Love it. Um, you guys are awesome. Um, and I wanted to uh echo some of the points here that as a parent and I don't want AI in anywhere near my my student period. Okay, I could be done. However, um I I'm the uh classified senate president, so I kind of understand the importance of kind of balancing a lot of different things and hearing different perspectives. So, I wanted to bring some things that I might be considering if I was in your shoes. Um, so I was reviewing California Ed Code uh 49060 uh-49079 and this is um the code that articulates protections against student or with student records. Um it's also closely um aligned with FERPA. This is the federal regulation. Um if AI is being used to um leverage uh is being leveraged to identify students um and is being maintained then such footage likely becomes student records.
Uh so I'm not sure what why why this is being proposed. If you pull the positions out of OFO now um and the money um you're going to create a situation where there isn't a sort of unified approach to deferred maintenance and CIP which kind of work hand in hand. Um we do appreciate having more money to hire positions um so we can have more people in place to help move projects. Um, but I don't I don't think this is a solution to help make things more efficient. >> Okay. But then I think you're missing the point here. Why are we here? If everything was going fine and you were doing folks' job and things were getting built and repaired, we wouldn't have this problem. So, because it's not, we have to people have to come up with these ideas to try and see what we can get done.
Um I think uh Susan and um Rob uh you know they came before us. So uh they're having they've invited me to one of their meetings uh tomorrow night. So, I will be sitting with them for the first time. Um, and that's all I have for now. Yeah. >> Great. Thank you, Claudia. >> Oh, I had office hours today. >> I was just going to say >> with this lady, thank you very much for all the constituents that came and we had a really I think we had a really great robust discussion um about uh some of the issues that folks are concerned about around town. I think that that um giving some variation in our availability and hours is a good thing. And I think like you know because maybe Saturday mornings don't work for everybody. So like maybe as we're scheduling out we might want to take a look at >> at some variation so that we can capture different folks at different times.
um and would be protected under these regulations. Um and additionally, things like behavior analysis, meta- profofiles, threat assessments, these would also become student records um and its maintenance um and use by any third party would clearly be in conflict with these regulations. Um we also have the California constitutional uh privacy right act article 1 section one which directs salance to uh surveillance to be reasonable, narrowly tailored and require a justifiable safety reason. uh AI use um and such facial recognition, behavior profiling, etc. um I think as evidenced by this packed house um might be suggested to be um overboard surveillance. Um we heard about the uh student online personal protection act which prohibits um using student data for targeting advertising um commercial profiles, things like that. I know we've heard that that's not what's being done, but we have to think about here the training um of these AI models.
And if it requires possibly, you know, looking at some some ideas that might not be the best thing, but it's because of your folks's non-action or action. I mean, look at the K school. >> Well, that's not a deferred maintenance project. >> No, but it's a CIP. That's why I'm well I'm trying to get a handle of whether or not deferred maintenance should stay with DOE and and CIP should go to SFA or switch it around and one or the other because I don't know that at this point having both may solve the problem because you folks cannot handle all of it. You cannot you have not done that. >> Well, projects are actually moving in the pipeline. We just finished phase one of the school. >> At what pace? Well, Moapu, you want to talk about Moapu? Do you want to talk about all the reported problems on the campus and the headaches that's going on and the health issues?
>> Oh we had office hours too. >> Yeah. Yeah you did. >> So so are fresh in our mind. Yeah, because it like you know just happened and I almost forgot about it even though it just happened. It was a great >> and it was a great great experience. So again, thanks for the folks who came out. >> Yeah, it it was I appreciate the folks that came out. We really did have some really good conversation and really went a little bit past 5:00 and we started right at 3:00. So there were people waiting when we arrived. So uh >> waiting when you arrived. That's cool. >> That's awesome. >> Um in any case, so it was a it was a good good meeting. Um, I did attend just a conservation commission meeting last week. It was last week. Um, and I've been trying to, you know, attend those on a pretty regular basis as they go through some of the 40B process.
we're going to want to have that information and that that um if we're going to using that, we want that feedback loop. That's going to be a real big problem here when we're talking about um our student data and how that's being used and how that's being managed more locally. Um you have board policy 5022. Um, and I want to read something specifically out of here that states that the superintendent or designate shall consult with parents and guardians regarding the development regulation pertaining to other uses of personal information which shall at a minimum address the following arrangements for protecting student privacy when collecting, disclosing or using students individually individually identifiable information for any purpose. And there are additional ones. are your BPs that I would recommend that you look at as possible conflicts. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Uh we can we can um have two more speakers this evening.
Let's not go there, okay? Because this is another issue that that's not on this, but there's so many problems that's going on and it seems like you're not acknowledging it. You folks are just saying everything's fine and well. >> No, no, not saying that it's fine and well. Projects take time. There's, you know, there's over 4,000 facilities into the DOE. You know, there's a backlog that we recognize for deferred maintenance. We have a six-year plan where we asked for 200 million a year for over the u four years and 150 million in the last two to get our arms around repair and maintenance. Um you know we asked for preventative maintenance uh money that was um taken out of the budget. Um you know we've asked we've asked for support to get these projects done and it it's it's a big list. It's difficult to manage but we're working through it.
Um, and then I um we had a school building committee meeting last night. Oh, yeah. >> And uh those are really now they're just mostly there's a few things where they're crossing the tees and dotting their eyes a little bit. and um and kind of you know so just finishing up some details hopefully >> to get us to our um energy efficiency numbers. Yeah. >> So we can get some rebates. So instead of just having the heating system running and to keep everybody warm to actually get it to the point where it is working at a certain efficiency level as in doesn't run when there's nobody in the building things like that. So um they're struggling I think a little bit with that but they're working towards it. Um and then um I guess I guess that's it for me. Thank you. Can I can I just add two two things?
So >> for the record, I filled out a speaker card. >> Okay. You filled out one? >> Yes. No. I'm going to I'm going to take that opportunity since I filled it out and >> that would be fine. >> So, um the purpose of the Brown Act is to ensure that the public can observe, understand, and participate in the decision making of local government. The Riverside Verata contract was a controversial item put on the consent agenda with a vague description that goes against the spirit of the Brown Act. To find this on the December 17th agenda, you had to click on consent calendar, sort through 18 items, then click on consideration of approval of contracts. Then you had to scroll down to bullet point number four, which states camera and surveillance system refresh with Verata technology. The word refresh strongly implies a minor change. The online definition of refresh is a minor update to an existing product.
Uh more money is is what what we needed. Jesse, you've been on the job how long? >> Since uh September. >> Okay. Since September. And for two or three years, I've been asking for the CIP list. Guys cannot even come up with an updated CIP list. So, it's very difficult for us to see what improvements have been made. It's difficult for us to see where we're at because we don't have this information. And so, yes, you know, everything you say sounds good, but in reality, it's not happening. It's not happening. >> Senator, if I if I may, um, I mean to interrupt. Um you know I think when you had you had um rightfully so you had mentioned uh back during act 51 um when DAGs was responsible for DOE facilities um and with through act 51 I believe um the facilities portions of DAGs came over to us.
Um I just wanted to recognize two community groups in town that have been doing a great uh great work uh this February. The first is Ashland is United. They've been doing an incredible series on Black History Month. Uh and uh just a lot of great uh emails just listing off folks that you know, some of us know, some of us don't, but uh you know, subscribing to their emails and and um you know, them celebrating Black History Month has been really great. I also want to shout out area who had a very successful event at Danforth uh um uh I think last Monday um or this Monday um uh celebrating Black History Month as well. So I I just wanted to uh to to recognize those folks and uh um recognizing Black History Month and bringing the community together and celebrating celebrating us all uh by uh getting us to learn about each other's cultures and heritage.
description on the December 17th agenda did not state that it was district-wide implementation. It did not mention the cost unless you clicked on the word Riverside to find a surprisingly incomplete contract. It do did not mention it was AI enabled. It did not mention potential privacy and civil right issues. This vagueness not only made this issue opaque to the public, it slipped by many board members. Several board members have mentioned that they did not know what they were voting upon. With a raise of hands, how many of you completely understood what you were voting on when you passed that when you voted that consent agenda? For the record, no hands were raised. This very well could have been an honest mistake, but if an item was voted upon and the board members were unaware of what they voted upon, that affects the ability the vilityility validity of the vote and it affects the it affects the trust the public has in this institution.
Um but as you shared the the neighbor islands still we work together with the eggs to address the needs on the neighbor islands. Uh CIP RN repair and maintenance um and um auxiliary services came over to the department of education. Um during that period in the transition if I remember correctly um the at that time the department we were churning out the work and it was um very successful in being able to um expend the funds in a timely manner and to get uh the facilities both on um uh deferred maintenance in the R&M as well as a CIP done between that time and um when coming back from COVID there there were changes in processes in with changes in leadership and changes in processes within um facilities and um the BIPS were mentioned and the BIPS were um working with different districts districts on Aahu and I believe on the neighbor island to help identify um deferred maintenance areas of need.
So just wanted to throw that in. Thank you for that. Okay. Um I got a couple things but not too much. Um we were talking about the library with office hours. So Yolanda and I were at the library um the first Saturday of uh February for during their book sale. So, we had a table right next to the friends and we caught all sorts of people like back and forth between the children's room and the book sale and it was a lousy, horrible, bad weather day. It was really awful, but we we got quite a bit >> quite a few good conversations. >> Yeah. So, um a lot of conversation about budgets, you know, obviously that's like on people's minds. Um I would suggest so one of the things that we kind of sort of figured out like we had n our office hours were 9 to 11 and we stayed until noon because the book sale doesn't start till 9:30 and people really didn't get there till 10.
It seems to me that the proper thing to do to rebuild the trust with the public would do what's called a cure and correct, which is how you cure and correct mistakes with the Brown Act. The 12 to 17 decision should be cured and corrected by reagendizing this contracted under the discussion action agenda on a future agenda. And during the interim, we are requesting that the board create an emerging technology committee to review all AI technologies used by the district which is made this this committee should be made up of parents, students, teachers, administrators, and at least one board member. And I have to say this puts Chico Unified in a it makes you very exposed to litigation. It exposes uh I am also surprised Vicata would take funds public funds from something that was voted upon without the knowledge of the board members. I don't think that would be right either.
But in that process of change uh the BIP's positions at that time were eliminated. Uh there were changes to how projects were uh determined and were identified and prioritized within the department. Uh when um postco uh we are looking at trying to get back to how we were doing work when we were successful. And so we really do appreciate the support from the legislature because part of that process is to um identify the lump sum areas of need. The one of the biggest for us is deferred maintenance um as well as capacity and new schools and such. Deferred maintenance. Uh the legislature has been very um supportive in helping us to identify and and and fund those buckets. moving away from and helping the department identify and prioritize those those areas of need for schools and um moving away from uh the line items. And so that process is taking time for us to get back to how we were doing business and how we were successful.
Like it wasn't the first the first hour wasn't really as productive. So, I would suggest that we adjust the office hours at the library because we're going to continue to do the first Saturday of every month because it's um coincides with the book sale. >> I would suggest 10 to 10 to 12 instead of 9 to 11 because I think it's just more people are out. Y. >> So, um, >> it was also like a program that started at 10:30 and something else that ended that started at 11 and so we got the the parents going in and out of that and Yeah. >> Yeah. They do a lot of programming on Saturday morning, you know, and parents really want a great place to take their kids and and that the library is >> Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. So, um, >> that's smart shifting your hours so we can get more citizen involvement.
We need a redo. We need to do a cure and correct. Put this on a future agenda. have the the public participation and have a conversation about how we want to move forward with security at our schools. Thank you. >> Um my name is Alisa. My daughter is one of the students who spoke and most of you will remember me from the last meeting I spoke. So I'm not going to go over all of the things that I talked about last time. I just have a couple of things to add. Um, Vicotta has a great sales pitch. They they know how to say the words that need to be said to make people feel comfortable. I'm wondering if that's the same sales pitch that they gave to all of the communities and all of their customers who had their systems hacked and their information taken.
And we appreciate and the legislaturator's um understanding in that we we do need to get things going faster, but we are trying the best that we can. So you when was the successful period again? >> Um I believe it was um if if I remember correctly and and I'm only going off of memory and for me um I was a um a VP and a principal at that time. Uh that was when um I believe Randy Mo was assistant superintendent back with uh when when Pat Hamamoto was uh >> and what was this? >> That was very that was very early. Yes. >> Early what? >> Uh I believe uh 2004 maybe. I think it was act 51 if I'm not mistaken. Okay. But they had different leadership and that's a key. The leadership was very different. Pat Hamamoto's leadership was very different. And yes, >> when did when did SFA get instituted?