some students to attend some of these state approved private day schools um they are tuition based and based on service so some of those students that go there we just pay tuition some of them were also paying for related services such as otpt speech outside counseling things like that originally the goal was to continue to have that number drop but as we've started these programs on our different campuses we didn't want to overwhelm them as we were getting our feet underneath us so we've been very deliberate in how we place those students over the last three years any questions on the purpose of those schools you'll see schools fall off of this there are several more private day schools in the state we only list the ones that we are currently utilizing so these are our regulars for right now um 2.5 million was the original agreed upon kind of threshold to not exceed you can see we don't anticipate getting there right now we're right at about 1.8 and that's with the encumbered amount so we're hoping to come in under at about 660 000.
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as you are certainly familiar we had to purchase a lot of ppe personal protective equipment we purchased technology a lot of cleaning and contracted services tents bus monitor a lot went into ensuring that we had a safe start to the school year so that uh money has all been expended elementary and secondary two sir two uh was just recently released in terms of um your allocation amount our allocation amount is 439 559 those funds have to be spent by september of 2023 so you know i think the federal government as we recognize understand that covet is not you know it's not turn off the faucet everything's back to normal when kovid tapers off eventually we still have fallout that we're managing you know we have approximately 700 students who have not been in school for you know more than a year at this point we're anticipating close to that number 17 months so while they're engaging remotely we recognize that's not the same even engaging in school this past year has been different we've had a really dramatically change what we do to keep people apart uh to make it safe so next year we'll there will be needs and in probably beyond next year as well so the next set of funding that's coming down the pike is something called the american rescue plan that's a shade over a million dollars close to 1.1 million dollars we're still awaiting details about where you can spend that money the state has identified various areas where we can spend the s or 2 money and i'm going to go through some of that now before i do though i want to talk about an issue that you might hear around towns in connecticut uh supplement versus supplant and supplant uh that that term is really meant in terms of budgeting when we have this money that's allocated to the community we could do one of two things we could try and just take money out of the operating budget artificially lowering the tax rate and replacing that with the federal money or we could fund the operating budget as we typically would and use these resources to build forward i have a very strong opinion and rationale for why supplementing the latter is much more effective if we were to supplant our budget artificially lowering the tax rate what you're doing is creating a cliff for when that federal money runs out so as sweet as it may be today it's going to be at least that painful two years from now when the money runs out because in order to maintain services now you need to not only cover the cost of living two years from now but also that gap that you created with the federal money now in our budget meetings with the town council dave barwey who as you know has an accounting background identified this same issue that i'm raising today and i think there's uh i wouldn't call it universal agreement within our our community but a strong understanding that you're really setting yourself up for perilous actions by supplementing there's uh excuse me supplanting i wish the words was like distinctly so much different um so the other element to this is as i indicated just a moment ago there really is substantial need we recognize that not only do are we going to be in a position next year where we have to ensure a safe reopening whatever that means in august 2021 um that might mean tense ppe we're anticipating those things will still be necessary to a certain extent to what extent who knows on the variant the the vaccination schedule but there's a three-year window we have to play with here additionally as i mentioned before we have a lot of students who didn't receive the same educational experience they had and learning loss is a legitimate concern that we have how do we close those gaps how do we get those kids to grade level performance and do the best we can to ameliorate the effects of covid19 over the last more than a year as i said so the 2021 grant funding that initial allocation what did we do with that i'm going to turn it over to vin to kind of walk you through how we spent our initial sr1 money thank you dr solon and again it's good to see everybody live and in person in the flesh and the um the slide that we're looking at grant news fund 2021 we have had this in the finance reports the last several months and i'll just run through quickly the column all the way over to the right which shows you know the actual uh expenditure and the grant reimbursement that we received that's been allocated back to our operating budget so it's there as you look at our finance report for this month on the personnel costs that first line thirty thousand four hundred thirty four dollars that was the cost of supplying the isolation room monitors for the first several months of the school year those were required as part of the state's guidelines for students who weren't feeling well they needed to go into a separate room and an isolation monitor needed to be present we don't need that any longer the internal staff and the nurses are able to cover and there are very actually very few incidents where that occurs parents have been very prompt to pick up students who aren't feeling well in school the 55 000 265 under personnel called transportation those were the bus monitors that we had just the first couple of months of school and then dropping down to the non-personnel cost 402 249.
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now 12 30 to 2 this is the bulk of the change here okay let's talk about those of you that are remaining in distance learning there was a survey that was sent out to your families in march asking if you were if you and your families were interested in having you come back to in-person learning for a 90-minute block in the afternoon okay those students where where them and their families filled out the survey you should have been already notified by me or someone in the office so we already have those students coming so this is the historic part we have students coming back to school on monday so yeah on monday we have students that chose to come back coming back to school on monday uh for from 12 30 to 2 o'clock a 90-minute block for instruction and this instruction is going to be targeted around sel right social emotional learning uh skills could be targeted around some fun activities uh some class assignments so we want to make it a really fun time for those students that are coming back so this is why we had to shift the schedule right because we have students coming back to in-person learning which is awesome now those of you that are not coming back to in-person learning and you know who you are you're going to stay in distance learning okay so you'll keep doing school as usual from your house right um you'll follow this new schedule everyone's following this new schedule but when you hit 12 30 rather than reporting to a class like you're doing now right you're going to be doing asynchronous work so let's let's take up monday and wednesdays okay uh you're going to do async work for first period second period and third period on monday and wednesday you will also your teachers should be able to connect with you right through office hours you can message your teachers call your teachers in that time for assistance to get some some extra support or tutoring regarding your assignments so that's what we want you to do tuesday and thursday it's the same schedule right but you'll be doing async work for fourth period fifth period and sixth period but i really want you between 12 30 and two besides doing your work reach out to your teachers if you don't understand something or if you have a question and your teachers can and probably will call you for small groups right virtually so be ready for that as well now fridays fridays stay the same okay there's no in-person learning on fridays so in-person learning is only monday through thursday those students are coming to the campus fridays schedules stays the same uh except that we we our lunch time is 11 30 to 12 30 okay but other than that it stays the same uh no no major changes with friday's schedule morning meeting you still have to report uh check checking with your teachers attendance is taken and morning meaning okay but then the rest of friday is either assemblies like this uh teachers calling you back for small group instruction or maybe some class presentations on friday and then you're doing async work for all your classes on friday so fridays remain the same you don't need to worry about it the only changes are on the monday through thursday schedule but you see it right here and this was sent out yesterday to your parents in parent square and also it's going to be posted in echo and your teachers are are going to be posting on their specific classrooms and echo so you should be fine all right there's really no need for questions on this it's pretty self-explanatory once you read it all right so we're gonna move on all right student of the quarter let's do it okay we're ready who's up sixth grade congratulations naily ortiz for sixth grade student of the month naily often you are quiet in class but whenever called upon you always volunteer to read or answer questions you have greatly improved in math and in language arts and you've been an absolute pleasure to have this year great job natalie keep up the good work awesome danielle smed is my student of the corner danielle worked hard on her pbl project and she is a leader keep up the work and keep on shining good job danielle [Music] my student of the quarter is carla ponce rivera carla has made lots of growth this quarter also she created an imovie on helping the homeless great job oh that's a cool eye movie congrats carla hello hello one of my choices for student of the quarter is brian brian thank you so much for working so hard all quarter long and also for keeping your video on for both of the classes i have you for so i really appreciate it thank you so much and keep up the good work and no y'all brian does not have a teacher that has a potato head that was miss haro in case y'all didn't know no we have we have a teacher like that yeah it's awesome hello jessica you are my next choice for student of the quarter thank you so much for always working hard and for all the work that you put into your pbl project and for all the participation you do every single class thank you so much and i love having you in class [Music] congratulations for my first student of the quarter i want to give it to someone who has been working really hard making sure all his assignments are turned in i'm always asking questions emailing me whenever he's not sure so my first student of the month goes to jaden great job jayden congrats jaden for my second student of the quarter goes to valeria she has been doing an amazing job in class she's always logging in working well with her groups um doing an amazing job with that so great job valeria and next up we have our seventh grade student of the quarter and again ladies and gentlemen um to receive student of a quarter it doesn't necessarily mean that all these students have straight a's but maybe it means that they showed improvement throughout the school year or that they showed one of our core values of motivation um perseverance and community for my seventh grade student of the month i chose samantha gutierrez valdez samantha always is one of the first students to come to class she always has a bright smile her camera turned on and is quick to ask how i am doing once class starts she is always one of the first students to volunteer to solve math problems she continually turns in her homework and also is very polite to the other students samantha it has been a pleasure to have you in my math class this year thank you for doing a great job and being a fisher city congratulations samantha my student of the quarter is brian sandoval brian has made lots of progress this quarter he is also a leader while working in groups keep up the good job right on brian my student of the quarter is brandon nick korea brandon is a wonderful student who is hard working and respectful turns his assignments in on time keep up the great work brandon okay the student of the quarter for the third quarter um again not only for third quarter but this is for our my seventh grade um humanities course again this is the course team taught between miss uh berta and miss madrill for the third quarter we would like to recognize denzel ramos as our student of the quarter denzel has shown great effort and improvement this year and especially in that in this third quarter i look forward uh denzel to seeing your achievements or your future achievements congratulations congrats denzel hello daniel you are my next choice for student of the quarter congratulations thank you so much for all the hard work you put into the last quarter i can really tell you tried so hard and you put in so much work so it does not go unnoticed sir thank you so much and congratulations once again hello hello britney congrats you are also my choice for student of the quarter thank you for all your hard work all year long and also for the extra work you've been putting into the global exchange project congrats thank you so much and keep it up [Music] as for my seventh grader i would like to congratulate elijah chia you deserve this award because you have shown so much improvement from the beginning of the school year and you really took off during third quarter you participated in everything you joined every near pod you shared every assignment with me when i talk to you you respond to me and i feel like that has been a huge improvement since the first quarter which started off a little bit slow so i want you to keep this up for fourth quarter and finish off the year strong okay so elijah congratulations congratulations elijah and that was our seventh grade student of the quarter now we will go ahead and move on to our eighth graders student of the quarters shout out to you eighth graders you all have one more quarter and then y'all are officially high schoolers so we gotta keep this going for my eighth grade student of the month i chose tonya aguirre castellanos in my math class tanya did great in quarter three during her benchmark two assessment on transmath she received the highest score placing her at grade level on the unit four orinda math test she also tied for the highest score out of my three math classes she is a very quiet young lady but she is very smart and very polite keep up the good work tanya you're a pleasure to have in class congrats tanya good morning fisher saints mr mintier here today i have the pleasure of honoring for the student of the third quarter to michelle lopez michelle has done an excellent job during the last past quarter working hard on all her work great job keep it up congratulations michelle hello mr minty again my second student of the third quarter is going to be nancy clemente i chose nancy because she's working very hard on her work ask questions uh keep it up nancy a pleasure having you in class congratulations nancy all right my first student of the month or our student of the month for eighth grade humanities again that's the teen taught chorus miss berta and miss madrill um for our eighth graders this third quarter we'd like to recognize hillary fordham hillary has been really challenging herself to improve in the third quarter which she's been she has grown and shown a lot of improvement as well as she's pushed herself or challenged herself by signing up to be part of the global exchange program and she's really done well there as well so again hillary congratulations please do continue to grow and to challenge yourself congratulations hillary and ladies and gentlemen i love that y'all are continuing to go ahead and hype up your classmates so let's continue to do that y'all hey guys this is miss nguyen uh i wanted to congratulate my eighth grader harleen syene i think i said your last name right for receiving student of the quarter for third quarter um harleen you received this award because you are always active you always participate and you're really responsible and i love how you give me feedback so that i can give you feedback you're an avid learner and i hope you keep this up and congratulations congratulations harleen and that concludes all of our students who receive the student the quarter for third quarter so can we please go ahead and give them some claps some virtual claps some party hats some love with some hearts whatever y'all want to go ahead and send them over and let's go ahead and take the time to go and congratulate them so again congratulations our students of the quarter recorder three next we will be going on to our quarter three honorable students again ladies and gentlemen for honorable students um these students received either a 3.0 gpa or higher for third quarter so let's go ahead and get started um the first students that are going to be awarded will receive the honorable award and these students received either a 3.0 to a 3.49 gpa so big congratulations all right here we go our first student carla castellanos let's give her a round of applause awesome all right kimberly kimberly cornejos give her a round of applause jocelyn jocelyn flores gonzalez congratulations all right daniel alejandro garcia guerrero developer congrats nice shirt too oh oh yeah raina henriquez good job raina all right carly hernandez awesome jessica ibarra good job congratulations jessica brian ray and ferrote brayan o'brien good job jose lopez good job jose good job jose daniel magana awesome good work juan diego ross rojas good job juan good job juan got a lot of students in this category rachel rachel nguyen good job rachel congratulations rachel long to win congratulations congratulations tren tranwing good job tran good job christina paul congratulations christina paul anthony pedrosa escobar i like the fisher look at that that's one of our student of the quarter shirts awesome yep aion is representing her fisher saints t-shirt for an award that she received earlier this year too jayden rancheria jaden kaley webb jr congrats kaylee right and that concludes our honor roll for the students who received 3.0 to a 3.49 the next award is the principal's honorable award and these students receive a 3.5 to a 3.99 and i am happy to say that usually we have more students in the honor roll category but this time we actually have more students in the principal's honorable category which basically means that a good amount of our students receive that 3.5 to 3.99 gpa so again congratulations y'all as we're moving forward through the school year we're making history so let's go ahead and get started way to earn my award no we should call the doctor client honor roll award all right carlos adami tarato good job carlos good job kaylee uh gunia congratulations kaylee jaden robles good job jayden good job jaden cardenas good job anaya great job anaya ariana castellio castillo good job ariana maria castillo good job maria way to work jasmine galindo good job jasmine nancy clemente good job nancy brittany contreras cortes all right good job brittany way to go ahead and show off that ipod very ipad brittany i'm all for it i was just thinking that blake blake dao good job blake way to work allison cruz allison de la cruz good job allison javion francis good job javion congrats javion cassandra garcia good job cassandra jorge garcia reyes nice name jorge congrats jorge my ho good job mai congratulations malachi lavelle good job malachi congratulations malachi michelle lopez diaz good work michelle nice butterflies congratulations michelle sofia de la cruz good job sofia brandon nick carrero good job nick congratulations brandon vanessa vasquez good job vanessa way to work congratulations vanessa denzel ramos acosta i've seen a theme here there's quite a few students that got student of the quarter and they're also on the honor roll that's awesome working double time i like it yup and i'm really excited to go ahead and say that they busted their butts off because some of them this is their first time receiving honor roll as well so most definitely this could happen to anyone y'all berlin good job [Music] jennifer salgado ramirez good job jennifer good job jennifer congrats daniel aguirre daniel sanchez aguirre good job daniel congratulations daniel daniela smeed good job daniela congrats danielle katie vargas gomez congratulations katie i'm katie alonzo villa good job alonzo congratulations alonso tien good job tien just one word needs to be said tien congratulations ian awesome all right y'all and that concludes our principles honorable so can we please go ahead and give them some claps some celebrations some party hats send them some love with some hearts thank you y'all and last but not least we have our superintendent's honorable award and these students receive the 4.0 gpa or above okay so again these students received 4.0 gpa and above they will be receiving the superintendent's honor award and let's go ahead and get started all right diana amador ramirez great job i love your glasses can i get a pair i'm going to say i actually like your hat diana i'm for it i could see mr bod rocking those glasses uh belinda vales good job belinda congratulations belinda jocelyn cortez good job oh i like that doggy german ship i used to have one when i was a kid jocelyn i feel like you always have some wholesome pictures especially with the dog one i'm for it love it then we have vaide congratulations awesome rihanna estrada great job congratulations riann gabriella arroyo good job gabriela congrats gabriella santiago nice work good job congrats all right tin tan luang good job way to work good job ten time fellaini bonsai good job congrats delaney kayla ratz ratstong good job yup congrats to leigh also shout out to leigh i was looking at your earrings i like it a lot oh yeah is a artist i learned that in the global exchange project program you learn something new every day congrats andrew congratulations andrew haley haley tina good job haley congratulations haley all right and can we go ahead and give a s um a super clap whatever it is that you want to go ahead and do to send some love to your students um or to your peers and that concludes for our honorable students thank you y'all for the cops thank you thank you i appreciate this and last but not least for as we end before we end our awards ceremony i'd like to go ahead and give a special shout out to two students that will be receiving a special student award this quarter these students are being recognized by the executive board of the santa clara county construction careers association and they're receiving this award for their classroom citizenship work ethic effort talent creativity and also one of our core values for persevering through obstacles so the first student that will be receiving this award is rhianne estrada congratulations rihann not only was ran receiving this award but you saw her name in her picture earlier for receiving honor roll as well congratulations riann and the next student who will be also receiving this award the same award from the santa clara county construction careers association is last but not least harleen cyeney again you all saw harleen not just for this award she made honor roll and i believe she also made um student of the quarter as well so she's a triple threat y'all so she so she was able to go ahead and receive these awards and most definitely y'all we just want to be able to go ahead and recognize them for all of the work that they did and not just these students but also for our honorable students for third quarter and our student of the quarter students um so with that being said we thank y'all congratulations to all of you let's go ahead and give a final round of applause some collabs some party hats some hearts to our to yours to our fisher saints so thank you so much y'all we have one more quarter to go we're almost done so we'll see you at the finish line good job everyone let's get after it [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] big
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and so there are still some lingering decisions that need to happen around model 3 but only because again i'm going to project it right now in a second i want to reiterate that the schools that you see right here are not necessarily what's going to happen this is not a decision so schools schools that are here that looks like they're going to remain open that that is not 100 sure right we're going to speak into this as a team schools that are on here as possibly uh closing that is not final this is not a final decision this is not what um is going to be right and so we just want to just want to make sure that we're crystal clear about the fact that the schools that you're about to see right now um again which are no different than what you've already seen but just to reiterate uh that this this is not a final product we're in a journey together um and we will get to that conversation um but right now we need to take care of some other business before we can have that conversation so we have two objectives today objective number one is to uh decide completely on model three we have two pending uh two pending decisions to make about bottle three and then not related to the models but we have a surprise kind of conversation decision that we want to get feedback from the team in terms of next steps okay so i'm gonna go ahead and uh present i think there it is my screen um [Music] do you see the spreadsheet yes okay perfect thank you um all right so if i if i do that do you still see my spreadsheet yes okay perfect all right so um bringing us back uh just to to kind of where we were or where we've been so far [Music] last week we we decided that this was going to be a tk6 model as a as a majority um and as a tc tk6 model um we decided that um it was going to have one middle school which is kind of what you're seeing right here is kind of what we were projecting on that day so this should not look any any different to you from from the last time uh today what we have um are two two lingering uh decisions uh one is um should this model include a tk8 or not and should this model include uh one high school or two high schools those are lingering decisions to make about model three and if we can accomplish that today then we are ready to move on uh to next steps so i want to start with the tk8 conversation first i want to point to you here at the very top just as a point of reference for you for you all as a team when we polled this team about this issue or this this decision in the past 42.1 percent of this team said that this model should not include a tk8 15.8 percent of this team said yes this model should include uh tk8 which means that almost half 42 percent of this team said they were fine either way so now tonight we're trying to get clarity on if this should include a tk or not so what you are seeing right now is again the the sheet that we uh showed you uh last week uh this one does not include a tk8 in this in this particular model right just so that we can orient orient ourselves once again up here in this model these were the schools that we're going to remain open are listed here the schools that would be shut down are listed here listed here and over here would be how this happens over the course of of uh of three years so this is what it looks like right now again even though i just said right now these are the schools that would remain open these are the schools that would that would be shut down this is only to show you how the model works this is not to say that these are the schools so i'm going to switch over to to another spreadsheet and show you uh what uh what it would look like with a tk8 uh and and just talk to you about um about that so here you will see that from down here we took away ellington because i'm just going to try i can't i can't see anything it's a black screen yes we can't see anything oh i got that pause again now yes oh yes we can okay perfect all right so let me kind of catch up so this is what we showed last time so this is this is how the model would look like without a tk8 and we explained this one um the last time around we explained how it works that right now up here listed the schools that would remain open down here are listed the schools that would eventually be closed same thing at the middle school level and then how it would work over the course of three years so what we want to show you now again the school at this at the schools at this particular moment are irrelevant but let me tell you uh what we did here on row 12 and 13 where you see dalton and el and powell you will see that there is no ellington here anymore in in though in in this model where there is a tk where there is no tk8 ellington is down here so here we took ellington off of the off of the the map and we added it up here in row 2.
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the low end is about six or seven and it just it you know our smaller our lower class grades have smaller class sizes to begin with fourth fifth and sixth they have a little bit larger class sizes so yeah uh the other thing that that i'm going to give a quick overview just of how everything's going at dudley and then i'm going to turn it over to leah and to sarah to kind of help you understand what's going on in a second great classroom and a sixth grade classroom so the am pm on campus distance learner that hybrid split that we've created has really been effective it allows us to keep the numbers small in each classroom but it allows us to provide families with flexibility like we have some families where the child spends one week in one parent's home and another week in the other parent's home and that child can be an on-campus learner one week and a distance learner the next week so we're able to work with families and say yeah let's do that or we have students who they're following our protocol they got the sniffles they've got a caught they stay home they do distance learning when they're at home and they don't miss out on their class so that's been really an effective model i want to talk about arrival recess and dismissal because those are areas where we get our students congregated arrival works because this the students aren't coming on campus at the same time there's about a 15-minute window when the when the kids are working their way onto campus and that is really nice it creates a smooth transition unusually out front the place the busiest gate where most of the kids are coming through i got masked hey tommy you forgot a mask or hey mom you forgot a mask here i got one for you making sure everybody's got their masks everybody's been amazing about wearing their masks nobody says hey i'm not going to work so that that's really been well done at recess we took our field and our playground we broke it into six areas we have a schedule each day classrooms know which part of the playground or the field they get to play in each classroom has an equipment bag each classroom has a different colored equipment bag so at any recess time there's green heavy equipment there's purple equipment there's yellow equipment so it doesn't get mixed around the kids know we've got the green equipment and they use it and stuff like that so that's worked very well and then at dismissal we've worked hard at we we kind of dismiss all at one time so our kids start on the playground they're spread out and then we have five different gates that they leave through and so piece by piece hey if you're a c-wing walker head on over miss bills is waiting for you over there and we work our way through the five different areas and once everybody's spread out to their five areas then we say goodbye and then and they make their way out the door so that allows us to keep the families keep the kids spread out the parents have been fantastic about waiting outside we clear our campus in nine or ten minutes everybody's off the campus which that's why it works that way so it's really been it's really been awesome the other thing i really want to touch on is technology so we've learned technology in the good old days was an important supplement it was like okay we get to use this now it's become a necessity we have to have it the bad news is every once in a while stuff goes wrong it just does you know and there's a lot of moving pieces i mean look at what eugene's got stuff everywhere and when it goes wrong it's like shucks as teachers in in education even since overhead projectors and loop-de-loop film projectors stuff goes wrong and you know that happens and so you deal with it uh but it feels more pressure because you know you've got those guys online and stuff but even the families online they're like we didn't we're we're fine and you get back going as quick as you can and stuff like that and of course you're waiting for nick or whoever to show up you're like but but overall you know i mean it's part of what we get to deal with so we have some takeaways some things that we're taking from our experience with the distance learning with a hybrid that are going to carry into next year which are really valuable first trusting that technology especially our teachers kindergarten first and second grade those kids are doing things that we never thought they'd have been able to get on the chromebooks and be as successful with and it's like second nature to them and we had that inane you know kind of trust about it but now we're seeing it it's like wow okay that's really going to be valuable the recess routine that i spoke about we're going to find a way to make that work next year because our recess although worked great having different ages out there at different times having separated areas has really been a benefit are the teachers that have spoken highly of that so that's great our dismissal routine is much more safe much more organized than it has been so everybody spoke highly of that and then the other bonus that's coming our way is um lunch and not having to use lunch numbers for the for the feeding program because especially with our little guys that slows them down here remember their five digits and get it punched in before they get their lunch but in this pro you know once we have the feeding program in place we won't need to do that so that's the overview that's kind of the high level and now i want to introduce miss leah dean who's a second grade teacher and then she'll be followed by ms sarah bills who's a sixth grader thank you sir good evening everyone and can i move a little closer thank you for having me um what he said basically i would echo his comments about recess time and dismissal and those have really just created a different feeling on campus when we're all out there together um but when i then i come back you know think about my classroom so i have 11 students in the morning um in person no distance learners and in the afternoon i have five in person and six distance learners my students are showing up and with these small groups i'm able to really interact and engage with them especially in the morning without distance owners um that's been pretty remarkable to connect with them haven't gotten to know them just through the screen for most of this year so it's been pretty amazing um in the afternoon i've got my distance letters and my in person and that's definitely more challenging you know um it's just me i don't have an easy afternoon so i'm kind of going back and forth but what i'm finding is that my distance owners are very resourceful and they've been doing this all year long so they understand that there's a tight issue and they have mostly they have their materials ready they kind of know what to do i think also that our my parents have been amazing um we our communication is really strong and our whole second great team um has worked really hard all year to make sure that our parents are not taking my surprise um at what's coming here's what's coming here's what we're doing this week these are expectations for the kids and we are sharing materials with them not every week because we don't want to give them a hardship but as often as we think necessary so i think the parents have been an amazing part of that and i would just say that all of all of the students from what ipa are really learning to rule with all of this and we have grown so much um they didn't learn what they would typically learn in the second grade year but they have learned an amazing amount about life and relationships and how things work in the world when the world isn't working the way it normally does so it's been it's been an amazing year and definitely the support that we get from mr jackson back there um really helps us to do our best and and the support that we you know get from the school so if you have questions i guess at the end or anything else we may as well ask for questions well she's up there [Music] thank you [Music] and i knew i'd be terrified so i typed something up um but before i read it um my name is miss bills and sarah hi you don't have to call me miss bill and i teach sixth grade at dudley and um speaking for the sixth grade team in terms of coping and safety our kids have been so mature um just really respectful of the rules they're staying apart um you know sometimes they accidentally will like try to link arms at recess and then like they break it up and they're totally cool with it and um yeah they've been amazing and i feel really lucky to to be in person with them so i feel safe and i think they feel safe and yeah i'm going to read this now because now i'm going to ramble i'm going to read this okay so each morning as my students trickle in i jokingly try to pop out and scare them which usually just ends up scaring me in fact it's now their mission to scare me on their way in they pass a desk with hand sanitizer and extra masks in case they forget theirs at home as we wait for others to arrive we chit-chat about what time we woke up what we had for breakfast and what funny or notable things occurred at our homes the day before um like my toddler bringing the hose in the house and spraying they liked that one um okay at the first spell all students are working hard in their cpm math toolkits a composition notebook that will hopefully travel with them here to rise we review and practice essential math skills and concepts after this we begin our whole class math lesson after a few problems together students break up into teams to work collaboratively on the rest of the lesson right before a recess time without me reminding them students excited excitedly asked which zone we have for recess that day as we rotate to a new zone every day with such a small group they happily and easily agree on which game we will all play together almost nobody ever sits out even the kid with flip flops puts in their best effort they are just so happy to be there and be together there's no arguing no trash talk no negativity and with sixth grade that definitely happens so our brief recess is filled with maths laughs and smiles when we return from recess we jump into ela we read this week's story and attack high-level vocabulary words strengthen our comprehension skills together and think deeply and critically about the themes and the stories we read and how we can connect them to our own lives after english language arts we spend the rest of our time it just got really quiet we spend the rest of our time together doing social emotional learning our favorite so far has been our community circles so far we have given each other meaningful compliments shared our favorite and sometimes most hilarious and embarrassing childhood memories share the things we are proud of share the things we wish it could change and so much more while the hybrid model has its quirks one thing i know for sure is that the kids wouldn't rather be anywhere else so that's what i put together because i don't really know what i was gonna talk about um and i realized after i typed this up i don't really talk about the distance order so and i don't know if i did that subconsciously or what but it has been the most challenging part to balance both in person and distance learners um not impossible just a new challenge and i think we're all becoming pros at it um slowly but surely yeah i think i just feel i feel bad that they're missing out on being with us and i worry that they're upset so um sometimes i find myself trying to be discreet if we're gonna do a community circle when they leave and it's like i feel bad if they know because i don't want them to feel like they're missing out and um i miss them and they're they're also my sweethearts just like my in-person kids so um let's play house yeah okay yeah and i have to say that every other friday we do like a we call it a wellness friday and i'm in charge of it at work and i'm going to steal all of your ideas that you just gave me the most embarrassing toddler bringing me hoes in the house everything you just said we're stealing it's like my agenda yet for fridays so now you can see why i enjoy going to work every day um so i just i'm going to wrap up this portion of it and turn it over to mr veracity in a second but i wanted to take this opportunity and this is a message every principal wants to be able to share about their staff but i have a microphone and a camera so i get to talk about it differently and i just i appreciate everybody at dudley that has worked so hard since march 13th of 2020 and no matter what was throwing at us we sat down we talked about it we rolled it around how can we be safe how can we take care of kids that's what we do at dudley and i'm indebted to the entire staff give us any problem give us a little bit of time we'll figure it out we'll work together and these guys are amazing so now i'm going to turn it over to mr brassy thank you steve thank you thank you mr jackson thank you hi everybody i'm chris barassi principal wilson corrales i planned a very uh short presentation because i knew that mr jackson was going so we'll be quick uh up here i have a couple visuals you're looking at our schedule at the middle school with our respondents of kids that wanted to return in a hybrid or stay on distance learning we had about 55 percent of kids coming back 45 percent of 300 kids still distance learning so we designed our schedule around that so we are able to serve our kids in the morning who are in person and then our kids who are staying home and doing distance learning they're virtual in the afternoon so we're kind of lucky in the sense that our teachers can focus solely on the kids in front of them in the morning then they can focus on the kids who are at home in the afternoon uh we were able to do that a huge thank you and props to allison kent and jennifer slay our academic coordinators who did a lot of shuffling and balancing classes to make that happen so we can fit kids and follow social distancing protocols in the morning and we're very thankful to them and then to brett holmsley my assistant principal who from it seems like since the beginning of the year has been planning out what classrooms are going to look like and then marking them up again based on those numbers that were always changing and gotten those ready for our kids to come in and again keeping those so we can keep our spacing all the social distancing um so this is our schedule that we follow we do have kids obviously five days a week again kids in the morning in person and then kids in the afternoon distance um go into the next slide uh one of the things that we heard from our teachers as we transitioned uh to a hybrid was they were not except they they were worried about the loss of their office hours that their kids every day had a time to go in and see them if they had questions or anything that they needed help with on their assignments uh fortunately with some funding and working with scott and lisa we were able to provide these hours ongoing we started right after spring break with these hours the kids are able to drop in for our distance learners in the morning they can drop in and see our academic coordinators or instructional specialists and then our teachers follow this schedule in the afternoon for any of our kids that have any questions they can see anybody uh over google meets they just click on any of these links and go on i'd like to put out an advertisement to all of our kids to please go to office hours or husky support hours uh we've had little attendance we want that attendance to kick up towards the end of the year um and then just just really i'd like to say a big thank you and our entire staff not just our office staff and our support staff but our teachers are really a huge thank you to our kids they just had two days before spring break to learn a completely different way to do school when it comes to following arrows in the hallways protocols in class safety coming to school getting your lunch it's all very different and they did it absolutely beautifully they're still following those protocols today and it's just really cool to see and they're the ones that really made everything so similar so a huge thank you to our families who reinforce these things at home and to our kids who are continuing to follow it every day that's the middle school any questions thank you so much all right mr ferguson high school um before i get started as steve said he had the mic in the camera so he got to steal the show a little bit i don't think mr diesel or mr jackson stole this show tonight i think that's definitely miss bill so thank you for being here your energy was definitely very refreshing so as it comes to the high school there's a lot that i can say and it's gonna i could talk for for a long time i know mr jackson took up seven minutes of our eight minute report so far so real quick when we closed last year the high school just responded very promptly very quickly we developed committees there were a lot of members who got on those committees and i can't tell you how many times and how many ways you can rediscuss how to just address the bathroom issues or when we reopen and the number of times we developed policies and rewrote them and how to throw them out because something changed the response by staff to continue to be flexible with we do we send out a policy one week in the following week guidance changes from cde and the response from teachers has just been phenomenal the flexibility um on our site i would like to also throw out a few congratulations just on great work done miss shiro who has put in a lot of work on our tech we have over 67 classrooms that i don't think any of them are the same in the way that they are set up but we definitely tried to take an approach that we put everything to the teachers availability so that they were able to develop a system that worked for them in the classroom we also had a lot of other staff step up that i'm not going to be able to name everybody but our committees and everybody working together one big shout out i want to get to is mr jabeli who is our athletic director and football coach he went above and beyond and even while we were in full closure he was doing everything he could to get activities for students get some physical activity get them on the campus in all ways that we can remain safe follow protocols so that the students were not just staying at home getting some interaction ms winbourne ms jones with their leadership and their mate crew students for welcoming the students back when we came back and also just any other staff on campus we've had a number of people step up cafeterias out on the campus trying to get out those lunches we have people working outside of their their job descriptions to do whatever they can to support the students and i think mr browsing said it really well too is we couldn't have done it without the students being flexible developing to a system that we are still trying to accommodate they're just already flowing they're doing a great job i think in all the days so far i had one student show up without a mask and just the response the ability to do as they're asked you know it's been phenomenal so real quick we did put together the document that i'm showing is only a few pages because it ended up being 14.
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PM schedule and how to do that and I think uh uh Mr Sullivan met with principls today to and and EAC to talk about that and they're going to bring that to negotiations tomorrow so what whatever we decide the only piece that you've been shown tonight that's up in the air is what that 2hour block looks like it might be 215 it might be 230 it might be something else but it's something that we will come to an agreement on so it it's it's going to be two hours regardless that's maybe I was misunderstanding that that you were saying that you were negotiating if it was going to be two hours so it's two hours currently and we we've been talking about increasing it because we're uncomfortable and the teachers have been telling us it's just not enough time so our our our goal is to increase that if any way we can we do have some challenges for example prep time and supervision issues and that's what we need to work through gotcha so I mean that's that's was my concern is that two that line that says two hours of inperson instruction per group daily was was my concern if it's still in negotiations um and but we that's something that we can revisit in a future and approve that's correct okay okay Mr Maran we're back with you yes and that's the end of my uh the going over the the uh the model for you guys so it's all on your guys's court at this time he um board do you have any additional question before I open for comments from the public okay we're to the point now where we're going to um ask for public comments and I believe we have five registered for comment um Bill do you have do you have the list yes I do um in person we have Samantha she is a student and she can come up to the microphone Samantha are you here yay that's blinding um my name is Samantha sko and you need yeah help with the there we go is that good okay there we go um my name is Samantha skeo and I'm a seventh grader at just a little okay I am a seventh grader at Marsh junior high school and the reason why I'm here is because online learning in my opinion and I know I'm not the only one is not really good for Learning and many people including me don't like it even including me um also in the last meeting you want to hear from other from the students in the crowd that inspire me to do this and you want to hear from students so you're going to hear and so you're going to hear it um first off I did not learn very good with screens in my face telling me information my grades were bad the oh and also welcome to the second year anniversary of a 3 we lockdown and you're basically telling everyone that you want to wait until next year basically next semester to go in person fulltime no you need to let us go fulltime now it's near the end of the year and almost everyone that has been online had having bad grades they've been working really hard and I have been one of them and at my last school um we only got to go in person 2 days a week for only a few hours distance R was very rough for me I was depressed and my mom had my mom and dad had to change school for me during winter break just so that I could go in person five days a week every week and this change helps me with my grades and I am not as depressed but it still isn't as good as fulltime in person I am very upset and sad that school is almost done and I'll be stuck at home all summer long on wondering if I can even go back fulltime next semester at the last meeting um we hoped that you would vote fulltime in school in personis but you didn't you didn't even vote quote unquote you said that it was inappropriate the whole reason why you were there was to just vote I I feel like this subject was not even given enough discussion at all and let's just say I was very upset as a school board you should do what is best for students and this schedule is not what's best for students I want you to consider our thoughts and our feelings like in your perspective what you think it' be like for us like what that's 30 continue you still have 30 seconds like think of our perspective like we go to school and all of a sudden like people decide for us that we're going home at first it was fine then it started going downhill and then it went even more downhill and so I want you to consider consider even just going back in person fulltime just normally cuz why not normal why can't we just have normal stuff thank you your time is up and thank you for coming and addressing us very well [Applause] done next all right Bo I'm going to be calling Scott Baldwin um you are very faint can you get a little closer to your microphone I can hear you now is this Scott hi Scott oh Scott just a moment Scott can you hear me I'm gonna go ahead and yes um you're gonna have three minutes when you hear a bell you have 30 seconds remaining I'm G to put you on a speaker phone you can address the board in just one moment okay sounds good all right M Bal go ahead great thank you for your time my name is Scott Baldwin and I am born and raised in Chico I'm a local entrepreneur and I have a wife who's a teacher and she's working full-time in Durham I'm also a proud parent to eight-year-old twins at the ofie elementary in my life I found that if there is a will there's a way and I'm suggesting that reopening now will alleviate stressors uh that lead to Medicated children childhood suicide divorce tangible consequences is of stress so when we hear it's just a month and a half until school is finished it sounds like a doctor telling a gunshot victim I'll be with you after my lunch the mental health aspect of this crisis speaks to urgency when we talk about the quality of education and the quantity we observe our children receiving 35% of the in-classroom education they should while we complete the other 65% after a long day of work and scheduled activities for our kids we observe our children's resistance to packet work at home where it is difficult to achieve Focus outside of a school setting for the duration being asked of our students when we hear about summer tutoring programs we are thinking the way back to normaly is to go back to the education model that is proven to work not to continue with a flawed education model then execute summer repairs through tutoring waivers for are we're appreciative of waivers but waivers for the option to return to in-person school normaly are not enough as an employer I've observed that when pandemic benefits were too great I had difficulty hiring if I did not Implement security measures I experience theft when given the option between two scenarios too often human nature is to take the easier self-serving path doing what's right is not often easy in the words of MLK the time is always right to do what's right and it's time to put our kids in school full-time right now thank you for your time thank you um next we have in person uh Jordan Colby if Jordan is here can you walk up to the microphone [Music] please I'm Jordan Colby you guys have heard from me before so that's enough well Madame President it looks like you guys have made some people really mad this year last March when we didn't know a lot about covid uh we panicked and we completely removed an important structure to our society public schools are fundamental to Child and Adolescent development and well-being and as we can see families rely on schools to provide a stimulating place for children to learn so last summer many schools started putting mitigation measures in place and preparing to get kids back to school full-time before the start of the school year because of how important that work is but Chico UniFi didn't put full effort into that many of us thought that when organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics came out to Advocate that policy considerations should start with a goal of having students physically present that would hold some sway we thought that once it was apparent that our local Health Care System would not collapse under the strain of covid then Chico Unified would progress forward we thought that uh once teachers had a chance to be vaccinated we wouldn't be having this conversation and we thought that once we had the financial backing of the state and federal government which has now poured $50 million into Chico Unified as well as the revision of CDC spacing guidelines that that would help overcome some of the logistical hurdles now I know the Hybrid wle Works for some families I've talked to them and a lot of high schoolers like the schedule you could have chosen to split the decision last two weeks ago and vote on primary and secondary but you chose not to conduct a vote because there wasn't enough time left in the semester and the need to conduct testing well we did the math on that and the students would have received more in-person instruction during the remainder of the semester than they have so far this year and nobody here on April 7th mentioned that they were considering eliminating a large portion of the testing which raises a lot of questions in my mind so forgive me if I'm a little skeptical that there won't be new reasons for contingencies as this school year approaches I'm certain we'll hear these reasons in August and none of them will be enough to justify continuing to hinder the education of the students in this District I request a clear commitment for a full-time return without stipulations and unnecessary burdens I would like to see a removal of the hybrid model from the contingency plan so we don't end up in a situation where families with resources can move their kids to schools that offer full-time instruction families who have the luxury of working from home or staying or a stay-at-home parent can adapt and the Working Families and single parent households just suffer through it and the education and well-being of those children are sacrificed that's who I'm here to speak for the people who can't come to this meeting because they're still at work or they're at home trying to help their kids with their school work right now or they didn't come because they knew it wouldn't make any difference we just fall on De ears so we need a crystal clear commitment to full-time inperson Learning Without big contingency plans thank you sir thank you yeah Bo president I'm going to be calling Kimberly casor there was a message I will try back we have one more yes we do uh it's listed here is Jeffrey hail just a reminder that your comments must be on topic let me just start my time I'm incredulous that I came earlier to talk about school safety I started to tell you that my wife had cancer and you said time it not on topic let me speak no sir I'm sorry but I am going to call you out of order um and you will not be allowed to speak do we have any more speakers for tonight I'm going to try to call Kimberly back thank you message okay um board we're to the point now where I'm open for a motion on the item before us I move the passage of uh 10.1.1 the Chico Unified District reopening plan for the fall 20 I mean for the 2122 school year is there a second I'd like to second with a friendly Amendment thank you Mr tennis your Amendment uh I move that we remove all uh stipulations associated with amm I'm uh and and and exclusively online in this in this that's not this initiative M sorry what did you say I said it's not friendly yeah Mr tennis um a a friendly amendment that completely modifies the point of the action that's being moved um to to make it something different is is not in order it your motion would not um accomplish the plan that that reopening um needs to have in place to be able to reopen with the contingencies for state and federal um uh requirements that are in the plan if we remove those we are no longer in compliance and so my ruling is that that is out of order that it would need to be a separate motion to V violate the law to violate the law well we would only be violating the law if we if if events transpired where where we were violating the law it wouldn't be a violation of the law to to not Institute that for for fall point of order yes Mr Orlando since it is clear this is not going to be considered a friendly Amendment let's the correct thing to do would be to Simply take the vote if we find a second and then you can offer an amendment to the motion second and we can have this discussion at the proper time okay um while I intended to vote I I I do intend to vote for this this motion um but I'd like to withdraw my second I don't know what else to to do I'm trying to come up with the way to express my indignation over the fact that we're negotiating and planning for amm in the future when it's clear that that a majority of the people in our community don't want it so uh I I do plan to vote for uh the motion but I'll withdraw my second do we have another member that would like to um second Dr Kaiser's motion I will second this we have a motion and a second to approve the reopening um plan uh that is 10.1.1 um um am I correct with the 10.1 point one yes okay is there um any further discussion um I'm I I have to ask a question if that's okay I have a question of order um I would like to make an amendment but I can't remember if that's okay before if it has to happen after the second you you can well that's my question if it's it's been seconded is it too late to to add an amendment point of order uh yes Mr landow so uh this would be the time for amendments we have a motion in a second then the Motions on the floor open for debate at that point motions to amend can be accepted thank you it's been a while since we've been corre this mode um so my amendment is that where we're at yes we are um I would like to um amend the motion to consider adding or changing the AM PM to an ad b day to to I'm sorry restate that to to to add or change the amm to an ad bday model should we have to go to that um instructional model I don't believe we have an A A Day bday model to vote on it would be a hypothetical so I I don't I I don't see how that could be okay put forward to vote on when we don't actually have such a thing to vote on Mr Lando oh we've certainly voted on things without a plan to back it up before Why Stop Now yeah well if if if it's not the will of the board then nobody will second my motion uh I'll second it I I I think that hey you know why not uh let's let's let's give it a shot you know if uh amm is a drag and and I I would um I'd be willing to try something new and yes we would be adding a lot of work onto our leadership I recognize that and I know that you guys have been doing a lot of hard work and negotiations and I'm sure Kevin M shaking his head at me right now because that means we would have to go through another mou process in the future if we went forward with this but I would still like to see the first steps taken and see what that looks like as a board get staff input and see if that would be a better alternative than an AM PM alternative and uh also hope to Heavens that we don't ever have to go there and that things just continue to get better Dr Kaiser I don't believe we ever had a a a discussion or a study of this for the elementary level um now you're talking about uh kids being alone every other day completely uh and I do think the Mandate of counting minutes uh which we have to do in order to uh satisfy the state um that becomes really uh credulous incredulous in terms of doing that in this model um they a lot of effort has been put in to devel veloping everything points to All Day School uh certainly for my kids I hope so um and if we were to get some kind of signal from the state that that can't happen due to health issues then um I I think uh not having had any study or any relevance of this applied to Elementary would be extremely dangerous I don't know how we could do it I think it's interesting to uh I think it's interesting to consider that we're the only ones that had this idea this this ad bday model has been done across the country successfully in other districts I think that there's enough information out there to be able to pull it together and and comply with whatever restrictions or guidelines we would think that we would be under for minutes and and daily check-ins and and things like that we're all highly professional educat people here I know we can problem solve it I just and and maybe I'm way off base and teachers out there are shaking their head at me saying no we don't want ad bday but um from my perspective as an educator when this all happened there was a lot of talk about the ad bday model because of the the things I stated earlier um and that would be full day instruction just every other day Mr Lando um in order to seek some clarity I would would like to hear from Mr berning Mr handling in regard how much extra work are we putting on you to develop anou for an ad day bday the schedule is a um relatively small portion of the entire mou so it's just a matter of developing the um the schedule we have had um other models that we had looked at previously so um while it would be some work it wouldn't be something that's overwhelming and as I said before I negotiate um at the will for the will of the board so if that's the direction um certainly I'm I'm open to doing that hear that and I appreciate that you that you negotiate at the will of the board I just want to make get a sense from you whether you think it's it's a feasible thing absolutely it's not it's not something like I said it's it's a small portion um of the overall mou so it's a matter of just developing the schedule um and then getting some staff input on on how that might look um and that's that's you know so it will take some time but it's um we have between now and the end of the year that when we're working with cuta so I think that's something that's that's certainly possible thank you Mr I'm sorry I didn't see who was asking to be recognized Kevin oh thank you Kevin you are recognized thank you madam president I just want to say it it's the the only um roadblock would be anticipating what the state would require if if if they do decide to put us back into like a halftime of whatever we know what they required this year which was daily contact and that's why we want with the amm so we could easily I I think uh figuring out an ad day bday schedule would be super easy to do and then we would just have to adjust it once the state decided whatever those requirements were and then we would revote on the whole thing again thank you Kevin yeah we'd probably build in a daily contact of some kind and it'd be easy enough to take out if the state allowed us to do that um it's it's a it's not a good use of instructional time on those off days and hopefully the state would recognize that that was not a wise use of time um this year for those schools that adopted an AB schedule but they they may not make that decision so I think it would be wise for us to build that into any kind of ab schedule and then we have it and it's something that's very easy to take out board we have a a Amendment on the floor uh it has been moved and seconded to um if I might restate add the a day bday alternative to the options available am I correct in what you have asked for that was a much better way of saying it than I was able to with my poor tired brain tonight thank you I just like that clarification because that's not what I understood so this would be a a a second version of the hybrid is that correct okay okay are we ready to vote for I I would like some clarity that I heard another option and my understanding um and I don't mean to speak for Mr tennis was that he was looking for simply for a replacement when he seconded that is that correct yes but I could I could go along with the well I just want to make sure thatle so for now I don't I don't want to tie us into a corner with just ad day bday either and say we're not accepting the AM PM I would like to see a day b day uh next to AM PM and if we have to go that route they both options are are on the table for us to then go move forward with um so the only concern we may want to revisit that sooner rather than later because when in the past the past year when things changed we had to make that move quickly I don't know that we want to have to wait for a board meeting to make that decision I I don't want to use the sord um but I would feel better about making whichever decision after we do the research and have the in place to to know what our families and our staff would prefer but prior to coming back in the fall yes okay that makes sense okay I I have Clarity is there anyone still okay it looks like I'm seeing heads nodding so um board I'll uh call the question and ask for your vote on the amendment um to add the research into the a day bday alternative and that it be um worked on and and made available for Discovery to the board before school starts okay I'm seeing Mr Hanan yes Mr Moretti your hand is not up so I'm assuming you don't have anything additional to add so board I'll call for the vote all those in favor by name uh Miss Dolby Dolby I tennis I Lando I Robinson I thank you board okay huh oh I'm sorry Mr Lando has just um mandated the the uh board president pay attention to where we are in the process yes we now have a main motion as amended before us um so board um that main motion needs to be moved on and seconded again because it has now been amended I'll move it is there a second I'll second the motion is amended thank you Mr landel so Dr Kaiser has um moved approval that Mr Lando has seconded the amended motion um no further discussion I'll call for the vote all those in favor I I I it passes unanimously thank you board do we need a break do we need a break we are going to take a 10minute break and can we um I don't know if summer is here now but can we check to see if summer is sum either before or after our break yeah is summer here no she's not back yeah we'll we'll check again okay too because we do want to hear from her okay so board we are 10 minutes we'll be back at okay we are we are ready Tina your equipment's all set up excuse me it was on there okay we are now on um um number two the uh of 10.1.2 discussing the application of a chief charter school and after your presentation I will open the public hearing yeah correct that's exactly right tonight we have a chief Charter School uh that is here to give a presentation and as uh the president just mentioned after that a public hearing will open in February aeve submitted a petition to Charter with in Chico Unified and the process works that we have a uh a presentation a public hearing at this meeting and then they will be back for um for board determination at our May general meeting so it's a chance for you to get to hear a little bit about their school their program get to know them a bit at this time I'm going to introduce uh and invite Casey Taylor the director of a chieve to come up along with Mary Tickle and Steve Wright and she will uh she will introduce her team a little bit more thoroughly than than I have and uh we welcome them come on up oh thank you so much thank you director Keane uh good evening president Robinson board member superintendent Staley and staff my name is Casey Taylor the executive director of achieve and it's really great to see you in person I've been watching you um and calling in and I'm really glad to be here thank you for the opportunity um I first I want to thank you for your thoughtful consideration of our Charter petition it's been a pleasure working with your staff and I appreciate the partnership that we've developed in the last couple of years we have so much respect for Chico Unified School District your leadership superintendent daily your programs and what you're doing for students it would be an honor for us to be an official part of Chico UniFi school district and I have to say again that we would not be here without your hospitality and I actually speak on behalf of every educator and student from Paradise chicao really opened up their arms to all of us and gave us a place to land and serve our students and and we wouldn't have been able to heal like we did without you all it actually really goes to show the heart of this district and Leadership that you're here for all kids in our County um I would like to introduce our board who actually we have one board member here the rest are watching tonight um and and we're coming in remotely Mike Welden Dave Dixon Kim gazet Christy Leo and then we have Whit mtic in the um audience with us we have a whole bunch of staff and students and parents who've joined us and so thank you for being in person here with us tonight Mr marshan has asked that we sing a song so we could do that later if you'd like to we have but we did bring a whole bunch of happy people so um we're we're happy and smiling underneath our masks I do want to introduce Corin babber our CBO and she can wave over there I think some of you know her Steve Wright our school principal and Mary Tickle is our special ed coordinator and mental health coordinator she's also our school psychologist and also we have Janelle ruy our legal counsel from Young mini and core up here joining us tonight too I do want to point out the majority of our staff have been with acheve for at least 10 years of the 15 years that we've been in operation five of our original n that we started with in 2005 are still on staff with us um I was the founding principal actually in 2005 Steve was our second grade teacher Corin and Mary were both founding families we call um achieve a familyowned and operated institution tonight Stephen Mary and I will talk about our program how we got to where we are now a little more about our facility our trauma recovery program current demographics our plan to recruit a population that Mir Chico Unified and then answer any questions and then you're also going to hear from two students that are going to just warm your heart three three um parents our trauma recovery specialist and one somebody from our support organization and then I think you also got some letters from our parents yes great okay so let's get started here's a Chief's Mission and we've been really true to this Mission over our 15 years we've Revisited a couple of times s looking to see if we needed to change it and we really haven't uh we are really focused on creating students to be positive contributors to society in the last two years we did add focus on building resilience because that was a place that we are at but I'm really proud of our vision actually so our vision is to change lives and communities by addressing cycles of poverty and addiction and really focusing on building resilience and mental health strategies so North Star achieve oh there we go has always been to close the achievement gap of our low-income students we've always had a priority in our lottery for low-income students and we've done a really good job with that actually being recognized as a California distinguish School twice for closing the achievement Gap we do believe in creating Community where every student has a sense of belonging that they feel like they belong to something bigger than themselves and something that they're proud of we aim to help our students build their identity and see themselves as an important part of their school community and their broader Community our staff also works really hard to have high expectations for every student and provide individualized support so that students can reach their goals and expectations and then we've created this culture of goal setting and personal accountability so I'm going to hand it over to Steve Wright our principal to talk about some of the program elements that help us achieve this vision still thanks Casey good evening president Robinson board members superintendent Staley and staff my name is Steve Wright and I'm the Pres uh the principal I'm not the president of anything I'm the principal of a chieve charter school and I plan to stay in Chico as the principal of our Chico site um as you can see on the screen um achieve is a small school by Design This is not the best fit for every student in the world but for students who need a small school and that specializ support it's lifechanging achiev is such a special place to be so talking about programs sometimes leads to curriculums and schedules and that's part of it but our program also really Embraces our philosophies and how we teach and how we learn and how we live our life without fail when we have people come on our campus for events or tours they always comment on the feel of our campus um it's such a hard thing to capture our program in a few words and we only have a few minutes here tonight so I want to take you on a little journey in what a day in the life of a student at achieve might look like we start the day every day for the last 16 years with morning assembly where we bring all of our students and staff together this is where we connect talk about life the virtues habits of success we celebrate learning and other events we do sing at those often so if you really want a song tonight our staff would probably do that just saying um when students head to class after morning assembly you see each of these program elements on the screen in action students know their goal and their plan for meeting their goal staff knows the students goals we're a full inclusion school and our students with IEPs learn in the General Ed setting almost exclusively General ed students are pulled out of the classroom at approximately the same rate as students with IEPs we've been working on our multiple tiered system of support for the last four years and some of the highlights of that process is that every student in our whole school has access to tier one two or three interventions as needed and that often changes throughout the year we've noted two new truths as we have become more trauma responsive in the last few years number one the more interventions that we can push to tier one and offer to everyone the better our students all receive training and strategies for self-regulation for example and that's done with our counselor and some of our mental health professionals some of our reading interventions from 10 years ago are now given to all second and third grade students the number two thing we have learned about being trauma responsive is that because all of our students have been through trauma they often move between the tears of concern sometimes they need a certain support for just a couple of weeks or months this happens frequently with students who have been through trauma it also happens to work great to allow that flexibility to all students because of this approach which is based on meeting the needs of students where they're at most times in our classrooms it's extremely difficult to tell which students have an IEP or which students are language Learners or had a bad day or having the best day of their academic career you would see successful students all day long in every class another signature practice that achieve is what we call plps it's on the screen and one of our students is going to mention it too before each school year begins and at least twice more throughout the year the student participates in a personalized learning plan conference or PLP during these plps teachers parents students together review progress set academic goals set social and emotional goals in grades four through eight students are assigned a mentor that they meet with weekly to discuss goals and the habits of success these PLP goals and follow through are fundamental to the success of our students um another focus of achieve is our um desire to always Implement research-based practices this has led to the implementation of summit a new curriculum that we started this year in grades four through eight a robust Esports program our orts lead teacher is here tonight which that includes extracurriculars and elective courses around Esports we have a focused on Project based learning and Mastery learning in all grades K through 8 we've worked hard to avoid the pendulum swings that often come with education and be able to do new and creative and Powerful things like Project based learning and still keep those practices that our teachers have known that work forever um our staff constantly has conversations during staff meetings evaluating the effectiveness of our curriculum and practices using data to guide the decision- making mostly we believe that learning best occurs when relationships are at the Forefront achieve operates like a family it gets messy sometimes because people really know each other but we've made the choice to really know each other and our students at a deep level and to do life together that's a huge part of our secret sauce achieve feels different when you walk on campus the first time because it's evident that students and staff know each other deeply um thank you for your time tonight and your thoughtful consideration we look forward to answering any questions that you have thanks Steve appreciate and uh so we'll just briefly go through how we got here uh Chie was founded in 2005 by community members staff and parents um actually our founding board member is was the late Jean even who was a former bcoe superintendent and Paradise Unified School District superintendent and we all had this vision for changing students lives and affecting our community of paradise we spent 12 years in Paradise um realizing our mission and vision closing the achievement gap for students helping our students set and Achieve goals and impact their lives this is um daily life at achieve in paradise and then this happened um and this is where everybody in bu County came together to support students um this is where superintendent Staley really took a leadership role in the county um providing resources and support for schools providing places to land she was was constantly reaching out to me to see if we were okay if we needed help with storage or professional development mental health support um on behalf of all the schools in Paradise we'll always be eternally grateful that Cho unified also the faith community in Paradise really stepped up they uh housed all six charter schools that were coming out of paradise we ended up at Life Church which is directly across the street over here behind behind us they loaned us their sanctuary their multi-purpose room their Sunday School classrooms and then they had a 2 acre Field behind them I'll have to mention that more than 90% of our students returned back to school that December 3rd and a lot of them coming from two hours away farther than reading farther than Sacramento driving every day because they needed to be with their school Community uh this day we lost our community my hometown the majority of my staff grew up in Paradise actually all 236 students of our students lost their homes 43 out of our 46 staff lost their homes this when Steve talks about we live trauma recovery we were working really hard to develop trauma informed practices at our school in Paradise um and now we are we lived it so um interesting about being at Life Church we didn't know how long we were going to be there we were thinking maybe just through the end of the year and then we'd all be able to go back up to Paradise um I have no construction knowledge at all and I'm a kindergarten teacher by trade so I'm thinking well they've got this beautiful field out here surely we can just dump a couple of Portables out there over winter break and then we can just work out of this this uh portable school and then we'll go back up to Paradise well um it actually uh took developers Architects Engineers PG cowat construction teams mobile modular bcoe it department the city of Chico our insurance companies and others to drop everything they were working on and help build us a School site in six months uh I will say that superintendent Staley did warn me she said it's going to take you longer to get this temporary facility that's already built into permanent status than it took you to actually build it uh and you right yep things are moving along though we're going to get it there but yeah it's taking a long time uh so here uh is the field and our students there here's some pictures of our students returning actually in the sanctuary one of the morning assemblies Mr Wright was talking about there's camera crews in that picture there were cameras on our site all that year and even last year a lot we did use every single ounce of the facility this is our math class in the sanctuary in the corner music class outside an intervention pullout class in the corner of the hallway our Littles were in the church nursery our second graders are rolling out their fold up tables and chairs uh they're they're working along cribs and um hi chairs they said Mrs Taylor can we take that sign down that says welcome Toddlers and babies I'm like no you can't this is their room you're borrowing it but they were just so glad to be back together our third grade literally in a storage closet um on folding tables and chairs but we really were just so thankful to be back to school we're using portapotty those stairs were an absolute Nightmare and then this was our playground the parking lot that broken down truck was basically the jungle gym a ton of of my uh my yard duties were like we got to get that truck out of there I'm like no they don't have anything to to climb on that's it so um I don't I think everybody was in trauma and just glad to be together somewhere that we didn't actually when we go back and look at this it's like that was insane but we were watching this building project go up behind us really thinking that it was going to be temporary but when it was created it was so magical so this is the day that we had our ribbon cutting I love this picture because of all of the logos that are on the back there of all the organizations and businesses that helped us get to this point including Chico Unified superintendent Staley was there on that day it was a super emotional day for all of us this is the celebration and this is part of our playground that whole summer as families were coming on campus to turn in paperwork they were walking into our office just with tears because it was this beautiful real school that we were going to this is a second grade classroom our kindergarten classroom was just absolutely lovely and we're just so grateful so this is the map the aerial view that's at the city right now for approval um we have gone through a traffic study we've done a landscaping review um we have just purchased the 19 Portables through mobile modul modular that are on this campus I think I mentioned to you that this was a $6 million building project um we currently have our application in with the county use department and then it will go to the city of Chico we have included in our Charter petition that we will not ask for prop 39 we do not need facility space uh we actually are entering into a 20-year lease with Life church so while this facility has offered us a place to heal and a wonderful place to call home our students and staff have a long way to go with full trauma recovery last year's Fire season was really rough and it hit our staff pretty hard and we had to dig deep into our resiliency toolbox but luckily because of our programs that we have we actually had resiliency tools in the toolbox to pull out and we didn't get stuck in post-traumatic stress we were able to bounce back out and keep functioning so while our students have more healing to do we are seeing growth as a result of our programs we've been tracking survey results from our fourth through eighth graders personally and then kindergarten through third grade with parent surveys over the past 3 years on concerns such as having nightmares having upsetting memories about the campfire um having difficulty with school assignments troubl starting activities they need to or even want to do for fun having difficulty sleeping having difficulty concentrating or getting along with peers you can imagine that pretty much any student in America right now takes this and probably marks yes it was our our statistics were really dismal when we took this the year of the fire we took it in November of last school year and we're seeing some wonderful improvements we took it again at the beginning of this year and saw some dips in the some of these areas again we're taking it at the end of this year again and we are hopeful that we're going to see some improvement because thankfully we were able to get students back on campus for most of the day starting in October which made a huge difference for these students that were already in trauma um so I'm going to turn it over to our mental health coordinator Mary Tickle to share about how we're serving students with emotional or social emotional learning and our trauma supports thank you Casey I'd like to share a little bit about my own story before I talk about the uh trauma recovery program just because these issues are very close to my heart um I also lost my home along with the 95% of our staff and students in the campfire and you might ask yourselves how do you move on how do you move on after you've lost everything and we asked ourselves that question too but we realized because of the family atmosphere at achieve that's how you move on you do it together the research on trauma indicates that we can heal with the help of a of a supportive network of people and Achieve is that Network for me and for many others at our school it's my anchor when things are in chaos at the time of the fire I was working part-time with a cheve and part-time with the Glen County Office of Education I was serving five different schools I couldn't even think clearly after the fire and so I had to take a leave of absence from gcoe just to get my head together to try to get my life together but instead of taking time off I kept finding myself at acheve even on the days when I wasn't scheduled to work I needed to be with my people with the people who had a shared experience with me and in the M midst of the chaos it was very comforting to be there with those going through the same things that first year we had to shift our Focus to the emotional needs of our students with the help of many individuals that Casey's been mentioning um we provided different things counseling art activities for self-expression downtime built into our school day reduced academic pressure Brain Breaks mindfulness relaxation activities time in nature things like that so we're rising from the ashes we're overcoming our own trauma to become a trauma-informed school we know how to help kids learn despite their circumstances and now it's our turn to give back we're showing post-traumatic growth we're better than before and even covid hasn't derailed us because we know how to bounce back so how are we doing that what do our programs look like as Steve mentioned our staff has been trained in trauma responsive teaching behavior management our staff also needed some support themselves so we participated in circles of support through the but County Office of Education we've participated in different trainings by uh experts Ricky Robertson Laura Vander lipsky Bruce Perry David shonfeld so we've learned a lot about how to respond to trauma we've participated in trauma responsive systems training through bcoe and we're working on implementing that as well as the uh seal community of practice through bocoe and they're offering ongoing trainings and support foral implementation Steve also mentioned our habits of success and virtues projects that are that are introduced in our morning assembly and then our teachers work throughout the week to integrate that in any moment that they can so that the children are internalizing those skills and then on Fridays we award the students who have been showing those virtues we also have an afterschool program designed by Jess Mercer our trauma recovery specialist also a local artist and many other skills that she has she's designed the balance brain project for trauma recovery our first grade teacher Sarah kevit has been piloting anal program called think social and so we've receed some grant funding to be able to purchase that curriculum for our K through 4 population it teaches relationship skills and self-regulation skills so we'll be implementing that in the coming years uh Casey mentioned the screener that we administer for mental health monitoring the self assessment for fourth through e8th and the parent assessment for kindergarten through third grade that helps us to Red Flag students to identify those in need or just to understand if we need to take some of our uh interventions and move them between the different tiers that Casey was referring to we've had to push some of our tier 2 interventions which would normally be for a small percentage of our school maybe 10 to 15% we've pushed that down into tier three an example of that is the bounce back curriculum that's typically used for small groups but Tina Smith our fire recovery counselor has taken it and adapted it for use with whole classrooms so she's gone in almost every classroom on our campus and taught strategies for calming self-regulation and Trauma recovery we also offer school-based counseling we've served 44 students on our campus this year nearly a quarter of our school population they've received at least one visit between either myself Tina Smith bu County Behavioral Health youth for change we also have a Chico State graduate student in school psychology who serves students we also have a crisis response team for suicide prevention and Intervention which includes suicide risk assessments training for staff students parents and we make referrals to outside agencies and then finally we have parent training where we've taught things like recognizing symptoms of anxiety and depression how to recognize when your child might need something further counseling and also strategies for managing behavior and academic supports and we have plans to carry that into the future uh school years as well thank you well thank you Mary I'm really proud of the work that our staff has [Music] done and um let me see here I might have just lost my next stack of notes okay well we'll just get going here so um who are these students that we're talking about this we do have 94% of our students um are campfire survivors we know that that's going to change in the coming years as as we go on but we have noticed as we've lost students who have moved out of state we have backfilled with families from Paradise we joke not really joke that we become a campfire refugee camp um but that is actually we felt like that's really what we're called to do and who we're called to serve right now in the chico Community is is students who need to be with Paradise folks for the time being again we know that this is going to change and so we do want to make sure that we are reaching out to the chico community so that our demographics will mirror the chico Community uh we have plans to hit churches the Spanish language radio grocery stores preschools health clinics bu County employment and Social Services in Spanish and English we would love to work with your staff on creating anou if you'd be interested in that on our Outreach plans timelines if there's other ethnicities or languages you'd like to us to reach out to we would be more than happy to do that so um we do want to turn it over to questions but I do also want to mention that you know achieves Vision to really focus on students in Trauma from low-income families and in addiction really came out of my own personal experience growing up in paradise and our staff really jumped and embraced that and I really feel like before the fire we were headed to be a really um successful trauma informed school and I believe now because our staff is actually living it every day with themselves and their students they are one of the most talented trauma informed staff I think in bu County and we would um really consider and an honor to be in Chico and share what we've learned and work in partnership with Chico Unified and maybe bring some kind of value to the community in the way that Chico has brought value to us over the years so with that um do board members have questions thank you um yes Dr Kaiser Casey you and I were at a panel a number of years ago and then I came to your opening and uh along with Kelly and uh it was a very joyful occasion the kids were so happy and the parents and all that but I think the fact that it's horrible to talk about this is good luck but the fact that you already were headed towards a trauma response framework and then incredible trauma happens to your entire community and then for us in bu county is continued to happen I mean we've had the North Community fires and uh many people many many people have been displaced uh and haven't known where to turn to so I really want to compliment you and your staff and your parents and students and teachers uh I think that um you're a model that other parents and uh teachers might want to come and just observe and participate in so they too will have that sense that as difficult as it's been for all of us uh I mean those in the midst of it certainly no question greater than anybody else but almost all of us know somebody who is now in our neighborhood as a refugee um and planning to live there but they're still I think you know affected by that Refugee framework of mind so uh just congratulate you and it was a very uh emotionally resilient presentation thank you well I appreciate that Dr Kaiser and I I thought um Steve was maybe going to mentioned he keeps saying oh my goodness all those things that we were practicing and implementing and training they actually work can I say something about that thanks Dr Kaiser we talked about that exact same thing that you just mentioned all the time and our first school initiative around trauma um was in 2017 so we do feel like we were very poised and obviously that was for a reason so yeah and we think and that was around Asus studies we were not prepared preparing for a fire trauma but we believe these strategies would work for any types of trauma so thanks for that I have I have a a question and and a thank you for your presentation and for the responses to some questions earlier um I did have um I noticed that your percentage of students with IEPs was at 9% which is which is low for you know the average as usually usually between 11 and 12 um any thought about um you know why your percentage with IEPs is is low is are they being accommodated without an i or yeah up a guess we've had a lot of conversations about that actually because our personalized learning plans that every student has is basically a student study team so every single student starts their achieve career with with a student study team tracking how they're doing and what supports they need and so we don't move to the IEP process until we feel like the supports that are put in place aren't working and they need that tier three level of support and so we feel like and because we've pushed so many interventions like Steve was talking about um and and Mary were talking about that would normally be in tier two we just push them all in tier one right off the bat we feel like we've actually caught uh learning disabilities that didn't have to be identified and we could work through those and give students the tools they needed to be successful that certainly makes sense and I'm uh you know thrilled to see that some of the things that I know we've tried to model in Chico Unified with um uh mainstreaming our our kiddos especially in the lower grades that your um process obviously is a um example of why that works and and we continue to head in that direction um you know as as much as we can with with our obviously we have a few more kids yeah which is which is what sometimes the barrier is but knowing that it works is what keeps us striving to head in that direction so thank you it takes a lot of staff and a lot of flexibility and and we are fortunate because we're so small we can do things quickly that take a big District like yourself a a lot of um time to move forward you you all I did I did want to mention I realized I didn't think that I had my next page of no but they're sitting right here in front of me um that the the diversity is a really huge issue for us coming out of paradise without not with not much diversity at all except for income levels in Chico we are really reaching out and trying to bring diverse perspectives and ethnic perspectives not only to our student body but also bring that onto our parent advisory Council onto our board as well we did just bring Kim gazet onto our board as a community member and she's just retired from bu County as the migrant Ed director and she brings a wealth of perspectives to us and connections and resources to really help our staff um serve a diverse population we also were very intentional in our hiring this year for our staff looking to expand our diversity and we're able to do that so we're really excited about that and I just wanted to make sure that you knew that that was a goal for us okay we are at the point in the agenda where I need to open a public hearing yes I we will continue after I I have now opened the public hearing um Miss Doby you had a comment during the public hearing um yeah I guess it is more of a comment and uh first of a a thank you for your presentation um my comment is that I really appreciate um your fully inclusive model um and everything else that's been said um is I I want to Echo and just um really commend you for for taking that deep dive into equity and inclusiveness when it comes to students and students who've been experiencing trauma um and uh in a very very small capacity I I empathize with with um The Fallout of the campfire um as a teacher having taken in 15 Paradise students you know coming back from Thanksgiving break and kind of going through that experience um it takes a big toolbox to um really come out of that and and the resiliency in those kids was it was awesome and it was emotional and I just think that what you're doing is amazing and so thank you for thank you for serving those kids and those families well thank you for saying that and I mean all the Kudos goes to this lovely happy group of folks right up here who've just been working literally day and night for the last three years to just take care of their babies in their community and so they're they're they're a remarkable group up there okay now that the public hearing is open we are open for public comment we have three no excuse me we have six signed up um Phil could we go with the first um that is correct they do have two students that want to speak so we wanted to have them go up first please just go ahead and state your name as you start for good evening board members and staff my name is James Martin and I am an eighth grader at achieve trear school I am excited to go to PV next year I am excited to start the new cooking program I made a list of things I would like to tell you about my experience at achieve number one I studied at achieve in sixth grade before achieve I struggled in school number two achieve is family number three teachers and staff know me and my family number four I achieve my goals that are set at my P l p the teachers and staff know where I struggle with my work they helped me set goals to fix the parts that I struggle with number five after the fire I didn't know where I belonged and a chief show me that where I belonged number six my kindergarten brother was afraid after the fire that he wouldn't see his friends and teachers uh he was sad that he Lo we lost our house number six I walked my little brother to his classroom to show him that his teacher and his his classmates were okay and that everything would be fine number eight after the fire the staff knew how I felt they knew I didn't feel like I belonged here but they show me I belonged at a cheve number nine after the fire I had a friend in reading and a friend in Orville my friends and I all made an effort to stay in school and Achieve our parents made a sacrifice to drive to Chico so we could stay at achieve number 10 I feel that the staff wants us to succeed at school and become World Changers thank you for letting me speak thank [Applause] [Music] you hello School Port hello school board members my name is aah Simmons and I a seventh grader at a chief charter school I have a been at I have been at a chief since kindergarten and I've been able to stay there because of a chief getting back together so quickly after the campfire and covid-19 I have a close relationship with my peers as I have gone to school with them my whole life when a Chie reopened after the fire I felt excited to go back and see my friends and feel a sense of normality my experiences at a chief have been very positive the teachers and staff work hard to make your day better the teachers make class engaging which improves the school day tremendously our teachers have safely extended the school day so kids can get back to school in the rhythm of school achieve has shaped me into the young adult I am today at morning assembly we talk about habits of success or virtues I know how to handle conflict teachers and counselors give great tips on how to ground and calm yourself which is very important for stress teens school is a safe environment for me one of the things that is most helpful for me is talking to my mentor a few times a month my mentor talks to me about strategies for how to complete my work as well as giving me advice about relationships and life in general without a chieve I wouldn't be where I am today thank you for your [Applause] consideration up next we have a Community member Jesse Mercer Jesse Mercer here good evening board thank you so much for having me tonight and I'm not sure how to follow that but I'm going to try 895 days that's how long it's been since we landed here my neighbors my friends and my family flew from their sanctuaries their homes their schools their businesses and some of us with our morning cofes without any notice we landed and were deeply embraced by our neighboring city of Chico at the height of our emotional and physical wounds and when we arrived we showed up tattered hungry scared and uncertain of the strength it would take to recover from the campfire yet flocking by the thousands has only led to deeper rooted sense of community we were offered shelter clothing love and empathy immediately with no questions asked families were taken in by their trust circles employees were redirected into local jobs to support themselves and profoundly schools were transplanted into various locations such as airport terminals abandoned schools and so many more like an ash building but it did not take long although uncomfortable at first to begin settling into these new routines the expectations that were there and allowing support to guide aspects of our resiliency we flew into the nest of our neighbors and supporters with little to provide in return and now with some of that time of passed our own nest have become more full full of a deeper understanding of community and what we are able to offer that Community full of supporting hundreds of thousand hundreds of families who now reside in Chico and Paradise area and those that plan to stay in their new found homes I wear a lot of hats in the community one of which was kindly mentioned before as being a community artist I like to think more of myself as a community advocate in the last three years of my life I suffered a stroke I've lost my hometown and yet I have created what I think is one of the most interesting programs to land into a school I started the balance brain project with one intention in mind I really wish that was for me when I was younger I wish that somebody took the time to understand that my academics didn't just come in a book that it also needed to be sprouted out of my imagination I needed someone to see me for The Unique diverse individual that I was that often did not fit the fabric of paradise but it has been since I have arrived at achieve bringing pieces to make a mural that was detachable with hopes that it would shift and continue to Blossom as they move forward and did 15 for schools including those in Chico and Durham along the way it has been a privilege and an honor to serve a cheve I hope to advocate for their stay and resiliency in this community and thank you so much for letting me do my part to stay and Tall with them thank you okay up next we have Deborah thank you good evening and thank you for allowing me to share with you tonight I am a parent I have a son Nathan who's 19 and I'm short and I attended uh he attended aeve from fourth to eighth grade I also have a daughter Rachel who's 13 and she's been in achieve since kindergarten she'll actually graduate from 8th grade here uh next month now during my son's time at aieve I was very impressed by how he developed relationships there aieve has always had a really amazing student population and Nathan has always been the kind of kid who was accepting of anybody if they were friendly and kind he would be their friend and this is something that his dad and I always encouraged it's something we've taught our children but having a child in a school that has that culture and that supports that value is so amazing now Nathan is a typical kid he went through all of the growth pains and maturity awkwardness that any kid goes through and because he's my first I was so grateful to have a chieve uh to support me and say Hey you know this is normal don't freak out don't worry all the kids are doing it I'm surprised we survived sixth grade now my daughter is a whole different story Rachel was diagnosed with autism just before her third birthday and we're so grateful to have a chieve um on our team throughout this journey Rachel's growth every year has been amazing she's changed from a timid shy little girl who would cover her eyes with bright lights or her ears to loud sounds to a young lady who advocates for herself she knows now how to ask for what she needs to be successful and manage her sensory needs um with accommodations Rachel has been able to stay and participate in a mainstream classroom for all of her education so far and achieve cheve has always gone out of their way to provide whatever resources were necessary for her to be successful in that classroom now we of course are a paradise campfire family and so you often hear from campfire survivors and you heard the term from uh Casey tonight about our resilience um our ability to cope and recover from crisis it's such a common word that Sierra Nevada has actually named a beer after it so a big part of that resilience for my family has been because of the support that a chief charter school has provided um the school especially has given Rachel but by extension my entire family a sense of balance and stability Rachel does not handle change well okay like at all so we're very grateful for their support thank you thank you okay um I'm going to be calling Laura Kerr voice message I will try again Laura hi my name is D Morgan I'm a chief Unified School District um you have a card you sent in to address the board okay um you'll have three minutes at the 30 second Mark I'll give you a a bill and you have 30 seconds left great okay go ahead I hung up on we're back I apologize okay thanks okay go ahead and address the board hi there my name is Laura Kerr and the chief program officer with the 360 accelerator education Partners I'm here here tonight in support of achieved Char School of course I'm calling in from Sacramento to provide an endorsement for Casey Taylor uh who is a passionate and experienced School leader both locally and Statewide she's a member of 360 accelerator where she connects with other school leaders to elevate her leadership to improve student outcomes for all she convenes the weekly but County Charter leaders meeting to solve problems and share best practices across the county she's also member of the California Charter Schools Association member Council where she monitors Trends in public education and Prov provides a voice for Charter leaders in the North State under her leadership uh we've heard and she has accomplished amazing things especially being named at California disor school twice and she's also been able to attract uh philanthropic support from outside of ute County uh from the Walton family foundation and the Gerard Foundation um bringing additional resources to kids here um who need it most Casey is a terrific leader and cheve is a great school and a great team uh I think they will continue to complement the work that's being done here at Chico Unified and I hope that you'll approve achieve when the petition's set for a vote next month thanks thank you okay we had one other one was a parent they did not list their name but um they did give me the last four numbers of their phone so if you're a parent present that submitted a card okay come on up sorry apparently I can't follow directions so um good evening everyone my name is Amber and I currently have two children enrolled at the amazing achieve charter school one in fourth grade and another in eighth grade about to be a high schooler which is very terrifying after losing our home in the campfire we had to relocate to Chico and we're lucky enough to have a chieve charter relocate with us a chieve charter has been so beneficial to my children both academically and emotionally my children's Graves have improved dramatic since transferring them their last year my son's emotional state since the campfire has changed for the better due to the support from the wonderful faculty had achieve those are his words not mine I was lucky enough to coach the Middle School boys basketball team last year which I missed terribly this year and look forward to being involved in coaching for my younger child in the years to come I love being involved at achieve for the enthusiasm from the staff to the students is in a class all their own all of the parents I've spoken to that have kids at aieve have all raved about how well their children are excelling they are definitely an asset to the community and the City of Chico short and sweet because I have a fear of public speaking so thank you thank you okay we're finished with the requests for public comment I'm going to uh close the public hearing okay board do you uh have a motion relative to this uh item so if I can interject really fast the yes Tina uh next month the motion will uh will come back for um a vote right that's my understanding T there's nothing to act on now okay my script is incorrect I'll fire Erica uh don't fire Erica okay um it is kind of a a multi-step process yes yes I'm I am normally aware of that okay um do you have any additional requests for presentation next next time anything I don't I just think uh they've done a wonderful job presenting and uh it will come up a vote on the 19th May 19th so um I just appreciate the thoroughness of the presentation I have an an inquiry um I know that they are doing a tremendous job with their trauma informed uh processing you know dealing with Aces and other things how are we able to share their experiences with with us for the things that are working that we might be able to do and our sharing with them um information about things that Innovative things that we may be trying that that they might um want to take a look at what's the sharing process like I would venture to say the sharing is very open you know we we are fortunate we have a very good relationship with our charters in Chico and uh with a cheve as well getting to know them and working together with all schools I think Chic unified is always very open to that I know I am and I always love to to look at new ideas and see how we can do our work better and vice versa with achieve I don't I have not known them long but I look forward to working with them and I appreciate their presentation tonight thank you to all the families that came out and the kids especially that spoke it is not easy to come up here and speak so thank you for being brave enough to do that and uh I I know it's late I'm so sorry but uh thank you for being here tonight yes thank you okay we will move on to um our next item which is the uh Business Services item one informational summer projects update maybe maybe we can let them leave and thank them since they have school tomorrow thanks guys oh yes we'll give them a minute while I pick up my thank you everyone we're ready to go so um just want to point out we bring this list to you as we typically do and these projects will be funded out of the routine restricted maintenance account resource 8150 uh we have to spend 3% of our Budget on Main maintaining our facilities and this um constitutes a portion of that expenditure so I'll turn that over to John Carver and Eric ger to go over the list and show you what we plan to get done this summer related to maintenance good evening board thank you for having us thank you Kevin for explaining the our Rama portion for us um I know everybody should have our spreadsheet and you have it up there on your screen yes um a lot of these um projects that we do in the summer is because we cannot do them during the normal school year which we haven't had this last school year but um we go through during the course of our work and identify some of the areas that need more attention for the rrma side versus just our regular work order system uh a couple of things I want to point out is on your first one under f-wing roofing for Chico high school if you look over all the way on to the right it'll say we'll bring the contract back to the board because we have to put that out to bid because it's over a certain dollar amount and that's going out to bid next week and we'll bring that back at the next board meeting and then down all the way at the bottom it is highlighted those are for Esser dollars that still needs to be discussed for outdoor drinking fountains um playground equipment HVAC filters and climate control is there anything on this list that you would like to know anything about specifically Mr tennis um this is a good time to talk about the drinking fountains yes um where I come from a half a million dollars is a lot of money um what is it about this drinking fountain program that is worth that so um what we propose with the drinking fountains is our concern is when the kids come back full-time in the fall keeping our kids hydrated right now our drinking fountains are currently closed kids cannot use them because of the very nature of a drinking fountain that goes from your mouth drips back onto the faucet so what we're proposing with this money is to switch out our current drinking fountains with bottle fillers that'll have the option of a drinking fountain that we can keep closed until the pandemic allows us to open it and it'll also have a bottle filler so students can bring bottles from home be able to fill those bottles up at the drinking fountains um our concern is basically just keeping kids hydrated the dollar amounts so high because we have a lot of drinking fountains and if you look at the condition of a majority of them especially in our elementary schools they're original to when the schools were built so most of them have not been upgraded they're in in pretty rough shape and we don't really have that many bottle fillers so if we're going to have students on campus full-time we have to find a way to hydrate them and I don't think plastic water bottles is a uh sustainable option and I would just add within this budget amount it also includes the possibility of running um water lines to different locations on campus and power because there is some electrical components to these bottle fillers um I'm sorry Mr I want to keep kind of keep going with the bottle fillers a little bit I have some more information I want to bring bring up but um go ahead we already have a lot of Bot bottle fillers I mean does anybody here no by a lot I mean in the campuses that I've been to I always see a bottle filler there um does Chico Jr have a bottle filler I don't see Mr Shephard here so to help kind of answer that most of our schools probably have at least one bottle filler usually on campus somewhere what we're looking at doing is replacing every drinking fountain um on especially focusing on the elementaries and that number it we had to come up with a number to present to the board so if we don't use all that money we just want to make sure we're covered and if you look at how many drinking fountains are out on the the grounds not very many of those are Bott bottle filler options and that's what we're trying to provide is where the kids are out during PE during recess um we want to make sure they have options to stay hydrated okay I I have some uh input questions back when legislation was passed a few years ago that required us to have drinking water free you know available to the students at a certain level if my memory serves me we were very deficient in being able to meet the requirement of how much free water was available to our students will this bring us more in compliance with that state mandate on how much water needs to be available to our students Eric I'm not aware of a mandate so I'm I'm sorry president Robinson I'm not aware of a specific State mandate on on volume of water to provide we could look into that for you yeah I am unaware of that mandate as well I do know that our uh kindergarten classrooms and the kindergarten areas in particular are always asking for more drinking fountain space um areas where the kids don't have to wait in line as long and have better access to drinking fountains so that's been a priority for us for a while to try to improve the amount of drinking fountains we have at the school sites you know I may be associating what I'm remembering with what needed to be made available at at lunchtime it may have been tied to to that issue but something out there said you got to give the kids a lot of water so thank you Eric you're welcome and I'm I know this is an important issue for the health of our kids and just to clarify um the the bottle filler good time to talk about it because we have some experts can answer the board's questions but that will come uh later on the Esser allocation piece because you note that this list has those items below related to Esser so any of the items currently for this agenda item are all the items above uh that total $866,000 um Dr Kaiser yes so uh most of you may be uh too young to have seen this kind of uh material but Typhoid Mary was a plague that was carried in part by an individual who had no overt symptoms but every place she went public water fountains kids adults put their mouths on it it was incredibly common and trying to keep a kid from sticking their mouth on a water fountain is very very difficult um they literally when they realized that she was the who was spreading it uh locked her up an institution I think for the rest of her life because they couldn't cure her but they also couldn't contain her spread so I think in this situation this is a perfect time for us to go and change out these really contaminating water fountains uh with something that we can control and that they can still get water so I think it's a excellent idea I uh Miss Doby yes but ju let me uh stick in one question before my old brain forgets it um when we go through lists like this for approval even though it doesn't say um uh not to exceed that my experience is as a board member that when we approved all it is that understanding that it's a not to exceed amount and that if it goes beyond what we've already approved you guys come back to us and say hey we're sorry but we're going to need another uh $50,000 to finish this that's correct and that's why I think John appropriately pointed out a construction project that has to go out to bid it's an allocation estimate at this point in time but we would bring that back to you if it was more than what the board approved thank you Miss Dolby I'm sorry for interrupting oh no that's fine um originally my question was going to be about um what the requirement is because I'm I was sure that there must be somewhere written per number of students there must be so many drinking fountains um so I looked it up and it's here uh on the cde.ca.gov website it's one drinking fountain per 150 students and I would add to that with the bottle fillers that that is going to be a much more efficient system than a drinking fountain that can contaminate and and pass germs but also um that tend to be misused a little bit more than the bottle fillers and bottle fillers go into a bottle and uh then the students have it for a longer period of time so I'm I'm in full support of bottle fillers across the board personally um but yeah that one one drinking fountain per 150 I don't know if that is the same if there's any kind of like adjustment for bottle fillers or if it's the same you know um thing I just wanted to to address that question that came up a moment ago yes Mr tennis bottle fillers are closed right now I know because I saw one today I I toured an elementary school and the bottle filler was closed um so I mean I I'm confused because they're it's so essential we have to have access to it but we've closed them all off right now I'm I'm if we really have this need then then why are we closing off The Fountains we already have yeah I can look into that the bottle filler station should be opened right now only the drinking fountain portion should be be closed off some of them might have a control that only allows you to shut off water in one location that shuts off both of them um in those situations generally what we've been doing is bagging those and wrapping the drinking fountain so if there is one closed off I'll look into that I'd probably add that um anything that's closed right now for covid restrictions aren't going to be closed forever and these decisions that we're making are going to be for long-term infrastructure so um probably notable that these onetime monies get spend on things that are going to last for a long time and like I said earlier if you look at the overall condition of our drinking fountains in general this is something that's been needed to be done so this is I think a good allocation of the money um I wanted to mention too when I was visiting at Chic Jr a couple of years ago actually now we were talking about the um moving to the kids being able to have their own bottles from home with them which was a change I mean for the longest time you couldn't bring stuff to school I considered anyway and one of the things that the teacher mentioned was that it was so nice once they allowed kids to bring their own bottles because they get thirsty during class and they weren't asking to go out to go get a drink they had the bottle right there with them on their desk and so it was much more um convenient for the teacher convenient for the student and you don't have to recycle a reusable bottle huh oh yes there we go oh my goodness now that is a water bottle so I just um would ask the board this time really the RMA is already budget line item in already allocated so really this is information only for the summer projects will be completed the bottle fillers specifically will come back at another agenda item so if there's a question about the summer work we'd be happy to answer that but again we aren't asking him for Action we're just providing some information um this is an information only item and uh do we have any requests for public comment I don't see any okay thank you then uh Eric and John you're done thank you thanks guys you do great work thank you very much yes thank you so much for all you're doing okay can't get the mouse to move yep it's this is the um housing plan and the pupil Grant grants for new construction funding of a cafeteria multi-use room at PV High School J Julie are you live yes I am can you hear me yes we can thank you good evening good evening uh thank you for having me tonight um this is a public hearing so I do need you to open the public hearing please I'll open the public hearing on this issue thank you so this issue is um the resolution is regarding a funding application for our project that's well underway at Pleasant Valley High School uh we are replacing the current balla Hall that is under sized for the student population at Pleasant Valley High School we're using a uh school facilities program called minimum essential facilities um which which we have to show that valhala is inadequate and that we needed a larger space to to feed the students in our population at Pleasant Valley High School um because we're funding a project that is a cafeteria and not a classroom the office of pool of public school construction requires that we pass a resolution where the board is acknowledging that they are utilizing These funds outside of housing students in a classroom environment and um Ty basically the um California Department of Ed loads a classroom at 27 pupils and so this would be saying that at Pleasant Valley High School we're going to be loading at 31 to1 which is uh below what our normal loading is uh for the funding of this project thank you Julie um board members do you have any questions of Miss kle regarding this uh request okay then I'm going to ask is there any public comment that's been and no public comment requested then I'm going to close the public hearing okay um I would like to move uh the passing of resolution number 15 33-21 in order to meet the state requirements um and the application of this funding for the cafeteria multi-use room pbhs you just answered my question do we have a second I'll second okay we have a motion by Dr Kaiser a second by member Doby you want to take a drink regarding passing resolution number 1533-1603 okay board we have no further discussion indicated all those in favor indicate by saying I I passes unanimously okay bid authorization for site work and installation of one relocatable building at Sherwood over by Chapman yes so this Project's been a in the works for quite some time it will occur on the property that is owned by Sherwood montauri School uh directly adjacent to Chapman Elementary School in Chapman town uh you might recall that that used to be County uh property there so we had gone through the building um approval process with the county and then had to restart and go through it with the city of Chico so it took quite some time time uh it did bid just the other day and we were very happy to receive five uh competitive bids um all of them local companies and the lowest responsive bidder was RNR horn for $225,500 which is well under our construction budget so we are thrilled um to bring forward to you tonight for bid approval to move move forward with contracts with RNR horn thank you okay board do I have a motion on this item so moved second I have a motion and a second um no public comment thank you so uh I call for the vote all those in favor signify by saying I I I I thank thank you passes unanimously okay charger School Julie um background information you want to present on why this is coming before us yes so the measure K charter school facility committee has met and approved a project to bring forward to you as board a project at Force Ranch Charter School to provide some outdoor lighting that will light the southern portion of their parking lot they've had some uh issues with um some unsavory folks hanging out um in the evenings and they would like to be able to light that parking lot up uh so when their staff is coming and going they're they feel safer so the project request is for $110,000 and like I said the charter facility committee already approved it and they do have enough funds that were allocated through measure K to cover the project thank you um board any questions of Miss kissell no public comment okay do I have a motion I'm move to approve this item I second I have a motion by board member Dolby a second by Dr Kaiser um any further discussion by the board okay I call for the vote all those in favor signify by saying I I thank you passes unanimously oh the free removals I'll bet you this is yours still miss Kissle it is thank you so you may remember uh about a month and a half ago we came to the board um requesting one tree to be removed in this area and mentioned that we would be bringing back another item for additional trees so that brings us to where we're at today um when we developed the stadium project at Chico high school we did remove um some large sycamore trees that were in line with these trees that you can see uh in the diagram provided um we we try to be very conservative when it comes to removing trees and um we I guess looking back we probably should have taken the entire row at the time time and we did not so now we are experiencing some issues uh pointed to with the arrows on the diagram the debris that lands on the track um you can see the track is clean now but when the leaves are falling and the pods from the tree are falling on the track they have stained uh the track in some places and it's become a maintenance issue um there's a number of other issues that have come into play with the trees that are discussed in the agenda lead sheet I do want to mention to you that we have assistant principal Brandon Kesler on the zoom he's been so patient um being with us tonight and he's here to also answer any questions um that you might have about the specifics of the site uh so I'll open it up to any questions that you might have Dr Kaiser well I wasn't familiar with this type of asht tree so I looked it up it's one of 10 trees that they say never ever plant in your yard um so my comment is simply I mean I think this is really critical uh having a track that got put in at Great expense be uh damaged by these trees but also I really do think think that um we need to be far more careful about the kind of trees we plant because I mean it was literally just put it in and it immediately came up don't plant this tree and uh for all the reasons that you cited here so Brandon fix it thank you Dr Kaiser Miss Doby uh yeah what's um what's our policy or our plan plan for replacing trees that are removed um just in general either nearby or on another campus or is there a replacement policy or or plan um and can we clarify that at this time kle we do not have a current policy for tree replacement but I as I did note in the lead sheet when we developed the stadium we we planted over 40 new trees when we removed only eight so as part of every construction project where we're doing uh Landscaping we're typically replacing over 200% of you know the trees that we're removing um we're only removing trees if they are a health and safety issue thank you Julie any other questions board this this seems more like a convenience issue than a health and safety issue in my opinion but I'm going to just leave it at that well actually um it is causing quite a bit of problem um on the baseball field which is on the other side of these photos to the left of the main photo in the center where they are shading the field so when the kids are playing out there they have a portion of the field that is in full sun and then they're transitioning into full shade and uh when they're playing their sport it is um it is a bit of a risk when they can't see a ball coming at them suddenly um so that is a safety issue as well as on the track um the PE the the pods that fall down from the tree um are slippery and the leaves are very slippery on the track as well and although our crews do a great job at trying to keep it cleaned up in the fall you know it's it's really hard to keep up with and I'll add on to what Julie was saying as well um every year these trees like Dr Kaiser was talking about they drop everything and they drop everything all at once um and and then begins to rain they drop on that track that whole corner you can kind of see it in that middle picture right there um that slight shadow in the corner um that's actual staining that is taking place on the track so my fear is um the excessive wear and tear on this track and in that just one location um that that could happen as a result of continual just dropping they sit um it's you know it's it's not as simple as hey they drop you go out there and you pick them up um we we have a phenomenal grounds keeper but he's one guy taking care of 40 acres and we have a beautiful campus um with with a lot of great trees that that like to drop a lot of leaves so um that that's my my big concern there um as well as that that small area um as you can see those trees and it was kind of discussed these trees were planted by a former baseball coach prior to this Stadium being built um prior to us having an all- weather track as well and like Julie said they extended um all the way down uh towards us in this the picture in the middle um as we're looking at it um so now that we have this Stadium we have this track we have this fencing all those leaves drop and they sit in that area um and create you know damage to to all the other uh infrastructure that's in there that those that baseball area behind those trees to the right of them in that Center picture um that's a batting cage for our baseball program um there's storage containers there um so that that's my main concern um as well as the limbs dropping uh you know we've had a lot of wind as of lately as well baseball starting up um in the springtime right now typically Springtime is baseball season um and a lot of Storms and winds and we're constantly going out there and and hoping that a limb you know doesn't fall during a game during a windy game um and like Dr Kaiser said they're they're they're not the best trees to plant right there yeah I agree with that assessment for sure I I I would definitely feel a lot more strongly about removing trees if it was a different species um however I my original question was um if there's a plan to plant any more trees uh triggered by the removal of these three trees or is that not something that we're going to follow this up with oh Kevin thank you I'd like to answer that we are happy to replace a one for one so if we take out a tree we're happy to find a better location I'd actually like to ask for a five to one just like was done for this project if it was 40 trees were planted for the eight that were removed it would be nice to see that continued as a 5: one as far as a grown tree and the carbon offset and the shade that it provides and etc etc the benefits of of having more tree would be better Miss Doby um along the back side of the bleachers there along Warner uh we wanted to plant large trees there where we had to take out some of the CER trees in order to build the the bleachers however there were overhead power lines there and P would only allow us to plant trees that were only going to grow very they were ornamental so they weren't going to grow really tall um I would suggest that we we take some time to have a look at that area back there and now that PG in the city of Chico and Chico State and Chico Unified are working together to underground those power lines we may be able to plant some some nice trees that will um replace these trees and become mature and large um and provide shade to the sidewalk along Warner and behind the bleachers that would be a really nice Improvement to the stadium thank you um do I have a a motion I move 10.
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any questions your team has done a fabulous job on providing services within our district and like you said there's so many benefits of keeping them close by if we can so thank you for the update thank you all right then we're going to go on to 7.5 which is our monthly governing board fiscal year 2021 our mno financial report for march does anyone have any questions regarding our monthly governing report all right thank you then we're going to go on to 7.6 our major maintenance and capital projects dr fowler president reese members of the board it's my pleasure to present information regarding our proposed our proposal for major maintenance and capital projects joining me tonight is mr benny buhultz our director of maintenance and we go to the first slide there thank you first of all when you look back on how our department has operated these past five years our focus has really been working on receiving funds through the state facilities board we have been extremely successful with the state building renewal grant process and our district has received over 60 million dollars in grant funding from the sfb since 2016.
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those were for contracted services that included the tent rentals that we did you know back in the fall it also includes the intraday cleaning that we um had done during this period which ended december 31st for the grant but that service still continues so that's part of that 000 and then supplies for sanitizing disinfecting ppe school buildings i think those speak for themselves 99 295 and 116 0832 and then finally we had a supply separately and submitted under the grant received two thousand dollars for sanitizing the buses in between runs on a daily basis so the total of of those six categories is the 706 so 75 that you know we previously received and um i think made you know very good use of the 706 000 by the way didn't cover all our covert related expenses but that was the maximum amount of the grant and we fully realized all of that grant i think this is probably a good time you know to pause and take any questions as we you know kind of cover 2021 before we get into 21-22 uh tim first yeah um did you within your accounting system so you know what that number is what's the number at least for this time period you said it was 706 what was your big number above and beyond that it's about a million dollars i mean so 300 000 difference correct okay got it which came out of our operating budget yeah and it was was it basically the same sort of items or anything like radically different for two hundred thousand dollars i mean the one additional incremental item i would refer to is the revenue loss for food service yeah so that's included in that in that million dollars roughly and that is in the finance report we can go through more of those details later if you'd like thank you all three grants are federal grants federal monies but we know that federal money allocated two states states then have the responsibility of disseminating two districts and do we know how they figure that out um a formula that um and it's i it is incredible to see how much money some districts received billion dollars incredible how much money so we know that that million dollar for the american rescue plan that's a pretty solid number i feel confident in that number right i mean that was a what the state recently told us we would receive and i think you're comfortable i'm comfortable [Laughter] all right i'm slightly less comfortable but i i i am i feel i feel pretty good about it okay thank you any other questions yeah just on the topic of the distribution of money our student population 40 200 right what's the state population of students i don't know oh you don't no i'm sorry i don't know that i mean our problem i know our town population figure it out pretty quick our town population i'm assuming that we're typical for a town uh yeah in the state it wasn't based on a strict like here's the dollar amount divide out the number of students and disseminate it that way clearly yeah need excuse me need was factored in excuse me so fairfield county towns you know didn't receive the same funding that cheshire received and get on a per-student basis and we didn't receive the same money that other towns uh that have greater need let's say received sure no i understand i'm just thinking in terms of i mean total population were a little bit less than one percent whether you include the prisoner or not i mean it's three and a half million people were close to 30 000 right to take their prison um anyway so but this is nowhere we got less than a million out of a this is a billion dollar bucket i for the state for this first one okay yeah the state received a lot of money in some other districts that you know no one ever received 30 million right then meredith received 36 million the total number of students in connecticut is 513.79 according to ed's site so that the the percentage the proportion makes sense it's a little bit less than one percent yeah but one percent of a billion would be 10 million dollars right americans twice our size they didn't get 1.4 million get thirty cents away and now that i mean i don't mean to take anything away from meredith i'm just thinking from a public perspective just sort of look at this isn't just like a small percentage this is an order of magnitude in the way this was distributed in this money you know i i educators leaders are having the conversation like what do you do with 36 million dollars i you know that's transformative money for a community i you know and i think the biggest question facing connecticut's educational leadership right now is how do we ensure that these investments translate into academic success and and you know improvement for the school in the community so um unique problem to have 36 million dollars i think it's important to note that the foundation for the distribution though is is around title one so the you know the poorer the community from you know an affluence point of view the more money they did receive so that's why when you look at it the cities on a proportion you know per student basis did receive a lot more funding than you know community like cheshire thank you so moving forward into 2122 what will we use this money for the state identified a few categories that districts can apply this money toward again strategically thinking reflecting on this past year the success that we've had not only keeping kids in school but with achievement we wanted to continue to bounce forward how do we do that with the resources allocated the first piece that we looked at was the component of academic supports learning loss learning acceleration and recovery this is a critical component to make sure that our students are on track with grade level material moving into the next few years for 21 22 we identified a few strategies to move that forward for our kids the first is a summer transition program for as i said the nearly 700 students excuse me who will have not been in school for about 17 months can you imagine in your youth from last march 2020 to august 20 you know 21 not being in school over that long a period of time it's actually end of august so that is a massive stretch where students have not been in person and so we want to capture those students encourage them to come in connect them to schools make them comfortable and confident that they can be successful returning to the schools english language learners and students in need of intervention support it's critical that our our students i mean the dr flynn this resilience professor talked about during crisis usually people that are not well positioned prior to crisis come out even worse positioned after crisis so we want to make sure that our students who have academic needs or social needs post-crisis receive support to be on grade level to find success so we're building in intervention supports focused professional development on accelerated learning uh you may have heard marlene talk about this she and kevin have really championed that work arlene's been way out in front of this with cheshire and for other districts that we are focused on teaching grade level content we can't go back and teach you last year we're we'd be constantly teaching you last year you just won't catch up so what we're doing is really focused on grade level work and identifying where where there are gaps we provide pre-teaching and intervention support that's connected to what you're learning now so you're learning in the context of what's happening today which helps it stick much easier um for for our students and we've found that all year long by the way and of course you know we know that future gaps will be identified when our students do get back and we do return more to normal with grade level assessments uh we also want to update technology in the classrooms the the technological rooms that we and the cheshire ed foundation installed this year have been incredibly beneficial uh the audio is so much richer when you're in those rooms i know you got to experience that at norton so that is powerful like i said an investment to move forward post covid that's really going to be valuable for our kids so the second area is school safety this is the the state's title and social emotional well-being of the whole student and of our school staff so really what we're doing here is we could add two social workers who will over the next two years maybe have a caseload of 50 kids a year when the money runs out we've got no social workers and you know maybe 50 kids that were benefited our plan is to provide extensive professional development in tier one classroom based social emotional support so how do we is teachers best coach student self-awareness um communication skills empathy in the classroom the the castle standards uh and i'll highlight those in a moment so that when covit is over we have 50 teachers now better equipped to support their kids every year in perpetuity and you know that's just part of the strategic approach that we've taken to bounce forward so the summer transition program i know the curriculum committee got some of this and marlene please elaborate here if there's anything that we're missing but five days not consecutively but i think we're doing two one week three the next to bring students in connect them michelle picarillo from youth and social services has offered to help us with this as well with her team but bringing students in connecting them even providing transportation for them we want them to be there we want it to be a fun exciting engaging experience for them just like we did for our teachers who were getting vaccinated for the first time it means something to make it inviting the camp will focus on reducing anxiety academic and personal self-confidence and re introducing students or introducing them if they're transitioning to a new school with some of these school expectations don't forget you know a lot of our transition stuff is is much different now virtually than what they would typically do go tour buildings and all that other stuff that uh is a tune of about 25 000 including some summer academic programming for high school students as well um so marlene is there anything that i didn't do you want to add there well except that i'll just add as we talked about the other night we do have a parent component as well for that to make sure that we're providing support and some strategies for parents on how to help their children get back to school after being gone for so long yeah that's a really important part i appreciate you adding that closing achievement gaps that's the next thing we talked a little bit about learning loss you know certainly you know we take questions when we get through this but um this is where we're doing things a little bit differently um you know uh my philosophy uh since you know being here has been to focus in on the classroom and that's where we pour our resources that we're not very administrative heavy um and in this case we are adding some uh elementary administrative support the rationale for that administrative support is to provide coaching to teachers but in effect be the case manager for those 700 kids that we have coming back and anybody else who may have been here that it's that may be struggling so they will be the pivot person in the building working with the reading and math specialists at the elementary level and the principal to ensure that what we're we're providing those students the best possible service so that includes acceleration coaching of teachers and really monitoring of performance and ensuring that our students continue to make progress so we currently have 1.6 assistant principals at the elementary school and we're going to let's see 0.7 so one point adding an additional 1.4 for a total of 3.0 elementary assistant principles so uh norton and chapman will share an assistant principal right now chapman has no assistant principal and that's a smaller school it's probably appropriate under you know typical non-covid circumstances here what we're doing is leveraging this resource to bounce forward to coach more teachers to utilize more data support more students the other thing that we're adding is at the high school and middle school level math support teachers um there are reading support people in both the elementary and or excuse me middle and high schools now where so we're adding additional math support where it doesn't necessarily exist uh understanding that particularly with the sequential nature of math that there's going to be more support necessary there and what we've done is internally been creative about well if we promote internal people and fill their positions it's kind of like a retirement incentive if we promote these internal people to these positions and hire short-term people we can get talented people lower on the pay scale and therefore stretch our money a little bit further so that's kind of in part with our plan um and that kind of covers some of the achievement gap piece but the other the other piece that is i think instrumental to the achievement gap is that acceleration component that i talked about how do we coach teachers to be able to teach grade level content for students who have learning gaps to be able to identify those gaps and pre-teach those gaps as we move through and again not every child is going to have those same gaps so you know if sparky was remote for you know the entire period versus cletus who was remote for five weeks those are two different experiences and we our teachers need coaching and how to support that again reading and math supports to uh also improve achievement and i outlined again you know how we're how we're structuring staffing to be able to cover that finally i mentioned the castle standards those are things like self-awareness self-management responsible decision making relationship skills and social awareness in cheshire we also focus on cultural awareness is part of our uh you know theory of action around social emotional learning so we recognize i mean i think at the elementary level we have a rich history of uh teaching responsive classroom strategies that really first kinder excuse me elementary teachers have a very strong handle on working with students and building these sel skills you've probably heard of things like morning meetings and goal statements that our elementary students make we want to build that up through middle and high school to ensure that our we're using responsive classroom strategies to support kids in the classroom at that tier one level that's the classroom level and so we're working with a consultant named mike anderson uh he's written books he's consulted in other districts has a tremendous reputation uh to come in and provide not only 20 days of in-house support but additional uh supports for our school system so we're we're really looking forward to using that resource but again in bouncing forward we're going to coach a lot of teachers that will now have that benefit of when covid's over when the money runs dry we've improved our capacity it's about getting better as an organization through these resources so um marlene miss anything on that one that you want to fill in recognize himself and an author and have met with him a number of times to to and i really very much like how he embeds the social emotional learning within the academics this is not another add-on this is another in addition to this isn't some one-off lessons that we're doing this is shoulder to shoulder coaching in the classroom um with everyone from you know we'll be attending we would like to attend some of his um workshops for him to come here and for him to really demonstrate things in the classroom and have be a part of the of the community so he he'll be doing things like supporting teachers to offer kids choices to motivate students to re-engage students who have been absent or who have been remote for this amount of time and look at deep enriching tasks so i just want to make that point that it's truly embedded in the academic work that our teachers would be doing i had the opportunity last night to do the cheshire cast and you know part of the conversation was i i if you have more than one child and you talk or you talk to other people and there could there are you know such distinctly different personalities and some kids are just so ready to re-engage with school or like run to the door every day and some kids aren't and after this process you know this really dysfunctional uh schooling experience they've had for the last year and a half what is that going to look like and how do we support them uh if they're not really necessarily eager but beyond that how do we build those sel things into what we do every day so like marlene said it's not just an add-on it's an important component that supports their growth and again moving forward beyond that so the grant fund use for 2122.
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and we designated ellington as the tk8 if we're going to put a tk8 alliance already tk8 that goes that goes there um by adding ellington here as a tk8 yes it does drop the capacity uh to 89 88 88 um but that that is that is um again what we are bringing forward it what it would what it would might look like if there was a tk8 here uh now i'm gonna i'm gonna erase ellington for a quick second and pretend that it's it's not there right the moment i erase it the capacity jumps up to 98 97 97. we thought about what can one of these schools up here become a tk8 but but our capacity is at 98.87 the moment we introduce seventh and eighth graders to these schools that are already here now we're talking construction now we're talking something else so so these schools right here do not have the capacity and right now these are our our largest elementary schools they do not have the capacity to hold seventh and eighth graders so that is why uh we put ellington up here uh to house and have a tka because again we're trying to decide does this model have a tka or not have a tka um i'm gonna erase arlington one more time um you will notice that we do have larger campuses down here slauson and center right so is it possible to bring one of these larger cap larger campuses up here to make it a tk8 yes that is possible and yes again if if this group wanted a tk8 these are the conversations that we would have to have right but yes i could take i could take slauson right and put it up here and put the tk8 there but that means that ellington stays here right and you'll notice that the capacity now is down to 76 75.75 well of course then i can go and subtract a school from here to get the capacity back up but no matter how we cut it slice it or dice it um adding a tk8 brings a lot of variables uh to the table um so so you like in in this in this scenario uh unlike no tk8 this has the potential of four uh sites uh possibly shutting down whereas not having a middle school i'm sorry not having a tk8 has the potential of shutting um a five now of course again we we want to be cognizant and understand that yes we could take one of these properties here and make it a tk8 um but but also two uh now you have to think about construction because you do have some laws around kindergarten and then you have some laws around preschool and so there would have to be some build outs if either of those schools became a tk8 um so i'm going to take a pause and i'm going to open it up to anyone who might have a clarifying question again we are not at the point in time where we're talking about i like this school i don't like this school why this school we're going to get to that right now we're just trying to to get clarity on this model so we can continue moving forward with the decisions that we need to that we need to make in terms of recommendations uh to the board uh so does anybody have a question regarding how a a model three without a tk works versus a model 3 with a tk8 i have a question i keep putting question in the chat so i don't know if you want us to just unmute ourselves or yes please okay yeah um i see that you're swapping out middle schools and so i'm just assuming that the reason why you're choosing those is for the sake of capacity and so um i would like to ask just looking at the school that has the lowest number of elementary because you put an elementary back if you take an elementary out if you take lee out of there just because it has the lowest number and put it as a school to close just because i'm talking numbers what would the capacity be then right now yes 102.01 and so technically if you used one tbd classroom one tbd classroom in any of those sites it would go down to less than 100 percent let me let me do it really quick even if you just did ellington a tbd classroom at ellington say it's 35 kids because say it's an upper grade class or a secondary class i just did it and you're still at 101.11 well wait a minute how is it that you where did you put the extra 35 oh she want to put it in capacity not enrollment oh my bad let me let me yeah capacity so if you took out yes yes you're right you're right so for the sake of ellington say you put another 35 kids on that so now it's going to be 425.
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