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so those are some highlights in the documents and then we're requesting a recommendation to approve the mou i'll stand for any questions i have a question um looking on page 15 the class sizes is there any way i don't know if we can do it this year but maybe have a conversation with next year that we could get those class sizes a little bit smaller for grades two through eight i just 30 students in a fourth through eighth grade class just seems kind of like a lot especially if we're trying to make up for a learning loss that is something we can definitely look at this year with staffing has been completed for this year so definitely something that we can highlight and look for next year and try to budget accordingly and to make that happen thank you i just want to clarify on page seven in regard to um teach liaison position and duties so this particular position also represents all district employees since the district is paying that they're part of that position they represent all employees not just dues paying members correct madam president remember pritchard that is correct thank you and president miss pritchard if i could just for clarification that you said all district employees it's all um certified employees and all classified employees not not the administrative thank you all right i will make a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding with the dysart education association as presented for the 2021-2022 school year second was that miss pritchard yeah motion passes next is action discussion eye 2 dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet dr croto will introduce this item thank you dr kellis members of the board madam president members of the board superintendent kelly's cabinet guest second item tonight we bring to you is the recommendation to approve the employee salary increase and the salary placement schedules for the 21 22 school year the current employee raise for this year would be 1.3 percent to current employees and additionally a 0.65 increase to the base salaries for new incoming employees we have focused on doing half of the raise and that allows for the growth of our base but a little separation from current employees to new employees so with that i will stand for any questions on our salary schedules all right no questions i will make a motion to approve the salary for certified licensed classified and administrative employees and the 2021-2022 salary placement schedules as presented second seconded by ms sawyer sinkville motion passes all right next is action discussion i think dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board of members of the cabinet dr credo will introduce this item thank you dr kellos madam president members of the board superintendent kelly's cabinet and guests we continue on with our iba recommendations tonight with the third piece which is our district extracurricular and supplemental assignment and contract agenda schedules on these schedules you will see that we've adam per the iba agreement that was updated last week we also edited this document and brought it into alignment with some of our current practices that were going on to make it clear make sure everything's documented so with that i will stand for any questions on the supplemental assignment contra or addendus all right i will make a motion to approve the district extracurricular supplemental assignment contract agenda pay schedules for the 2021-2022 school year as presented okay seconded by ms grant motion passes next is action discussion eye for dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet dr croto will introduce this item thank you dr kellis madam president members of the board superintendent kellis cabinet and guests uh continuing on we bring you the substitute compensation structure for the 2122 school year in the substitute compensation structure the changes reflect the hourly rates based on the increasing hourly rate 0.65 percent with the iba they're set based on similar job responsibilities on the substitutes that you'll see in groups one through six uh they're grouped together and paid at three percent less the entry rate of that group and along with the daily assignments long-term assignments for our substitute teacher positions so with that i will stand for any questions on the substitute compensation structures all right thank you dr croto um i will make a motion to approve this substitute compensation structures for the 2021-221-2022 school year as presented second seconded by my sawyer sinkhole i didn't see it okay sorry motion passes next we have action discussion i5 dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board of members of cabinet dr credo will introduce this item thank you dr kellis madam president members of the board superintendent kelly's cabinet guest we continue with a notice of reasonable assurance to substitute employees this notice of reasonable assurance is a letter that's given to all substitutes excluding our substitute teachers who are employed through esi they do not get this is for next year the eligible substitute groups they include our hourly classified substitutes our exempt classified substitutes and our administrative substitutes so we're asking for the approval of this language for next year okay i will make a motion to approve the notice of reasonable assurance to substitute language for eligible substitute employees for the 2021-2022 school year okay seconded by this grant motion passes next we have action discussion item i6 dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board of members of cabinet dr croto will introduce this item thank you dr kellis madam president members of the board superintendent kellis cabinet and guests now that you have uh okayed the language in the letter for the reasonable assurance uh as a matter of business you now have to grant permission for us to issue that letter so this agenda item is to issue that letter of reasonable assurance that you just approved in the previous agenda item so i'll stand for any questions on that okay thank you i will make a motion to approve the issuance of notifications of reasonable assurance to eligible substitute employees for the 2021-2022 school year second seconded by ms swayer sinkville motion passes next we have action discussion item i seven dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board members of cabinet dr croto will introduce this item thank you dr kalas madam president members of the board superintendent kelly's cabinet and guests last but not least for me this evening is the recommendation or asking to approve the revisions of the 229 248 employee work calendars this is an iba recommendation and moving the dispatcher the routing technician 1 and the routing technician 2 from a 229 work calendar to a 248 work calendar so with that i'll stand for any questions on that okay i will make a motion to approve the revisions to the 229 and 248 employee work calendars for the 2021-2022 school year as presented seconded by ms grant motion passes thank you thank you dr croto all right so uh next we have action discussion item i 8 dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board members of the cabinet mr hicks will introduce this item madam president members of the board superintendent dr kellis colleagues community members uh i'm not going to redo the presentation that was done during the public hearing nothing's changed but if there's any questions if not i'd appreciate it if you could revise our budget okay i will make a motion to approve the 2020 through 2021 revised expenditure budget motion passes okay next up we have action discussion i9 dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet i'm passing down the aisle here a copy of this agenda item from last year this is every board member's favorite time of the year where you get to identify five priorities for the arizona school boards association legislative agenda and then later the board will identify a a person a member of the board who will represent the board at the delegate assembly so as you look at the yellow at the bottom of the page these are the five areas that the board approved last year the first one was fully fund fund fully fully fun full day kindergarten second accelerate the full restoration of district and charter additional assistance that's our capital monies that they have withheld third fully fund special education for fully fund a fourth year of career and technical education and five is financial and academic transparency for all public funded schools and then the board is also asked to identify two additional ones just in case and last year you identified first one is oppose education scholarship accounts and second is to support local board authority for student suspensions and open enrollment um mr hicks can you comment quickly about the district additional assistance and where we're at as a state with that of course um madam president members of the board currently right now although the legislature is not passed about it it will be fully restored for next year thank you so with that said um the board could uh go back to what it had last year and just adopt the same five only substituting that particular item with one of the alternate items or the board could come up with five completely new items and actually the board could do nothing this is a request from arizona school boards association so that you can have a voice on the the priorities for for this not current session but the legislative session so with that i'll turn back over to madam president to lead the discussion okay i'll open it up for anyone that has comments or suggestions for how we'll move forward with this i would personally still like to see fully funded special education and financial and academic transparency for all publicly funded schools remain fully funding all-day kindergarten as well would eliminate our need to one of our one of our reasons why we go out for overrides is to fund all day kindergarten so that would address that issue i would like to eliminate the the two additional items selected for considerations oppose esa's i actually think that esa's kind of help keep us accountable a little competition is healthy so i don't know that i would i don't know that we need to add that one in there i would agree with that and a president stafford for clarification you said the eliminate both of them did you also want to eliminate item two of the alternate um i'm just with the additional item number one oppose esa's that i would oppose having that included i agree i'm okay with number two the support local board authority yes me too um i would like to continue with the fully funded fourth year of cted um i know that this is up has been up in the legislature for the last couple of years um can you provide an update on where we're at without at the capitol madam president members of the board superintendent dr kellis um i believe this is going through in the budget or already there so fourth year is moving i was trying to look at my legislative update yeah i hadn't heard an update or anything i i i've heard a lot of support i've not heard opposition so i'm not sure exactly where it is right now is kind of the um where we don't hear a lot as they're behind the scenes working on negotiations and everything but i have not heard this not moving the the fourth year okay under the header of a preserve and strengthen local control uh the last bullet this is on the on the presentation that was given to us through asba um it's a men current statute to allow school board members to use the equal system in addition to in-person signatures to appear on the ballot um i think that anyone that that ran this this last election knows how painful that can be during kovid and god forbid that we have something like that happen again i i would hate for that to happen to anyone um i don't say that for selfish reasons but i just it i know that it was very painful for everyone involved um so do you happen to know um where we're at in the legislature with that i know that it has been proposed and tossed around a little bit but madam president members of the board it was defeated it was okay so i would like to include that yeah that was difficult especially during covid and then when all the riots started and everybody yeah that was fun no one wanted to open their doors so just to summarize from what i have right now i have one fully funded full day kindergarten there's a question about the restoration of district and charter additional assistance because it sounds like it's moving but it's not signed by the governor yet um madam president members of the board just for clarification it was in a it's in previous legislation to continue the restoration so it's unless they defunded in the re of budget which they are sitting on billions of dollars i don't see that happening so i think it's a done deal so there would be an opportunity to replace item number two of the five with the electronic petitions for board members so that would be number two number three fully fund special education at four fully funded fourth year of career and technical education and five the financial academic transparency and then as far as the two alternate we've eliminated one opposed esa's that was a recommendation and the second one to stay there which is support local control over student suspensions and open enrollment um so that would fill all the spots except for one of the alternates i thought mr hicks said you say that the fourth year of career and technical technical education was also pretty solid or did i misunderstand are you sure madam president members i'm looking at some of my updates right now to see where that is i'm trying to quickly look uh mad president miss pritchard you're correct i think that there's strong support for that and there's um i'm hearing the same thing that there there's no opposition to it so it's likely going to go so if you'd like to remove that assuming it's going to happen that would open up a another slot there for a legislative priority i certainly don't want to assume i just hope it does um just some clarity because one of the the options on here is um for allowing cteds to serve students through age 21 regardless of graduation status is that something that we currently do um madam president members of the board public education provides um free and appropriate education to students through age 21 right um the cteds um are funded for for those three years for district students they do offer adult education um i believe that that's at tuition to those adults who want to join those night classes okay um this would fund see ted education for students through age 21 and they would not pay tuition as as adults thank you therapy would they be in the same classes though as younger students matt president miss pritchard um i honestly do not know younger as in 16 year olds and 15 years is that what you're thinking all right like can you start taking them as sophomores though that would be like 14 potentially potentially so so one that i was considering adding was to allow school districts greater flexibility in the divestiture or use of taxpayer-funded assets so this would help us you know in other words if something was no longer needed we could then sell it whether it's a property or stuff materials what buses buses bus parts right we could resell them as tiny homes right okay don't we do that madam president miss pritchard there is a process statutorily regulated for the disposition of property it usually goes to auction and in comparison to um a documented public sale versus an auction that you're probably having to pay a lot of fees to go through that right is this kind of asking to streamline that process madam president members of the board it's my interpretation of that that it would provide more flexibility for districts to be able to determine how to dispose of their property uh or we're not talking real estate we're talking about equipment supplies furniture do we have to have all five do we have to have all five we don't have to okay no or we could move and we can madam president if you want to put that one on there just to uh fill the slate there is that one other slot available so that would be um to support flexibility and disposition of district property right or we could put support the local board authority we could put one of the other items the additional items we could put that in the place but either way it doesn't matter yeah that's true that's true you could move number two of the alternate up to number four if we know that that is gonna go then i'm okay with that before we move forward though once you have it finalist can you read it to us or show it to us so let me ask luisa to read what she has as a motion that replaces number four four with number two and three with the electronic signatures i think is what we're doing right the equal system we all agree that all the kinder should be number one right right okay yes and then was number two the electronic signatures that's what i had but i'm not sure if we've moved stuff around okay and then they suggest moving to uh or maybe maybe we put some fully funded special educations too and then put a little signature is number three yeah i'm sorry okay so how do we feel about putting fully fun funded fully fund full day kindergarten as number one and then fully fund special education is number two then electronic signatures number three then support local board authority for student suspensions and open enrollment is number four and then number five put financial and academic transparency for all publicly funded schools if nobody has a preference i'd prefer the financial account and academic transparency not last it doesn't it's not a topic it doesn't matter right it's your top five oh okay okay not first second we're not prioritizing okay okay and i have your top five parties one fully fund all day kindergarten to amend current statute to allow school board members to use the e-call system in addition to in-person signatures to appear on the ballot three fully fund special education four flexibility dispose of property five financial and academic transparency for all publicly funded schools and and two additional items for consideration we have two we have one we have the subart local board authority which was currently number two yeah i thought we used them all that's the consideration additional ones you can name up to two additional ones she had need to i think in luis's copy she added the one don was talking about about flexibility and spending oh do we want to keep that one or do we want to replace it with support local board authority for student suspensions and open enrollment i thought we were swapping that out for the local authority i i'm okay with that so support local so we're switching this one flexibility to disposal property with support local board authority i know it's just yeah well that's right we don't have okay so we have one fully adopted fully fund all day kindergarten two amend current statute to allow school board members to use the equal system in addition to in-person signatures to appear on the ballot three fully fund special education four support local board authority for student suspension and open enrollment five financial and academic transparency for all publicly funded schools and one additional item for consideration flexibility to dispose of property i just have one question and that is if by some chance the four-year cte doesn't make it through the budget can we come back and adjust this to include that madam president mrs grant the delegate assembly is in the fall right and yes the board could direct the the board delegate to advocate for that change okay thank you hey do i have a motion i'm so moved just say motion with the list that i write off that's why i said so like just name them one two yeah she just i just said so moved okay second second just just to keep it that way thank you [Applause] motion passes all right um item i 10 dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board of members of cabinet this evening i am asking that the board vote to approve wednesday june 9th as an executive session for the superintendent evaluation we have a meeting that day anyways right yes okay all right that's fine i'm okay everyone else okay okay all right we'll make a motion to establish an executive session for evaluation of the superintendent at the june 9th governing board meeting second madam president while the board is voting on this i i could just uh take the moment to thank our guests and the surprise police department for supporting this board meeting this evening motion passes all right um and before we adjourn um we'll move to j1 request for future agenda items okay i will make a motion to adjourn the meeting seconded by miss grant thank you okay

so we were running a payroll from that system without support from july 1 to january 1. we signed a contract for a new system that started us with an implementation on october i think second or third that's a really short implementation time frame for a payroll um you know to go live um we did we put in place a lot of controls it's a very very new system so what it does is you you have to work with the human resource group because it's now integrated where we were once siloed there's uh you build out salary schedules and work calendars and benefit deductions in separate tables it's a really nice system we look forward to previewing it for the board it's very transparent there's a very beautiful audit trail of everything that happens where we were living in a paper-based system and we really look forward to sharing that with you there's an employee self-service portal that people will be able to view all of their pay information when we go live but we were unfortunate in that we had to do a mid-year go live implementation normally you'd do it on july 1 and it would be a nice process where you could set up your general ledger test your general ledger set up your purchasing and payables and and run your payroll and you get to run parallel test pay rolls we didn't have the luxury of doing that in this case so um and my staff worked tremendously hard i'm tremendously hard from uh october all the way through january one they didn't take any time off over the holidays and we ran a lot of controls so i want everyone to be assured we ran the last payroll in the phoenix system that had deductions december 15th we ran a december 30th payroll in the phoenix system and we did a calculation in the new system and looked at side by side every single person's pay every deduction and did variances and we had to push the button to go live um i have happy to say that we paid 100 of our staff and there were a few errors as you would expect when you go live in a new system what did we do wrong we didn't communicate that well to the staff we ought to have you know um we were just literally trying to get this off the ground so number one and then number two the issue that arose um with the hsa contribution um essentially um in the system we we need to and needed to establish very strict controls about who has access to what points in the system dr sal has now put that structure in place so that we have an executive steering committee we're meeting tomorrow so that we can turn off rights for people so that very specific people you have the right controls in place i'll just say also my payroll group every payroll does a payroll to payroll comparison to compare every variance that happened so from payroll 23 to payroll 24 we look at every single deduction every single line and say okay what changed yes this person reduced their health insurance this person left the district this for example and it's labor intensive but it will be when you're in a new system and you're testing things and so um at one point uh there was an hsa deduction it's called the health savings account deduction that um was is set up in the system as being a one-time twice a year or one time a year depending on your employee relationship that deduction was set up with probably not as robust training as should have been and what that meant is there's a calendar with that and somehow we don't know yet every single date in that in that particular deduction got checked off um we don't know how it happened but there are too many people that had access to that we've shut down that that functionality so when we ran the payroll um it ran through with an hsap employer sponsored contribution to uh the employees my staff immediately caught that because we have checks and balances in place so when we send a transmittal we normally look at every register the deduction register the payroll register we were up against the very tight time frame so we submitted that batch to the bank in order that everybody could get paid up on a monday for that wednesday payroll when we when we noticed the error we talked to the treasurer of the bank and did an immediate reversal of that transaction once we did a reversal of that transaction we had full assurance from the bank that we could follow up and make sure that every one of those transactions got reversed the transactions when you talk about them there's a ppd and a ccd file so the ppd files are the ones that included the hsa transmitted missions we found out later that when an hsa transmission goes into an account it counts as a contribution and then a distribution so in order to have that adjusted and corrected we had to submit a special file to say it's not a contribution and a distribution you need to adjust the distribution so there will not be a tax implication working through sigma in the bank that took us at least a month and a half to get to the right parties to do that correction but from day one on february before this the reversal happened before the bank settlement date cigna assured us in writing that that could be 100 corrected we just needed to get them the right file and we have the whole tax year to do that we did not want to wait for the whole tax year to do that we did that um um you know as soon as we got into it with the right parties at cigna now i do take responsibility for the fact that it took a month and a half to correct um it shouldn't have taken that long to correct um but that's that was the hsa issue it ran it it ran through the system we followed all the proper banking protocols we have controls in place and dr cell has since put additional controls in place where we now also have it involved you know in our steering committee which we need from a data perspective we have hr collaboration and we're looking at all those points to make sure that all the right controls are in place with this consultant that's helping us i hope that answers the question yes thank you very much courtney thank you rachel uh so so i don't know did you set a finance meeting for next week i missed it next wednesday at 19th that's okay you're mr genelec i don't have any problems just caught me went through little things i'm literally curious as to what we're going to do with the finance meeting i'm think sorry talking about the work plan also if i have any other budget um okay so it's just a follow-up as to what the meeting will be for tomorrow okay thank you thank you okay okay it's uh why would have anyone here so i don't want to go back and forth because clara has enough to do uh is six o'clock good for everyone good for me okay okay okay we'll go with next wednesday six o'clock okay okay thank you okay uh do you have anything else to add dr sarah well no that's enough okay i just don't want to leave you i'm dr sam i think next down on the agenda is the informations from uh policies uh please read them at your uh convenient okay board chairperson report very brief we met with the consultant firm uh last night ray associate who's gonna be leading us and taking us through the process for uh our new superintendent and we will be uh following the process and they're going to outline the structure for the board to go through and you know he has a timeline all set for the board and uh you know when we start uh getting into the overall heavy work uh we don't plan to leave anybody out we're going to keep the information coming to the community and when they get ready to set up their focus groups and and the other information that goes along with the input into hiring the new superintendent we will try our best we will do our best to keep everyone informed so that's where we are right now we had our first meeting with them last night i thought it was an excellent meeting and they are going to work us through the process okay seeing no other information or no other discussion or any committee's report i have a committee report okay go ahead right here just that the policy committee met last week um in light of our reopening plan the committee reviewed the coveted policies that we have in place um just to check for relevancy um there were a few that will expire at the end of the year but the committee plans to revisit those at the beginning of next year and i just want to thank our two legal minds that joins joined the meeting um thanks mr wallston for facilitating and uh for everyone's input and feedback i i enjoy those you know conversations um and i also just wanted to inquire as to you know now that we are discussing reopening um when might the board begin to meet in person well i think our last conversation was once everyone get fully vaccinated and i think that was maybe a couple of months ago and i think it would be most appropriate to you know next month is june july hopefully this july and august we won't be doing meeting except to do what we need for the superintendent search so i would if everyone is comfortable why not look at in september in school this way everybody on the board would have been fully vaccinated and i think that was one of the things that kate brought up and if we do it now if i'm not mistaken we can't do it at beaver brook anyway what am i right doctor says my my understanding is uh the inside the social discipline is still a requirement i think that's why the city council still meets in uh that way so we'd have to move you to a bigger spot yes okay probably up to the high school um the black box was tossed around as an idea yeah that would i would say you'd have to probably go there yeah yeah i'm sorry i'm sure you didn't i don't want to butt in but i i'm sure when you meet with the new interviews and stuff you do that live so we would set that up for you there so then yes your focus groups and all that could take place but we would move you into probably the high school i'm comfortable you know what's waiting until september our kids will be would be back in school for a day and you know again july and august hopefully we can have some time off this year and you know move forward in september anyone else have any other ideas or you want to go you know i just feel the spirit the better um i thought what kate said was wait until everybody is eligible for the vaccine and i know we're towards the end but i just feel like the sooner the better because it just could keep getting pushed off and pushed off that's all too i tend to create i think that and the fact that yourself are retiring it might be nice that we personally be there to you know to to say goodbye and i personally have social emotional girls i'm not seeing the the rest of my colleagues on the board for a period of time so this is another i can hear you something that could be maybe the last meeting the board meeting of this year that we may be able to do that will keep everybody comfortable it might be gesture just to have that i think what i'm saying is in lieu of the fact that dr sal was retiring i thought it might be nice if we could do it this this year it perhaps in the last board meeting of june so that we could say formerly the vitamin person as well as each of us seeing each other since it's been a long time since we've at least seen each other face to face if everyone is comfortable with that yeah it might be a solution i don't know what regulations are that if some of the people can't tend to don't want to attend they could do learning and perhaps we could those that won't feel comfortable and couldn't can do it in person it's just just the thought process yeah the thought process along with you know no matter how we go about it about other board members feel about that yes yeah i i just like to echo mr silence that everybody i'd like to echo mister generally sentiments before you go for a live board meeting at the end at the end of the session so we can say goodbye or dr salem in person i'm not totally uncomfortable with zoom i think we communicate rather well but uh i'm hoping maybe next year we could operate in sort of a hybrid mode because trying to get across town at rush hour for five minutes 45 minutes um but yes i i would like to meet at least once in june and i echo mr ginelli's tenements on that deck thank you you are welcome yes yes i am i would just like to say i i agree i would like to meet in june also and i would like to be able to see everybody and see dr sal before he goes boy that sunset's gonna be kind of pretty huh [Laughter] well okay so is everybody comfortable with the last board meeting in gym yes but i'm sure okay uh i give madam chair i'll i'll double check with with kathy i'm sure it's fine and it's okay with you we'll move up to the high school is that okay okay okay yeah all right thank you okay okay thank you uh see you now i make a motion i need a motion to adjourn this meeting some move madam chair moved by mrs j silver seconded by el rousseau okay thank you good night thank you all right everybody good night

in this epo the government's the governor stated the covered 19 pandemic is classified as an emergency condition for the purpose of the rules relating to emergency procurements adopted by the state board of education for purchases made to address and be the rising from the threat to public health welfare on safety of staff and students directly related to the program dashed on to panda the vendors used are as follows secondary gear llc 50 965 and 80 cents paycheck incorporated 14 home default 14 839 and 37 cents stapled technology 49 791 and 78 cents cs and s computers 11 438 and 47 cents therapy 35 550 educational support services which are contracted site services 8440 and the superintendent recommends the approval of the list of vendors as sole source vendors mr [Music] the next is sole source provided for employees health insurance benefits from 2021-2022 gbs our employee benefit third-party firm has presented a health insurance plan for qualified district employees there will be a two percent increase in benefits from uh around the year 21 due to the year on 22.

6-10 and recommends the approval of the employee 2021 2029-2022 health insurance benefit plan from the dbs as a sole source provider punctured does anyone on the w board meeting at 6 47.

we will join this momentarily everybody all said okay i'd like to call this meeting to order due to the cobit 19 health emergency and in order for the board of education to conduct its business this meeting is being held via video conference and stream live on youtube on the district website at www.ebnet.org in addition members of the public may provide comment at this meeting through zoom by entering the url meeting id and password you see before you on the screen upon joining the meeting your participation will be muted to ensure there is no disruption to the business being conducted by the board of education will the secretary please call the role mr karangelo here mrs chu here mr sismar here mrs gloss here mr hong here mrs lacks here mrs reese here mr winston here president becker here we have a quorum please rise to salute the flag pledge allegiance to the fire of the united states the new jersey open public meeting law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies in accordance with the provisions of this act the east brunswick board of education has closed notice of this meeting to be published by having the date time in place posted at the board of education offices written notice is also provided to the sentinel the new extra ledger at the home news and tribune and the municipal clerk of east brunswick all board of education meetings with the exception of executive session discussions are videotape related broadcast individuals who speak at the board's public meeting should be aware of these videotaping rules good evening thank you for joining us tonight first thing on our agenda tonight are annual actions bernie did you want to speak for a brief minute about uh what we're going about to do certainly um so the annual actions are um actions that are taken in preparation for the new fiscal year um there are more or less standards uh to establish the benchmarks by which we will function over the next year that establishes uh certain fee structures meeting schedules a variety of cooperative purchasing agreements and services that are required for district operations thank you before i ask for a motion on the annual actions tonight is there anything anyone would like separated out seeing none can i please have a motion for items 1-26 on the annual actions agenda move by laurie second by marco angelo is there any discussion this is a roll call vote will the secretary please call the role mr carangelo yes which is true yes mr sismar yes mrs gloss yes mr hong yes max yes mrs reese yes mr winston yes and president becker yes motion carries next item on honor agenda is the superintendent's report thank you president becker good evening everyone after the board's approval of our recent grade restructuring recommendation to provide critically needed elementary classroom capacity we've already begun planning smaller group discussions with students parents and staff beginning next school year as we continue to explore over the next school year every opportunity to improve the excellence and experience of every child impacted by the first year of this transition in september of 2022 you the community can expect the same transparency with my communication you have witnessed over the past year we are pleased to announce that andrew chen and benjamin hong have each been awarded a national merit 500 scholarship we are very proud of these students this fall andrew will be attending stanford and benjamin will be attending columbia university again congratulations to both of them i'd like to take a moment to highlight some additional excellence from some more of the members of the eb team as i've done in the past this week we administered the ap spanish exam and due to an issue nationwide with the college board the exams took longer than usual to upload i want to thank the technology department as well as the high school counseling department and administrators who work together to assist our students and immediately adapt to circumstances that could have forced students to retake the exam if the uploads failed and beyond solving the initial problem this group demonstrated their student first commitment so because of the unanticipated extended time of the exam students were provided with bag lunches to this group thank you for what you do every day the ebhs visual arts department in partnership with ebef presents the east brunswick schools outdoor art walk from saturday may 15th to tuesday june 15th the art walk is a month-long installation of 180 pieces of student artwork displayed along the pathways between the public library and municipal complex the art pieces are representative of all 11 buildings and 24 visual art teachers and i am looking forward to that because i've seen some of the some of the artwork from the students so it's gonna be great just a few reminders friday may 28th is a single session day for students and staff there will be no supplemental instruction the district will be closed monday may 31st for memorial day and believe it or not the last day of school for students and staff is friday june 18th thank you thank you dr valesky first item tonight is a resolution of appreciation for the east brunswick education foundation i'm going to ask lew to uh announce and speak on this resolution as he is the board liaison to the foundation so recommendations whereas sin is inception in 1993.

[Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] mr mcnair are we ready i called to order the workshop for the bullhead city elementary school board on thursday uh mar may 13th 1921 at 5 30 p.m 21 man this is a really rough rough week 31 would have been good would have been good right um uh we have roll call corey burgess here genie we'll go to you second each time please okay genie barland here amanda here randy dubois here charlene b is here all right uh we're going to make a slight change in our workshop we're going to turn the time over here to get the pleasure to listen to our orchestra okay thank you first of all honor um students you know they were a year and a half and we know what it's been like 35 years of teaching and i've never experienced anything like it but i'm telling you these students have been thirsty to make music and music is very powerful with these students well-known um we should have about 25 more students but i i'm talking about the student but i don't know exactly where they went but wait until you see and hear them we're going to do a progressive element so we're going to play a tune called entry of the tumblers it's more homophonic in nature has two voices going on very simple rhythms and we're going to go into a thing called the end over holiday which is more polyphonic has some counter melodies going on with it and then we're going to end with a minor piece and a minor key called they renamed it it was kings court but we're now renaming it queen's court okay so there we go they these are the smartest kids you'll get and they know all about the queen and her 95th birthday um so that's cool all right okay here we go [Music] [Applause] hey [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] [Applause] all right home okay here we go [Music] uh [Music] hey [Music] so [Applause] now comes the queen's quarter you'll hear that medieval kind of flavor into it susan dave it's a wonderful young lady i had the wonderful privilege to teach susan when she was a little kid i know shows how old i am i know guys it's pretty scary it is pretty scary by the way this district is a blessing you know there are only 20 percent of the districts in the entire united states that even offer filing the old cello base so bravo for you no problem okay let's make queen happy [Music] foreign so [Music] foreign so good [Applause] you have to remember these students um three years ago and um you're just uh what a wonderful [Applause] awesome so how many different classes do we have for this is this like a sixth grade seventh grade eighth grade is so we have three different levels five five six seven eight five five um they have kind of a semi beginning sixth grade then they feed into fox 3 and they have i call them the kb and then the varsity which is but if you've seen the progression from the beginning to this it's just to me phenomenal and you can see the inner mix of the music and like i said these students have been mine for three years you guys are talented um it sounded great it sounded great well thank you thank you for i couldn't do it without you okay you're the boss of everybody and they make it happen you really do and i really appreciate it we have uh we have 120 instruments in the program um a lot of that is begging and praying for money from target education um uh costco i've asked him for a lot of money and also um what's the other one that i always do river valley park skill it's a wonderful group of people really really what a blessing well this talent show is why arts are so important in our school yeah and yeah you guys are your character all right thank you thank you all right so that was a nice way to start things uh maybe we can have them back next meeting oh no my face hurts from smiling it makes me so happy well and not only that but they had a they had a youtube audience tonight did you guys know you had a youtube audience tonight and now you do know and then and you can go home and watch yourselves awesome that's right now when i i and here i have a youtube video but god thank you so much all right um moving back up to item 1.3 uh policy bch bka gcca e e a g c c a e c j l b j l d b e a and g l d b e d it's through all over it's through all of those oh through all those i'm not repeating them through all those yes yes that was too many letters dr stewart mr president board members uh we finished up the b group which uh i'm glad i'm i'm sure you're happy to be done with that group but i will tell you that a and b in the policy book are two of the shortest so as we move forward there will be lots more but then we threw in some others because we like to make some changes tonight and since the changes really only have to do with exhibits or regulations that only have to be read once i felt like if you had a chance to talk about them here in the workshop and then you then have some knowledge before you decided on them in the actual agenda just for time the ones you're recommending changes can we discuss those yeah just the ones for changes we don't have any others that they specifically want to discuss because we're down to about 10 minutes on our workshop so if we just go to one specifically we want to talk about for change okay with that you all okay with that okay i i don't think i had any changes in the bees i think those are all pretty cut and dried um the g1 this is the professional support we have a policy of course for leaves and in the district for a number of years we've had this practice of allowing employees to donate some of their pto days or time to other employees in other districts they do it a really complicated way with salaries and all kinds of stuff that opel this has been vetted by the attorney and the idea is that somebody can recall their pto time and they can request from others to give them some pto time we have an example right now of someone who needs to be gone because of a very ill family member and and this person who's the employee is the only income in the household so by allowing people to you know to donate pto time that person can continue to to bring in some income for their family so we know it's for really extreme circumstances for our folks so we just want to make this formal um that there's an application process there's some very strict guidelines and then the two forms so that's really all that one is any questions okay and then uh for that's still the part of the same one uh kim these are those exhibits could we drop down to jldb thank you okay so we have a policy that has to do with restraint and seclusion in the district we're not asking to change the policy this is the policy but currently we have four four different report documents for those occasions when we need to use restraint or seclusion we have been training our employees in use of cpi which is a recognized program and so we've consolidated the steps in this into one in the exhibits or the documentation into one document so we're asking in the in the regular agenda for you to repeal the existing four exhibits and then replace them with the one exhibit and we sent to you not only the actual exhibit so you could see it blank but i also sent you a highlighted one which we share with in the training so you can kind of see what the employees are expected to fill out we're not asking you to improve approve the sample but we wanted to give you a sample any questions all right so that would be that uh tax credit uh coordinator i sent you a rather lengthy email memo a while back about that this came about because corey rightfully was encouraging us to figure out a better way to be taking advantage of tax credit i did the research and that's why it's ended up resulting in this to add it or make it a piece of existing position rather than a new position and and we can do that synergy has freed up some time for this person and so we're kind of excited about having somebody designated to be doing this piece for us that could be very advantageous we think so we think so item 1.5 employee retention okay brandi had asked to have this on the agenda and so i'm not quite sure what what she had in mind so i would give it to her but i also want to tell you that amanda asked for this retention information and turnover information that you've got in front of you so we tried to give you some documentation um before whatever your discussion is hey brandi it's uh to you okay thank you um well i just wanted to i know we have a lot of vacancies this year and even in the past non-pandemic years we've had a lot of turnover that people would say they're moving back to them where they came from or that they just didn't feel like it was the right climate but i think we have a lot to offer and if we maybe show appreciation find ways to um make people feel you know more part of the group just ways to keep good teachers here you know good employees in our district um a lot of times because of the pay they move just it's so easy to move across to this next state and still like live in bullhead or you know so i just wanted to be find ways to be more aware of that and so that we can keep our teachers here you know so um i was thinking are we doing the exit surveys this year to see why people are leaving oh i haven't thought to ask eileen if we're doing that i think we always do but i haven't actually asked her about it um i'd have to ask her so thanks for bringing that up we will make sure it happens yeah i would like to see that okay interesting thing has happened this year we've had several people who've resigned and you had them on your list last month and then they've asked to come back so we have refilled a number of our positions sometimes they're not back in the same position they were in uh but we have five or six people that uh that we have rehired so that's kind of that's kind of a nice change too well i just want to say on the retention rates it's so nice to see i mean i you lose one admin out of 12 and it looks really high you lose two oh my goodness you know but your teaching numbers have i mean keeping certified staff has significantly declined over the last two years and that's phenomenal and then i know we've talked about um promoting and hiring from within as much as possible if we have um employees who are taking courses at mcc or online at universities that we can kind of go after them to write them in our district so and one of our right we have one of our preschool teachers for next year has been in a preschool teaching position but as a para and finished her degree this year and so of course is now a certified teacher for us for this coming year and four of our six new administrative positions are filled by um local people so um you know so yeah we pay attention to that yeah that's fantastic i like to see that moving in the right direction and those that are really close i want to make sure that we're helping them get where they need to be because we have several staff members that are like one certificate or one thing away getting them there so we can we can keep that retention because it is very important to this board that we that we do promote from within that we do move our our staff members that we have to positions and grow our own yes and it's it's it's very important and we um chuck news all you know um supervises the nau program for the undergraduate uh folks so folks who are like um paraprofessionals right now are other positions and i think he had like 14 in the cohort this year and i think there will even be more next year so we of course try to keep those folks around because we know they've been well trained by you know our local people and um and we get a chance to see how they're doing it's you know as opposed to hiring somebody from out of state where you go on somebody else's recommendation at least we know what they're doing that's fun if somebody's interested in going from parapro to certified teacher do they know how to contact they should and the principals tell them we and chuck is not bashful about going out and no he's not bashful about going out and selling the program to people so i think probably people if they don't know they've been living under a rock i think that grow your own program is still the the five years of teaching well that's the internship so we we also have interns who are working with us and uh so those are people who have already have a degree but it might not be an education and so we hire them and they then have to be in an approved education program it usually only takes them about two years it depends on depends on the program they're in and how many courses they need to take we have now learned that a couple of those programs are not really very beneficial for those folks so we now try to steer them into the ones where we know they're going to get good good coursework and good supervision and good advice and all of those kinds of things and we have we have probably half a dozen interns right now but we also have the it's the grow your own where they can those that don't have the degree can pursue that's the choice that's what chuck's done yeah and they can pursue that degree and right it's five years isn't it that they for their education no i don't think it takes that long i don't it doesn't usually district for a certain number oh after to get there for their education to be paid for so it's it's quite an incredible program well right now there are those folks are getting free from uh from the lo from the state of uh from nau and we don't have anything to do with paying that and there isn't a i mean i they have to i think probably stay in the state but that doesn't mean they have to stay with us but they're it's entirely paid for that's a real incentive for people to become teachers yeah it's it's awesome so those that don't know about it should you know yes maybe that's something for our to to post on our web page that you know for to get that information out because we really do want to encourage those that are here to stay here and especially since we have so many new people moving we have so many new people moving into town um jeannie one i mean nachini uh brandi i think one of the things you're going to like when we come back to revisit or to visit next month about sr3 funding is we're doing some outside the box thinking about recruiting people and retaining people right now everybody's having real trouble finding any place to live and and any place affordable but not even just affordable there is nothing to buy or rent so we're going to do something we're doing some outside the box thinking on that thanks to corey i just have one more thing regarding this it's when people retire i don't think that we do enough to let their co-workers know or even like give a thanks for their years or dedication and time so i just want to see if we can be more aware of that and um just to show a little more i know we do appreciate them but i don't think that it gets out to the whole like campus that this person's retiring and this is how long they've been with us except for our end of the year when we recognize everybody for their five years or ten years or whatever but um if we just kind of say hey thanks to this person they're retiring and so you don't come back to school after summer and you work where did that go like i thought you know i didn't know they retired so um just if we can kind of look into that that's a great idea i made a note thank you anything else um this is genie i i did see that we are um on our agenda too that we have a couple teachers that have moved up to admin positions that's that's very positive to see and were they were they given the option to stay at their own home school or um what we had this year was a committee because we knew we had so many vacancies so each school site had in addition to well each school site had two uh staff members who were on the committee jen kind of set that up gen lot kind of set that up i was i was there at each of the interviews not particularly participating but having you know watching them so once the principles were decided on then those principals also became part of that committee to help pick their own uh pick their own assistant principal if we needed that so to answer your question yes and no the idea was to try to figure out good teams and so that's how that worked out we had some argument we had some arguments over a couple of people about where they should be so the committees ended up and the principals ended up negotiating their uh their choices like a draft it was kind of like a draft that's exactly what i was thinking when she said that i'm like ah and and jeannie the good thing this year was last year when we had some vacancies we were you know we were out beating bushes to find some applicants this year we had lots of applicants and i think we did a dozen interviews so yeah it was it was really cool it was fun well it was nice to see some of our own moving up so yes that's that's what we're looking for absolutely i agree anything else okay look if we get a motion to adjourn our workshop i move we adjourn the workshop i'll second it all in favor aye corey burgess aye genie berlin aye amanda ayman aye brandie dubois aye charlene diaz so moved we're gonna roll right into our meeting because we are already a couple minutes past so at this time i'd like to call our regular meeting of the bullet city elementary school board on thursday may 13th 2021 at 6 0 4 p.m uh roll call corey burgess here janie borland here amanda ayman here randy dubois here charlene d is here all present uh citizens president if you please sign in in the back um if you'll join me for a pledge of allegiance that would be incredible thank you that's what you're saying [Music] um [Music] in [Music] andy [Music] hey [Applause] all right call to the public this is the time that the public may speak to the governing board regarding issues within the jurisdiction of the governing board and is subject to reasonable time space and manner restrictions the governing board may establish comments will be limited to three minutes per individual unless specifically weighed by the governing board at the conclusion that call the public individual members of the governing board may not respond to criticism made by those who've addressed the board they may ask staff to review a matter or may ask that a matter be placed on a future agenda however the governing board cannot take action on matters that have not been noticed in advance as part of this agenda do we have any calls to the public today no all right item 2.6 adoption of the agenda can we get a motion to adopt agenda as presented i move that we adopt the agenda as presented all second all in favor aye corey burgess hi genie portland hi amanda ayman aye randy dubois aye charlene diaz so moved item 2.7 superintendent reports dr stewart mr president and board members you have my written reports um and i don't have any updates today all right any questions for dr stewart okay moving on item 2.8 donations uh we'd like to thank all those that donate to our community we could not make this happen without you desert valley school received paper construction pro paper construction paper and coal coin rolls from an anonymous donor died an estimate of 29 four cases of water from sarah willis valued an estimated value of sixteen dollars four cases of water from the norman family valued at thirteen dollars and fifty cents and five cases of water from the norman family valued at sixteen dollars and seventy five cents bullhead middle school received 20 cases of water from samantha allen valued in in the amount of eighty dollars two checks from box tops totaling seven dollars and thirty cents fox creek junior high two fifty dollar gift cards for teacher appreciation for papa john's 300 worth of prizes for teacher appreciation week from chris barton ussw independent contractor uh sunrise elementary school 30 volatiles of hand sanitizer from starbucks in fort mohave buy it at 299.70 one pound of one pallet of water from an anonymous donor valued at 369 one pallet of water from jacob summerlin valued at 369 coyote canyon school six five dollar gift cards for teachers from alpha delta kappa 60 children's books from the rotary club bullhead city an estimated value of 369 dollars it's great to see all these donations and they come in as such a wonderful time once again thank you community for all that you do for us item 2.9 board member updates do we have any updates from the board no okay item three the consent agenda can we get a motion to adopt the consent agenda as submitted i'll motion to adopt the consent agenda as it is i second brandi dubois all in favor aye corey burgess hi jeannie borland hi amanda amen aye randy dubois aye charlene diaz saw moved uh item four 4.1 renewal of the contract for chartwells food services dr stewart uh mr president and board members uh last month i brought you a document that i thought was the renewal of the contract and it was actually the summary for the past year so i do have the contract renewal for this coming year we put this out two bids a year ago and when you do that then you set it up for a five-year you know renewal process and so i have that document there are no changes in from the original document relative to what we're contracted to pay for the paid to them this coming year and so i recommend that we approve it do we have any questions about the chartwell contract then i move that we approve uh where did he go did i turn too fast yes i did renewal the contract with chartwells for food services i'll second that motion all in favor aye corey burgess hi genie borland hi amanda amen aye randy dubois and charlene diaz all right item 5.1 adoption of the fiscal year 2021 budget revision dr stewart mr president board members uh with it is with some embarrassment that that i share with you and i already did but share with you again that there were some errors and i was looking at the wrong report when i first did the revision and i got it straightened out this week so the good news is that there is 1 million 88 000 in this budget that i thought we had lost so i put 88 000 of it in capital put it back in the capital budget we probably won't spend it before the end of the year but it'll roll over and then i put the almost all of the rest of it back in the transportation budget and the reason for that is that if you recall we we paid for the entire first semester of transportation salaries and benefits with the esg grant which meant that then the budget really was cut in half for transportation so i put most of that back in there so that we are ready for covering all of that for next year so you you have a summary in front of you and then we also had the full document on the agenda posted agenda corey has a copy of the the full document in front because we will need signatures if you approve needless to say i recommend approval of the revised budget so that that one point one million yeah that was found uh well that was just after the cuts yeah and i had i had continued to make cuts because i was working this document is this document is a digital document and so you start working from the the most recent version so i was working from the revision number one that was approved in december and in that document at the end it has this thing that's called the apoor 55 which is all of the stuff about attendance and enrollment and all of that stuff the one that i was that was attached to it was the one from december where we'd already cut over a million dollars and i didn't realize that it was not that it was that one and not the current one so when i did the current one and the difference that big difference in money is if you recall originally they cut us a huge amount of money because of our first 33 days where we were entirely virtual and then they they calculated that out as if our kids were virtual the whole first semester which they were not so then we got that back so when i actually looked at the correct document i realized uh there was a big boo-boo there from from that had i boo-booed the other way you'd have my resignation tonight but since this is in our favor if this is a positive boo-boo i'm hopeful that you will forgive me for that one um and uh and i will know better in the pa in the future not to go by the document that's at the end and look up the actual data but i will tell you that sometimes it's really tricky because arizona does real-time budgeting so this apor 55 this is the one that is current it will change by the end of this month because every time we every month when we report our attendance and our average daily membership they change they change this document so literally even though we approve this budget it could be changing monthly so that's one of the reasons that it's so tricky to be able to say to people you know you can say well what's your budget this month for x line in your budget we have it in our budget but what actually is happening is that if we changed our budget every time we changed this you'd be looking at a new budget every month it's craziness and that didn't used to be the case it used to be that your budget for the year was established based on your 100th day adm and it stayed that way it didn't change every month those numbers didn't change every month so we don't change our budget every month we just don't do that but we do keep an eye on this try to keep an eye on it accurately to see what might be coming down the road and actually this information is helping me have an estimate of what our new budget will look like the legislature has not finished they have not finished their budget so we don't know where it's going to go but i think this gives us a pretty good picture so i'm thinking that our budget for fiscal year 22 will be in the neighborhood of what you're seeing of the 15 million 75 000 in that neighborhood so that million dollars for transportation carries over for payroll for next year even though we'll have payroll for transportation in the budget it's going to give us some carry over carry over it's going to be carrier in case yes and then we can always move that as c fit yes yes we can i just wanted to cover it before i wanted to put it back in there so that when we do roll over all of those numbers roll over and i did not want to forget that half of the budget for transportation would you know was gone i wanted to be sure sorry i wanted to be sure that we had it in there so when it rolls over it's already there and then it may end up being it may end up being in our you know just some carryover that we can use for other things so we can move it around yeah i just want to be sure we had it there to begin with all right any other questions all right so i move that we approve the fiscal year 2021 budget revision is presented a second that motion for andy dubois all in favor aye corey burgess aye jeannie borland aye amanda ayman aye randy dubois aye charlene diaz so moved and i would just ask that you all remember to sign before you leave tonight because we have to file this tomorrow all right the next item is 5.2 it's a first reading on policy bge uh communication and feedback this is only a first reading so we are not taking action but if there's any questions or changes you might see in this document nothing all right so we will be moving on uh item 5.3 also a first reading of policy bd bedf our voting method once again a first reading any questions okay moving on uh 5.4 once again a first reading b-e-d-g the minutes any questions item 5.5 uh this is a regulation uh gccarc professional support staff paid time off uh the donation program as we just covered in our workshop this is a regulation so we can approve this tonight is there any questions on that regulation then i will move that we approve regulation gcca rc all second amanda ayman all in favor aye corey burgess hi genie borland aye amanda ayman aye randy dubois aye charlene diaz so moved item 5.6 is to repeal that document that the previous document the one that we just replaced correct um this is the support staff paid off actually this one should not be repealed this should be approved because these are the documents that support that regulation so i'm sorry that it says repeal i missed that is this a different document this isn't the replacement no these are the these three stay on 5.6 please kim would you uh pull up uh gcca dash ea thank you yeah this is the application okay i'm sorry yeah no these are these are not the ones we're repealing these are three exhibits for you to approve these are the these are the actual documents for uh for that donation those donations of pto time all right so this is also a regulation that needs it's an exhibit it's an exhibit sorry an exhibit for approval item 5.6 and the ea is only because we already had gcca dash e due to covid so we needed to rename it e a so we could have a b and a c so i will move that we approve item 5.6 i'll second that motion all in favor aye corey burgess hi janie borland hi amanda ayman aye randy dubois and i is charlene diaz it's all moved all right now we're into repeals okay so item 5.7 repeal exhibit jldb ea through jldbed restraint and seclusion documentation mr president and board members these are the four current documents that support that policy and that we've now combined into one document so i will move that we repeal item 5.7 all second all in favor aye corey burgess hi janie borland aye amanda ayman aye randy dubois aye charlene diaz and that brings us to 5.8 this is the replacement of 5.7 uh another one of the ones that we saw in our workshop any questions on the new document then i will move that we approve item 5.8 i'll second that motion all in favor aye corey burgess aye genie portland aye amanda ayman aye randy dua uh charlene diaz so moved item 5.9 retire of the bullhead city school district return to school plan for the school year 2020 2021.

we'll go right to the celebration of excellence and we'll turn it over to mrs hecht great thank you very much well it is my great honor this evening to introduce the 2021 valedictorian of bolton high school brooke begin let's give brooke a round of applause brooke has involved herself in many parts of bolton high school to name a few she has served as president of student council vice president of national honor society took part in many extracurricular activities including volleyball where she served as captain brooke has received many awards and this reflects how hard-working and determined brooke truly is she was recently you may remember the recipient of this year's scholar athlete award as well as the cave award brooke will be attending bentley university in the fall to study actuarial sciences brooke congratulations to you and to your family well done young lady well done would you like to say anything thank you i really appreciate it great job congrats next it is my honor to present this year's salutatorian for the graduating class of 2021 and that honor goes to marshall flowers marshall congratulations thank you sure marshall involves himself in different aspects of bolton high school he currently serves as president of national honor society a varsity letter winner in all four years in cross country and track and continuously volunteers for his community marshall's teachers report that he has exceptional academic credentials great work ethic and leadership skills as well as determination that will set him up for success and a desire to continuously learn marshall will be attending the university of connecticut in the fall to study computer science marshall congratulations to you and your family would you like to say anything um yeah i mean thank you for having me here means a lot that's awesome congratulations and well deserved brooke and marshall both well done next we have some cass connecticut association of schools awards the first set of awards is for the cast scholar leader for bolton center school and our first recipient is emma derosiers congratulations emma thank you you're welcome emma is one of this year's recipients of the cass awards she is a motivated dependable student who always gives her best as a high honor student emma's dedication to her academics is admirable she has proven to be resilient her commitment and dedication to her studies has never wavered teachers can always rely on emma to be an active participant in class work well with her peers and contribute to fostering a positive classroom climate she exudes the park expectations and understands the importance of treating one another with respect and kindness kindness especially during difficult times when asked one thing she has learned this year she said i learned that mental health and well well-being are more important than most people think when it comes to school and learning emma's heartfelt responses showcases her maturity and self-awareness truer words were never spoken young lady very insightful she is also a dedicated athlete she's been a member of school cross-country teams in sixth grade even offering up weekend personal time to help out it meets she enjoys playing rec league soccer is a voracious reader and she has aspirations to be a marine biologist congratulations emma to you and your family well done thanks a lot you're welcome congratulations our next bcs cast scholar leader recipient is shepherd livingston congratulations shepard thank you welcome shepard is an extremely engaged student both academically and extracurricularly he's received high honors all throughout his middle school years thanks to his unbelievable dedication and intrinsic desire to push himself and his learning further aside from his passion he has many others including running cross-country sharing his love of spelling words with the spelling team and participating in student council he also shows strong leadership skills through his involvement in boy scouts as well as other community service groups and projects he also embodies the bark expectations for bolton center school he's extremely reliable can always be counted on to do his very best not only is he an advocate for himself but he also extends assistance to others to help them achieve success as well when asked about the one thing he has learned this year he said i learned that i enjoy being around people and learning in a school environment more than i ever realized touche on that as well young man very insightful uh shepherd aspires to be an engineer business owner investor philanthropist or athlete congratulations shepard to you and your family well done sir would i say anything else shepard no i don't have anything to say just thank you all right that's awesome it's great that you're outside i think that's wonderful our next award is the bhs cass award at the high school for lillian gearing congratulations lillian this is a motivated and talented young artist lily is not afraid to challenge herself and develop her work to meet her vision her work has been shown in various exhibits and some examples include students art showcase at the art center east gallery in vernon and the annual artists of bolton arts show lily's learning extends beyond high school's art courses she attended summer intensive course at rhode island school of design and has taken uconn ece drawing one at bolton high school she chose to focus her senior capstone on animation because of the experience that she had gained for her project she challenged herself to create her own cgi animation short her capstone presentation was inspirational and honest she comfortably shared the setbacks and successes that she encountered throughout the creative process of her project she learned so much from the capstone experience and is eager to continue to study animation at the college level during these challenging times lily has turned to art to keep her centered and focused and she is dedicated to making her own way and being successful in her search for a place in the arts community lilly congratulations on this recognition she is planning to study virtual reality development at ringling college of art and design in sarasota florida congratulations lily to you and your family she's in the chat and says thank you our next uh cass award recipient this evening from bolton high school is george takulski congratulations george george is a young man who's an excellent student a talented musician and performer and helpful kind individual with a wonderful sense of humor he's received numerous honors in performing arts throughout his high school career he's been a featured soloist during several school choral performances including an adjudicated music festival in washington d.c in the spring of 2018.

un United States of America to the Republic for which one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for and justice for all thank you okay and uh this meeting today I would like to um uh honor all of the mothers out there all the lifegiving um Essence including Mother Earth uh who continuously gives us nourish continue on with life so just thinking of all of our mothers and um Essence and those we came from um feeling blessed at this time to also um be a mother myself um and with that we'll go on to item 102 uh Dr Bower yes marivil do we have the the video ready that's Dr B let me share it yes and and if you like uh if if you prefer to stand up whoever wants to stand up please stand up I'm going to need help with this yeah I'm playing it okay there we go can they hear it [Music] she just wanted to remind us all what we are all about and our students are learning in music in the middle of a pandemic so thank you guys for allowing us to present this thank you and uh thanks to all the students and the teachers who take the time to teach them um so beautiful uh especially to experien this during this virtual pandemic to see them I know usually we'll have them here in the boardroom and um have them playing but um at least we get to hear them in this way so thank you to the to the students and all the parents that support them and getting them to practice and um hearing the beautiful practice in their in their in their home my daughter practices clarinet so here and there you know I hear her in her room and um it's just beautiful to um feel that vibration you know of Music um that gives that positive feeling um and then honoring our country in this way thank you uh with that we'll go ahead and move on to item 103 um any modifications or changes to the agenda um any of the trustee or anybody else um have any changes to make and I'll wait for your hand couple seconds see if any of you have seeing No Hands Up um I do see Andes kto in here welcome Andres um okay I see no hands up so we'll go ahead and move to the next item uh 2011 special recognition for the arus ESD 202 21 classified employees of the Year Dr Bower oh wait I'm sorry sorry Dr bow before sorry for interrupting before we move on I want to make sure that we all hear H the translation so um Carlos can you please come on and remind uh those of us who need translation and also those of us who need to click on the English thank you Carlos okay Dr Bower all yours thank you thank you this is a very happy time in the year because we are recognizing some of our most um uh some of the the the support staff that allow us to do uh all the things that we do for students and so I'm very happy I'm gonna turn this over to Mr Moran and uh very happy that we're able to continue celebrating the F the Fantastic work that they do every day to support us on what we do Mr Moran yes thank you Dr Bower I can ask Mar B I have uh another Carlos Moran which is me on the other screen could you give me share access perfect thank you let me go back sorry about that hang on one second so I just want to make sure I'm not sure if you if I have this ready correctly hang on one second okay all right so good evening board president ER Lera trustees Dr Bower community and special guests my name is Carlos Mand the assistant superintendent of HR on behalf of the district it gives me great pleasure to start uh tonight's board meeting uh to congratulate ulate and celebrate uh and honor the 2021 classified employees of the year right I and I'm on two computers so I want to make sure on your end can you guys see the screen no no okay not the shared screen I see you but not the shared screen I did a couple minutes ago okay so let me do that again I want to make sure because I'm trying to work up to computer now we can okay perfect and if you want to put it in presentation mode or okay all right perfect thank you okay so uh thank you for that so um it's always nice the last four years I've had that pleasure of of presenting this award and it brings me back you know my started my career as a classified employee in in the classroom as an instruction right so it's great to to present these so tonight we will honor some wonderful wonderful well-deserving staff in seven categories uh PA professional clerical and administrative Services Transportation Services food and nutrition services custodial and maintenance services Technical Services and security and support services tonight's honores uh received a visit this past week or last week I should say by Dr Bower cabinet members uh their Department managers and uh union leaders um and we did that either in person or we actually had a computer with us and we did a zoom with with some of those folks so it was a little different uh but fun um and so each honor honory received last week a a small certificate of our appreciation with some balloons tonight uh each of them will receive uh this nice plaque that will be delivered to them um and so um I want to make sure that uh I shared that so uh the first the first person I'd like to honor uh for classified employee of the year is our par professional um is Caitlyn Aila she's a par professional one uh and campus educ par educator at Shepard middle school kayn has served the students of the alumrock for almost six years Ken is known for her how can I help attitude and her willingness to provide support to students their families and their families her colleagues describe her as always willing to support All Families she provides families with the resources to be able to take advantage of the support services being offered to all of the alumrock families education is important to Caitlyn and she sets herself as a role model to others so let's give her a round of applause our next Honore uh for classified employee of the year in the category for clerical and administrative Services is a is Elizabeth musz uh school administrative assistant at Lucha Elementary Elizabeth has served the students of alamro for over seven years she is known for her hard work and dedication her colleagues describe her as kind empathetic being involved in the community providing the skills needed to rent a smooth office always helping always helping parents and always smiling warmly when greeting somebody she interacts with the students and supports student development she is truly an asset to Lucha let's give her a round of applause as well our third honory tonight uh is a classified employee of the year for transportation services his name is Isaac settle Isaac is a bus driver and upholsterer at the transportation services department he has served the students of alrock for over 20 years Isaac is known for his commitment to the department and his willingness to assist others when needed his colleagues describe him as always going above and beyond he furthers his skills by taking courses and trainings on his own he volunteers for extra assignments he is dedicated to his work and rarely misses a day please join me in giving Isaac a round of applause our fourth honory selected for the category uh food and nutrition services is Cecilia Jameson she's a Child Nutrition assistant to at Russo mckinty Academy but is currently serving at Shephard Middle School Cecilia has served the students of alumrock for 23 years Cecilia is known for her smile and can do attitude her colleagues describe her as always being warm to those around her she does her job no matter what the situation might be her work area is always clean and sanitized she works with the students to help teach them how to make healthy meal choices let's give Cecilia a round of applause as well our fifth honorary selected as classified employee of the year in the category of custodial and maintenance services is Eric Koka night custodian at painer elementary Eric has served the students of alumrock for over 14 years he is known for his Integrity friendliness and helpfulness his colleagues describe him as a leader he checks in with staff each day sees where he has needed the most and gets to work if he is asked to do a task he typically responds with okay I'll do it right now or I'll get to it right away Eric knows the students and their families he takes the time to talk with them let's give Eric a round of applause for this award our six our sixth Honore tonight is for the category of Technical Services is Pao Tino he's a tech special tech support specialist in the IT department Paulo has served the students of alumrock for 19 years Pao is known for his great service he provides to families and staff and his dedication to his job and the district his colleagues describe him as an exemplary employee during the school closures he has been the face of the IT department he has interacted with more individuals than anyone else he provides great customer service spending extra time with parents and students to make sure they can log in successfully and that the equipment is in working order let's give Pao a round of Applause and our last employee of of the year for the night is in the category of security and support services is Carmen Rubio Carmen Rubio is a community liaison and Par educator at Joseph George Middle School Carmen has served the students of alumrock for 23 years Carmen is known for her strong worth ethic and dependability her colleagues describe her as dedicated to the students and Community she is always willing to help out where needed she makes sure she provides available resources to students parents staff and the community we are very lucky to have Carmen at Joseph George Middle School let's give her a round of applause so congratulations to these spectacular seven for being selected as the alumrock 2021 classified employees of the Year each honor again each honory will receive uh a plaque as a symbol of their accomplishments again thank you uh so much for allowing me to present this uh to all of you tonight uh I believe there and and uh Mar bed maybe I don't know if they're I'm guessing they're in the audience uh but uh we invited them there I'm trying to see on the screen there is Cecilia Jameson I see a couple of them there I see Eric is online um I don't know I see Carmen Rubio hi Carmen there's Eric congratulations again again let's give them one all all seven of these wonderful employees another round of applause thank you thank you so much uh thank you to all of you for your incredible work day in and day out um year after year child after child um touching those hearts and those lives um and the family as well and making sure that our our schools continue to be clean and um look wonderful you know regardless if it's one employee there you know um or hundreds of kids so thank you all um I do see trusty Chavez's hand up so I'll go ahead and um pass it over to trusty Travis at this time and I think she said I'm sorry uh do you want to talk trusty Travis yes or no I we can't hear you um I'll go ahead and go to Mr GTO while you oh go ahead trusty I just wanted to thank everybody for all their hard work and and everybody in Alan rock is working so hard and um I guess these ones stood out the most but every time I see I always see everybody working so hard and I just want to thank everybody thanks that's it thank you trusty Chavez trusty and I do seeo fam so we'll go ahead and go to you after I just wanted to uh thank and congratulate each and every one of the employees that are recognize I know that the recognition uh is is warranted and it's because you step one up and above and beyond you're setting the example for others and so thank you all for uh setting up the framework to that allows us to educate our kids uh so thank you very much thank you trusty uho trusty yes uh I also actually at first I want to just say I'm disappointed and I'm disappointed that we can't do this in person because I think that the we do our best with the zoom claps and everything but I don't think that really conveys or shows to all of you how much we appreciate you you know it's hard to show that in these zooms but I know you know we appreciate you we know that in many ways you're the backbone of this District running every single day and you know my grandpa you know served many years in a similar position and I know the dedication and the passion and the love that you bring to the the work that you do it's evident here looking at our schools and so I thank you for all that I wish we could do it in person but know that that appreciation is there thank you trusty wano and trusty fam yes uh you know I too would like to express my congratulations to Caitlyn Elizabeth Isaac Cecilia Eric Paulo and Carmen uh you know and just as my colleague Tristy bayano expressed uh you know unfortunately the pandemic has muted you know what would traditionally be a celebration in the district office you know all you know all of Alan Rock has worked hard in this pandemic but I mean but you know uh you you seven are you know went One Step Beyond and you know and become truly a um how you say you know an anchor of the communities of our schools so you know once again thank you so much for your contributions to the Alam Rock Union Elementary School District and uh once again congratulations on uh receiving the classified employee of the year award thank you trusty fam trusty kto I see your hand up still is that from earlier okay I see it down um Mr Moran can you take off can you stop sharing your screen so I can see the wonderful faces um at least virtually thank you from our uh for some reason I can't share both screens so it's great to see you um here uh you know like Mr reano mentioned before we would be taking a picture together so um unfortunately we can't do that this year uh but you know still the honor you know is the same if not more right during this pandemic um it's so hard um a lot of us have experienced some pretty tough things you know whether it's not being able to be at uh work you know like usual or in our own families and so um this year was a little extra tough so thank you uh for showing up to work and putting on that smile um and giving that extra effort um we know that all of our staff you know did that uh but you just did that you know that little little more and so to be recognized today um is just a little example of you know how much you're appreciated here and um you know we look forward to many many more years and you know many more celebrations and also honoring you when you get to that age you're also young right of retirement um but we're very happy to have you be a part of the alen rock family um and thank you for your work um and thank you Mr Moran Dr bow I just want to ask everybody congratulations team you're awesome awesome awesome awesome you know we love you very much but I was I was just gonna kind of see if we can take a screenshot since we cannot take a picture but maybe we can take a screenshot and I was gonna ask trusty kto to just come back and and and cabinet to help me you know just let's let's take a let's do that right let's not stop the tradition because I think that's an important thing and uh last year probably learning how to do this we miss that opportunity but I don't want to miss this opportunity because we need to keep that great tradition so if you don't mind uh if several of us hi Paulo If several of us can do this I I think we can we can keep the tradition thank you so much so let me say I know Cecilia Jameson is there hi Cecilia I don't know if you could share your which one I press the mute now the next one that says video there you are right very good very good okay guys trano I know you're you're a master at this can you help us with this also so that we can have several to make sure that we didn't miss Carlos are you able to help us to get that screenshot yeah I'm trying to do it with my phone I don't know how to do it with the computer uh Danielle Dr uh took a screenshot thank you welcome thank you guys thank you thank you thank you all of you carita stand by okay thank you so much um and now we'll go on to item 202 is that correct Dr Bower thank you all again enjoy uh your day and um your month and in the year uh Dr Brower I'll go ahead and pass it back over to you for the Santa CL County Office of Education classified employee of the year this is very exciting um so we you know one of the things we are very proud in Alam rock is almost every year we get somebody with a special recognition at a at a bigger um um forum and that is so important for us because we are making a mark in our community and so I'm gonna turn it over to Mr Moran again because he's gonna tell us a little bit more and carita we are so proud of you so so so proud of your work so Mr Moran sure can you see kman on the screen yes all right Perfect all right uh getting a little delay here there we go all right so again uh it gives me great pleasure to share uh with all of you um this award for Carmen Rubio um each year California's classified School Employees of the Year program through the county Santa Clara uh pays tribute to the tireless efforts of our outstanding classified employees these are the unsung heroes who play key roles in creating a school environment that contributes to the whole Child by promoting student achievement safety and health school districts are invited to nominate one classified employee of the for the S Clair County Office of education's classified employee of the year the awarde is automatically nominated for the California's classified school employee of the year award so hopefully she moves on on behalf of the district it gives me great pleasure to announce that this year's Santa clir County Office of education's classified employee of the year Carmen Rubio community leison and Par educ Ator at Joseph George Middle School is the award winner let's give her a round of applause Carmen Rubio thank you I've known Carmen Rubio when I first came to alumrock when I was in state and federal and I would love to be invited to your parent meetings and where you fed them and fed me and it was great so I've known her for six years um Carmen will be honored by the Santa Clara County Office of Education uh at a virtual board meeting on June on June 9th so hopefully we can uh join her at that point at this time I'd like to introduce Tara Bickford principal of Joseph George Middle School who would like to share some words about Miss Rubio terara there we go good afternoon everybody thank you um for letting me speak for Carmen we are so excited for her to receive this award um I'm GNA share just an the amazingness of Miss Rubio and her work at Joseph George um Carmen takes pride and demonstrates what being an Alum Rock Star is all about she takes Pride her work and always has students and families in the Forefront Miss Rubio this year not only continued her hard work as leaon but also supported as a par educator and even subbed for the front office when we were without anyone during the pandemic she had made sure to continue the school to family Connection by continuing home visits providing resources and helping it ever thing was needed to ensure the community was taken care of she's taken on roles that she didn't have to take on but chose to in order to keep the site running smoothly as we were short staffed she has always committed to supporting our community members she will even buy items out of her own pocket money when she sees a need a rise or needs to bring something for a student she thought they might enjoy or need um Carmen's commitment to the student at students at jgms and their families is endless and her Outreach skills enable the school to provide all the opportunities possible for our community to have success in all the Endeavors outside of school Carmen also participates in being a Nami mentor and engages and is an active church member Carmen ensures she always participates in food distributions and events that provide valuable resources to our families the community know Carmen for her Outreach and hard work to support them every year we get former students and families that come by to just say thank you to miss Rubio for the work she's done as being an integral part of who they are today she is a well-respected member amongst Generations within our community one of the items in the community she takes a lot of pride in is supporting other families with mental health support she's an active Mentor for the National Association of mental illness where she helps other families cope with mental illness with their loved ones as a school staff as a school staff as a whole along with parents and other community members we appreciate Miss Rubio for all she does Carin brings a special touch to our jdms community we are fortunate that we have had her here for so long after 23 years at jgms theu the community has come to know her as a staple representative of our community she has become family to so many of our students and Families the work she does with our parents staff and students make a huge impact on others stakeholders at jgms and Linda Vista who get the opportunity to engage with Carmen know they are being cared for and looked out for Carmen takes pride and is committed to ensuring the jgms community thrives she has been a huge advocate for many initiatives over the years she continues to recruit other families and community members to also have the same p about our school parents partner with Miss Rubio through learning advocacy and support throughout the year day and night her unfaltering commitment to our community shows and we are so proud to have her on our team thank you Miss Rubio congratulations thank you thank you Miss bigford again for those kind words and congratulations uh this concludes my piece uh so I will unshare if we want to try to get another picture let's do [Music] it all right than oh reene coming on maybe thank you so much thank you kman for all the work you do um you know and really uh getting that recognition on the county county level um and being that example for others not just within our district but within our County um putting alumrock you know exactly where we're at in the quality education and love and passion that we have here for our families um so thank you again and I don't know if any of the trustees want to add anything um I see Mr fam's hands up so we'll start with Mr fam uh you know once again uh congratulations to Carmen uh you know uh and I am thrilled to say uh you know well of all things this shows what this District his me uh you know not Palo Alto unified not Mountain VI Los alos heck not even cam you know Campbell Union but uh here you are Alam you know one of our classified employees winning the County classified employee of the year uh we are proud of you uh you know not just in not just your dedication to Alam Rock but also uh showing to the entirety of Santa clar County the quality of alen rock and I you know as you advance I wish you the best of luck as you represent Alam rock at the uh State uh School classified employee of the year competition and again thank thank you very much and uh best wishes thank you thank you Mr fusto yes I just want to again repeat my congratulations Miss Rubio and thank you Miss bigford for for that um the reading that you did because that really gives us more uh more of a look into what this is really you know encompassing the work that this this took to get here and and I'm just so impressed and um and just amazed by by all the things in many ways but in in many ways I'm not amazed because I know that's the kind of work that that gets done but but miss Rubio you obviously have gone above and beyond and your work with nami and all the other things that you do is just so impressive and and you know I know there's titles of um you know liaison and social workers and and having done social work for a long time I I really I view you as a colleague of mine just doing that kind of work that's so needed in in our community and so I congratulate you again I I wish you the best going forward and um you know I'm hoping I times are tough you know for the district and everywhere but I'm hoping that we as a board can continue to support you and your colleagues as best as we can to make sure that our families receive those excellent services that that you provide so so thank you and congratulations thank you trusty kto just wanted to say congratulations uh you uh earned countywide recognition and aside from your recognition you also a broad recognition Alan Rock so thank you for that thank you vice president uh I see Tristy Chavis unmute herself not sure if you'd like to say a few words go ahead trusty CH just three thank you thank you thank you great thank you so much um with that thank you again kmen is the and here we are to support you in any way we can um thank you Mr Moran for uh guiding Us in those beautiful presentations about these beautiful uh people and uh Miss bigford for doing that presentation and giving us a little bit more context about her and how she lights up your day there at work thank you Dr B anything um else or maybe um I don't know yeah I'll pass it back to Dr bow if there's anything you want to add before moving on we're so proud of kman and and I wanna I'm very grateful to Terra for writing this uh up because it's you know it's a teamwork and and that's what we have at George and um you know I when when the the whole piece around mental health was mentioned it touched my heart because uh this has been certainly a uh a 15 months of a very very very difficult time for everybody and kman you're a hero and I wanna and I think that's what Miss bigford wanted to highlight right Tara this is about and I think that the most fascinating thing that among so many heroes in the county think about that because you were not the only one who who was presented and to me the magnitude of the of this a War it's what kind of what uh uh the trustees have said that's what makes Alam Rock Alam Rock and thank you so much for being in our team thank you so much for everything that you do for kids every day every month all the time thank you Carmen so much thank you thank you I would like to give you an opportunity to say a few words if you'd like yes well first of all I um first of all I would like to um thank God and honor him because he's the one that has given me life and um of course he's been blessing me every single day yes for sustaining me um also would like to give a special thanks to um Miss bigfer uh she's been trusting me to do my work so she let me do as much I can so so I feel um kind of nervous sometimes but I know I have to do it because I do it for a reason I do it for God I do it for the community I do it for myself so um I feel uh very humble and honored tonight to be recognized and I really appreciate um all my co-workers we are a team so I really appreciate my community especially Joseph your community I always try to pride of my Joseph B Community uh but I also work with other communities Linda Vista Lindell and citan even though when we have events long time ago when I invited Mr Moran I asked Mr Moran if I do this for the four schools will you support me with this idea he goes go for it Carmen so I did it I did it and he also helped me um he budgeted the program so I was so happy to have that done for our community eventually those parents from the elementary school were going to be my parents from Jose George so um I feel very proud you know that let me do whatever I think is okay for the well-being of our families and students um so again uh thank you for this great recognition thank you again um thank you Bravo uh Dr Bower um anything else before move on okay um and um because there are items um and because I see a hand up I just do we open it up for the public the public comment yes these are presentations these are presentations okay I wasn't sure I thought so but I just wanted to make sure before we uh moved on okay um next item we have item 203 2021 extended year summer programs presentation and I'll hand it back to Dr Bown thank you uh I'm gonna be turning it over to Mr Sanchez and then miss Garcia for this presentation for the board thank you Dr Bower um board president members of the board um today we wanted to share with you uh a summary of a tremendous amount of work that has gone into to planning our extended um learning program for the summer um there's extensive work a lot of coordination that has taken place um to truly identify um the needs of students as well as the programs that best serve them so um I will turn it over to Miss Sandra Garcia our director of state and federal programs and Barbara Campbell that will give you a summary of all the great opportunities for our kiddos uh this summer good evening everyone um president um er alera uh superintendent Dr Bower um board members and Community um thank you for um allowing us the time to share this evening all of the um wonderful uh programs that we have uh prepared for this summer uh I want to thank Barbara um for co-presenting with me and uh we're going to go ahead and get started this summer um we have um a vast array of programs that we will be offering our children and um just considering the uh pandemic and the school closures and the time students have been away we're really excited that we're going to be able that offer uh various in-person opportunities as well as virtual and um I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Barbara now she's going to share the first few slides with some general information and then I'll share more information after her Barbara good evening board president board members superintendent Dr Bower so first of all I want to just share that some general information about what we have to offer this summer so our program window starts June 15th and goes through July 23rd with a holiday for the July 4th vacation programs will be running Monday through Friday offering between 8:00 am and 12 pm and the students as they leave they will be offered a grab and go lunch we will be offering the program at 11 of our sites and there will be a combination of in-person and virtual options itions being offered go ahead next slide just to kind of let you know that for the sites that we are offering inperson instruction and programs we are putting in place all the safety protocols that we have in place right now for our in-person instruction we are keeping our class sizes smaller to be able to maintain the distancing requirements we will be doing the self health screening every day we will have additional touch points for cleaning daily classroom cleaning and again continue with the use of masks hand San hand sanitizing station and sneeze guards available so again the parents that are sending their children to inperson instruction this summer will have the will feel well about that and know that their children are being taken care of and under safe conditions next slide so in the we have two types of offerings this summer we have learning recovery programs and we have enrichment programs some of the offerings that we are have we are offering in the learning recovery we have Elevate math springboard El classes to support our English language Learners usually we braed to kinder but this year we are also are going to be doing bridge to first grade since many of those students moving up to first grade never had the in-classroom experience Cadence learning which is a new program that's that's kind of similar to springboard that's offered in the elementary levels special education department will be offering their extended year program two two of our sites will be working in partnership with YMCA to provide an enrichment uh literacy program and then we will continue our partnership with Jose vales Academy supporting students entering sixth through 8th grade next slide we are also looking at some enrichment programs for students so one is computer science class uh that's for students entering seventh and eth that's one of our very popular classes uh we're working with audacity with for some Visual and Performing Arts uh offerings for students we are partnering with Girl Scouts think together Camp sports for Learning and again a Jose Valdez Institute that provides some uh advanced math for students that that are at grade level and want to advance and kind of move forward so right here it shows you some of the different sites uh each site that we're offering a program at we are try really try to hit all corners of the district and it'll show you the site the programs that are being offered how many classes and approximate number of seats available keeping to the social distancing requirements that we are following as of this moment so we have a here some of our elementary middle schools and some of our k8s an addition yep you're good thank you we have uh Jose Valdez will be running all their programs at um at Cola Ryan and adant too will be having summer camps for sports for Learning and think together Lindale will be is where our extended learning program is for our special ed and then we have continued to offer a a smiing of courses that will be done virtually for those families that are still a little con concerned about bringing their students on campus quite yet so again it gives you the idea of how many seats are there and then the total number approximate total number of students that we will be able to serve this summer Sandra is going to now explain a bit about each of our programs okay so um Elevate math is a program that we've offered um for several years in alamro and um we uh support 3rd through e grade students in this program and the basis of this program is to strengthen math skills in students and we will be serving um 256 students uh third through eth grade Jose Valdez is also longtime uh partner of ours uh a few years back uh we added the Institute which is the enrichment part of their um uh summer math programs and we also offer the Academy which supports students that just need a little um more support with basic skills um to um advance in their math courses will serve about 370 students sixth to eth grade with Jose Valdez math springboard um has been offered for several years in Alam Rock and we're happy to offer it again uh this is a balanced literacy and guided reading um uh program and the unique thing about springboard is they have a parent component um that has really motivated parents to um become part of the summer experience with their students and we'll be serving 231 students uh entering first through third grade this year Cadence learning as Barbara mentioned is um an a new addition this year we've been looking for something that we can offer our middle school students in the area of English language arts um and we found this program um through the partnership with springboard and uh as she said it's very similar um approach to to the way they teach um this is more of Novel studies and with some close reading um components to it and we'll be serving approximately 144 students uh 6th to eth grade through Cadence learning our El summer program um is um taking on like a new look this year we're going to be uh infusing a new program through National Geographic learning called our world um with a lot has a lot of um real world experiences connected to it and really motivates students through the photography and the stories and videos and things like that that come with the program so we're really excited um to offer this to our English Learners um to strengthen the four domains of English learning um so in our um in our lcap meetings and learn listening sessions with families and teachers and principles and people all throughout the district um we kept hearing that you know this year people were really interested in in having kids um have an opportunity to just be able to come back and reintegrate onto the campus and so we really looked for some opportun ities for students to um come to school but have a more summer camp type experience and um so we're offering through think together we're offering 300 seats for students in first through fifth grade um and they will be participating in a variety activities of you know this physical activity visual performing arts and stem um and you know just being able to come back and socialize with peers again I think will be um an added bonus for kids um along the same lines is sports for learning we've used sports for learning at a few schools in the past as um kind of a recess type of support um but this year we're going to launch the summer camp program which we're really excited about it's going to get kids moving and learning about nutrition and wellness and U doing some really fun Sports tournaments um on a daily basis for four weeks so this is open to second through fifth graders uh and they'll be able to serve 128 students um this summer as part of the sports for learning summer camp um we have uh asked them to work on our other five elementary campuses to integrate um uh on a rotational basis their program uh a couple of times a week so that our academic program the students receiving the academic programs will also have a little bit about of that movement in physical education uh opportunity this summer so we're really excited about adding that and just adding that component they'll be able to serve um 640 of our students that are already going to be in in our summer programs so as Barbara mentioned bridge to kinder and Bridge to first grade is um very popular in our district it's an opportunity for families to bring their um students that are entering kindergarten or entering school for the first time um to kind of just integrate them into a classroom and give them some foundational skills like how to how to sit in a circle and how to listen to the teacher and you know how do we use our words and things like that along with of course some of the foundational skills that um we teach before um they begin school and as she said many of our current kindergarteners haven't had the opportunity to sit in a classroom this year they been on a screen the whole year so we're opening it up to some first graders who could also benefit from this opportunity um we will be uh running our extend our extended year program for specialed students and that is all based on a student's IEP goals and whether it is something that is um needed for them to continue to meet their goals um another thing that we're offering this year that we're really excited about is a partnership with audacity for our middle school students um again trying to find ways to motivate them re-engage students get them back on campus excited about coming back to school and so um Miss finnen was able to work with them on planning some uh hip hop dance podcasting poetic storytelling Visual Arts um at our sixth through eth grade campuses this summer and then of course we will offer a summer Jazz uh program that we offer every summer and that'll be done virtually so the vapa program will serve about a 100 students this summer the last thing I wanted to share with you is that this past Monday we launched our Registration site and you know um we're trying to find a a way that we can kind of um uh have parents go one place and find information about our programs and find general information and and register their students so I just want to share very quickly with you um the site and how it works and um let me go ahead and show you so it's in English and in Spanish and it provides general information on our programs um just the information Barbara shared with you earlier and then um list of our community lisons and their contact information um so that you know they can get some support if they need uh help with registering their students or getting questions answered about our programs and then we have here all of the Flyers to the programs um that we are offering this summer so if we have a a parent that is interested in springboard for example just have them click on springboard open up the flyer it goes directly to the flyer um which gives more information about the program and then it says if you want to register your child click here you click there and takes you straight to the registration for the program so again you know always trying to find ways to streamline and make things a little bit easier for our families and um provide access so uh we're really excited about offering this this this year and all of the programs um uh you know it's been a challenge this past year we understand for families and um we're really excited about getting kids back on campus getting them uh socializing again with their peers and even if you know it's a virtual opportunity that they take part in this summer um we know that they'll they'll be happy with um the selection they make so thank you very much for listening thank you for that great uh presentation uh trustees do any of you have any questions or comments for uh our presenters on this item I see one hand trusty F you're on mute trusty fam I just you know I just want to thank Renee Sandra and Barbara for working with all these organizations that put put this together uh you know this is an important part of our recovery from the pandemic here so it is a this is a nice way to get our children acclimated to a school campus in preparation for uh a fall reopening and also to make up for some of the gaps that have have happened during online learning uh I I know that we've had to manage but there are some things that are just best taught in the classroom and socializing with other students so this is so I'm e even though even though you know a as a young child you know summer school is not something that most children look forward to I think this is this is a a great step in uh getting our children prepared not just for the upcoming school year but also prepared for uh future grad so again thank you so much thank you trusty fam trusty yes thank you board president I'm wondering if you might consider if we take public comment um before I make my questions or comments just so I can um inform myself I know presentation so my understanding is um we're not is just a presentation we're not doing public comment is that correct b i you're on the mute all right that's correct there will be time for the public to comment because if you notice you're going to have uh down on the agenda um there's going to be the contracts for each of these programs so there will be an opportunity for people to express their opinion during that time okay perfect well then I guess right now just I'll just my only question that I'll ask right now and I might have missed this in the presentation I apologize but um how will we be advertising or or promoting all these great programs I'm I'm really happy about kind of the the robust nature and all the different types of activities that we'll have going I know my when my daughters were in alamro you know we took advantage of the summer programming and it was always great to keep them connect connected to school um but how will we get that out there so that parents do know this and I apologize if I missed it no that's a great question thank you and we did miss that piece so um we did have a period of time where we had uh community lisons and um we also sent parent Square messages to um targeted students students that um you know are the ones that are most in need of these programs uh this the academic programs and so um they had a period of time where they were able to register before we opened it up for um the general public and so that's why we opened it up this week for the general public and now um seats are open to all students um those seats that are are um still open and then your other question was oh we also have posted the link for the site on our website um and um we sent it out to all arusd um through parents Square we sent the site and information okay good yeah I just wanted to make sure that you know parents were aware all the hard work you've all put into bringing these programs we want to make sure that we we fill those seats and so so thank you for that answer I'm on mute now um and I just as a parent of a sixth grader in our district I do have to say and thank you uh staff for making making it so easy um you know I know it's tough times during the pandemic but really I feel like it's the first time that it was just so easy to uh enroll her in a program in just like a matter of a couple clicks and um you know getting some information there uh so you know this virtual connection and um parents Square I think really helped at least for me as a parent um you know just make it easy receive a message and then look to see what the options were and and then enroll her um so I want to thank you for making it easy for me as a as a working mom to get her enrolled um and you know just for providing ensuring that our children uh have these options um you know from math to the English to the dancing and so um ensuring that we cover all areas you know our children's um wide uh range of medicine that they all carry um and so I I'm I'm really excited this year uh I know you know other years it was like who do I talk to as a parent right when I wasn't on the on the board um and this year it's just like it came all the information came to me without having to look for it and so I appreciate you making that uh much easier um and and um yeah just growing every year you know especially during this pandemic I figured it might be a little bit more difficult but it really seemed um that it was that much easier for me as a mother so thank you for that even though like Mr fan mentioned my daughter's like Mom you know summer is my time to take a break but um as a parent that knows the importance of continuing especially at this Middle School age of continuing to connect our children with something that's positive something that's healthy otherwise you know our uh virtual devices take over right and this Tik Tok and all these things which are not bad you know I think it's a good balance you know we have sometime for that but that we keep you know that learning part of um our brain going um for all of us but most importantly our children who are developing so thank you for that um and before we move on I'm gonna give the trustees of anybody else I see Dr bar your hand go ahead just wanted to also add that for the parents who um needed a little bit of help and just so that let you know that I I did receive a call from one of the parents that sometimes because her her skills right in the language and all of that asked me right and so we were able to naate I myself got a little taste of that but I want you to know that also all the schools had somebody helping the parents who had that question who received that message and didn't know how to navigate they all received that support that needed to make sure that their student was uh registered in the appropriate uh program and remember remember um that was the the the very first round of making sure that the students through the highest need had an opportunity to you know to to take a seat in those programs thank you thank you um and if I don't see anybody else we'll go ahead and move on uh we'll get a go to item three public members who wish to address the board and I do um want to highlight I think it's our last meeting with Mr Moran here tonight who has been doing an amazing job in helping us facilitate our uh public members um in speaking to the board so uh Mr Moran I think you're still helping us tonight is that correct or are you training somebody for the next one yes I'm I will be doing this tonight uh and I did uh talk to one of our it supervisors earlier today who will be taking over so Dr bar will communicate that with you probably tomorrow or next week yes thank you I'm and I'm sure they're taking notes as they're watching you do this amazing H job and um yes we won't say bye yet you know this is the beginning of our meeting tonight yes so we'll go ahead and uh I'll turn it over to you to see if we have any members of the public wishing to address the board at this time uh yes again hello uh board president uh we had one speaker let me see okay we do have one speaker uh the first speaker is Brenda Senda SAS you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi uh good evening my name is lindaas can you hear me yes okay I'm an advocate here for uh east east side San Jose today I want to address a board comment made by Vice chair ketto about the concerns for the Mascus Center becoming a college extension in our Mayfair Community why would it be a concern to bring a college to one of the most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods do you not believe they deserve the opportunity to thrive exposing our community is the only way to ensure that our children do not fall in the cracks and don't go to gangs and we don't lose any to the violence we need to create pathways and this building is just there it's been there for years and the district does not have the funds to fix it or repurpose it we need revenue and this District would benefit of having a College extension program um we currently don't have Pathways with our middle school children um I'm sure that you should know you work at in Evergreen college and I would love your support in this because we don't shoot down opportunities that help our community Thrive there is nothing concerning about creating opportunities if this is about a board member that you have feelings for put your feelings aside and work together for the community don't you want our children and our families to have these opportunities please put your feelings aside and personal vendettas whatever it is and work together towards creating Pathways for our community this building is one of the biggest opportunities the mayfer community can have thank you thank you next speaker is Roberto Cruz Mr Cruz you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello can you hear me yes madame board president trustees superintendent bow my name is Roberto Cruz and I'm a voting supporter of this District I'm here to respectfully correct the record at the April 27th board meeting a trustee expressed a concern about the Frack recommendation for the former moxa Youth Center I do not want a misinterpretation of events to distract or to tracked from a legitimate recommendation born of an open and transparent process I am giving the trustee the benefit of the doubt that he did not have all the information about the Community College District proposal for the campus of the foundation First Bank education thankfully The 40-Year-Old mission of nhu continues through the foundation's three public charter high schools two of which are located on the campus voices Charter School leases space on the same campus but has independently operated the trustees concern was about the association of a community college board member with this recommendation and their ulterior motives for preserving the foundation campus for voices further the suggestion was that these ulterior motives were reasons for derailing an entire process to bring a college education to that campus to correct the record it is not true that one Community College Board member derailed a process because of ulterior motives the truth is the community did not want the campus of the foundation for Hispanic education sold to the Community College District community members like me and Educators from the foundation spoke out in opposition to the proposal this included speaking out at multiple College District board meetings and Foundation board meetings thankfully we were heard and this is in the public record no one is against a college education for Eide students but I'm sure that you can understand why the foundation nhu Community fought to keep a campus that was bought and built for them the Frack recommendation should be evaluated on its merits thank you thank you next speaker is Flo Deon miss delion you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening everyone my name is flor de Leon I am a par from Renaissance Fisher and uh I was not present on the last board meeting but I heard that you guys made that decision to consolidate uh my school with Fisher and I I'm here uh today uh wondering if you already have a plan and how is this consolid consolidation uh going uh going to on when is going to take place and I'm a little bit bit concerned of the decisions that the district is making making on uh considering closing schools and consolidating because I think um a lot of times schools have different cultures and sometimes parents bring their their kids to the schools even from other areas because that that schools is providing something to its students and you know as Renaissance and I know also Lucha is like a small Choice school and I I hope that we keep the focus on maintaining what the school is providing to your kids and not um losing more students because I've been hearing parents that might want to take their kids out of the schools and take it to chatter schools and I think we already have enough of chatter schools and we don't want to lose our our kids to Chatters and I think there should be a way that the the trusties do something about it in a way of I know that now you have have more power on giving the permits in a in a way that uh to chatter so I think it should be a way of also cons uh thinking about closing some chatter so we can keep up the enrollment in our public uh schools and making sure you have a plan B so if something is not working then what is what we're going to be doing in order to maintain our students and hopefully we do our best decisions and always take um that the input from the community thank you thank you board President we have no more speakers okay thank you um now we'll go ahead and move on to item four uh we'll start with 401 with our Teamsters [Music] member and if somebody can help me look in the um attendees and see if our Teamsters member is here uh Madame President I think Mr Fu had his uh hand up the uh great um Mr Moran if you can help us uh have him be unmuted if he's ready uh yes hi Tom uh please unmute yourself let see it okay so um Mr fu is using an older version of Zoom he's GNA I'm going to have to promote him to panelists give me one there you go Mr uh Tom go ahead and unmute yourself yes good evening uh board president member of the board uh superintendent and Mr Moran um on behalf of Teamster I just wanted to say that Cong I want to congratulate the the the members that uh that got employee classified employee of the year and uh first of all I wanted to make a shout out to all the teamster along with the support staff that that got recognized that you know we're we're we're here as a team to support the school district the student the parents the teachers and the overall you know the the foundation of of Education um I wanted to you know say something on behalf of um these um amazing employee that deserve this recognition this evening and for the work that they do uh on a daily basis so with that congratulation again and to uh Miss Rubio um you know you stand out throughout the uh County to represent Alan Rock congratulation on that that's a that's a great accomplishment for the county and and for Al rock thank you so much and um all I wanted to say is uh to the uh board uh to the board that and the superintendent that Teamster from day one has been on board to support the district uh in every aspect that uh that we face with you know with given the past year the pandemic we have been you know on on on track to to try to bring back students and now that we are doing that you know it's kind of exciting to to see all these young faces coming back to school you know as a parent myself my son just started today uh at his Oak gr school district and it's he's excited and and motivated and so you know it gives us a a good feeling that hey you know nor the normal is it's it's it's close by so I just want to you know thank the the the parent as well that you know get your kids kids back to school they deserve to come back to school you know be with their teachers and friends and and and you know live a normal life again if if if that's normal you know going forward um and any anyway I I want to thank you for that and you know and one more thing is uh Teamsters here to support the district in any way possible and when you know the call is here we're we're stepping up to the plate we want to support everyone and and and everything that that that you know we need to get back to school and and you know educate these students and again um congratulation to all the employees that deserve this and uh thank you very much for your time and your hard work thank you very much thank you Mr Fu um now we'll go ahead and go on to our California School Employees Association CSEA we have uh I see we have Sharon here welcome Shar go ahead and you unmute yourself I think I did can you hear me yes we can hear you good evening Dr Bower board president members of the board um I just also want to give a shout out to all our employees of the year the CSA employees which of course you know Carmen Caitlyn Elizabeth and Paulo and also the teamer members Isaac Cecilia and Eric they I know they go above and beyond to do outstanding work and of course a second shout out to Carmen for also being selected Santa Clair County Office of Ed employee of the year it's a true honor and much deserved I've known Carmen for a long time and also another shout out to our all of our classified employees as next week is classified employee week and we know that our classified employees both Teamsters CCA classified management everybody has been at the district back to work for a year and or over a year now keeping the schools going the district office supporting the schools that support the community keeping everything as best as it can be on track for during such a challenging year but they've succeeded students are coming back summer programs great presentation by the way sh another thank you to Mr Sanchez and Sandra and Barbara um I do truly hope a lot of students participate this summer because those programs looked amazing and the presentation was super very clear easy to understand offers so much to the kids so really happy and also another thing csca and I want to wish Mr man good luck in his new position we've had a challenge alling their year this year but hopefully we agree that we've met it with professionalism and come together in a lot of different aspects to to work through the year and put everything in place that we could have control over which we know we didn't have a lot of control over what was happening but we worked with it and through it and for that I want to thank you and wish you much success down in Southern California I think that's where your heart is thank you thank you so much thank you Sharon have a good evening you too H now we'll go ahead and open it up to 403 alumrock Educators Association area do we have Joselyn here or anybody that's representing area tonight please raise your hand yay I see Joselyn so hi you threw me by surprise because I usually the administrators go before I do well welcome you're on the list next thank you I too would like to on behalf of VAR I want to congratulate all the classified employees of the year um and thank them on for all the work that they've done for our students in our district this year we appreciate all the work that you do um I am going to now do a little time traveling back in time and I would like for you to join me in a galaxy far far away actually it wasn't that far back in 2015 there was a school in alumrock that was closed the California school ID number was removed do any of you know what school that was I would expect the superintendent to know and I would expect that Teresa Smith our current director of HR would know since she was was the principal of the school at the time that school was James mckinty Academy located across the street from the district office it is now called Russo mckinty Academy still in the same location I would not be surprised if you did not know about that school closing because not much changed except for the name and the school ID the students the teachers the principal remained at the site as business as usual there was no disruption no chaos no issues at least none that were brought to the attention of area by members or by the district the only other change that I was made aware of by a teacher who was is currently at the school and was at the school at the time was that the students at Russo mckinty got to choose a new mascot to promote schoolwide Spirit now join me as I fast forward to April 202 1 last month as we are all aware the school board took action to consolidate or as referred to by superintendent Dr Bower merge Fischer and Renaissance Academy at fiser as well as Matson and Renaissance Academy at Matson the comments from the board from you I remember were clear that you wanted a smooth transition with the least disruption to those being affected by these mergers and fortunately the actions the district has chosen to take since that board meeting have been far from smooth with major disruption to the teachers I can only expect that the parents are also not aware of the shakeup that the district is implementing when it decided to place all teachers at fiser and at Matson on an involuntary excess list in other words telling them that they no longer have the right to remain at their site even though the students will remain not only has this created unnecessary confusion and anxiety for those students who plan to continue or for those teachers who plan to continue teaching at the Consolidated sites it is in direct violation of our collective bargaining agreement our bargaining agreement clearly spells out that there are only three reasons a unit member shall be declared involuntarily accessed for declining enrollment for reduction of services or for a change in the credentialing requirements by law none of those reasons apply to this situation in fact it is my understanding that all students were contacted by those School sites and all but two students are expected to return When area received the emails sent to the teachers notifying them that they are involuntarily accessed we had communication not only through the district's Council and our CTA staff but at the bargaining table on Monday of this week just four days ago or a week ago Monday I I apologize well and this Monday we notified the district bargaining team that if the action that had been taken the previous week was not reversed that we have no alternative but to file a grievance on behalf of our members and our association litigation is not the path area prefers to use in order to resolve conflict especially when the resolution can be so clear and simple however we have been left with no alternative area today filed a grievance on behalf of the teachers at fiser and Matson and on our behalf of our association unfortunately this takes me back in time once again after Shields many of you remember Shields and hubard teachers were placed on an excess list back in I think it was 2009 and told that they had to reapply for their positions when those schools were reconstituted due to their program Improvement status ARA was forced to litigate that situation while ARA eventually prevailed in the settlement that was handed down by the public employees Relations Board and our members were not only given their positions back along with compensation and protection from access for an additional 3 years it left a really bad feeling for many of those affected some of whom still hold grudges for how that went down it wasn't then and it's not now good for the morale of the teachers which ultimately as we all know filters down to the students the positive action that came out of that experience was that subsequently around 2013 when Steve fist was superintendent in Alam Rock area in the district entered into two separate M us which ultimately became part of our bargaining agreement and currently is now oneou resulted from the closures of Rogers and saloner schools stating that only when the students are relocated those positions created to accommodate them would be considered relocated continuing positions and not newly created positions I know this is a a a big concept to understand but it's very clear if you are involved in it the mo the other mou that was created as a result of Goss Elementary School being converted to a dependent Charter currently known as aptitude Academy at Goss this mou allowed for those teachers who did not want to REM at the Deep choose to leave and be considered involuntarily accessed giving them the rights of an involuntarily accessed unit member which takes priority over someone who voluntarily accesses themsel again bringing it up to the current situation area agrees that any unit member affected by the consolidation closure Charter conversion or merger which ever we choose to call what is happening has the right to leave the site and be placed on the involuntary excess group in that case that would apply to all four sites being affected however to force the teachers at only two of the sites affected to be involuntarily accessed is again not only in violation of the terms and intent of the language in our bargaining agreement it serves absolutely no Positive Purpose for the students Andor the staff of this district and it shows favoritism for the two other sites affect who are also affected by the school consolidations doing so only leaves area up to speculate what the district's possible intent and motivation is behind such a move we all understand the district's financial reasons behind taking the action that you did however it absolutely did not need to go in the direction the district is choosing in order to realize the cost savings it did not need to be at the expense of the staff it's not too late to correct your wrong turn and still reach the same goal of saving the District Administrative costs at those sites however at the rate you are heading any cost savings is now going to be expended for legal fees not to mention what it is doing to the teachers and the morale at those schools once again it feels like the details of the plan were never thought through before action was taken so disappointing and disheartening if you truly value all the teachers of this District it is certainly not displayed by the current actions taken by the HR department this past week thank you for listening to that and please consider what is being done and again area does not choose or want to take legal action however that's all that we're left with we've tried and tried to get this worked out but to no avail and to no avail without filing AG grievance so therefore we because of time limitations and the end of the year approaching and people's lives being in the balance we did so that we did that today putting this aside I do also would like on behalf of area would like to wish Carlos Moran the very best uh in your new position down in Southern California and I too as Sharon mentioned am I'm glad that you can be reunited with the rest of your family um and you can I I know this might offend Mr uh trusty Beano also but you can go down where the Dodgers play and enjoy those games down there and uh good luck to you and your family thank you thank you Miss Ms uh now we'll move on to alen rock administrators Association uh we I see Maria Martinez here welcome Maria hi good evening good evening uh good evening alen Rock School Board and superintendent Bower our schools have had an amazing month of in-person learning students and staff are happy to be back at school and are thriving in a safe and welcoming atmosphere we are extremely appreciative of our teachers and our classified staff who have worked to make sure the quality learning is happening online and in person in addition to reopening we have a few wonderful ongoing that are happening at our schools in April on April 24th Meyer Elementary gave out to close to 200 toys and materials along with resources for Meer safe via Theos socially distance resource Fair during this event 12 Community organizations safely spaced out provided material resources to the families and attendance this included the city's uh Department of Transportation which which handed out free bicycle helmets and also the San Jose police department's ice cream truck handed out ice cream to all the little ones and families at the end of the walkthrough so this was a fun event enjoyed by all and at Curtin students are engaging in daily exercise with their in-person instruction thanks to their partnership with little Heroes it is great to know that kids are able to participate in safe outdoor physical activities after being homebound for so long and at San Antonio Elementary School principal Dr Ivan Montes is gearing up for their third epic build of the Year this is a design challenge where students work with their families at home to design and innovate and also Alam Rock schools are in is in the midst of wrapping up destination space uh Monday the 17th at 1 pm and Tuesday the 25th at 1 pm are the last sessions and throughout this uh these past few months we've had experts take students to Mars the moon and we're wrapping things up with talking about our own Planet we've had students from all over the district participating and we've engaged around 150 to 200 students per session so we feel so lucky to have this wonderful partnership with NASA and thank you to assistant principal Miss Olga Martinez and principal Jonathan natividad both at hubard for spearheading this wonderful collaboration and as we approach the end of the school year schools are gearing up for promotion ceremonies in a variety of ways while each school's approach to promotion is different we want to continue to honor and celebrate the amazing accomplishments of our students and speaking of accomplishments I want to congratulate principal Lee Tran of painter Elementary School for earning the 2021 Assembly District 27 award for aapi heritage month as the honorary for the leader in education award principal Tran is truly a transformative School leader and we are excited for her to receive her award on Thursday May 27th thank you everyone for your time thank you um now we'll move on to superintendent Dr Bower thank you board president and um this has been quite a um a memorable month I will say uh for all of us and there's about 2,000 staff members here in in alumrock and everybody in one way or another has felt a number of things that have come upon us in um being able to address um a 15 months of pandemic and we had absolutely um no previous place book but I want to thank everybody for making a possibility to bring our students to the best possible way uh to some kind of in-person education and I want to thank everybody in the team in the 2000 um people team to make this possible everybody in some way or another contributed to this and so it was not easy it was um very bumpy uh one of the things that happened from the state is that we were not very clear not even you know we're still trying to figure out if you recall the board had to approve the in-person grant by March 31st uh I'm kind of um in that same way of traveling back in time that Joseline was talking about so a lot of things have happened and so I want to thank everybody for helping us to to make that happen at the same time we had to address you know the very difficult um position that we had in terms of closing Fisher and closing medson and I can assure uh everyone that we're going to make um uh we're going to address the concerns presented as best as we can and we're going to move forward because that is not an easy uh transition no matter how we craft it but I also want to thank the parents of the students at fiser and the students at mson um because 90% of them are looking forward for the Renaissance program and uh very complimentary about staying in our schools and and making that the choice for their children so I want to thank the parents for trusting on that particular choice and and the decisions that the board made thank you so very much parents for that and uh also a huge shout out for our classified employees of the Year celebrating uh that week for them also next week it's I'm looking forward to a lot of that and also thanking the teachers uh because we just finished teacher appreciation week and I want to thank everyone who is working with children and the commitment that they have shown throughout this very difficult process uh Gman Rubio an excellent choice for the county we're very proud of her and finally um I do want to thank Mr Carlos Moran for the five years that he gave to alumrock I know that you have received a lot of um things you know but I'm not going to be I'm not I I cannot be quiet about it Carlos you brought to us um the level of professionalism the level of commitment you know early hours and late hours all the time um and and we remember uh uh within this last few days you know how you ended up with us and also we remember you know that people were telling you why are you going there and we were at District on the Move we are a new Alum Rock and you're able to be you know one of our experts now and I want to thank you you know when I talked to to your to your new boss um he wanted you to to be with them as soon as possible that's another District in transition and and and you're gonna do extremely well and they're very blessed of for having you uh over there um and that is the reason I wanted to tell everybody that um the superintendent in his new District called me and asked me as a favor if I could release Mr Moran early so that he can go and have some warmed hand off with the current person in his district so Carlos um we did that and and thank you for for U being flexible um I know that he wanted to be there as soon as possible because his wife and kids are there um we needed him a little bit longer the superintendent called me and say please Dr Bower please and that is the reason that we we negotiated and landed in in this Friday so thank you Carlos for everything that you brought to alumrock we are better for your uh work with us and we wish you the best with you n Natalie and your son thank you so much for everything you did and thank you B for allowing me this uh statements thank you now I'll go ahead and open it up to the trustees at the time um and I'll go by the hands as I see them I see trusty fam hand up I go ahead Mr f i I think trusty Bay R had this GED up first so it's up to you I see you on my list first and I was gonna I can go Toano first if you'd like sure sure I want it trusty all right thank you for that trusty fam um so I wanted to uh start my comments tonight with just a a quick thank you to Mr Fu um tan Fu and and teamsters and his comments tonight I really appreciate um you know the teamsters always being so um willing to work with us and and as expressed in his words you know just the dedication to to the kids of the district and the families and so I I really want to thank him for his words tonight um those those do hit hit home with me um on another note it is my understanding that in the past couple of weeks we did have a person from off campus come on to campus and there was some kind of an assault I believe on one of our staff um and I don't know the details completely and I won't go into them but um you know I I do want to address this more from the lens and the framework of of safety and safety for our students as we begin to hope you know transition more and more into people being on campus as when I ran for this position one of my commitments was to the safety of our students and our staff and our families on campus and so I continue to have that you know concern and this incident is just for me one example of the possibilities that can happen um you know that we always have to look out for and there's no perfect answer to these and and you know you never know when one of these in can occur or or what the extent may be or if it even could be prevented in any way but you know I just look forward when it makes sense to continue to to working towards and advocating for safety on our campuses um because I don't want to see our staff our parents on campus our children being put at risk by people coming um from off- campus for whatever you know reasons they may have that's one incident it's not the only one it's not the first one and and hopefully it's the last but I don't know that it will be the last so I look forward to continuing to to you know refocus that lens on safety in our district um Also I spoke a little bit to the many of you may or may not know there's new CDC guidelines that came out today regarding our you know our handy dandy masks and you know it it's still for me I haven't read enough I haven't had enough time today to look at everything that's come out but it seems clear to me that we are at least at this time knock on wood on a in a pretty strong trajectory towards returning towards some semblance of normaly soon um and so with that being said and hopefully acknowledged I I want to just time travel I guess a little bit too and really thank again our staff for having a a solid plan together for reopening um when as we reopen schools I this past month I had the opportunity to speak with a number of of parents in the district who who have were some of the parents that decided to have their their children back and they were very happy with the um the you know the setup the organization the the way that the things were going and you know obviously there's not everything is not perfect for every person but at least the ones I spoke to um were happy with with what was being offered for the remaining of this year so I want to thank staff again for that solid plan and making sure that we were able to implement it um and hopefully this is kind of like a practice for going into next year as we can you know I'm sure we'll still have some levels of of covid precautions and things like that and and at this point we've kind of done some of the groundwork to be prep prepared for that as we go into next year um I want to also acknowledge as I kind of drive around the east side and and do things that I need to do and you know I go by some of the high schools and on their their boards up on their little uh mares I see the names of students the names of some of their graduates and the colleges that they'll be attending or that they've been accepted to and every time I go by those I can't help but think to myself that a large number of those I think um just based on the schools that I'm driving by are are alen rock students they're also alrock graduates um and so you know as I mentioned many times my daughters are also proud graduates of of alam Rock and the oldest one is indeed going off to college yourself this fall and so the reason why I bring this up is because as a father and and as a trustee and as a alumni I'm just at this time of year always so proud of our alumrock graduates that continue to move forward um whether it's the college or you know whatever path they choose but um you know it when we say in this District we often find times to say C and when I see those names when I see my own daughters when I see you know the children that I know in my neighborhood and and friends that I know that have kids in the district it means something that these kids were saying CA they're working hard in Alam Rock and then they're succeeding um at the next level and those uh who will not necessarily be going to college but will have a a different path that they'll further After High School that um you know they've come up through alen Rock they've gone through high school and now they're going to choose their path beyond that um I'm eager and I'm happy to report that prior to the shutdown and prior to the pandemic I had started to have some conversations with um some organizations regarding technical um education and and Technical careers and how we could integrate some of that into our district we heard loud and clear from our uh repurposing committee that that was one of the desires that um that the community would like to see and so I I've re-engaged in some of those conversations this past month with those organizations and so I'm hoping that we can start that conversation to see what bringing um Career Education and and Career Training into our district and what that could look like for for those of our alanar students who College may not be the path for them but they have a bright future in another way so I'm looking forward to that and lastly I also would like to thank Carlos um just in the time that I've been here i' I've seen you know Carlos progress along and and and become very astute at the things that we need from him and so I want to just thank you for your hard work wish you the best of luck and um you know I'm jealous that you now get to go see games in in a baseball Cathedral and and you don't have watch him over here um and I'll look for you in the Pavilion out there so enjoy your time enjoy your family and thank you thank you H now we go to trusty fam okay very well uh first of all uh I want to take this chance to uh celebrate the one month of our successful uh partial spring reopening uh I so far so good we are making progress and we're you know as a we're going along we're learning how to operate an in-person school again you know the muscles got a little weak during you know during the worst part of the pandemic and this allows us to kind of warm up before the fall so I want to celebrate that and wish uh all our schools you know as we go into the home stretch uh you know keep up the good work uh also on that note because this is the the next I believe the next regular board meeting will be held after the eighth graders graduate I'd like to wish all our middle eighth graduating eighth graders uh you know congratulations and you know I wish you the best of luck as you enter the next phase of your educ ation which is high school you know going from being the what is it the the oldest in the school and right over you know becoming freshman in high school and I'm sure that all all of our eighth I hope that all of our eighth graders uh find success as they uh transition into the uh more advanced phase of their secondary education uh I I'd also like to celebrate as we're coming to the end of teacher appreciation week to thank every teacher who works in Alam Rock and also a head of uh classified School Employees week uh to thank you know especially uh given the the award winners tonight thank you for all that you do for our district uh thank you Mr Fu for your uh kind words and your encouragement ment for uh and your spirit for in support of our district uh let's see here uh and I I like to was it congratulate principal Tran of Pinter for receiving her award from uh State Assembly member Cola uh what an honor it is I I know so because I used to work for the assembly myself so uh you know on that note a little bit of a pitch uh six days from now May 19th is the information night for the uh Vietnamese dual immersion program at pter so I encourage uh every parent who's interested to uh check it out uh you know on that note uh because it happened after our regular meeting uh I uh I want to congratulate Miss gruna Wald Mrs Madrill and Prince cidon for presenting at the April 21st 2021 National bilingual multilingual learner advocacy month showcase so again thank you for you know showing you know uh showing the nation what Alan Rock has done in for its students for uh you know bilingual and multilingual educ ation and on that note I too would like to bid assistant superintendent Moran a a fond farewell I know that I came on at the tail end of your time but you've been uh nothing but professional and as Dr bow and I have discussed you you have the third hardest job in this district and uh thank you for handling you know with with tact uh the you know uh the the the The Human Side of our district you you know I know that sometimes uh you know uh tempers fler U but you you you've done it in a way that you know that I can see has earned you the the respect of uh all you know uh all of our employee bargaining Association so uh I know what is it uh family is a great pool and I completely understand that you got you know that's why you're you are leaving us but uh but I'm uh that next school district is very very fortunate to have you so uh again thank you so much for your service to Alan Rock and uh you know best wishes in your future endeavors thank you trusty fam um and uh I'm assuming all trustees are gonna want to say something but I don't want to make assumptions so before I move on trusty Travis would you like to say anything sure um I just wish him happiness and joy on this new Journey and all the graduates there's 16 instructional days left and congratulations and you'll be missed at Alam Rock and we wish you well and hopefully you'll come back and visit your teachers because they're going to miss you too um that's thank you uh trusty kto yes um uh I also want to trusty fam jumped the gun there or he were're u likeminded in that yeah the the the next meeting will be after the eth and so I do I do miss that um very much that's one of the highlights of of being a board member it was a very privileged to shake hands with all those kids who are excited have a very very bright future and unfortunately the p pic um took that from us but I'm very excited for the future that still is there for them even though we can't uh um say goodbye to them in person and shake their hands as they move on to to their next uh step in their academic career and uh but yeah it was very very much missed and something I very much look forward to I think it was you know several hundred kids and probably not a good recipe right now that CO's going around and shaking hands with that many people but but it was always fun um and uh yeah looking forward to the future when we can get back to inperson uh uh promotion ceremonies and wishing the best to the kids uh that are moving on um this uh month has been uh eventful with a lot of things going on um just recently I was able to join supervisor Chavez in a forum where we had a discussion about the future of Reed Hill airport very very Lively discussion um there is a lot of um individuals who obviously very passionate about their their hobby uh I did inform them that uh we as a board have taken action formal action through a resolution once again I want to thank my colleagues for supporting that resolution uh those of you who were here back then obviously board member fam was not but um the ones who did support it were Ernesto Cora and myself and so um very very uh thankful for that support uh there's a community out there our children who uh every day are are having lead sprayed over them because of the placement of the airport right next to uh our our elementary school um and then all the the rest of the schools are out there so looking forward to seeing uh a a lead study that's being conducted by the county that's going to be released in July and uh will be brought forward to the to the Board of Supervisors and so hopefully um we can go ahead and and once again reiterate our position on uh reill V airport as a board at the time so I when the time is appropriate I'll bring back another uh action for us to consider um with uh with regard to Mr Moran um you know thank you for your service to Alam Rock uh I guess uh you know we hopefully we did a good job in training you up here and uh I know that you're going to be an asset to them when when you get over there uh enjoy your Dodgers games I'm uh looking forward not to seeing that hat no I'm just kidding H don't know flashes around whenever they're playing no just kidding all right um that's it all right thank you and um so I'd like to start off by saying happy anniversary to my husband um I think back and I'm like we I really give up some really important nights you know to be here and that is one of them so just taking this small time um to say thank you honey uh thank you for your support as when we got married you know none of us saw this in my future so I appreciate the support and the patience um especially when uh you know I give I give a lot of my time to to this role um and we as uh Miss Martinez mentioned it's been a year since I'm sorry a month since we welcomed our students some of our students back into campus um so just want to acknowledge that um thank all the staff the teachers the parents um you know I know I know it's a lot it's not like we used to you know as parents we got to fill out a form every day um you know the schedule is a little different as teachers you know adjusting to the virtual slash inperson so I appreciate everyone and making that as smooth as possible for our children to be back in in classrooms And in regards to uh our consolidation our closure however you know way we at that or we want to call that you know whichever way we turn that rock it is what it is um and you know as Joselyn reminded Us in such a beautiful Journey that she took us on very creative um you know this month has been tough you know and making that decision in this past month and then making those um moves you know moving forward um and although we know that these decisions you know will affect everybody involved right so the children and the families and the St staff um we know that some will be happy and are happy with that move and some are not um and however we still get to move forward and so just thinking of you all that are involved you know those of you that are happy you know and those of you that are not um and then staff you know directly Dr Bower and administration who you know um get to move forward regardless right um with the decision that as a board we've made um and we know that the decision that continue you know um we do our best to think of all of those right those that are not happy those that are but all of those that are affected to make the best decision for all and so um you know not just taking you know um so you know looking at the entire picture even though there's a few that are not happy um making sure that whatever decision whatever Movement we take forward is the best decision for our children now for our families now for for our staff in general now for our entire District um and also for the generations to come so you know thank you to everyone you know that are involved um in whatever role it is that you play uh which is very important um and I'm happy to hear that you know it is a little over 90% of our families who have enrolled um as Dr bar mentioned you know either at the school sites there at um or you know in our district um that shows you know something so for me the actions speak louder than you know words right and um and it doesn't discount anybody's feelings anybody's thoughts we definitely take all of those in mind as we move forward um you know Dr brow Won't Let Me Lie we talk every day about you know the moves and the steps and the directions and ensuring that um you know we're covering every corner um dotting every eye and Crossing every tea as we move forward in this way um and you know I want to again also congratulate all the graduates especially in our district here um who've worked hard to get to eighth grade um and now move on and transition to high school you know in my uh culture culture this is the rights of Passage time um where you know you become young young ladies and young men out there um and start to you know make decisions on your own um more than you know when your parents were there and so um just very proud of you um and I'm very um blessed to you know have my peers here um that are you know we do our best to be good examples to you all in our you know in what we do as your parents right your teachers and also um you know my colleagues here tonight so congratulations to you all and also all the other graduates who have gone especially those who have gone through our district that are seniors now and moving on um and hopefully one day soon we'll have your careers and come back to Alam Rock and share that with the rest of our children um and then also want to highlight my stepson Andres loera who's graduating as a senior going to UC Santa Cruz um again you know another step outside of their home so congratulations um and then as you know I mentioned in the past you know another hat that I wear as a public information officer right now at the Emergency Operations Center just can't um keep from highlighting that covid-19 continues to be real in our community unfortunately continues to be real in the east side um we have the highest numbers still um and although our county has been overall a little over 70% vaccinated um unfortunately our community especially our Hispanic Latino Community is only 49% vaccinated and so just keep those numbers in mind um you know also our East Side in our South counties you know but obviously here highlighting our East Side the highest covid-19 rates are still reality and our lowest vaccin vaccination is a reality so you know now that we've opened up to the 12 year olds um you know please make your appointments please go get vaccinated the sooner you know we have that her immunity right um as a whole you know for me it's important to not just look at the county as a whole but to really focus on the reality of our east side and so just because the county as a whole is almost going to be her immunity that doesn't mean that our East Side Community is so keep those things in mind um you know because I would love to have everybody here I'm here by myself in the boardroom I would love to have everybody back here you know in person but there's no way we can do that if we're not um you know if we don't have our numbers down and we're not vaccinated I want to ensure first and foremost security as you know trusty Viano mentioned that and that looks in many different dire ways um I know that San Jose Unified uh board meetings are starting to go back in person unfortunately I don't see that any time in the near future for our our district because of our numbers and our reality and our smaller space here um and so you know I don't know what that looks like in the future if it's you know a combination of both um but I also want to keep in mind that that you know we're Equitable in that um if we have a board meeting in person that nobody's left outside or unable to speak on certain items so you know making sure that we think of those things that as we move forward to open up our our County um as we were or at least close to um and then finally godos um thank you again for your time um I met you as a involved mother here in our district and you know since those times I just I felt you know your presence you you know a a smile all the time it was warm it was inviting um you know there was never a you know a difference you know you always made um our community and us as parents feel comfortable um in the meetings and so thank you also for being a strong role model for our Cho Latino males um young men especially out there that's important you know um to me as you know as a probation officer right in the hats that I wear um I I I love to see that strong male presence um and especially somebody that's a great role model for our young men to follow and so um I look forward to hearing all the amazing things and as somebody mentioned you know we know your hearts in La literally and so you know we're glad that we're able to support you know that transition um and that we were a little stepping stone in your life um and that you know hopefully Alan Rock always has that special place in your heart as you know you'll always have your home here with us thank you for your time yes thank you um and I see trusty Chavez uh sorry one more thing um one of the comment made about closing the schools um is that when they Clos that school that Jo was talking about um and then renamed it Russo mckinty the student achievement learning excelled and the student achievement the students increased dramatically so so just because you close one school does not mean that they're going to do poorly these kids I mean the numbers were really high in how well they did and so I just want to uh say that because sometimes people look at it as negatively but it was a really good thing that happened to those students that's it thank you TR wait on that that wait a second say it again and one more thing and one more thing on another thing um we we are all Al Rock but we are also all San Jose as well and we have to remember to work with the county and the city because we're all of each other and when we do that make our decisions we take that in mind we take that in mind that each one of us will be affected and we do do our due diligence and looking at the numbers and seeing how well to place the students so um sometimes people think it might be rushed but a a lot of thought does go in it it might seem last minute but that's not the way the process went and that's all I want to say thank you thank you trusty Chavez and as uh trusty Chavez mentioned you know it's important like our relationships with the county and the city so at this time I want to highlight um Andres Kinto for your collaboration with Cindy Chavez um you know and other leaders in our in our community who uh take the time right um to look specifically at our side and our children um and that lead that really affects them and so many other things you know having that airport there so thank you for taking that time and collaborating and um having those special forums although I wasn't able to join um the conversation I know that you're taking care you know of that and um I thank you as one of our uh colleagues here doing that work and everybody else you know here on our board um all the other things we all do right in addition to um uh being on these meetings and and doing the work specifically for District um continuing to be leaders in our community to make our city and county as trusty Chavez uh better and the best for our communities um with that we'll go ahead and move on to item 601 approve resolution 42 2021 policy public quasi public facilities um and I believe trusty fam this is uh your item so I'll go ahead and turn it over to you okay very well thank you very much so uh you know a little correction actually item 5.01 there anyway uh thank you very much Madam president uh I bring this resolution uh because you know when I was appointed I said I would take a forward looking approach and uh you know the F you know in many ways that the future has arrived and you know I also wanted to you know to to let my fellow members of the board as well as the wider community that uh I am looking at the uh long range fiscal solvency of the district and you know one of the assets perhaps the most valuable asset that our district has is land given that uh let's not beat the bush about real estate prices in Santa Clara County they are up up up and our land is you know one of the few advantages that the Allen Rock district has um so it is in you know uh in response to uh the mayor of San Jose's proposal for uh conversion of Public School District property uh I wanted to you know uh you know I went to the the indivisible East San Jose meeting with the mayor I have still not received a uh clear response from his staff now I do know that uh though it is being postponed until September uh you know this is a a very weighty work that's still in progress and uh it is incumbent that we as a board uh take action to uh protect the assets of our community this is uh this is these are things that our previous generations have left for us in order to provide for the education of our children so uh bear with me as I will in the interest of time read specific Clauses of the resolution as opposed to reading the whole thing so whereas the whereas the title to the land on which all the district school sites are located is held in the name of the alumrock Union Elementary School District whereas mayor lardo's land use policy proposal was originally developed and is still being developed without the input of key stakeholders including the Allen Rock Union Elementary School District and other public school districts in San Jose parents neighborhood association service providers and other neighborhood [Music] stakeholders whereas the district which serves some of the most financially needy families and neighborhoods in the city of San Jose is facing severe Financial challenges resulting from past budget deficits and from declining enrollment in declining revenue from the state whereas unstable and declining State funding has required the district to consider and establish methods and strategies for creating long-term revenue streams to support District programs whereas the challenges and conditions faced by The District in continuing to provide education and education services to its Community are different than the considerations and concerns and interests of other school districts in the city whereas mayor lardo's land use policy proposal as envisioned would empower the city to determine which uses of District property make sense without regard to consider considerations of the district's long-term strategic and financial planning whereas mayor lardo's land use policy proposal could have a significant negative impact on the district's finances and on the district's ability to maintain flexibility and how the district's real property assets are deployed and to use the property strategically to build and maintain long-term revenue streams to stabilize District's finances and whereas the on going development by mayor Lardo with his land use policy proposal in this manner and without key stakeholder input is an abuse of the mayor's power is disrespectful to the district and the district Community could also negate the substantial and important work and recommendations developed by the district advisory committee uh now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Trustees of the alen rock Union Elementary School District denounces the manner in which mayor Lardo is under taking the development of his land use policy proposal and his effort to legislate how the district and other local school districts may use their lands without first seeking or obtaining input from the district or the district community and without the long-term interests of the district in mind be it further resolve that the board calls upon mayor Lardo to immediately cease development of his land use policy proposal relating to conversions of school district properties until such time as he announces a plan to solicit and actively engage district and alen Rock Community input into the development of his policy proposals affecting the use of District properties uh you know my fellow members um as I've read the mayor's proposal the mayor would the proposal would limit how our district is able to utilize our vacant land and Facilities uh without regard to what are the needs of our Alam Rock Community uh you know I too uh want to work with the mayor and the city council to get to a uh favorable solution that is beneficial for our district and as well for the city but this you you know but we cannot you know but collaboration does not mean that we allow city government to Ste to permanently handicap our ability to make the best financial use of our land and Facilities uh you know in anticipation of uh the resumption of its consideration in the fall and to prepare our District uh in the event of any possible litigation I offer this uh resolution for consideration by the board so as so that our district can take so that our district can put our legal stance out in front uh let the city city government know that this is our stance this is the legal basis for our stance and that uh this is our uh open and this is our negot non-negotiable position uh in that Spirit you know I hope that uh in the interest of ensuring that we Remain the uh foundational k through eight educational agency of the alumrock region of East San Jose uh to provide the financial sustainability to fulfill that mission and to take care of our employees I urge my numbers to uh vote Yes on this resolution thank you very much thank you trusty fam are are you uh calling for a um yes so I motion I I motion to pass this resolution thank you I see I heard uh vice president GTO second and uh also I saw your hand up so if you can go ahead and go yes uh I want to thank uh board member fam for introducing uh this resolution I think it's uh very much needed I'm not going to go ahead and try to guess what uh the intentions from the mayor are I have to assume that it's he's coming at this from his Vantage Point as a mayor who's dealing with a very very significant crisis in terms of housing just the city dropped the ball and they haven't built enough housing there's too many people too many jobs not enough housing and so um they're they're viewing the assets of the school districts as something that they can go ahead and use I think that's a very very wrong way of approaching uh governance uh the assets of the city are the assets of the city and the assets of the school district are the assets of the school district and they need to be used for the purposes that we're intended to we are here to educate children we need to have maximum flexibility in what we do with our assets and so therefore uh that's why I'm supporting uh this uh the resolution that b fam has introduced um I um I'm I'm I'm taking back to other instances where the city has intended to go ahead and use our uh assets uh in order to go ahead and resolve certain problems or certain issues they've had for example the use of um the lack of open space San Jose is very very much Park deficient they built too many houses and not enough Park Parks not enough open space and the city factors in our Fields as their open space uh something that shouldn't be done um I very much agree that the fields should be accessible to the public taxpayers are using them but the city shouldn't be relying on our resources to solve their problems because we have two diff two very different missions just a while ago we were proposed this whole uh couple years ago of just simply handing over all of our fields to the city they would just go ahead and take over them and they would manage them and luckily we were informed and we're given very good good solid advice from Sunny Bell School District said don't ever do that it's a headache to go ahead and get your Fields back um we've been in litigation to go ahead and recover our the use of our facilities of our own land um and so I just bring that up as an example examples of instances where the city tends to go ahead and look at the resources of of another agency another governing District another body uh to to which to tap into and that's that's not appropriate uh we have to go ahead and figure out the instruction of our children U by law and for the Constitution that's the way it's outlined um the city has no jurisdiction or authority over the education of our children and so therefore we should be allowed to manage the we that's why we currently are allowed to manage the athletes that are are in trusted to elmro school district by the public um so it's for those reasons that I support my colleague uh board member fams resolution thank you for introducing this thank you and um I see trusty know your hand but if we can uh go ahead and open it up for public comment first I know um that's also your preference um if you're okay with that are you okay great so uh Mr Moran if you can help us with um public comment at this time um if we have any members of the public wishing to address a board at this time on this item at this time there are no hands raised no public comment okay I'll give the public couple seconds there in case they haven't uh had time to press that button do we have any now still none okay so we'll go ahead and move on to H comments trusty Bano sorry about that okay I would just take your time to stretch out there but um I also want to just thank uh trusty fam for for bringing this item and for his words and also trusty CTO also for providing a good um synopsis of the situation I in the interest of time I won't go too much into it I'll just state that um when there were opportunities at several public meeting meetings with City staff and other and the public and other uh board members from other districts I I made my feelings known there um asked my questions to the city and made my comments there and and vo my thought that um you know the district is an autonomous entity and and we should we should be you know we should expect that we're able to govern in such a way uh you know each one of us um well I guess four out five of us at this point um have been voted in uh by the voters and by virtue of our of our process I'll include trusty fam in that as well but you know we were put in these seats to represent the interest of the district and so I think that is what the the voters have decided that's what the voters wanted and that's what we as board members for this District intend to do with every single decision that we make and so I think that to have have um you know City officials or whoever may be make decisions for um for us who have been voted in specifically to make these decisions is is not um the way to go about this so I will be supporting this uh tonight I have as I mentioned I voice to the city to the other members of the other Tres and the public and I thank you again for Ste F thank you tell uh yes um this is kind of like a double-edged sword because we still have to get permits from the city and the county if we are going to lease out the schools so um I I on the indivisible meeting where maror Sam Lardo did say uh something on on this subject he also said that it was out of his preview to tell districts how to spend their money so they have this homeless issue and the sad part is is they need to be housed but when they go try and house them people in the neighborhood say they don't want the unhoused there so um I would like to see in writing because I also asked Dr when um Dr danan the superintendent uh wrote the letter to um Mayor Sam Lardo what the response was and so I don't know what the response was from him and um I don't know if we should maybe reach out to him before we make this decision or if we could postpone it maybe one more month and see if we can sit down and have a talk with him um maybe that would go better uh for the future when we do want to lease out things uh because I've been in business and they can hold up leases for a long time and cost money if you you don't get um that permit so us having to the Future lease out facilities this could be a problem and um that's all thank you thank you and I see trusty fam and trusty hand up but I'm gonna go ahead and say something and then we'll go back around around if H trustees want to say something else um you know I I I will be supporting this and for same reasons trusty Beano and I uh you know many others in this um here um were in those meetings and we spoke up you know and ask questions there um and the mayor was there um at least in the one uh one of the meetings that I was in um and also in my understanding is Dr Bower has also reached out to the mayor correct Dr Brower just uh in in general in regards to um things related to our district especially during the time that this came out um the mayor has been reached out yes several times it was a phone call it was after you know the the superintendent Association via Dr danan sent that letter and to my knowledge there has been no formal response um but I cannot be certain about that because I missed a couple of meetings thank you um so you know as a trustee um he's been reached out many times um and you know he hasn't called any one of us or called us um he's making decisions you know or moving things forward without uh contacting us as a district that would have been affected by this and so um in regards to anything else after this whether it's permits or any other uh services that the city provides for us you know you know for me that's you know different apples and oranges right um services will continue the city has you know their role to play whether it's approving a permit or whether it's providing certain resources and services that they do as city um so this should not affect that and if it does even more of a reason to um speak up right and on behalf of our community here alumrock so as a trustee I will be supporting this thank you uh trusty fam for bringing this up and um as a trustee if I see this uh decision affecting any other uh whether it's approving permits or you know any services that get affected to our community um please let me know B you know I I want to be one of the first to know because that should never happen right we shouldn't have any repercussions because of a decision that we made on a um item and so that that's my thoughts for now I'll go ahead and go to trusty fam and then trusty larano uh thank you madam president you know to to answer truste Chavez's concerns uh you know I know I was in I Not only was I at the individual meeting but I was also uh in the meeting when the mayor uh spoke to Schoolboard members and superintendents in fact as I recall board president was there and uh superintendent B was there uh in any case I've reached out to the mayor staff at the indivisible meeting I to this date I followed up still haven't received so much as a uh a clear response uh you know I un you know I understand that City bureaucracy can't you know I've worked as a legislative staffer uh City you know uh yes there there may be grumbles but uh my experience with City Hall is they have been professional and uh if if any U what is it any permitting issues are uh held up you know uh I don't think this uh this would hold it up if not there is recourse uh but secondly uh this uh this issue will come up in the fall that much I have been told uh by uh uh contacts in the other City Council Members offices um in the the whole point of this is to give our district uh a legal stance I that you know before I brought you know I had propos originally proposed thisd on the April meeting but uh it took time for district General Council to draft this to the so that we were on the most solid legal ground possible and uh to tell the truth e even even our planning commissioner Rolando Bonia even uh reached out to me and said you know uh best uh the best way to protect the district's interests is to have the board take a position by way of a resolution in order to ass establish our negotiating position in in any subsequent negotiations or legal actions so you know it is in the spirit of ensuring that we have we have something at the table uh that I uh bring this item to the attention of the board thank you very much thank you trusty withano and then if I don't see oh I do see um and then after will hopefully call for the vote trusty withano yes uh mine is just quick there's I know that I had um when I talked to Dr Bower there was a a just a very small grammatical suggestion or correction I think a word was omitted and I believe uh trusty fam also had found a very minor um grammatical error or typo maybe so uh I just wondering if the the motion on the floor is to approve this specific um uh resolution or the one that I'm not sure if it's been corrected yet Dr Bower or I just want to make sure that the corrections are incorporated into what we actually um pass or you know what we vote on Dr bow do you have those Corrections Beano do you wna but I I apologize trusty Beano I have not been able to follow up with roio I'm texting him to see if he can join us so that he can hear your the the correction that you make us yes there needs to be a word there and can you tell us can you remind me trusty Beano it is um for mine it's on the was it the first page it's the first page the one two three the fourth whereas um I think it's the second to last line City to make determinations that would directly the conversion I don't know if it's directly impact directly effect or something but I think there's a word missing between directly and the um and so that was that was my question slash recommendation I think there's a a word that potentially was omitted there thank you trusty so in the meantime Dr bow if it's okay while you get a hold of roio I see two other trustees hands up so we'll go with trusty Chavez if that's okay kto and then you take him first he was first he was first take him first my actually let me do it real quick sorry mine was the same thing fourth paragraph last uh sentence so Beano caught the same thing I did that's it thank you thank you yeah um I I don't see any uh in holding off given the fact that we've all been and I remember that on one of them actually I think you you tagged me in as you were leaving i j jumped into one of those sessions with the mayor and then the other one with the city staff and so there's been a lot of dialogue I think at this point it benefits us and it behooves us to make sure to put our our position clearly out there and um because the the school sites plan has already been put forward by the by the mayor so therefore we need to go ahead and be firm and present our position that way there's no if fans or butts about what our position has been I've uh been in contact with other school districts many of them from the western part of the valley were completely oblivious for some reason they hadn't been checking their mail their messages from from uh the county office the county superintendent I guess uh but uh they're rising up and they're uh they're wanting to go ahead and put take action and so it's looking like uh there's more districts joining um this effort to to make sure that we have full flexibility at the moment as it stands any action that we take as a district has to go before the city if it doesn't involve schools classrooms and stuff of that sort if it involves classrooms we would three with a super majority vote can go ahead and place a school wherever we want as long as it's for the purposes of Education regardless of what the city's m Master planning so there's a lot of power that's given to school districts but you right now as we speak um we we would have to go and go through the process anyways um this is just an effort to undo the path that the city's already is trying to pre preo to impose on school districts and so that's why I'm encouraging us to move forward and vote Yes on this thank you uh Dr V just feel free to let us know when you get the response from uh raelo um we'll go to trusty Chavez and then trusty Beano uh you're on mute go ahead and take Beano then I'll go please okay yeah um I just wanted to also just add in that I do think it's also pretty crucial that we move on this sooner than later particularly with the work that we've already engaged in and and started with regards to um repurposing the schools and and beginning that process of as it relates to our strategic plan and everything else as as we look forward in the next months to years and so I think that you know having a firm foundation established about our position is crucial because we've already started this work and as we continue this work we you know we need to have this foundational statement position so I think I also agree it's better it's wise to do this sooner than later thank you Dr bar any update yet before we I think he's in I just can't see him okay so Mar if you can help us find him Chavis um the way the language is written on that uh policy um is it if Mr roio can answer doesn't it also make it easier for if we do have tenants to be able to leasee it out could he answer that question uh welcome Mr Ro Mr re there's two questions right now um in Q and so I don't know if Dr Bower gave you the first one and then um TR okay so the first one in Q is on the whereas the fourth whereas on the um uh sorry just to bring you we are on item seven I'm sorry 501 okay and if you go to the fourth whereas it starts with Mayor Sam Lardo and down where it says um and to empower the city to make determinations that would directly and we're feeling that there's a word missing there whether it's impact or there's a word missing there so directly it says directly the conversation so um we need to edit that version It's the you said it's the fourth whereas yes at the end of that whereas yes it it needs a word affect um would would that would directly affect the conver verion value and use of school district property thank you sorry about that no you're fine we got that and then the next one is a question trusty Chavez if you can repeat that again for Mr trusty Chavez did marel get the minutes minutes for what I'm sorry for what was just said you know how she's yes we have him I know Dr B's also taking notes thank you trusty Chavis so go ahead and go with your question me or might repeating it no Mariel has it DOC I'm looking at Dr bow they have it we're good this is your turn to ask your question if you have one it's the same question that I would like answered um what what the question I said before Mr roio started speaking can that that for him um okay on the language of the policy the way it is written doesn't it also make it easier for us to be able to rent facilities because they're opening up the restrictions yes or no and if you can say why no what so right now there's currently no policy being proposed but but what he had proposed before would have restricted the ability of the district to use and develop its property specifically its Surplus property so um no that would have affected your discretion and ability to decide how the district's property would be used in the future now we don't know what that policy might look like in the future but that would have been the effect of the old policy or the the outline of the old policy that he had presented thank you I see trusty has hand up and then trusty chavz after trusty fam okay so you know just clarify I mean uh you know uh so I I would I would do I need to change the motion to you know to include the uh correction I should say corrections to the resolution sure it doesn't hurt okay so I I you know so I am men my motion to include the uh was it the the insertion of the additional word in the fourth where as and to clean the grammatical error in the uh now therefore be it resolve uh at the end the the word should be longterm interest and not long terms interest that was the grammatical error that I uh spotted to Dr Bower on at are oneon-one so uh I just wanted to make sure that those changes were uh added to the uh resolution tonight thank you thank you trusty can you're in agreement with that second or concurs okay uh trusty Chavis do you still have a comment or a question you're on mute uh I I took myself off can you hear me we can hear you now okay um has there been any correspondence with um Mr R's office uh with the city pertaining to this matter no I I have not corresponded at all with with the either the city or the mayor's office okay I was under the assumption that um Dr bow reached out to you on this as soon as we've seen it months ago uh okay thank you Dr b i clarify I I talked to to roio but that that this that doesn't mean he talks to the city yeah okay so there was no Direction no the to okay the the the request was from Mr fam to write the the resolution and that was the direction and that's what he did thank you for clarifying that yeah we never directed uh Mr re's office to commun communicate with the mayor that's been our communication directly with him now I'll go ahead and call for the uh vote um I'll go ahead and call you as I see you on my screen uh trusty fam hi trusty Chavez no trust harano hi vice president Kimo hi and myself I uh passes 4 to one um and before we go on to our next item I'm going to go ahead and call for a five minute bio break so we'll see you back here at 8:20 p.m.

the east brunswick education foundation has funded seven one thousand five hundred grand totally over 2.5 million dollars in funding for technology equipment curricular program also visits school-wide cross-curricular learning events hands-on materials many books and much more to complement teaching and learning throughout the district and whereas from july 2020 to april 2021 the east bronx education foundation has awarded 35 grand a month into 55 000 to ensure that the organization's mission to enhance and enrich the curriculum for the students attending the responsive public schools continues and now therefore be it resolved that the east brunswick board of education appreciates the foundation's trustees for their and inexhaustible support for exiles in education and further therefore fought be it resolved that the east brunswick board of education recognized and applause the teachers and staff going above and beyond in support of the and to advocate for quality public education in east bronzing thank you lee wu may i please have a motion for the resolution so moved moved by me wu second by barbara is there any discussion all those in favor abstain motion carries congratulations to the foundation there's nothing i could add that hasn't already been said in that beautiful resolution that leo um so very nicely articulated they go above and beyond and in partnership with our staff and teachers who are always thinking about what's the next best thing we can do for our kids they bring so much to the district it is truly a partnership and we are so grateful for it that brings us to the good of the cause for the public members of the public may provide comment at this meeting through zoom by entering the url meeting id and password you see before you on the screen in order to be recognized use the chat feature select the zoom meeting post then enter and send your name to the host you will be recognized to speak when your name is called individuals will be invited to speak in the order in which we have received your request and participants are limited to three minutes duration is there anyone wishing to speak to the board tonight mrs becker there is no one in the queue at this time okay see now i close the public portion moving on to our agenda tonight before i ask for a motion on the board of education items is there anything anyone would like separated out uh i i just thought i was absent last time so what do i forget what i just abstain or for the minute minutes of the first one yes okay thank you anything else anyone would like uh separated out okay then can i please have a motion for items one through three so moved moved by susanna second by jeff is there any discussion will the secretary please call the role mr carangelo yes this is true yes mr sismar yes mrs guar yes mr hong yes mrs wax yes i'm back i got booted out yes abstaining on number one mr winston yes president becker yes motion carries before i ask for uh consent on the community program agenda is there anything anyone would like separated out seeing none can i please have an eye a motion for items one through four on the community programs agenda moved by jeff second by laurie is there any discussion all those in favor aye aye opposed obscene motion carries moving on to our curriculum and instruction agenda there is only one item tonight can i please have a motion for item number one move by laurie thank you second by marco angelo is there any discussion susanna uh thank you yeah i just had a question on that one it it it's great it looks like this is something different i don't recall seeing this previously on the agenda so if it's new i'm just wondering is it new and um it it indicates that it runs from three to four it's a one hour session so i'm wondering you know which students will be participating in this so i just wanted to know a little bit more about it because it sounded fascinating yeah dr bully can you certainly um it is a new opportunity um it's going to be available after school for students in the choral program in grades six through twelve so hammershaw churchill and the high school students so far over 200 students have rsvp'd expressing interest this session will be recorded and used in the class uh period for those students unable to attend and um you know during the school day they mostly focus on classical voice instruction preparing for concerts so this artist is going to give them an opportunity to experiment with more pop and commercial singing so we think it's going to be a very exciting opportunity that sounds it sounds great thank you i i appreciate that um that info i think it's it's absolutely tremendous it's taking our arts program in another direction it's keying into what the students are interested in um good work you and your team choice thank you and it's very cheap too if we have students for 700 which extremely cheap right so two broadway tickets um all those in favor aye opposed obscene motion carries there are six items on our financial services agenda tonight i would like to ask for a motion for items one through is there any discussion will the secretary please call the world i had a question oh i'm so sorry susannah sorry i was just slow because i'm scrolling um i think i item four is the one that's the declaration of surplus vehicles right correct so i just had a question about that um i mean i'm just curious it's you know the water service is cost uh i mean you know as opposed to you know normally we would we would put the uh surplus vehicles out for um what do you call it like auction um you know they don't quite offset each other at the end of the day you know text it's kind of you know they don't net each other out so i'm trying to understand kind of the rationale for using this approach as opposed to you know paying the bill and and just doing these as separate transactions if if i could i'd like mr giuliani to weigh in but i want to give you the back story so it was actually a conversation with the township and they had they had seen that we had some vehicles in the yard that we were getting getting ready to prep for uh auction and they had an interest in it so this is really just a cooperative gesture on our part with the township rather than then do the transaction they have the mechanics to do the work on the vehicles um so it was really just more of an outreach and discussion between each of us that we had something they would like to have rather than go through the other cycle that you mentioned for us to sell them and for the for you know us to pay the water bill uh so that's really how the transaction started and then i i cleared it with mr giuliana and um you know he did a a um another cost analysis of the vehicles cost the township did one we did another uh but the variation we we don't believe is significant enough to not not recommend it and i would just add that you know we you know as as two governing bodies in town um you know we we try to do as much as we can to work together and i think this is um you know a uh an appropriate step uh in that endeavor we have something that they need we provide uh we utilize services uh in exchange for other uses of our facilities so it's you know for lack of a better term it's a quid pro quo um and i think everybody benefits uh from the transaction there's actually a law right right in the public bidding law um you don't have to go out to bid if you're working cooperatively with another governmental entity it's encouraged actually the bidding law to do just this so that you don't have you get the most use out of taxpayer funds on vehicles they purchase this is going you know intra east brunswick from one public entity to another east project public entity and ultimately it was the taxpayers who paid for these vehicles jeff did you have your hand up yeah simply i think it's a great i think this is so creative is this the first time we've done something like this actually it's not um we had another instance um i'm gonna say maybe about two years or three years ago um with um another vehicle exchange that took place well that's right we do i think so i think it's creative and i i think it's terrific that it stays uh stays home uh all the they can use them i think it's great so well done yeah because it would seem like somebody you know the uh the cut from the auction house and everybody else is being saved in between by doing the transfer this way okay yeah i was just curious it's the first i think it's the first time i've seen this but maybe it's happened before okay thank you any other discussion will the secretary please call the role mr angelo yes this is true yes mr sismar yes mrs gloss yes mrs reese yes mr winston yes president becker yes motion carries moving on to item five fiscal year 2022 school district final budget approval may i please have a motion on this item no moved move by laurie second second by leewoo is there any discussion jeff and marco angelo um yeah i just wanted to uh thank all in ball to put the uh budget together as chair of the finance i had first row seats to how this operates for the first time and uh i will have to say it's mind-blowing how all of the parts came together uh miss giuliana well done mr crosho well done the entire finance team and really uh honing down to the uh the individual department uh budget heads who uh who presented i got feedback from the board it was so comprehensive and uh i do applaud the ability and invite to our children and that bug we run pretty tight in this district and to see how the money is being spent absolutely benefit to uh staff and teachers and i love that that was really uh kept in mind so well done and thank you and it's been an absolute pleasure uh to be on this committee with you folks here thank you jeff mark cranswell i think you had your hand up and if somebody else said i i missed you okay that was an arm scratch um anybody else okay saying none i want to echo what jeff said um truly a a district-wide collaborative effort led by bernie and joe and their whole team dr valesky joyce everyone um every every department chimed in it was a fantastic effort and the dedication of our finance department i don't know if people realize bernie when are you going to start working on fiscal year 23's budget tomorrow uh very soon that actually will start this summer yeah we'll start getting administrators involved come september i i i in a way did literally mean tomorrow because i know there are years where bernie and his team just roll up their sleeves and the minute one budget is approved they start working on the next one this board also had a tremendous amount of input and put in so much time in coming up with this budget and um everyone deserves to be congratulated and appreciated for their efforts so will the secretary please call the role mr carangelo yes mrs chu yes sismar yes mrs guass yes mr hong yes this is lax yes mrs reese yes mr winston yes president becker yes motion carries moving on to item six can i please have a motion for shared services agreement between the township of east brunswick and the board of education of the township of east brunswick is there any discussion i actually had a question um or just wanted to highlight something bernie in the description for this budget for this agenda item uh the phrase resulted in substantial interest cost savings to east brunswick taxpayers just jumped out at me it's something we all love to see would you mind fleshing that out for a minute please and and talking about these substantial savings for our taxpayers certainly um so through uh in uh in exercising this opportunity to finance um through the township's ability to acquire short-term debt now one thing i want to make clear is that it is not the township of east brunswick that is paying for the debt it is through the school district budget but they're acting as our agent if you will uh to sell the notes uh to provide the financing but because of the township's ability to do this the short-term notes result in extremely low uh finance rates um you know think think in the you know one percent range and whereas if we were to um be able to go out to bond on our own it would be at least a couple of percentage points higher than that so there's a substantial uh savings uh that we achieve as a result of this and um we've done this for years um the township has has been very cooperative in assisting us they recognize the value taxpayers in doing uh this kind of a transaction uh and it's really a just a win-win all around so it's kind of like if you had a credit card that charged 10 interest and i had a credit card that charged five percent interest and you wanted to buy something really expensive and you asked me if you could put it on my card to take advantage of my lesser interest rate but you're going to make all the payments correct kind of yes that's a great analogy that and actually that was um explained to me when i first got on the board that was um a way of someone explaining to me about what shared services agreements are and i always thought it was a really good way to understand it so as you said win-win all around as jeff has said before keeping it in the town saving the taxpayers money that's what it's about so any other discussion will the secretary please call the role mr carangelo yes this is true yes mr sismar yes mrs guass yes mr hong yes yes yes mr winston yes president becker yes motion carries before i ask for a motion on the human resource agenda items tonight is there anything anyone would like separated out seeing none can i please have a motion for items one through three no moved move by laurie second by mark two is there any discussion this is a roll call vote the secretary please call the role mr carangelo yes this is true yes mr sismar yes mrs gloss yes mr khan yes yes yes mr winston yes president becker yes motion carries we have one item on our staff development agenda tonight can i please have a motion for item number one no moved move by laurie second second by lee wu is there any discussion all those in favor aye aye opposed abstain motion carries on our student services agenda we also have one item can i please have a motion for item number no i'm so sorry staff staff development so sorry my ipad went too fast we have one item on our staff development agenda tonight can i please have a motion for that item move by lori second by jeff is there any discussion all those in favor aye opposed obscene motion carries on our student services agenda we have two items tonight can i please have a motion for i uh before i ask for a motion is would anyone like either separate it out seeing none can i please have a motion for items one and two move by lee wu second by mark ii is there any discussion this is a roll call vote will the secretary please call the role mr carangelo yes this is true yes mr sismar yes versus gloss yes yes yes this is rhys yes mr winston yes and president becker yes motion carries um i was told that our student rep is not with us tonight i just want to confirm that lou are you at the meeting tonight he is not here okay and neither is the student okay okay um committee reports information items and the good of the cause for the board i actually have something to follow up with dr volesky about from last meeting when we were having a discussion about how to help make the transition better for our students staff and parents the great reconfiguration we voted on i had asked you if i know that for years there had been something in place like a hammershow pen pal program and i'd ask you um i was just curious did you were you able to find out this is something we still do we we do not do it currently however um you know i know there's been discussion uh i spoke to a parent this afternoon um who suggested maybe a a zoom format for the the students to engage with one another she called this specifically about um her daughter and um you know that kind of technology we use very well so uh that is certainly uh a very viable uh opportunity to explore introducing students to to hammershow and we obviously want students to be in hammershaw we want them to physically be able to to visit the building and to get into the building before they actually attend there and i think with the progress we're making on the recovery from the pandemic i i i anticipate that is going to be very achievable okay thank you so dr velasque i have a question for you i remember there is a introductory video about hammer shoot is that video still available online so the parents can access access it yes um the students actually produce their own video so i have to talk to dr gaskell about the the last production but the i don't know if the board recalls many of the board members were uh shown a student produced video it was pretty candid it talked about the transition it talked about how the students parents were very anxious about them going to hammershould and one of the students said that really wasn't that big a deal my parents were worried but i wasn't so that's kind of the theme of uh you know our students are resilient and um i know that they're going to do well and we're going to make this transition not only as we recover from the pandemic and and begin to reintroduce students back to full days of instruction with lunch in september uh but for the next year the transition we we are pledging to make it uh the best we can absolutely make it and i i do sincerely believe we have opportunities to explore things that we've never looked at before we have an opportunity to make that experience for every student better than it was before so i'm looking forward to it actually um you know speaking of videos years and years ago when we decided to put in a whole new report card in the district which dramatically changed the report card system we produced a video in-house it was a parent having a talk with a principal it affected the elementary school report cards and it was kind of a q a between the parent and the principal and they were asking questions that other parents had written to the superintendent about or called the superintendent about so it was kind of a q a sit down between the principal and the parent addressing a lot of the issues we might want to do something like that with um several of the principles the elementary school principals principal hammerschool um churchill and have parents instead of radiant or pulling just parents you know coming on and asking their real questions and having a dialogue about it and showing it to other parents and so many have the same questions that might be interesting and helpful to a video seems to be a good way to have a lot of people access our information we'll explore that with john mcminiman and uh you know john is a very very talented um video production video business he's the guy behind the scenes and so many of the the technical productions including these meetings tonight uh you know so i i think we can come up with some creative uh formats to communicate and to introduce students to uh to new environments and the parents too and give the staff also a chance to talk to to parents and um anything we do is is certainly to improve the communication and distribution of information is going to be great you're very right about the hammer shoulders because i remember sitting through it with my first one and and i was the same way and all the parents i think we were more afraid than the kids i think that's very common the kids went in there and said oh yeah this is easy i look at that building and i still have to think how to get around it and these kids within a few days they know exactly where to go how to get to classes so i think that video from kids for kids was great for the kids but was also great for the parents so yeah i agree with you that's great good good quality you'll like that for your boys oh yes anyone else committee reports information items go to the cause for the board okay mark that was a mark two that was an arm scratch okay we'll say it was seeing none we do have a need for a closed session whereas a board of education must discuss matters which are not appropriate for description in a public meeting and whereas those subjects the board of education intends to discuss are those matters listed in tonight's agenda the length of the closed session is calculated to be one hour after which a public meeting of the board shall reconvene and action will not be taken may i please have a motion to go into closed session move jeff moved by jeff second by laurie is there any discussion all those in favor just completely blanked out in favor of saying object okay motion carried we're in closed session thank you for joining us tonight board members please leave this meeting and uh log into the closed session everyone please stay safe you

dr stewart i am really happy to be able to recommend that we reap that we retire this plan and i've suggested the end of the school day and the last day of school that's simply my recommendation you all can modify that however you want but i'm really glad that we are able to retire it soon i'd like to open this up for discussion um i'd like to maybe ask that following the recommendation of the cdc guidelines that mask to be worn in the classroom on the classroom setting but when they're out or graduation that they're able to have them removed all right questions any other comments so um more specifically like they already can take out their off their masks outdoors correct in some of the in some settings like playground but if they're at pe or those kinds of things they have not been removing them so i what i hear from right if they're going from class to class they've not been removing them um so that's that's why it would be really important to nail that down what you're talking about here yeah if we could be a little more specific before we so you're asking in the classroom in the classroom setting i'd also say the bus that's a good idea i've maintained the bus and the classroom setting but when they're moving from class to class when they're in you know open areas outside playground i would even venture to say if they're participating in a sport if they're still doing which i don't think they're still doing after school i think we're done by now um we're close tonight yeah we're done we're done yeah so in a classroom sitting in their classroom in a classroom setting and then on the bus i like it any other and i do have a question you you mentioned promotion so are you saying yes wear them during promotion or not saying no no okay we will be at the field house for promotion so on the bus over but when they get in there if the seats are going to be similar to the high school they're they're staggered and spread out so that would allow them i mean they're i if they maintain the same kind of setup that the high school has okay they're kind of staggered and spaced so there would still be some spacing somewhere to you know rose out here okay let's make that off the the mask is optional absolutely so you'll have some people that still want to and we want to say oh no you can't wear the mask the mask would be optional um yeah so but but not required so in the classroom setting only um sorry the classroom setting and on the bus other than that it's optional okay so would you like to make a motion uh i motion that we retire the bc sd return to school plan school year 2020 on thursday the 20th may 20th but starting monday they would be able to only wear masks required to wear masks in a classroom setting or on the bus everywhere else would be optional for the remaining four days of the school year i'll second that all in favor aye corey burgess hi jeannie borland aye amanda ayman aye randy dubois aye charlene diaz so moved item 5.10 regulation gbgr staff personal security and safety mr president and board members this is just uh changing this regulation to reflect that we would move from requiring mass so shall to may and the reason we're continuing to leave this and the next policy in is that we don't want to put anybody in a position of saying that they can't wear a mask or a shield or whatever because as time goes on even though people are vaccinated and whatever there may still be vulnerable people at home and kids may still want to wear and we don't want anybody to be made fun of if they wear masks so it's an optional thing going forward all right i like it okay then i will motion that we approve five point one zero high second friend all in favor aye corey burgess hi genie borland aye amanda ayman aye randy dubois hi charlene diaz so i moved item 5.11 regulation j-i-c-a-r-a student dress dr stewart mr president board members this is the same thing we've struck all of the requirements and changed shall to may all right any questions then i move we approve item 5.11 all second all in favor aye corey burgess hi jeannie borland hi amanda amen hi randy dubois hi charlene diaz mr president i guess i should stipulate that those two take effect after may 20th as you stipulated in the other uh motion but with our other motion it's optional so the other one we already picked right so we're still covering that but the policy doesn't go into infection until after that yes the policy won't go into effect until after the 20th yeah all right item 5.12 job description dr stewart mr president and board members uh i've only brought two to you this month i've been a little busy with other stuff so one is attendance clerk and you had approved it already but one of the things that i did in consideration of budget and work hours and days and all of those kinds of things for our current attendance clerks the returning ones we would keep them on the schedules they have but the new ones i've shortened their work here some because we need to we need to be paying attention to the budget so what you see is a change in there is really only in that last section that talks about the length of contract or length of work work agreement the other one is a revision of what was originally just the sace coordinator to reflect that we're putting that tax coordinator tax credit coordinator position that piece in there and uh and it lists the responsibilities that that person has relative to the tax credit as well so it's uh it's additions additions to that uh job description this is where we combine them yes yeah all right any other questions okay then i will move that we approve item 5.12.

he was accepted by audition to eastern region music festival in 2018 as a tenor singer and again in 2019 as well he also represented bolton at the n triple c music festival during his first two years of high school in early 2020 he was accepted in connecticut all-state music festival chorus through a highly competitive audition process in fact he was only one of two students from bolton high school accepted to allstate in the past 10 years it go george he's also performed lead roles in bolton high school drama club productions high school musical urinetown the adams family and a christmas carol and in the music classroom he has consistently served as a strong leader and role model who always supports and encourages other students george is planning on studying history and international policy at the university of limerick ireland say hello to my countryman george please congratulations to jordan and his family on this honor well done george so i say thee thank you so much thank you you're welcome congratulations next we have our scholar athletes from bolton high school so the scholar athlete program annually recognizes two high school seniors from each member high school whose academic and athletic careers have been exemplary whose personal standards and achievement are modeled to others and who possess high levels of integrity self-discipline and courage brooke begin is this year's female scholar athlete from bolton high school congratulations brooke thank you brooke is a passionate driven and involved young lady her self-discipline and integrity have her following her own path leading her school community could i just ask everyone to put their microphones on mute please in the classroom brooke strives for excellence and a deeper understanding throughout her classes she's not afraid to ask questions and reflect upon her own learning she challenges herself by enrolling in three ap classes and a yukon early college experience course her organization and pursuit of knowledge have allowed her to excel in these rigorous courses she exemplifies what it means to be an outstanding student athlete she is an active member of our school community showing her leadership through student council and various clubs she's participated in a number of extracurricular activities including being a member of student council youth group and drama club she's an integral member of the class of 2021 and on the volleyball court doing whatever the class and the team needs to be done she's also shapes the school by being vice president then president of bolton high school student council she's very driven on the volleyball court she's been a member of varsity team since her junior year eager to play any position asked of her she puts forward extra effort throughout the season to make herself the best that she can be brooke is a leader with the girls and does not put up with any drama she has shown tremendous growth as an athlete and a member of the bolton high school team and is a role model for our younger athletes one part of brook that stands out is her faith she fully integrates its values in her life she is accepting of her peers and finds purpose in giving back to the community she is grounded and purposeful in her actions she shows acceptance respect and empathy to those around her it is for these qualities that brook begin is so worthy a recipient of the scholar athlete award congratulations thanks so much you're welcome well deserved and finally this evening last but certainly not least our scholar athlete for uh the males jack gallagher congratulations jack jack excels academically and he has enveloped himself in every aspect of bolton high school he's one of the special individuals who has and will continue to make significant contributions in his future field of study workplace and surrounding community he has worked tirelessly to balance rigorous course load and is reliable and consistent participant in many clubs and activities such as student council president of future business leaders of america mentor for unified sports and vice president of the donut club in addition to his high grades his strong service and character has secured his spot on the national honor society as well as serving the board for two years he's a 12 letter varsity athlete meaning he has played soccer basketball and golf at the varsity level at bolton high school since grade nine his leadership shines on the various playing fields and he serves as captain of the soccer and basketball teams in his spare time he shares his athletic talent with others through his volunteer coaching of town recreational teams as well as his part-time work as a soccer referee jack gibbs 100 on and off the field and always fosters an inclusive and supportive environment jack is planning on attending uconn in the fall to study finance it's for all these qualities and more that make jack gallagher very deserving recipient of this award jack congratulations to you as well well deserved would you like to say anything jack thank you this means a lot i appreciate it congratulations again to all our award recipients can we give them one more round of applause mrs heck if i may could i just throw two pieces of trivia in here uh so for our board members who've been with us in the past recognizing our cast arts award winners and our scholar athletes is it's new to the board and i'm so grateful that you took the time to do that typically those awards are given at a very nice banquet at the aqua turf we sit uh i get the opportunity to sit with families and enjoy a meal and we've really missed out on that so i'm very grateful the board took the time to recognize uh george and lily for their cast arts and for uh recognizing brooke and jack for scholar athlete and i would be in so much trouble with mrs midford if i didn't mention that brook began is the first scholar athlete volleyball player at bolton high school so once again brooks setting setting records as we go along we love record setting at bolton high school that's awesome thank you mr miceli and that concludes our celebration of excellence tonight okay go on to any comments or communication from the audience i would like to offer to all our award recipients you are more than welcome to stay and continue to join us or feel free to enjoy the beautiful evening outside totally up to you and congratulations to all of you exactly okay i don't hear any comments so let's go ahead to any additions to the agenda not this evening none okay routine business um look we need to approve the minutes from april 8th 2021 the business meeting do we have a motion to approve i'll make that motion thank you second real second thank you um are there any corrections comments okay go ahead and vote um to approve the business meeting minutes all those in favor bye abstentions yes this is ben i abstain okay me too cause that wasn't there um and no any um objections sorry i'm just getting that word good all right approved um point of order i'm not sure that a 302 vote counts as an approval it's not a majority question hmm how many people voted in favor of the minutes only three which is not a majority of the board but it's yeah okay sorry wait um hold on andrew's on andrew did you he was on what do we do with this so um why don't we come back to it to it um when it why don't we table it for later on in the meeting have a good idea we'll table that for now okay let's try the april 29th quarterback special meeting well we should table that one too i think staple that one because it's in the same situation why don't we just do that yeah why don't we do all that we'll take it i don't know it may not be well let's try and see what happens yeah i think we're fine for the next one i'm just looking to make sure that i was there before i um all right do we have a motion to approve the special meeting minutes so i'll second it thank you thank you ian thank you and any discussion or corrections hearing none um we'll go ahead and any all those in favor say aye any objections opposed sorry abstentions all right that one passed okay so let's go on to the committee reports um curriculum is the first one on there so we met last week we had a great presentation on a new text for environmental science that looks like it's going to be very engaging that you'll hear more from sarah later on there was also an update on world languages which will also be updated later by sarah is there anything else chris that you think of that's it okay um finance committee um finance committee met this morning and at this point we are 72 percent expended in our budget compared to last year we were 75 and i think mrs hecht is going to take us through some things in the budget you're on mute thank you mr miscella could you pull up the pdf on transfers please above that first thank you so we have um some transfers uh to share with you this evening the first one is the transfer that the board made at the last board meeting for the 50 000 for uh the chromebooks and i have an update on that we were able to order them we've already received half of them so that's good news i have even better news uh we wrote our sr2 uh grant request to the state and in that we had put 20 000 of the 50 000 uh for chromebooks and that grant was approved moving forward with that this past monday uh superintendents across the state had a sort of an emergency call if you will with the state department of education regarding the american rescue plan funds uh which are also esther funds for ease of understanding we'll call those sr3 funds it was made clear in that meeting that the sr-3 funds bolton is receiving 169 000 and some odd dollars of that 169 thousand 20 must be set aside for either summer learning extended learning um helping to address learning loss that is required by federal law for every uh district that's receiving money so having said that it was stated on the call that districts could put in a revision to their sr2 monies because many districts wrote as did bolton for uh part of that grant to go towards our summer program so we sent in a revision and asked for the chromebooks to be fully paid for out of sr2 and we're going to be putting the summer program into our sr3 grant request our sr2 revision has already been approved so we will be able to return these monies to the town so i wanted to just share that with everyone so that's good news uh we had to purchase the domain uh five-year subscription for the high school on godaddy some more pe instructional supplies some additional supplies in music as well as world language as well as math we needed a laptop power cord supply adapter some more math supplies we need calculator batteries for mathematics we have a couple of lines about port-a-potty rentals for outside for spring athletics of busonic uh and cart for pe and to upgrade sound equipment in the commons at bolton high school if we could go back to the other um one please and if we could go to the last page and maybe make it just a little bit bigger please so as you can see here we currently have a projected balance after returning the 275 000 initially that the board committed to next year's budget plus the additional 000 towards next year's budget um we we trued up some more savings due to positions we still have not been able to fill uh so we're looking at that projected balance um the 50 000 that i talked about is in that balance i do anticipate there will still be additional monies uh once we finally finalize the year out um so we will be returning uh money to the town that will go towards the following year's budget any questions so are you saying that there's there is or is not more than 50 000 that we could commit to the town now i didn't think we were discussing committing any monies further to the town i didn't say that okay i apologize i must have misunderstood so when i talked about the 50 000 to return i what i meant was we're not going to spend it out of board of ed funds the money that you transferred we're able to spend we're able to purchase the chromebooks with grant funds so we'll be able to return that money because well we'll be returning it this year which will go in to the till for not next year's budget but the following years right so okay so my question is we can't i guess my question is can we return it this year so that it goes into the budget that's currently being discussed so certainly the board can do that if they wish to do it the one caution i would offer which i have also shared with the board of finance previously is that if we don't have some monies that just simply get returned once june 30th ends and we finalize our books at the end of the summer we will not have that um to start with for the following budget cycle so while we have a hole now i am very concerned about a what the what the future also brings so i just think we have to be i would just urge the board to be cautious um i i think the board has done a great job of of you know having a short money and returning money to go for towards next year's budget but again i i just worry about the following year um just so you know christian your audio is breaking up quite a bit so i'm not sure if we missed some of what you were saying or yeah my internet connection just went unstable can you hear me now yes that seems to be better okay so again i just i am concerned about making sure we're not in a hole for the following year if we don't have some monies that could simply get returned as part of the normal process of events that happens every year at the end of a budget cycle okay so i guess i'll make a motion then to approve the uh transfers that are presented this evening thank you so much this is ben thank you you're muted i'm too away guys come on thank you um is that are there any comments or questions okay um all those in favor say aye hi hi aye any opposed abstains absentions sorry all right motion carries and was that everything for finance that's it thank you okay personnel committee do you want to take that ben or i think he's engaged in child care so uh yeah i'm carrying the baby if you could feel this when that would be fantastic uh personnel met on tuesday to uh with the superintendent to discuss her forthcoming review and contract and we'll be discussing that with the full board during executive session and then if if i might um i did just i was able to check robert's rules of order and i was actually incorrect earlier um it is just a simple majority that's required and we had a simple majority of the quorum so i guess you think checking it because i no thanks the vote was completed so i think it can be counted as as a proper vote so it was three in favor to abstain correct yeah sue and then abstain thank you for checking yeah i'm sorry i jumped to the wrong conclusion no worries okay that's it for personal and bhs student report please is this their last one no okay on spring sports championship season is quickly approaching the tennis team has a record of one and twelve softball has a record of three and eight the boys track team has a record of six and two and the girls track team has a record of three and five both track teams have athletes qualifying for entrepreneurs in state and so far this year there are four new school records set the upperclassmen have started taking apa exams which will continue for the next few weeks the golf team has a record of one in seven and their next match is on this upcoming monday the baseball team has a record of zero and 14 and their next game is tomorrow on friday and students and staff have done a great job following covet guidelines in school for the rest of the year thank you and as always if you want to go go ahead thank you for staying with us um community meeting reports chris yes so the correct uh meeting for last month was apparently cancelled at the last moment i never heard heard why uh so obviously i didn't attend that um but the bolton scholarship fund um met last month uh i was also unable to attend that meeting but i can report that uh the deadline for scholarships has closed uh it was uh this past tuesday so all scholarships are are in and um the committee that reviews them is beginning its work and awards will be announced uh in june thank you anything else for committee community reports nope okay and superintendent schools report thank you so first we're going to start with a bolton public school learning update so we return to five days a week of in-person learning this past monday uh for distance learning we have eight percent or 44 of our students now uh remote at bcs which our num our numbers are way down which is great and uh 13.5 or 36 of our students are remote at bolton high school again families who have opted for full-time distance learning continue uh to be allowed to learn from home for the remainder of this school year uh we had a we participated with eastern highlands health district in offering a vaccine clinic for students 16 and up uh this past tuesday we had some students from the highest will take advantage of that that was held at coventry high school and we transported uh the students uh by bus there i'd like to thank director goldschneider um for uh going with the students as well as one of our nurses and making sure everybody was okay the connecticut state department of public health and the connecticut state department of education will not be mandating due to public health necessity continued voluntary remote learning options for next year as such the bolton public schools will not be providing voluntary daily access to remote learning at the unilateral request of a student or family in the 2021-2022 school year next slide please so there are two exceptions to this for students the first is students who are required to quarantine due to contracting copit19 or being identified as a close contact will be allowed to participate in remote learning students will continue to access instruction through platforms as they've done this year that may include but are not limited to live streaming learning management systems school provided materials and or the ct learning hub remote learning may also be utilized according to the state department of education and districts are taking advantage of this for weather related closures and obviously that will be as determined by me on on a particular weather day whether or not we can even do that and now i'm going to turn it over to mr giard for bcs end of the year activities good evening uh the energy of bcs has been very positive now that we're back in person five days a week and we're approaching the end of the year um we're excited to be able to celebrate some of those end of the year activities in person which last year we were not uh the eighth grade parents were notified yesterday afternoon of the details for the in-person eighth grade class afternoon on june 3rd and promotion on june 10th both events have a rain date of the next day promotion is going to be on june 10th at 10 a.m at bolton high school so we're going to be utilizing the same setup for both events we let parents know that we'll be following all of the current coveted safety procedures that we've been following and we mentioned that there'll be more information to come about seating parking promotion practices and other logistical pieces of information in addition to the eighth grade events we have virtual parent meetings planned for incoming kindergarten parents fifth to sixth grade transition night and a fifth through eighth grade academic awards assembly which again we didn't have those last year but those are going to be virtual that series of events a quick update on the summer alerting program the staff continues to work hard in the planning of the summer learning program and invitations were sent out last week to families and those invitations were based on school team recommendations so far there's been a lot of positive feedback and quick responses next slide for bcs world language update along with planning for the end of the year events we've also been planning for next year part of that planning for next year includes looking at staffing current classes and the master schedule after thoughtful analysis french will not be offered at bcs next year for grades six through 8 students in the 2021-2022 school year it was a very difficult decision it was made after considering many factors given our size and scheduling needs we require a dually certified world language teacher and with some uncertainty with that uh french certification is an area of shortage and should we be in a similar situation as we were uh this current year and it's highly unlikely that we would be we'd find a certified teacher to work with the students so for those of you that know we had to have the french students um in during the beginning of the year uh start the ingenuity online program because we didn't have a french teacher and we couldn't find one after posting for it since we didn't have a certified french teacher at the start of this year current sixth through sixth and seventh graders all took spanish so we're in good position next year to offer spanish since all the students this year had spanish french is a very specialized program usually about 12 to 15 kids take it each year and it does greatly limit the elementary middle school scheduling options with that said these schedules need to be completed before the end of the school year in order to plan for next year this shift in programming will have very limited impact on the high school students will still have the option to start french in grade nine finally we'll start offer we will not be able to offer fifth grade introductions world languages next year due to covet and various instructional models we were not able to fit into the schedule next year we anticipate needing the time used for grade 5 world language to be used to ensure academic success in english language arts mathematics and science and that concludes my report thank you mr giard any questions for mr jared or myself okay hearing none mr macelli good evening um both high school is beginning the process of planning our end of year events we've really tried to reimagine these events to prioritize safety uh while still working to honor as many traditions as we can and i met with seniors excuse me senior families well actually and the seniors too we had a meeting during the day for students at an evening meeting for parents where i outlined the following plan so in terms of prom uh the class of 21 had no problem last year at all uh in the fall the senior class advisors and myself made a 100 commitment to have some kind of prom um this year and and that's not something that all schools are doing but but we are so the problem will be in person it'll be just for our seniors and it won't look entirely like a traditional prom we're trying to make sure it's enjoyable and fun lots of of non-traditional things packed in there and our school photographer we will be there on site taking formal photos and each student will receive a free download of that the second event typically held is the senior awards we call it to senior celebrations excuse me friends we usually do scholarships and awards there and this year that will be incorporated into our graduation ceremony so the graduation ceremony this year will be in person at bolton high school and will be live streamed on the bolton high school youtube channel um as mr giard mentioned there's no indoor option we really cannot shift this event indoors as we normally would where we say hey this is graduation day we're out if we can and if we need to be we cannot be inside so we um are lucky i feel with it being a thursday because that gives us friday and saturday and sunday to find two hours of sunshine for me and two hours of sunshine for mr g yard and we will work together with the weather prognosticators and figure that out um so we will um include as i mentioned all the awards and scholarships um and we have been in conversation with the buller scholarship fund and we've gotten that all organized to maintain safety of all our families we are issuing six tickets per family and they are going to sit in pods of chairs each group of six chairs will be six foot separated from other families and i measured and consulted i took pictures mr mayland uh clark climbed up on the roof and took pictures and we figured out that we are very comfortable in actually going all the way up to six chairs per family so we are we're excited about that the ceremony will not be open to the public as it has been in the past and again charlene will be on hand and um each student will be getting a free download picture of their uh as dean christine johnson likes to call the grin and grab picture that smiley moment when they get their uh their photo and you may or may not know last year we did the drive-in graduation ceremony which included a video and we needed images of each graduate so we did a family photo shoot and that was so successful and we really know what we're doing to be efficient and to be safe for that and charlene has graciously arranged that again for this year's seniors we're asking all families to schedule a time on sunday may 23rd and most families already have and that's an opportunity to come out no sitting fee no fee at all to charlene a free digital download and then if families wanted to purchase other stuff there may be a depending on how many people they bring there might be quite a collection of photos as a special moment for this year and that concludes my report if there are any questions i'd be happy to entertain them chris thank you uh since it will be in person and family members will be there will we be reviving the tradition of former graduates family member who's graduated or alumni presenting diplomas short answers yes two caveats um we continued that tradition last year uh even though i was not there um they were by themselves but we still did it last year and charlene captured that and we live streamed that but yes it will involve my theme this year for graduation is um streamlined and live streamed so in order to make that happen um what mr dave is referring to is a very long-standing tradition of if you are a bolton high school graduate and you have a or if you're graduating and you have a family member or an employee of the bolton board of education or a board of education member as a family member they can present the diploma when your name is read so doing that and keeping all the guidelines in place have created some logistical challenges for me that i promise i will overcome i've got it mapped out in my tired little brain but we will be continuing that tradition this year yes sir i believe miss goldschneider has something to report out as well regarding preschool right i just thank you i just wanted to mention that we are doing um a preschool screening this year we're trying to get our preschool program up and running again fully for next year so we are having a screening on the afternoon of uh may 25th which is a tuesday it will be um a lot different than it usually is but we had tried to figure out a way to do a preschool screening by a zoom or google and with three and four year olds it just doesn't work that way we need to kind of hear them talk and listen to them and try to you know get peers for the program so we are doing it in person we're doing very small groups um four children one adult for each child and it's all outside so um very short session like 20 minutes to a half hour session for a screening and it is again on the afternoon of may 25th with the rain date of may 26th and we don't have four or five additional rain dates so we're hoping for a sun for at least two hours on one of those days so there are screening flyers and applications up on the district website if you have a three or four year old child will be three by the first day of school and four-year-olds so go ahead and fill out your applications thank you thank you all right that brings us to a strategic plan update so before i introduce mrs malinowski to talk more about it i just want to remind everybody about our mission statement to inspire all students to grow as learners individuals and citizens and that our vision statement is that all students in the bolton public schools are empowered to embrace learning as a healthy mindset continually build knowledge develop skills and become engaged global citizens we have used our strategic plan um as our roadmap throughout this year and i'm i'm thankful that that we have the road map it's it's been very helpful and it's been a good great uh sort of north star for us so with that mrs malinowski good evening everyone uh to make it a little more clear our goals you can see a little more clearly on this slide uh first goal of being student success the second one caring culture the third one talent development and of course the fourth one with resource stewardship and this has certainly been a year where we've been able to focus on all of these goals throughout all of the work that we've done i will say that certainly goals one and two had a lot of activity this year so the rest of this presentation will be a combination of uh my annual curriculum update as well as professional development update uh and how all of that aligns to our strategic plan so next slide please mr maseli as you had seen in the winter we used the images for each one of our goals with student success caring culture talent development and resource stewardship where they align to the different areas so in all for to me all of these goals are to support all these growth goals our curricula work curriculum work this year we really did need to work at prioritizing our goals we've continued that look into the spring so that we know where to start the fall that will continue into next year so we've already started the work as to plan for next year it's been a year of really seeing what is essential looking at our priority goals and standards in all curriculum areas and you'll see that as we review the different curricular areas we've also added quite a bit of community building and sells just back joe scl activities into all units and all content areas as well as one thing that you've heard throughout the year this year was a slower pace we needed to be because we had so many different learning environments and by doing that we also learned what was essential in our curriculum and what perhaps we will save when we have a little more time and to to reorganize there was also as you had heard less opportunities for hands-on experiences for safety reasons so we continued to look at various resources that allowed for alternative activities but also opportunities for individual hands-on experiences the learning resources really changed this year the management systems of seesaw and google enterprise were essential and we will continue to use those next year as well the ongoing professional learning technology has been like no other and it has been part of our everyday work so teachers are not waiting for a special time to learn about technology this year it's part of our conversation everything we're doing we're looking at ways of capitalizing on that great professional collegiality and sharing as we move forward with our professional development plans we've also had quite a few additions to our online resources the common end-of-day planning was to support the teaching and learning was essential for this year and we are very grateful to the board for offering us that time so i don't want to end this year without acknowledging your great support and allowing us to be able to do the hard work that needs to be done we couldn't have done that without it um we are looking forward to getting back to a normal schedule next year but we do want to thank you for the time and the grace and the space for this year um that includes having the opportunity to move our wednesdays to remote that allows allowed us to meet with learners but also the opportunity to collaborate in a way that was just essential so a huge thank you thank you from the staff from the administrators for your again endless support as part of that i'm just going to detour joe this is where i'm going to take it for a moment the professional development piece as part of um the work that i typically present hopefully everybody is seeing the 2021 professional learning summary i do oops not yet i didn't hit claire share it's clear not share there we go is everybody seeing the 2021 professional learning thank you this was also sent to the board members every year i do provide an overview and these are the big topics of what we covered this year this certainly does not cover every little detail but these were the big things that we did for professional learning at the top of our list there was um many days devoted to anti-racist leadership and educator training for administrators and teachers the leadership development continued with for the administrative team and the academic leaders all of our work with personalized professional learning goals were also related to our district goals and again that was very responsive to the learning needs this year team training i was also very impressed with our staff that so many people stepped up to take on student teachers as well as mentor new teachers as you know we had quite a few new teachers and the support for beginning teachers does provide a lot of training prior and also you may not be aware that many colleges really struggled this year placing beginning teachers and we were new teachers student teachers and we were able to accept student teachers so again thankful to teachers for having taken on that added layer this year we also spent a lot of time with our curriculum with analysis and refinement as i've spoken to about momentarily ago uh the integration of scl and technology tools blended learning and ap art had a huge focus this year for curriculum changes in our instruction and assessment blended learning uh again the job embedded technology pd ready math instructional coaching blended learning playlist now this sounds similar but it is a little bit different this was a grant we received from the state of connecticut and we had 24 hours of free professional development and we're even more fortunate to have a the staff developer from correct who's been with us for five years now so we had a great continuity of service with that and that was especially focused for our k5 teachers for how to reach all of our learners to supplement that we also made sure that our middle school teachers had opportunities for blended learning experiences and focusing with reading and writing workshop strategies for eal students equity in action our life both of our librarians went through a specific training about looking at equity and doing equity audits for our libraries we have had continued pd on strategies for working with specific specific student needs our new visonic boards gave us an opportunity for some more training uconn ece instructional training desmos is a specific math software that was used and then work on our success criteria so going back to the presentation mr miceli i'll turn that back to you so in each content area you will see that just as in the winter we presented the work that we did for the curriculum overview the critical resources and here the teachers and departments specifically listed what were essential there were other resources used but these were the essential resources so you can see in english language arts um you'll see things specific such as the teachers college videos won't be showing up in another content area so i'm not going to read everything because we will be here all night we have all the content areas listed here but i'll give you a moment to take a look at the various critical resources and these are mostly online resources but not all of the time and then the professional learning that was specifically pertinent to this content area is also listed so while teachers participated in other ones listed these were the ones that helped that so this is information directly from the teachers that they felt specifically supported them this year so you see a bit of their their reflection here and moving on to the next slide in math we do have the ready math program which is an online program and so that did give us a leg up and providing access to resources and again our teachers need to spend some time learning about all the new resources that they put out for us and likewise at the other levels such as cuda works which i believe we've presented at the board before on how that allows our older students to be able to use digital devices more easily and then again you can see the professional learning important to the math department and then the next slide in science we see our focus on the ngss standards i did fail to mention that in english math and science you may have seen that the elementaries were prioritized standards that was information and support given to us from the state department of education at the upper levels we did not they did not prioritize our standards so the teachers worked together to do that based on our curriculum the one piece from the science department they did feel find that the engineering practices were integrated less frequently because many of those were related to labs and as we talked about earlier that that was just more challenging this year for that so that is something we're paying attention to for next year as an area to make sure that we're not missing any learning areas for students and again you will see our critical resources and professional learnings social studies again you can see the teachers reflections on the standards that they covered uh you do see in social studies in the k-8 level this is where they had a specific integration of our sel program second steps so that was a specific area content area where that was integrated more deliberately that was not the only place it was delivered but that was where they found some more natural ties and then again the 912 did feel that they prioritized their standards but given the different learning environments there were challenges of getting it to some of the depth especially in some of the analytical pieces it's hard to hold debates in zoom or google format as we can all imagine just holding a meeting some days is our success so finding the other ways of doing some of that deeper level so again that's what we've noted in our curricular documents and we'll be paying attention to our learners next year you can also see our world language eighth grade uh was edgenuity this year was an online resource for this school year uh which also helped a little bit in our decision for that that just reinforced the challenge of of trying to provide a quality program and felt that you know we just we're not doing our students the services that is bolt in quality um and then moving on to cte courses now the cte that will be business family consumer science tech ed these areas uh are hands-on and so those are the areas that the teachers really did feel that they went more slowly and covered a little bit less just by virtue of what their content areas are again very thankful for the many resources that helped pe and health likewise uh the challenge of sharing pe equipment and as we saw throughout the year the challenges with athletics safety was first and so i do give all the teachers where their content areas are mostly hands on c to e p e r arts which we haven't talked about yet our teachers certainly went above and beyond in trying to make meaningful learning experiences and we're excited that many of these activities that we tried and learned about will carry on into next year and only enhance our experiences when we get back to some of the more hands-on and shared materials experiences and the arts again i know that we had a presentation earlier this year the challenge with music we was quite significant and so that did have an impact on what students were able to do likewise with art being able to make sure all students had the appropriate space and materials that just was more work that the teachers need to find their ways around and again hats off to our teachers for the for the amazing job that they did given all the challenges that were put in front of them for that and our next steps so as you've already heard about this evening there's been grant funding for summer programming uh and as superintendent mentioned there's more grant funding that we'll be looking to support other ways of making sure we're not not missing any learners seeing what unfinished learning might be there how we can accelerate that learning any of those gaps so that we can get our students back on track as soon as possible and so fortunately state federal government is seeing that this is a they're committed to a multi-year plan and we are actively planning for how we will begin next year now teachers are really just doing the final steps at documenting what they need to in the curriculum so that we can pick up at the beginning of the year with you know getting to know our kids and i'm going to be optimistic and that glass half full when we're back in class and seeing some smiling faces and and um really getting to know our kiddos in ways that were as educators way more comfortable with and so fortunately we will have some funding and some opportunities to enhance our programming the summer programming again is for this summer only we learned an awful lot about ways of integrating sel activities and again that will be continue next year and certainly harness all the learning from this year i know that people are exhausted overwhelmed and some people are like let's put this year behind us but i have to be very honest it is amazing to see the incredible new learning from teachers and students and we are working to capture the best of that so that we can bring that forward because much of that is very well aligned to the mastery work we had started a number of years ago with a portrait of a graduate so we started talking about how we can harness all of that and begin moving forward in the work that we had started and then finally of course we would like to continue with exploring and learning and using the best of the online resources and blended learning experiences because we did learn that when students have more choice and opportunities to show what they learned that it's a it's better for them and teachers are much more comfortable with the new ways of students showing their learning so we're excited to continue with that piece so with that that concludes my overview again all of this is to support our strategic goals and our portrait of a graduate as we empower build develop and become any questions well done thank you thank you was that everything mrs hecht yep i'm sorry that concludes uh superintendent's report for this evening thank you thank you is unfinished business we have the 2021-2022 budget yes so the board of selectmen voted to postpone the budget referendum uh until june uh there is a new budget meeting scheduled with the board of finance on thursday may 27th both the town and the board of education have been asked to provide health insurance budget information at that meeting as a result of open enrollment which will close on may 24th so um because sal and i are going to be really busy for a couple of days getting that all uh worked out uh i also shared with the board of finance and i've shared this with with board members before that um it is likely in fact i'm certain of it that we will be needing to add monies to special education uh to next year's budget uh as a result of recent unanticipated changes i've shared that with the board of finance as well and this piece will also be a part of what we share at the may 27th board of finance meeting i believe the board of finance's intent is to hopefully uh set the budget at that meeting um and likely make further reductions based on the numbers that are brought forward uh potentially it is possible that there may be additional uh information um to be shared in terms of monies that will be coming to the town of bolton although that has not been uh officially announced or shared to my knowledge at least at this point um so i think they felt strongly that a little more time was wise and prudent uh before they set a budget number and sent that to referendum that is it for the 2021-2022 budget update thank you um new business we have the first read on the environmental science textbook yes thank you so it is time for us to purchase a new environmental science textbook for our yukon environmental science program our current text is woefully outdated and so mrs carvalho did an excellent job at comparing various texts and communicating actually with uconn about different resources and actually has chosen the text that yukon does not use because she found a text that was actually better lined to their syllabus that she felt offered more opportunities for having an ebook as well as a textbook in an affordable manner but also aligned to the ap exam so should we ever be in the position where and i can't imagine this would happen but you never know so let's always plan if um uconn was not available for credit this uh course would then be aligned to the ap course with minor modifications you know and um so that also serves us well in that regard so we would like to offer up the text name is um in ba uh i guess sorry i just switched my slide and i didn't need to is titled environment the science behind the stories we would be interested in purchasing approximately against varies based on our enrollment so her numbers are based on how many kids over the past few years but approximately 30 texts and she would like to purchase or we would like to purchase the e-text and for 30 e-text copies which is a six-year license it's 3629 we would also recommend purchasing some hardcover textbooks for various learners or should that resource be needed uh and if we had bought 30 of the hardcover taxes four thousand four hundred and forty dollars so um you know it's just a small ask to add for three to five hard copy texts so we do have a hard copy text that is available for a public viewing of this text and we would like to put that out for first read thank you um mr suspect i'm guessing you are the resignations yes ma'am so uh i would like to inform the board that our cafeteria manager debbie bogner will be retiring at the end of this school year i say that with great sadness she has been a godsend for us as we uh maneuvered the pandemic in the area of food services which has been a tremendous challenge she is going to be greatly missed and i would like to thank her for her dedicated service of 21 years to the bolton public schools and i wish her health and happiness and enjoyment with those grandbabies in retirement and that is it for resignations this evening okay any future business no okay to move to executive session what do we do yes so we need a motion uh to adjourn to executive session and invite me to attend please okay does anyone make that motion i'll make a motion uh to adjourn to executive session to discuss the superintendent's evaluation and contract and to invite the superintendent to join us i'll second that any discussion all those in favor say aye aye any opposed abstentions okay we're moving to executive session recording stopped joe can you be the last one that stays on so you can make sure i'm all set here absolutely thank you

thank you okay I see trusty fam and Trust we got Quorum back so calling the meeting back to order 820 and we'll go ahead and move to item 601 now trusty fam yes approve the springboard collaborative contract for the 2021 school year the contract is for the Extended Learning summer program um Dr Bower I respectfully the I respectfully ask the board to please approve this contract as presented in the presentation approve move to approve by trano I'll go ahead and second it for purposes of moving forward here um and at this time I'll go ahead and open it up for public comments before we go into trustey question comments uh Mr Moran is there anybody in the public wishing to address the board at this time on item 601 my board president no we have nobody at this time okay I'll go ahead and uh wait a couple seconds give people enough time to click that button in case uh they haven't yet and they wanted to um any now uh we have none okay so we'll go ahead and move uh to trustee comments or questions on this item okay seeing none um we'll go ahead and move um to vote on this item and I'll call you as you're on my screen Rusty Beano hi Rusty fam hi Rusty Chavez trusty Chavez we'll come back to her see if she maybe is not there yet uh vice president GTO did you say what did you say I couldn't hear you we'll come back to you uh vice president GTO are you there okay uh maybe he's not back from the break uh trusty Chavez we are now voting on item 6 01 uh to approve the contract for um Extended Learning summer program the spring board and I would somebody make a motion we're already passed all that we're on the voting so we were on you do you uh agree with this okay yes thank you and now I'll go to vice president kto and he's probably not back yet from the Break um so absent for now myself yes oh there he is uh we are voting on items 601 for approval uh board vice president GTO yes got it okay and then okay and myself yes um thank you so much next item Dr Bower uh approval of the loano Smith contract I request the board to please uh approve this contract for the um provide um if needed Legal Services during the summer months to the special education department move to approve move approve second okay move to approve by trusty Bano and second by board vice president ginto um at this time I'm going to go ahead and go to public comment um Mr Moran do we have anybody in the public wishing to address the board on this item at this time board President we have none okay I'll go ahead and give it a couple seconds in case they wanted to run to the button didn't get get to it do we now still none okay great coming back to trustees any questions or comments on this item okay seeing none we'll go ahead and move to uh vote trusty Beano hi trusty fam I trusty Chavez hi and vice president kto I and myself I thank you so much next item uh approve the sports for learning contract for school year 2021 Dr bow motion second motion to approve by Chavez and second by kto um Mr Moran can you tell us if we have any members of the public wishing to address board on this item we have none at this time okay I'll give it a couple seconds do we now still none okay thank you uh coming back to the trustees any comments or questions seeing none we'll go ahead and move for uh the vote we'll start with trusty Bano hi trusty fam I Dy Chavez hi vice president kto Hi myself I thank you moving on to item 604 approve to approve sorry Chavez second by vice president Quinto um Mr Moran do we have any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item we have none board president okay I'll give it a couple seconds do we have any now uh still none okay thank you um trusty Chavis I see a hand up from you I'm not sure if it was from earlier or if you still earlier sorry okay you're fine okay uh with that um any questions comments before we move to vote from the rest of the trustees none okay we'll go ahead and move to vote uh trusty Bano yes trusty fam I Dusty Chavez hi vice president Kinto hi myself I uh moving on to item 605 approval for the thing together contract foral motion I heard heard both Kon and Chavez at the time motion to approve okay moved by H trusty Chavez um second on second uh second by vice president kto we'll go ahead and open it up for public comment Mr Moran do we have any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item we have none at this time okay I'll wait a couple of seconds do we know still none okay uh we'll go ahead and move on to the trustees any questions or comments okay seeing none we'll move on to the vote trusty Beano go ah to approve I mean I uh trusty fam I trusty Chavez I uh vice president GTO I myself I thank you moving on to 606 approve the district to utilize um LAUSD pyb agreement um Dr okay motion by Chavez second uh second by vice president GTO um we'll go ahead and open it up to the public for any public comments board president yeah board President we have none you have none okay wait a couple [Music] seconds do we have any now still okay perfect we'll go back to the trustees trustees any questions or com comments on this item okay seeing none we'll go ahead and move to the vote trusty leano hi trusty fam I trusty Chavez I vice president kto I and myself I all right thank you so much moving on to 701 approval of the 2019 20 annual ual performance and fiscal audit of General obligation bonds reports for measure J and measure I um I'll go ahead and hand it over to Dr Bower I'm gonna turn it over to Mr Chen welcome Mr Chang thank you Dr B and good evening uh Madame board president uh members of the board and the Alam Rock Community um at this time I would like to introduce Mr Jeff Jensen from Crow who will be presenting the um Auto report for the bonds program Mr AAR if you can Elevate U Mr Jeff Jensen um so he can to do the presentation all right can you hear me yes welcome Mr Jensen thank you good evening I'm Jeff Jensen I'm the partner with H crow and it's my privilege to be here tonight to present the audit reports uh related to The Measure J Bond program and uh I'll start with the performance audit report uh as that's you know kind of really the bulk of the the work that we do related to the to the bond measure and and walk you through the performance audit and then we also have the financial audit as well uh right by the table of contents is the independent auditors report uh this is our audit opinion related to the performance audit of measure J for the year into June 30th 2020 our work is tied back to the performance audit standards under government a government auditing standards as well as the California Constitution under Proposition 39 and uh as you see the last paragraph on the report says the results of our procedures indicate all significant respects the district expended measure J bond funds for the year end of June 30th 2020 only for those specified projects so that's an un modified opinion uh a clean opinion related to the bond audit you turn the page there's some background on Prop 39 uh when it was put forth to the voters back in 2000 which included that you have an oversight committee which you have uh that you have a financial audit and a performance audit done and that you have a um and that bond funds are not spent for administrative or uh teacher salaries essentially uh measure J was put forth to the voters back in 2012 for $125 million and turning the page here to the objective Scopes methodologies and conclusions again our objective was to do a performance audit uh for the year into June 30th 2020 in our scope you'll see there really wasn't a lot of expenditures that happened during the current year there was $185,000 worth of expenditures but there was the $20 million transfer um between measure I and measure J there to kind of close up um some some borrowing that had happened over the years and really just the final kind of close out of of the final transfer there needed to happen and so that was done in the current year so as part of our work we tested to make sure that the list was accurate that was given to us by management uh we ensured that those numbers agreed back to the financial statements which they did and then we selected a sample of uh 15 expenditures and one and the one inter fund transfer there so essentially we tested uh 60% of the total expenditures and 100% of the transfer and found again that all those complied with applicable Bond requirements so again a clean opinion on the performance audit turning quickly to the financial statement uh report again right behind the table of contents is the independent otter report and this outlines essentially who's responsible for what is part of completing this report and and and so it starts with the fact that these are Management's financial statements that we audit and so we performed an audit in compliance with applicable standards there in order to render an opinion on these financial statements and we believe that the work that we did was sufficient to be able to provide you with that opinion which is at the top of page two there where it says in our opinion the financial statements referred to above present fairly in a Mater respects the financial position of the district's measure J Bond activity as of June 30th so again an unmodified opinion the type of opinion that you want on your audit report and the rest of that just outlines the fact that this is just the measure J Bond program financials and not the financials of the rest of the district at June 30th there's a prox imately $5 million there left in fund balance related to what's been issued so far under measure J and then turning to the uh statement of revenues expenses and change in fund balance on the next page uh you can see there was some interest that was earned in the current year and then the expenditures tied to the performance audit report as well as that transfer and you can see at the end there you again you have the fund balance of about $5.1 million so overall very clean report to to bring to the board tonight and uh with that I'd be happy to answer any questions thank you so much um at this time um I guess if we can go ahead and get um uh on for approval so motion to approve second and then we'll um go ahead trust to approve trusty fam yes okay all right so we'll go ahead and open it up um actually before well let's see let's go ahead and uh open it up for questions for Mr Jensen um and then we'll go to public comment yeah to have the report fresh in our mind trusty I think trusty fam was first you can go ahead and go with him I'm still kind of formulating so polite trusty thank you thank you thank you trusty B oh uh you know as the previously Vice chair of the bond committee this is sort of my bread and butter every year so uh K just you know I uh thank you for your work and Mr Jensen thank you for your firm's work on this and I'm glad that we're able to get an unmodified opinion and that we are compliant under the our bonds are compliant under proposition 55 um a question to assistant superintendent Cheng who I'm who I have worked with for for many years on the bond committee and I I do say someone with the second hardest job in this District um so assistant superintendent Chang uh could you uh provide for the board uh you know how you know under on on page four uh under expenditures uh what were the salaries and benefits for and what Contract Services were provided uh for for the measure J bonds sure um the salaries and benefits are related to the accountant um who is overseeing through the program even though there's no activity um there's still or fond project activities there are still uh requirement for a staff level to maintain um that account or that fund itself and so those are the salaries associated with that um and the contract Services is related to some legal services that we've been dealing with in terms of um um legal cases that I don't want to get into but um that our attorney has been working on so those are some of those those uh related uh costs okay thank you very much thank you trusty wee on all right thank you uh so I just wanted first of all thank you Mr Jensen for your report um and I just want to again this month make I guess I have first of all I have a question so you mentioned the transfer the 20 million um and your firm tested that um using the the practices I guess the standard for for an audit of this type and 100 I think you said 100% of the transfer was tested and is it 60% of the expenditures is that what that was and was correct okay and all of that came back I think I don't know if it was that but you it was clean like you didn't find anything untours or anything that shouldn't be it was as it should have been correct we would have we would have reported to you if it was otherwise so right yes okay and um overall and I I just asked these questions because I I think maybe sometimes these audits maybe they're not clear to the public or or you know it's not something that people typically do in you know in their day-to-day life so I want to make sure that information that does get disseminated out into the community from individuals who may interpret the report is accurate so the what we received similar to our audit last time is a clean report as you mentioned heard you say it several times but I'm just confirming that it's clean the transactions were appropriate and we at this time as a board um nothing was discovered that needs further consideration or action or anything like that is that all accurate that's correct okay thank you thank you I see trusty F hand up again yes I I you know I too want to you know also concur with pry haran know uh you know I wrote last you know in my capacity as on the bond committee at time I I wrote the committee's response to the audit last year and that was the first year that we had a a clean audit and that we you know uh this District had fixed the financial reporting and internal controls management uh that had plagued the bond issue for many years so I you know I want to uh thank the assist assistant superintendent Chang and his staff for his work and I'm gratifi you know gratified to let the community know that uh you know through uh you know through uh Mr Jensen's uh firms audit that we have a clean Bond program uh for you know one once again and that uh you know uh I I have a lot of confidence that we can move forward uh with the work of updating our facilities uh you in you know once we have the ability to sell bonds again in the future thank you very much thank you uh trusty Chavis I think I saw your hand up no okay making that up thank you um seeing no other hands now I'm G to go ahead and open it up for public comment um board President we have one person at the moment Allison uh Allison um first speaker is Allison Allison you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi this is Allison singani I'm the chair of the citizens Bond oversight committee and I just wanted to thank Mr Jensen and also to thank and congratulate K and his team uh on an unmodified opinion and an excellent clean audit this has been a bumpy road uh in the bonds program and um Kier and his team have worked very diligently to get this under control um I appreciate that hard work and effort and it's wonderful to see the bonds program on such sound footing uh before we move forward into the future um um so thank you very much I'm delighted to be able to report out to the community this is going to be a fun annual report to write this year uh so thank you very much that's all great thank you uh at this time we have no other speakers great thank you so much we'll um go ahead and come back to the trustees um any other questions or comments before we move on to the vote okay um I just want to mention as a board president you know it's always great to hear a positive report and a feedback um after doing that uh extensive um investigation pretty much looking at all the documents and ensuring that um as a district we're we're doing what we need to and of course we know we have the best uh CIO Mr changen thank you for your hard work um you know and not to mention the rest of the administration doing doing their job um so you know I like to highlight you know when we have these positive um because unfortunately you know sometimes things are made up or comments are said um so you know just want to highlight the fact that we have a positive um audit here um so with that I'll go ahead and call for the uh votes I'll start off with trusty Bano hiy hi hi president kto Hi myself I thank you so much thank you Mr Jen great thank you have a good night we'll go ahead and move on to item um let's see we're on 702 um information report on covid-19 funds and expenditures and I think that's Mr you uh Mr Chang yes thank you it's me again let me can you see my screen or the the presentation itself yes oh you can yes we can it's it's not on present mode but we could see your yes perfect thank [Music] you now we see we go okay thank you and uh good evening um so this is the report on the co uh onetime covid-19 funds um and the related uh expenditure report um we'll start off with the um the revenues itself as you can see here um there are five main parts of um onetime covid-19 revenues um the first one is the learning loss mitigation um from the Corona virus Relief Fund uh which is approximately $9.5 million um the second one is the uh learning loss mitigation uh from the gears fund which is approximately $537,000 uh the third one is the learning loss from the state general fund which is approximately $884,000 um and the fourth one is the eser uh eser one um which is close to a little over $2.9 million and then the fifth part of money is the Senate Bill uh 117 um which is is approximately um $160,000 um and in total um the onetime money equates to a little over $14 million of one-time uh covid-19 revenues um the first category of expenditures um that we're going to go over that we have used covid-19 uh s funding for uh are the certificated salaries um as you can see here certificated salaries equates to about uh 1 $ 1.9 million um of that $1.9 million um they consist of um three days of PDT or three days teacher professional development days um 25% of speech therapists um three days PD days for special education teachers um TOA are teachers on special um assignments um and related to that are teacher time sheet for additional work that they've done um also Al Another C uh line item is the district's nurse um in addition to that 25% of psycholog PCH salaries um nurses time sheet um director of both human resources and academic Services where 50% of their salaries were charged to these funds um and last we for uh certificated salaries um the educational technology administrator um the second categories of um expenditures are classified salaries um actually second and third are the classified salaries and total employee benefits um as you can see here for classified salaries um the total expenditure um is approximately um close to $4.5 million um of which um those salary consist of um the TK T4 instructional AIDS um and also instructional AIDS time sheet for doing um additional duties um Health assistance Community aison um bus drivers um 50% of the upholsters for um all the vehicles and bus that we have um 50% of custodian salaries um 40% of the warehouse worker um CNS uh one month during the summer month um classified support substitute um classified support additional time and overtime um 80% of the um it tech support um staff um 50% of Transportation supervisor 40% of warehouse supervisor uh school office assistant um 80% of it supervisors um Extended Learning Administrative Assistant um clerical and office substitute uh clerical and office additional time overtime and working out a class our campus par uh par Educators um translators bus monitors um other classified substitute um contracts for translators and lastly um other classified additional time and overtime and on the benefit total benefit piece um that equates to approximately $3.4 million um those are associated with both our certificated and classified salaries so these are the benefits uh related to to the salar so for example the pur and stirs and all the um state and federal tax um the next categories of books and supplies you can see that under books and supplies um we spent um approximately $146,000 on ppes um $131,000 on cleaning equipment and um 319 00,000 close to $320,000 on devices um $452,000 on air purifiers and a little over a million dollars for uh foods for the CNS program um so for total books of supplies comes out to about a little over $2.1 million um the next categories are services and other expenditures and indirect cost um as you see under services and other operating costs um the total there is approximately $1.7 million um I'm not going to go through all the line items but I can tell you that the majority of these um costs are related to um learning platforms and tools U for distance learning um contracts for tutoring um contracts to support the carepods um Technologies um so those are the big areas um in terms of service and other operating costs um that comes out to a little over $1.7 million and then the last category is indirect cost um these are costs that um The General fund are able to to recoup from from the administrator support um to support these programs so in total um The District's receive um a little over $14 million um and in toing all the expenditures um we match that also to a little over $14 million so these are the um comprehensive list of um the C fund and also um the expenditures that we charg to it with that I would be glad to take any uh questions thank you so you so much I'm getting a echo let's see okay I think we're good um so we'll g go ahead and um it's on for information only I believe yes [Music] um public comment or no public comment sorry I know the other items um we had a opportunity for public comment later because we were voting on it but can somebody just Dr Bower public comment or no public comment okay so um while I get that um answer we'll go ahead and is public comment take public comment yeah the other ones you didn't take public comment because there were there were not items in the there were items of the agenda but there wer there were presentations so it's just people it's like as if to take comment on a performance or something this is this is a item so you should take quot comment on it okay thank you yes just wanted to confirm thank you uh board vice president uh Mr Moran can you um go ahead and let us know if we have anybody on for public comment at this time for this item yes we do at the time at this time we have one person our first speaker is Brenda sendas miss sendas you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you um I just want to thank Mr changen for um this information a very clear information and um I just had a couple questions um I don't know if you guys can answer them but um on all the PPE that was used was that for previous years or is that this same PPE that will be used for the next following year um and then um just one observation that I did notice that a lot of this covid money was used to support paying a lot of the staff and salaries of uh the district um I did see a couple programs on for support for our students um and I did see some marketing also being paid with this covid-19 money for volair strategic company that already has a contract with the district so I don't understand why um the district had to pay I think it's I don't know the exact number um for public relations if they already had a contract for a year that was I believe 990,000 I may not be right on on the number uh per year so I just want to thank you guys for the clarity and um if someone can answer those questions if the PPE that was paid it would it go for the following year or was this only used for this year um thank you there are no other speakers thank you Mr Moran um and just a reminder to our public um unfortunately we are unable to answer your questions directly uh but um obviously as trustees we are able to answer or ask questions um if you'd like um so just a just a general reminder um for the public who uh do not know that um we cannot answer questions directly um to the public um okay at this time uh yes I did have a couple of questions that I um actually asked Dr Bower on yesterday that I seen two entries for 80% it Department the first entry was 26,7 18 and the second one was for the 80% it Department except director in telecommunications was 214,000 523 uh what was the reason for the separate entries and is there supposed to be those two entries there as well as the question that was just asked I I would like to ask uh why is there an additional for uh almost $46,000 for the uh Communications company if we we already have a contract with them doesn't that work go under the contract language what they're supposed to do or was this in addition or how did is how did they how did you come up with this if you could tell me that please I'm gonna ask Mr Chen to help me answer okay and it was on page four of the um of the covid report page four and you are on you Mr Chang thank you sorry president um Zoom um so let me answer the first question regarding the two line items for the it um the first line item that reflects $216,000 those are for the tech support staff um and then the second line item um that reflects $2 $1,400,000 um those are the it supervisors so those are two different classification um level of Staffing in it itself so we wanted to different different iate um the the the two um staff classification um in it that we charge to that program does that make sense yes but it it wasn't labeled you know one is this and one is that it just looked like it was a double entry thank you for clarifying that can you clarify the uh Bed Company why they're getting additional money if we already have a contract with them please and didn't that the work that they did here wasn't that under the language of the contract so the the the valer contract did not receive any additional funds um as you may recall U I stated on a few occasion that you know the districts were able to stay afloat using um covid funds to pay for existing expenditures um the contract doesn't specify or does allow for others resources to be um used to to to spend on these funds um and per the um per the parameters of the covid-19 funds these are allowable um expenditures that have been charged to um one thing that uh I think is important to also note is that since most of these are federal funds um they were part of the um Federal program monitoring review which is the fpm that was recently conducted um and they went through a series of review and audit um and did not flag that any of these expenditures were not allowed aable um so we all these expenditures do fall within the allowable uses of those funds um okay so maybe I should frame it this way so is this an additional amount yes or no no thank you okay I'm gonna go ahead and move on to trusty fam okay thank you very much Madam president uh you know in the interest of you know thank you assistant superint again for you know putting this extensive report together uh in the interest uh to reassure uh the Alam Rock committee uh community that we are uh mindful about uh providing uh PP and uh sanitation supplies and you know in reference to the part of the uh question brought up from public comment uh could could you know uh would you you know could you you know is the PPE using the covid money uh use was it used for entirely this year or will carry over to next year or uh you know you know combination of the sure um so the the the fund itself allows for us to go back into the previous year 201920 um so to answer this question is a combination of all um those money were spent on ppes for last year this year and also we have a stockpile to to prepare oursel for the upcoming school year as well um so those PP have been procured um you know for what we've done in the past what we doing this year and then what we're planning for the coming year okay and I'm glad that we are prepared for next year also so thank you very much assistant superintendent Chang and just to clarify this is not the final expenditure because we're g probably need to spend more um as school starts to open um so this is of course and again thank you very much for your work thank you and we also hope that this is not the only money we receive so praying for that um trusty Bano and then trusty kto yes thank you uh first of all thank you Mr chain and and whatever team you have assembled to help you gather this and put this together um work it's a Onan team you but I you know I appreciate what I appreciate about this is that it reflects a lot of the concerns that we' heard throughout the past year you know we heard at times that you know there was challenges with technical issues for families for parents for kids and so we we you know we started to do the the tech support and we started to provide that support for families and that's reflected here we heard concerns from teachers from parents from everyone about um safety in the classrooms and making sure that we had the proper cleaning supplies and those types of things and that's reflected here we heard concerns that the distance learning wasn't going to be sufficient or you know we weren't going to be able to handle that and obviously it's different than classroom learning but to the extent possible I see all that reflected here in our expenditures and so it's nice for me um when there's information again that sometimes gets disseminated that's that's false or misinformed or whatever to be able to point back to concrete factual very transparent evidence of of the um Financial the fiscal responsibility of the district and and I'm glad that you mentioned that this was also reflected in the report that we received recently that was also a positive Report with respect to our uh fiduciary responsibilities um and so I also want to thank uh trusty Chavez for asking the question about buet I also had that question I certainly did not want to pay them an additional amount um and Dr B was able to clear that up for me but um I want to thank you for for bringing that up too um but overall thank you I'd like to have this document as I mentioned as a reference for if and when questions come out from the community we can point them to you know these things because they have the right to know how this money is being spent that here it all is in black and white so thank you thank you trano vice president kto yes I want to thank uh uh assistant superintendent Chang for the thorough report um I you know a lot of uh question were raised and I hope that this report elucidates and allow uh assuages some of the concerns that were uh you know raised at the previous meeting so thank you for the thorough report thank you and I I just want to reiterate that um you know I I as a parent in this district for many years I know what we've gone through I know the traumas that we've gone through especially when it comes to money um so I do understand where some of the questions come in have come in and um I also want to highlight that we are a new you know as somebody said it earlier in this meeting we are a new board um and we're moving forward in a you know New Direction um and so thank you ca for providing this um which you know makes it more transparent to our community as to where our money specifically is going um I also had some of the similar questions that trusty Chavez asked um and not just for ret but for a lot of the other areas um and you know coming from that trustworthy place right like uh I don't doubt that anybody would make another contract or add to a contract that we as a board have not approved so um my question was just um if these monies were flexible to pay additional things like uh salaries um and so you know based on your anwers today you know it pretty much answers that it was flexible we could take you know half of the contract cont and pay it with some of this money um for example if OLED was 90,000 we paid 45,000 with this money and the other 45,000 with other monies um that were there and hopefully frees up some money for General funds Etc so um I am very appreciative of this money I look forward to receiving more money because you know as as we all know um you know PPE and additional time for staff that you know have to review additional parent you know surveys or you know things like that phone calls um cost money it's not you know it's not free so um I know that we'll probably in the best interest in keeping our children safe um we'll be doing a lot of extra things um until we're we're back to a a place of normal normaly whatever that looks like um or back to where we were at um before the pandemic hit so I'm looking forward and sourcing um additionals to support the covid-19 um uh response um and I am really really glad that we're able to be flexible in regards to where you know some of that money goes um and yeah I mean with this I know that this was on for information only and there's no additional questions or comments we'll go ahead and move on to item 801 all right seeing none um thank you so much Mr Chang um and your staff I hope you have a lot of Staff because you do a lot of work helping you gather this information for us and the community thank you thank you and I have an amazing team great um all right we'll go ahead and move on to 801 resignations information only Dr B anything you want to that okay we'll on to um item 802 approval for Declaration of Need for fully qualified Educators for 2122 Dr bow respectfully as the board to approve this is a yearly um form that we need approve by the board trusty Chavez move approval okay move to approve by vice president GTO second by Chavez um we'll go ahead and open it up for a public comment at this time uh Mr monan do we have any uh members of the public wishing to address a board on this item uh at this time we have none okay I'll go ahead and count a couple seconds in case they're running to the button and want to address us okay do we have any now still none okay thank you so much uh bringing it back to the board uh trusty Chavez I see your hand up um yes I tried to speak up one more time when Mr CA did his presentation and my hand thing wasn't going up and I didn't want to speak out but um I want to thank him for having the the oneon-one with me with the bud budget meeting and that we had and we clarified some stuff and I would I have a lot of questions and as Dr bow knows the majority of our oneon-one was a lot of questions on the money and if I could possibly uh have another one say in a month if that's okay because I know he's busy like I told Dr Bower that but I wouldn't take up too much time but I will have all my questions written down beforehand uh to make it easier I guess thank you thank you trusty Chavez and my understanding is that our staff are always open to meeting with any one of us at any time so um and thank you for taking that time trusty Chavez to uh you know ask your questions and ensure that we are um crossing our tees and dotting our eyes so I appreciate that um thank you Mr changen I did see you um say yes or not yes I appreciate that okay um and then coming back to refocus on this item 802 any questions or comments I see trusty's hand up yeah I'm I'm not sure spot do this but I I also had a question for um Mr CA that I forgot from the previous item could I ask that question now or it's it's not it's just a kind of a clarify question um sure just really quick um Mr Chang do um if you could refresh my memory when will we expect uh information from the May Revis to be given to us uh yes so the the governor just released the May Revis um School service is going to be doing their R May RIS Workshop next Thursday um and so by the um June 10th board meeting um we have all the details including um the public hearing for for the um 2122 um budget year okay and then if I could just um request just to kind of put on your ridar to trusty Chavez's points that she's been making over the past few months once we have that may Revis information and now this covid money can we then start thinking about having a budget meeting at that time to to provide that um you know as trusty chave as been men and then we'll have all this new updated information just to now get that out there we can do it ASAP once we have that yes I believe so um the only challenges is that um you know staff is still working on next year's budget and there's a lot of moving Parts um and specifically what's going to come out of the may rewise there's going to be a lot of details coming out so they have to incorporate that into next year's budget um and so I'm not sure if we're going to be ready to provide all the details um by June 10th and that's why we're providing the the public hearings to get some input and a preview of the budget itself okay I mean yeah the the the information that we may be able to provide is very high level at that point um it's information based on Statewide assumptions um and so once we get that information we have to drill it down to what it to to the impact of the the school district St okay we go thank you uh president yes trusty Chavez so can we maybe put something uh a week after and after the 610 can we say 617 maybe have a budget meeting with the community would that be okay because we're probably gonna be asking the same questions uh so to have the budget committee after the June 10th which which would be on 617 um so that the public can also um ask questions because we were supposed to have a budget meeting before and for some reason it got cancelled uh some things happened but now would this be a good time after the June 10th um to have it on June 17th to to have a a public forum yes that's that's the possibility I'm looking at my calendar now and June 10th is the public hearing and we're scheduled to bring the both the budget and the lcap back on June 24th for for um the the adoption of both items so trust sorry if I can just make a recommendation at this time if you can take this uh calendaring offline and then maybe you can let the public know you know um with in appropriate ways um because I'm sure Beano also needs to see his his calendar um so I know that you guys will figure fig it out sounds like we're getting closer to the date um whether it's a week right after or maybe the week of the 24th um whatever it works out for you three and then to make sure that we get it out to the public okay I'll make myself available in June thank you great thank you appreciate it okay thank you uh coming back to item 802 refocus so if you can refresh our memory marel I think we had a second and um already a Motion in a second and we open it up for public comment um now we are on any questions or comments by the board yes you're you are correct just so does the board have any questions or comments on this item okay seeing them we'll go ahead and move on to the vote uh trusty varano hi trusty fam hi Chavez hi vice president kto hi myself I passes unanimously all right moving on to consent anybody approval the consent calendar right second except for except for um on on the minutes on April 15 um I wasn't absent and I actually was texting Dr Bower that I had knocked over the hot spot and it went all over and I before we get to that just we can approve the rest and then we'll come back to those details anybody else want to others uh out yes yes uh I'd like to uh let's see here hang on I have it more yes I'd like to take out item 9.06 please thank you sure any others before we approve the rest okay seeing none we'll go ahead and um move to do we we already moved to approve in second sorry I think we did right yeah we did for 901 and 906 all right so we'll go ahead and open it up for public comment at this time Mr Moran this time time we have no speakers okay I'll count couple seconds do we know still none okay great um we'll go ahead and go to questions and comments from the trustees on items 902 903 904 9005 try Chavez any questions or items well that was the whole purpose of consent not to oh sorry vot on it move to okay now voting so I just saw her hand up so trusty Chavez any changes to that no changes okay now the uh voting trusty Bano hi trusty fam hiy Chavez hi uh vice president GTO hi myself I all right so now coming back to um move to approve the minutes um if I can get a motion in a second for purposes of discussion motion to approve second on motion to approve approve everything except for April 15th um okay before we get there do we have any public comment Mr Manan on this item the moment we have none okay I'll count a couple seconds do we know still none okay um and we'll come back to trusty Chavez okay April 15th it was Tech issues I wasn't absent okay so on April 15th on item 901 it was a yeah it was a 40 vote and with and I was marked absent I wasn't absent okay can you take us to that page and um uh can you move on to somebody else if they have a comment while I look for it sure um does anybody else have a comment or a question on um the minutes okay see none we'll go back so mad Madame President yes these are legal documents and they have to be properly done and so if somebody didn't vote on it then maybe you should ask Council what the proper terminology is uh that is to be noted when somebody doesn't vote on an item and it's not present at the meeting right and that's why I wanted her to highlight um where it's at so that when we have this discussion we know what we're referring to trusty Chavez you found the spot we asked this question before to uh Mr Ree and he said and also changed one on technical issues before because he knew I was having technical issues so this was the same thing when I when I dropped the Hotpot so I'm still looking for that item we still waiting for you okay and I I still would like to get um possible clarification from um uh roio about how we memorialize this in the minutes just to make sure that we do have the proper legal um description of the vote whatever it is yeah uh Mr re we can come on thank you yes so I I think I do recall a recent incident where there were some technical issues involving member Chavez so I believe the vote as it was reported out said uh noted that uh she was unable to participate because of a a difficulty in her connection and we couldn't record her vote um so she wasn't marked absent for that so when those circumstances occur I think you can note that in the minutes but we we should we should look at what the particular item was at issue so did you go sorry as you guys as questions I just want to confirm did you find the page no because I was listening to Mr roio because that's exactly what he said the last time and that's what I was saying okay that it was a technical issue like earlier when theanu was speaking I was texting Dr bow saying everybody sounds underwater and she just texted me back saying that she had the same issue so it's like you know yeah know I understand and that's why I want to make sure that we reflected correctly so if you can please find that spot I want to make make sure that we reflect that correctly I have the record of April 15th on my phone and so is Dr Bower right I guess what I'm saying is I believe you and I I want to make sure that we put the correct language in there so just let us know what item I didn't highlight it I didn't highlight it so take your time let me read through the we wait for you um no don't do that we need to because you know this is uh I mean I don't even have to say it right like this is not a game we want to make sure that we address this I want to make sure we hear you and your concerns this is very important whether it's one or all of us and and I can't move on without addressing your concerns so please um let me know what page and where um because I want to make sure it's reflected correctly vice president kto you had your hand up and then uh it seems kind of uh you know out of the ordinary because you have to State what took you you these minutes are supposed to reflect the action that took place it's not the so at at that meeting there was a vote and there was a certain number of votes that voted yes and then there were there were somebody who wasn't there so are we to say there was for and favor and then technical issues or that just sounds kind of strange and something that I don't think would be acceptable um many other places so I would suggest that we as a body go ahead and decide how to deal with this because at the end of the day it's our there are minutes we have to go ahead and accept them and so I'm fine with saying hey board member Travis says she had technical issues and we note that in the minutes um and that's fine but in terms of the vote we can't just say well you know you you aren't absent because at the end of the day it's you didn't vote on him and that's that's the short in the end of it the facts is that you you didn't vote on it uh on one second excuse me I'm not asking to revote and and it doesn't matter to me but I just wanted to reflect that I was not absent I'm not asking you to change the vote at all it it doesn't matter on the vote because technically you didn't hear me say yay or nay so I was not uh I did not voice my vote but okay it was known that I had technical issues and okay you know that's it if you guys want to go for it go for it if not I think that's clear and have you found the spot no because when somebody talks I stop and I look I need you to find it because we're stopping for I heard I heard you April is what I'm looking otherwise we're just gonna move on and approve the minutes as is so please find it what very important what I'm asking also is if you could just vote yay or nay can I put technical issues yes or no I don't we're not that's not the vote we're on the minutes um and we are looking at voting has his hand up hold on one second hold on one second I am facilitating this you're just repeating yourself so I just want to make sure because you've repeated yourself over and over if you find the page please let us know because I want to make sure we take the moment and we reflect the minutes as they should be um by law and with that otherwise we will move on and votee on these minutes as is so I want to give you that time I want to respect what you're asking for so you can highlight what page and where um and in the meantime I will continue with the questions and comments by the board um and otherwise if you can find it we're going to go ahead and move on with approval um or not of these minutes trano uh yes thanks thank you Madame President for regaining order um here I think it's um you know it's important that we have these conversations but that we do so in an orderly fashion and so I I agree with truste Keo that you know very very recently we have come under um under Focus or or we've been looked at because of our governance practices not necessarily this board but Allen marketing School District um the way meetings have been run certain things that have gone on in meetings it's it's it was brought up in Audits and so it is very important for us to to establish and to maintain proper order proper protocols proper governance and so I I again I I don't think it's a problem that we reflect technical difficulties that's a reality in the world that we're in um but I do think and this would be the question I think that still is on the floor maybe for Mr Lise I I would think my speculation as a trustee not an attorney obviously that we would still put absent and then note due to technical difficulties IES because I think absent is more of like the official terminology that would satisfy any audit or anything but it's still respects the fact that there was technical difficulties and I the other only thing I was going to say is that it's important trusty CH that trusty Chavis finds the item because I'm not comfortable voting on a motion that's just generally saying there was technical issues I would want to make sure that I'm voting on um a specific modification to the minutes as they've been presented tonight so I I also am willing to wait until we have that specifically or just take the vote and and you know see if the passes with the members present thank you actually it actually the vote was for um csba delegate and it was Kino's uh thing does he remember the number and it was on April 15th correct correct um board vice president do you remember that number otherwise I but you know the way trusty Beano put it that's perfect the way he said it I'm I'm willing to do that I'm just saying I wasn't absent it it just say she had she okay I didn't do a vat that's fine but if you have technical issues then state it the way trusty Beano just stated it I'm happy with that if you guys want to vote with that I'm fine with that and we believe you TR I'm not trying to change any no we believe I'm not trying to change anything I'm just saying that yeah and we believe you we just want to as trano just you know put it correctly and so beautifully we want to make sure we reflected on the item because I don't feel comfortable just doing a general one so I found it thank you it's item 53 runoff ballot for csba delegate assembly is that correct that's it that's it so deadline is 30th let me see that is Page seven of 15 and I will look for the vote pce let's see motion and then zero vote a vice president kto and then member Linda Chavez vote 41 motion carries there is no absent here nothing here states that you were absent yeah it does does it I right it says absent member Linda Chavez my my suggestion as as trusty Chavez mentioned I my suggestion would just be parentheses right after that um due to technical issues it still keeps absent because that's like the legal terminal par technical issues perfect great um the person who uh motion and second you guys are all okay with that language yes I think Mr fam that was you yes yes I'm okay okay great all right uh we've already covered public comments we'll go ahead then and move on to the vote on this item uh you guys shifted so I'll call you as I see you on my screen trusty Chavez hi trusty Bano hi trusty fam hi vice president GTO hi myself I thank you um and Dr bar and marel you all got that edit right we're good to go all right so president I I need to confess a mistake that I made at the very beginning of the meeting and we need to have public comment on all the items so there were some items at the very beginning of the meeting all the the special presentations this where you did not call for you know you asked me and I said in correctly that they were just presentations so at the very beginning of the meeting [Music] item I think throughout too some other ones that were information only the ones that were information only I think the uh 203 okay and all the ones after thato we did call for public comment because they were after the public um I think the resignations was the other one that was information only so back to that one for public comments yeah there was a few that's why I had asked the question but I'm glad we're I'm I'm thinking we can still provide opportunity for that public comment at this point Rio can we just go down the list and provide public comment at that time or yes as to those items you should do that okay so we're g to go um start off with 2011 um we'll go ahead and open it up for public comment Mr Moran do we have any members of the public wishing to address a board on the item hi board president uh at this time we have zero okay I'll go ahead and uh allow a couple seconds any now still none okay thank you now we'll go to item 202 do we have any members of the public to address a board on the item none at this time okay I'll wait a couple seconds any now still none okay thank you uh item 203 any members wishing to address board on that item we have zero speakers okay I'll wait a couple seconds any now uh we have one okay uh we have daa Gonzalez Miss Gonzalez you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin um and then if it's okay V I apologize um real quick just uh there was a honest mistake in the beginning um and so we are on item 203 extended your program summer program um so welcome good evening members of the board um president Corina and superintendent um my name is Dela Gonzalez I am a parent of two students in the lumbra school district I just want to say thank you for this awesome presentation and for the hard work that has been um done to to make sure that our kids are not um left behind but also to attend a enrich summer programs that will support them I also want to say thank you because I saw that um that B2 B2K but this time is B2 um first grade which is an awesome opportunity especially for our little ones to start having those interactions with students thank you for thinking about that thank you for making this transition smooth but I also want to extend um some of my comments when I um when I attended one of the meetings around summer schools is how can we provide transportation or bus tokens for those parents that um have multiple children in the Alum BR school district and um and that they entered during that during that same time to make sure that none of those students or none of those parents had to um choose between one program one student over the other so everybody could have that same opportunity um to attend any Su summer program that they want to so I just want to say that thank you for that for that hard work thank you for bringing this to the parents thank you for reaching out to the parents um ahead of time but with the students that are are below their um their level so that's it and don't worry I understand accidents happens so have a really good [Music] evening thank you next speaker is Brenda sendas Brenda or sorry miss sendas you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening um thank you so much for this presentation um I also want want to say um to Sandra thank you for all your work in this and um explain all the different opportunities that our students will have in the summer I did have one suggestion that I don't know if this can happen but is there a way that these um presentations can be translated for our um in Spanish and in Vietnamese because I know that there are a lot of parents that do uh not understand these programs because they're in English and I would love for them to read on all the opportunities that they have I know that when it goes through parents score it is but if they can get them a little bit earlier I would appreciate that but other than that I just want to say excellent job with all these programs that I know and I am excited to see the Cadence learning um that will be uh open for the sixth and e8th graders this year thank you thank you there are no more speakers thank you okay we'll go ahead and move on to item 8021 no not whoa trusty fam was there anything else no no no no no I'm sorry I'm sorry I thought so we're taking we're taking comment for go ahead go right ahead thank you trusty famam um all right so we'll go ahead and go for public comments on item 801 Mr Moran at this time there are no hands raised okay we'll wait a couple seconds okay do we have any now there are no speakers okay now um if everybody can help me look and make sure that I didn't miss any um so we can get caught up here that was it all right thank you so we'll go ahead and move on to item 9006 trusty fam yes I'll motion to approve I'll second okay and yes I just have one comment for that uh under uh was it a certificated offer of employment uh I am excited to see that Oscar pangelinan is uh coming back to be an instructor for our summer Jazz program I IA you know he's a he's a graduate of Joseph George class of 98 but I attended Pala but uh I was a classmate of his in the honors program at Independence High School and uh he was a talented musician even then and he's gone on to be a a professional musician and most recently a Silicon Valley artist laurate and you know it's uh you know uh I you know it's wonderful that we have a alumni at this District who's gone on to U make a name for himself in the field of music and music and for him to uh come back and teach our children uh you know the joys of jazz so I'm uh you know uh ecstatic that you know that's the quality of people we educate and send out into this world um I think I had second already thank you is the um we'll go ahead and open it up for public comments and then come back for any questions or comments from the board yeah hi board president uh we have no speakers okay I'll go ahead and uh count a couple seconds here any now still none well actually we have one that just popped up Brenda sendas missas you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin I think I'm on the wrong item but I think I missed my chance for 9.2 I just wanted to say thank you to Carlos Moran um you will be missed and um want to wish you best of luck wherever you at I I think you did a wonderful job here at alumrock and it will be very hard to fill in your shoes I do appreciate all the training you gave um US during the summer and all the knowledge that you shared with us so I just wanted to say that to you and um wish you the best wherever you go thank you much appreciate it any others I take it as no there are no other comments okay great uh any other questions comments from the board all right I just want to say thank you Mr fam for highlighting that what a beautiful story um of our children that come through alrock and come back and give back um so with that I'll go ahead and move to our vote uh trusty Bano hi bie Chavez onute hi trusty fam I vice president ginto Hi and myself I all right um looks like we've covered everything on our agenda prior to close session um Dr bar do you think we have enough time or should we extend the meeting um for the items that we have to discuss um maybe even to 11 o'clock just in case yeah okay we'll go ahead and uh extend it to 11 pm um and we'll see the public back to reconvene um voted on the balance of the of the consent calendar correct we did okay just finished 906 thank you all right all right so board provide don't we have to provide opportunity for public comment on the close session items thank you um okay public comment on this item uh on closed session Mr Moran anybody willing uh wanting to address the board at this time at this time we have no speakers okay we'll wait a couple seconds any now still none okay so we'll go ahead and break out to close session um trust really quick um when you extended the um meeting to 11 o'clock isn't there supposed to be a motion in a second thank you motion to extend to 11 any um that can we extend to 11:30 just in case let's see so we we don't have to go to 11:30 but just extend it so we don't run into a problem of you know getting Ed out I think the only thing is to respect our public um I would hate to let them know 11:30 and you know we're done before so um I think that 11 should be sufficient and if like we can only extend it once um I don't know what what do you all think Mr G Dr Bower I I think it should I mean it's really up to the board and you guys know the the items um I kind of already gave my opinion but if the board feels that that you need a little bit more it's up to you uh re if if we end earlier before 11:30 that's okay okay correct that's okay you don't have to wait till 11:30 that's okay so um I'm okay with extending to 11:30 um editing the motion I'm editing my motion to uh change it to 11:30 and I heard a second I think by you had second that earlier I think you asked for a motion I said so moved okay so then the motion was 11 so I'll yeah make it 11:30 okay so moved by kto second by Chavez um so we'll go ahead and extend it to 11:30 all right um and I'll open that up to public comment yes you already did okay all right yeah all right so we'll see you all uh the trustees in our close session and we'll see the public back around 11:30 and we have a motion and a second on the floor still do we need to do the vote thank you all right we um we already took public comment what's a new it's a new one so do we take public comment again ree no you've already taken it for all right tryano hi trusty Chavez hi hi board vice president GTO hi myselfi all right so we'll see you in close session and see the public back here at 11:30 if not before thank you all right I see Quorum uh Beano's here Chavez fam and myself all right uh let me start my camera here uh Dr Robert can you please um give a update as to our close session yes I'm happy to report that on item I believe it was 10.09 uh the board the board voted unanimous to approve the res resolution number 43-20 sl21 thank you um and did you say unanimously I don't know we need to include that but want to include that thank you um okay uh now moving on to item 121 any future board agenda requests from um any of the trustees um or even the public at this time give us a couple seconds okay and if we come up with any feel free to um let know trusty Chavez just the last one that we said we were going to bring to the board for the next time yes um the what would you call that Dr bow Dr bow you tell us I I don't want to say it without roio guiding me on the correct language so right um I I know that that item needs to be back okay thank you trusty Chavis for that reminder make sure to bring that and go ahead and also um I wanted to ask oh I'll take it offline okay great thank you uhu thank you all right seeing no others we'll go ahead and move on to um 13 jining this meeting at 10:55 pm thank you have a good night you

i'll second that motion all in favor aye corey burgess aye jamie borland aye amanda moved item 5.13 classification and transportation employees dr mr mr president board members currently we list bus drivers as bus drivers or as substitute drivers but one of the things that i've come to recognize is that with our joint riga for transportation there are drivers that are listed as our employees who do some driving for the high school so they might work point two five for us and they might work .25 for the high school we pay them separately whatever but if they're on our list then they're listed as subs on the high school side if they're listed on the high school side as an employee they're listed on our side as a sub and i didn't quite understand all of how all of that is was working so it meant some some morale issues relative to who got paid what and what the designations were so i'm simply recommending that any driver who drives for us is just called a bus driver not a substitute not an auxiliary not anything they're not holding two jobs two full-time jobs they're holding two part-time jobs just like if i worked here and then i went and flipped burgers at mcdonald's it's two different jobs and so i'm just simply asking that we recognize them as bus drivers and as employees of our district any questions then i motion we approve item 5.13 i second that ready dubois all in favor aye corey burgess hi jamie borland hi amanda amen aye randy dubois aye charlene diaz so moved item 5.1 for the wells fargo line of credit now with this we are asking to table at this time uh we're waiting on a report back from the auditor uh our annual audit um and until we know where we're there we really shouldn't be moving forward with this um so i'm asking that we table this to next meeting would be enough time yes any problems with that okay then we will table that to next meeting um item 5.15 e-rate funding acceptance dr stewart i'll do my best with this i might have to ask james to to give us some some information on this there's a five-year cycle for e-rate applications and so this was the year for us to start our application process james has done the research and the background work on this and that's all i really know how to say so if with your permission i would have james explain a little more about this all right mr mcnutt if you wouldn't mind good evening president burgess members of the board and dr stewart um actually this item and the next item are the same thing essentially um we're asking tonight that we accept and that you approve our category one e-rate funding which was approved by usac which administers the e-rate fund for the fcc uh the category one funds uh supply funding for our internet connection that is shared with the high school district and also our managed fiber links between the central aggregation point which is a fancy word for the server room and the three remote schools fox creek diamondback and sunrise and the reason we don't have the three schools here near the district office on this list is because we actually own the fiber to those schools so there's no monthly fee there's no management or anything like that associated with that basically e-rate pays us 80 of what we would normally pay for those services so these are the services that the schools rely on for connectivity and to get 80 percent of that basically given to us is really something we should accept in my report i talked also about category 2 e rate funds which have not yet been approved but we're anticipating approval that's the the five-year funding cycle where we only get a certain amount of money to spend on category two items and that's infrastructure stuff so that's the wires and the walls the routers the switches the wireless access points and those sort of things and so you know that is a little more secondary to internet connectivity and that so it usually takes a little bit longer to get those things approved and we anticipate that it could happen anytime between this coming tuesday and november so it's just whenever it gets there it gets there but in the report you can see that for the internet um our annual price is close to 62 000 if we were to pay that out of budget and it's shared with the high school district of that 53 000 is paid by e-rate money and that's just money we got for following the rules and doing what we need to do and then again for the three links it's close to thirty thousand dollars for the year and we get back twenty six thousand dollars of that and i say we get that money back but actually sudden link is nice enough that they bill usac directly for our eighty percent so we and essentially we essentially only pay our 20 so we're not coming out of budget for a hundred thousand dollars and then hoping we get the money back if you have any other questions i'd be more than happy to answer them and i will say that um for some of this we initially put the money out so you might see in some of those vouchers a pretty big whoa the 53 000 for instance but then they do reimburse us so we end up really only paying this piece over here but one one of the reasons we want you to approve this is first of all so we can continue to have the good service we have but secondly so nobody gets all upset about wait a minute you said it was 4 000 and it's this other number we want you to know up front that we put out the money for most of it up front and then we get it reimbursed yeah and they have come through and they have come through every time so i don't think i don't think it's a big risk we've been taking about any rate for a long time right yeah it's been a long time program started in 99 yeah and it's it's fantastic so yeah we like that that's great thanks thank you thank you all right um any other questions all right then i'll move we approve of item 5.15 all second all in favor aye corey burgess hi jeannie borland hi amanda ayman aye brandi dubois aye charlene diaz so i moved item 5.16 is this really the same thing james sorry we got this twice see that's that's why we have an expert right okay yeah because category one and then funding acceptance okay so we don't even actually need to take action on 5.16 uh 5.17 renewal of the contract for esi for substitutes dr stewart mr president and board members this hasn't been exactly a good year for us to make a comparison of having this program compared to our own having our own subs however we've had a number of subs we've had four subs who have actually been long term with us the entire year and then we've had probably five or six other subs who've been pretty busy all year they haven't been in long term positions but they've been around the district and subbing but i'd like to have another year to kind of see what a normal year would look like compared to when we were doing our own programming a couple of advantages this year the difference in just salaries for this year is about 174 000 that we paid less that we paid out this year but given all the covid paperwork that our hr department and person has had to do this year it's been very nice that she's not had to do substitute paperwork and keep all of that stuff but as i say i'd like to have a fairly typical year to compare to us doing our own before we determine whether that's something we want to continue so i recommend that we approve this for another year any questions then i move we approve item 5.17 i'll second that emotion all in favor aye corey burgess me jeannie borland hi amanda amen hi brandi dubois hi charlene diaz so i moved item 5.18 fox creek intercom system dr stewart mr president and board members i put this on because a couple of the quotes that we got were over five thousand dollars the one that uh that i'm recommending is less than five but i also wanted to just say to you that this is considerably less than what we would have spent if we'd actually quoted this out for some firm to come in and do it we did a similar thing at sunrise a couple of months ago where we bought just the equipment and our technology department installed it and it's working just fine so we'd like to proceed with this for fox creek so that they're ready to go when school opens with intercom and bells that work so is it the first one sterling yes it is it's the one that's just under 5000 but you can see the other two quotes are above that and we weren't sure where this was going to come in but it's considerably less than we would pay if we outsourced it it would be probably in the in the neighborhood of 20 or 22 000 if we outsourced it so it's really nice that we have uh folks in our tech department that can do this definitely all right any questions then i move we approve item 5.18 i'll second that motion all in favor aye corey burgess hi jeannie borland hi amanda ayman i'm randy dubois hi charlene views so moved item 5.19 approval to contract with hinfield mesh and company pc accountants to correct and configure the infinite visions our business software program including the appropriate training prior to rollover for the fiscal year 22 fiscal year not to exceed 15 000.

i know that that sounds like a very long a very long title but one of the things they tell us is that the the title for any item on the agenda should be understandable to everybody what it involves so that's why i made it fairly uh fairly detailed we i contracted with heinfeld meech about a month ago to do a review of our primarily our payroll module in visions because we continue to have issues with with that program or that piece of the program i also ask that they review any related kinds of modules in the visions program and we're not talking about the vision software we're talking about the way it operates and what we might have done incorrectly in there somewhere so they've done that and i overestimated intentionally on this because i did not want to come back to the board and say i need more money but given given the review document and things that we need to fix i figure let's get it fixed now before we do rollover then we will have a clean a clean slate and they will assist us with rollover but they will also do some training my inten my intent then is to code some of the training to the esser grant sr2 grant that you approved last month where we build in training for every uh you know all of our employees and so a piece of this would end up going into that i just don't know at this point how much that would be uh this way we can get everything cleaned up um i have some questions what did we pay last time for their for their services we've never contracted with them once before to help no we had no we we had uh we got some training from uh the the visions vendor okay for using it yeah no this is the first time we've done this with the accountants and and if you're curious about why an accountant when we know we also have auditors auditors come in and look at the process of of how we pay bills how we do those kinds of things in this case it's reviewing the process of of how we set up the configuration how we code things how we you know how we pay them um i can't even i can't even think of all the details right now but i spent two hours on the phone uh with uh karen smith who is the person that we're working with at heinfeld meech and we have an action plan ready to go so i'm you know i'm really confident that it will be significantly less than the amount i've put there but as i've said i don't want to have to come back to the board and i want it fixed before we do rollover some of the issues are configuration they are things that were incorrectly put into the software when they moved when the district moved to the software and the best guess i have on that from people who work in our business office is that that's 12 or 13 years ago so some of these issues have been in place for 12 or 13 years most of them have just carried on with no increase in problems but some of them over time you know bump up a little bit bump up a little bit bump up a little bit so i just like to get them all cleared up and move forward now it's possible to use this in sr3 money the training part we can use from so3 money well we could do it from so3 money yes but we don't know what that is yet and we could end up coding it over to that when we get there i'm just real nervous on spending fifteen thousand dollars for somebody to come in and train when we we have the possibility of a grant paying that well the grant is going to we will use esther ii to pay the training part of this so you've already approved that we just hadn't designated in esser to what training we were going to do for our business office so this is now saying okay so some of this i'm guessing probably five or six thousand of it will go into that from that training piece yeah because it says appropriate training so yes so this does include some training it does and we'll just recode it we'll just recode a smaller amount so we kind of know where we're going with this first i get real nervous with an open fifteen thousand dollar po to somebody i understand that completely um so i would be more comfortable if we just revisit it after we get close to that number especially when we don't know when sr3 is coming in and if we can put some of this into surf three sure that doesn't come out of our budget sure we code that and here we are accounting for an open po now we've designated that money for that out of budget i personally i'd rather not um so if we can make that a smaller money amount are you comfortable with 10.

hopefully esther gets here soon but if not we meet every month so we won't spend if we say i'm comfortable saying five thousand and then if we get to that and we can come back next month i'm okay with putting another line item on here and you can tell us how we went through that we're estimating it might be another five to me i'm just a little more comfortable i'm okay with that putting a fifteen thousand dollar po out that kind of makes me nervous are you any objections to changing this too it's okay good with that yeah all right yeah i just was trying to guess i was trying to make a guess on what you would prefer whether you'd prefer me to bring it in pieces or or to overestimate and then come back and say to you hey it only cost this much so i'm i'm comfortable either knowing that we might spend this but i'd like to see where we're going absolutely so absolutely um any other questions on this item uh then i would like to approve 5.1 with a correction from 15 to 5 thousand dollars okay second brandi all in favor aye corey burgess hi janie borland hi amanda amen hi randy dubois hi charlene diaz so moved uh item 6.1 future topics do we have future topics from board members i do it was really really fantastic to see the the strings come in and play the violins and the um mr schulteis with his uh cello i think um and so that was just awesome to see after your pandemic that they were able to still come back and um get right to it again our other music programs however are struggling our band and um choir so but i think we need to kind of gather the forces to build up our music programs again [Music] because it's just so important you know they promote leadership responsibility just provides a safe haven a community for students and we have an award-winning band at the high school for them to move into so i just want to see um i think we are short on instruments so i just want to kind of brainstorm some ways to get our music programs back back going and flowing properly and i have some good news for you relative to that we have in fact purchased some some instruments with 21st century funding and then but we need to braid that with some funding either from other grants or from from our capital outlay so that we can use those instruments during the daytime and not just after school but we've done we've gotten you know some nice instruments ready to go with that we also have just approved repairs to a number of instruments in the district so that we're sure that they're in good shape you know for kids to play so we're going to be moving toward that so i think you're absolutely right that's really good news thank you yeah can we reach out by chance to mojave junior high and river valley high school who hadn't had music programs in the last year or two and find out if they have any instruments that are in shape and see whether or not we can bring those to the high school the middle school over middle school and junior high school but if we could reach out to them because i know that when they shut down their strings instrument a couple of years back river valley was fortunate enough to purchase some of them and bring them to the high school so now river valley has them but they no longer have the music against music on their site and oh and it's and and it's cost effective if they're you know if they're decent instruments it's cost effective to have them refurbished um you know for us so we will reach out thank you for that information kind of throwing this out there you know after seeing what we've got here with a million dollar roll over maybe we can do something with arts next year's budget just saying um if you look if you look at that if you look at that front page where it shows us of over a million dollars in capital and since we really this year only have spent about eight hundred thousand um there's a few bucks there that we might be able to push it i'd like to look into that music for next year right what do you think it's pretty awesome what they do so yeah let's keep that going so i do like that um any other future topics i do i i have i over the last several weeks i received probably [Music] oh several dozen letters from students from bullhead middle school in concerns with outerwear some of them very well written they want us to consider possibilities of of changing our outerwear and i love it when students get involved in the process so it was very nice to see um what we got i appreciate receiving them uh it was it was nice so i received a lot of letters so we're talking about dress code is that what you're talking about they were asking about outerwear um and personally i'm all in favor of outerwear getting a little changed so it's something i would like to discuss in a workshop and maybe that's something that we can move forward see what our administrators have to say about this um what their recommendations are because i definitely don't want to make a change they're not comfortable with sure i want our administrators to be part of that discussion where we're at what they what they recommend i know dress code is always a hot topic with students it's it's always fun to discuss it definitely has pros and cons but if they want us to talk about it i'm willing to talk about it so if you guys are okay with that let's add that to a to a workshop and have a discussion there so i i would like to add that anything else i sent to you in my memo first of all we will know our essers we're supposed to know our sr3 funding about the 24th of this month and then we have some things we have to do relative to that but then we must have a plan filed by july 2nd so i think we probably better we better have a longer workshop next month because we need to have some talk about that and i will be sending you some information as well you know as as we get it but i think we need to have that conversation and right this second i can't remember what the other one was that i listed in my memo to you but it was something that we for sure need to talk about next month and i can't remember what it was so if you refer to the memo you'll see something that we may want on that agenda so if we need more time for workshop are you guys better earlier or starting our normal meeting later i can do early i'm good either way too and by next month so i'll be golden um janie how are you would you rather do an earlier workshop or a regular meeting later earlier time i'm good with either whatever you guys need okay i would say earlier then if we're okay with that so we'll do that when we set our upcoming board events so any other future topics all right so then that moving on to 6.2 upcoming board events we want to change our workshop to a five o'clock workshop does that give us enough time with an hour workshop well it probably never does but we can make it work all right and then our regular meeting is still being at six for those that want to tune in for a regular meeting we don't change that on them um any other upcoming events we have several trainings on as always they have the uh all board members are encouraged and able to attend any of those trainings that they see fit uh just get a hold of kim if you want to make any of those meetings we have promotion on tuesday morning at 10 30 at the field house for 8th graders and then your awesome event next friday the staff appreciation and uh we're all pretty excited about that actually i would like to reach out to the newspaper and make sure they're there that needs to be front page that really does so that's breaking news i'm hopeful that a photograph of this strings group is on is in the paper tomorrow absolutely i'm hopeful that that's happening yeah we got some talented talented youth uh yeah i'd love to have the newspaper there at our video for our teachers um anything else all right so we've set the date and time that was 6.3 oh no that's wait what am i doing now yep you got it yeah so we're changing from june 10th to a 5 o'clock instead of a june 10th still work for everybody all right um so we'll keep that date uh at a five o'clock workshop and a six o'clock regular meeting all right with that we just need a motion to adjourn i move that we adjourn the meeting i all in favor aye corey burgess hi junie borland hi amanda amen hi brandi dubois uh charlene diaz so moved we are adjourned we got four signatures is that good [Music] so [Music] you

hey okay [Music] for all of your support this school year [Applause] and we want to thank your teachers as well and we're here to celebrate you and your achievements and all that you've done this school year we're very proud of you so we want to we're going to go ahead and start with pulse awards so we can have our teachers come down you guys okay it has been awesome having kids live continental so it's been a great year and we're ready for that so for our time to the air we are presenting [Applause] eyes our responsible goals of the year of the year and i i really enjoy working with this kid he's got a lot of enthusiasm and really when it comes down [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] all right because seventh grade did not have any perfect attendance students so i told them that they need to step it up for next year as eighth graders so our students who have purpose attendance [Applause] logan [Applause] enjoy everyone [Music] was a definite challenge and we did it so we're super proud of jordan as well so hopefully hopefully he's listening to the live stream right now because we definitely watch and recognize him for i expel boys and girls is a program that it's a diagnostic assessment and it levels students at their level either in closing achieving gap or accelerating their learning as they're ready we do have access and the students will have access to isl in june so students who are struggling with these sds even if you aren't trying to get ahead for high school you can work isa program through june on june 1st it'll end to roll over for next year also we've noticed that kids who do isl are getting better grades and are doing better on the nwa math assessment so be ready for high school boys and girls and take advantage of isl for the summer our eighth grade isl super users rihanna i [Applause] so let's keep it up for our super eighth grade [Applause] please come down and i would like our eighth grade student advisory students to please stand there you are so we have a student advisory that consists of third to eighth graders and these are our eighth grade leaders in our school and we meet as student and rising to go over student climate survey on data we talk about what's working at school what can we improve how are things going with curriculum so these students have been very informative and beneficial to us as a leadership team because they have good ideas great suggestions and one of the things that we do as a student advisory is when we uh honestly [Applause] is so thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] in his life he won't be teaching because if he was going to be teaching he would be right here with us but he knows that we'll have a spot for him if it doesn't work out for you but we do wish you the best of luck and it was hands down when we talked to our advisory students on whom we needed to honor this definitely miss williams and mr cancer so thank you very very much front fourth it was my privilege to hand out some awards and some certificates for some of our high achievers in our science fair this year and i would like to start by recognizing a third place accomplishment for achievement in the science fair this spokes to isabella the second place winner in our school science fair goes to riley besides her oh my god [Applause] fair and they also achieved a number of other awards which we will discuss later but uh we had a team that uh on first place come on [Applause] all right so right now we're going to be recognizing our honorable students these are students who have received age and fees this is for third quarter we will be sending out fourth quarter certificates during the summer okay so we have aiden [Applause] [Music] okay hey grace matthews [Applause] okay [Applause] yes [Applause] riley is [Applause] jordan wong [Applause] so after we take these pictures we're gonna go ahead and give you time to take photos with your children and celebrate them and then that will conclude our ceremony we want to thank you all this individual was recognized earlier um from our builder's club award it was [Music] i [Applause] so it was his first year joining builders buddy he just really went above and beyond what was needed um [Applause] and it builders um wouldn't be what it [Applause] is [Music] so thank you very much [Music] all right parents and boys and girls we'd like for you to have a great afternoon we're looking forward to a great promotion next week and we will continue to celebrate the great things that you have all done this year so thank you for being the good leaders that you are and um have a great weekend be safe and again parents boys if you can help me give your parents a great big round of applause [Applause] [Music] preschool students get promoted yesterday it's so amazing to see how excited and happy they are and their parents so excited and happy for the different milestones that they're going through and our job is to keep that spark and motivation and that willingness to learn through k-8 so i want to thank you parents because we know it's super hard to motivate middle school kids and to get them to really work to their potential because we don't want them to get to high school and 18 i shouldn't listen to my middle school teachers because i remember them talking about this so we want you to make sure that you continue to support your children because they are amazing and we're going to expect great things when we're at walton world versus high school graduation or when we receive your invitations from wherever you end up in high school so again thank you all have a great weekend and you can take pictures thank you

okay [Music] [Applause] hey okay [Applause] thank you for being here welcome to our first awards assembly of the school year and our last award is illegal be time to make sure we get things back to normal as much as possible and we want to thank all of you for your support your encouragement your patience throughout your school year and seventh graders [Music] [Applause] yours getting things done and we're here to celebrate your achievements so at the end of the workout we'll give you time to take pictures and take your children to the side around the gym and get all the control that you need okay that you want so we're gonna go ahead right now and we'll start with our teachers presenting some cult award [Music] so the cult for kindness this is going to really be kind responsible could be a lot of different things this is one of the most competitive students i've ever known uh in fact i heard this meeting [Music] question quiz because i studied for it but she's also so nice to all of your friends and even nice to meet you sometimes the kind year [Music] but the student is also very safe very fun to be around always has a smile on her face and that student is lily olsen up next we have our responsible quote of the year this this student is as has been an online student and he is always making sure he's on top of his stuff which as we all know is very difficult to do when you're when you're distance learning um always on top of the stuff getting stuff in on time making sure he communicates well with teachers making sure his teachers communicate well with him our responsible whole beer goes to great [Applause] and our seventh grade cult of the year goes to a student who is honestly super easy to teach good choices just seem to naturally come from a student always always always making the right choice always asking questions when she meets when she needs answers to those questions always helpful always friendly with her friends our seventh grade quote of the year is kayla already [Applause] so really quickly we had our builder's club last meeting today and um green valley always recognizes those students one from six one from seven and one and so today that individual was recognized by pastor steve um and this family just has been a she always goes above and beyond she does things without having to be asked so i would just like to call up very quickly miss juliana more than ever it was really important that we reached out to our community this year we did a lot of service projects and so we hope to see more kids come out next year so thank you [Applause] i think right now we're going to present thank you oh stay right here okay right now we're going to present our [Music] many of you are so excited to show all the work that you did on them so we're going to go ahead and announce those who placed of the sciencers so we have laina lincoln [Applause] and okay while we're getting that picture our next ones are going to be our ixl super users for 6th grade 7th grade 7th grade sorry okay so parents as you know iexpel is a program that we have that is a diagnostic assessment in order to close the achievement gap and also remediate so it's very important that if this summer your children are they need a born on what they can do then you can have them log into ixl right boys and girls they're such good sports and they're tired but we have access to ixl for the month of june on july 1st we will roll over for the next school year so boys and girls we are going to be giving an award for super users for june so and there may be some gift certificates involved some special gift cards for the super users for june we know that it's super hard to motivate middle school students so again boys and girls i want you to stay focused because you will be the leaders next year as eighth graders and we're depending on you to continue the good work of the students the current eighth graders that are in place now okay so we want you to keep working hard our super users for seventh grade [Applause] our amazing 7th of graders [Applause] um [Applause] foreign [Applause] andrew [Applause] [Music] nathan nathan [Applause] oh all right [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my camila garcia [Music] [Applause] i'm so happy that so we're so excited and proud of all of your achievements and as eighth graders we want to be able to be recognized and see that all of you are making an honorable again we want to thank our parents for all of your support we're going to give you some time now to go ahead and make sure you congratulate the children and then so thank you everyone have a wonderful [Music] day congratulations hey

of the year as well so we are going to start with kindness so for showing kindness throughout the year the time of the year is sebastian [Applause] yes all right our next is for responsible year this student was actually an online student but we all agreed she was so responsible he probably won't be surprised with this if you knew from last year he responsible for the year is [Applause] all right and then has been very safe just an overall very fun student having a class and that student is gabby molina this student is very smart she's very hardworking and she oftentimes remains focused even when those around her are not very focused at all and so she's been through a lot this year we've been very impressed with her julianne [Applause] okay um [Music] winners um [Applause] [Music] um our first place science fair management sixth grade [Music] is so good afternoon um [Music] recognizes individuals who show outstanding service and character and integrity and so we had two young ladies from sixth grade get recognized for their work this year and builders club so they already have their certificates and i believe they got a big fat check so i would like to call up olivia [Applause] and so um i know we have our religious club members out there i hope next year when you will consider joining we do a lot of good work and that gets recognized so yeah [Music] okay we have thank you boys and girls for staying here at this time i would like miss cheryl to please come on down miss cheryl yes where are my six grade student advisory students if you can just stand but you guys can come here sixth grade student advisory if you can just stand there and i have students here who are gonna help me michelle we'll have you stand here so we have a student advisory that consists of third fourth fifth sixth seventh and eighth graders teachers select the leaders of the grade level and as a student advice we need to go over the student service the climate survey data and talk about what's working what's not working they're kind of like i don't want to say a little spice for the grade level but they give me mr nathan a lot of good information to help keep our school safe and one of the things that we do with student advisory is we choose who's going to receive the men's bell award which staff member and our sixth graders when i said who deserves the ben's bell for this year for continental what did you guys say they said michelle and she works far beyond the call of duty every day um she came to us with experience and knowledge and patience and love so we want to give you the hummingbird ben's bell [Applause] so although i'm her supervisor i think i've learned a lot more from cheryl um than just about everybody else on our staff she has brought a lot of knowledge into our district especially with special needs students and her passion um far surpasses most when it comes to belonging care of students who struggle not only that but the students who selected her are not one or more students there are students who she has touched their lives just as she's in their classroom and in their grade level and so she makes everybody feel special and it's always there to help everyone at all times um would also like to honor before we get to honor roll we have some isl super users for sixth grade parents as you know that i excel is a diagnostic program that will help students closely achieve a gap or work further then then they need to or they're ready to move on so we have access to isl boys and girls through the month of june so on july 1st we'll stop it and roll it over for the next school year so parents if the kids are dragging your little nuts and thinking they're bored tell them to get on my excel right [Applause] so we have some super users for sixth [Applause] grade [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and [Applause] so truly we notice that students who participate in ixl are closing the achievement depth are getting better are getting good grades and doing well on their assessments so boys and girls sixth graders keep it up let's give it up for our [Applause] amazing [Music] thank you great job all right we're going to award our honor roll students these are for third quarter grades fourth quarter grades will be mailed certainly will be mailed home to over the summer so honor roll is for asian bees audrey kahneman connor demitri madeleine flowers [Applause] gabriella molina [Applause] alexandra rosala [Applause] all right [Applause] straight fees roman garcia [Applause] olivia ross [Applause] okay is okay so at this time we're going to give you a few minutes for you to take pictures with your children and then our six years will get back to class and can pretend as i look at our sixth graders and look at our parents i really want to thank you for being here for the students we had preschool promotion yesterday and to see the kids happy smiling so excited and parents taking pictures and so excited our goal is to continue that spark and motivation in our students um through all of their k-8 experience so we know medical middle school gets tough and sometimes it's very hard to motivate middle school students but i know that we have great teachers behind the students and great parents like you so boys and girls when we stay listen to your parents and listen to your teachers and through what's expected of you think back to when you were promoted in preschool and kindergarten and you'll have two wonderful years to come to you graduate from eighth grade but i want to see more honor roll students more perfect attendance next year out of these seventh graders okay because i know you're a smart group so again thank you and parents you can come take pictures and have a great rest of your afternoon thank you good job yeah that would be amazing [Music] oh [Applause] is [Applause] thank you for coming and joining us have a good weekend thank you sixth graders [Applause] something wow [Music] oh [Music] 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your parents and family members a great big round of applause for all of their hard work this year there are great teachers if you could please come on down and we'll get started and parents i just want to thank you so much we know that it's been a difficult rough year but we survived and we survived it together um thank you for your patience your support your willingness to wade in the lawn drop off and pick up lines dealing with transportation and just being the support that we needed you to be so we really appreciate you because we couldn't have done it without the help of our students our staff and most importantly our parents who trust us every day with your babies because we really do take our job serious so thank you thank you very very much [Applause] and i just want a special acknowledgement to mrs house and to ms flowers because as you know miss montoya went out on maternity leave and we were gonna have a substitute for her for the fourth quarter and these amazing ladies did not want that and they wanted to keep their classes rather than have another transition so i just really want to thank you for all your hard work [Applause] i will grab the certificate mrs cuevas will help us get them in line and if you'd like to say anything special about them [Applause] [Music] this was a challenging year and just was really important and we made it better and we've learned so many skills and i couldn't be happier to be here [Applause] um [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and we did a great job so the ones that actually passed it all the way through um [Applause] okay so this was really difficult finding the time safe and responsible and then our whole to the year because they're all wonderful students and they're all wonderful so my time of the year goes to damien [Applause] my responsible pull goes to eden and responsible goes to jose so again i just want to say that it is very difficult to pick rewards when every single student comes with different personalities and different skills and strategies and they're all lovely students but i do have one hole to the air who is a fabulous person inside and out and this is [Applause] one of the biggest things that we do in third grade for math is mastering our multiplication facts and we even went to the sentence to have support graders give the third graders a little bit of information as what to expect when you are in fourth grade and one of the things that really stood out was the better you know your multiplication facts the easier each skill that they teach becomes so um we work very hard on mastering our multiplication fast through using flash cards just mental strategies we encourage kids to have multiplication facts just get into them with maybe you're cooking dinner or on your way home just five minutes here and there we've done some dice activities so this is something that students have worked very hard on we did back tests anywhere between three to five days of a school week and um i think i got it all so i have some recipients for this master's twelve three times for each fact so zeros three times ones twos all the way through twelve this does not mean that they don't need to practice this summer so they need to continue up with these facts so caden congratulations [Applause] connor is troy william preston's not here today but preston would love this award he was one of our hardest working multiplication facts so congratulations [Applause] they still did a fabulous job so all the students that are continuing to sit down even though maybe they didn't master all the way zero through twelve they put their buns off this year okay let's give it up for our [Applause] boys and calls stay standing just for a second we have our top third grade ixl users and parents as you know isl is a program that will play students accordingly it's a diagnostic assessment that will place them where they are at their level it is helpful to close the achievement gap to catch students up and also to accelerate their learning if they're ready so we really want to encourage students and parents to continue using isl we do have it till july 1st so this summer if you want your kids to do a little bit more work so they won't forget their multiplication facts you can get them on ixl through june and then we'll roll over for the new year our excel top bike cell users for third grade natalie barbosa maina esri [Applause] let's [Applause] okay and now what we're going to do is have you boys and girls go ahead and have a speed we're going to call out our honor roll and my honorable students ah [Applause] is [Applause] madison [Applause] all 80s [Applause] now [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] kindly [Applause] [Music] [Applause] are there any parents who are here because students are not hitting call [Music] all right and with this number of honorable students high honorable honorable and the great work that you've done boys and girls we are really looking forward to tonight the ac m2 results come in for third grade so we are super excited to see um [Applause] take pictures of your children you can move them to different sizes and gym for individual pictures and again thank you so very much for all of your work this year we appreciate you

[Music] but i clicked on [Music] is there but if you refresh the page then it's going to show that okay um looks like we are almost ready so we can have our second grade teachers please come on up or come on down [Applause] grade has always been near and dear to my heart because i spent a lot of my teaching years teaching second and third grade and they are like definitely the best years again we'd like to welcome you to our awards assembly it's our first assembly and our last assembly of the whole entire year because we know it's been a crazy year but you know what ones and girls and you did it and parents you did it too and grandparents feel thea's [Music] parents that are here so boys and girls help me give your parents and all of the people that are here to support you a great big round of [Applause] applause i want to thank you too i'm mrs and it's really great to see all of our parents we miss you this school year we want to thank you for all of your support for all of your feedback and for being teaching you having to teach all last quarter a year ago and to start this school year assisting our teachers with getting everything that the kids needed to learn we really want to thank you and tell you how much we appreciate you and how grateful we are for all of you and so students let's give your parents a round of applause hard work this school year we want to thank you for numbness miss marski and mrs for all of your hard work very well so we're going to go ahead and get started we also just want to say that we there's a chance that if we don't have your child certificate you please the teacher will probably tell us and we'll also let us know because we want to make sure everybody's recognized and if jenna is right at the computer already in case there was any mistakes with our certificate so thank you [Music] good morning well first of all i want to say that it was super hard to pick only four students for gold at the moment because we usually have this assembly once a month so you get to recognize a lot more students that this school year but it's been different that way too so i want to congratulate um our responsible cole this student brought homework every single day and she was always ready always prepared with all of her material so congratulations to liliana gomez okay even though the students this student came late in the school year he is super kind always a good friend so give it up for owen [Applause] this is our safe hole always making sure everyone is safe in the classroom and out in the playground congratulations to joseph johnson and last but not least we have our cult of the year for being kind safe and responsible throughout the school year congratulations zoey don't breathe [Applause] good morning i'm miss varsky and i'm going to get started with our responsible color of the year this person has been responsible in every single way possible he comes in every single morning ready to learn always turns in his homework does a fantastic job moving a good example for everyone in class and our responsible quarter that colt will be here for miss marcie's class is lincoln osterley [Music] okay next we have our same goal of the year even though she joined our class towards the middle of our school year she has been a phenomenal student she's gone above and beyond to make sure that everyone is taken care of and is doing things in the correct manner so that we stay our status and that is renata our next student is our kind student of the month our kind soon in the month started the year off very shy and quiet and she's kind of grown into this awesome little stupid she's just done a phenomenal job and she makes sure to include everyone in class she does a really great job of working really hard and being here very kind so glenn stevens come on down and then our class is cult of the year for being kind safe and responsible since day one she has walked into our classroom it's her very first year at continental elementary and she owned it she walked into our classroom followed follow both directions was a fantastic friend always was a helping hand miley [Applause] playlist over [Music] [Applause] next i have kind cult of the year and i have chosen this student because she is mia okay um another kind i could choose um they're tied amelia grassland come down and then for i have a safe cult of the year eva and last but not least i have cult of the year for being kind safe and responsible all three can always count on her to be a prime example cult eva young okay let's give it up for our second grade teachers and our amazing folks [Applause] just sit on that first bench we are going to announce our perfect attendance a perfect attendance super super super hard to have perfect attendance this year and the only second grader with perfect attendance was owen mcginnis oh man great job owen you can stay standing here okay also for i excel parents you know that i excel is a diagnostic program that will level students and help close the achievement gap and also provide additional work at a higher level when students are ready so we really want our students on ixl they've done a great job we will have access to ixl through june so it will end on july 1st so if you want to get your kids on excel in the summer if they're bugging you and you want to say get on itself for routine minutes that would be a good thing right and girls yes okay so our top second grade ixl users ava salisbury dylan haters joseph dixon and swayze palmer and our perfect attendance okay next up we're going to be doing honor roll honorable is for our students who have received aids and cookies during court jared barretta [Applause] ryden joy hadley cornelius [Applause] [Music] [Applause] name eli kill it [Applause] katherine hernandez marissa joseph johnston kayla lorenzo alessandra rosetto [Applause] [Music] writing more [Music] [Applause] ben willard and elianaro romeo and jenny valenzuela all right so let's give a big round of [Applause] applause good job you can go back to your seat [Music] [Applause] claire curtis joseph dixon [Music] [Applause] fernando [Applause] donovan parkey jordy jones [Applause] [Music] [Applause] random [Music] [Applause] gwendolyn stephen andy julio arne webb eva young we're gonna take a picture of them and then we're gonna that's are there any parents who are here that your child did not get caught up okay so we need to make sure that we reconcile them let's give it up for our high honor rolls that's amazing second grade i can hardly wait to see your state testing sports next year as third graders you're awesome parents please feel free to come take pictures um the students you can move them out of the line and put them wherever you want so at this time you can take pictures thank you so much