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well so that didn't sync well um and so how do i deal with that um i got all my teachers um and i says this is why we are doing this so i presented data data it's very important i said this is where the kids are this is where we must bring the kids and obviously in holyoke that was a major goal for us um it was my challenge as a school principal in holyoke um and so we the teachers were compassionate about it and although it was not the best uh thing to do for their schedule at the end they line up with the mission they line up with the goals we did it i only had few that left but the rest day with me as strong soldiers and we rolled our sleeves and we made it happen if you look at the statistics that is open um information public information you will see that we started very low back in 2006 but now 2020 you will see the students that they um went way beyond the sister schools in holyoke and they very close our state targets and that was the work and the decision that we made because we knew that our students needed that um and it took this group of professionals to you know breathe very hard and accept the decision walk the path with me and we're very proud of what we have now in 2021 congratulations on that at this point i'd like to stop and offer you an opportunity to get a drink of water because i know you've been speaking for about 25 minutes and you know it'll be good to just you know rehydrate thank you for doing that okay so the next question says please give us some examples of how you will connect with elementary age children at fort river to develop meaningful relationships with all of our students please demonstrate your knowledge of engagement with this age group of students when responding and we'd like two to three examples if that's possible absolutely elementary level is one of my passions like i said i started with kindergarten and um when i'm stressed out about whatever is happening in the job you will find me in a kindergarten class um because that's where the energy comes from that's where the passion comes from i'd like for my children to see me i know if you come to my building everyone knows who dr pope is um and the love that i received from my student it's amazing because once more they know that i'm there for them but what do i do i go and do some reading for the students in the elementary level um i do different projects with them um which that could be uh different creative uh projects um teachers will invite me to um a specific uh unit that they will be teaching um i do clubs myself as a school principal with my elementary level students so they know that the principal can do things with them that they will be you know one day they will be the principal at the school and i want them to have that vision um i talked to them about college kindergarten in our school are talking about what college they want to attend um so it's it's a bunch of things um that i do um whether that is going to paint with them whether that is reading for them whether that is teaching them a lesson in spanish one day um so they know the value of having two languages um or you know anything that the teacher um says dr paul can you come to our classroom to do this today um i dressed like a character um in in go to classrooms um we do characters uh day in our school and everybody comes dressed like whoever their favorite character is um i do different events to create the love for learning um and for the kids to feel at ease to feel that you know the principal is someone that they can come to as well there is uh no fear to come and share their feelings with dr pope so i hope that that answers your question thank you can you give us specific examples of action steps you have taken to implement restorative practices in your previous roles and if you don't have experience doing that how would you implement restorative practices at fort river absolutely so in our school we are like i said k to eight um and we do a lot of um restorative practices um with our students obviously in my current position i have a team of four different counselors in our school um which one of my counselors do the main work with it um but we do a little bit of pbis um other restorative practices or a lot of mediation um in our school what really has helped is to be able to do mediation um we do a a circle and we talk about what happened and what we could have done differently what went so bad that it got to the level that we are now meeting um and so the students get to talk about their feelings um and then construct a plan themselves on how we are going to be moving forward um for me it's very powerful that they have a full control of it because if they have the buy-in is going to happen um as the adult telling the students you're going to be doing this this and this and that and making a list for them that's not going to work but them doing their own work and committing to each other and by the end of the mediation meetings being able to look at each other's eye that's what it's powerful to do so we do a lot of the circles we do a lot of the mediations we do a lot of self-reflection sometimes before you get into the circle you have to do that self-reflection sometimes the kids are very upset and it is not productive to put them in the face of the other student so you have to do that work first and then you move through the scale um to be able there's different steps um and so kids have been very successful um i think that the grade that i work the most is the five and six um these are the stages with this hormonal uh changes are happening and so one day they want to be old in another day they want to be little um and so you have to work with that roller coaster and and make sure that they understand is normal but how we deal with our emotions is very important and how we treat one another is very important one of the elements where i get more involved is when there is some sort of uh racial comments and or someone has been offended um due to their cultural values or or whatever case might be so that's when dr paul comes in into that conversation because then we need to do more intense work as to learning about the differences between one another the values um and the importance of respecting one another and sometimes i have told the kids we might not be friends we don't have to all be friends but we must respect each other because that's the school culture that we have here and dr pope is not going to allow anyone to disrespect one another and that's very clear and um it's written in stone in every wall that we do i have a very visual building in regards to our diversity and we in regards to our inclusion um and you know that diversity it's it's it's about culture it's about uh racial it's about religion it's about equality it's about gender is is is about many things and so we teach our kids about that um so they all know that it's very important to respect one another thank you the next question is also one that you have heard in your interview and it says at fort river three district-wide programs caminantes are you a language spanish english program aims a specialized program for students who have high functioning autism spectrum disorder building blocks a specialized therapeutic program for students with emotional disabilities who need specific social emotional and behavior supports could you please discuss your experience with each of these populations and your experience working with specialized program students absolutely so as i mentioned in the uh previous interview i have a school where i'm actually teaching spanish from kindergarten all the way to eighth grade i am a firm believer of language um i believe that if we start them early they will develop a second language which is very important nowadays um i gave the example that my eighth graders for example leave our building to go on to high school and they take the 12th grade exam and they pass that exam and they don't have to sit down for the language requirement they get the grade that's a very big plus for our students because they're not that time they have used to take classes in the community colleges which accelerates them when they go on to college as well um i took the time to look at the work that uh dr morris put together when he was looking at areas of work in the amherst schools and he identified the socio-economical balance the specialized special ed programs improvements what could we better do to continue to help the students and the families um he looked at declining enrollment um which i saw that four river was one of the schools that got the hit um with 279 um students difference and between the enrollment between one school and the other um the preschool access for family that is very important and then the dual language um and how he feel that the do let dual language uh can be very beneficial to our communities obviously the amherst community has changed across the years i have been here for 36 years now i have been a resident of amherst for that many years but i decided to i go to holyoke where i felt that i was needed but it's very exciting to see that this dual language is going to fall river um that we are looking into expanding this and to be able to help the students with those two languages spanish and in english so i'm very excited to see that um i have to say that i just went through an audit for my elo program and um it was a very good audit we had one finding and that was that we needed to tweak our curriculum um to match a little bit more the standards um and because i have a limitation with our service curriculum i had to negotiate that um we got the um the condition in march of 2020 before we close with this pandemic that was so crazy and by may of this year the condition was completely removed um and so we had a perfect audit in the ell department and to you know um give kudos to my team um now we have been asked to uh do workshops for the department of ed and put our best practices out there so ell dual language is a it is a passion of mine and i know that if chosen i will roll my sleeve and make sure that things are going well in that area we also had aims and building blocks aims for mathematics correct oh you mute it we have aims um which is the specialized program for students who have high functioning autism spectrum disorder i see a special ed component special ed is another area that i am very strong and um very compassionate about like i said before i have never had an advocate in my school um because i am the advocate for the parents um so once more if i get to know the kid and uh their needs um i know what i'm looking for on my special ed meetings and um what my parents might be looking for and be the voice for the parents um and coming to the table to discuss uh what can be provided and what will be um the best um uh placement for uh the student um and so you know i have gone from you know high needs uh students to moderate to full inclusion to partial inclusion um and um being able to work with each one of the areas of autism communication developmental delays which i i do work a great deal with developmental delays um social emotional like we have been discussing um health intellectual needs neurological issues um and those are the areas that i had attacked within our special education program um in there and that is public uh information as well we did have an impeccable audit in our school and the survey from the parents um to the department of ed that is something that we need to do on a on a yearly basis have been positive um because again i feel that um if the parents don't feel that that something has been done for the betterment of the child then i didn't do my job and i take that personally i want to make sure that parents understand these issues that parents would be able to share with me what they looking and how we can get there together um and or how you know where we can find the services thank you so another one that you should be familiar with is coming this is the dual language program at fort river you touched on this uh how will you support the mission staff families and curriculum of this program and serve as an ambassador in the larger community i think i will be a very passionate ambassador for the program as i mentioned before i'm a firm believer of it um you have two of my staff members already in the program who left the school and when they heard that amherst is doing this um and they can attest to the kind of work that i do around uh dual language um once more i will roll my sleeve see what has been done uh what is working well um what can we how can we move it forward um i'm not the type of person that becomes complacent even if things are working i always like to look for another goal and um see what else can we do to strive how are we going to show the world that amherst district has the best dual language in the in the state of massachusetts or even further than that thank you so what thoughts or ideas do you have for bringing a sense of joy compassion love and unity into fort river at the student level the staff level and for the whole school that's nothing but my own professional philosophy where i describe that powerful triangle when i will always keep that child on the top and that base is held by parents and school we must be a team we must be a family we must believe in our values and we must believe in what we do we must resolve any differences as they arise we must work on anything that we feel that is not working um because once more if and i give i work with the kids first if my kids are happy i'm going to have happy parents because every parents love to see their child succeed and happy to come to school every day and then my teachers are part of that equation um i always again i'm always walking around the school to ensure where can i best support you what can i do for you next um what is your best practice how can we place your best practices for others um it is us sharing all the time it is never um you know miss smith is doing a better job than ms hopkins over here it is oh this really worked for mrs miss what about if we implement some of this in your class as well how would you see that um it's always collaborative um and making sure that at the end of the day we have one mission just one and that is to ensure that our students are successful that's the key element for me because if that happens my other constituents will be happy as well thank you so here's a different kind of question it says what is something you have done that you are especially proud of and it does not have to be work related miss cunningham everything that i know it's um it's work um i really believe um in rolling my sleeves and and doing everything within my power never becoming complacent and i value family and um if i value family i want to bring that spirit with me and i make my teachers the feel that powerful feeling of being a family and um and i do it with my students um and my parents and so in reality it's it's me with my family it's me with my school family okay so you've answered the questions that were sent in and the questions that i had added but this is one that um i thought about as as i'm listening to you talk right about who you are and everything that makes you you and from the heart i want to know why should we hire you to be the next principal i think i should be hired because i bring passion i bring commitment i bring dedication my my material sense to the district shows that i am one that spends at least 10 years um with the institution that i come into uh to work for i want to leave a legacy i want to leave something concrete i want to leave something that someone can pick up and continue to go um and not be afraid that something is going to collapse i like to build things that are strong and you know everyone who knows me they always says that my passion is contagious and so that's what i bring the most i bring the love for education um my children are everything for me um i i love children i i love to see them learning um and so again it's a passion um it's something that i i will never see myself stop doing um i don't even see myself retiring because i see i i'm not going to know what i'm going to be doing with myself if i'm not in a classroom if i'm not in a school um so that's what i bring i i bring commitment i bring loyalty i bring dedication and i bring this major passion for kids and thank you for that answer and i would normally ask you is there anything else that you'd like the audience to know we have about people viewing this and others can go back and watch it later but is there anything you'd like them to know outside of the questions that i've asked already no i want to thank everyone for watching those who are with us um i want to thank the publicly the committee for the wonderful job that they did in interviewing i feel the questions uh were a reflection of what amherst is um and want to be um so again i am a resident of amherst um i think is my turn to bring the passion to our schools here and i'm ready to do so um and uh um you know please know that i am committed in that uh i'm a hard-working person well thank you for joining us today dr pope to talk about your experiences and what makes you you and why that's going to be a tremendous asset to the fort river family and community so we thank all who are watching tonight also and we will continue with the um the forums tomorrow and everyone you take care and dr pope you can hold on as i end the broadcast sure

that was our second meeting anyone move that for me so moved thank you lily and do i have a second i'll second thank you mr tebow um is there any discussion i should have asked that last time sorry if there's any discussion we can go back to that but is there any discussion on the minutes all right hearing done we will roll call these minutes as well mr tebow yes uh ms bloom yes miss chamberlain yes uh miss masari yes uh miss pamphile yes um [Music] miss scott yes and i will also vote yes did i get everyone i didn't miss anyone okay so that's the first item uh of business off our agenda the second item on our agenda for business today we discussed at our last meeting um that we would have people give us presentations to i think as miss chamberlain made the suggestion um to sort of educate us a little bit about um issues around native mascots so we have joining us today mr kempton campbell who i believe kept in your graduate of the dartmouth schools um he now attends uconn and he is also chair of the youth commission um kempton has been doing some research um around this issue um as part of his work at uconn and he's going to talk to us a little bit about um the history of mascots here in dartmouth he's done some good research on that and some of the arguments around that we're also joined with by dr laurel davis delano who is at springfield college um and who does research on the uh psychological effects of um and native american mascots um so she's going to talk to us a little bit about that i've asked them to give to do you know try around 10 maybe 15 minutes presentation and then we will have time to ask them questions and so i believe um kempton you are going to go first yes um so i will hand it over to you and i think um jonathan has enabled you to share your screen with us all right oh it says he has disabled participant screen sharing all right so we'll have to hold on we'll work on that for a sec jonathan are you still there yes i am uh you should be able to do it now thank you very much all right are you able to see my screen now yes perfect um so as dr jenkins said my name is captain campbell i am a town meeting member i am the chair of the dartmouth youth commission and i'm a graduate of dartmouth high school i graduated in 2019 um so now i am actually a student at the university of connecticut where i am a double major in political science and human rights um before i continue i do want to reiterate that i am here as a student of uconn and an alumni and not as the chair of the youth commission um so the opinions that i give here tonight are no way indicative of the opinions of the youth commission with that being said i'm here because over the spring semester of 2021 i participated in an independent study at the university of connecticut with the director of dodd-impact which is a leading center for human rights not only in the united states but also throughout the world it's actually dedicated to thomas j dodd who was one of the leading prosecutors at the nuremberg trials but he was also later the senator from connecticut um so with that i studied uh the history of native american mascots the psychological effects behind them as well as some of the arguments used in opposition to retiring native uh mascots and so tonight i'm going to be going over some of the history that i've found as well as the arguments that i've read extensively about throughout the semester and i wanted to sort of leave the psychological effects or impacts of native american mascots to dr davis delano um i think it's she's more qualified to speak on that matter so with that being said we'll jump right into my presentation so throughout the course of my study i focused specifically on looking at historical yearbooks from dartmouth high school's past specifically looking at them at the southworth library they have a great collection um that spans from 1922 all the way up until 2004.

yes so with that discussion of having a facebook post for the board we can't do that because of what uh you mean you mean the board putting a facebook page yeah no they recommend that everything is done through the district because once again we are a board so we are not we we are not to respond as individuals we're supposed to respond as as a unified thing in we can have discussions and obviously when we're sitting here on the day we can have a discussion it needs to be done in public um and then uh if something were voted on then it would just be it would winds up on the district website anyway so that's really the only information we're allowed to give up is anything that has been moved in public we're not allowed to like discuss things that are you know put out agendas these are the things we are discussing but those discussions are are private until we move something in the form of a motion and then isn't it also an issue if there's too many people commenting on a situation yeah as board members we can't like if we were on a site together and we were all there and people started we were all part um just wanted to say that uh attended the senior awards messi and um very nice job uh mr smith and um i was just it was so nice to see mr cruzel had a my daughter won it which i was very excited but but i was so excited for him to be honored in that way and and for my daughter to be the first recipient because dave and i both had him in high school and we are so it was very nice and his daughter was very kind and all the seniors did a great job yeah i had a question it was a couple months ago i think we had um it was brought up about the stipend changing for the the robotics yeah that makes sense [Applause] um um 569 marion street i'm gonna i i'm gonna say i want to she said i won't start but i want to start by saying thank you to the board of education teachers and staff for making it possible for my children to attend school in person this past year i can't tell you how important it was my family appreciates your sacrifice question number one will the kids be wearing masks in september i realize it may be too soon but i have the faith that you will make the right decision for the kids question number two is bound brook school district does thembrook school district have any intention of implementing the theory of critical rate and if so will there be an option to opt out um sitter and we have since since we have lost so much time in the past 15 months i find it imperative to focus on our children's education i believe there should be an option and i support all of those who would like to take advantage of it i also support those who do not i appreciate in advance the time it will take considering this matter best regards christine vader well again i think we've discussed the mastermind so i think that we've advanced that uh when it comes to the critical race theory um right now unless there's some mandate from the state of new jersey for us to teach any of that that is not part of our curriculum the second comment is from amanda rosario cologne i was a previous student of bound brook and i wanted to briefly say that although i was a difficult student dr gallagher has always been nice to me he was always fair and i never felt like he looked down on me for getting into trouble that i was in at the time i will always be thankful for his kindness and i'm sorry mike that was a 3 24 evergreen address [Music] hi my name is emory gianatta with a 151 west high street um at the beginning of the middle the meeting mr faria you said about using school boards to find a replacement are there any other options you are the boarders considering or looking into or is that the only one like i said uh we had talked about other options and we felt that going with the school board which was the uh most fiscally responsible and how do you check like yes we've talked to other places okay and also do you think that dr gallagher making the phone call is the best option keyboard well yeah because he's all he's going to do is just inform them that we need to start the process and then the rest of it will go from it okay thank you just one question it also requires okay thank you [Music] so good evening just evening josephine leyte 121 cherry up i would like to start by reading two statements made by former staff members regarding our ongoing problem with the superintendent since the attorney made a clear last meeting that we need to have these documented we're putting these statements together and i will be emailing them directly to you as well these meetings are also recorded therefore that alone is a way of these allegations being documented first statement dear board of education members some of you may know me and some of you may not my name is lauren atlas i am a former bound brook high school physical education and driver education teacher i taught in the district for five years at the end of last school year i moved across the country i can honestly honestly say that even if i had not moved i would have left the district even if i was unable to find a different district after my last year teaching in boundbroke i decided to leave teaching after 14 years foundbrook specifically the board and upper administration has ruined and broken me last year i had a student possibly more than one make memes about me the student took my professional coaching picture and put it on a knee that attacked my sexuality not only was my sexuality attacked but i was slandered and liable as well the principal and superintendent were notified about the needs the student admitted to it and was suspended after finding out that the student would be suspended from wrestling in states the parents of that student went to the board members to fight it while i was told by the superintendent that he believed another student made it there was no investigation while this student was suspended students would harass me by chanting at me every time they saw me this came without any penalties they were athletes without holding a board meet and work for him the board overturned the suspension just in time for the students to be allowed to wrestle in states at the time i was coaching a division one catholic school and was made and was unable to fight what was happening for fear of the getting to the press and being let go just because of the slander i ended up in therapy due to the anxiety that i felt walking into that building every single day i spoke to the superintendent about a medical leave of absence due to this and was told that if i did that it would be unpaid i couldn't afford to not work so i continued to go to work and then cry in my office where the counselor's office found in guidance i even hired a lawyer but couldn't do anything because of my coaching position i went to the board meeting and sat and listened i listened to the board president state that they overturned the suspension because they were told to do so by the superintendent the superintendent and the board let me down they allowed me to be attacked they never protected me i was nervous about even writing this letter because i was scared that i be retaliated against i live across the country and i'm still scared my fiance was worried about me writing this letter because she has seen me break down numerous times i tried to apply for a teaching job and had an anxiety attack due to this district something needs to change i shouldn't be scared of retaliation i shouldn't get anxiety attacks for a job that i love and wanted to do for the rest of my life i substituted a couple of times this year and cried before going in this is not healthy i wrote this letter because i do not want others to go through what i went through this is a culture problem that starts at the top and feeds it to the board the classrooms and some of the athletic teams i hope you listen and really take a good hard look at yourselves and everything that is going on you might not care that you allow my career and passion to be taken away from me but maybe you will stop someone else's passion and career from being taken away from them alice [Music] the next statement was read by marilyn orwella back in 2019 it references the climate created by dr gallagher and at the time the board also chose to ignore her concerns good evening my name is marilyn orwella and i'm a first year school social worker i am placed in community middle school as the case manager for all students under special education in addition to some sixth grade students at somali elementary school i am also a member of the child study team at the high school as a bilingual social worker in addition i conduct risk assessments with guidance department throughout district provide counseling and assistant translation i would like to express my concerns from this district i officially resigned on april 24th and received a letter of non-renewal on april 26th when reviewing my observations and administrative feedback i was surprised i was placed on a non-renewal list i have never been reprimanded except for the verbal statement i received from dr gallagher on january 28 2019 where he instructed me to not abide by individualized educational programs by refusing to see students for counseling given that this is a violation of the state document and violations of my code of ethics as a licensed social worker i do not consider this a reprimand but rather a disagreement between administration and the duties i was hired to fulfill dr gallagher will call this meeting with a special education teacher building administrators behavior specialist school social worker and the director of special services i would like to add that in this meeting i was not only yelled back but i was also told to leave the meeting without explaining my side of the story today i would like to clarify that i told this special education teacher to release an illegal hold he had on a student with medical and learning disability who was placed in prone position this is an example of what i have done to avoid legal implications that could affect i am concerned for the students i am leaving behind but i was also concerned about losing my license i am certified and licensed by the state of new jersey i have worked diligently and demonstrated professional law knowledge in this field the reason i stand here today is so that the board of education is made aware of their turnover rate and special services i cannot speak for those before me but i was instructed to not follow individualized educational programs for students in behavioral disabilities classroom i am leaving because i refused to follow a directory that would put me out of compliance with these ieds this district like any should follow these programs to ensure that students are educated appropriately there are other statements that we will be sharing from this point forward as well now for the two emails i sent you all to which the response was the proper place for all discussions must be in a public forum and not through emails and or social media first i'd like to remind you that social media is a public forum and the community is entitled to share their concerns opinions and stories as they seem fit there's nothing wrong with informing others of what is happening in our schools especially if it's concerning our children and community my first email given that the common procedure regarding medical needs for any boundary district employees to remain on leave without working or coming into their place of work i would like to ask you in particular the board president how is it that dr gallagher is permitted to continue working while on his medical leave is this medical leave paid there have been teachers on leave without pay so i was wondering if it's a case to face faces how is that defined how is it decided for him to be on this lead the board had to approve it correct yet he has not only been physically present at his workplace but also putting together an extensive list of accomplishments in form of a six-page pdf that was sent out to parents i'm curious how these double standards are followed are allowed do as i say but not as i do hopefully this email is received since i had to guess everyone's email they're not on the website organization and transparency come from the top my second email was at the last board of education meeting the attorney president said needed to have dr gallagher's wrongdoings documented the meetings are recorded in broadcast on youtube does this not count as being documented teachers staff students and parents have been a board of education meetings in different instances speaking up about concerns related to the superintendent's behavior outburst bullying and overall for a workplace environment how many documented events need to come forward until there is an investigation in place why hasn't the board placed dr gallagher on leave until these allegations are looked into is there a magic number we're waiting on or are we waiting for an uproar from the community the clock is ticking lastly at one of the previous board of education meetings the community was told that the new superintendent is the one that plays with dr gallagher in a different position within the district is the new superintendent obligated to ask the board for advice on this issue if so what card is the board playing against the community or making dr gallagher excommunicado these are serious questions and concerns and hopefully the board sees the urgency in the matter the community is watching and waiting for a timely reply silence in the face of the injustice is complicity with the oppressor thank you would you like to address the questions the legal questions so with respect to uh personnel matters involving needs of access dr gallagher is a personnel person as well so we can't go into details i can tell you generally there are different types of needs of that that exist every small staff member under title 18a education statutes has sickening which they're entitled to use for personal illness and there's a third one i believe related to foreign leave of absence that a staff member would be able to use and it essentially protects them if that's what they're using uh to from retaliation and to protect their salary while they're absent as a result of death nothing nothing in the law would prohibit them from working while sick they wouldn't be getting compensated twice for that they'd be using their sick time but if for example you know a staff member has a broken leg and is physically unable to come to work for whatever reason um they still might be able to do some work remotely whether a teacher or whatnot there's other types of medical needs that are available under federal and state laws things like the family medical feedback you may be familiar with again addressing you know illnesses of an individual there's family need for situations involving pregnancy and whatnot that also are generally unpaid um same thing applies though you know just because your models need with no strict prohibition that will prohibit you from uh you know being able to possibly do some work here and there can i ask you a question regarding that sorry to interrupt you um but since you did bring up the pregnancy so if the teacher had a child and would like to come in to their workplace and you know kind of share the good news if they have their child and show their child to their colleagues can they do that it would be a case-by-case basis and then there's other concerns in terms of liability you know coming under the president you're currently considered to be disabled so uh like what do you mean on the circumstances because typically if i had a child i want to come into school and show my child to my friend colleagues what kind of circumstances again hypothetically i can't have their oh i'm just asking because this has happened in this district and they couldn't come in i don't know if there's anything that would entitle them to come in again if it's something a policy decision that might be made okay the statements that you've read from other staff members from the perspective of me and i haven't been before previously so i don't know i guess there's always different i'm assuming you're the lawyer all these different lawyers here so i guess i do have to keep [Music] to address interest there's a pure out of state excuse me they're out of state well that's exactly right these are things that you're talking about that happened a year plus ago the recourse for that individual would have been to file the commission of education i believe you referenced that there was some reference to them retaining counsel and obviously nothing came from that but uh certainly my advice to the board would be not to respond to anything along those lines where there's the threat but again if there's a specific issue that you think your child is bullying if you think that you've been bullied or anyone who's president thinks that they've been bullied the proper recourse would be to bring that to attention as it occurs so that it can be addressed but it has in the past there have been people that have suffered and have come up and i'm talking about this again i'm not sure why but there's been no there's been nothing in writing in formal complaints that's what about people standing up here the actual victims they've been here they would have to do it in writing okay so we have them in writing affidavits signed right okay no i'm not saying that this is i'm not saying that this is what i'm just saying that that's that's we can't act until those things are in place okay so once you have received those affidavits are you going to investigate how many do you need everyone that would come in is long enough would happen you can't just we're getting that into the mud where this is not a we've heard you we've given the answer and so now it's happening nothing is happening we're not getting answers from you guys i'm sorry we cannot speak about personnel i understand [Music] yes we have a human resources person so anyone if someone wants to go and it can't be you because you're not a teacher and you don't work in this district but if anyone in this district wants to uh lodge a complaint they would have to bring it to human resources and then through the human resources they would have to then you know uh substantially investigate okay before that it can't come to the board before that we can't that's fine but not so now today it's hr right so today it's we're we have to get them through hr they have to submit it through hr so is that the final yep yes okay the board president okay so i can send it i can email you the person can email it to you and then it goes through hr that is correct okay and are they going to have some type of confirmation that is received by hr i don't have it because how do we know that these things are actually getting there sorry taran you can then just email them that it's been received [Music] just that they've received i will inform her to just let you know whoever the person is that i'm not sure if this is your first time listening about this but um these teachers are scared of retaliation that's why they've reached out to the community because the superintendent has been famous for calling their jobs where they are right now and making certain you know comments about them so this is why the community is involved and i think we can do that last time okay there we go that's why between the staff member and the district uh again you know hearsay statements from from from staff members from long ago the board is in no position to respond to those so i i understand you've said your piece i don't know what you're looking for [Music] okay well this is the first time we're hearing that they have supposed to through hr that is not true not a problem though heard we've heard you loud and clear because last time we heard it it had to be documented it's documented it's going to go through hr hopefully then we can have an investigation in place because i'm not going to allow my children to be in a school district where there's minimum respect and where there's bullying in place coming from leaders all right thank you no no no is there anyone else that just make sure you sign the book as well okay is this in the right spot yep yeah you're good just saying statement my name is anne-marie wilford i first want to say i'm very sorry about the experience that was just stated um however uh i don't know the specifics of that and i can totally say that my experience and that of many others has been completely different because i feel compelled to share my thoughts disappointment and concern regarding the current situation over the years groundwork has become my home my colleagues have become my family it's sadness in english meaning that those family members have come under attack by a very small very local group listening to social concerns of this very small book not once have i heard a dispute to dr gallagher's accomplishments as well as the administrative team he has put together the reason it's pretty hard to dispute increasing success professional development opportunities that were non-existent prior to his leadership facilities that give students and staff the space and tools he needed and provided by students that again didn't exist prior to his leadership most of all and i have to wonder if this may be a problem there is accountability now among the administration and staff i will tell you again prior to dr gallagher's leadership there are many administrators as well as staff in the members company days until their retirement and boosting their salaries so that their retirement pays out smacks that's it and we're concerned for students with concern for success and no concern for achievement dr gallagher would change that and while he may have held his staff more accountable than they had ever been before he offered them the tools and professional development they needed to succeed they had more support now than they ever would have under the previous administration i could go online regarding positive impact that has happened on all of the students in this district but you already know that because dr gallagher has met and exceeded all of the goals you have set for him so since the very small angry birds can't dispute success they resort to personal interest my personal opinion which state my opinion is that this group has an agenda and a personal vendetta against dr gallagher i've watched this group over the past several board meetings the request that you keep saying the board to post updates on social media which is illegal such as wanting the board to post updates uh removing dr gallagher on their baseless allegations of hearsay from other former teachers suggesting this all shows me that this group is ill-informed and ignorant of school governments and law they by no way shape or form represent the majority of parents and students in this district 10 people with signs outside of the board meeting do not represent the constituents you no one was bickering when the person before was so let's let her speak and let her ever say you can laugh wherever thank you i'm sorry my hope is that you can somehow work something out with dr gallagher's contract my fear is that you can't it will be extremely difficult to bring his district back any candidate for replacement will undoubtedly see this group in his antics who in their right mind would pursue a position where they could not make decisions that might go against this group without having any reputations destroyed will i applaud your desire to include the community in your decision i implore you to revisit the extent of the inclusion it is imperative to have community input into the direction they would like to see but to have the community involved in the selection and interview process is a disaster waiting to happen how many of you and how many people in this room have gotten to take the wrong boss as i accept you before i know what it's like to be sitting in the stairs it's not easy and it's even harder i urge you to stand up for the districts for this students and i urge you to work with us thank you so much [Music] is outlined yes abstain yesterday

no one has yet answered my questions about critical race theory so let me pose one of them are curriculums being redesigned to introduce students to critical race theory if not now when how can we obtain a copy of each curriculum i'd like to remind you hank that while you said that there can be no interchange at these meetings under state law under the school code members of the public shall be afforded time to comment or ask questions of the board that means we can ask questions and we can obtain answers because we can't get these answers through foias and you have a responsibility to answer our questions all of them and so i would ask if this is not the forum that you'd like to answer the questions in please let me know i'm available to meet with you let me know in the next week or two at the latest how we can get all those answers to our questions when you were elected you took an oath solemnly swearing to discharge in your duties of office as school board members to do so in accordance with the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of illinois both require equal protection that is all persons all constituents all students must be treated equally under the law your actions as a school board member are supposed to comply with the u.s and illinois constitutions yet critical race theory may be okay with you we're concerned we don't have answers to our questions we hear silence the illinois board state board of education teachers unions and the state require district 99 to begin crt training beginning very soon as early as this fall and to be enforced by the year 2025 to divide students by the color of their skin treat them differently the oppressed and the oppressors guilty and enticing plan to use that innocent sounding word equity to justify blatant and unequal treatment of our kids equity is the opposite of equality miss hoist you're out of time and distribute them according to race shirelle seconds all of a sudden you have a duty to represent this community where 74 of the students are white we are and they don't need to come to school and feel guilty we are now in recess [Applause] oh geez again okay we're going to resume we're out of recess now to be clear the reception of visitors is for three minutes per statement for the record miss hoist your questions were answered and were asked and answered in writing we're going to ask people to remain calm we're interested in hearing your views but we are not going to entertain grandstanding nor are we going to continue to have shouting and carrying on if we anybody goes beyond three minutes again i will end the i will end the reception of visitors who would like to speak sorry oh i picked next pardon would it be possible to get like a 30-second warning or absolutely i'll wait thank you very much i'm not good at math hi my name is mario dowd i'm a resident crt may be okay with you the isbe teachers unions state required d99 to begin crt training beginning this fall enforced by to divide students by the color of their skin treat differently oppressors feel guilty or oppressed entitled plan to use that innocent sounding word equity to justify the blatant unequal treatment of our kids equity the opposite of equality is rejected by critical race theorists as supporting white supremacy end goal to suspend personal and private property rights seize land and wealth and redistribute along racial lines crt is racist it is discriminatory it is evil it is wrong it will damage our children we reject it you have a duty to represent this community 74 white students by standing up to those who are pushing crt and foster excellence knowledge citizenship and personal development for each and every one of our students regardless of skin color reject crt the imposition of ideas such as crt on k-12 students in the curricula must first be run through the democratic process with the elected school board an open public forum of discussions and debate on the content and merit of introducing crt must be allowed so the parents of district 99 students can approve its introduction into the curriculum thank you excuse me can i ask a clarifying question certainly three people have given me have have stated dates when this is going into effect what is your source for that since they're not aware of we're not aware of standards state mandate to implement critical race theory in our schools from any sometimes sometimes i think your partner sometimes it's not called crt but the um the basis there the the the system equity diverse diversity inclusion uh that type of language is is seeping in to many aspects of our students lives and their curricula so it um it might not be called crt but we feel strongly that it is present and a danger thank you for clarifying but what is the source for when all this is going into effect because i i have not seen anything you know i don't have my notes right now but and it may not be the exact date but certainly it's already gone through some part of legislation if someone or anybody in the audience that references this i am not at all aware of any law pending regarding critical race theory and i'd be interested in seeing that that source so please forward me that that source culturally responsible that that is not critical race theory ma'am that is culturally responsible teaching standards so if i okay enough no i i would just like i just invite anybody from the audience if critical race theory that is i've heard multiple times tonight that there are laws sitting to be passed please forward those to me so i can be aware of those because i'm not aware of any any law that's pending that would force the implementation of anything related to critical race theory for the beginning of this school year that's all i'm requesting okay just to quote an old dead white guy what's in a name but that's all right thank you come on hello everyone my name is reid hoyce i go to downers grove north i'm a senior and a small business owner i know it's not the subject of focus for tonight but i would like to comment on the face mask policies that are in place or will be in place without taking sides it seems that i'm being told by people much older than me in much worse physical condition than me and my peers that i should get a vaccine or wear a mask to protect myself more than 60 percent of illinoisians are already vaccinated uh there have been 314 cova deaths of people ages 0 to 17 in america most with underlying conditions source stat stuff this doesn't concern me personally a country a country that hasn't cared for our health in 300 years is telling us to be protected by a cloth mask we already go into grocery stores with my mass so why aren't we going into school without them finally i believe they strip away emotion i don't know who is who i don't even care to talk to people anymore and my peach fuzz itches um my friends and i and probably many others chose to go remote because we didn't want to be told to wear a mask and a and face shield and follow safety guidelines none of us care about we want to go to school and be told and not be told what to do stick to teaching not controlling as for crt i believe i have already been taught about race for 12 years every history and english class has a lesson about race in it at some point in fourth grade we were taught about slaves being whipped which is understandably a part of history which is understandably a part of history that will be taught but it seems teaching kids about race is pushed too early i'm not fully educated on everything crt contains however i think we should be taught any history or culture in a positive way not a negative or victimizing way i'm opposed to nses thank you for your time thank you next good evening as i spoke before my name is chick breiner i'm a resident of downers grove for a long time i'm opposed to teaching critical race theory art diversity equity training all the same thing it might have a variety of names but i'm opposed to it and i'm going to start with a maxim you've probably heard it two wrongs do not make a right did your mom tell you that ever moms say it often and moms are always right you cannot correct a past injustice with a new injustice we cannot teach our children that some people based on the color of their skin are oppressors or some are oppressed this will only divide this generation and create tension we need to be teaching unity and equality not equity dividing us into groups will end up destroying us crt is the new segregation it's the new jim crow i'll finish with this thought i have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character let's carry on with martin luther king's [Applause] idea hi my name is janet novotny i've been a resident since 1998 i've got two kids through the school now i got to try to get one more through and i've never came to one of these meetings before i do not like to public speak so i'm going to just get to the to the chase here i'm a parent i should be able to do let my parent decide if i my child needs a vaccination or does doesn't need a vaccination not the school district if this is a medical choice of freedom i don't believe the schools have a right to tell us what we can and can't do i don't believe that our kids should be having to wear masks all day it's there's so many results of why they should not be wearing masks again it's a guidance of the isbe i'm not for the crt or whatever the heck they keep talking about and i'm generation x i was just taught to love one another we didn't care about race and all this other crap so i don't understand why this is an issue like now i don't think my kids personally have just care about that kind of stuff and i know they don't i know i'm running over i'm running on um anyway so i just want to let you guys know i'm just a parent who is like really concerned about what's going on and whether i'm going to keep her in school to finish her three years or just based on what you guys are going to decide for her fate or if i'm going to have to pull her out because there's no way in hell i'm going to put her in through all the stuff that is being suggested right now thank you sir i think there was somebody else coming up for before you there was somebody behind the screen that was coming up a moment ago and then you'll be next thank you hello my name's christy i'm from downers grove i've lived here over 25 years and um school performance in illinois is based partly on absenteeism and surveys that ask students personal questions about drugs alcohol sex family political affiliation religion and family income rather than questions on merit and academic achievement why is the state requiring kids to answer these questions these children belong to their parents your kids belong to you not to the government your job is to provide a quality education to the kids in donors growth also there's theories going around that require teachers to teach our children that america is bad and divisively categorize children to make them feel guilty or privileged oppressed or entitled based solely on the color of their skin are you good with this are you good with this is it okay with you if not help us stop it opt out thank you sir you were next the gentleman in the thank you good evening uh thank you for your time my name is ed brainer i've been a resident of donors grove since 1952 gone through the entire educational system here and so of our children a little history uh critical race theory began as critical theory a school philosophy in frankfurt germany in the 20s and 30s the university of frankfurt institute of social research one of the first western marxist schools the school scholars fled germany to columbia university in new york city they were careful to erase marxism from their research so as not to attack attract attention in america crt is an activist ideology from the start it was an attack on western institutions and norms in order to tear them down in the 70s and 80s crt expanded on the theory that america is systemically oppressive and racist when followed to its conclusion crt is destructive it rejects the fundamental ideas of our constitution and our republic applying crt philosophy violates many american civil rights law treating people differently according to their race crt therefore should not be in american school rooms thank you good evening my name is cynthia hopkins i'm a resident of dallas grove township i may be out of the school district but i believe every child's education matters the latest push of critical race theory and the comprehensive sex ed curriculum unfortunately solidifies the future of our public schools under illinois democratic extremists vision it becomes a political indoctrination camp that favors a divisive left-wing ideology i speak up today because the public needs to understand the danger of these policies coming from china 20 years ago i can attest how policies like this can destroy many generations and eventually a nation see the most common the most important common denominator among all the extreme left-wing agendas is division divide americans by skin color by country of ancestry by gender and that list just goes on and on for those who don't know china's public policy aims to produce chronic hatred via division it is exactly why the authoritative authoritarian government presents no hope of democracy after four decades of reform so when the citizens are busy with fighting over the differences and cancelling over deferred views only the government wins america has sadly entered that state at least we don't have to conspire let the kids be kids they're all the same the modern day virtual segregation through critical race theory has no place in our classroom on the second end while we are debating whether our children need to know there are zealand positions of sexual intercourse our rivalry the chinese government mandates teaching of a real math the real math and science and life lessons of team work and disciplines in a system of academic meritocracy so imagine the generations of americans 20 years from now can they still complete can they still compete globally can they defend our country with valor and the strength will america still be the most powerful nation that leads with freedom and the liberty and most important question to you all which writing power will benefit the most from a broken america frankly like in many asian conservatives it is very intimidating to speak to speak up in public for my value ironically i never feared because of my gender or my race or i am so to speak victim of a white supremacy i'm sorry you're out of time intimidation came from the very group of people are preaching my kids to be tolerant we're going to culturally respond even more same left-wing experience our crafting okay i'm going to end the public comments and we're going to move on [Applause] ma'am we have ended i am ending i i told you all we're going to end the reception of visitors we are anxious to hear what you have to say you can submit your thoughts in writing moving on to the recommendations and reports of the superintendent dr feely the end of the year report all right we uh try to do this yes we do [Music] ma'am ma'am we have closing we have close reception of visitors dr silly the end of the year report yeah uh the board of education has been provided the end of the year report over the last month we've gone back and forth with drafts this evening it is posted in the public record for public review it'll go up on the website as our official administrative review of this year's work are there any questions from board members on on the year-end report nope also at this time of the year along with the year-end report we bring the board the draft of the 20-21-22 district goals there's also uh since this serves as the direction for the administration for the next year it's also the public's opportunity to review those for the next month and then i'll ask the board to approve those next month board members that have questions comments suggestions about those as they are in draft form right now please reach out to me with those and we can discuss those with you do you have an end date for the public if they want to respond that you'd like to see them by we meet on the 19th so i would need some time in advance of that uh that's a great question dr kupka probably uh july 12th would be the so could we maybe put that on that would be one week before we put that on the website to say please comment by thank you any other all right uh the next i oh i'm sorry was there any other questions on district one all right um the return to in-person plan uh gina's going to help me present on this one yes dr kupka ended the reception of visitors yes no ma'am we gave everybody three minutes and after the first episode of when i recessed the board because people were not willing to continue out the protocol i explained that if we did not follow protocol i would end the reception of visitors so i did now we're moving on to the business meeting comments can be emailed to me or to the board directly the board president is allowed the right to change the rules of reception visitors as she deems fit under board policy continuing with the return to in-person plan i believe it's in my purview to do so and if we're willing and and let me just be clear from any moving any meetings going forward people are given three minutes to speak up to 30 minutes on any subject the total speaking this total amount of time left to speak if people are not going to follow the protocols of the board we're not going to sit here and listen to people for hours and hours who are just going on and not being respective of our time and the people and the the other people in the community's time so we are in the business we are in the business meeting and we are going to continue dr thiele continuing with [Music] what is this is not a debate with the public we are going on with the business meeting now you can remain and listen to the business meeting and say and submit your thoughts in writing prior to the next meeting or attend the next meeting and stay with the three-minute time limit or you can continue to disrupt this meeting and we will move to close because we have plenty of business enclosed dr daly continue please so the return to in-person plan for fall we don't have a lot of details yet from the illinois state board of education which is very frustrating to us as administrators at this point however we contin because we have a lack of guidance from the state we continue to plan as though we are going to return to pre-pandemic as much as possible so we are planning as though we're returning without quarantining contact tracing masks any of those things like we're going back to before covid as all of our students have had the opportunity to be vaccinated up to this point or have chosen not to but families have made their choices to this point isbe has issued a resolution for return to in-person learning encouraging that all districts return to in-person learning however provided no guidance as to how that is to occur yet which is the core of our frustration as administrators we are pla as i said we're planning as though no restructuring uh restrictions exist however preliminary there's preliminary talk and in the meetings and webinars we have with isb they keep mentioning or indeed that there could be differences uh between vaccinated and unvaccinated students so you know we're waiting to find out if that will truly be the fact when things occur or not um however you know this is really difficult to hold this meeting i i i'm going to recommend that that either the audience participate by watching this meeting or we again move to recess and we'll ask for security to clear the room do we need to have security can people listen to the meeting without interrupting a board meeting is a meeting in public not a meeting with the public if you would like to reach out my email has been been posted you can arrange to meet with me okay we are listening to you but we have protocols we are listening to you and let me just interrupt you for a moment and say while you do represent an important segment of our community you do not represent our entire community we would love to hear what you have to say but you have to stay within the protocols we're trying to ma'am we're trying to give each of you three minutes so no okay we are i'm asking for a motion to go into closed session no do we have a motion to go to a closed session i move that we go into closed session the reasons for close session are the appointment employment i'm sorry compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the district or legal counsel for the district including hearing testimony and a complaint lodged against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting or volunteer of the district or against legal counsel for the district and to determine its validity and litigation when an action against affecting or on behalf of the district has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal or when the district finds that an action is probable or imminent in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting so i moved i need a second second cherry seconds thank you very much mike davenport hi terry pavisic aye joanna vazquez drexler aye is mr espinoza with us mr espinosa hi thank you shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom hi and nancy kupka hi we are in closed session thank you chris we'll call you from closed hi all right we are back sorry about the disruption um dr thiele did you want to continue with the yes i think we were on the district goals or the 99 oh no the 99 return to person yeah we're going to restart the district 99 return to in-person plan because i'm not sure how much the board was able to hear right what i was saying before so um the goal of our plan for the fall is to return to as close to pre-pandemic as possible so if we were making the rules based on the fact that we have multiple vaccination clinics going on families have had the opportunity to either vaccinate their children or have chosen not to and accept what risks come either way with either option that our recommendation to the board would be to return to school as normal no masks if you're sick stay home just as we always ask everybody to do and that it would look as close to pre-pandemic as possible however we don't have all the control or say over that and we don't know what that guidance will when it will come from the state if there'll be limitations on us executing that plan and when we'll hear those things so we know that isb passed a resolution about a month ago saying that they are encouraging us to return to in-person learning that's what we're planning for however they didn't release any of the changes and guidelines that would allow for that to happen so you know we're kind of in this nebulous zone right now of yeah you want us to return to pre-pandemic but you still have rules in place that say we can't so it sounds so familiar yes so we're we're kind of stuck right now so uh no guidelines have yet been released on that we are planning as though no restrictions will exist so every time a question comes up with me and the administrative team about what are we going to do the first thing we all respond is well what did we do before the pandemic right and then we kind of put those actions in place and start working towards that um however you know even though we're saying that we've been told that return to business as usual that's the goal we still keep getting memos or guidance and webinars from the state that keep referencing well though there's these differences between people that are vaccinated and unvaccinated and some of those are in effect for now for like summer sports or those kinds we don't know if those things still continue or will fall away or those kinds of things so um you know those aren't the decisions that we are making those are the decisions that isb is making i i just want the public to understand the board to understand that there might be guidance that comes from idpa illinois department of public health or illinois state board of education or dupage county health department all that have some differing authority over us that might put different restrictions conditions things like quarantine or social distancing or masks or any of those things based on whether somebody is vaccinated or unvaccinated we are not pushing for that kind of guidance right that is very difficult to administer maintain you know enforce do any of those kinds of things around it however for families that do want to get their children vaccinated we had the vaccination clinic in may and then the second dose was last week we're going to run another one in the middle of july and they'll come back before school starts for their second dose and to be fully vaccinated by the time school starts and then we're going to run another one in august so that you know if anybody by that time has decided to change their mind they could come back for our vaccination clinics we're using different pharmacies because we know some people are more comfortable with other pharmacies so the first one is joel oscar the next one is koto care the one after that is walgreens so you know we're just trying to provide options to our families nobody's saying that anybody has to do anything with vaccinations but we're just we're trying to meet the needs of our students and their families what are we looking at in percentage-wise i'm sorry i have no idea we we've we had parents reach out to us that wanted us to be in possession of vaccination records just in case rules come and also the fact that at the end of the school year if you were vaccinated you had different quarantine and close contact rules so some parents chose to send that in others didn't you know there's no mandate or requirement that we as of this time that we record any of those vaccination records so osco total care and walgreens will not tell you your student has been vaccinated or we don't have any of those still students have been vaccinated or correct okay we're just providing the location for those pharmacies to come in and administer the vaccines just to make it easier on families you know it's close they don't have to schedule an appointment you know um or they could schedule an appointment at their convenience you know it's just about providing a service to our community are you asking so the only way we know if a student has been vaccinated is if that student parent let us know right correct that's i i think that's kind of what you're yeah i i was just kind of also curious as to the percentage of students that were vaccinated that's one of the things that were we have been asking the state as if they can tell us that because there are record you know there's hipaa laws state records yeah because um but even in aggregate could they tell us you know x percentage of your students have been vaccinated we don't know if we can do we know the students that have the students and parents who have informed us do we have do we have some sense for them i i haven't asked for any data on that at this point as to the numbers or anything like that would can you get it is that some would we want to know that at some point i i think i think we would at this point no because i don't know if there's really any difference coming like if there's no difference between vaccinated on vaccine it doesn't matter when receivables come i see you know so until i get until i get a reason to go asking for that kind of information it just it's you know it will definitely change over time it would just kind of be a waste of staff resources at this time jenny you were trying to i just was wondering in the kind of the preliminary indications are they only looking at vaccinated and unvaccinated students or are they looking at students who have passed who have confirmed because i mean there is oh that have happened yeah yeah so i mean there's at the end of the school year yeah it was for quarantine rules if you had tested positive in the last 90 days it was the same as being vaccinated but like i said all this is i'm just hearing and looking in the tea leaves that you know the information that we can we continue to get right now in the summer continues to separate rules for those vaccinated versus unvaccinated for summer camps and athletic activities and those kinds of things it continues to have different rules for each of those groups so whether it'll still be that way in the fall i don't know but i think the public should know and the board should know that that's what we're seeing currently and then you know some so so for the question that was raised tonight about being divisive and we're going to treat students differently that's really not true we just may need to know in the event that we have some close contact notification center in terms of planning for next year in the event that we do have students who cannot come in because they are close contacts what will what will what will happen to those students will they be sent home with a book for two weeks yeah we have students that are out for extended periods of time all the time and we work through that with each individual student depending on the courses the teachers the classes and meet the needs of the students when they're out whether that be for an illness like chickenpox or it be for mental health and hospitalizations whether you know any number of reasons why a student could miss an extended period of time it's our responsibility to meet that student's needs while they're out and that's what we'll continue to do so i'm hearing that consistent with your you know our plan for returning as normal right because this is and we're we're thinking of covid as just you know it's one of those diseases one of those sicknesses that students could get at any time and you need to be out for a period of time and when gina gets up she'll talk a little bit here about some of the interventions that we have in place but the board knows that we've added social emotional support interventions and staff over the last five years because we've had seen increases in the amount of students being out for extended period of time especially due to things like anxiety depression those kinds of things so um this is we have programs and protocols for serving students when they're out of school so the shift though is to it's going to be more on an individual student basis versus we're offering like a whole list so to speak for for a subset that chooses not to be correct so it's just it's just like one because last year the state rules required us to offer that remote option to all students you know where next year it does not look like that will be a requirement and if the directive right now is get back to as close to normal as possible that's what the state has told us to do we didn't have a fully remote school before the pandemic arrived that wasn't something we were working towards nor you know our experiences with blended learning definitely demonstrated that you needed regular in-person check-ins with students for it to be comprehensively effective that if kids didn't have check-ins with adults it it fell behind you know so that's why we have blended models the way we have them now and not fully remote school well i i just want to say that you know a lot of what we heard tonight i just heard a lot of fear you know and and you know i think we heard it from the one student too concerned about coming into school this coming year and will i have to wear a mask or not and what will happen to me well i need a quarantine or not everyone wants answers and we've been dealing with this for the last year everybody wants to be able to predict what's going to happen in the future and you know if anything we've learned this last year you just can't and we need to be aware of the thing the fact that things can change so there may be guidance coming there may not be guidance coming uh i mean the three-foot rule may be the quarantining may not uh i i mean we we don't we really don't know but we've been instructed to proceed as if we're going back to normal and that's the way we're building our plan and you know god forbid that we should get to the few days before school and have to you know adjust our plan again um but that's the world we've been living in and it you know it's only june just a few months ago we were still still living in a pretty crazy world um so yeah yeah well clearly as demonstrated this evening i think did you want to say something joanna are we just no so just a few more variables to put on the board's radar so some major variables in illinois chicago public schools are still in session right so right now yeah okay right now so one of the the beliefs that many of us have as leaders is that we need that school year to end for this giant school district in the state so that there isn't you know confusion between next year's rules and this year's rules with chicago public schools so that that kind of makes sense also the center for disease control cdc has said that this summer they will be releasing updated school guidance very possible that idph is waiting for the cdc to release their updated guidance before they release theirs so those are two factors that are out there however we as superintendents believe that if you came out with a directive to open schools as closely as possible to the past you probably have some things worked out so we would like to get as much information and direction about the reopening of the school as soon as possible that they have from the from the state level we advocated from the illinois high school district association at the illinois state board of education meeting last wednesday we had representatives there speaking on my behalf and the district staff and high schools all over the state about you know it takes time to plan these things and our communities want to know what's going on and people need to make decisions about what next year offers please provide us information immediately in response to that we had a webinar today with the illinois state board of education that pretty much told us what we already knew to this point there was no new information provided so after that we as superintendents across the state at all levels are preparing a letter to illinois state board of education that spells out here are the key points of things that we really need to know before we bring kids back so we can plan for protocols and do we need additional furniture and do we need supplies and signage and all of the things that you would imagine we would need to plan for next year that letter is being signed by superintendents across the state over the next couple of days and in its final form will be sent to the illinois state board of education on thursday if we don't hear anything you know if we get guidance before that then that would cause us to reevaluate that once we send that that will be a public document we will share it with the public we will encourage people to reach out to their legislators and state government and isb and advocate on our behalf to try to get us the information that we need to plan to return so right now our plan that we are required to present to the public is this this is as based on what we know today we plan on returning as closely to pre-pandemic as possible with the caveat that as the rules change our plan will have to change and that we'll just keep up keep the board and the public informed as those things happen what the public can do right now is try to encourage the state to provide us the information we need to make those plans with fidelity for when we return so questions on where we're at right now is that something we could share with the public absolutely yeah yeah ask them to yeah please yeah yeah i mean they have to watch the meeting but maybe there's no address or something yeah once the uh once we finalize that that letter i will be sharing that as like this is what i sent if you would like to take any of this and contact your legislators please do so do you know when chicago public schools are done i don't know the date off the top of my head it's soon because they just take the next couple of weeks i think it's like the end of june yeah i think it's the fourth fourth of july yeah i'm not sure i'm not a hundred percent sure so but this will all be on the website your letter yeah we'll post it yeah absolutely we'll get them shared but i would encourage also the public to remember that a lot of jerry you know what i got to get closer to the mic i'm sorry i i forget um i would encourage the public to remember not everything that they read on the internet is true and that if they would like what is truly happening in district 99 to please read our website and to communicate with dr thiele about that and that don't read what someone says as gospel thank you thank you terry thank you all right i'm going to invite gina up right now um she's going to talk through how this also plays into the things that she's managing moving forward and then uh we have a link for based on what jean and i are sharing this evening for the public to provide feedback uh on what we know to this point we learned tonight too that she's on vacation this week she is on vacation and came back to spend the evening with you yeah so i just wanted to get that on the public record the dedication uh on the part of some of our staff so as hank said we are presenting as we know today we are required to post our plan and that's part of esser arp which is the third of the emergency elementary secondary emergency relief grants and we are required to post it on our website which we will do after after this meeting so this is the plan as of today as dr thiele said we do not have the guidance to fill out every aspect of the plan so we're planning and dr thule pretty much already said this we are planning to return to pre-covered schedule eight period day lunch built into the school day we are anticipating half periods at least to start although that will be dependent on what the guidelines are so could be half periods for part of the year could go to full periods we just have to kind of wait and see what that looks like we're not planning for a fully remote option we will continue with the cleaning and all that is required with air circulation and in terms of mass and quarantines and social distancing we are waiting on the guidance so that will be based on what the requirements are these interventions i believe we actually already spoke about when i talked about the consolidated district plan at the may workshop i believe it was but just a reminder and doctor they did mention the first one there that we are adding additional personnel in our counseling and student support services we're increasing our el and bilingual offerings at both high schools we added an interventionist this year to work with students who are at risk of failing students that are struggling we'll be adding additional interventionist at south high and an additional interventionist at north high as well we are continuing with paper and are very pleased with our results thus far we expanded strive which is a tutoring program we've had in the district for i believe the last eight to ten years it could even be longer than that we expanded it this year to include uh aspects of like executive functioning to help students to really learn to work remotely or hybrid or in person we plan to continue to expand that and hopefully fully implement our path program we're really excited to be able to do that so as dr thiele said before we will be posting uh the plan and there is a google form so people can go in and put in comments we're required to post it for 30 days we'll post it for a little over that so everyone has an opportunity so anyone who has you know concerns about the plan they can share information about the plan and then we'll be reviewing that information any questions all right thank you gina thank you gina thank you jesus thank you i'm still up sorry i have a quick question i have a quick question yes will that include semester exams so that is certainly something we've been talking about and and certainly teachers uh sometimes do give summative assessments but really the question is more about final exam schedules exactly which is what the issue has been and that we've been working through so we have immediately administratively right after in that first week of july where we'll be discussing that and then we'll bring a recommendation to the board in july around the final exam schedule do we carve out that schedule teachers always give exams depending on how their course team plans but whether or not we want to indicate that it's like expected right through a bell schedule is what will come with the recommendation in july look forward to that thank you so the next topic is the consolidated district plan i spoke about the consolidated district plan last month and shared information about the plan this is a plan we've had to do for the last couple of years we annually must submit it to illinois state board of education and i talked about a lot of the interventions that have been in place most of them for a number of years so tonight i'm just going to focus on some that are newer or brand new just to share some information so we did add one dual credit course this year we were actually able to make it so students could earn dual credit this year which is not typical usually when it's approved it's for the following year but we were able to get it in place for this year and that's for interior design we do have a couple of other courses we're working on with cod but we are not at the point of having those approved quite yet we also have a new dual enrollment opportunity for students as the board already knows we currently have an arrangement with benedictine where we offer astronomy as a dual enrollment course and we have an agreement with elmhurst university formerly elmhurst college for our calc iii students we now have added eastern illinois university we in fact have three students right now one of which i spoke with earlier today who are taking a whole language class so they're earning credit for whole language through eastern illinois university through really an immersion program so that's that's really exciting we also this year pause g9 just point out that that is a board goal yes that gina has done a very fine job of working us towards over the last several years yeah that's awesome i i do have a question shirelle i'm sorry i need [Music] and i think i've asked this before that is a difference in an ap class that's just a credit that a class that we have aligned with the university to to offer is that correct yes but if i can kind of explain the difference between ap dual credit and dual enrollment i think that might help that will help me okay ap classes um we have 27 if i remember correctly don't quote me on that i think that's right though i think we have 27.

so it gives us a very good timeline and so i think this picture shows um a rough estimate of when the native mascot truly became ingrained within the dartmouth public school community so we see that in the 1970s the the mascot really became ingrained and that's when we first started to really use that and that's that's obviously been going on up until today now i'm not going to go through each and every one of these pictures but i'm going to give you a second to look at them so throughout the 30s and 40s dartmouth high school didn't necessarily use a native mascot they instead used the words dartmouth on all their uniforms it wasn't something that was necessarily um within the public school community at the time and then if we transition into the 50s that's the first time that the native mascot and using natives for our own purposes and rallying our own purposes really became a part of the high school community so in 1953 we actually had a yearbook that was themed native americans where we each identified as native people and in order to rally ourselves and our community we see the dartmouth high school students in 1958 dressed up as stereotypical native americans um and they that's not traditional wampanoag upon against a wampanoag where it's it's uh it's a stereotype of what it means to be native and then 1960s it continues on so that's when we first adopt native mascots onto our uniforms and we continue on so we see that dartmouth high school girls hockey team and the dartmouth high school baseball team each adopted either a symbol of a native american or the word indian on their their uniform also the dartmouth high school majorettes was a big player throughout dartmouth high school history they were a cheer type squad who would dress up in the stereotypical native wear with with traditional headdresses feathers things like that i'm going to go into more detail about them later on and i'm not going to continue on but through the 70s that's really when it it officially became ingrained and that's when we continue on we see in 1974 that's actually the symbol that we use today and so that was adopted around that time period and it's continued on until today and then the 80s we continue on having that that logo and using the native mascots the 90s the same thing 2000's the same thing native dress wear the stereotypical dress wear feathers war paint things like that and then today obviously each of the dartmouth high school athletic teams have adopted some sort of indication that we are the dartmouth indians whether that's the logo or um just the print of indians on um our uniforms so i wanted to talk about dartmouth high school major arts because i think that's another big indicator of sort of the history and timeline between how um the native theme has been engraded within dartmouth high school's history and so one of those is through the dartmouth high school majorettes which was a sort of cheer squad that dressed in stereotypical native wear headdresses whatnot so that continued from 1960 around that time period up until um the late 1990s early 2000s and so we see that the native identity and and calling ourselves native as a way of rallying our community has been something that's been especially ingrained into our community and it's been built upon um and so we still continue to use that to this day and so now that i've gone over a little bit of the history i was very brief i know but i wanted to give some time to talk about sort of the literature that i've read throughout the semester um some of the ongoing debate arguments um in opposition to retiring native mascots and so throughout this i'm going to be going over arguments that i've heard and trying to sort of um regurgitate what i've i've read and what i've learned to try to pass it on to to the committee and so the first big argument that i've heard is that native american mascots you know they're not offensive um and so with each of these arguments i'm giving um just a quote anonymously from a community member um so this one is there's no derogatory side to the name or the logo chosen as a sign of respect for the town's original inhabitants so that's specific to dartmouth however these arguments apply to the nation um more generally when it comes to professional sporting teams and so some of the literature that i've read and the responses that i've read to sort of this argument is that these mascots perpetuate stereotypes of what it means to be native it essentially boils down their identity to um a caricature of what it really means to be native either whether that that could be whether it means being a warrior or being noble or being a savage it really just it creates a reality in which it's very hard for native people to escape the sort of stereotype that we've created for them and so not only that but these stereotypes also misinform the community dartmouth high school community and the dartmouth community in general and it leads to an environment that's more conducive to further stereotypes that desensitize the community members to insensitive behavior and so an example of this is that dartmouth high school since we have adopted a native mascot we are more likely to see students dressing in feathers or war paint or things like that because of the mascot we even if we say it's not okay and the administration says it's not okay to dress in this it still has created that environment which it's become accessible and they start to do it on top of this there are serious psychological consequences that i'm gonna i'm gonna let dr davis delano um explain later on another common argument i hear is that these these mascots allow us to remember our history and that when you erase history you forget history then you repeat history and so that's obviously that's something that i've heard a lot um in this community specifically and so this sort of implies that mascots teach history in the first place but i would push back and say and a lot of people would push back and say that these mascots provide you know they provide no further context as the history or the culture of native peoples specifically indigenous ways of knowing and being within the world um and it really just it doesn't provide any context to the indigenous people within the region so it doesn't even provide the name in that in these instances um so how can we really learn and remember history that isn't taught through mascots so any history that is taught through these mascots it's most likely to be history that has been reshaped and oversimplified into a into a stereotype of what it means to be native so therefore we're misinforming ourselves by relying solely on native mascots to educate ourselves another argument i hear is that these mascots honor and respect native people and this sort of goes along with my last point this named logo for dartmouth is one of honor and prestige and is worn with pride another one is dharma stands for excellence and being proud and honoring the indians this is another one that i've heard quite often and i think we need to ask ourselves a few questions if we are going to rely on this argument and say that we're going to honor and respect native peoples one of these questions is like why do communities and schools adopt mascots in the first place um i would argue that we don't adopt mascots to honor the things that we are adopting them for um but instead we adopt them to use as rallying points for our community to provide a sense of belonging and purpose um so for example we have the the fair haven blue devils i i don't think anybody would argue that they we honor the fair haven blue devils we rather use it as a means to rally the community another question that we can ask if we are going to go along with honor and respect for native peoples these mascots have um is that our our mascots the epitome of how we can honor a people like our is that the is that how we can go about honoring native peoples to the best of our ability um i would argue that that's not necessarily true and that if we truly want to honor native people we can teach an accurate uh and historical perspective of what it means to be a native whether that's teaching the culture of native culture or if that's teaching the history of genocide and oppression of native peoples but then also if we go back to that lack of education surrounding um native peoples we truly don't know um much about native people because of the lack of education that we have about them and so in a sense how are we actually honoring and respecting native people if we know very little about them so in a way we're actually honoring and respecting a reshaped and oversimplified and stereotypical version of what it means to be native a couple more a couple more so if we ban this mascot what will we ban next that's another argument that is often often cited when it comes to native mascots it's the whole idea that if we ban this like we're gonna ban that and we're gonna ban this so a quote that goes along with that is what would be considered politically incorrect next the fair haven blue devils being anti-christian or the whereabout vikings being offensive to those of scandinavian descent and so i think that this argument it it fails to take into consideration the context to which native peoples have been used as mascots so such contexts include racial discrimination ethnic discrimination oppression and genocide in which native peoples have endured throughout the founding and expansion of this country so to compare them to the fair heaven blue devils or the warehouse vikings is to completely disregard um that history additionally um this is something that that um has been cited a lot within the dartmouth community um it's it's typically cited throughout the country as well is um people typically cite um a native person and they say so and so said native american mascots are okay so they must be okay and i think that one is that this this example is probably one of the most troubling um did anyone see the post from an actual dartmouth indian who lives locally she said she was actually proud to that we still use the logo and so this is sort of problematic because it implies that one native american's opinion can uh is indicative of all native people's opinions um on the matter and i think that that's especially troubling because they're just like you and i and that we both have sort of the same app we have different opinions um on different matters but it also doesn't take into consideration that the fact that these stereotypes and the subsequent psychological effects of these these native american mascots impact all native peoples and not just those living within the community so uh what troubles me is that if we were go to go to um the upon against wampanoag people and gain um some sort of um agreeance to using the mascot i i think that that would still be problematic in that our uniforms have the native mascot on it and have the words indian on it and so if we were to travel to other communities it's still going to have that that psychological impact on all native peoples to wherever we travel and lastly i this is uh one that's very important to this committee i think is that there are more pressing issues to attend to right now i know that we just we're coming out of covid and where we have a lot to deal with right now but this is this is something that um this argument is used and it presupposes that native american mascots don't have serious consequences to them so from the stereotypes and psychological consequences that i know dr davis delano will get into it denies sort of any harmful consequences in the it makes it so it's not a pressing issue and i think that it absolutely is um so with that and taking into consideration those arguments that i've heard um i think the best argument i've heard in favor of um keeping the native mascot is in the sake of um tradition um however i think that all the cons vastly outweigh the pros and that and so with that i asked this committee my policy my recommendations would be to retire the dartmouth indian once and for all but it's not only enough to retire the dartmouth indian i think it also is required that we should develop a curriculum that teaches accurate depictions of native culture and history specifically taking into account native communities i mean the founding expansion of the united states specifically taken into account the ethnic discrimination and genocide of native peoples but on top of that it's not enough to just educate um the school community i think it's also important to educate the dartmouth community in general and to engage in thoughtful discussions surrounding native american mascots and native american history and culture in that and so we also need to discuss the consequences um of these mascots to foster more humane and just citizenship i know you have very difficult decisions um to make as a committee and i know that uh people will be upset no matter which way you you vote and i think it's important that we educate the community or you educate the community as to why you made certain decisions and so with that i appreciate you letting me present here tonight i threw a lot at you um and i look forward to hearing your questions or comments so thank you thank you captain just i just want to make one point of clarification before i open it up to the committee for questions about this part because i think it might be good if people want to see images or whatnot that we allow them to ask that now i just want to be clear that this committee this committee does not make the decision right about the mascot that power rests with the school committee but this committee can make a recommendation to the school committee about what to do want to be just just to make that clear um so does anybody have any questions um i just want to ask well kempton still kevin i would like you to stay around as we discuss this but does anybody have any questions about any of the images that kempton um shared with us and they might like to see in further detail i can't see if you raise your hand so if you have a question just go ahead and start talking and we'll sort that out uh captain could you stop this is jonathan tech support uh could you stop sharing so then uh dr jenkins should probably see people a little easier yeah yeah i was just gonna i don't it doesn't sound like anybody has questions about the images i'll ask you um to stay around kempton um in case we have questions later for our discussion but for now i'll turn it over to dr davis delano to talk to us for a while about some of her research and activism around this issue okay so i'm a white sociologist i'm not a psychologist and i've been studying native mascots though for over 25 years and yet my research isn't in the piece that i'm going to be talking about because i don't study the psychosocial effects what i did was get together with two other scholars to produce a document that summarizes the psychological social psychological effects to aimed at educational decision makers um because uh we knew that it would be useful um and i also study other native issues so um but i'm not really talking about my own scholarship today um so i'm also a member of a 12-member steering committee of the massachusetts mascot coalition and um three of us are white like myself and um nine of us are not and six of the native people uh of the nine native people represent the tribes that have the letters um they were appointed by their tribes to our steering committee um and they're the six tribes that has have the letters in support of the mascot bill um so um one of the things that the steering committee does is we have been arranging some panels before school committees and i i just wanted to i thought i thought kenton did a really good job but i want to mention that one in in a recent um visit to a school committee some people from the school system presented native history of the area and then kind of like a slideshow like kempton did at the beginning of the imagery and it really upset a lot of the panelists um because they knew some inaccuracies in the history that was being presented and they knew more about the history than the people presenting the history because they were you know they they're from these tribal nations um and you know i thought kempton did a great job showing those pictures but those can be like you know they can have an effect on people just seeing those images and things like um the use of headdresses and so forth um so on the first thing i'm going to do is talk about the findings from that we report in in the research article um summary that i think you all have right do you have that piece yeah you shared that with with me earlier and so i shared it with the committee okay so i'll just kind of make it simple and do um a summary so the first point that we make is that educational decision makers should make decisions based on research findings and not opinions i mean like it wouldn't get put out um you know what what what way would you like us to teach reading let's vote about what you find the most pleasant um you know people will educational administrators they look at research findings and then pick you know what's effective um and so we think that that should you know that general principle of following research findings should be primary rather than looking at public opinion um and so here are the findings so um one set of studies is focused on direct effects on native students um and overall this set of findings shows that native mascots create a hostile climate um for native youth um and this includes youth um who aren't native youth as as uh kempton was mentioning you know there's a variety opinions but native youth who aren't critical of mascots the research finding shows are more negatively affected because they don't have kind of a critical lens to pres to um protect themselves um so um when you expose native youth to native mascots it decreases their self-esteem especially uncritical native youth um it reduces their capacity to imagine future accomplishments for themselves um it um also um triggers less confidence or faith in their native communities to be able to make a difference and another finding is that in one study exposure to the name the logos et cetera um increased negative feelings and those negative feelings were stress distress depression dysphoria and hostility um and in one study a different study um the students um tended to avoid um athletic events when there were native mascots there so there's a bigger so those are the effects on native youth there's a bigger body of research on the effects on non-native people and of course ways that non-native people are affected if they're affected in problematic ways um can indirectly be harmful to native people so the first set of studies shows that and the majority of non-native people in these studies are white although not all of them are um and the majority actually support native mascots um and think that they honor native people so even those folks or especially those folks actually um in implicit bias tests the research shows that the native mascots are associated with negative thoughts and negative stereotypes more the most significant findings are that when you expose non-native people to native mascots it increases their negative stereotyping of native americans also if you compare non-native people who oppose native mascots to non-native people who support native mascots um those who support native mascots are more apt to hold stereotypical and prejudicial attitudes about native americans lastly two studies suggest that native mascot exposure can increase discrimination um perpetrated by non-native people against native people so overall um this second set of findings which is the effects of native mascots on non-native people um shows that they're actually harmful to non-native people because they're reinforcing or perpetuating or increasing uh negative stereotypes and prejudice that can manifest in discrimination and so and that of course not only is not educationally sound for non-native people um but it's also um can indirectly be harmful to native people so just to put this in context um the findings are not surprising to scholars who study native representations because most native mascots as kind of kempton was alluding to they they're all the same there's like if you look at the federally recognized tribal nations there's you know over close to 600 of them and they all have different cultures and the mascots tend to be this like hollywood version of like you know um pseudo native culture um and kind of this kind of erases distinctions also they're almost all male which is something schools should think about okay um the imagery um and most of them are warriors or chiefs now you can imagine just like any um group of people um there's like a huge range of occupations and tasks people do and so like button pulling you know or pushing native people into a warrior chief role only is erasing huge um aspects of people's lives um they're also all kind of nobody picks like a contemporary native soldier like from the us military right um they pick uh uh um people of the past and one huge representational issue uh related to native people that goes way beyond mascots is that there's very little representation in education curriculum in media or in other aspects of culture that are about contemporary native people who are like walking down my sidewalk delivering my mail um and um so um so it's like putting people in the past um and not recognizing what's going on today or even in the mid-1900s another reason why we're not surprised is and uh kempton um alluded to this as well that it involves non-native people usually white people in the origin of native mascots um taking somebody else's identity another group's identity and their culture or suitor culture okay um so representations of native mascots are representations of native american people and yet they're created by non-native people um and they're used by non-native people generally speaking um and they're used for the purposes of those non-native people and that's like the epitome of you know appropriation um okay so i was going to say a little bit um i i can if you ask me later ask uh talk a little bit about the attachment that a lot of people have to native mascots which is something that i study um but i want to say a little bit about decision making um so the one of the reasons why opinions like it's not a good idea for schools to uh or towns to survey their students about this issue or survey the community and the reason why is when that happens it implies that non-native people should be making decisions about representations that are not them a and b it ignores the research findings um and so i think that's a really important thing to think about um i just also want to mention that not only do we have six tribal nations from massachusetts that endorse the mascot bill um but so does um the national congress of american indians which is the largest and most representative body um that in of native americans period end of conversation um and they have lots of resources and if you reach out to them they can uh give you some can i resources you just one second real quick committee members and anyone in the general public who might not know that the mascot bill to which you are referring is a bill that's pending in the massachusetts state legislature that would ban the use of native mascots statewide i just want to make that clear sure i thought you all knew that yep right now it's in uh people may be watching live stream and they might not know that so i just need to clarify that thank you so much um it's currently in the joint education committee along with two other native bills um both of which are about native education um so there are also other native organizations like the native american journalists association and the um india um native um indian education association there's academic organizations like the american the psychological association the american anthropological association the american sociological association which is my association um and i i want to say something this is a little bit related to one of the points that kempton was mentioning um it's really important when you work on any native issues including this one to recognize the distinction between uh like native people there are bodies that represent them and those are the tribal nations right so the word of tribal nations is primary right um and a tribal nation might have people with a variety of opinion in it but its official body and its official body right that has some sovereignty um and also it's important to um distinguish between people who are enrolled in recognized native nations and people with native ancestry or in some cases say they have native ancestry um so thinking about that and thinking about representative bodies rather than individual native people um is really important like is this person speaking on behalf of their tribe okay um so i want to counter something a little bit that kempton said um one of the things that i've studied is processes of change related to mascots and i have discovered um that it's almost impossible to educate a community and here's why you can't get them there okay um and so um in turner's falls quote unquote around where i live the school committee sponsored like it was like four or five really great forums and they couldn't turn people out to these forums okay um because people didn't want to hear the information um it's easier to educate a student body because you have kind of a captive audience there um but it's really hard to educate um people on this issue in general and i'm you know i'm an educator i think we should but i just want to say um here's why it's so hard um most people in that aren't native in the us they don't like know a little bit of native information they know some misinformation and so they're starting like behind not at the starting line but behind the starting line and of course you have to unlearn information as you're gaining information and that can't be done in an hour um and another problem is that most non-native people in the u.s have very little interpersonal contact um especially you know meaningful in-depth not little workshop thing contact with native people to kind of counter some of this um and there's huge invisibility as i was mentioning before of contemporary native re representations of contemporary native people in u.s culture and what exists in u.s culture is primarily stereotypes and primarily stereotypes of the past and the last big barrier is that people really do believe this honors native americans right um and so that's what sociologists and psychologists might call a positive stereotype and a lot of people don't understand that those beliefs are problematic so you know people might say women are nurturing but that stereotype leads women to to have more of a child care load right um or um you know african-americans are great athletes or asian americans are smart these if you look at their history and you look at how they operate today these are really problematic ideas um and so but it's hard for people to kind of understand those as problematic so um lastly um it's you know use the research use official representatives um the i think the best strategy you know education's fine create a website or or that kind of thing to educate your community but don't expect a big transformation or people showing up um and um you know you need to you can though do a really good job educating the school committee and then you can have their backs okay um and like be supportive of them and set up systems to be supportive of them um if you're going to bring in a panel there's no way it's really difficult to arrange these panels that you could bring one in for your committee and the school committee so you would need to bring it in for the school committee um and um and they would need to be close to ready to vote for us to want to bring them in or make the effort to bring them in okay so i will just uh to reinforce dr davis delano's point about education i believe someone texted me and said i think we have seven people um watching our meeting right now in our community of uh maybe with thirty thousand and one of them was the person who texted me who is a member who could not be here who is watching it via live stream while they're out and about so six people are watching it who are not actually on the committee um at this point in time although to be fair right it will be available we're recording it and we will make this available um thank you for that presentation uh dr david solano um do members of the school committee have questions for dr davis delano or mr campbell about what they've said this evening ms chamberlain dr davis solano thank you very much and i also read your article and and found it really helpful um i have two questions can you talk for just another minute about positive stereotypes and why they're problematic yeah okay well there's a variety of reasons why they're problematic but one one kind of obvious point is it puts everybody in a box and they can be looked at through the lens of that box so if we use the stereotype of asian americans is all smart and hardworking okay um you know or interested in technology that makes people think of them as a techie and not as a creative artist or as a you know particular type of athlete um and and then that can box their own thoughts in too right but what i think is problematic and people get treated based on how they're positively stereotyped so for example uh at many holidays many not all uh men just you know let their wives do the child care okay um because you know that's what they do that's what they're perceived to be good at um and then they have 11 hours of less leisure time a week okay um but the there's also like history about why the positive stereotypes are problematic okay so let me just use native americans and african-americans for a second so one defense of slavery was that um that african-americans have brawn but not brain right now a contemporary version of that is the stereotype of african-americans as athletic and there's some research showing that um when they're successful it's not usually attributed to their intelligence or their hard work because they're seen as natural so there it gets this it's rooted in historical oppression and then it can manifest negatively today if we look at native mascots okay let me go ahead and talk about this so um in general mascots get get picked because they're aggressive violent powerful those sorts of things so and most of the mascots are animals except for native americans um and they don't pick deer and rabbits right um people pick like aggressive types of animals like tigers or or whatever so one of the main forms of justifying genocide was what scholars call the bloodthirsty savage stereotype that native americans were horrific aggressive warriors and they were the ones that were perpetrating violence and therefore that justified violence against them and shoving them to other parts of the country and onto reservations and so forth like that's it's that stereotype which is what gave rise to the selection of native mascots which was happening um like during a time when like when they first rose up you know white people didn't think native people were really cool okay ecological whatevers um and so like right now that's perceived as positive like brave fighting strong warrior but it was previously used it you know in another way right in a negative way um and so um so positive stereotypes often have really oppressive roots and they often operate in ways that are extremely problematic today so for going back to the asian american one um you know the stereotype is that they're really hard working and dedicated students but that also leads people to believe that they're not socially interesting and so people then make less social connections and think they're less fun and don't invite them to do things so that was a long answer but that was just really interesting thank you very much and i just have one more question because i did look at your article and i can't say that i read every single article that was linked to it but i i read many of them and and i honestly didn't see any article that showed any positive impact from a native american mascot is that because there wasn't any article like that or was that because you were just looking for ones that were negative there are no i'm trying to get right about positive effects uh you know in general thank you i i thought that was the answer but i just wanted to be sure i think i want to add on to that throughout the course of my semester i i've read about three dozen different articles on this topic and i've never encountered a single one that talks about any positive impacts that native american mascots have had on a population um can i ask a little question to that one um uh i wonder if anyone's ever researched right we've examined sort of the effect of native mascots it increases negative stereotyping among non-native populations does that negative stereotyping extend beyond just native americans in other words oh okay do those implicit biases carry over to other racial and ethnic groups there is only one study that has studied this and we're all baffled about the finding so in this one study they exposed people to um non-native people to native mascots and it increased their stereotyping of asian americans i mean the stereotypes of asian americans and they're not the same as the stereotypes they're not parallel uh of native americans um but you know i don't know like the best that people can do is kind of like maybe this generates more simplistic thinking okay do other committee members have thank you have other have questions comments i just want to say thank you very much to kempton and dr delano for your presentations that was really informative and uh we appreciate your knowledge thank you yes ms scott you have a question um i think kelly and i are on the same page i just wanted to thank you it was very helpful to get perspective from both of you i took a lot of pages of notes because i think it's really helpful as things come up in conversation and as we're trying to do work to help people understand the issue so thank you mr tebow i would just like to echo that and thank both doctor davis delano and especially kempton um you know kempton having graduated just two years ago uh it's always nice to see a dartmouth high school graduate come back and and contribute to the community um and so kempton thank you for that i uh i thought you did a very nice job thank you yeah i would also like kempton would you be willing to share with us um your you can email that to me your final presentation um i would like to make that available as a public document i think in particular some of the the historical pictures are are really useful right i mean one of the arguments in the community has been this is a tradition but it's not always been that way not right i mean if you it's a if you go back a certain time it was present and not present and then present right so i think that's really uh important and those pictures help illustrate um that that story right i know there are pictures that i didn't add to the presentation that i think the community members might be interested in um but then honestly they're all available at the southworth library um you can go and look at it dr david solano's point though right if i mean it's hard to educate people absolutely yeah murder as an educator i know to get them to go to the library um to the extent that we're trying to collect these resources if you would like to share them with me i will also make those sort of publicly available so so that people can see them absolutely yeah thank you other questions so i'd like to just maybe sort of talk about and give you guys a we've had i think there's been a lot of food for thought here tonight and i don't i think i don't know i don't want to speak for the committee but myself i think i want some time to maybe think about and process a little bit before we come up with a a plan i might think we might talk about some possible plans that we could then i'll think of another next meeting have some discussion of all of this and talk about what our next steps might be um while we were while we were listening i was thinking about some possible ways that we can proceed um first we could i will give a sort of a very brief um update to the school committee on monday night about what we uh what we heard here tonight very brief um but we could um file an interim report with the school committee sort of summarizing some of the things we learned sharing that documentation with them that's one option two we could come together as a committee and make a vote on what we as a committee want to recommend maybe people know enough and again i'm putting these all out as possible um scenarios for us to consider um the third thing to consider is uh whether we want to continue to have more sessions um whether we want to have community input we've heard some arguments against that today right also we could talk about potentially scheduling a session with um native american panelists but i think we to dr davis delano's uh uh points um that would be need to be with the full school committee so these are all a range of options that we can consider i don't think we want to make a decision tonight does that seem fair to say about how we want to proceed we would have our next meeting have a discussion about what our next plan of attack is so that having been said my question for the committee now is are there any other sort of possible next steps that you think we might want to consider or discuss at our next meeting i was just sort of coming up with ideas as we move forward and so there may be other things miss anfiel i think and then mr tebow go ahead um maybe in the next meeting we can talk about how we're gonna educate students about american because i feel like in our school education we are we never talk about the history in americans really or at all so maybe bringing that into our curriculum or like thinking about we're going to do that as well can i say a couple things about what other schools have done so sure then i'll come back around it go ahead laurel okay so um one you know we've been doing panels and they usually get recorded and one thing that um one school system did was they shortened up the panel and they showed it to um the student body and then um students wrote questions that were screened to two of the panelists who came back to the school so that they could answer the questions that the students um or the legitimate questions that the students had um the other thing i was just going to mention is if you know um which tribal nation or nations are nearby um we might be able to connect you to a single or two speakers um if you want to like bring that to you know uh i don't know whose traditional lands you're on i think i think we're the case at wampanoag i think is the is the current uh tribal nation charlie you're raising shaking your head yes does that sound right to you i know because it does sound right i'm not a hundred percent but yeah and herring pond might be nearby wampanoag so both we have tribal reps from both of those um tribes on our steering committee okay and they both have letters so i also want to point out mr chief i know you had something to add um just sort of also in response to ms tamfield's comment i agree with you but i would also say that i i think those might be they're related but separate issues right because whether or not whether or not we keep the mascot is one question right but how we do education around native american and our tribal neighbors is a is a question that we want to consider regardless of that decision right if we decide to keep it we should ask that if we decide to get rid of the mascot we should ask that right it is a question that i think this committee can look into um and so i think it's a good one to keep on our list of things that we need to talk about right there's lots about we've got a running list um but i so they're like related but distinct does that make sense right mr tebow were you gonna add a suggestion or a comment i was but i kind of lost it um i forgot what i was going to say so but do i understand that what you're suggesting is that we we discussed next steps for the next meeting is that i think that i think that perhaps we i guess my sense is personally and i'm i don't know if the community is i have a lot to think about and i'm not sure what the next right step is right i want to read more and think about it so that's what i was going to speak to um you know in kempton's um you know i it's a very complicated issue i get that but to me hampton made the point about what what is a mascot supposed to stand for it's supposed to be a rallying um point for a community and obviously the psychological impact that it has on native um people or non-native people well you know regardless it just seems to me that if you have a mascot that's this divisive then how can it ever truly achieve the purpose of a mascot to begin with which is to rally a school um and i just you know the rest of all of the other points are very important and worthy of discussion i just think that um at its simplest form i just don't know how we how keeping it is a real consideration um so that's i will also say mr chiba that's why i said one of like option two is we may at our next meeting say look this is what we've learned and we're ready to make a recommendation to the school committee on this issue we may be ready to take that step that you're talking about i'm not sure we're ready to do it right now but i wanna i think we should put that on the table for our next meeting that maybe we need to do more and take more steps but maybe we don't right maybe we're ready to have a vote and make a decision and do a sort of a full report on this issue to the school committee um again i'm not sure we want to do that tonight right um but i think if we maybe thought about that over the next couple weeks that's something we should discuss at our next meeting does that make sense another point is that if you wanted to have contact with uh native representative voices your group not the school committee could watch one of the recorded panels from one of the other towns i did i did share those recordings with the um with the committee so that that is that is available and we can share that with the community as well um it just seems to me that i think we all probably have a lot to think about and maybe at our next meeting the plan is the item on our agenda well two approved minutes from this meeting but then figure out what our next step is does that seem about right for everyone i see a lot of shaking of heads yes okay so then the big question is when would our next meeting be we haven't scheduled the next meeting tuesday seemed to work okay for everyone yes and i think we'd be looking in july i know it's summer and i'm asking a lot of you i'm sorry but um let me i'm trying to look at my calendar um july 13th that's a tuesday would that work for people luckily we can be remote so if some of you are away in fabulous places like miss chamberlain i know you don't have to but you can always dedicated committee members zoom in um from whatever fabulous place you might uh might be at but how about we tentatively schedule our next meeting for tuesday july 13th at 6 30 and we'll so far right now our items in the agenda will be to approve the minutes from this meeting and we'll talk about what we as a committee want to do next does that make sense for everyone i see lots of nodding heads so i just want to end by saying i want to say thank you to jonathan galashaw for arranging um the tech on our meeting tonight thank you to dr gifford for attending and taking um the fabulous minutes um thank you also to dr davis delano and mr campbell for presenting to us um i think we all learned a lot and it was good to hear from both of you this evening and so we appreciate you taking the time um to join us you're welcome thanks for educating yourselves absolutely thank you for having me and with that i will entertain a motion to adjourn so moved thank you mr tebow can i have a second please second second i'm miss masari all right thank you all right and now i get a roll call and um dr gifford before as i roll call out i just want to know that miss murphy joined us um if we can indicate that on the notes so all right on the motion to adjourn mr tebow yes uh miss bloom yes miss chamberlain yes miss missari yes uh miss selena pamphilina okay uh miss murphy yes uh miss scott yes and i also vote yes thank you everyone for um your time this evening for spending time in your summers um to join us and i look forward to seeing you all on the 13th good night you

approximately 27. they have the rigor of college courses we have to follow curriculum basically guideline standards set by the college board and students take an exam and based on how they score how they do on that exam they may or may not earn credit depending on the school that they go to okay now there are some exceptions if you're going to public in in illinois but it's possible that they could earn credit and you have to take the test you know you have to take the test not just take the clicks and it's not dependent on your grade in the class or how well you performed in the class it's based on the exam score so that's ap dual credit is a course that is aligned to whatever institution is awarding credit so in most cases it's going to be college of dupage but that's of course that our teacher teaches they must meet the criteria to actually be adjunct at that school so our teachers who teach dual credit in district 99 meet the requirements to be an adjunct professor to teach the course dual credit courses they earn the college credit so cod credit but they also earn district 99 credit because it's taught by our teachers okay now there's dual enrollment courses as well important piece with that is the grade you earn is what shows up on your cod transcript as well as your so if you earn that credit you have that credit already at a college that then is transferable anywhere really that's the part i was trying to get so it's not just eastern illinois university you can go well it's one and as long as it's successful the university will accept it sure each university has its own criteria and sometimes they'll accept it like as an elective so it could be an education course or an astronomy course they might accept it as an elective not necessarily a science or an education course dual enrollment is just a little bit different in that the student takes the course but is taught by the university professor it's not taught by district 99 they earn college credit not high school credit yeah but it is an opportunity it's like an early college opportunity to earn college credit while in high school dual credit and dual enrollment they're actually starting their college transcript so so you i'm sorry just to clarify if you don't mind me interrupting so if you do have dual enrollment you could earn college credit but not earn that's correct because you could come up short on your hours to graduate from 99 that would theoretically rarely yes theoretically could happen but it probably wouldn't happen yeah i don't know of a single instance where that has happened and most of the time dual enrollment's done outside of the school day right oh okay so for example our astronomy course is an online course the eastern illinois whole child education course is in the summer and calculus 3 is an online course with some synchronous instruction that sort of occurs during the school day but is taught by an elmhurst university professor anybody in that course has already met their math far beyond undergraduate farm band that's like soft sophomores sophomore college i just wanted to say i i like this track and this has been important to me because if you're not an ap student i wanted to see other options for those students who are willing to do the work and and you know have a goal of college where they can have other options so i like this and i and i know some of the students that my daughter goes to school with at her university has talked about you know they had all these dual enrollment or dual class opportunities so yeah we've been a little behind this illinois has been a little behind we have been and and also i wanted to point out that you know the the getting our teachers that accreditation with with the uh with the college was huge and actually there it this was something we worked hard on for several years and there was a lot of resistance um uh with the cod as i recall that we needed to work through but finally you know that so this is that we've got a conversation passed yeah since then you know you also got a new president and has been very open yeah so this is in comparison to the past terrific and i just anecdotally have to share i mean this is i don't know that people realize this is just how huge this is i have a daughter who um was able to graduate in three years because of her ap credits plus her um our calc iii uh north central college at the time so we had to get her transcript sent and and and incidentally too that was the first time that at her college that they had that the professors that she was talking to it that they ever recalled admitting having a student come in that had already had calc 3 which was really i think something you know a feather in our cab yeah and and then i have another daughter who just did the astronomy uh class and she so we're having her uh transcript sent and and and so it's it's it's i mean so from my standpoint my my child went to school for three years instead of four i mean that saved us a lot of money you know and yeah and our students the girls enjoyed it um it's it's great to get a little taste of uh of what college classes are like this is tremendous and finances is still a barrier to entry for a lot of folks you know when it comes to going to going to college so yeah can you speak a little bit as to how this these are presented to students or how they would find out about it so it really depends on the course so if we're talking about ap and dual credit that would go through when they're signing up for any registering for any courses right they're talking to their counselors they're talking to their teachers teachers are making recommendations for example with calculus 3 most the time the students that are going into calculus 3 as juniors to calculus bc okay so that would be the next logical step okay um there could be some exceptions but again that that's the way it is um you know our counselors know a lot about the courses the dual credit courses ap courses the teachers do so those happen in that way with dual enrollment it is a little bit different and dr thiele's right there are students who take dual enrollment classes that we wouldn't even necessarily know about for example a student could take a college course between junior and senior year in the summer at cod and on college credit they do not need to they might inform us but they don't necessarily have to inform us right there's nothing that we you know as the high school have to do for them to to be able to do this so we don't always know in terms of the new dual credit opportunity or dual enrollment excuse me opportunity we had with eastern i sent out emails to all students who were eligible because there were certain criteria set by eastern illinois university i held a parent night and parent and student night and i had several families attend it was on zoom and then sent the email back out again and said maybe you couldn't attend the night but if you're still interested let me know they filled out applications i held another parent night and we worked all that out and that's how we got to where we're at today typically same with astronomy seniors they're going to be seniors next year three okay so it wouldn't it wouldn't happen generally in the younger grades we have had juniors in our astronomy class through benedictine it's usually upper class would they be approached by their math teacher or how would they find it to your point why would they find so the astronomy courses every one of them is very different so with the astronomy course is you know i work with benedictine and this really all started about four or five years ago when i cold-called benedictine and said we'd really like to form a partnership and that's how we got where we're at we also have a pathway to credit bearing courses which was really what the goal of that was but then the astronomy and we actually had a literature course at one time as well through benedictine came to fruition and so i work with them and what the criteria is i send out mass emails people respond i send out more emails and then i meet people and they say you're the lady who sends all those emails but then we get kids and we had the most this this spring we had more astronomy students than we ever had i think in part because of remote learning because it's an online course and students knew they could do it now at least the students had signed up because i asked some of them you know why are we have so many students why um because there was two meetings that i asked the students to attend and the professor who we worked closely with the past four or five years also you know met with the students um but we had over 20 students and in the past i'd have maybe seven nine it varied so long answer to probably i apologize and there's a there's a cost though for the class they're okay so there's a cost for benedictine however what is nice about benedictine and this i feel like this is a commercial but what is nice about benedictine if that if the student is receiving free lunch the tuition is waived if the student is receiving reduced lunch they receive a reduced rate the uh regular rate if i remember correctly is 180 dollars for three credit hours which if you've ever sent it cheap wow so i just calculus 3 is a there is a small fee as well i fund calculus 3 two ways one through some of that is through parents paying but the other part of it is through title iv grant which pays part of that to bring it down for our families wow so it's not a thousand fifty a credit hour no familiar with that and the eastern illinois university i was able to sponsor all three students it was 1 315 per students one we were able to do through the education pathway grant the other two i was able to fund through title four wow that's awesome yeah it is awesome work yeah so if gina's gonna come in on a vacation day she might as well get pride that she deserves yeah so this summer we are also running an alex enrichment program alex is a computer program in their actual courses that we had students in their district 99 math courses we're also working on the aleks courseware with their teachers in class and outside of class since we the per it's a one-year subscription it's open over the summer so to encourage students we again sent out emails and telling students you know you have this opportunity letting parents know for those students in the classes and we're talking almost 3 000 students that this is available over the summer and they can go in over the summer and i have a math teacher slash department chair who goes one hour a week online so if students have any questions they can go into his zoo meeting and he does help them if the questions are obviously about the alex courseware so that's a program we did over the summer we are also we just finished this week in fact our summer world language support for german we have a french enrichment program as well this is aimed for students who feel that they need a little more to be prepared for the next level because world language builds you need to be proficient at one level to go on to the next so it's not just for students who maybe were failing or even getting a d we i know for sure we had a student who inquired about it that had a c just wanted that little bit extra practice we were able to get our portable transition math class which is our preparation for quant lit class approved this year so we have students who are matriculating to any community college in the state of illinois automatically going into college bearing math courses which is huge this is something that we've been working on in district 99 in dupage county for the last 12 years that i'm aware of but through the power act and other and through the work of our superintendents and dr caputo as well at cod we were able to see this come to fruition awesome another board goal accomplished yeah that's awesome and last but not least the illinois state board of education started a pathway endorsement program this year and based on certain criteria students can earn a pathway endorsement we had to apply and be approved we did apply and literally the week i think it was the week of graduation we were approved and the language that needed to go on the student's transcript was finally approved so we were able to get that it was i believe literally the week of graduation if i remember correctly we had 19 students who did earn that pathway endorsement that pathway endorsement is just to show schools that students met the requirement part of which is six hours of dual credit just since we talked about dual credit i thought i mentioned that there are many more parts of the consolidated district plan i created a document that is on board docs that you can look over certainly we'll answer any questions that you might have thank you wow thank you gina thank you yeah that was a congratulations all right uh request for qualification strategic plan uh we've been talking for several years about doing a strategic plan but waiting until our facilities were completed as that was the last major part of the last strategic plan and we'll so drastically change the environment in which students are learning in that we felt you know let's get people into this new space before we start talking about what's next so now it's time people are going to come back they're going to kids are going to come back be in this new space time to start working with the community to determine what are the next steps for our district so over the course of the next year we will hire a third party consultant because there's a lot of community outreach and data that needs to be gathered and processed and we also want it to be gathered and processed in an unbiased format you know we don't want people thinking that the administration is slanting things in a certain way so this is why districts go out and find a third party consultant jill and the communications team along with other administrators including me have worked to put together this request for qualifications that's in the board packet tonight and we're asking for the board to approve that later on under action items and then we'll issue it and start gathering uh people that will vet and ultimately come to the board with a recommendation of a third party to work with so with these we you put out rfp for something like this too okay all right and we have names of companies that we know other schools have used that we can at least make them aware that it's out there yeah okay is there an expectation that we're going to model this somewhat on on how we built our mfp plan where we engaged different groups identified people are we going to be able to um use some of that that experience yeah i think you can see that experience in the way that jill has written the request for qualifications right that we learned from that experience and then yes we will definitely leverage what we did there and how we we do this but you know obviously in cooperation with that third party and if i remember correctly the last time the document was shared was from 2011 we've done this before and it was in 2011.

correct 2011 was the last time typically school boards will do this about every five years but there was such a lofty goal in there in the master facility plan that we've we've waited this one's a 10-year cycle and then hopefully we'll get back to these five-year cycles okay okay food service program agreement the board i've sent you some information about this over the last month we're recommending that we opt out of the usda meal program and go into a one-year pilot of a more flexible program mark and jury are both here who have done a lot of the work on this we've provided the background to the board but ultimately it'll provide a lot more flexibility to our students trade-off is that we could incur as high of a 300 000 loss in federal grant funds as a result of this when we believe that perhaps maybe students taking advantage of the food service uh in our new new commons will offset uh some of those those lost revenues and make them up in other ways so that's the big over overarching uh picture i'll turn over direct questions to mark injury i i had a question so i was a little um confused about it so today the usda is i think what i saw they provide funding for the usda that provides the food of certain providers of the food they set up the guidelines that we have to follow through the hungry or healthy hunger free child act so if you're in the national program you have to follow those guidelines for nutrition and for the content of the meals okay portion sizes are smaller and so this is a one year pilot we're just trying to see especially with the new survey and the more space um how the kids react to a maybe a more robust meal okay something they're more used to you know there's two things we're fighting though but there's still there's shortened periods which is a problem they don't have a lot of time but we we are making a lot of changes where there's going to be some other places other than the main server area to get a meal so we're going to be able to get you know meals that and the free and reduced kids will get free meals it's the same same as they have in the past it'll but it'll be probably a little bit better meal than they got in the past because it's going to be a standard meal that any kid could walk up and give they give me that lunch i want the program lunch so this is just providing us an opportunity to come outside of the guidelines and and okay i was i was a little confused about if they actually tell us what vendors we have to use but this is just us opting out of the guidelines and trying something different okay large number of high schools around us have it you know this way already they're not in the program so we have some other things to you know give us an outline how to operate it and chart wells um has other schools that have are off the program too so that was my question actually just wondering those other schools that have tried this um have they seen a reduction in food waste and have they seen an increase in student participation i can't speak to the waste part i believe it would be because a lot of times we're serving and it goes right in the garbage because it's a piece of fruit something they don't want um but in terms of the kids going through using it in our server rather than bringing the brown bag in or just picking a few things we do expect it to go up i mean i think and i think other schools that's why other schools get you know more kids involved in the lunch program well i can't remember if it was a a formal goal of past boards or or not but um we had a lot of discussion years back about what can we do to increase the amount of participation um in our lunch programs and and i actually floated this idea many years ago um i think you know we're i i what are we down to now i mean in terms of the last normal year we had number of students that were actually taking like was like 20 20 22 23 i mean it was it was really jerry's shaking her head she runs the program that's about and that had just been and that's that's been a steady sort of downward slide despite all the efforts we've had in in in trying to you know fine-tune uh what we were doing and the kids so one little off um conversation we had the psycho sidebar conversation we still are going to have the short shorter lunch periods this coming year um it right that depends is that we're planning because we're going to pre pandemic because if guidelines come out about social distancing for lunch periods we can make lunch periods work that way if we don't have restrictions around lunches then we will look at doing the full period lunch which then would provide even more access but it this is one of those things that's teetering on state guidelines because i i think that this is just i mean the students are coming back to new facilities um how wonderful that they'll have can you know also see hey the food you know right and and then um more places to eat and and also more options in terms of where where to get the food and to me just logically this seems like it's i i mean i'm hoping we don't incur that 300 000 loss it's scary and you're obligated to you know say this is the risk but the potential is there to really mitigate that and the hope would be in the long term that that this becomes really popular that we we have huge student participation yeah right you know our students i think are more sophisticated eaters now than they've ever been more than you or i were when we were for a lot of things you know and and this makes me really excited uh to see that we have some offerings that maybe will um appeal to those kids who you know want salad bars and soup you're making a great point though that so i mean a lot of kids are on very specific diets too for whatever reason right and and there might be a better opportunity here to meet that right right and and it i mean this is just really exciting and now my only a question is uh how much is an average meal going to cost is it going to be more expensive than what uh was what was like three dollars or we have to increase ours because the funding the funding that we get we've actually been having meals that cost less than what the funding would get back on it because they've been so cheap and they've been requiring us to increase the lunch prices for a standard meal um for the last few years so we're thinking it would be somewhere near 450 next year for if we were in the program and chartwells is proposing five dollars so it'll be 50 cents more um to buy about we think a much better meal and just as an aside this we've done such a brand new beautiful survey here at north we're making improvements to the south one as we as well as we can too to make that just give a whole new feel and trying to keep them but this is an exciting thing you're right can you confirm like how many different purchase points there might be versus what there used to be because i know time was always like is there going to be three stations where they could pay i think it's going to be three you know get out now three itself can they pay off of a phone app or is it a was it a card i don't think for students we're going to go to phone app no it's not it was discussed for exit for teachers though they would be able to inhabit which do which other schools are saying is very successful they can even call out for a lunch and have it ready for them and be ready to just pick up and eat or you know that'd be a future enhancement is it cashless or is it's not cashless completely but it's getting there a lot of it is you know we encourage all the kids to have an account even free and reduced kids because they if they buy a la carte they do have to pay for all the card items you know we hit on a we hit on a point here too um that uh it just occurred to me you're you're bringing up uh that the fact that we were being told that we had to increase our lunch costs because we're participating in the program we're getting more money yeah so there is the potential as we go forward that um that the program is doing really well and it'll be our decision as to whether or not we choose to you know subsidize more or less and to what extent it won't be dictated to us and so i like that flexibility we're going to a system where it's not subsidized at all but this because the subsidy really comes from state and fed so we'll be losing that but we're not we're we're losing the federal subsidies but we're not really you know subsidizing the launch out of district dollars just just to clarify this is a one-year pilot right and is there any impact on our students who are on free or reduced lunch or are somehow no they're going to get it from get it they're going to get so they can go wherever right if they pick up just an a card item and walk through they will have to pay for that but if they get a standard lunch which is a requirement now you have to get a type a meal if you say yeah i wanna i want this they can they don't call it taipei they go i just want the regular meal deal or whatever yeah and they get that zero goes on their account and they could go to any like they can go to the smoothie bar or the i think we're going to try and have it at all three spots for them so then they're spread out you know so they can get and it should be higher quality food than what they're getting and what they're getting now thank you and for the first performer my quick question is it are we going to be collecting data that um they can use to make the standards for lunches because there are standards that we have to meet usually not technically anymore they'll be able to put together whatever kind you know well yeah because we've we've opted out of it but are they going to use our uh what our kids buy and what they want as data they're free to do that and since they're going to own the program it's in their best interest to get make as as enticing a meal as they can can for those kids for that five dollars you know and you can do a pretty good lunch for five dollars when you're chartwells and you buy you know millions of dollars worth of food at the time and you know you got to remember uh mcdonald's meal is is more than five dollars now so you know we're going to have a better quality lunch not that mcdonald's isn't quality food i'm not saying that he's speaking but yes we will have a highly up my previous life i can't deny that but [Laughter] but it it's affordable is what you're saying yeah yeah hopefully you know i mean i i realize five dollars sounds like a lot for a school lunch considering when i went to school it was like a buck 50 or something not anymore i mean five dollars but then you could bring it in a stone tablet so it sounds good so it sounds like everybody's supporting do we have any other yeah yeah okay thank you i don't mean to cut you off i just see a big agenda i know this is i know this is an important point yep and i would expect the best the same from you to me all right next item is insurance renewals um this comes to the board every year at this time uh we do combine with district 58 for some of these renewals as mark has outlined in his memo uh the overall recommendation from mark is an increase of 821 753 dollars which is five point seven percent increase from last year i'll turn it over to mark for the details and any questions actually eight twenty one is the total it's in the increase is forty three thousand dollars the the key things here really there's there's two key factors one is workers compensation is the largest premium that we uh have to pay in the coverage that we need under workers compensation and it's been a real rough year for workers compensation with the pandemic and so um in the past couple years we've seen little or no increase in workers compensation now this year we're seeing a four and a half percent income uh increase in in our biggest program so that kind of weights everything and the second thing is that we're increasing our cyber liability it's it's they're they are targeting schools schools have successfully uh been able to fend some of them off but it's by using these the cyber liability coverage they're experts and they have they'll set a team up if we get hit and it's it's a large you know hit so um that's what we're moving from one million to two million that's that's another twelve thousand dollars a part of that total increase of forty three thousand dollars so the the five seven is is um a hard number for us to eat but we didn't um get an increase in workers comp last year so really if you take that four and a half percent it's really two and a quarter over two years which is closer to our revenue stream so and we we have uh submitted or asked for submissions from 30 different companies on on the whole packages so um we have a real good uh relationship with the brokerage firm that we use for both districts and we're both very satisfied with the work that they do they also support us for training programs and just for whenever we have a claim they just pretty much walk it through for us um so right we're asking for 5.7 increase in the total insurance costs for next year that'll be the action item thumbs up thank you good job 457 403 uh this has come to the board i think in a prior meeting in several memos this is just a slight amendment that allows the district to make direct contributions to those two plans rather than having to be funneled through the employee this is pretty standard in school districts these are slight amendments as presented and recommended to be approved tonight any questions on those thank you bulk purchasing all right purchasing cmg supplies uh jim went out and as he does every year submitted for bids and then we award the bids inside of those smaller bids on individual items then he groups them all together and makes a recommendation to the board you've seen that full memo and recommendation so jim is recommending tonight that the board approves the aggregate amount of 112 876.31 for all of the custodial supplies for the next year questions on that one next one's very similar uh it's on copy paper uh this has come to the board every year when i got here the board set some goals about decreasing use of paper especially as we increase the use of technology we've accomplished that goal very well year after year i kind of went back and did a five-year look as we prepared this one and you can see that this budget was over sixty thousand dollars per year uh five years ago and now we're getting close to about twenty thousand a year uh in that budget so we're we're accomplishing that goal set by the board as well uh this is an action item later tonight to accept that lowest bidder in the amount of twenty one thousand six hundred and fifty seven dollars and eighty cents questions on that one nope master facility plan a few things going on with this uh we continue to be on budget ahead of schedule well on on schedule um you can see where we sit with this that uh we're currently sitting with the contingency of 486 thousand dollars about some of that is movement between funds as we close out certain accounts and and all of that kind of stuff the big one this month was ff e fixtures furniture and equipment as we finalize what we need in those budgets those as we've done in prior months flow back into recommendations for the board to complete scope that we originally hoped when we talked to the community about getting this this project done but then had to scale back to make sure that we would be in budget now that we're within budget we're trying to release back in projects that we originally talked about a big one here that was a huge discussion point of community members as we did the master facility plan and the referendum is classroom improvements so you can see we're starting to allocate more and more of the resources that are being freed up to specific individual classrooms what's nice about those is that jim is able to kind of hold that money off to the side until the summer is done because those are its supplies that we order and then our team will replace the lighting the flooring repaint the rooms those kinds of things so it's really a supply budget in some ways to get that equipment in those capital items in and then over the course of the year we can just keep turning over room after room which is a a nice way to say hey we're going to set aside 400 000 because we have this contingency we're going to plan towards it but we're not going to spend any of that until we're really done this summer just in case something should go wrong that was unexpected so and i think you're going to see more and more as contingency has freed up us putting it into that classroom remodeling plan and get as many of those classrooms up to date as we possibly can which was always the plan i think also by the the longer we wait to make those purchases i think the more we'll get for our money going forward my my speculation but just you know looking at supply chain issues and stuff that i see in my in my work world what i actually think it's going to go down instead of up yeah sure yeah yeah i mean so many so many things are you know in short supply and and are artificially inflated because of because of that right now so there'll be a there's some leveling off and dropping down so i i i suspect that we'll get more for our money pushing things off a little bit not indefinitely you know because eventually prices you know it's i think things are going to get better i hope i pray so that's kind of where we're sitting right now yes that's good news it is good news uh just some pictures i share every month with the board uh south by auditorium seats are in place and the walls are all getting finished it's beautiful space south high learning commons you can see starting to feel like a finished space north uh commons we got a lot of ancillary spaces that are getting as we talked about at the last board meeting that are attached to the commons that need to get cleaned up uh as part of this uh that was from last month all right and then oh any questions on master facility plan beyond that no no it's just so exciting yeah it's really coming along it is i you know i i was actually wanted to mention too that um thinking about next year plans and how we potential things that we might have to deal with with covet having our facilities done and having additional space allows us more more options in how we deal with things than we had a year ago yeah and so that's something to be you know uh positive about and you know well may not fix everything it's certainly something we'll have at our disposal that we didn't have before and that's helpful all right foia requests as always we've received them and they're posted on our website before we close the superintendent's report at the beginning i was distracted i do want to point out two important things uh going on one our community was unfortunately hit by some extreme weather right uh last night throughout the day i've kept close contact with district 68 with the village of woodridge we have offered them any assistance that they need from our custodial maintenance group or you know if they need anything at all they know that they can reach out to us and we will support them i know they've done a lot of just i i know the administration in district 68 was helping people clean their clear their driveways today and they were out working um the village has been very supportive we have heard from many of our families that were impacted and we will continue to support them i know ed was reaching out to families throughout the day to make sure that they knew we were here for them i put out a note that encouraged people to reach out to the district office if they need anything from us and we'll continue to support uh people as we go actually janice i think had a few impacted at north as well so we'll continue to support families in any way we can throughout this and glad that overall it sounds like there were no significant injuries as a result of this so thank you modern science for letting us know that the bad weather was coming and then the other thing to uh that i need to point out this evening is this is janice's final board meeting with us so um thank you janice thank you [Applause] and we're not glad you're going we're just we're happy for you actually yes yes and that is the end of the superintendent's report you know just uh if if a community member thought we could help them what kind of help would we provide certainly we could help with some meals what other kinds which i would not immediately think of schools providing but we do provide meals sure what else would we do it would depend on the family so anything that they need reach out to either we would provide that or we work with the community providers to partner them with that like right now we know that woodridge has some an organization working to provide meals so that might not come from us it might come from that so just as we do with any family that's in need they'll reach out to us we'll talk through what what they need and then if we need help we'll ask for it and hey you know the community always delivers when we ask for help like that so thank you um so yeah if somebody needs it reach out to us and we'll talk to them and figure out what we can do to help anything else we'll move on to the consent agenda is there any member of the board wish to remove any item from the consent agenda is in yeah yes chris i believe is still on yes i am did you did you have anything you wanted to speak about specifically was there anything you wanted to remove and talk from the consent agenda and talk about individually uh me no okay then i need a motion for the board of education to approve the consent agenda as presented which includes personnel report appointments certified leave of absent certified transfer position classified appointments classified personnel reports retirements administration retirements classified resignation certified resignations classified financial pages 2021 2022 amended calendar property and liability insurance renewals employer contribution amendment to the community high school district 99 457 b retirement plan the 403 b retirement plan adoption agreement and resolution of nomination for membership on the donors growth plan commission so i moved second with a heavy heart i second that's really nice but i think joanna beat you to it so it's mike and joanna and terry's heavy-hearted mike davenport aye terry pavich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye christopher espinoza aye shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye and nancy cupcake aye the consent agenda's adoption is adopted now we'll move on for recommendations for action first we need a motion for the board of education to approve the district 99 consolidated district plan as presented by gina for submission to the illinois state board of education so moved second mike and terry thank you mike davenport aye terry pavicich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye christopher espinoza aye shirelle fuller aye jenny hegstrom aye and nancy kupka aye the motion carries next we need a motion for the board of education to approve the request for qualification strategic plan as presented so moved second mike and i think they were shirelle mm-hmm yeah okay thank you mike davenport aye shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye terry paversich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye christopher espinoza hi and nancy kupko aye the motion curious next we need a motion for the board of education to approve the one year trial period food service agreement with chartwells and opt out of the usda meal program a second terry and mike thank you terry pavisic aye mike davenport aye christopher espinoza hi shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye joanna vazquez drexler aye and nancy kupka aye the motion carriers next we need a motion for the board of education to approve the uh to approve awarding the contract for custodial maintenance and ground supplies to the noted vendors in the aggregate amount of one hundred twelve thousand eight hundred seventy six dollars and thirty one cents so i moved second mike and joanna thank you mike davenport aye joanna vazquez drexler aye christopher espinoza hi shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye terry pavich aye and nancy kupka aye the motion carries next we need a motion for the board of education to approve an award of for a contract to midland paper wheeling illinois for copier paper excuse me copier paper for fiscal year 2021 through 2022 in the amount of 21 657 and 80 cents so moved second mike and joanna thank you mike davenport hi joanna vazquez drexler aye christopher espinoza hi shirelle fuller aye jenny heggstrom aye terry pavich aye and nancy kupko aye the motion carries next we need a motion for the board of education to hold the monday monday july 12 2021 board of education meeting entirely in closed session for the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the district or legal counsel for the district including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting or volunteer in the district or against legal counsel for the district to determine its validity wow mike and cheryl i think can i answer the question now or no sure yes okay i didn't hear what you said i'm sorry can i ask a question yes because i i believe that a point of clarification earlier today about that meeting was someone thought we were going to have our meetings entirely in closed session i wanted to make a point that this is a an additional meeting and it's not our first and third meeting that we're having right in order to discuss this so i want to make that point of clarification because i think that was the misinterpretation of the communication earlier thank you today that's good excellent yes special it's a special board meeting entirely in closed session right exactly okay second terry and shreema i thought mike and shirelle mike and sherrell i already yeah it had to be my character to ask the question oh sorry okay we still we're good now okay yes yes mike davenport aye shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye terry pavich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye christopher espinoza all right thank you and nancy kupka aye the motion carries and finally the motion for the board of education to adopt the findings of the complaint manager related to uniform grievance complaint number 52021 so move on second i didn't hear who moved terry and mike was it terry it was mate joanne i'm sorry joanna terry slip smooth it's joanna and mike yeah joanna mike thank you joanna vazquez drexler aye mike davenport aye christopher espinoza aye cheryl fuller aye jenny hegstrom aye terry pavich aye that concludes our action items we move on to communications and announcements report on the legislative education network of dupage we haven't had a recent meeting we had just the one yeah okay summertime it slowed down uh joanna do you ever point out the asset no report uh terry 99 foundation uh no report but just so you know um julia beckman had a hip replacement last week so she's doing okay yeah she's doing great she's around and doing great so but just so you know she's pretty formidable mm-hmm julia is julie yeah she is she's tough mm-hmm yeah so but i think she was up in wisconsin and did it because her daughter that's a doctor right so the ed foundation will resume business in july as a result yeah we got moved back a little okay uh chris do you have anything on the illinois association school boards probably not chris anything to report on illinois association of school boards oh uh no not as far as i know i have signed up for the conference in november i believe and i truly sent me the information on that great uh just as an aside district 99 will be hosting the dupage divisional meeting either spring or fall to be determined oh i believe that ed will volunteer that courtney do that that's been the theme over the last week okay so we have upcoming board meetings again july 12th which will be totally closed to sherelle's point this is not in place of an it's not it's an extra meeting it's an extra meeting it is not going to be a continuation that will be meeting in closed session along and this is specifically to work on some employment issues and then on july 19th we're going to have our regular business meeting at 6 30 p.m here at south well location to be determined because it depends on the government's executive order and everything else so well okay stay tuned stay tuned we will announce it in advance as to where it will be okay do we have anything else we have a motion to adjourn so moved terry joanna all those in favor aye all those opposed we are adjourned thank you thanks you

um i forgot to use the microphone it's a totally different room um i guess we'll uh rise for the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you dr solo is there any public comment no sir thank you um so our agenda we have one item to review the um the the policy 5141 for student health services um it remained unchanged through uh two readings um uh do we have any additional comment on that or or anything or do you think we're ready to move for a third reading yeah not on my end okay i know there was a question about the tuberculosis and uh mr white's concerns were addressed yeah he asked about um under what conditions basically the tuberculosis screening would be conducted uh nurse our head nurse nancy stanton put together a packet of information and sent it to me which i shared with the members of the committee and tim was satisfied with that excellent um well then um i will move that policy 5141 student health services be moved to a third reading for final review and adoption by the board is there is there any additional uh discussion uh on the motion hearing none uh all in favor he's unanimous of those present um fantastic um i have no other items on the agenda dr schoelen do you have anything else to bring forward okay seeing none i would like to entertain a motion to adjourn i will second all in favor unanimous by those present this meeting is adjourned thank you

okay we are now live on youtube and do we have uh attendees yes attendees are are joining at the moment there are currently eight attendees okay okay all right welcome to our june 22nd 2021 open session board meeting our mission the asuza unified school district equips every student with the knowledge and skills for college and career readiness to fulfill their purpose and positively impact society as we're moving into open session we're going to go ahead and start with item 4.1 flat salute and and i i do want to uh share with the with our um viewers uh i want to apologize we were handling um we're still in closed session until this point so we appreciate your patience and we are we're sorry about any any inconveniences that this may have caused now moving forward um with the 4.1 flag salute our our our student had to leave and that's okay we'll go ahead and continue we'll go ahead and start with the flag salute i'll go ahead and leave it we can all please stand up right hand over our heart and begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it changed one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all i think we'll go ahead and move on to roll call 4.2 we'll go ahead and start with board member beau president board member rodriguez pena here and board member chris gonzalez here and board member ariana's myself i am here we're all here today moving on to item number 4.3 approval of the agenda can i please get a motion to move 4.3 [Music] we have a first by board member grier second we have a second by board member rodriguez pena and for some reason i i can't get into it myself popped up so yeah i just i just can't i put the joint meeting in it and it hasn't happened so let's go ahead and take a hand vote we have board member bo yes board member rodriguez pena yes board member grier or remember chris gonzalez yes and on myself yes which is a five zero and moving on to the next item 5.1 approval of settlement cases number ascw-010694 and number eight azus-019241 and remember azusa the action that was taken during closed session is none at this time you get a motion to approve this uh yes no no actions are taken i'm sorry can you please repeat that this is on the agenda as an action item right so to approve the settlement cases does not require correct does not require action okay since there's no action taken right moving on to item 6.1 public comment or on agenda or non-agenda item sam do we have anyone in the public that would like to go ahead and have a public comment at this time [Music] as of right now there are no attendees that have their hands raised thank you for that then we'll go ahead and move to the next item it is 7.1 comments reports and requests by the board of education we'll go ahead and start with board member both thank you i'm looking forward to working over the summer and getting information to guide us for the next school year i'd like to make a board request that at our first meeting in august that the board receive information regarding the financial impact of student absences during the 2021 school year so what i'm looking for is the impact of the loss of ada by school and school-wide i'm sorry by school and district-wide thank you is that all yes thank you okay great thank you we have a board member career no comment tonight no comment board member chris gonzalez i have no comment either thank you thank you yeah board member rodriguez yes sir good evening everyone um i just wanted to report out that on wednesday june the 2nd i attended the western justice center the wjc peer mediation certificate graduation of students at gladstone at glaston high school students from azusa and glaston high participated in 18-week virtual peer radiation group boot camp now they are certified to become peer mediators the mediation root camp teaches students to social and emotional skills self-awareness self-management social awareness and relationship building responsibilities decision decision making who this is to help students in need are students of their own their own peers um i think that they probably relate more to this their own peers and they would probably administrator or even their parents and i think it's great that these students have learned to to work with students of their peers and their they have the opportunity to reach out to them and you know if they feel a need or they want to stick to someone so i want to congratulate all the students who received their um certificate and last week i also attended a four-day wjc training in pasadena and received a certificate with board president arianes it was a very well organized very well attended by others in the um not necessarily the san diego valley bills also mayor may the mayor from bell was also there i myself learned a lot from train from this training it was great to see others administrators consoles from azusa unified school district the majority of them were from um slauson middle school we all had we had uh listening circles and self-reflections about ourselves when you know what others have gone through you learn to respect them um in a different way students from gladstone high came his feet to our group i was so proud that these students were from ausd and they spoke to how they use their training this one young man really touched me my heart by saying that you know he also uses his mediation with his friends you know he if he sees the friends that are having a conflict or even in his own home that he he's learned he said he's learned what to do to help them and i think i was very proud of him that he doesn't just only he's a senior he said i'm not going to be in school any longer so you know i will use it in my own he said i'm going to go out to work someday and i know that i'm going to be maybe dealing with the conflict or whatever but this is what he learned and he's using it outside of the school environment um as i said everyone has a story to tell and um this morning during my walk it was so beautiful to see by murray school i mean new people were there and students were there they were so excited to go to school and it was just nice to see people in in front of the school waiting to get in front for summer school so it looked here to my tears to my eyes just to see you know after 15 months i've never seen anyone when i walked in the morning today i seen all these kids and the moms really excited to go to school so i want everyone just to have a great summer and be safe thank you thank you for that um my report is i i i did attend the the certificate the graduation of uh certification of our students that did take the course this last year um at uh asusa and gladstone and um last year when they came to present in the summer i had asked the the director um and i had asked dr dana mitchell how how how can i go how how can can the board go and so during this time um during the the at the end um after the presentation of certificates um the director came up to me and said hey you're the board member that wanted to come these are the dates next week and so um uh dana put it in our thursday board packet um and so i i did attend last week and it was an amazing experience to be able to share this with our teachers and for our own students to come and present um we had the the young man that um board member rodriguez pena was uh talking about also shared that through this process of learning these tools that now he wants to become a psychologist and he wants to get his bachelor's and his masters and he wants to you know to do this and so one of the questions that i asked him was you know how would you um what would you suggest to susan unified to to make this a a better program and he stood quiet for a little bit and his dad was sitting right in the in back of all of us and this young man said i wish i would have received these lifelong tools in middle school his dad was just in tears because it really did help him shape him and he said i wouldn't have gone through the stuff perhaps that i did go through if i learned these tools of conflict conflict resolution communication mediation and just being able to to to have these tools to have better relationships and so that was powerful to me not only as an attendee myself but as a school board member and so um i i can't wait to you know what what for this year um we did we did attend with uh slauson middle school teachers kudos to them they they um you know they were amazing and i know that other schools went this last this week i think they're there and so i just wanted to emphasize um i think we're we're on the right track and bringing this program together here at our school district and i'm i'm really happy that we have adopted this program and that's all i have for for today um moving on to 8.1 we have comments and reports by superintendent cabinet and student board members at this time student board members are not here because it is summer is that correct we can check with sam do we have um any of the student board members present there are no student board members present at this time okay then we'll go ahead and turn it over to um our superintendent and cabinet numbers so the business team is currently working on closing out the 2021 fiscal year um at the same time we're working and fulfilling audit requests so our auditors will be on site starting next week to actually audit our financial transactions and our financial operations um and with the close out to be projected to be on the december 4 meeting of their findings thank you even though i'll say this in my presentation a little later just want to take the time to invite uh our parents our community uh to our school reorganization meeting uh happening this week on thursday at 6 pm it will be the english um meeting and at 7 30 it will be the spanish meeting thank you good evening i am super excited to announce that our music staff has been hard at work planning a summer music camp that will be held august 4th through the 13th it will be for fourth through 12th graders and it's no cost to students they're going to offer a variety of classes like boomwhackers band brass choir orchestra percussions strings and woodwinds can you hear me oh okay um and it's going to be hosted at foothill middle school we also have bertrand music we'll be offering a free instrument rentals for the camp for our students that need them thank you and i would like to say first good evening board members and staff community members i want to express a deep appreciation for all the hard work that took place at the bargaining table uh well this year has brought us many challenges i can say that through our work this year we have grown and improved as a collective team i want to thank our aea apa and cfda teams for their hard work and contributions to the process thank you thank you for that uh we're moving on with our next agenda item 9.1 this is a unified school district ausd 2021 california school dashboard local indicators presentation and we have miss jennifer eddie bryant i'll turn it over to you there we go all right thanks for your patience good evening president arianes board members mr ortega and cabinet members i'm very excited to be here again with you this evening to share with you and our public about our california school dashboard local indicators the state of california has been shifting some timelines and requirements for the local indicators this year we will actually present the local indicators to you at the same meeting as the lcap approval which is scheduled for later on in the agenda and then in the fall we will upload our local indicators to the california school dashboard and then the dashboard will be published sometime around the first of december and as you may or may not know the california school dashboard is part of our state's new accountability system um it's been a little bit off in these last couple years with the covid impact but there are still some things being published and next year these local indicators that i'll show this evening will be part of what will be shared the local indicators really allow districts to use multiple measures to to see how we are performing on the eight state priorities in education and as a quick review you can see on this slide the eight state priorities um these are used to develop our goals spending and as well as our accountability measures uh based on on these eight eight uh care uh categories so on the california school dashboard there are really two types of indicators if i can step back and just give you a brief review there are state indicators this is data that's pulled by the state automatically and colored performance levels are developed from from that data and then the other part of the california dashboard is the local indicators and these are district measures of progress there are three ratings levels of the rating system uh met not met are not met for two or more years and these are developed and then submitted to the dashboard by each district this slide gives you a little bit of a cross section and reference of the state priorities and then the state indicators on the dashboard and the local indicators on the dashboard it are it is the five indicators that you see they're circled that we'll be discussing this evening when the california dashboard is published this is what the landing page looks like these are 2019 results and the california dashboard as a whole really has three key messages those are first that the quality education is defined by more than just a single number kind of what we were doing in the past and the dashboard was created to to provide a more comprehensive look at schools and districts the second key message is that equity must be sought all students all the time so each student group has a color gauge on our state indicators as well as um overall uh indicators and finally the dashboard really supports local decision-making and so that's why we have those local indicators that you see there on that landing page page the ones with the blue labels under each so this evening i'm going to review those local indicators that will be part of our 21 2021 california school dashboard for azusa just a quick review of the process districts first decide upon how they're going to gather data for their local indicators there are some options the state provides they decide how they can actually use the local indicator data for their own purposes they then report on each of the indicators to the board of education what we're doing this evening and then finally upload to the california school dashboard and the community to see now this step right here outlined in purple is really the power behind the data the local indicators are required by law but the compliance uh the compliance steps are not nearly as powerful as what we're doing with our local data and so it is used to help develop our lcap and even though schools don't have local indicators our local schools can look at our district-wide local indicators to help them look at for areas of strength and need uh for their school plans and so just like all data the power lies in what we're going to do with it and that's why it's it's so important to not just upload this and and share but also use it in our our continuous cycle of improvement so let's go ahead and look at the areas that we'll be reporting priority one is uses our williams settlement reports and we report our appropriately assigned teachers all teachers those that are serving english learners as well as any vacant positions we also report on our level of students who have access to standards aligned textbooks for use at home and at school and then also looking at our facilities how many of our facilities are meeting the good repair standard and so here are the results for our 2021 dashboard the next local indicator deals with priority two it's the implementation of state standards and we use a self-reliant reflection tool to assess our progress in measuring our implementation the progress falls into one of the five categories that you see here on the left and then the rating that each area gets is not a good or bad but rather a level of progress for a district as you can see from exploring and researching implementation to full and sustained and so as we look at averages for these five areas you can see the results there and we met that local indicator the next priority three is parent and family engagement and again a self-assessment tool is used to gauge how well we are encouraging parent participation how well we are partnering with our parents in decision making the three focus areas are those that you see here how well we are building family and school relationships how how we are building partnerships uh with families for student outcomes and then how we are seeking input for decision making the average rating there is uh reflected and in addition to the uh of the the ratings um that you see on the screen there's also a narrative that goes along with this and this presentation is a summary of a larger local indicators progress report that was part of the agenda item and shared with you and will be shared with the public the next area is school climate and the two areas that we look at for this local indicator is school safety perceptions and our sense of connectedness you can see the the data quantitative data there from our district annual youth truth survey and again we also write a narrative that describes our progress in these areas priority seven is how we are providing access to our students to a broad course of study and just to define for you what a broad course of study is it's defined by encode and for elementary students a broad course of study includes english math social science science visual and performing arts health physical education and any other board prescribed studies and for our secondary students a broad course of study includes english math social science science foreign language visual and performing arts applied arts which are the arts that are tailored to create something rather than just art for aesthetic purposes career tech education is is one of the broad course of study areas physical education and then any other board prescribed studies and so we report on the data uh on our progress in providing the broad course of studies to all students we we take time to interpret and and gather meaning from it and then also how we might use that data uh in our in our district and so here's here's the data that will be reported in an example of our interpretation uh as we look at how we are offering a broad course of study to students and then some of the uses of this data that we use to offer for example additional courses those are some of the things you might find in the lcap as well as extended time for learning through extended school days so this concludes my uh presentation to you this evening on the local indicators if you have any questions or comments i can address them now thank you jennifer for your presentation we'll go ahead and start off with board member career he has a few questions just a question on on slide number 14 school climate the the two areas that we're evaluating are school safety perceptions and sense of connectedness and it says that the the that this priority area is is determined to have been met but looking at those numbers um especially under the area of sense of connectedness and i know we talked about this a little bit last last week uh briefly but looking at these numbers it just makes me wonder what is the what is the bar the target that we have that that we would look at some of these numbers and determine that they're met well thank you board member greer um i'm going to share the unusual way the state does align met not met or not met for two or more years and and essentially this is a local indicator and we get to set our own um set our own metric goals and and targets and in our our lcap we do have those targets those are the targets that we use this met on the local indicators is triggered when a district actually submits and uploads their local indicators and then movement towards some sort of target is done within um but it doesn't determine on the local indicator whether we've met or not met and i hope that makes sense it's a it's a little more complex but we do report progress towards our target in our lcap and in the lcap annual update yeah it would be um maybe apart from this it would be helpful to know what what are those targets that we're that we're aiming for here so that we know locally you know some of this i mean it talks about perceptions and so so perceptions are are things that need to be contended with or is a sense you know a sense that one has of connectedness these are potentially nebulous things to to try to get the data on but but if we're looking at and saying you know 36 percent of our students feel as though i gather rate highly on that that particular area or is 36 the target is is the target uh you know 100 are we what is that even if we look at iterative goals what what are the what are the steps that we're hoping to to move toward that that would be helpful to have a better sense of i can report that we do report that through our lcap metrics these are two of our metrics within our lcap and that those uh targets are indicated in the lcap for they've been part of our prior lcap and we have new targets um for the new 20 21 24 l cap as well i can look those up unfortunately you don't have to send them not now if you were to send those in later and i'm able to even look them up on the lcap as well but if you could send that in that would be on a update that would be great no problem i just have a clarification question so you did i hear you just say that that the action of uploading our our our report that we met the standard yes so i think i would like to see some more clarity about that in terms of what the guidance from the state right um sure um because it would seem to me they would make that that the local indicators are being based on the performance standard right and whether or not we met a performance standard or not right around those local indicators and not that we uploaded a document um so we could just get more clarity about that piece and to enter into adrian's point right is that i think you know it's easy for districts to just say okay we met all the local indicators it's a lot harder for us to say look we if 36 of our high school students do not feel connected do we really feel like we can say that we're meeting this standard so so kind of like a a uh baseline to kind of have a baseline get that target baseline comparing to what it actually is yes um i think the detail might be addressed in the narrative that goes along with the dashboard um having submitted this for schools it is one it's a light switch on switch off by inputting any data into the dashboard the state says okay you've met it if a district didn't submit anything then it's an automatic not that there's no qualifying um so i think the meat of it is in the ltap and also in the narrative that goes along with whatever data the district decides to submit and that gets the part of your question yeah i also agree with adrian i was going to ask the same question because 36 percent looks very very low but what are we meeting compared to what and um i mean even even in the middle school and you know the the uh school safety perception and the sense of connections it's very those are very important very valid um school climate that these figures are very low but what does it compare to that's my question so our comparison um these are we can't compare the data on the youth truth survey to our previous district survey because they're two different surveys so we will use the youth truth as our baseline and then our target is to at least within uh the next three years to increase for example the connectedness uh our elementary students up to ninety percent moving our middle school students to sixty 60 and our high school students to 50 percent now that's a target not a goal because the goal is 100 we want all of our students feeling that way targets and then also my second question was so um can we compare that to last year or the year before or is has it changed has it gotten better has it been the same yes i just have to see that just you know when you get time please okay thank you just another question jennifer then in terms so if if the state goes towards standardizing the um the tool measurement tool and they start using the california health healthy the chicks right right because there's a piece of legislation that's that's proposing that right would would you anticipate what is this article data question would you anticipate that we would continue using youth truth survey even if the state's saying okay for the dashboard we're going to use chicks now i absolutely we're going to continue to use youth data um and i think this is it it is a baseline year um and i think what is what what's interesting also is that um to what extent has the pandemic um you know uh created this sense of uh you know this this lack of connectedness um it's definitely an area to work on and this is i mean this is these are two really great pieces um the other the other piece of triangle this data is is with the listening circles right where we can really dig in um and then in terms of looking at the lcap what is it that we're doing to help promote some of the you know the connectedness i mean right so i mean i'll just give a quick example um work with western justice center that's one strand right work in terms of increasing collagen qualities all of these things that are lcap that we put in there to say here are some of these goals and things that we're doing so i'm going to say to answer your question yeah absolutely we continue to use it and if the state says you only need to use checks well then we'll use that too any more questions for purpose thank you jennifer for your presentation and for the follow-ups that the board has has asked and now we're going to go ahead and move to item 9.2 approval of the 2021 through 2024 local control and accountability plan the lcap and lcap addendum can i please get a motion to move 9.2 so moved we have a first by board member bo can i please get a second we have a second by board member grier if we can go ahead and bring this to vote i'm trying to find it sorry i found it and it passes 5-0 we'll move on to item number 9.3 approval of the district's 20 21 2022 budget can i please get a motion to move 9.3 it's removed we have a first by board member bo second we have a second five board member rodriguez pena any discussion seeing that there's none let's go ahead and move towards loading this and it passes five zero we're moving on to nine point four school reorganization update and i'll go ahead and transfer it to mr arturo ortega president um we'd like to give the board an outfit on where we are with the school reorganization process this is for information and updates only uh so again our objective is just to update uh you all on our process and wherever we are uh just a quick recap uh we assembled the team uh back in the fall that team was half parents half staff on the parents side we divided it half elementary half secondary on the staff side we divided by thirds a third admin a third ada and a third csea and we began to meet in november the district uh took uh four potential models uh to the school reorganization too uh we were very clear that this was just a starting and another point or form did it have to be one of these four models uh we said okay there could be a model five six seven eight nine ten uh this was just a starting point for the team after uh many uh team uh meetings uh the team came up with some recommendations uh these recommendations uh were presented to the board of education uh staff um at that meeting um communicated that we were in agreement with these recommendations that were coming from the team and the recommendations basically were that they no longer wanted to look at models one or two they just wanted to look at models three and four but there were some changes that they were contemplating for the models the metaphor was simple but they did not like the districts where before where was 612 schools um they wanted the schools to be 7 12.

in model 3 they wanted to talk more and discuss should there be a tk or no tk8 in model three they wanted to discuss should there be two middle schools or one middle school they wanted to discuss if there was going to be two high schools if there were going to be two high schools or one high school and they want to talk about should these be tk5 or tk6s in addition to the models they also want us to reconsider support staff they want to provide they want us to provide an accelerated implementation timeline uh the timeline that the district approached the team was a five-year phase-out phase in um and they wanted that to go quicker um and they wanted to consider talk about should this be implemented implemented in 21 22 or 22-23 uh as a result of these recommendations on this work uh it ended up being that for model 3 they landed on yes they should be tk-6s uh for the tk8 they decided yes there should be one tk8 for one middle school or two middle schools they decided there should be one middle school for one high school or two high schools they decided it would be one high school um we did reconsider support staff and present that to the team we did provide an accelerated timeline and that was a three-year timeline and uh before we got to considering the implementation should be 2122 2223 uh the board provided guidance uh that we should uh implement in 2223.

once the models were identified and we knew and we had clarity on model 3 and model 4. the district then came with a model 3 and a model 4 that was newly constructed by the team and we said these are the sites that we would recommend would stay open and these are the sites that would eventually uh be closed uh we did communicate to the team that our recommendations were based on capacity that's how we came to our decision but we were very transparent with the team to say obviously there's lots of ways to look at this uh for example we can look at it in terms of north south east west and so maybe that's important to someone on a team that the schools be kind of equally distributed amongst the uh the quadrants of the city another way of looking at it could be border versus not border to somebody maybe border schools are more important to keep open uh versus uh inside uh and a plethora of other ideas uh the teams then the team members i apologize then had an opportunity to create their own ideas we came with an idea and they were able to create an idea or ideas of their own uh team members uh took that to heart and got to work rolled up their sleeves and many uh ideas for model 3 were born and some ideas for model 4 were born each team member had an opportunity to present their idea to the team and explain why they chose the sites that they chose what was behind that there was also an opportunity for the team to ask questions clarifying questions uh thank you mr robinson for this idea but explain to me one more time why did you choose this school because i'm not clearly understanding that and then mrs rodriguez would have an opportunity to discuss and say this is why this is my thought behind that after that meeting because this was the first time that people were putting their ideas out for everyone um each team member then had an opportunity to do one of four things after listening to everyone's ideas they had an opportunity to go back and revise their thinking if for whatever reason they were inspired or they saw something that triggered a different thought process and so they can revise their thinking they can say after listening to everybody i want to keep my thinking they can say after listening to everybody these ideas are way better i love these ideas better than mine i want to remove my thinking or if a board member i'm sorry if if a team member did not create an idea but were inspired to create an idea then a new idea can be created those revisions deletions creations were brought back to another meeting and everything was then represented to the team after several meetings uh discussing and talking about the oh by the way all four of those examples came came to life some people revised her thinking some people removed their thinking some people kept the thinking and some people brought new thinking to the table so all four of those options were were implemented um after a series of meetings and conversations the team decided uh that they that they were going to narrow it down keep it in my lapel sam does that sound better yeah you're sounding a little bit better okay uh the team decided they were going to narrow down uh the ideas that were on the table and so at a meeting that's exactly what happened model 3 was narrowed down to four ideas you can see them here 3 10 3 1 3 8 and 3 3 as they are named and for model 4 it was narrowed down to two models model four four point four and idea four point five mr ortega can can you explain that again yeah so what the decimal the numbers with decimals what do those represent 100 so each team member uh had an opportunity to rank the different model three ideas and so they were they were able to say this is my number one this is my number two my number three four five six seven eight nine and for model four they do the same thing this is my number one my number two my number three my number four so they write the the models every team member's uh ranking then was averaged out and of course because number one was their favorite model in this case the lower the score the better the lower the average the better that particular um idea had so you would see here that in 3.10 the average score was a 3.72 so on average people scored it um again obviously there's a lot of numbers involved here but the average score was 3.72 unlike i where at the bottom their average score was 5.83 and so the team was allowed to look at this data and then decide based on this data how many ideas we're going to move forward and so the thinking here was that uh well oh someone came out right away and said well it's obvious it should only be three point seven two and three point eight nine then move forward then somebody would chime in and say well i think 4.83 should also move forward because it's not a five and then somebody else will check in but 5.06 is so close and so amongst themselves they discussed the data and decided where to draw the line and the draw and the line was drawn after d in model 4 there are two sets of decimals and the reason there are two sets of decimals because there were only four models looking at 2.06 through 2.89 that could be a little uh difficult to differentiate differences and so those scores were doubled uh to show to show a bigger difference between the the categories between the the average scores and again they were able to decide themselves uh where they were going to draw that line mr ortega for i'm going to speak for myself it's going way over my head um i i would ask that um you could provide the board and also the public posting on our website more of a abbreviated narrative that explains with with labels what what the decimals represent and what the ranking system is so that if someone popped on at this point in the process um they could follow that summary and better understand what these numbers mean a thousand percent i will check our summary for that day to see to see how we have summarized that um on that particular day because all the videos and the summaries are posted but i'll double check how that's working thank you okay no no i agree with sabrina because i'm i'm lost with all these decimals and stuff i should i get it one more time follow me okay i think uh uh i think it's important for example you know just that we have clarity and that the the public has clarity and i think just seeing the decimals on both sides them not having labels on top it just is model three so which one's the model three which one was the ranking i i think that's where perhaps the confusion um comes into play and what is abc like this would be like a key perhaps to you know and on top of um the columns just differentiate what it is and then kind of like have a key explaining um what this all means because we're looking at numbers and and um i'm now understanding it more and more because i've been watching the meetings and i've been watching what you guys been doing but i think like you know to to to the board members that have just spoken it you know i think we want um it to be a little more clear for for the public to be able to go onto our website and say oh you know yeah i understand without having a robust explanation um given to them they can go ahead and clearly see that i i would agree and then the abc's or the models yes or no oh um so if you can imagine this with 3.10 3.1 3.8 and 3.3 blacked out so when the team saw this 3.10 3.1 3.8 and 3.3 these four models were here were blacked out they were hidden just like these down here you don't see these models down here so they were hidden and instead of calling them out 3.10 3.1 3.8 3.3 they were assigned a letter a b c d e f g h i okay and he'll make this whole thing okay that answers my question you like numbers yeah when the team and this was on purpose and we got a lot of positive feedback for this i got a lot of a lot of compliments about this what we wanted to do is we wanted to move the team away from falling in love with their model or their idea and so we didn't want them to know which model it was they knew it was a model but they had no idea which model they knew b was a model but they had no idea which model was b and so then the conversation could be about the data and the data only because if we were to to show the models then adrian's favorite model could have been 5.33 and so now adrian is going to be pushing well i think we should take the top seven models that's a possibility because that's what happens because we're human and so we wanted to to to focus their attention on just the numbers and the data so you with this slide yep you're not intending to necessarily describe or explain for us what these models are you are describing the process through which it was narrowed down that is correct okay so the a the a through i and the a through d is not super helpful for for us or for for anyone watching that was there to to allow for blind justifying to let you know that the team went through a process to narrow these down got it all right because we had nine ideas for model three four ideas for model four there had to come a point in time where we had to keep narrowing down and narrowing down narrowing down and so they narrowed it down to four model threes and two model fours after these were narrowed down the team asked for some potential benefits and drawbacks for programs budget and support and we spent three meetings going over these possibilities with the team the team itself wanted to check itself and do a quick pull uh they were very clear that they did not want this to be a a a matter of record they didn't want this to be official they amongst themselves just wanted to know where everyone stood so far and so they requested that we do a quick pull of the team and you see here the results of that sixty percent of the team at this point in time when there was a quick pull uh we're leaning towards a model four forty percent of the team was leaning towards model 3.

again they were very clear that they did not want this data to say this is where the team sits or this is an official recommendation from the team they just wanted a quick straw poll of where they were at at our last meeting the team then said it was time to narrow down these four ideas to one idea and these two ideas to one idea and so consistent with this first data set the team narrowed down that model 3 would be 3.10 and model 4 would be 4.4 and that's those two models are these models right here so the team has now narrowed it down to two models and these are the models here so model three here that you see here again internally we call it 3.10 and the model 4 that you see here is model 4.4 so the team has now narrowed it down to these two models there are no other ideas on the table these are the now the official two ideas that are left but the team said we the team are not ready to weigh in on which model we prefer what the team has requested is that we hold the parent community meetings on thursday uh which we plan to launch a survey at that time as well they want to see the data from that survey they have also requested that we that we resurvey the staff and we had told them that we were planning to do that anyway because when we surveyed the staff we did not have as much as information as we have now they want to be able to see that data as well and when they reconvene they will be ready to weigh in on model 3 versus model 4.

that's where the team stands and so the way it was the way it happened at our last meeting um it looks as if these are the next steps and i say looks as if because again this is dynamic it's moving but this is where it seems to be going um we will have a parent community meeting this thursday we will land we will launch a parent community survey uh we will re-survey uh staff we will have a final one final school reorganization team meeting for the team to weigh in on model 3 and model 4 and then we begin the board of education process we have been uber transparent and uber communicative almost at every meeting that this team is not a decision-making team that they are recommending body i said i will i will assume that the board is yes going to be looking at the work from this team they'll also be looking at the staff survey they'll also be looking at the community survey they'll also be looking at other pieces of information but again at almost every meeting we try to reiterate that the team is not making a decision and therefore that does not mean that azusa unified school district is going to do one of these two things not what it means it means that toward the team they will be recommending to the board of education that we do one of these two things but it's a recommendation only and that the board of education still needs to consider the factors that it needs to and wants to um uh consider and so um again this was to build context i guess i could have just gotten to a spoiler alert and just you know came here and said this is where we're at these are the two things just wanted to build some some context around how the journey because we're in june we started in november this was a journey to get to this but this is where they're at right now and this is their current thinking uh right now we're gonna thank you thank you for that we have a few uh board members that have questions let's start with board member greer you i i've i think it took it took some work but i think i i got to i got to a place of understanding um here at the end so thank you thanks for getting me there um something i would request that that i think would be helpful for would have been more helpful for me to see and might be helpful for for the community to see can we take i've seen this format where we have this if you can go to what is this slide 11 this one yes so i i've seen this format a number of times um and because of that i have grown to understand for the most part what this what this means can we translate can we find a way to translate and communicate that there is work that has taken place by this committee and the committee has has narrowed it down to two models but can we more clearly write out what these mean and and with them side by side so for example i can gather that the the schools in yellow are being recommended that they be consolidated into other other schools but that's but that may not be clear if someone were to just look at this uh slide in and of of themselves so if there is a way to more in a more visually appealing way to clearly communicate a lot of work has happened but the net result of all of that work that has taken place is uh there are these two models that that are being evaluated and that is that is what's before uh this committee that that would that would help me tremendously and having a place that i can go to uh to easily find that these two models are there um would would be helpful for me um if i were out and just kind of getting get tuning in at this point in the process you want to ask for clarification you did say visually correct like a key okay i guess to be to be extremely yes using using using something has something that's that i can look at a glance and and i can and i can gather the data as opposed to yes needing to read paragraph form that that's documented but somehow using words and and graphics visually to be able to compare the models yeah we will give it a shot for sure yes so yeah i want to thank you and and your um and your committee for six months you guys work very hard and i really appreciate it and and i think that the number system you spoke about there was a reason behind it you know and you you explained that you want them to choose their own and it makes sense you know i mean you know what you were doing and i appreciate that so yeah it's it's good and thank you for the explanation and the work of your committee okay thank you um so my comment is not so my previous comment about the kind of decoding of the decimals and having headers and keys and summaries that um the average reader so not teachers not administrators not board members but the average reader in the community um needs to be able to jump on look at a slide look at a one-pager and understand that these understand the ideas and communicating that very simply takes a lot of work and so i know that there's going to be a lot of work with you and your team to get that together especially in anticipation of the thursday night meetings because you're going to have the universe and you don't want to have 2 000 people thoroughly confused you want to have them informed and feeling engaged in the process um my only additional comment is something that i think points to some of the the culture in azusa unified um around communication and and i'm keying in on this because i heard you say it a few moments ago about um you know that information is in prior meetings or it's in it's in an old slide deck i would like to encourage you and your entire leadership team to um continue to be more proactive in providing information that's really clear without kind of making the requester say well you can go find that somewhere in a deck or somewhere deep inside the website i think that is personally been a little frustrating for me and i think um in speaking with stakeholders that's a frustration that that has come up from time to time and so i would like us to move forward as a district with being um with having the expectation that the burden of finding information should not be on the person who's asking but that the the district as a as an organization and as part of our district culture that we can push out information and make it as easy as possible and and as accessible as we can to our community so so so what i'm hearing from all the board is is just being able to have a more clear and concise communication especially for this meeting that is coming up on thursday um thursday june 24th uh instead of spending so much time it we could have the the paragraph the key to be able to just reference right away um you know having a larger audience uh them not be able to ask questions and we can cap you know captivate that um by this thursday would be appropriate in that that's what i'm hearing from from the majority of you if you have a yeah and i would just i would piggyback off of board member actually and and what you said i i agree that [Music] there's there's even there's even a degree of both end in that it it does provide a level of transparency that you're right if somebody if somebody started today looking into this and they wanted to go back and watch every moment of every video and read every document it's i think it's a good thing that it's there i think i think it's a good thing that that exists and it's there for public consumption should should someone desire to to do that but if someone is not wanting to to go back and spend 40 hours worth of time to go to to read into all the documents and watch all of the videos there still being a a way that is clear and and up front and very obvious for for a newbie entering the process i think is is valuable as well so so i i would i applaud the transparency that has allowed um a a a fly on the walls view of the process up to up to now but how how can we add to that and supplement it with a with a more user-friendly version as well so so perhaps uh maybe a a summary so but a living document to keep adding maybe yeah i'm send it here so in retrospect there's there's almost no point in saying this but but in retrospect as as we saw models whittling down if you i wonder if it would have been helpful to to more visually describe and lay out okay you know there were these four models before and now there's the another these two models before and and finding a way to more clearly communicate i know that we have had this uh spreadsheet but you but you can get lost in the sea of cells with with with this one and and so in retrospect which isn't super helpful um i wonder what can we do now we have one more meeting coming up what could we do more and that's that's that kind of prompts the request that i thought i put up tomorrow at uh 10 30 a.m i believe i don't know the exact time but i know it's tomorrow um i do have a group of parents uh and staff a small group of parents and staff coming in uh to provide feedback uh for thursday's meeting and to provide feedback on the on the um wording of the survey um so parents do sit on that as do staff and so hopefully they they will be able to provide we have drafts of stuff and that has been shared with them in anticipation of tomorrow and then i'll obviously take some of this information as well um just to be uber transparent there's a there's a balance between trying to build context um trying to be tmi um and then trying to be well he didn't tell us the whole story um and so it's a it's a balance of those things that we're trying to to strike and it's not um the easiest but i will we will definitely take this in information and um i will incorporate that into our meeting tomorrow or recruit themselves again i just want to add something yes and and also on on the lingual you know how you work certain words you know your average person like if they're not pta mom or they don't even have kids in school community people can understand a lot more clearly would be appreciative also thank you team for providing the feedback to uh our superintendent and um thank you arthur and uh the reconfiguration team for meeting as much as you guys have and being able to provide what you um provided today and with the board's recommendations and suggestions um we can go ahead and move forward in a more uh transparent and more communicative approach and so i i'll go ahead and turn that over to you arthur and you could figure that out and how that process will take place do we have any more questions before we move on to the next item okay thank you next we'll move on to item 9.5 approval of 2021 2022 board meeting calendar can i please get a motion to move 9.5 we have a first by board member greer second we have a second by board member rodriguez pena and we can go ahead and turn to i'm sorry do we have a discussion yeah i just have a question a purification on december 14th it has the asterisk and then the bottom says um indicates an alternative day is what is the purpose of that thank you yes so typically our board meetings are the first and third uh tuesday of each month and so if a date has an asterisk that means that it is not a first or third tuesday and so that that just says hey fy this one doesn't fall in that pattern so then we may change the date to it's changed to like for instance i think this is the second um tuesday of the month should there be an asterisk on so why don't you put the second on here yes i should have yeah can we add that asterisk on there before it goes a thousand percent okay okay that's my only question thank you thank you any more questions or discussions at this time for item 9.5 seeing that there's none we did have one there was your motion second we did okay yes thank you thank you for that if we can go ahead and please uh place our votes and it passes 5-0 moving on to consent calendar we have 10.1 through 10.3 can um i get a motion to move the consent calendar i'm sorry so it's a 10.2 to 10.13 uh 10.15 i'm so sorry can you repeat that is it 10.2 to 10.13 10.2 as it is on the agenda that is correct thank you for that you're welcome 10.2 to 10.13 so we have a first by board member group we have a second five board member cruz gonzalez any discussion any items to be pulled to discuss seeing that there is none we'll go ahead and cast our votes and it passes 5-0 since no items were pulled for from consent calendar we'll go ahead and move to 12.0 business and finance we have item 12.1 approval of change order number 002 asusa unified school district ausd relocation of portable buildings at gladstone street elementary school can i please get a motion to move 12.1 to make a motion to approve 12.1 we have a first by board member rodriguez pena second you have a second by board member career do we have any questions or discussion just get a brief brief explanation as to why there was the increase yes we have um additional increase such as adding fencing um and paving and moving the fence from the old side to give them more space in the grassy area [Music] thank you any more questions or comments seeing that there's none let's go ahead and cast our votes and it passes 5-0 moving on to item number 12.2 approval of notice of completion for dc integrated in company relocation of portable buildings to gladstone street elementary school free bid can i please get a motion to move 12.2 a second we have a first by board member career we have a second by board member cruz gonzalez any comments or questions seeing that there's none if we can please cast our vote and it passes 5-0 moving to item 12.3 approval of the adoption of the use of piggybacking contracts for the 2021 2022 school year can i please get a motion to move 12.3 let me make a motion to approve 12.3 we have a first by board member rodriguez pena second we have a second by board member greer any questions comments seeing that there's none let's please cast our vote and it passes 5-0 moving on to 12.4 approval of service agreement between the associate unified school district ausd and n harris computer corporation corporation can i please get in motion to move 12.4 we have a first flight board member second we have a second by board member rodriguez pena any questions or comments seen that there's none we could please cast our vote great thank you moving on to curriculum and instruction 13.1 approval of the contract between asusa unified school district ausd and jennifer gonzalez can i please get eight motion to move 13.1 make a motion to approve we have to here's one board member rodriguez pena we have a second by board member career and this is open for discussion or questions i i actually would would like to um just get a little background i'll be happy to do that so we're super excited um this contract is for jennifer gonzalez to deliver a keynote address for the first day that certificated staff will be back for the fall jennifer is the creator of a website called the cult of pedagogy there are many just all kinds of resources and tools that we often use when we're doing professional development she is widely known and highly respected she's a national board certified educator she writes books and she speaks all across the country and so we're most excited um when i had a conversation with her to talk about um you know this uh this keynote um to really connecting it to the things that we're most interested in especially as it aligns to some of the areas that we're looking at in the youtube survey and so she's going to be talking um her keynote address is going to um the title is called moving away from the easy button how post pandemic school could be different and she has four four key points that she'll be talking about lesson design inclusivity assessment and relationships so we're very excited about this great thank you did anybody have any more questions or comments seeing that there's none if we could please cast our vote for 13.1 and it passes 5-0 now moving on to our agenda item in human resources we have 14.1 approval of memorandum of understanding mou between a sousa unified school district ausd and a souza federation of adult educators afae can i please get a motion to move 14.1 i'll make a motion to approve it we have a first by board member cruz gonzalez we have a second by board member do we have any questions or comments seeing that there's none let's please cast our vote and it passes 5-0 moving on to item 4.2 approval of tentative agreement ta between isuzu unified school district ausd and the california school employees association csca can i please get a motion to move for 14.2 any questions comments seeing that there's none let's please cast our vote and it passes 5-0 moving on to item on the agenda 13.3 approval of a one-time payment of two thousand two hundred for management uh superb super super supervisor thank you supervisory confidential and unrepresented employees can i please get in motion to move 14.3 and make a motion to approve 14.3 we have a first by board member rodriguez pena can i please get a second and we have abort uh second by board member greer any comments questions see that there's none let's please cast our vote and 14.3 passes 5-0 moving to the last item on our agenda item for today we have 15.1 which is our adjournment can i please get a motion for to move 15.1 we have a first five board member career second we have a second by board member rodriguez pena let's please cast our votes and we and it passes 5-0 i want to thank all of you guys for joining us today um at this board meeting which is today's date june 22nd 2021 i want to remind all of you guys all the parents community members employees um please watch our our meeting that will be taking place uh led by mr twitter this thursday june 24th it is really important that you guys are all informed and that you guys have all the information that um is being presented and that the surveys will be coming out and for you guys to remember to go ahead and participate and give us your feedback it is much appreciated again we'll see you guys uh soon you guys have a great rest of the week and

good evening we're going to go ahead and call this meeting to order dr foley roll call yes president reese members of the board please let the record show that four members are present is michelle smith um this evening michelle will not be joining us okay thank you she's unable to join us she's out of town with her family i knew she was out of town i wasn't sure if she was going to try and call in perfect all right we're going to go ahead and have our moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right we'll move on to our agenda i move that we approve our agenda as it's presented second any questions or comments regarding our agenda all those in favor aye aye promotion carries four zero at this time our meeting will recess for the purpose of holding a public hearing on the proposed expenditure budget for the 2021 2022 school year in accordance with ars d 15-905.01 members of the audience are invited to make comments and ask questions during the public hearing all right mr moore good evening president reece vice president wilson and members of the board tonight we have the adopted expenditure budget for the fiscal year 2022 [Music] as we've discussed this budget this is the same budget that we've been outlining since i believe last december this is the formal adoption and approval of that budget the same budget again that you've tentatively approved already so as this is a public hearing if there's any members of the audience who are here that have questions you may do so okay so a budget summary [Music] why are we bringing this budget back again for approval districts are required to adopt a budget but no later than july 15th of the fiscal year and adopt that with the county superintendent office and ade so that's why we're bringing this back again some things that are unique this year in this budget process is that the state and house have not formally adopted a state budget yet or finalized excuse me the state budget so what we are presenting again today is kind of preliminary numbers um in terms of what we've seen that's included in that k-12 budget the reasons behind that is our adopted budget is used to set our tax rates for the fiscal year a conservative approach would be to um budget low and then revise when that budget is finalized at the state but unfortunately there are statutes that limit us from changing our adopted budget so essentially if we adopted low we could be setting our tax rates lower than what we would need from a cash standpoint into next fiscal year so that's why you see in this budget or you're going to see the proposed uh um me funding sources that are in the k-12 budget that has not been approved because we do not want to adopt lower and set ourselves up for a cash shortage into next year finally once once the state approves a final budget um districts will have until september 15th to do a revision um why would we need to do revision because we don't have final numbers so i believe just this morning there was an amendment to to the k-12 budget so that is still being discussed so there is a potential for this to change which we do have that september 15th date to revise so that would be required regardless because we do have to adopt our budget on finalized forms what you're going to be signing today is preliminary budget forms so regardless if the budget changes or not we're going to come back september 15th with this either may look the same or it may look a little different so and mr moore i just want to note that it's coming to us now because we don't have another meeting until the towards the end of july so it would be after the july 15th so correct yeah our next board meeting is july 21st which would be after this deadline um so unless we wanted to held hold a special meeting um which i don't think is warranted at this point um that's why it's coming today so mr moore what is the deadline date for the governor to pass a state budget does he have one um well yeah i mean if they we if we're not going to go into a furlough um june 30 would be the date in which they need to adopt something um or else they they could go the state could go into a um into a state where they would be furloughing or no budget um be assigned so i don't think that's gonna be the case but um time will tell we we have five or six days before the 30th so um yeah we will see president reece remember kayla there's motivation for the state to get themselves finished soon here and even if that doesn't fail that i think we are protected as a school district so we from a teacher perspective it wouldn't be furloughs et cetera like that so so what is included in this budget that the state that what we've seen in the k-12 budget um we are including the estimated 2122 base level amount at 44 45 53.

mike i assume we're okay to go in a minute okay thank you sir okay like the official call tonight's meeting the order this is the board of education special meeting of the board of education june 23 2021 uh mr zenski can have a roll call please here here here here here thank you carol i asked the board to please rise for the pledge of allegiance good evening everyone and fellow board members again it's nice to be in uh in person again welcome if anyone is watching um hopefully this won't be a very long meeting but we do have some items to go through before we get into committees do we have any audience um commentary at this point we do not we'll check in again during uh during correspondence that being said we're gonna move on to section three which is standing report of committees starting with curriculum so faith um thank you we will have some motions at the end of this report so um we'll entertain them then um the curriculum committee of the board last met on june 14th um in attendance were uh tony and i as well as marlene kevin hanlon mary gadd maureen reed john demeo and aaron griffiths um we first heard from cheshire resident michael sheehan who submitted a letter to through the covet 19 email address regarding the state the state education resource center or circ and the district's work related to race equity social justice and systemic racism and the upcoming elective african-american black puerto rican and latino studies course the letter was read into the full record um we reviewed but tabled the minutes for from the previous meeting because of discussion that was not included so no motion was passed our first order of business was to hear from uh don demaio english teacher at cheshire high school about our first post-coveted out-of-country field trip yay and um it sounds like a fascinating trip the uh board um without going into the details it will be quite quite the adventure and uh the board approved it unanimously there was no old business and we had several informational items first there will be our first ever curriculum writing institute coming up june 24th 25th 28th 29th and 30th um over 80 teachers will be involved in the five-day institute and will represent curriculum updates in the vast majority of departments at every level and will include representatives from our people personnel departments the goal is to include developing authentic performance tasks that are engaging rigorous and tied to the standards and demonstrate the students complex thinking also creating a k-12 digital curriculum library and developing a curriculum that embodies acceleration so with regard to acceleration that was uh put into place during covid and found um a method of or a framework for teaching that um has proven highly successful so it will continue to be the focus beyond the 2020-2021 school year over the course of the year 51 teachers did attend the connecticut center for school change acceleration workshops in march and it will contin the ccsc will continue to provide professional development related to acceleration to administrators as well as monthly sessions um throughout the year um one strategy and approach that cheshire will rely on to help mitigate learning loss due to kovid is elevated instructional practice and the district is formalizing coaching sorry elevating elevating instructional practice through through coaching and we will formalize instructional coaching roles for teacher leaders as we go along and then during the 2022-2122 school year cheshire will restart its partnership with the connecticut science center and kevin hanlon shared that grades one and two teachers will receive direct professional development from the science center on professional professional development day in november then the rams reading and math specialists will engage in a five uh engage in five train the trainer sessions throughout the year and science teachers will also have one day of ngss training in september and one six hour professional learning session throughout the year during the division meetings um and then under informational items kevin handlin also presented an overview of the end-of-year reading and math data for grades one through six and this was actually really phenomenal because the overall trends in performance for the year-end data despite all that this was thrown at the kids um mirrored the previous years in trends and students um in meeting math and and reading benchmarks uh with similar uh similar to our mid-year data re uh the reading performance um was primarily near or at recent historical levels and math performance was primarily or slightly above recent historical levels so quite an accomplishment for everybody and then finally we had an overview um regarding the upcoming course that i just mentioned in black african-american latino and puerto rican studies it is an elective and it is a requirement that schools begin to offer the elective officially next year but we are piloting this year um but mandated under uh public act 1912.

okay okay the anaheim region high school district board of trustees meeting of june 24th 2021 is called to order at 403 pm the following members are present anne-marie randall trejo brian o'neill al-jabbar katherine h smith and myself anna l piercy staff has requested the following amendments to the amended agenda exhibit a replace page 15.

good evening everyone um welcome to the um June 23rd meeting of Chico Unified School District the board is now going into closed session there have been no comments submitted for a closed session so we'll see you back here in about an hour e good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to the um June 23rd uh meeting of Chico Unified School District we have been in closed session and I would like to report out an action taken in closed session the um board voted um with four yeses and one absent uh absent member was uh Caitlyn to ratify a settlement agreement to resolve a special education due process complaint filed against the district pursuant to the agreement the district will establish a com compensatory education Fund in the amount of $7,500 for use by student for Educational Services transportation and or attorney fees under the express terms of the agreement the ratification of the agreement does not constitute an admission of liability by the district thank you okay we do um would everyone stand for the flag salute please do we know where the flag is Mr shephard I did not realize that in the absence of a flag you were to face East that's new information I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation and God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you um Miss da the super report yes and I do want to apologize for the uh lack of a flag but it's um CFA is now being used for performances so we have groups coming in so our regular setup is getting moved so that is something we have to make sure that we definitely have in place in the future we have made the transition to Summer um but that does not mean that we don't have a lot going on so you know one thing I wanted to mention was our summer school thanks to encouragement from the board to really reach out and encourage uh families to have students do some uh summer school work we have in our elementary sessions for June we have 718 students enrolled in summer school for July we have 291 and for our August session we have 653 and um they've been attending over a 90% attendance rate coming to our elementary summer school session so I think the kids are happy to be back and the families are very happy to have been back um I was going to put this in announcements but I'll just say it now my kids are in summer school and absolutely having the time of their life over at Parkview so M godz and muu Fuentes and and all the staff are doing a great job over there awesome glad to hear that at our secondary level uh we have 528 enrolled in 912 summer school 70 enrolled in our Junior High School uh summer school credit recovery and uh 20 in our middle school science camp and um even had some already Complete Welding camp at our uh early back we're still enrolling because that'll happen right before school starts but our extended year with our special education students we have 336 students enrolled so uh you know while it is summer vacation there's a lot of people that are still working hard to meet the needs of kids and I just want to thank them for giving their time and being here here and um I'm really glad to hear our students are enjoying that the uh only other item I wanted to mention is the mask policy for Chico Unified uh we are still waiting to hear from both the federal government and the state to as to what their plans will be when students return to school in the fall at this particular point for those students that are in summer school they can unmask while they are Outdoors but they do still need to wear mask indoors for the adults so if you're at the district office the Corp yard a school board meeting uh as long as you have been vaccinated you can be unmasked if you have not been ma uh vaccinated you still do need to wear a mask so that's where we stand right now um we are hoping for some updated guidance on K12 very very soon we've been told within a week so fingers crossed that that comes through and with that I will turn it back over to to Miss Robinson thank you superintendent Staley um announcements do we have any announcements yes Mr Baltimore so we just wanted to um inform the board and the public that we're working with but County Public Health to provide vaccination clinics um to students over age 12 their parents must be present with them we'll be doing that at Chico high school and maragold Elementary since we have the construction here at Pleasant Valley uh we are just working through the uh facility use agreement and um we hope to offer those first dose because it would be a fiser first dose would be July 13th and 14th second dose August 3rd and 4th so it's an opportunity it's not a requirement but it's an opportunity for our students and um others in our school environment to receive a vaccination they like so we want to thank M County Public Health for reaching out working with inow so I want to also point that out inow is also supporting this entire vaccination idea thank you I just want to add in there that um this is not a requirement this is just an opportunity for people just like we did um early in the year for staff it's an opportunity for those that wish to receive the vaccination to receive the vaccination and the vaccinations are now available for ages 12 and up so this won't be just for students we also hope to be able to to any adults that wish to get vaccinated as well thank you super Kelly can you repeat or k the schools sites I mean uh Chico High School uh we believe we'll be using the Lincoln Center and marold Elementary using the multi-purpose room ideally we would have been here at Pleasant Valley High School to be offering it the same at our two high schools however with the construction going on on this site we didn't feel it be prudent to invite people into that area so Mar goldo thank you okay next is um items from the floor um we do have three people that have signed up for items from the floor we'll be making the first call um now Mr Shephard thank you I'll be calling Jessica Montgomery I was switched to voicemail okay next I'll be calling Gina back for hello is this Gina Gina can you hear Gina can you hear me okay you're going to be addressing the Schoolboard I'm going to put you on speaker phone if you hear a bell it means you have 30 seconds left okay all right go ahead Gina Hi how are you can you guys hear me yes we can hello yes we can hear you yes they can hear you yeah I can hear you with a little Echo okay so I can I start talking yep go ahead okay so hi guys my name is Gina back and I am a mother of five kids I recently have to transfer one of my kids to private school because the public school system couldn't offer what my kid needed so we've been through the whole covid experience including the Foreclosure of our schools The Mask mandates Etc and now we have deal with the critical race Theory and I'm just wondering according to you guys when is it going to be enough like how long do you guys think parents should stay quiet and gratefully agree to the sexual explicit curriculums the lgbtq agendas climate change and equity and your obsession with race and social justice subject without getting called racist sexist islamophobic judgmental crazy homophobic and white supremacist by the way I'm Latina I am an imigran in I still get called white white premises I don't know why anyway our kids are failing the basic standards of education but you guys are more concerned about how to disc deconstruct the racial and sexual sexual identities and run our kids into their power and privilege please educate me on how dividing groups between oppressed and oppressors is going to help our kids to intellectually compete in the real world or how offering diversity coalitions workshops to teachers will help them to improve their teaching skills your diversity coalition training should be offered to individuals pursuing a career as divers diversity trainers or maybe political activist as an immigrant I feel very sad about what is going on in our public system and the fact the majority of the board supports CRT is one more reason for this recall thank you thank you and our last speaker is identified as CK and is in person tentatively CK yes the person is here thank you okay I'm nervous I'm a credential teacher I have a multiple subjects as credential physical education credential with supplements in health and science and I'm here just to talk about the health and safety of our students and I realize one of the things I'm going to mention is coming out before this could happen but I kind of want to get a start on it before it could happen which the way things are going I mean it's very likely that what I'm going to talk about Could Happen um the safety of our students should always be our first priority and decisions that affect their health should not be made can I take this off okay because I need my glasses it's kind of dark in here should not be made out of fear children are not getting sick or dying from covid um so it would be unnecessary and unwise to vaccinate Mass children especially since this is experimental it's a biologic experiment we do not have long-term studies on it we don't know what's going to happen and you're right it should be a choice and I think it should continue to be a choice even down the road no matter what the government says I think that as a as as a parent and a grandma I will fight for the health health and safety of my family my children my grandchildren um the World Health Organization it was just on Newsmax yesterday or the day before has announced that children should not be vaccinated at this time I don't think they should be at all for quite some time there's not enough evidence on the use of vaccines against covid-19 furthermore the FDA has not yet approved this experimental biologic vaccine so-called vaccine in addition this ongoing Mass mandate is not emotionally mentally or physically healthy for our children I agree with everything the last parent said I think she it took a it takes a lot of Courage especially as a credential teacher because I know that there's a lot of people that will be against what I'm saying and that could keep me from getting future jobs I don't care the health and safety of children is far more important to me than me having a job um it was recently said on which which group was it that they could take off the mask if they'd been vaccinated but also to stop cleaning everything well when you take biology microbiology Health courses what do you learn you learn you wash your hands you learn that you sterilize things you learn that removal of things Mass things is the way you get rid of disease and you keep it from spreading you clean things so why would they tell us to take our mask off but to stop cleaning that doesn't make any sense especially since this so-called vaccine is only for covid so you're not preventing the spread of all the other things that are out there right or the new things that come down the type you're preventing one thing that the body is supposed to the way the vaccine works is you're supposed to it builds antibodies for that one particular thing and then your body sees it later on and it's able to fight it right so in other words not everybody has to be vaccinated anyway because if I'm sick but he's been vaccinated theoretically the way I've always been taught in all my health courses is that he should still be safe from me so at no point should it ever be mandatory and what happened to my body my choice those people that are always out there tting my body my choice so I'm just saying this ahead of time because I don't like what I see happening I don't like that I see it going time is up I haven't had my 302nd bell uh the raising of the red card was in place of the Bell the Bell was for the over the phone people I'm oh got it okay and I'm sorry I didn't get to critical race or anything else yet no I I didn't explain that before you started i s so does that give me more time uh no the the three minutes is up okay okay well I got what I said pretty much anyway other than there was a couple other points but thank you thank you okay next uh up is negotiations update Mr hanin it's summertime and we are not negotiating so I have nothing to report at this time thank you uh did we have any public comment under this this item no public comment thank you I do want to just stop for a moment I did get a um email from Jessica mcgomery that said she did not receive a phone call from us so Mr shepher if you want to try that number again absolutely so I'm calling Jessica Montgomery voicemail again I'm going to leave a message so so she knows that we've called and the mailbox is full and do not not accepting any messages at this time thank you okay next is the uh consent and and if uh Miss Montgomery is um listening I would like to remind you that getting comments to the board through our um website is um a very effective way of communicating with us okay consent calendar um is there any P public comment on the consent calendar none oh I'm sorry I thought thought you were checking to see if anything had come in I I didn't have anything but I wanted to double check okay consent calendar um do I have a motion from a board member I move passage of the consent calendar I second we been moved and seconded to approve the consent calendar as presented with no items being withdrawn all those in favor and I'm going to ask this first one to be a a Voice vote um Mr landow thank you Dolby I Kaiser ey tennis ey Robinson I thank you board unanimous okay discussion calendar this item is um going to be a public hearing for the draft 2022 local control accountability plan or the lcap um it will be presented this evening by J marant and the educational services team and during the presentation board members um if you have a a technical question uh let's go ahead and take it at that time so we don't have to roll back if that's okay with the presenters yes okay thank you um you're on Mr Marshon okay as we had stated this is is a public hearing for our local control and accountability plan and then we'll be bringing it back next week on June 30th just just to explain after the presentation is when I will actually open the public hearing this part is not part of the public hearing thank you okay elcap is our strategic plan describing how the district funds will be utilized from the California's local control funding formula the lcff to improve our student outcomes for all of our students I'm at this point I I know I had a lot to on this presentation but I'm going to be handing it over to my team that did an excellent job of U developing this plan and I'm going to hand it over to Miss Tina Keane and Mr Tim Carris thank you good evening everybody I would also like to welcome Janette Spencer from but County Office of Education who's joining us via Zoom uh Janette is who Tim and I work directly with at bu County Office of educ ation as well as all of our other neighboring uh school districts to keep us on track with our our lcap and make sure we have all the compliance pieces in place so welcome to Janette the elcap is based on eight California state priorities you can see them up here they've been in um they've been in existence these eight priorities for quite a while since the lcap started actually in 2013 and tonight our public hearing is actually looking at a number of documents put together one is the budget overview for parents another is the annual lcap update from the uh 2019 lcap actually and then an update also on the learning continuity plan that came to us in September the third and final piece is a draft form of the 2124 elcap you'll see in the next three slides the three finalized goal goals uh that are in draft form of course we have gone from the eight required State priorities to five goals in the past down to three and I will say uh as you will see through here they have encompassed all of the previous goals that we have had and to uh to briefly mention goal one is academic based goal two is social emotional supports and goal three is behavior supports and promotion of a safe environment for students here we have the numbers of uh what we work with and right here because this document is pretty cumbersome I personally enjoy reading it but I know I'm an outlier in that regard we are uh bound to follow the template that the state does provide us so uh this is not something that we created on our own and we are um compliant in that sense that we do work within that template it did come up this year because it is such a cumbersome document that it would be a great idea to have a kind of an l cap at a glance I did leave each of you uh board members and staff up here a hard copy in uh English and Spanish it's two-sided and this is also available for public and anybody who wants to learn more about it at a glance and not tackle that 150 page is document we've had a lot of eyes on this too so I want to thank all of those folks who uh who worked together to make sure we have all of the pieces in place on this so goal one is a pretty meaty goal it encompasses our academic and tiered interventions to support academic uh success for each and every student you can see underneath that uh we do have the state priorities listed and the actual goal states provide academic instruction and tiered interventions to ensure student learning and high achievement for each and every student you will see there are lots of actions and services to follow in this goal it is by far the medi of the three and there are in fact three pages of very short uh a synopsis of what those are for you tonight following that are the pages that show you the the uh expenditures to support those goals that we uh and actions and services they are in order if uh it's easier for me to look at the actions and services on one page together and the financials if they go in order is much simpler to read uh a big thank you to our crew in our finance department especially jacqulyn Krueger who did a lot of work to pull this money together for this uh draft we do have a brief time in to the presentation if you want to ask questions or we can keep going until the end that's okay too as you had mentioned if there are none I'm going to pass it off to my colleague Mr Caris to carry you through the next two goals thank you uh before I get started into goals two and three I just wanted to point out that within the elop document itself for those members of the public that are not familiar with it um there are metric metrics attached to each action and service um so we are able to set goals for ourselves over the next three years um uh so that we are able to evaluate the implementation of the elap yes I need um Erica Smith to step out here out here oh my God you're behind black you're wearing black nobody will see you Erica uh is our social media genius and if you look on page 28 of the 70 you will see that from June 19th to now we have had a huge dramatic increase in so social media followers on all three platforms uh Twitter Instagram and Facebook but particularly on Facebook we have reached our families via social media and our students and that's Erica so thank you yes we appreciate Erica's work work every day um goal two centers on providing social emotional learning and supports so on on this slide um you'll see a selection of uh actions and services that are in place to support student uh social emotional growth um I do want to add that we have added a significant amount of social emotional supports uh in the for the upcoming couple of years out of Esser funds which is a Federal grant uh funding multip there's actually multiple uh Federal funding sources that are using to supplement the services as outlined by our lcap so you can see here the the lcap funds used used for um health and social emotional learning and any questions from the board on that one of the assertions that we make that we attempt to I use the word attempt very directly to um make sure that every student has access to social mental supports but uh the context appears to be the student has to let us know I haven't seen anything in there where we are more directive about that and I wonder about that because with teenagers that's particularly a difficult issue right so uh beginning in the 2020 um 2122 school year um our counseling staff has already developed Universal screeners specific to each grade level span that will allow students to to um answer questions as as chosen by the counselors and the counselors will have uh the ability to react to that um in addition we'll be sending out um smaller surveys throughout the year the the time frame on that has yet to be decided but this is something we really want to keep an eye on um with students coming back to school um after the last you know about year and a half and we're we've already taken action to put those those in place place um and of course we also have uh teacher referrals or or staff referrals U available as well I think one of the Striking things and I think it's true of every District across the country that had to go to online that uh we got a pretty recognizable drop in attendance and also erratic attendance and there is a theme that's mentioned throughout this about a recognition that a number of students are likely to have trouble coming back to school full-time um and it may be more true of the teens than it is true of the elementary kids but I just think it's really important for us to make sure that parents and teachers are aware that there is an Outreach but there has to be a response as well so also Miss Kaiser Dr Kaiser when m J and I went and talked to students um we had a Junior High student um asked us if we could change a little bit of our way we do things about when students ask for help for social emotional academic they said sometimes it very hard for them to walk into an office put their name on a clipboard or ask an office manager if they could speak to somebody because they needed to talk to somebody then they would sit on a chair and wait so we have developed um not we Our IT department and Erica Smith developed were on our each one of our school's websites a student or a parent can clip can click on there and ask for what type of support they need academic socially those types of things and it will go directly to our counselors and to our admin and then they can reach out to those students so again one of our students give us asked us to do that and again we were able to do that I thought it was a great idea by them right now I'd like to add to that um the the surveys the more frequent shorter social emotional surveys that will be sent out always has an option for a student to request to speak to an adult as well I also think that this new experimental class that we already approved in the consent agenda academic success and that we're trying at Chico high is really potentially a very strong support structure it doesn't give them any more homework but it gives them help in getting their work done so I thought that was a brilliant idea and hopefully we can track it and see how well it goes um on the issue of what might be available and and how um students might reach out or parents um did want to mention that it it isn't necessarily just um about um academic support social emotion that are are lgbtq Plus student population can also seek confidential help and the parents um to get referrals to local community resources that are identified for helping with um you know issues that those students may be dealing with so goal three uh addresses behavioral concerns um very similar to the other two goals we do anticipate um an increase in in behaviors um after students come back onto campus um after such a long time uh so the behaviors will largely be um taken care of by the by the actions and services that you see um and also with uh we'll be monitoring uh discipline tighter than we ever have and that we'll have teams in place to to address those Cath so um we stressed quite a bit the the coaching and the they have tremendous contact and in our high schools there a very high percentage of students I think it's 50% that are engaged but we haven't been able to do that at our junior high so do we have some intentions about how we might have some sporting activities that where they would have that personal contact that would be outside of the club classroom but would still be very constructive well we're really excited uh based on the board's decision to um fund some Middle School athletics we are excited about continuing to offer cross cross country in the fall we're having conversations with um strengthening even though they're Club basketball strengthening the consistency of the three Middle School uh Club basketball programs which would happen in the winter and we're having conversations now with other uh County superintendents about the possibility of adding uh Middle School soccer for both genders in the spring so we're hoping to have some type of offering in each season of sport fantastic thank you one thing too to note on goal three is uh the PBIS teams that are very active on the school campuses preco our elementary and junior high schools had really taken great steps over many years to create very strong PBIS teams which is positive I'm going to forget positive behavior and intervention supports I want to say something similar to that basically it supports kids in the positives and reinforcing doing well being safe respectful responsible as an example of one of the uh one of the schools that I used to be at as the motto and it really does take on a u support for the school culture for safety for uh people feeling included in a positive way so our high schools were we're just starting that process rolling into PBIS before covid hit and I know they've maken uh some gains getting back on track and getting that going at the two uh Comprehensive High Schools as well as over at the all dead world as well so so you can see here U some of the actions and services we are providing and the costs attached and again I'd like to add that uh the eser dollar are are going to go a long way towards addressing this goal as well in addition to these lcap funded actions I think the Olympics will give us a big kick where a lot more kids will be excited about and um with the trials that have been going on the sportsmanship and the behavior has been outstanding so let's hope so are there any further questions about this goal um did you want to mention that or I do want to mention that this um is the um the uh June 23d presentation and we'll um open the public hearing now and um we do have I'm going to open the public hearing and we have had one speaker request yes I'll be calling terce Lee hi terce I'm going to put you on speaker phone you'll be addressing the school board if you hear a bell it means you have 30 seconds left okay okay go ahead terce thank you I am once again in addressing the board as a concerned parent regarding the proposed changes to our lcap and Equity based mtss program I recently viewed the lcap flyer and materials that cusd distributed and in my opinion at best it was unintentionally misleading and at worst intentionally deceiving of the true scope and intentions of the lcap changes I think that it is particularly telling that CD changed and removed keywording of the new lcap goal that had been previously presented and removed Equity from the mtss program title also nowhere did you provide a side by-side comparison of the previous lcaps or link to the mtss presentation which goes hand inand with these proposed changes one can only assume that these changes and omissions were deliberate and done with purpose while the language has been changed I believe the originally proposed lcap that was presented highlights the Sport's true intent and agenda which is to push a racially stemmed ideology which focuses on inequity of outcomes rather than inequity of opportunity into our schools and children the new lcap and the focus on inclusiveness and Equity according to your own presentations will them from changes to teaching practices curriculum hiring practices trainings classroom environments and more which will now hyperfocus on race-based identities and perceived inequities and biases the proposed changes to our lcap once again show that this board is not attentive to the current needs of our students and District as was brought up at the May 5th meeting the previous lcap goals more fully highlight and identify the current needs of our district with the amount of funding this district is receiving our children deserve updated and expanded facilities especially our aging elementary junior high schools they deserve vigorous curriculum materials and Educators that can provide them with an equity of opportunity the opportunity to meet the same level of a quality education of their peers across this state and Nation however instead of using these funds to focus on building our children's core English Math and Science foundations through proven methods this board is instead seeking to ship that Focus to a politicized ideology that will do nothing to improve learning outcomes and with less than 50% of our district students proficient in both reading and math this should be in the Forefront of our board board's agenda I and many other parents and members of this community are rightfully concerned and feel that the perceived racial biases and Equitable disparities which this board is trying to use to promote these changes will only further divide and set our children back many of us have watched as this board has consistently disregarded our parental concerns and input to force their own overreaching agendas and after watching the equity based mtss program presentation I have no hope that this board will use these funds to address the must needed issues within our district and while superintendent Staley and many others have stated that these proposed changes to the district are quote not critical race Theory curriculum critical race theory is not a curriculum it is an ideology which views all aspects of our children's educational process through a perceived racial and inequitable lens call it what you want but that is absolutely what is occurring in this District I cannot strongly enough object to these changes thank you J okay I'm going to uh close the public hearing okay um this is an informational only item and it will be brought back for approval again at the June 30th meeting Mr tennis yes [Music] I see that we have um there we go I may principal David McKay is here and I think that he is involved in the um the equity Alliance cohorts can you give us a summary principal McKay about what the equity Alliance um apparatus is or will be and what role it plays in the lcap why why are we reading about it in the lcap it didn't show up in the presentation did it tell us about the equity Alliance uh cohorts yes sir thank you for the opportunity to speak to this point um in a nutshell the equity Alliance concept was initiated as a way to reach out to our families to illuminate sorry to hopefully illuminate some of the data that we were seeing year in and year out that shows that certain student populations were receiving and experiencing disproportionately negative educ outcomes so in order to figure out what to do I felt like it would be uh behoove us to reach out to our actual parents and families to find out what their experiences are like and to invite them to a conversation about how we can improve the experiences that in our case Bidwell for all students those meetings were very well received and uh I would say at no point in those meetings was there any of this very divisive rhetoric that is promoted in the popular media critical race Theory and whatnot um I understand how some people can get concerned when they hear certain words that are used in one context and then they get used in another and they conflate the two meanings um but speaking to the Bidwell Equity Alliance it was all about um wanting to feel um invited and um intentionally included in the school and being um invited to share stories and experiences to staff that wanted to listen and be open to working together to create a more welcoming more more respectful more um accessible School environment for some students uh whose stories we might not necessarily be attuned to um not being linguistically and culturally diverse um Educators in our district and so it was very much an Outreach an attempt to solicit um parent involvement and um in the course of the next 12 months we're able to keep those meetings going um and we got a lot of very valuable input about what we can do really little things about relationship building School climate that we're using to continue that communication to continue to build that trust and to continue to invite all of our families to be more part of our school so that we can look at how to improve educational outcomes for all students Bonafide not lowering the bar but raising the bar for all students and helping to equip our staff with all the skills all the knowledge all the dispositions that they may need to help every student um engage in the most rigorous curriculum that we know how to deliver did I address your your question Mr tennis for the most part yeah yes thank you thank you okay thank you we'll now um move on to oh we did do our speaker thank you uhuh yes number two um we've got Mr Caris to do the presentation on the uh information on the California school dashboard local indicators yeah tonight I'll be speaking to you uh regarding the California state dashboard and the local indicators that we are required to um provide to the state for uh publication on the California state dashboard so the local indicators uh are indicators accounted for on the dashboard that do not have uh metrics for them as we are used to looking at metrics historically in education um so things outside of the realm of of test scores attendance suspension that that sort of data so for the local indicators uh it's largely an exercise in compliance um that's why I'm not giving you a big big presentation um we are asked to self-reflect um on our progress uh working towards an addressing lcff priorities as required by the state the ratings that we give ourselves are a reflection of the fact that we've measured and not on the success of anything of any initiative related to a given priority so if we if we self-reflect and report to the state we have met that requirement for that indicator um and uh I'm not sure if uh president Robinson indicated this but this is an information only item um um jtim so much of the kind of typical data collection the state would do was postponed or unable to be done in the normal way uh in the last year and a half so uh um this reflective perspective will be based on information that we gather internally and we perceive to be connected correct and and just to clarify local indicators are are part of our our process every year it's not as not specific to um the pandemic okay so Priority One uh which is basic conditions that school it's a it's addressing are teachers properly assigned are um do student have students have access to textbooks things like that um we did run the datas available in the attachment on the agenda item and we have met that the criteria to address that indicator priority two is the implementation of state standards and the um self-reflection tool is available again again in the link um so we're essentially addressing how well we are implementing State Standards regarding uh professional development and curriculum the the next priority is priority three which is parent and family engagement which as we mentioned earlier is something we're always striving striving for um and always looking to improve um and again the self-re ction tool as well as a narrative are included in the link on on the uh agenda item the next uh priority and we've met that as well the next priority is school climate and it's basic it's asking us whether or not we administered schol School climate surveys so we've met that uh met that criteria and the last is access to a broad range of courses um so the reflection tools and the narratives are available in the link um we have address that we assess that every year as part of really the l l cap itself and that um that is in our current lcap um in the form of honors enrollment numbers um AP enrollment numbers CTE completion rate for for graduates um so we really do have some metrics on this um as well in the lcap as you're aware and because we completed the self-reflection tool we have met that indicator um the indicators will be sent to the state by should be in November if it's been in like past if it's like past years um for publication to the state uh dashboard in December so any questions yes Mr tennis I have a comment I'll keep it brief uh and I've alluded to this in the past but there's one aspect of this that I I don't agree with the staff conclusion um or at least one I'll say only one I'm going to talk about right now but priority three which was parent and family engagement I don't think that we hit the mark on this this year um there was a lot of parent interest this past year because of schools being shut down and I think that a lot of parents would have liked to have had an opport opportunity to interface with the school district more completely um they had a lot on their mind um on the topic of how good of a job we were doing and um and I I did pretty extensive research on my own to find out how much people had heard or been notified about lcap input opportunities and they weren't um it was different kind of on a site by site basis um staff at different School sites went to different lengths to let people know who were in the leadership core or put it in their their newsletter and so forth but no I don't think that there was there was good Outreach to parents and families certainly to the Target groups there seems to have been so if you were um you know in one of the the subcategories that we've got our eye on because of their the less desirable outcomes um then you probably heard about the cap opportunity to interface with the district but if you weren't you did not have a good opportunities to hear and learn about lcap so that to me comes off as um maybe what I would characterize is a bit of a curated feedback mechanism kind of like setting the community up to give you the information that you want to hear so that you can put it in the lcap that you're going to use potentially to kind of be a moral compass or or or a sort of your your road map for for how you're going to conduct yourself as as a district so I have kind of some complex um but I think for my purposes valid concerns about how that aspect of the lcap came together this year um I um we did reflect earlier at another board meeting or two about this issue of parent communication and um we do have it as a topic um potentially for a workshop this next year and I did go through um in some detail the engagement report part of the lcap so if you if you go to page 82 of the report and read through the the process that was um uh followed um to provide opportunities for uh input you notice that on April 13th that all schools were represented at that meeting um regardless of whether or not there's students were um falling into one of the targeted groups so um I I do think there was a significant um uh push to make sure sure that there was Outreach and it appears as though from the number of responses and things that were garnered during these meetings um that were documented and discussed as part of the process that we um we have met you know a significant goal and as you showed from the the chch that um Dr Kaiser um pointed out that our increase in the number of households that are directly connected with communicating with the district through our platforms as well as our Aries total which is above 90% of our families are connected through Aries and um so I I you know I don't I don't know how much more we could do but if you have ideas keep them keep them at hand because we will bring this issue back up for um a workshop topic consideration in August if if I can briefly respond to that yes of um so I did participate in that the meeting you referred to it was a it was a zoom call essentially from the site based on sites um and um that's actually precisely the the meeting that I kind of Dove deep on to find out from families who were around town at different sites and um even um I had a PTA president um and a lot of them did not get the word about that meeting not in not in a newsletter not not not contacted about it not invited so so that's actually why I feel the way that I do is because that meeting was not publicized well um you know some of the responsibility has to also be put on the families to check with um our platforms that do have that information on them that uh you know that there I I understand the concern but there also has to be some responsibility on part of the families to um you know to identify what's out there because it's it's all there um actually if we're thinking of the same meeting it was not it was not on the on the on the District web page that that meeting was occurring until the day when it was gonna occur so I will tell you communication is one of those things that without a doubt we can always do better and um our Focus certainly with the lcap has been as is um reflected in the data that we do have to do the Outreach to the our specific groups um but your point is very well taken um and after that board meeting we did send out the links to all of our families to make sure everybody had access and the ability to provide input into that um I do believe and and this will sound like a a bad excuse um but Co did really limit the amount of um imperson interaction we could have this past year and we need to do better and we will thank you yes this is just informational okay um next item three discussion action resolution number 1539-1660 [Music] to uh for your approval so that we can continue working with CDE and provide uh state funded preschools so we've had a great relationship with them for the last several years we've grown if you think back a few years ago when we started got four now and we would love to be actually adding another one we've got a waiting list pretty extensive waiting list so we're just looking for the board's blessing to continue that working relationship with CDE and continue to offer state funded preschools any questions I'm I'm I'm going going to uh move uh resolution number 1539-1660 I so move and I'm gonna take the ruler away from Miss Caitlyn so that she can't hurt Kathy's knuckles I would never physically harm Kathy it it's uh Caitlyn it is your job to do this every meeting and I do appreciate it thank you um are there any questions um oh I'll second your motion Dr Kaiser you're going to Second yes thank you then have discuss a motion from Dr Kaiser uh second from m Dolby um any discussion board okay hearing none I'll call for the vote all those in favor signify by saying I I Mr landow I could not specifically hear you is your he said I okay thank you no you're right I did not specifically ask okay um it's a a unanimous vote okay number four this is an informational only um uh item uh Mr Shephard so each year we present the most current version of our code of conduct athletic eligibility packet just to be sure that number one we bring it to the attention of the public uh there are not significant changes this year we did add a voluntary um waiver portion that will be um signed by each student and parent if they decide to participate in Co or extracurricular activities to be sure that we that we're covering any liability issues something similar to what we've done um what we've done during the current or the re recent school year again we're just bringing it to the attention of the board Dr Kaiser uh I just want the public to recognize that we are aware of the today's Supreme Court ruling uh on freedom of speech and we don't have any guidance on how that might impact um the conduct codes um but uh we are totally aware of it and when we get more direct guidance I'm sure that we'll bring it back if we have to thank you we do vet this uh this every year with our legal team and considering the most recent litigation I'm sure there'll be you know additional vetting with our legal okay um there has been no uh public comment indicated this is an informational only item so no action is required thank you Mr Shephard the the packet is um informational yeah no it it uh it does reflect too um our expectations with many issues surrounding our co-curricular and athletic competition okay Business Services Public hearing um information the original budget Mr baltim thank you I'm going to be reviewing the 2001 2022 original budget um it is included in the packet so I'm not going to walk through every slide but just as a reminder of timeline we are in that interesting time when the legislature has approved a budget by June 15th but yet is now negotiating with the governor for the final outcome so that's where we are right now the obviously the econom is doing well um this is one of the easier budgets that we have been faced with in putting together in light of additional VI dollars the cost of living adjustment is at 5.07% and we're also looking at free meals for all students in our nutrition service program can we give a Yahoo exactly uh just major assumptions included in this budget that cost of living adjustment as already mentioned is included uh this is important our funded average daily attendance is based on the 201920 typically we get the better of the current year or the prior year but due to the covid-19 pandemic California Department of Education lest us our base year is the 201920 year so although we have decreased in enrollment over 600 students our funding for the 2021 22 year will be based on 1920 at at worst if we somehow receive a th000 more students we would revise this budget and we would receive those additional revenues um the unduplicated count this uh generates more additional dollars for supplemental or concentration we don't have a high enough percentage to receive concentration dollars uh but at 50.7% we do receive some supplemental funds within the local control funding formula our salaries and benefits are updated for the best information we had as of June 7th and it does include all vacancies for positions that we planned to fill the unemployment rate percentage is included in this budget at 1.23% that's a dramatic increase from the recent historical average of 05% it was almost a million dollar increase in costs to Chico Unified this has changed and we'll talk about that a little bit in the future the legislature adopted a 05 which would improve our financial statement by a million dollars in the current year and spread that and then and then adjust slightly into the second year so this is just a visual view of our enrollment versus our average daily attendance you can see it's starting to go down but in the 200122 22 year we are getting funded on that higher level this is just a summary of the lcap dollars that are on the unrestricted side of the budget only only you saw in a previous slide there was over $25 million for the local control accountability plan but that included other funding sources is restricted in nature as well I'm just going to jump right to the multi-year projection one of the most important documents because not only do we adopt a budget for the current year but we're looking into the future of the decisions we make today how will those impact our finances uh three years out and you can see for our net increase or decrease in fund balance um we are looking at U A positive 3.8% in the 2122 year we then see deficits estimated at this point this is the unrestricted side of the budget of 1.5 U million and a little over $100,000 in the third year again this is based on declining enrollment in all those three years and it is based on the estimates uh from the Department of Finance for cost of living adjustments in future years uh we also and I should have mentioned this earlier I'm sorry Dr ker it just uh occurred to me so we don't have the new Census Data yet correct no right okay thank you part of the original budget also includes what we call our estimated actuals for the current year the Year we're leaving 20 uh 21 because that becomes our beginning balance for the next year 2122 and we are estimating this time to have a small um decline in our fund balance um but again when we close the books we tend to get a little bit better as well so in a budget that's over $ hundred million we're getting close to a break even in the current year of 2021 and you can see we maintain all of our reserve requirements the 3% required from the state the board's 2% the additional onetime dollars that we set aside related to board reserve and any of those other um required items to be spent in future years and we still have over or almost $20 million of undesignated fund balance so we're financially very healthy even in light of looking at some decreases um in our net income so the legislature did approve a budget on June 15th uh as mentioned it did include the cost of living adjustment at 5.07% which was what the governor had proposed there is an additional Cola of 4.05% for special education and other state categorical programs the governor's proposal only had the 4.05% included in special ed and it included only a 1.7% cost of living adjustment in the other state programs the legislature has chosen to pass a budget that has that 4.05 across all state programs so that will improve our financial position compared to what is being presented tonight and again we mentioned the um supplemental Grant actually did not mention this the legislature actually increased the percentage for supplemental grant funding and this could be a few hundred thousands additional dollars for for CH unified if this ultimately is adopted by the legislature as well and I apologize I said hundreds of, it would be about3 million more dollars to CH unified if this goes through uh the budget also gets better by what the legislature did related to pension obligation costs Mr Bala yes I'm going to go back to the increasing the supplemental Grant Line would you run through that one more time about how that could lead to an approximate positive impact of 3 million so we receive an additional amount per Ada right related to the percentage of targeted students that we have and there's an amount per Ada the legislature increased that amount across all grade level spans um from 20 to 2 3.3% so there's additional lcff dollars that are being generated related to that percentage of targeted students got it thank you uh the pension obligation is a big deal because we have um been experiencing almost million dollar increases year-over-year related to pension costs um if the state legislator's um proposal is ultimately adopted our budget would improve because the increase for stirs and purs would be decreased by those additional dollars from the state going into those programs and also we already mentioned though the unemployment insurance benefit was at 1.26% that's what's included in the budget now the legislature reduces that all the way back to 05 that would be another million dollar benefit to our budget if that were to be adopted again this is part of of what we haven't had settled yet because of the the trailer bills and the things that that still haven't been agreed to correct correct the final version of the budget is still being negotiated between the governor and the legislature thank you um yeah it's before June 30th so we're very hopeful that when we present this next week um we'll have that information now historically it always hasn't hit that date but that is the timeline well they met the uh uh constitutional deadline on June 15 the negotiation of the final budget although supposed to be ratified before June 30th may go cross that line with no penalty to any of our legislators so we we just put up there a lot to still be determined as that's being negotiated and then going forward they're working on that now but it appears those negotiations are being done in good faith we do expect the budget to be approved by June 30th there are continued concerns related to covid-19 and the impact of those um you know again a lot of one-time dollars from federal and state but they are one time in nature so how do we best use those dollars long term uh we do and plan to present to you a 45-day update budget that will be brought to you in August with so many changes occurring and so much of our staffing uh occurring at the beginning of the year we will want to bring back a 45-day bu budget update to you there will continue to be some cash management challenges even with our strong reserves there is still talk of some cash deferrals so we'll have to pay close attention to that and just to note we have not settled compensation for next year 21 22 or any year there after again Mr Bel I'm I'm sorry but you we skipped right over that uh deferral issue we H we have a a one month deferral at this point at this point June the June principal payment would be pushed over until July okay and then just a note we do have deadlines to spend some of those co9 dollar so it's important for us to monitor those and make sure that we spend those dollars wisely and within the deadline so that's um the summary view of the original budget we'll be bringing this back to you for approval on June 30th and we'll have some updated information we hope with the state approve budget as well Mr landow do you have any questions not this thank you we'll see us all again on the 30th regarding these issues thank you Mr Baltimore okay this um is a public hearing we need to open the public hearing on the uh informational issues on the original budget so the hearing is open um have we had any public comment requests made we did not have any requests for public comment on this item thank you then I will close the public hearing okay again just reminder this is um going to be brought back for action on uh June 30th okay public hearing um on the reserves disclosure again Mr Baltimore yes there is a requirement in Education Code that we um disclose the amount of reserves we have on the unrestricted side of the budget we have included that document for the board and for the public um I would clarify however that with the legislature's adoption of the budget it appears that all all four of the um triggers to require a reduction in the amount of reserves that we have on hand would be in uh reached in the 2021-22 year but effective still for the 2223 year so if the legislator's budget is ultimately approved with the additional money going into the rainy day fund at $4.6 billion then that would trigger that Education Code language that would require us to reduce our reserves down to 10% however there are things that we can do working with the board as far as committing Reserve dollars for specific purposes they can maintain reserves appropriately um but also transparently for the board and the public and would um put some requirements that if we dip into those reserves we would have to come back to you for Action as well so those are some of the items that we're looking to do because we do believe reserves um are healthy they help us with our cash position they help us make I think better decisions long term so um we'll want to continue to maintain good reserves but comply with the Education Code requirement as well and so we'll be watching this closely but at this point we provide it for your for your riew in the public I've watched very closely on this particular issue and I've seen no indication that anyone in the legislature has raised their hand to try and fix the mess they've created ated with this little bit of ridiculousness so it uh it it does look like it's going to fall on us to to deal with it okay um this is a public hearing I'm going to open the public hearing um we've indic I I have no indication that any public comment has been requested we have no request for public com on okay thank you then I'm going to close the public public hearing and again this is informational only and this item will be brought back to the June 30th meeting okay the next is the uh three the public hearing uh on the 2122 educational protection account the EP EPA yes this has become testing yes so this has become somewhat of um um a a routine process that we report to you how we're spending the EPA dollars this goes all the way back to um proposition 30 when we had additional dollars put into education with the requirement that those um be designated and how we're spending them but as rer they are not new dollars they were just um a separate resource code unrestricted and we use those for salaries of our certificated staff but we make that report uh in compliance with the Education Code thank you um okay this again is a requires public hearing so I'm going to open the public hearing there are no requests to address this there's no public comment requested thank you I will close the public hearing and again this is also informational tonight and we will um have it back June 30th okay um number four this is fun stuff uh resolution 15 42-21 authorizing the issuance and sale of gen General obligation Bond um election from uh from the election of 2016 series C Mr Baltimore so we have the resolution documents before you to issue the final series of measure K this would be um in the amount of 52 million it will should be noted that um we have been very active in constructing buildings and putting these dollars to use um where we have actually then as a reminder this was approved in 2016 and we're in 2021 selling the final series of $152 million of bonding capacity so the importance of that is that by doing it we have tried to outpace escalation costs and we have a lot of very nice new buildings and improvements to schools that we have to show for it and the intent is to get through a phase four of our facility master plan these resolutions uh are brought to you um for your approval so that we can then sell the bonds and we would ask for your approval um included in it is the preliminary official statement the actual resolution the bond purchase agreement and the escro agreement as well okay this again requires a public hearing so I am opening the public hearing um doesn't public no actually there is no public hearing what I'm opening is asking if there are any technical questions for clarification from the board Dr Kaiser so I I note there's been quite a bit of discussion about whether the feds will stop buying bonds or stop buying them at the volume in which they have been um and it seems though that generally the Federal Reserve is pretty optimistic that any kind of downturn would be shortterm so um did you get any uh final uh contact with our bonds people that it's is still a very good market for us uh yes we've been working with what's wrong with your mic man well I don't have a light and I keep doing I I'm I'm making the mistake it's my fault apologize we've been working closely with our financial adviser Mikado and we are still living in um unprecedented low interest rates for bonds so it's still a good time to sell in regardless our voters approved this measure and they want us to sell these bonds and and improve our facilities so um even if it wasn't the best environment uh we do need to sell them uh because we are continuing to move forward with construction but it is historically um in a good and interest rate time period And I think what we've been able to accomplish and I would give makiko a lot of credit with isim advisers um we have been able to sell bonds at relatively low cost to our taxpayers uh we have a typical bond uh over 30 years years interest only is usually a two to one repayment example you sell $25 million of bonds and it costs you $50 million between principal and interest we have really outpaced that across all of our sales and we've also been able to reduce the repayment terms typically around 20 to 25 years with the goal to pay off as much principal as possible and the measure K program specifically allowed us to do that with a lot more principle because we weren't concern strained by any prior agreement to maintain a tax rate related to previous Bond sales so we think um the measure K program has been very successful this would be the again the last issuance of this and uh we would recommend the board take action to give us approval so that we can then sell the bonds this summer I also thought the data on bu County and the tax base was very encouraging so um uh I'm very enthusiastic about us with a green light go do we have any public comment requested we have no public comment on this item thank you board are there any motions associated with this agenda item I move to pass 1542 D21 thank you Dr Kaiser is there a second I'll second thank you Mr landow any further board discussion members okay hearing them I'm going to call for the vote all those in favor Mr landal will will hear it specifically all right I'm an thank you Caitlyn hi Dr Kaiser i i m thank you Robinson I that's a five nothing vote to approve thank you board okay next is the um resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of the general obligation refunding Bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $25 million Mr Baltimore yes so we are asking for board authority regarding this resolution to refund a previous Bond sale from 202 12 when we refund a bond by law we have to show that it is a savings to the taxpayer by law we can't extend the term of the previous Bond and we actually have a threshold that we believe we need to see in savings to taxpayers to justify the additional cost for the issuance of the refunding when you refund a bond you're taking advantage of a lower interest rate not a longer term of the bond itself so in essence you are going to pay less for a bond that was sold in 2012 today because you're doing it at a lower tax rate or a lower interest rate so we're asking for board approval to um do the refunding however I would say administratively we're going to continue evaluate this as we get closer to Market to make sure that we're actually receiving a a savings from doing the refunding but we are asking for board authority to do it we think it's the right thing to do to try and save taxpayer dollars and if we can do that with the savings being substantial enough to justify The increased cost of the refunding issuance then um we would want to do that so um our recommendation is that the board consider approval for this resolution allowing us to refund the 2012 bonds any questions from any board members Dr Kaiser have you ever met a property owner that was unhappy when you told them they were going to pay less taxes I think the challenge there is it's always the comparison point right I mean that that is the challenge I mean I think everybody likes new schools and they understand the increase in property value when you have quality schools but it does cost money and um you know and what the challenge is is they're going to see another this $52 million on the previous resolution that will come on their tax rooll um this by refunding we think we there's some additional savings that can occur on that and we've really tried to work hard to manage that tax rate so it's somewhat consistent um that has not always been perfectly achieved but our goal is to try and if you're a homeowner you don't see large fluctuations in your tax bill we'd like to see incremental increases where you can see your bond dollars working in your in your community and you understand what the cost is to you as it relates to your property taxes thank you um do we have any public comment request no public comment on no public comment okay uh board do we have uh any motions associated with this agenda items Miss Dolby I move to approve miss a second okay I have a motion by uh member Doby uh with a second by member Kaiser all those in favor uh well excuse me do we have any further discussion from the board hearing none um I'll call for the vote all those in favor signify by saying I I I ah we heard you Mr Lando thank you we have a a five zero approval on that item thank you Mr Baltimore uh and just a reminder we will inform the board whether or not we believe the refunding um is appropriate and meets the thresholds to go forward with that so we'll report back to the board okay thank you okay Mr B I think you're off the hook now the next item is a conceptual design development update for mcmanis elementary school this is some of the exciting stuff that happens because of all this Bond work you've beening doing Mr baltim thank you okay Julie you're on can you hear me yes wonderful thank you good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak with you tonight about our next phase four master plan project at mcmanis elementary school tonight we have with us Maria Campos our facili planner from the district and mcmanis principal we and laurs and Alicia Chavez from Lon Architects before we ask lonus to walk us through the conceptual plan I'd like to just take a moment to walk through our master plan projects th far and what has led us to this project at MCM mcmas was Prior prioritized by the Board of Education in this phase of the master plan for a number of reasons anticipated enrollment growth in North Chico as a result of residential development makes a logical priority in order to house students and prevent overcrowding at other schools to combat overcrowding the district hased at elementary schol as by Department of educ we've added capacity in the form of three new kindergarten classrooms at em and we have increased capacity at Mar Elementary School minor boundary modifications were approved by this bo back in 2018 that took effect in the 1920 school year carving out a small area of chary and moving it over to where we also created increased capacity as part of school's renovation all of these efforts are in keeping with the board aded improving our existing while creating to prevent overing at the time of ad this the board wanted to create facility equity for all of the district's elementary students while at the same time staining off the need to spend Bond resources on just one new elementary school this decision also honors the board's desire to provide the most parent and student Choice regarding which school they desire to the MCN boundary is projected to gain 194 single family dwellings and 152 multi family dwellings in the next four years those dwellings are anticipated to generate 32 Elementary age students currently 20% of the students that live in the mam boundary choose to attend schools outside of that 20% a majority of those students attend either sha or this project provides an opportunity to mitigate ongoing traffic safety concerns at mcmanis mcmanis portion of mcis was initially constructed in 1947 at that time and even while the school was expanded over the years to come no one could have predicted that East Avenue would be trans into aane thorough connecting thousands of homes and buses to Highway for many years the of MC schol has been locked off and abandoned at the school on East Avenue leing the schol with AED administra and award and disjointed circul our goal is to renovate MC in aimar fashion as we achieved at to make mcmanis a safe and aesthetically attractive school with the intent of capturing more neighborhood students and assist with potential overing at other schools now with that being said set the stage to introduce Laur office and she's going to go through the conceptual design and the process that was followed to develop that design and I'd like to ask if you wouldn't mind holding your questions and then we will be happy to answer um all of your questions and hear your comments Laura thanks so much Julie um president Robinson members of the Board of Trustees we're very happy to be here today to give an update on the mcmanis elementary school conceptual design effort uh we'll share a little bit about our process the project progress and phasing um Alternatives as well as the proposed budget for the project my name is Laura NS education practice lead at lionas my colleague Brian Bell also a principal at our firm and AA shavez are here as well next please we're very proud of the process we were able to go through with our stakeholders um uh principal and his team were such engaged and enthusiastic participants in what was mostly a virtual planning process and so uh next please we'd really like to acknowledge um all of the participants we had in the process as I said much of our engagement was by a virtual means and their attentiveness and enthusiasm enthusiasm for this C it was truly inspiring to us next we um had a number of Engagement um efforts sum of them is here uh first we had three site committee meetings uh those were all virtual we did hold an inperson community meeting and the opportunity to speak one onone uh with members of the mcmanis community was one that was influential on the direction that we'll be moving um we had virtual meetings with the district's facilities committee as well as engagement with a number of District level Specialists to make sure we started off on the right track our Engineers have been out on the site and we've begun to um assess the condition and make sure uh that we're budgeting appropriately for uh those areas moving forward next please the project is important to us um that when we look at a project of this scale um we'd like to make sure that we're also um addressing take to get there from here we'll be working on an existing occupied site um it's important for us to understand and to describe the implementation or the phasing plan that supports our final results um so I Brian will be walking you through that um I do want to first if you move to the next slide please I did want to talk a little bit about program assumptions uh Julie mentioned uh the growth at this side of and the potential for mcis to accommodate that growth we will we are looking at taking the current enrollment of 405 and adding additional capacity for 265 students including uh prek TK programs as well as the other loading standards that you see here so roughly um will be accommodating four classes per grade level at the K level and four uh at the four five level three uh classes per grade level and so that is grow for the side of town but we'll handle a lot of that growth uh that you anticipate um one of those uh when we look at the conceptual design we also address critical success factors of our stakeholders at all the levels we talked about uh student Safety and Security was number one uh Julie mentioned East Avenue and what it's become and how much U real worry there is about drop off pickup and students relating to East AV portable replacement uh was important classroom upgrades so that across the district and certainly across the M campus there's a level of equity in what those classrooms are providing for teaching and learning and of course um accommodating growth uh Julie mentioned the um the date of construction which means most of our infrastructure of the existing campus is more than 70 years old so we prioritize that as well and we'll continue through this process to evaluate and look at um that infrastructure with a a fine point so Brian um would you like to walk through the plan I will I get the next slide please so good evening everyone and thank you again very excited to be starting this process so we have a lot work ahead of us we are going to walk through in the next five slides basically the transformation over the next couple of years here and so obviously as um Julie mentioned it was built back in the 1940s there was been a few additions and updates over those years in the 60s and 80s but as you can see many many portoles have been added over the years um and really sort of kind of had a disjointed kind of layout of this campus so I think they'll see the end help together so next slide pleasee so we um are literally beginning our design process um tomorrow right so we've got a lot of work to do as you know we need to develop documents get into the state architect our goal is to have those documents pull together by the end of the year so that we will be ready to ground running this time next year June of 2022 one school was out for the summer break and our first step is really everything in in red that's highlighted to get those out of the way so there'll be a little bit of consolidation maybe downsizing a little bit on some of those pie be able tole the area out that we what we call the first be construction facil next slide and so just a quick kind of overview of what that looks like the classroom building V1 down Corner going in the place of the ex that would be that would give us that um capacity to be able to get those classrooms online the other piece would be the blue the kindergarten complex that those that are familiar with the SHA project very similar approach where we take that kindergarten program kind of put that up to the Northern end there would in with resal and so property line we' also be clearing out the fing it's a little bit hard to see within the trees there our administration building that would uh serve as the new local entry point that you'll see together here in the end and then our multi-purpose building which will primarily be our food service dining Etc building that's going to become really the heart and core piece of transformation so that would basically take us through the summer of 23 about process get from we are today to this next please so what those new buildings will allow us to do is to not have to money on hous Port outc remaining port and new that be built so this next phase is what we're calling really the modernization phase the renovation of the existing facility those success factors is to bring the existing classrooms up to the 21st Century Learning environments will have so that they Equity across the entire campus and so the renovation Begins for the both the C and the D wing on the CL buildings the E building is a permanent building orig thought that might be looking to that support space for the administration service across paway and then the large transformation will be the A1 building which the former multi-purpose building and kit will really transform now into new library computer that's part of the so that would be another year process along with the next slide which is once those CLS have been renovated we can take those Portables offline so now we have REM all Portables from the site please and then that allows us to finish the complete transformation if you would which allows us to get our expanded parking it gives us automobile drop off right restation can now see Howard complex ties directly in with that drop off door also and then we a little bit of site transformation moving the hards the new field running all out towards multi-purpose outdor dining area and then taking former hard really becoming a nice EnV that Conn us the and um if you go to the next SL coup features i' really like to point out that I think are important and unique to mcm's um that potential of taking the gry multipurpose and making it a library adjacent to that you'll see something labeled Wellness along East Avenue um The Wellness Center houses counseling uh psychologists um speech therapists and uh other programs that are very supportive of those student services and student support on this campus the adjacency to the library the library as you've been doing throughout your district is not not your mother's Library it's got a lot of flexibility it's um an open space for Community Gatherings for educator Gatherings and certainly for student support and adjacent to that is the resource specialist program so we really see this this campus providing a hub of student services and support for this campus Brian mentioned the Bus drop off areas um those again on North Avenue special education buses um that allow students to access the adjacent classroom spaces there so um with that we'd like to move into the budget discussion and then we're going to end as we often like to as architect with the pretty pictures and the fly through of not only the phing diagram but what we really believe is the potential for this Julie did you want me to go ahead into budget Laura I I wanted you to touch on briefly the the kind of flipping of the traffic patterns so we're taking the parent Vehicles off of the street onth into this large Park and drop Offa on a great prompt thank you um so one of the areas we heard loud and clear was the difficulty on that corner parking lot the safety concerns that I mentioned and the potential for students to be um uh getting out onto um East Avenue so this of the existing pering that is off of North but expands it significantly and following California Department of Education guidelines creates that flow through drop off space that you see labeled there that allows parents not only to get off of the street to drop off their students but provides a length of queuing space that allows many of the parents to get off of the street um to provide that drop off so uh we think that's a really um large Improvement there you can see adjacent to uh the space label drop off near the kindergarten uh We've also maintained that very prominent row of trees uh we think that that um front entry if you will that welcoming front door is only enhanced by preserving those trees and that tree line uh canopy and then further down on North we have two potential areas Bus drop offs one for um school buses uh field trips other things like that the other for special education uh buses we are working through um with the site uh exactly which rooms will be used for special education some of that has to do with access to restrooms and other current amenities in the space but creating those and working with the city of Chico on those potential drop offs we think we'll do a really good job of decentralizing and spreading that um traffic patterns out uh to make sure that we have the safest opportunities for student drop off great thank you Laura let's go ahead move on to the next slide talk about the budget next SL again John okay so um we've done an initial cost estimate for this conceptual design through a third party estimator and the way that an estimator looks at a project like this at this point in time is to identify square footage that's either new construction or square footage that's being renovated or modernized and and assigning a unit price to that footage so it's a pretty rough calculation at this point the estimator doesn't have any plans to go off of because the plans haven't been developed yet at this point so currently um the cost estimate for the project is at 40.8 million and um we will touch in at multiple um stop in the design development as we go through and get current updates on a more we also are hoping I think it's fair to say that the um things we're all reading about rela to Wood and steel and Supply chains um will also um calm down and by the time we're ready to move forward this um I don't know if you're able to launch this um video but the QR code is available there to scan with your device the camera on your device as well um and that uh oh great thank you um we're going to start uh first with the phasing plan again we think communicating with not only the mcmanis community but the community at large about the phasing of this campus important as you know two years it it can be disruptive so we're limiting the amount of phasing and um trying to be as sensitive to having that occur outside of the busy campus um area and then as Brian mentioned uh renovation occurring between June of 23 and June of 24 uh with that parking lot uh component and the removal of the final portable happening um in the summer in that area but focused on the summer that final summer and then while we're just at the conceptual level we uh thought it was important to start to share um the feeling of the new front door parents come in through the drop off and parking area uh welcoming front door burst of school color um as well as a a community Plaza leading to the multi-purpose room um similar to shaft as Brian mentioned a separated uh pre yard and kindergarten complex using the buildings to Shield that kindergarten space from the adjacent paring reconfiguration of the hard Port outdoor dining structures as well as the potential for the stage to Amphitheater linking it to what will be the transformed uh Library uh book ending if you will that new um quad you can start to see the uh drop off areas um pull outs on the street for the control and as we move fencing and Gates will continue to um evolve to make sure that we have a a secure um campus have so with that uh we i' be happy to any questions it's really been a privilege on this community is very excited Tom um first of all um do the Bus drop on East Avenue is there entryway between those buildings planned or I mean we're moving towards you know single points of access to every school what's the plan for students Dr walk onti outside of the building to get to that front door thank you that's a good question we are um when we met with the site transport or the District transportation we you see a gate um between um the two buildings and the assumption would be that that would be open in the morning and uh at the end of school and locked during the school day so after those windows when that space is supervised it will direct any late drop off um to the to the front door thank you um if I made one other um maybe just a representation of the Multipurpose Building but it seems like in the drawing on slide 14 there was a space in the back of the multipurpose room is that just the roof of the multipurpose room I'm seeing at the same yes I think it is um it's the roof of the kitchen which will be similar to the new kitchens done at the um Dow and miracles I believe as well as some open space for um a covered outdoor dining space question thank you any other board clarification questions Dr Kaiser this is just a comment um my grandson did get some speech services there for um a while and the uh absolute nightmare of trying to find some place to park on North in such a narrow narrow space and Community um I was very passionate that we respect student safety with this design and I think lion noas and Julie have done a wonderful job but so has the school uh Personnel they have been very very enthusiastic so um almost nothing could not improve mcmanis but this really takes a big big step thank you any further questions comments is there any public comment there is no public comment thank you um this agenda item is um before us in order for us to uh consider a recommendation that we direct staff to continue with the development of construction estimates and design documents for review and approval by the division of State Architects so um for the principal wants to address good evening hi Brian hi Alicia hi Laura um honestly I just wanted to get up and say that um just on behalf of the mcmanis Learning Community um I want to thank our site committee the teachers the staff that have been um giving a lot of input I want to thank Julie Julie and Maria and also the folks from Lion OAS they've been incredibly responsive to all of our concerns requests um we understand that they're not going to be able to um accommodate everything but they are down to earth um at the community meeting we had great conversations great input and so again the process has been smooth and I just want to say thank you thank you Mr Weaver okay board do we have um a motion associated with this agenda item I would be thrilled to move item six the conceptual design development update for mcmanis elementary school especially since it's anticipated to take a year do we have a second I'll second we have a motion from Dr Kaiser a second from um member Dolby any further discussion board Mr landow any fur no you're shaking your head no thank you okay all those in favor I I I thank thank you that's unanimous okay moving on oh my gosh the beams again yes we've been dealing with this for a while um Julie could you do the presentation please on the uh beam repairs at various School sites absolutely we current have a Le staff contract with United building contractors and they performed on a portion of that contract last year at Chico Junior High multi-purpose room and Library room and we now have the repairs at Chapman rosale and Sierra you to perform for those of for members who are not familiar with the beam repairs all five of these rooms have the same design so there are Arch blue laminated wood beams that kind of look like w bones that hold up the structure and we recognized or realized that there was some delamination occurring in those wood beams a few years back uh we brought on a structural engineer immed to riew the lamination and make sure that we um didn't have an immediate safety risk which we did not however we have been observing them since then and we had a design developed to repair the beans and the repair looks sort of like braces that you might put on your teeth so it's Channel that's being applied to the wooden be will take over the uh structural Integrity of the building and tonight I'm asking you to approve an amendment to the leas AG with United building contractors in the amount of 13,25 thank you um board any clarification questions okay is there any public com comment indicated there is no public comment thank you um board do we have any uh motions associated with this agenda item Dr Kaiser having seen these beams as they delaminate uh I uh eagerly recommend that we update our beam repairs to include Serie rosale and Chapman thank you Dr k is there a second to that motion I'll second that motion thank you um do we have any further discussion I just have a question sorry if I cut you off um these beams this problem that's occurring I'm assuming that this is something that we're we're all new construction is not going to have this issue in the future right and this will be a a long-term solution um on okay so okay I just it seems really interesting that it's a recurring problem at this point but it's just from old construction yeah 70 years these schools were all built around the same time in 1950 yeah yeah they were all correct there are there are schools all across the state of California that have this type of construction it was the at the time do notru so we are tacking all of them right now and this fix is meant to last build and okay thanks for clarifying that Julie thank you board are we ready for a vote okay all all those in favor signify by saying I I I yes thank you Mr Lando I did hear that it's a uh unanimous okay um Miss Kissle again the charter school measure K projects requests thank you our meas school facilities committee have been active again and they have recommended three projects to be brought forward to this board this evening they are andru the am of, Ranch to C in the amount of 15,18 St schol currently in construction privately chman bringing in aable building for their use and they need some furniture and equipment for that relocatable as well as Lear kit in the amount of $2,000 asking expend of on these projects than thank you Miss gissell um any questions from board members any public comment indicated public comments on this item thank you um are there any motions associated with this agenda item uh I'll move to approve um item uh 2.8.

remember this amount is taken times our our 80 or 100 and that determines kind of our base level funding support into next year what's also included is a level of inflation is currently estimate i don't see this changing at 1.21 annually they will give us an inflation amount due to cost of living etc number three there is an increase in the state level state support level the tsl calculation this is a per mile increase of 3 cents it doesn't sound like much but when you're talking about how many miles we drive as a district it does add up also in this k-12 budget is an increase in sped weights um this is pretty big for uh mrs miller and her department and we're we're looking at an estimated additional funding of 673 thousand just to changing some of those weights for reference those weights are added to our budget for those students who have high needs so i don't recall the two weights that are increasing but they are increasing and you can see the the funding that's a associated with that increase also new to the budget is a actually a gifted weight um it's not much but we are estimating it is new money at forty thousand dollars so um in that last bullet point we are including the sr3 allocation of 7.8 million in this budget this is going to be budgeted under the federal funds so it just doesn't affect our state level calculations this is a federal subsidy that we are going to be budgeting and i'll refer to this later as we're at then are working to identify a plan for this money budget highlight so for reference again this is the same budget that we have been discussing since december and the same budget that you tentatively approved both on march 10th for the mno and april 7th for the capital just so just for reference this is what was included in that budget and what's included in this budget today so it provided a five percent increase for all employees um it also included an increase to the supplemental pay schedule it imposed no district increase to employee benefits with the exception of asrs increasing 0.19 which is mandated by the state it also provided a conservative budget balance carry forward into next year it also reduced the the transfer from mno to capital by 1.5 million and i'll relate to this 1.5 million in that conversation in another slide it also allocated funds for additional fte and reclassifications which uh miss martens is managing that throughout the fiscal year and then it projected a flat enrollment growth for next fiscal year so all increases you'll see in this budget compared to the one tentatively approved are strictly funding formula related we did not change anything in terms of the tentative projections that we're giving you the only changes are strictly coming from the k-12 budget that's proposed at the state so it's just funding formula increases to our benefit so mno you've kind of seen from hopefully should be familiar with these two kind of numbers mno did increase a little so our proposed jbl or general budget limit for 22 is 1 million 100 million six excuse me 106 million 760 771 dollars um this back in march we tentatively approved a 104 million dollar budget so this is a two million dollar increase again just based on strictly funding formula numbers that are in this k-12 budget this includes a phase reduction in the m o transfer again we're trying to spend down some of that capital budget and move some of that back to the mno it also like i mentioned before it includes all proposed legislation that's in there so the new inflation the new base level support and the additional weighted counts so you compare that against what we revised back in may we revised the budget of 95 million this is our current fiscal year that estimate came down slightly from what we anticipated but it was down 800 000 so the general difference between these two budgets is 11 million 753 754 744 that's three million what we tentatively approved back in march above what we tend to be proved so again that's additional budget balance carry forward that we can carry into next year basically increasing our budget bounce carry forward to 6.3 which is very conservative a general number that you would want to be between is four to eight percent so we're right in between that going into next year this allows us to cover any emergencies if we take a massive enrollment growth we can we have those funds allocate or set aside to address those concerns average teacher salary so by the arizona revised statute requires districts to the to display the average teacher's salary prominently on its website the statute does not provide a definition of what shall be included in average teacher pay therefore husc has defined defined average teacher pay to include base support level as well as any supplemental pay a teacher may or may not receive this is not right or wrong because the statute does not give us any direction one way or the other this is just how husd defines a teacher and how that number is calculated yeah so this has been since calculated this way since 2018 is when the statute started um so you'll notice in an average asd teacher back in fiscal year 2018 um had an average pay of 47 972 over the next three fiscal years that increased to what our prior year dollar amount is of 212 dollars and then going into our next year our budget year it will increase to 173 dollars which is a 30 increase since fiscal year 18 um to teacher pay that does include again our definition so just with that caveat in mind that's how we define average teacher pay and what's included in that number so moving on to our capital outlay budget again we tendedly approve this on april 7th we brought a detailed capital plan outlining our intentions on the initial look at this the appearance may have may appear that we're losing money however we are if you recall we are budgeting we are budgeting high over the course of several years we identified that we were consistently taking and rolling over a extremely high amount that was not appropriate for husd um so our annual capital allocation from the state as uh for reference is a six million dollars so this is almost four times that annual capital allocation so as we begin to build these detailed plans for our capital budget you'll see this number start to come down the difference between these is six thousand dollars six thousand four hundred fifteen dollars um but that includes several intentional reductions that we've been planning so it includes a phase reduction from our capital transfer that we've discussed remember that's our lease payment includes it also includes a full restoration from our daw so we're giving someone taking some back um you'll see this budget intentionally outlined and i believe we're going to bring some some quarter quarterly reports on how this is being spent throughout the year some other funds um identified five funds here that have some high dollar amounts and then generally some interest in terms of um outside of our mno in capital so our classroom site fund there was a bill passed sb 1139 in the spring which collapsed the classroom flight plum buckets so there was three buckets that we had to statutory align our expenditures to those each had restrictions in which we had to maintain going forward i think miss martens is going to be working with the meet and confer team to identify a new plan considering this bill that passed collapsing these buckets so within that bill it also included new employee groups or support service groups so um there's gonna be this plan needs to be uh revisited um with our meet and confer team and i believe those conversations will take place this fiscal year some other funds title one of our bigger grant funded budgets from the federal government again it's pretty straightforward we use that to address students who are furthest behind in our school system ida pretty much the same from the prior year again it addresses school-aged children with developmental disabilities so sr-3 the american rescue plan we are in the process of forming a committee to identify a plan for this allocation we do hope to come back to the governing board in september with that plan so and then our remaining bond we estimated we're going to be at 3.5 million going into next year again one of the reasons why we've been bringing a new proposed bond to you um we are running out of bond funds um from that 2013 authorization so dr founder's team have identified some needs for a new bond and as you've approved and so we will be also we'll be coming back in july with some information on on the next steps going forward in terms of some bond road show dates we've identified a spot on our website for an informational landing page for our public our employees to get some more information regarding the bond president reece or i don't know who that does i don't know um going back to slide um six where it talks about the average teacher salary and in the footnote there at the bottom it says on our average teacher salary salaries include base salary supplemental pay classroom site fund monies so does that apply to slide 8 classroom site fund monies the classroom site fund for the other funds is that what it's saying that falls under the average and what what is that money classroom site fund yeah how does it go to the teacher directly um i would defer to ms martens to explain that good evening president reece vice president wilson um board member anderson so you may or may not know um in regards to how we break that out but currently um up until this bill had passed we did two different buckets so we have what we call pay for performance that our teachers get and that's based on evaluative factors as well as a paper performance guidelines that was developed for me and confer a number of years before i arrived here at the district and then the other part of it is what we call classroom site funds so what that gets paid out to teachers is in december and june of each year and currently this year it was 16 so 3 200 so they got brought out and paid in a lump sum in june pardon me in december and then in june um and essentially the criteria for that is that a teacher must be present one day every month of that time period to get paid those dollars perfect this one makes everybody understood thank you those amounts are also in the con the teacher's contract i believe you approved that um in june um lastly i just have some upcoming reports and and revision dates that i've already alluded to so i will bring a tax rate a finalized tax rate information item to you again that tax rate is finalized using the adopted budget as you know this adopted budget includes several potential legislation legislation and that will be finalized by the maricopa county superintendent's office that's finalized the third monday of august but once that is finalized i will bring a tax rate information item to explain kind of historically how our tax rate has come down due to our assessed valuation increasing over the years so um secondly i'll bring i related to this already a budget revision regardless because of the fact that the state has not approved a budget what you're approving now is a um a proposed well it's on excuse me um was it temporary form no it's not the right word preliminary forms that's the right word um so regardless of of when that budget gets approved we'll bring final forms to you in a september we also have our annual financial report that's due october 15th we'll bring that to the board on october 13th and we'll have a little presentation outlining our true expenditures for this fiscal year and then finally our bond election results um this is all mail-in election so we should have those results at some point november 2nd and that is all i have is there any questions i don't think so president reese members of the board as you can see conversations about our budget um updates will be as just as they have been a substantial part of our meetings this last year will continue to be moving forward so that you can continue to be updated on this information as well perfect if we don't have any other questions then we will go ahead and close our public hearing and then we will reconvene in our open board session thank you mr moore all right so i will go on to our action item number four and i move that we approve the adoption of the proposed budget for fiscal year 2021-2022 expenditure budget second any other questions all right all those in favor aye aye that motion carries 4-0 all right dr foley our superintendent's report please president reese members of the board so we have some upcoming events so we've got important dates on here we have our next board meeting which is scheduled for july 21st as we referenced earlier and then we've gotten a very special important date the 26th what's not obviously outlined on this is we are very very very busily getting ready for our for the preparation for bringing our new teachers on board our admin retreat all of those exciting fun things that are happening as we prepare and plan for the beginning of school which will be happening all throughout the month of july there will be all kinds of updates coming to families on websites about uh back to school meet your teacher um black hawk and kingdom days so um all kinds of back to school things are in the works and are being finalized as we are very excitedly preparing for the first day of school perfect thank you you know it's summer but it's definitely not down time that's for sure i think everyone's working even more right now to prepare all right we'll go on to board comments anyone with board comments nope all right moving right along request to speak mrs reach no request to speak moving right on all right we'll get to our consent agenda and i move that we approve our consent agenda as it's presented to us second any questions or comments regarding the consent agenda curtis can you go to 8.5 for me please um i would like to bring this to the attention and recognize centennial pto they donated playground equipment in the amount of over 45 thousand dollars so thank you to centennial pto and their community and families who helped raise this money they are going to have some amazing equipment when they come back and it's really exciting so we got to see some pictures so i just wanted to to point that out for our gifts and donations so again thank you definitely to centennial pto and and their community and families any other questions or comments on it on consent all right all those in favor aye aye that motion carries 4-0 all right we will go on to our information items we will start with 9.1 our back-to-school mitigation plan update dr foley yes president reese members of the board tonight your cabinet would like to present to you just an overview of some of the work that we have been engaged with in planning for back to school for half a second i want us to travel down memory lane it was about this time last year where we came to you with a powerpoint i don't want to travel back there's flashbacks this is not a good thing i don't remember summer last year it was not nice it was not nice no but i i hold up for you the this was the powerpoint that we discussed with you last year that was over about 80 slides tonight's like 14 slides so i will say that we are very hopeful and and moving forward into this next school year which um obviously we have had quite a year and so our mitigation plans we are going to discuss with you tonight the updates that we have and the work that is happening so that you as well as our community has an understanding of some of the work that has happened and what connects they can expect when they return to school and so tonight we're going to highlight some very unique pieces to that so go harkening back to at this time last year there were a lot of unknowns and and and as we go into this next year there are more knowns than unknowns and yet we proceed uh cautiously optimistic and are prepared for a multitude of scenarios and so we'd like to share with you an update um of the work that we have done thus far and provide answers to questions that you may have and so we've kind of organized these in different categories so i'm going to start with just kind of an overview with a caveat about the mitigation plan we're going to discuss tonight as well as some of the plans one of the things that we have learned is that nothing is nothing is is guaranteed to be permanent flexible is the name of the game and so one of the things that we're going to say is that this mitigation plan is one that is going to be a living breathing real live document that may need to be modified as the year progresses or as unique scenarios present themselves that was something that we had to navigate through quite often last year um and so one one will we'll go into this year saying this is what we know and are prepared to to communicate at this point knowing that those changes may need to occur we want a caveat that of course at any given point we experienced executive orders changing um plans expectations protocols at any given point last year and that happened more than once so one of the things that we will caution is that at any point an executive order obviously overrules our mitigation plan and our mitigation plan would be updated to reflect that executive order one of the things that we will caution and what we've added into our mitigation plan which is has has kind of shrunk this year um is that as the superintendent i reserve the ride at any point when there is an emergency situation or a unique scenario that we may need to modify a plan and that that would be communicated as soon as possible for instance if we had a specific site that had an increase of number in cases we may need to add a specific mitigation plan for that so one of the things that we know is that if it is deemed necessary for any health or safety reasons that we would modify on the spot as needed and that we would obviously changes or modifications would be communicated to all as timely as possible but we do this so that if we have rising cases or a concern that we can respond respond accordingly and with the guidance that we're given at the time so tonight we have a few topics that we're going to touch base on that we have kind of highlighted some some work we'd like for you to know that our website has been updated and so what you'll see in this powerpoint is there are some links and those links are already live on our website so that people can look at this and and and provide questions one of the things that we did as a cabinet team was we have been updating this and modifying this and putting it together we've sent it to our general administrators group which includes all of our principals assistant principals deans directors coordinators for them to ask questions and we've also sent it to our our higley teachers association saying look at this what are your questions issues concerns clarification so again we have had while we're building this quickly we've had the opportunity to get vetted information from our individuals who are are in front of a computer and can provide feedback knowing that this will be part of our admin retreat and part of our back to school and part of our clarification on our mitigation and and our if you will our our health and safety plans um and at some point uh as we've discussed and is on one of our upcoming agenda items we will probably at some point go into an executive session sometime in this fall where we will go through some of our emergency plans and protocols so that you also aware of some of the updates that have been happening as part of our training for our safety plans which is super important so um so tonight again these are some of the topics we'll talk about i want to hit on this first one though the sr3 requirements uh mr moore kind of hit on the sr3 one of the things that we've all learned in this is any time that there is you know the they always say in in in finance 101 he whom holds the purse strings gets to make the rules so when there is funding that is here we go hi very good very good so when there is funding that is allocated there are parameters and guidance that's required so one of the things that's interesting about the s3 requirements is that um that we kind of outlined here is that one of the things that they required this year with the because there's so three funding is that school districts had to have a formal mitigation plan that was not a requirement last year now higley had one we had one and we modeled it after the state example because i had been on the committee we cut our task forces and we created it we wrote it down and we have um documented versions of our mitigation plan as it shifted and changed well one of the things that that came out of the essa requirements this year was that every school needed to have a formal mitigation plan and so the good news is we had one we've already modified it and we're going to talk about that plan tonight with the understanding that there are some key components that have to be in that mitigation plan and and you'll you will be happy to know that our plan last year had all those pieces and our plan this year has all of those pieces so we meet and far exceed the expectation that you're supposed to have in a mitigation plan so obviously you're aware of the fact that we have essert that would be our allocation for s3 money um one of the things that we do have to have to have to have a plan and it'll be presented and you formally have to present it in a governing board so you'll see us come back to you probably in the fall updating you on any plan this is now one of those requirements for esther so one of the things that we will continue to talk about and update on are uh our mitigation plans and how it's going in any updates or changes that are needed one of the other requirements and mr moore kind of talked about this a little bit too is going back to he who holds the purse strings make the rules they may give categories in how you can spend the money but there's some flexibility in how those can be spent within those categories and one of the things that they want to see is is local lea or stakeholder level involvement in that in fact as you know the ade has to do the very same thing they have a committee built of stakeholders i happen to sit on that committee to give feedback on how do we give guidance in what schools can and cannot do so the state is finalizing those pieces and and we also will be finalizing those pieces as well and we will have a committee that will help give input so when we bring that to you on how and where are we spending within those categories we will have met the requirement of having stakeholder input in that process so know that it's happening at the state level and it will be happening here in higley so that's kind of a broad you know there are additional requirements that are part of sr3 and all of these are things that we are happy to comply with and had in place um had in place so with that we'll talk about what are some of the updates that we've done in the mitigation plan because there are some changes that have happened um there are some changes that have happened and we want to talk through them um and there are some things that are staying similar to what we have experienced this year and there are some things that are being modified and will look different one of the things if i could if i could summarize how will this year feel compared to last year i will say that this year if i were to use a word it will feel more normal-like it will feel more like what we knew school to be like but there are additional pieces that because we are still navigating a pandemic and we'll be communicating cases and protocols that we will outline here in a minute there will be additional communication and pieces that stay in place and we're going to talk about what those are so right now when you follow that link you'll see our mitigation plan has been updated and it'll be effective july 1st we are currently as we are finishing up summer school we had our we had our mitigation plan updated for summer school elementary has ended secondary will finish around july 1st in which we will then transition into the mitigation plan for the return to school if you will um if it comes effective july 1.

so um there are 84 students who have requested to take the course this year and it is being developed by don demayo whom i mentioned earlier and uh let's see they dr gad and dr reed shared that the course was presented in the program of studies presentation to the board of education curriculum committee and was included in the program of studies and typical course requests process and was publicized through teachers and counselors the launch for administrators will occur in july the training for the two teachers involved will include a week in the summer as well as ongoing sessions october december march provided by circ the state education resource committee no yeah so anyway um and that was our meeting um it was adjourned but we do have two motion items and for the board and um the first is approval of a textbook envision algebra 2 and the motion is that the cheshire board of education approved the purchase of the textbook and version envision algebra 2.

i think you all received that amendment okay do i have a motion to adopt the amended agenda second i have a motion in a second all in favor uh i have to take roll call roll call okay uh and marie randall trejo hi brian o'neil hi aljabarr hi catherine smith hi and myself vote i okay we will now proceed to the pledge of allegiance will you all please stand and i will give you a flat let's see there we go okay hand over your heart i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] okay public comments open session items this is the opportunity for members of the public to directly address the board of trustees concerning any item that's described in the meeting agenda uh comments may have been submitted to the district by three o'clock today do we have any public comments no no public comments were received for today's meeting okay thank you all right we'll move on to item five items of business item 5.1 this is the adoption local control and accountability plan an annual update do i have a motion second and i have a motion in a second are there any questions or comments anybody find something they want to ask in those that tome of 200 plus pages okay seeing none we will take a roll call vote anne-marie i vote i uh brian o'neill aye al-jabbar aye catherine smith hi and myself vote i okay 5.2 resolution number 2020 slash twenty one dash b dash nineteen adjustments to income and expenditures general fund resolution number twenty twenty slash twenty one dash b dash twenty adjustments to income and expenditures various funds and proposed budget all funds do i have a motion i have a motion in a s second okay any questions comments are there any additional information to be supplied by our cbo no no we haven't heard anything um regarding the budget at this point so once we hear something we'll definitely um reach out to everybody know the information okay all right seeing that let's take a roll call vote anne-marie randall trejo i vote i brian o'neill aye al jabbar aye catherine smith i and i vote i item 5.3 resolution number 2020 slash 21-b 21 education protection account do i have a motion so move okay all right i have a motion in a second questions comments okay seeing none let's have a vote we'll call it take it to a vote uh roll call vote anne marie randall trejo hi al jabbar hi oh i run out of work brian o'neil doesn't mean the difference i okay catherine smith hi and i vote i okay item here's my other one well let's see all right i got the item 5.5 6.1 6.1 okay mine didn't copy correctly hold on all right item six future meeting day 6.1 your next regular meeting will be thursday july 15th at 6 p.m in person at the district offices um item 6.2 suggested agenda items i would like to uh discuss a website that has been posted regarding homelessness and i would like to have the board read it think about it and if we could bring it to discussion at the next board meeting as a possible policy for our school district to support and it's called coalition to end homelessness hyphen triage dot com and this is an effort to develop a policy of support for many of our students who are recipient recipients of this tragic reality which affects their education and our schools and society could that be sent to us so that we can see what that's about you can get it you can look it up on that i will go ahead and send that okay yes kathy i really feel that this is something each person needs to look into before we even bring it up for discussion or vote on this for it so i would suggest each each board member look into this first before we decided to put it on as a board item to discuss i know i had an opportunity to look at it but i'm not sure the rest of the board has so and paulina said she would send it to us so we can see it yeah okay and um then we maybe we can discuss it after everyone's had an opportunity to look at it very good okay thank you and then next here i think uh item seven return i have a motion already do i have a second second okay so do i have to do this roll call too all right anne-marie randall trejo hi brian o'neill hi al jabar aye catherine smith hi and myself i vote i okay the meeting is adjourned at 4 11. record