The visiting Bengals >> will be back at the start of the third quarter. Heat. Heat. I I love you. Heat. Heat. I am ready. Hallelujah. Show me. Heat. Heat. You are Heat. Heat. My heart is away. I am. >> Sorry. dinner. >> They play twice this year. Bosco won 2-1. Joe's won two. So, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if they meet again cuz this is the boarding playoffs, the boarding cup. Then you got stakes that still have to come. I wouldn't be surprised if they meet at four time. You know what I mean? Okay, welcome back to the second half here at Clifton High School as today we bring to you live Clifton Mustangs vers the Bloomfield Bengals. Couldn't have asked for a more even first half as sky the score is tied at 21. >> Ladies and gentlemen, before we begin the second half of play, I want to remind you you can follow the lead of our fantastic cheerleaders and cheer your hearts out.
So, beginning with the student advisory group. Actually, Mr. Bullock who was just in here with her daughter with the wrestling, she kind of led that charge about 2 years ago. Kelly Massey got on board. Brenda Gallagher got on board. So, we have student groups that come together once a week. You can see that we've got multiple groups that come up there. It's anything from digital groups to presentations to social media. And that has led us into allowing us to have end of year events. We've got right now a big Valentine sucker hide. So, what's happening is staff and students are hiding suckers before school starts. There's a little tag on the card that has a name, write your grade level. You're in a box, you're in for a drawing. It's just a great way to keep kids in the hallways engaged trying to find suckers, but also get to class in time as well making sure that that we had that piece also.
Although students were at first resistant, hesitant um about the new change, there's no doubt that our culture and our engagement within the classroom has greatly improved. Teachers are getting more respect and deeper conversations with students about both the content we are teaching and in regards to the relationships that we are building.
So the reason I put that on here is because our conversation around that was depending on the school psychologist that we retain, we may or may not have somebody that can supervise the intern. And so if we don't have it on here, we can't eliminate it, which would put us in a situation where now we're having to employ somebody without the capabilities of them. if we don't have somebody to supervise them. If we do have it on here and we eliminate it and we can supervise that person, we can reinstate it. >> Okay. And and so why is the special ed program cut not on here? It had one full-time teacher that's not on here. >> That's not on here because that's a different situation. So, but we are cutting that program. I mean, we are cutting we are cutting we're reducing classrooms in special education.
So we talk about our safe facilities. We talk about the work that we're doing with our multi-tered systems of support specifically with our DELT team and the support we're receiving from the collective impact solution trainings specifically to help support our DELT team. We also have um a lot of training around positive behavior intervention supports which also is led by our collective impact solution um trainer. Uh Mr. Carol has brought forward a program called Navigate 360 to help support some of our students at the middle school who have made some bad choices along the way. Instead of going straight to a suspension, we were having the students kind of learn a little bit more about potential issues that pop up in middle school like vaping and tagging for um gang related issues. So, um this has actually been a very uh uh forwardthinking approach to help support our students to educate them a little bit more.
Uh there are a lot of people out there and I've heard from a lot of constituents who are not in favor of using state dollars for NIL to give monies to um uh athletes at this point. So this is kind of trying to balance it to give you folks some startup so you can start to raise the funding but again it will depend upon how much money that the university can can can raise and again that's your position right the athletic director has that responsibility to to raise or to be the leader in raising the monies that is needed for the athletic department right >> um let me just ask you on the other issue on um on the agents. So, you're saying that these athletes should be able to do this completely on their own and not have an agent or a parent? >> I I think it should be their choice.
>> That's Pagano, right? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Hello. >> Uh we have Jack Leuen. I don't think he needs an interpreter. >> Thank you. Uh, Jan Fried or Freed, sorry, not sure. >> Hello, Mike Kako. U chairs, vice chairs, members of the committee. Thank you so much for this opportunity. My name is Jan Frerieded. Thank you so much for correcting that. And um I am a professor of American Sign Language English interpreter education and have been doing that for over 30 years at KCC, Capilani Community College. and I'm an interpreter in private practice and nationally credentialed. And one thing I I stand by my testimony and I want to emphasize the importance of having a bachelor's degree in interpreter education. Um our national organization, professional organization that represents interpreters. Um we have an educational foundation is a bachelors is required. It can be a bachelors in anything.
Come on. >> There's Mr. Lesler getting fans involved. Certainly they should be proud here of the hometown Mustangs as they played really good both ends of the court as number 15 Angel Gonzalez will be on the floor. He'll be on the floor with of course number one Alvaro Rodriguez Bayz as Boomfield right off the bat. Good defense, good rotation and another block. Nice block there again by Granados. 's third block trying to find inside a dipsy two. No. Wow, that was a huge rainbow. Just missed by number 15, Angel Gonzalez. Good transition there. Third block of the game for Granados setting up looking to set up their offense. Here are the Bengals. They'll switch it around the perimeter. A deep three. Yes, he knocks it down as numbers 10 number >> Xavier Donis with a clean three. First points of the half go to the Bengals here trying to find Granados.
So, it's just a great student group. Fortunately, my son and daughter have been involved in it. So, I know the benefits of it. It's just been a great piece for that. We've had dances. We're going to have a dance again here in a couple of weeks. We have students taught lessons. So, our fifth and sixth graders get taught student lessons, social cues on on how to respect or what's responsibility, the time management as they begin to progress toward that seventh eighth grade. So, just a lot of benefits to having that piece in there as well. So, Jordan also talked a little bit about attendance. It has been a huge plus this year. And again, it doesn't come from us. That's led by counselors, SRO. We have every other week meetings with probation. We have those as well. So, there's a lot of accountability that comes into that.
Are there any questions? Okay. Thank you for letting ME move on to number four. The board will heard comments from the public on agenda or non-aggenda items. Individual speakers will be allowed three minutes to address the board on each close session agenda item, non-aggenda item. The board shall limit the total time for public input on every topic to be 20 minutes. The board president may rule on the appropriateness of a topic and that the topic may be more suitable at a different time. The school district governing board cannot legally take action on a matter at one of its regular meetings if that matter has not been placed on the official agenda. can speak at the beginning of any of these or as we go through one of the topics, you can speak at those points, too. We'll now move on to consent items. Any board member wish to pull one of these items off the agenda.
Yes. >> Okay. Um, I know that you guys all weren't here when we had these discussions over the last few months, but um, part of the reason, and I can't speak to everybody, but I'm just telling you that part of the reason that we came to the decisions that we did was because of we didn't want large class sizes. We didn't want combination classes. uh we also have to be at the you know 30,000 foot level looking down at the entire district which we understand 100% I understand 100% that the teachers and staff that directly work with the children are the most important um but we also have to be fiscally prudent and there have been lots of things unfortunately that have arisen over time because we haven't had right people or maybe we haven't had enough people doing what we need to do the business of the district.
We have two board-certified behaviorists that work in our district, which is uh a little bit of a change. Recently, we added an additional person. So, that's been very helpful. We also have the Care Solace program that folks can call in and get some support with um a lot of the social emotional issues. This is also for our staff if necessary. We also um pass out uh bus uh VTA passes and some other specific things to help support students who need transportation to and from school. And you'll see the um budget here for goal number one. It says we've spent about 52,000 or excuse me 52% excuse me. Um other action items here that have been fully implemented our coordinator student services, Mr. Carol. We have an additional nurse. Our school psychologists, school social workers, and middle school councils are also funded specifically from goal number one.
That's all I'm saying. Yes. >> So, you and again, we're trying we're trying to protect the student. Absolutely. Because you're talking about we could potentially thousands or millions of dollars, right, to a student to not have any kind of guidance. anybody that's going to be looking after their best interests at this point in time. Um I I find that very difficult to do. >> I think agents can be excellent resources or lawyers or whatever student athletes want to use. All I was suggesting is some of them an NIL deal might be $1,000 for the whole year and to force them >> to say that or or a parent or guardian at least somebody there to >> that's what the bill says. >> Great. Yeah. Um and then finally any state monies I think the public has the right to know where the money goes whether it's by an individual.
However, to make sure that we have the most qualified interpreters that can continue their education, having a bachelor's degree in interpreter education is fabulous. And of course, if we eventually have a master's degree program where people can continue their studies in interpreter education, that's even better.
Granados right up the foul throw free throw line. He'll go out deep. Here is a deep shot off the mark. Rebound comes back out to Bloomfield as Angel Gonzalez with the shot. just missed off the front iron, but good defense there. Coming back is Shawn Hansen. Hansen to Granados. Granados inside to Angel. Oh, floater just missed. Good look there though as Gonzalez had a chance now. Bloomfield off transition. Held in by number 14, Jacob Kelly. Kelly to the top number 20. That's Nathaniel Rivera. too strong and rebound comes out to Balo Samo his second rebound trying to find Gonzalez but good hands there by number 14 of Boomfield Jacob Kelly and inside easy layup is true extends the lead now to 2621 in favor of the Bengals as defense turns to offense so five-point lead first five points go to Boomfield inside again. They're trying to find their first points of the game.
And using that word accountability, we know attendance is a big part of the accountability now for the school grade. So, we've really taken it on ourselves that we need to make sure we're getting that rate that we're supposed to be. So, we're out there conducting visits when we can. We're out there making phone calls when we see students are out for a couple days with no excuse. So, we were really trying to get out there quicker than we're used to just to make sure we show these families that, "Hey, it's important we've seen your kids not here a couple days." Um just that touch point for them. Um as well, it's really cut down on that chronic absenteeism. Those those probation meetings are going a lot faster um because we have less kids to talk about, which is great. TBRI is a big piece. Um so, Dr.
>> We can do it if you pull off if they would like to. Otherwise, we won't package. 5.2 order. Point of order. Point of order. >> Point of order. Mr. President, are we on open public comment? I think we need to finish 4.1. >> They can make comments at any time. >> But for what about for non-aggenda items? >> That's true. That's >> so that would be right now >> if they wanted to wait for >> I just wanted to make sure, Mr. that there wasn't anyone that had anything to to make a comment on that's non-aggenda because otherwise they won't have a chance. >> Correct. They want to make any comments on non-aggenda items. >> Okay. Okay. Moving on. >> Thank you. >> 5.2. >> Did we need to approve 5.1 first? >> No. Pull any off we'd like to pull off. You want to pull 5.2 off?
So, this is a very hard decision for us. Um, but we felt like this had the least impact on the students while still trying to keep us fiscally prudent and up to date. So, anyway, that's my comment. Um, and yeah. Okay. Anybody else have any comments? Oh, one more comment. Um because we also talked about the intern like and I get you're saying that if we have someone that can um proctor the the psychologist that we could have intern but we talked about the counseling service because that's important. We've heard from everybody about the discipline in class and that's another area that we really want to help with classroom. And so I was concerned when I read that that we were going to cut that program and not have an additional plan for that. We we don't want to cut it if we can legally supervise it.
Um, we said that one or two action items are partially implemented and these are our social emotional learning curriculum. For middle school, it's upstream. For American or for elementary school, it's American Legacy. Uh we got feedback last year at our LCAP meetings that the American Legacy uh paper like kind of like a Scholastic News wasn't very effective. So we didn't order those again. We do have upstream um happening at the middle school and we did not renew our contract with Panorama Survey. Mr. Carol will talk about that in um goal number three. But the panorama survey that we used to pay out of um these fundings was um not renewed because each year the it was basically doubling the amount of money that they were actually asking us to purchase and so we figured we would go the route of the healthy kids surveys which is free.
I mean even foundation we ask them to disclose where the money is coming from or where the money's going unless they say that it is they want to remain confidential then um we don't know but technically it's state money. Yes, I think the I understand your point and if the state dollars require that kind of disclosure, I understand it. I just am asking or suggesting a modification that uh doesn't require us to provide or to produce the individual student information. That's all. >> Okay. Um any other questions? Senator Mai, >> I know you just completed your deal with the Mountain West. What's your take on that? How much is university getting out of that contract? So the intent, as stated by the commissioner, the intent is to keep the distribution approximately the same across the board from what we receive from the Mountain West from or what schools receive from the Mountain West.