Okay. I don't consider them board training. Um and we keep calling it board training. I don't think that's it's more I mean what you're talking about wouldn't even be training. It would be decisions. Do we want to use this for this or that? Do we really need a separate meeting for that or why can't we have different items on the agenda and say what would we like to do instead of having something called board training that really isn't board training? Well, I think it's it's a matter of this is an example of the types of things that I'd like to talk about in terms of our board agreements. How what are our agreements between just refresh our agreements between the board and superintendent and that's the type of training that Loriy's providing and I think it's a different board. I get your how you feel and what has happened and I'm hoping that because it's somewhat a different board even though it's one person.
The hope is that we're moving forward and it appears that we're moving forward to getting to what you're talking about where it's an actual training and we're not leaving with with hurt feelings or saying anything um in a negative manner, but u it doesn't seem like we have a lot. I don't know about you, but it doesn't seem like we have a whole lot that we need to heal. And and it just sounds like it's more of a, you know, a training to to um do some of the things, some of the business that we need to do um to stay current on um as a board. And I just think as a board, am I on? I think I am. Um to be a fully effective board, I think there's just topics that I think would, you know, render some uh further discussion on that we haven't been able to always have.
So which is not I would I would look forward to that. I mean if we could but it is training because making you a fully effective board. It's it's topics sometimes that you need to have those hard conversations so that we can become a fully effective board because sometimes I feel like we're on a hamster wheel that we never get off of. So I personally think the discussions and the training together is how we're going to grow as a board and be more effective um in time to come. So, I agree, but I have yet to witness that in any of these. And I agree, we have a new board, but we've had a new board through this and always said, "Oh, we're going forward." And and things change. So, people feel the same and and they don't talk like I do. They don't open up.
Um, we go in these with great expectations and we come out with what just happened. So, um, I would like to see us be able to do a session and I I don't think I don't know. I have an issue with the board training because I don't think that's what we're doing in there. But um I don't know if everybody wants to give it a shot, I'll give it a shot. But I'm telling you, if it turns into a screaming match like they have in the past, I would be up and walking out because that's not what I'm here for. I'm here to work as a unit and not be pointing fingers at people and saying you did this or you know, you never agree to this or whatever because that's what's happened in the past. They turn they come off the topic and we never get back on the topic that we were on.
Okay. Bill, do you have a No, I just think that the wording is different. I don't think it's so much as a board training is that we're going to go over, you know, a couple things you want to discuss. Training is that we're learning something new, I think, and we're learning a process. So, I it it is what it is. I think the last one with Troy Cicero that we did or the first one we did when I was on board was pretty pretty rough. Um hoping we're past that, but I'm not sure. So, I'm open either date. Um but I just think we just got to call it that we're going to go over something. It's not really a training, I don't think, because we're not learning anything. That's just my opinion. I'm I'm good with doing it. I think that it's always good.
I don't know what it should be called and I don't particularly care, but it's always good to have a forum where we can have some open discussion and say some things that we might not um be able to say during a regular meeting. So, so that's my concern is I I have always asked for this board. The only way we're going to move forward is if we can get in a room and talk about stuff, but we can't seem to do that. You know what I mean? We can't really seem to do that. I know we do a board training, but I don't know. That's that's the idea is how we move how we going to move forward. Well, we're not going to do it if we don't try, though. Miss Tobin, um, one of the exceptions for the open meetings act session for board self evaluation.
Okay. And that's basically that's what we're training. Yeah. We're talking about so Mr. Brown, do you have a thought one way or the other? No. any opportunity, any opportunity that we have, we need to take advantage of it. And if it's an effort to try to to make us become better in any way, shape, or form, I'm all for it. Okay. All for it. Uh, we have a preference between the September date or October date, or do you want to get back to Dr. Cara say by Friday? Well, those are board meeting nights anyhow, right? So, we would be here anyhow. Yeah. So, right. So, whatever one will be the shortest meeting. Let's choose that one. Maybe Well, October short because Ken's got a couple things I think on October. Sorry, Ken. We You had to use the October. It's always about Ken. I was thinking that though.
If we are having a big uh facilities discussion that night, that might make it a lot longer. The public hearing though is going to be part of the committee. The whole, right? Do we not do we not have two meetings in but he has the fiscal thing in October actually three meetings don't we right in the building thing October 2021 is on this thing that went away a couple years ago we used to have two regular meetings I knew that I was checking on see if he knows okay good thing Terry knows so we'll shoot for the uh the September meeting um any new business I I have one question. Um, I don't know if anybody else got this email or if I got it because I signed up for those breakfast bites, but Courtney Stillman, who used to be with Hower Iso, is moved on to another law firm.
And I got an email from her yesterday or today offering to join in a group that she has through that legal uh entity that she's with now. and it's on the order of a breakfast bites kind of thing. Is that all right for me to go with something like that or would I not want to join that or I just wasn't sure the technicalities on it being another law firm and she's offering to let me join this group? Well, as it as it is, um, and I updated you all in my my update that, um, we're going to be using her as just a contract worker for right now for the special education. Um, and so any of the work that she would do, you would just approve her bills and so forth. So she is it would just be considered a contract worker. I I don't see any reason that you couldn't.
Okay. Because it's the same thing she does. Correct. Yeah, I saw how with the different um topics and I would forward them on to you after I got them. Yeah, I don't think there's anything special about she's still doing work for the district for a per at least a period of time with special ed, but these are different. I mean, she could talk on anything for 15 minutes. So, that's why this is professional development. Correct. So, it's the same and I'll still just like with anything else. You could go to anything. Okay. So, I'll still send it on to you like I do. She's got some good stuff. Yeah, she does. I know. That's why I wanted to make sure it was okay and I wasn't. Yeah, I think that's fine. Okay. Thank you. Any other new business? Nope. Okay. We do have a need for close session.
And this should be a pretty quick one. Can I get a um motion to go into close session for the placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students? And this would pertain to the latter. Motion. Second. First second. Roll call, please. Uh, Brown is an I. Mrs. Galbreth, hi. Dr. Hall, hi. Mr. Salish, hi. Mrs. Walters, hi. Vice President RP I, President Albert, I. Motion carries. We are in close session. This should be about probably 15 minutes uh and we'll come back. No other business tonight uh other than adjournment. So thank you. What happened? How long you guys start school? Started Monday. Last week we did freshman and sophomore Monday. How did everything go? Happy. Everything's me. I mean, really. Okay, we're back out of close session. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? Move. Second. All in favor say I.
we're met in closed session no action was taken in regards to resolution number eight two one nine dash two excuse me r a one 1819-2 do we have to do something more than just thinking uh you need to a motion for recommendation we have a motion thank you mrs anderson motion to approve wait a second i'll second thank you this is pope and a little call vote dr lee dr lee i'm sorry we're we're getting an echo here okay i'm sorry um we're voting on the resolution for uh that was discussed in closed session resolution ra 1819-2 reinstatement i there we go mr bruno hi mrs anderson aye mrs pope so um i will try to just speak very slowly i don't know what else to do so apologies for that echo all right if we could go ahead and have the flag slopes please rise salute 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 in recognition of this freedom of speech board business agenda item i just want to welcome all and note that participating in the pledge of allegiance is not a requirement to participate in the business of this board and if you do not participate in the pledge of allegiance for religious political social or personal reasons you are most welcome here as an equal participant in the business of this public school board thank you dr lee okay apparently i was supposed to do this kelly take two two seconds there we go there we go and it was just on your screen i lost you guys okay item number eight we have a motion to approve the adoption of the agenda um i would like to pull number 27 from the consent again for application which one 2027 and i would like to pull items one and two from the uh consent agenda for further discussion okay do we have a motion to approve as amended on motion thank you mrs paul for a second mr bruno aye mr mrs anderson aye mr paul i and the chair votes i the the agenda has been adopted moving on to item number nine organizational reports we have vanessa mason or cuta welcome all right hi good evening um cj i just had our first strip council meeting of 122 school year there was a lot to go over um biggest issue that we've had at the sites in terms of facility usage is our wi-fi connectivity issue which i've already spoken to scott and he's already on top of that with our um facilities groups and then um of course lots of questions about covet and testing and quarantine because it's just so cut and dry all of the guidelines and rules are so easy to follow so um one other concern aside outside of covid and the confusion about that is just teachers being notified when a student is going on quarantine for how long when are they expected back in attendance on campus just to make sure that we don't have students in our classrooms that shouldn't be there so um cta is working with the district and we're working on a letter that can go out to teachers on a case-by-case basis as needed notifying that say mrs pope is not allowed in class for until at least this date if not more based on whatever circumstances so we're working in conjunction with the district to get that done and then the other concern we have is just some of our phone systems aren't necessarily working we have a lot of new administrators in the district so maybe they need a training on how to use the phone systems on how to access the speakers on the overhead you know so we can make announcements just general um beautiful logistics when you come back after a year and a half of really going to be on campus and we kind of all forget what was what was life like before was that um each site specifically riles and dudley and um nchs there are some rooms that do not have phones in them or where the phone is located there's not a wire to plug it in i'm not quite sure so we just to the board knows we are in working with that there's a way through the new phone system that did come in over the years so we are working through kinks having more people on it but there's a way we can push messages through all speakers at the same time actually raise the volume so if something did happen so i know mr putnam and our staff has been working on that so we'll communicate that out to staff once we get that process in place thank you and then more specifically mcclellan high school does not have a nurse's aide or what are we calling them um health tech i'm not sure mr jordan um they felt like they maybe should be sharing with another school site so that they can have the continuous monitoring based on the 10-day co-work quarantines and then as well as any staff would like to be tested and just to answer that too so we have had an issue with some of our even our health techs going out and filling it so we're actually doubling our efforts out extra staff but we are assigning them to individual sites but they work in every site today we had a big need for some testing at the high school two two staff members went over there so while they're stationed there it will um it depends on what the need is but we have a plan actually to try and double our efforts because the contact tracing the quarantining is taking more time than uh one person could probably handle even at each side and then i have a kudos to send out to mcclellan high school's new custodian dennis stevens who apparently took it upon himself to watch the windows of a preschool teacher whose window was terribly dirty and he just couldn't take it and so he washed her window for her and i just love how this district tips in together and always says things like little things that just make your day so everybody in our meeting um have to say kudos to dennis stephen and we appreciate all the little efforts that everybody's doing to chip in to survive the first 10 days 170 to go any questions for me online um mr bruno or dr lee okay thank you no questions but thank you thank you vanessa all right moving on to csca do you have a reference she's online here hello marie hello maybe it could be there's no smoke there's no smoke right so it must be out of california um just wanted to welcome everybody back i know it's been kind of a crazy time of giving back and it just seems like school has been going on for more than just a couple weeks but um it's been good it's good to be back and it's good to be working together to solve new situations and new challenges that we have i did want to let the board know that the chapter will be bringing forward the reduction of the accounts payable position to our membership again there has been a revision to our tentative agreement from last may and we are bringing that to the membership uh this week for a vote for ratification instead of reducing hours per se it's a reduction in days so that it's still an eight-hour position just fewer days and um so we're going to be bringing that forward to the membership for a ratification and we are also bringing forward the um mou for the bus driver incentive i know that it's been hard to fill those bus driver positions and so each year for the last few years we have agreed to an incentive for um new bus drivers for after a i believe it's a six month period and then a year and a half they would have an incentive for staying with the district and find that again this year and we'll be bringing that to the membership for our ratification as well as the michael's transportation uh since we do not have a full staff of bus drivers the district has needed to have michael's transportation do some bus driving for us that is at an incredible cost but it is necessary in order to get our students to and from school so we have agreed to [Music] the use of an outside agency to help us strive while we're still trying to fill those positions and so that's been an agreement we have made over the last few years as well to um it's not really con well it's contracting out but we've agreed to it because it's something that is critical for the needs of our students and while we're trying to get new bus drivers trained i also wanted to do a shout out for mr grimes and mr putnam we've had some issues with some of the protective barriers or partitions at some of the school sites in the libraries trying to get those up and running for those who feel that they need that for extra special protection rather than face to face up close and personal with students sometimes in the libraries so um the two gentlemen stepped up today and and are pursuing options of how to get those partitions installed where necessary and i just wanted to thank them for valuing people no matter what their position is no matter what their classification is but that if there's a need to protect someone if there's a need to provide extra protection that they're stepping up to do that so i just wanted to thank you for that extra effort um i know there's a lot of hands out saying what about me right now but i do appreciate that effort to in good faith uh take care of the people that are up close and personal with these students so thank you and again welcome back and um looking forward to a good year 11 years now but is this something we need to look at the salary scale again or is it a training issue is it just a workforce it's a workforce issue nationwide we have looked and updated ours we also offer the incentive uh but in fact i was going to forward you guys today an article uh from i can't remember which state but it's nationwide that the shortage is happening even our michael's uh transportation company they can't get drivers what about working with uh maybe some driving schools truck driving schools and just seeing it yeah it's sydney together exactly they're also hurting for drivers right now too so cindy one of the things that our transportation department does really well is they offer trainings and we offer trainings and like we hire we just hired two i think we have two more in the mix so i think we're in good shape okay yeah we keep it once we train them that's what that is what were you going to say mr grandson i think scott covered it okay we have two others in training uh we lost one actually to the teaching course because he got his credentials and so you know that's a good thing everywhere else too so that's why it's been extremely difficult lately but uh these bus drivers and the whole transportation department deserves a lot of kudos because they they have not complained once they are covering each other's routes they're not always getting where they need to on time they're doing their very best they're cooperating they've got a good uh sense of morale in there right now and they're doing their utmost to meet the needs that and there's nothing we can do to put a shield up to them is there yeah there are a lot of protections for those bus drivers for seeing us in the classrooms yeah okay great thank you um so any other questions for ms huggins and then we will move on to you look nice and sun hand to item number i wrote over the top of it item number 10 committee updates and this i believe is mr president's first facilities update welcome all right this has been a uh kind of a whirlwind summer so far uh coming on board downloading as much information from mr neeson as possible and getting in and going forward with the crew the maintenance department is a little short-handed we have one who is uh kind of part-time due to family uh matters so he is coming in when he can then we have the one position that we're truly short because one of the maintenance departments gavin goods was elevated up to supervisor so right now kevin's kind of wearing two hats still going out helping to do maintenance work and still supervising so he's helping along in that um we have one in-house person uh who's applied so we will be conducting an interview with them and then take that from there but then moving on to all of our sites so we've had a lot of activity at all the site so i'm just going to start going down at the different sites with what we've had so at north country we did a floor and then floor repair and cypress stream then we also re-carpeted that room also received a new or an update on their uh mini split system that one had failed the old one failed we have a new one there will be other work coming forward next year that will also replace the uh hvac systems at north country as well as uh at center high school we have the playground the play equipment ran into some unforeseen circumstances underneath all the bark that was in place but they have moved through and uh i was over there at 4 30 this afternoon and they're probably at about of having the softball material back in so probably by the end of the week with finishing up that pulling up temporary fencing we should have that up and going for the students to be able to start using that area also at north country we had a contractor come out and take care of the uh all the fascia we had uh with the wood we had a lot of dry rot had that repaired and then we have actually covered that with metal flashing so that way it will limit down they'll cut out having any of those kind of items um moving on to oak hill the kinder classrooms or that project is 99 complete we are just waiting for the rolling gate to come back to the power cutters it's another one of those labor shortage issues and everything else and how orders go in but all the fencing is up other than the rolling gate so we still have temporary fencing keeping the school site secure [Music] we have some furniture that was delivered that was damaged that furniture is being replaced uh friday they'll be coming in and replacing all the stuff that we had noted that was damaged uh and then we've just done some little um decorative or not decorative um just some of the little sprucing up adding some bark and locations around the campus painting some curves helping to identify four parents student drop-off zones so we have a fresh yellow painted curve right in front of the office going up past the mp room that way it helps to keep people remembering this is for buses and for drop off in and out uh moving on to spinelli we raised that portable 11 and that's going to be the modular that will be holding the head start program so we raised that up put new uh uh skirting down below raised up the uh electrical panel the christie boxes in the ground smoothed all that out that is all ready to go for the head start they just have to do some of their stuff with fencing that they need to have for their play area in the back spinelli also had their parking lot sealed and striped so it's got a nice fresh look on to that uh dudley we sealed and strapped the parking lot there and then we have everything ready in room 10 for head start to move in room 10 at dudley over at mcclellan they had some chair racks that need to be fixed we got those welded up for the site we've also identified a couple major irrigation leaks have those dug up identified repaired uh one of them we still have to just do the backfill we had to wait for special crispy boxes to come in so we could set that back in so we'll be back filling and finishing that up this week we also had some roof repairs on the amd wings that site has a single ply roof and just the elements in california with mostly sun just wreaks havoc on the single ply roofs so we went in we've done repairs on those so when the rains do come back we won't be having leaks there and then finally center high school so right after we had the board meeting in june we had a fire out there at center high school we had kids come on we had fireworks we've actually found three of the fireworks that were not deployed so we found those uh thankfully the only thing we lost were some trees no damage to any of the buildings so nobody was hurt so that was a uh a positive for us on that were they able to locate the like children who did this i know they were asking for a video in there i don't there wasn't any fault so i don't i don't think so but yeah we there were some names that were mentioned but only first names and the videos even from you know facebook tick tock all that nothing was clear enough to identify who any of these uh people were who did that but besides that center high school we also installed the carpet in rooms 5 906 907 and 212.
and then we've also done roof repairs on rooms 903 and 904 and then we've identified some other stuff in doing our walks on that we've identified some other groups that we may have to do some future repairs on and then uh here at wilson serials we've got some stairs that we will be working on but we'll do that coming in october uh when we have the break so that way we don't interfere with anything with students and then uh we had a bunch of projectors that they needed to be installed i believe we have everything except maybe one that has not been installed [Music] i do have a couple in regards to mcclellan at the preschool on what is the solution when the fence come out we're going to see if they can fabricate up one for us where there used to be a gate and things have been closed off we are going to open that panel up and have a custom gate done just out of chain link or whatever but because it's an odd size you need to have it up it's not that expensive for them to do it but if we were to go to help depot or lowe's to try and get a gate we'd have to build up on either side to make that work we'd rather have something that is a more suitable without having to add more make the opening smaller this way we can still keep the integrity of that almost five foot opening and then we have that gate there for them so is it going to lock by a push bar or no it there's not a lot of uh skill so even young kids who are trying to get their fine motor skills going from one i understand the old one have like a carabiner or something like that and that is no this will just have a simple hoop latch that you just lift up we'll have it wide enough to where it's easy for anybody and that's all that it is it's just lift up and then the gate goes out okay and then in regards to the preschool again the front fencing are you gonna resolve that are you going to keep it that meshy fencing that you have we're still trying to figure out which which fence to go with that because with everything going also with potential winding of quad avenue i'm trying to just get the whole grasp of how long that is gonna be where we're at and so at minimum we could just go in lag into the existing concrete sidewalk and create fencing on there which is a relatively inexpensive way to put in a permanent type fence instead of just the temporary orange pencil or i think it's white fencing what was the last speaker about the white one so i think it's moving a lot faster than originally because you're seeing a pfp now and as that goes down it's it's coming we don't have an exact date but they've been out surveying it i've seen a multiple friends out there doing it so and from what i've heard is that the uh the bridge is under environmental uh evaluation right now from the county so that's a as soon as they have basically their environmental impact report down the bridge then that project will probably accelerate two questions um the alarm at the annex that uh we'll be able to locate the fault i know that it's been going off repeatedly the firearm at the annex yes we went out there there was one bad detector and we had ifs was out there and they uh had that detector that they identified and then we did not find anything else and since that one we have not had any other i was i was very yesterday morning or 11 30 and it was going off so i know that those things could be like ghosts you go there and it works perfectly and you walk away and it goes off so i just and so what will happen sometimes with the trouble is these alarms especially firearms they call out at random times just touch base with home and if they don't make that connection as a phone line issue or whatever then they'll report back in trouble and it's kind of a default safety mechanism so that way it's saying hey you need to look do we have another trouble so we could have had a trouble maybe sometime in the middle of the night and then it and continues to it'll continue and then you go easy clear and then if your phone lines clear back up then you don't have that and i have not had any other reports in regards to that um and then the other question i had was about new construction where with the statuses on some of our new sites we are uh still trying to get our attorney is meeting with uh representatives from jnc homes uh next wednesday at 10 a.m and we will we are hoping we will have a much clearer picture as to where we're at in that process so kelly to see her the gnp has been created we are working on the property we're still targeting that august for the opening so we'd still be on schedule for that but nothing has really transpired over summer other than more planning they're looking at ways to keep the school um as a as a star but also look at what ways they can reduce some cost because construction costs right now are off off the charts off the any other questions anybody else have any other questions all right thank you all right moving on we had no problems today so it's all good uh happy report there were no williams complaints last quarter thank you very much all right item number 12 comments from the audience regarding items not on the agenda and i do believe we have a couple of items notes were you guys filling out some comments regarding items not on the agenda or was it for comments on items that are on the agenda get those cards for everyone and have them ready to go okay you have it okay um do we have any online comments for items not on the agenda thank you uh regarding staff vaccination will the district be accepting medical or religious exemptions for the copa 19 vaccination mandates also why are we only testing students staff who have not been vaccinated when there have been multiple breakthrough cases and the vaccinated can still spread the virus don't we have the obligation to test both since both can spread the virus [Music] and just so the board's aware we we will test any student or staff member that would request it or if they're on the modified warranty so i'm not sure if that's just this information but i'm looking at mike and mr jordan uh or mr uh grimes but the testing we've been testing staff we've been testing vaccinated unvaccinated and as far as the mandate um the religious exemption there is no mandate to get vaccinated there is mandate right now to tell who is vaccinated and then if not we'll go ahead and do the testing we hope to roll that out by friday and then we'll give time for staff to submit their verification if verification is not given by that date then we will go ahead and they schedule them for a weekly test as well what that person was trying to say is that we should be testing even those that are vaccinated so there's no difference in whether or not your vaccine oh okay so when we get to the masking conversation i do have some information specifically about students who guidelines that talks to that so that can be discussed when we're talking about masks right clarification question um for scott does our district allow medical and religious exemptions uh to any vaccination requirements at this time so and i'm going to look to mr grimes and that my understanding would be is yes you don't have to be vaccinated you just have to share your status with us if you are not in and if you do not provide verification then we would though you would be in the testing cycle so i guess you could say yes we are uh you do not have to submit anything we're not requiring submit if you choose not to submit a vaccine then you're you're okay yes that's correct and then in addition if a person has been exposed uh say a staff member has been exposed to close contact then they're they have a couple of options if they haven't vaccinated they do not need to quarantine but if they have not been vaccinated than they would needed quarantine so even if they had an exemption they would still need to quarantine for the usually 10 days if they've been exposed also and that's paid time off right there is a state legislation that goes through september in september that allows up to 10 days or two weeks at their regular number of hours per day for um purposes of covid it outlines the specifics in the law and the legislation so if they have not used that and if it is for one of the qualifying reasons caring for a family member being on a mandatory quarantine being positive themselves with vomit uh for those that have up to 10 days of leave that is fully paid that does not come out of their sick leave it's not per it's accumulative so what if they call it every 10 days i'm going to interrupt here so we have our public comment on items that are not agendized we need to move forward without commenting on these items we will have opportunity to discuss more copic related items during the masking conversation right sorry okay thank you carol i think they have items not on the agenda okay latoya jenkins yes thank you hello so i have a few questions my first question is how are we going to safely keep these schools open with all these new cases that's coming up in our schools noticing that center high has six new cases um archivally has four like they just keep writing so how are we gonna safely keep these things open so just do you understand um we are bound by brown act which requires us to listen to public comment we are listening but we are not allowed to comment or engage in conversation because the item has not been agendized so we may decide that we would bring this back to a future agenda so that all of the public would be able to discuss that item or if she could just talk to mr laird i've known you well we can we can chat too but obviously that's a concern of ours we continue to want to follow all protocols that are given and we actually are trying to go a little bit beyond what's even out there and be extra cautious so we are we are working on that so and if you ever have questions call myself mr grimes mr jordan would be happy to to talk with you and assure you what we're doing it's very important that you come and express to us even though we can't comment so we know it yes thank you i'm sorry if i didn't make that clear i also have a number of things to discuss when we talk about the masking that might help answer some questions like some of the kids are at school are not wearing masks at school so you can go on campus and see multiple kids including teachers not wearing these masses on campus so that makes that a big issue right there for me right and right and right now the masking is indoors so you might see students coming to and from on the outside of school but certainly that's something we work with our staff to encourage while they're in the schools indoors so absolutely thank you and we have even [Music] family i'm sorry i'm very concerned about the school staying open because they have to close suddenly and everything i just want to make sure that my daughter gets a quality education i can't do night school with her you know i'm a single mom i work a full job um she went to multiple daycares last year the daycares are only going to do so much you know in terms of the lava wants to zoom but they're not going to make sure that they're doing the work but even like she's a first grader right now so for kindergarten she was you know supposed to learn her side words learning how to read and everything is i really feel like if the school's closing in that she's going to be disadvantaged and she's not going to get a quality elementary education that she's going to fall behind due to schools being closed and it's going to be my fault for not being able to take off work to make sure that she gets educated because i have to work to provide for us so i want to know for people who aren't into personal households what like they're like if that happens i know that you guys are i'm saying that it didn't work you know like like i it was her kindergarten year now it's her first grade year and if she if she's out of school for first grade she's not gonna know anything for second grade and she's going to be united thank you thank you thank you thank you so much okay it's carol we got more comments you get her um and contact her i have the car okay moving on to item number 13 board and superintendent reports before i start would it be possible to get some spray for before the next board meeting because this flooring tables yeah that's it thank you hello and uh welcome back everybody well we were hoping to have some sort of uh normalcy for the start of the school year but covent drew us a purple um wear mask don't wear a mask open don't open social distance or not but whatever we chose one thing is abundantly clear and we do not want to repeat of last year we have to be mindful of the safety protocols we have in place it is vital to the safety of our students staff and faculty the creation of the reopening plan was a great success which also aligns the guidelines of health and safety academics social and emotional learning and community outreach there has been challenges and some stresses along with this but one thing that pandemic taught us is that we work together as a team and communication is very important and doing so that is better than the daily drama that we have and we also have to also helps with the what gifts which is a huge thing as well i am blessed to be in the district where staff and faculty and administration try to make the education of our students the best possible and provide opportunity for success for one another so again i want to say thank you oh the other thing i want to say our job is to make sure that our classrooms our school and our district remain open that's our job and that's what we are focusing on right now so thank you one and all for your help thank you for being you and welcome mr bruno would you like to go next absolutely um first i'd like to say welcome back everyone um i would love to have been there in person but as uh most of you know and to let the public know i'm currently at home because my entire household has tested positive for covid um most of us are getting over the symptoms but it has been really rough um and just to kind of clarify a couple things i don't have the best wi-fi at the moment so i may turn my camera off from time to time if um things start freezing up but i am still paying attention and if you see me looking off to the side of my screen here i'm just looking at other screens where i have the agenda up and everything please know i am still paying full attention to what's going on um and just to keep this really brief the other thing that i want to bring up i'm very concerned about some stuff that's been happening in our community and involving our students lately and that is the shootings that have happened recently um please everyone just stay safe and let's try to teach the kids you know to stay safe and to to make good choices and i i'm really sorry for everyone that's been involved with this and i hope to see things return to a normal state soon thank you yes okay so i just want to uh welcome everyone um as the previous trustees have to the 2021 2022 school year um and i want to thank all of the staff and teachers who are working hard to ensure that we have school sites that are aligned with our safety guidelines which are outlined in our playbook and i also want to thank the families for their patience and flexibility it's already shaping up to be a most interesting year as we're continuing to navigate a global pandemic we've been in this pandemic since i started on this board it hasn't let up yet we've seen a wide variety of responses to it but it's still here and i really as we see these spikes in cases in our community and among children in particular rising i really want to send my condolences and my thoughts to members of the center family who have been affected by this pandemic our trustee bruno included and i want to thank all of our certificated and classified staff for doing everything we can to make sure that all of our students are safe and well in addition to covid we have wildfires contributing to poor air quality right now and so please try to stay indoors to those of us who've been affected by the tragedies of these fires or the pandemic our thoughts are with you um and to those lucky winners of the all staff day contest um here's to hoping that those starbucks cards give you a little bit of pep in your step at the start of this new year and i also want to welcome all of our new students um you know our campuses are open this is great things do look different and we're all adjusting to those differences i just also want to note that our district has a robust independent study option and it is available to students we've seen enrollment in that program triple i think for this academic year and our independent study students are an important part of our center family too so i really do welcome feedback about the virtual back-to-school nights and for those families that are in that option please don't hesitate to let me or other members of our board know how things are going for you good or bad we want to make sure that you're having access to a quality program in the independent study and then two i'm just finally noting one of my responsibilities as a board member is to engage in professional development to enhance my knowledge and skills and so the amount of information i've had to kind of navigate as we're dealing with the different changing mandates and guidelines and recommendations from all the different levels has been tremendous so i just want to acknowledge that and acknowledge the staff because they're also engaging with all of that information and trying to make sense of it and make it make sense for everyone else and so thank you to everyone who's you know come with new information to me with concerns and for communicating with our superintendent with our local principles you know as you need to and also um i do want to note that in addition to all the things teachers are facing the wildfires the pandemic all of these things we're also in the middle of a culture war uh related to teaching for diversity equity inclusion and justice and this is something i've worked on for a large portion of my life and it's something that's very personal and professionally interesting to me and so i've gone to a number of meetings to become informed what is all the hubbub about what are these parent protests at school board meetings and i've even received questions about our curriculum and i just want to address questions about whether we're teaching wokism critical race anti-race ideologies and all of those kinds of things i've gone to a number of meetings from the heritage foundation to the abolitionist teaching network to learn about these different perspectives and issues and i know that it's very confusing for everyone to keep track of all the different things that are swirling and happening and i want to thank you for doing all you have done and that you continue to do to make our schools places where we can celebrate our differences and our commonalities as human beings and i think a commitment to that is really going to what is going to be what helps us to discover that we have so much more in common than we think so thanks to everyone again um special shout out to heather woods at center high school who's our teacher of the year thank you enjoy that recognition i have my office hours welcome to the community monday september 6th is the next one you can access the link on zoom i welcome you to drop in anytime between four and five short and long and looking forward to connecting with you all and just be safe and be well thank you dr lee and mrs anderson i want to say welcome back um [Music] welcome back and i wanted to recognize that one of our staff did lose his home unfortunately yes he's french so if there's anything we need or anything we can do please let us know how that goes um everybody has said everything there is to say except i am truly proud of this district every single person that works in this district from custodial staff through and there has not been any quarreling or you know backstabbing or anything like that i mean it's just they've all pulled together and gotten us through it any way that they could with self-sacrifice anytime they needed it and it it's truly amazing to watch this district walk through things like that they've done a great job a fantastic job and our kids benefit from that they may not have kids in the district they may live in a totally different district but they're here putting in the hours for our kids and i'm so proud of that so thankful for that opening day at the elementary's it was so neat to go and watch those knowing just the kids to families coming and the happy expressions and bouncing back to school and you know those kids were thrilled to be back in school and the families were thrilled to have them there so whatever we need to do to just try to keep those kids back in and learning and i know there's going to be some problems with kids falling behind that year that they were off we've got help out there we're going to get those kids back up to where they need to be as parents if you see them having problems let somebody know we can we can find some help for them bring them back in other than that scott you've done a wonderful job my hat's off to you i don't regret for a second hiring you a superintendent you've just been exemplary um you've led the way and you've got a wonderful crew behind you thank you all of you every single day i thank you for doing the job that you do thank you [Laughter] that's true so um i just wanted to say a few things um about copen i know that we are going to be talking about it in regards to asking a little bit but you know i i think it's been very clearly stated from the president to the cdc to the governor to cdph to the department of education the board you know the county board of supervisors everyone all the way down the line is very clear that students need to be in school period in person and school the reason we were closed last year is because we were not prepared to have students in school in the middle of a pandemic we've made those arrangements we've set up the protocols we've established the guidelines we've made the safety protocols available and mandated the pve the testing everything is in place now to keep people safe we just have to follow the guidance if we don't follow the guidance and then not only is it our own fault but as a district it's our fault and we are liable so i just want to make i'm very concerned to hear that that there are students about marine masks hopefully that was only outdoors um so definitely concerned for me that that we are following every protocol and i have a whole bunch of data about what the cdc guidelines are now which includes potentially adding in testing of non-vaccinated employees based on the case rates positivity and uh transmissible rates uh in the community so um it's definitely something they're recommending but it's not a mandate so we'll take that into advisement um i had the opportunity to go over to uh the annex yesterday and look at the science books and it was hilarious because the stack of books was almost as tall as me and they looked at me and they said okay here's the stack of books i'm like okay so i did take some time and and look through you know people's contents and some of the graphics and the glossaries and indexes and things like that and i was really impressed with the quality of the science books really happy to see things like climate change and population growth and you know genetics and just all of the things that you know have become controversial at times but yet are based in science scientific fact and we need to be teaching science the way that science really is and i'm just so proud of the people who selected these books i don't know what other books look like but i like the ones that i saw particularly i liked the fact that they had information related to what i do at the department of public health which is you know related to social determinants of health health disparities equitable outcomes i was really impressed that kind of information was in there maybe not in those words but it was definitely talking to those topics and i was really proud of that proud i was impressed by that okay and then i wanted to welcome all of our new folks um we have well let's see we have a lot so classified employees we have kelly baker retired congratulations kelly my hayes retired ronnie shiro retired so thank you for your service and good luck in your retirement promoted we have tamara browning maria esther cortez palomino who's the restaurant center high i'm sorry tamara is the instructional specialist at north country tracy edging school secretary of north country and nikki hibbert dispatcher bus driver of transportation give new hires abigail armand shelby baker aaron der hannon hannah edwards sarah gonzalezaro kevin campio something like that gerard madras gabrianna martin tiffany morris mchenry drake paola perez jack retton house tiana stuntman sorry um deanna oh sorry mariella silva samander singh and carly stone and then in classified or i'm sorry certificated staff we have uh mark loftus who retired from center high school again thank you for your years of service and congratulations and we have new hires jason tomlinson adriana schroeder chelsea black victoria ferrari cheryl wiecker georges oh i don't think i got that right but anyway jonathan farah joella freitas ashley mills ariana barton monica espinosa tennis rebecca harris susan shelton james ruble mary perez glenn scott brandon hayden verdict kevin lewisdale doxton king barbara reinhardt james lockhart and that's all of the new hires welcome and then we have congratulations to melissa attacker tackett oliver for her promotion and that is a mouthful i surely hope that all of these people will continue to stay with this center family because you're going to love it here welcome and then welcome back to the staff the students the families to the new school year glad you're all here and i hope everything goes well and successful this year that's it and mr leary good and um i'm gonna keep mine rather rather brief only from the fact that i think you guys echoed what i was going to say as far as the staff i wanted to just take an opportunity to thank and appreciate all of our staff everyone is doing everything they can to make it safe and successful for our students and so i kept thinking you know i i i think i actually talked to miss woods and this uh vanessa over there the other day and it's like we're all just beat you know we're all giving 100 and today is the reason i realized why we i'll do it i got to walk with mr holmsley at dudley went over to see him touch base actually i seen vanessa and while i was there i looked and i saw the kids faces and the kids smiles we're dealing with a lot of things adult level but when you see those little guys look up to me go how tall are you are you my principal and they have are so happy to be there and and to me that's the the biggest testament to our staff is they are doing everything they can to keep our kids safe shelter them from what's going on right now and and make sure that they have everything they need and our people take it so serious that no one is skirting their duties people are going above and beyond and i thank them all for that and i appreciate them for that and i appreciate our administrators who at this time are always stressed out at the beginning of school year but there's an extra layer and covert is providing an extra layer and today the smoke an extra layer and so we just need to appreciate what everyone's doing those in this room those at home those that are probably already asleep because they're tired um but i thank them for everything and we appreciate all that people are doing around here to make it successful for our students so with that that's all i have time thank you so much mr leo all right um on to item number 14 consented we have a motion to approve with items one 2 and uh excluded the motion here is uh motion by this this is hope second is by mrs anderson and just to clarify this is a motion to approve the entire consent agenda other than one two and twenty seven welcome dr lee aye mr riddle aye mrs anderson aye this is vote and the chairman's like thank you the agenda has been passed are there any comments about anything that was on the consent agenda you know last few meetings we've had some comments i do have a comment um i would just like to tell mr lehrer and staff i know some of these items um on the consent agenda do not need board approval but in my opinion i thank you for putting them on it's better to be informed that ill-informed and find out by community community member or otherwise um so i do appreciate that and um and i would appreciate continuing with that practice you should also point out that there was a change in september reading yes so thank you the board today did make an adjustment to the september maybe either the fourth wednesday instead of the third wednesday so i i appreciate that and i also noted that there are several items on here that are directly related to the additional supports that we're providing for students so kudos to the administrative staff and everyone for getting those in place to help bring our students back up to speed and just know that in that regard all the students are in the same boat they all were out so there's not i mean i know that something is better and we're about learning than others but we're making sure that everyone gets brought back up to speed those lovely people out there not me those people are making sure that they get back up just leave right um okay and then moving on let's take items do you want to do item one and two together or individually i would prefer to do them together i was the person who asked for these two to be pulled or related my comments are related to both do we have a motion to prove it's to bring it to the floor for a discussion either one brings it to the floor for discussion so if you want to bring it to the floor that's fine but if you want to move to approve that brings it to the board for discussion as well either way i motioned to bring it to the floor for discussion wait a second all second thank you mr bruno dr lee yes um so i did ask for these two items um to be uh pulled uh it's the meeting minutes for june 9 and june 16th uh the regular meetings um and the meeting these are the meeting minutes um approving the adoption of them and first i want to thank carol for her service as our board secretary i know that it's no easy feat and i truly appreciate all you do um i did ask for these items to be pulled um on principle um related to accuracy and transparency because our board minutes are historical and legal artifacts and this is why it's essential to me that my utterances and and contributions that i make during the meeting are accurately captured and presented and that not just the perspectives of the board majority are preserved in our meeting minutes for public record um so first for both um june 9th and 16th meeting notes i'm requesting the minutes be amended to reflect that for the flag salute agenda item as i did today and as i've consistently done since the majority decision on this matter i noted for our record that participation in the pledge of allegiance is not a requirement to participate in the business of this board and furthermore that members of the community who do not participate in the pledge for religious political social or personal reasons are most welcome to engage in the business of this board that's for both meeting notes sessions in june 9 and 16.
and then second in the board member reports section of the june 16 meeting notes i am requesting a amendment to my report to include a full account of my contributions which were more substantial than the two bullet points that are presently provided in the meeting of minutes um i'm requesting that the minutes be amended to reflect that in addition to recognizing june as lgbtq plus pride month i expressed that we've made great strides as a nation but we have so much further to go to accelerate acceptance and to stamp out violence and discrimination against lgbtq youth and people in our communities and to support equal rights um i also um i'm requesting an amendment to the second bullet point to note that i did inform the public where they may access the zoom link for my drop-in office hours on the board website and this is super important when folks look back at these meeting notes to know that i inform folks of how to access the access of the office hours and where to access them i wanted the board report for my section to reflect that i thanked our teachers who are embracing representation and inclusion our historic history and social science and health education friend works also that i applauded our teachers who work with organizations like the gay lesbian and straight education network to raise awareness at our local school sites to create safe spaces for our students and our faculty and staff in our schools by establishing safe zones gay straight alliances student clubs for our lgbtq plus youth so they have places to be free and please do amend the notes to reflect that i thanked our family resource center for providing welcoming and inviting resources that validate and embrace the diverse family types that are in our community again i just want to thank carol for all you do i remain hopeful that working together we can capture and preserve the board majority and minority perspectives with the same levels of detail in our meeting movements as we move forward and so i am making a motion that the amendment minutes as i requested be included for our june 6 and june 19 meeting minutes and presented on the consent consent agenda for approval at our next board meeting this was never meant to be a verbatim repeat of what you say in the meetings it's just thank you i appreciate that but as i noted the two bullet points in my session um that were recorded for me were not reflective of what i stated and that's why i've asked for the beginning you should be writing a book every week actually if you look at if you look at the real estate of the board reports uh most of our board member comments have about six to seven bullet points that do capture the essence of what each person said only my uh report has two bullet points which did not capture the essence and so that's crucial these are public records um as a person who you know comes from a history background um it's essential you know folks do read these things they see what was the climate like what did folks say what motions were made what actions were taken and so having a full account is essential so i am making a motion to amend as requested yeah i will second that are you asking that we bring them forward again or that we go ahead and and approve them as amended i'm asking that they be brought forward again um so that in our next packet we have a complete accounting of both meetings and i just want to say that there could be times in the past where i've also made those requests same request of carol when i see the minutes i contact them and i say you know this doesn't reflect correctly what i said please correct it and then they correct it and they provide a corrective version for the meeting so you know we we probably could expedite the process a little bit there is absolutely nothing wrong with what specific things that you've stated on the record to be on the record and um i fully uh i fully appreciate that that request yeah so what we can do if if approved that what we'll do is we'll or carol will bring detail back for especially for the board report pieces and make sure we cover it and then i can try to float it by you dr leah ahead of time just make sure each of you if you like or when the agenda comes out like this kelly you just said happy if someone comes up to see something we've gone back to the tape carol does an outstanding job um but it does put a little bit of decision on her and so we're trying to work it out but we'll we'll get it and i i appreciate dr lee your appreciation of carol there because you know she's working hard um yeah do anything to to do that i would want to make sure that we always capture especially in the board reports i know uh bespoke you do a lot with your board reports too we want to make sure we capture that so this is a good opportunity that we can all work to create them and you know if it doesn't really matter to you very much whether it's exactly captures that's one thing but if it's something that matters to you personally there's absolutely no problem with asking have it revised and again what scott was saying is that these are decisions that carol's having to make she's not inside our heads so she doesn't know what's important to us and what's not and i think that our feedback is critical so just to reiterate we're not going to do word for word we'll do bullet points we'll continue the same process and if there are concerns then we bring it back to them and they can make revisions so we've done that many times for the revision of one and two we're going to go back and do bullet points we're not going word for word right i think that's what you what was requested was the idea that the themes of the board members report would be carried through in that and we could certainly do that word for word there have been times historically that folks have submitted their uh comments tests and we can attach those but otherwise we would do themes and within that and make sure that the intent of what's being said and that will actually help carol and myself and i'm sure carolyn actually could work together yes we have work we have worked together in the past i'm using the exact process that you uh described um uh mountain president i believe you were included on a couple of those emails but this time with the break and everything it just so happened that there wasn't enough time uh so that's why i just uh upon reading you know did uh did go ahead and bring it to open floor but hopefully um as we move forward we'll we'll just be able to just have that that capturing of of everyone of the themes that everyone presents in their in their reports and and other aspects of the meeting like the statements in the free speech portion for the pledge okay so at this point we have a motion and a second to uh revise the meeting notes uh dr lee moved and i made a second that we would revise the meeting notes and bring them forward uh for approval at the next regular will call dr lee aye ms bruno hi mrs anderson this is home all right and the chair goes back all right so item number 27 will be asked to have it pulled from the agenda would someone like to make a motion motion to discussion i want to bring it forward for discussion and give a second also mrs anderson thank you go ahead thank you so um in this process we have unforeseen circumstances those unforeseen circumstances were very under approximately three and a half feet of softball material uh and the process of redoing the playground for the play structure the softball material was removed we found that we had a rather severe slope so usually you try and have your strata or everything to be leveled the current when we removed the bark we had i would say probably about a six to seven degree slope uh that we had going so from your low point to your high point was almost a four foot difference we had uh some of the the uh posts for that were barely into the ground concrete and just the softball is what was holding that in place so in order to rectify that we had to bring in over 300 cubic yards of road base have the area compacted down create a relatively level strata field so instead of having this huge difference now we are pretty much level we've got maybe a slight one degree just to help to facilitate any drainage uh for the area so the cost on that was to bring in all the road base well one to remove all the bark out of the play area or originally we were only going to do it in the areas that were to be affected bring in temporary fencing um take out asphalt because there are that's all the places where we needed to put in the new bring in the new road base compact that down then go through do all the install to properly put that down now all the bases on that are down a good two feet into the compacted road based material have concrete around them and then it's the process of bringing all the softball material back in and getting that properly spread around and that is why we got that large amount and when they first gave me the numbers i went out there the next morning first thing and i just did a quick pace off and i'm like yep that's the right amount of uh material they need to get this done exactly i mean it was really when they pulled that we all look like uh not good so we are thankful that nothing ever happened with the old the new is in there quite uh sturdily so i don't see any uh issues with that going forward is that north we have a motion to approve item number 27.
thank you and this moving on to business item 15 instructional materials adoption grades 9-12 science next generation science standards textbooks and i'm just going to read all this says the science department at center high school grades 9 through 12 reached agreement in recommending the following textbooks the following document lists science courses and the corresponding recommended curriculum textbooks that will be used in the course of study with adoption of these materials we will have completed our adoption cycle for science materials do we need to read the items somebody like them too there's a there's a bunch of books while you're looking for that i would just commend and compliment the center high science department and mr george's cni department at this lawson it's no easy task to go through the adoption cycle and we take these things extremely serious uh so they took about two years because they took it so serious so they went through it page by page so i just want to commend them for for their efforts in selecting the materials that we'll we will have for a few years okay no problem um so now do we vote prior to the or do we do the public hearing next so this is an item by itself that would be just the approval of the materials on materials the next items the next two you open a public hearing construction materials as related to suspicions okay so motion to provide an a all motion thank you mr roberto hi [Music] so center joint unified school district notice of public hearing the governing board of the center general unified school district in order to comply with the requirements of education code section 60119 will hold a public hearing on august 18 2021 at six o'clock the purpose of the public hearing is to comply with the education education code section 60119 which requires school district to certify that the district has provided each people with sufficient textbooks and instructional materials consistent with the cycles and content of the curriculum frameworks okay we'll be held here district room wardrobe 503 those let's see what else so you would open at this point would be any opportunity for a public to give comment on um non-nonsense or bringing into the board's attention it's just an opportunity for the public to provide feedback before we close it and then look at the other two items [Music] hearing them the public hearing is hereby closed and we will move on to business item b certification and provision of standards align instructional materials this item certified that as of the state each pupil in the district in kindergarten through grade 12 has been provided with a standards online textbook or basic instructional materials to meet the requirements of eggplant section 60422a we have a motion to approve i'll work out thank you mrs pope we have a second i'll second it this is kelly full second and roll call vote dr lee hi mr bruno hi anderson hi this is paul hi i'm jericho moving on to business item c resolution number three slash 2021-22 statement of assurances instructional materials fund this resolution is to certify that the district has sufficient materials in four subjects we have a motion to approve [Music] oh i'm sorry was there any discussion sorry apologies no they're really all both they are flying for this okay wonderful um dr lee hi yeah this is mr bruno mr bruno we're voting to approve item c i don't think we lost you um okay i'm back can you hear me yeah okay i'm sorry are we doing roll call vote at this point we are doing a roll call vote on the approval of item c which was motioned by mrs anderson and seconded by mrs pope okay i will vote i and this is anderson and this is paul sorry sorry okay this is item d nominations for csva directors at large african american american indian and county nominations for the csba director at large african american american indian are currently being accepted until friday october 1 2021 nominations must be made by a csba member board and the nominee must be a board member from a csba member district we have a motion do we have any nominations so it would be how it would work as if the war does have someone who put forward the board would approve that and then we would send that name on to csba in the past if we didn't have anyone it just falls to the floor we did it comes up a couple different times throughout the year so if there are no nominations sometimes you know fellow board members or one of you might be interested uh we would go that route is anyone interested so that we do not have a motion we'll move on to item number e board policies and regulations exhibits the two new board policies that relate to uh the new law 8130 2021 uh we have a motion to approve i should be very good this is to reach for mrs anderson second this is pope and we have discussion so the only only thing i would share is independent study distance learning used to be done through a different format last year the state has come back and said to assist students that don't come to school as a choice they would go through our independent study program they made significant changes to the program to help support students for example for elementary there's a daily check-in required where usually an independent study is one time a week so the law also stated within 30 days we need to adopt a policy this is a sample policy csva that we get it meets with the letter of the law it will fulfill our responsibility for 2024 21-22 school year to to meet that requirement and also allow us to continue with the the program that we are currently offering so just to clarify we're just making either adjustments to our independent study and it's in compliance with 813.
correct thank you we have a motion to approve how much are you doing no you've [Music] forward an action item and uh would someone like to bring this to the board i would like to bring it to the floor for discussion thank you mr president and mrs anderson seconded let's talk so the the original intent i think the board had asked me at the last meeting to provide you guys an update on where we are with face coverings as it relates to our students at that point back in june we did not know what the rules would be we had indications cbph would be recommending uh masking warn uh cdph came back and did not recommend they mandate it and then later about two weeks later sacramento county uh health director of syria came back with a uh even stronger health order saying all masks must be worn indoors in sacramento county um so that is the latest status of where masks are in my view right now it's not a choice for us it is a requirement by our health director also a mandate by not only cdph but a recommendation by multiple groups one of the things that is happening yes we will continue to work with our students if the student isn't wearing masks um we have not had that knock on wood most people i think are able to say hey let's wear a mask we can call the protocol to keep our schools open so thankfully our community has really helped us and helped us support this effort we've not had uh challenges to that effort we thank you we have a public comment on this item my two children at oak hill and my only uh thing about masks is my little one moving second grade estee coming home and his mask is wearing the blue ones um filthy just totally dirty so i'm wondering if there's a way that we could have students changing their masks at some point during the day because it's just i even have pictures but it's pretty quick and then also are you accepting max mass extensions from doctors so to the first question we absolutely can and what we found that your children are littler so what we found is the volume of mass we're going through are pretty significant now so we do have plenty so we can work with oak hill in this case to say it's okay for a student to have multiple masks especially if they're filthy it's just he doesn't know to change them and so and we could certainly work with the teacher of the school to make sure that's good thank you for for sending that in um and then as far as the exemptions mr jordan i know we do have some massive exemptions um for some of our more medically fragile kids so there are some uh anything you return you'd like to add to that or yeah so it just came out about two weeks ago that a doctor code is required for a past example so if there is a doctor's note absolutely we will let my daughter is on an iep and we're new to the district so we haven't had the baby and so people cannot see she's very quiet when she speaks and nobody can see her face and even her teacher is struggling um so wouldn't that be something that could go in an iep without a doctor's note for the exemption it would require a doctor's note that's now the state law state ruling excuse me but we bought a couple hundred masks that have cleared uh plastic so that you can see their mouth and they can see the decompile as well if you'll touch base with your site admin we have them at all sites in your speech team does all the speech staff have those that they can give to kids okay and so you just take those home and either watch them where we like them thank you so much that could be a problem with kids who are hard of hearing because they teach themselves how to read lips without even realizing them the guidelines actually do state you know students that are hearing impaired are where the ability to see the mouse is essential for communication they are exempt as well so that might be something that might be in an iep for example with the hearing impaired students so i did have just a few things um it doesn't look like we really have a lot of comments people are very understanding the fact that we have mascaras and we are required to follow them but um i just want to just mention a couple pieces of data um you know in in the initial stages of the pandemic and most of the way through the pandemic children were not as effective they were out of school they were not interacting and the numbers were much lower now that they're returning um the cumulative percentage of cases for children 0 to 17 is 13 and a half percent of all cases so they've caught up from not having had that many cases from the beginning to where they're now um exceeded the number of cases and 65 year olds and almost reached the number of cases of 50 to 64 four-year-olds so i mean they're definitely increasing um in the past week well as of august 12th there were 4.41 million children that have tested positive for coven um over 121 000 cases were added the past week this is nationwide which is a substantial increase theologically there have been 14.4 percent of the total cases and the last week ending august 12th they were 18 of the new cases so that's an enormous jump between their cumulative and what they've now reached on a weekly basis so um just something to keep in mind the cases are shooting up we must follow the mandates not just because they're mandates but because that's what kids saved the children that have not been vaccinated because of their age um is you know are are relying on us to protect them so we as adults we can make sure that we are following the protocols and that our students as hard as it is are also following the protocols so we want to keep everybody as safe as we possibly can another piece of information here vaccinations in sacramento county are actually statewide for 12 to 17 year olds only 44 of 12 to 17 year olds have had both vaccinations so that means you know less than half of the students who are eligible have actually been vaccinated um i imagine that number will continue to go up as these members are searching i'm hoping that people are watching the news and realizing that this is not just a game we're playing um that it's real very real um one of the things that the cdc reported this at this time it appears that severe illness due to public 19 is uncommon among children however there is an urgent need to collect more data on longer-term impacts of the pandemic on children including ways the virus may harm the long-term physical health of infected children so we know that there are six eight ten twelve months after recovery there are neurological there are uh heart problems there's all kinds of uh issues still lingering in adults and so we know that there are going to be lingering issues with children as well in addition there's the disease called mis speed miss c is basically um we read exactly what it says um yes i do i have extras of all i just kind of grabbed a bunch of little bits of pieces from cpp and other places um did you see me trying to move my fingers with this mask that was great okay here we go so in april of 2020 a cluster of children with hyperinflammatory shock was recorded the patient's symptoms developed two to four weeks after acute copenhagen all the children had evidence of code 2 infection symptoms would present symptoms that were present including fever rash conjecture virus peripheral adenomy gastrointestinal symptoms shock and elevated markers of inflammation and cardiac damage the illness in 86 of the patients involved four or more organ systems two-thirds did not have pre-existing underlying medical conditions and um i mean there are substantial numbers of misc patients that had severe complications including cardiac suspension shock myocarditis coronary artery dilation and aneurysm and acute kidney injury since the beginning of since may of 2020 when cdc started tracking this there have been 4 404 cases nationwide and 37 deaths not a lot but it's definitely something that we need to be concerned with as we bring students back and they're interacting and they're not vaccinated so just please please understand that we have to follow these protocols and um protect everybody thousand pointed four and three centimeters that's cbc tracking um anybody wants some some of these details you're welcome to have any other comments about face coverage i have some comments i'd like to make thank you um first of all as i mentioned earlier my entire household tested positive for covid this includes my child who is a student at center district who never showed any symptoms at the point where we went to go get tested last week they decided to come along because they weren't doing anything else at the moment we really didn't think we had it but we were getting tested just to be on the safe side if my student were not wearing masks in school i can imagine that we would have far higher numbers right now of infected students [Music] that right there is a huge concern for me when i interviewed for this board position one of the questions that was asked of me was how do i reconcile my beliefs with the needs of the students and the needs of the community and i said first and foremost we have to follow the law because if we do something that's against the law it's just going to be struck down anyway and right now the law says that we have to keep masking it it was perfectly tight okay i'm sorry i am having [Music] what i was saying is the safety of the students is a high priority and frankly if we don't require masks i think we are sacrificing the safety of the students and we're heading towards shutting down the schools again and i don't think any of us want that so that that's my one more thing there have been breakthrough cases where people have died even though they've been vaccinated um there's a selfless airlines flight attendant who got it after being vaccinated and passed so i mean i i know there's more than just that one case so just keeping in mind that we're not just protecting the children we're protecting everybody we are not wearing masks it's friends regardless of whether you've been vaccinated so people who have not been vaccinated we are putting their lives at risk not only that but by perpetuating the spread of the virus it gives the virus every opportunity to mutate further and and create a stronger more virulent uh virus that can break through our vaccines so i'm exploring everybody to please get vaccinated not only that but the fact that kids don't die from it is a lie kids are dying it's not members but again they've not been in classrooms interacting so it's really hard to say what the data says all right i just want to just add to the discussion um even you know being vaccinated it can give us a false sense of security um at duke university it was just reported over a hundred of their students and staff who were vaccinated for covet have tested positive for it um so there's a lot of breakthrough things going on we just simply do not know uh so many things so i'm just really thankful um for our district having the same policy um around around masking that's that's looking to keep everybody safe to follow up on what dr lee just said my case is a breakthrough case um i was fully vaccinated and actually to be honest i had a rough time with the with the vaccine but i was happy to do it and i'll probably go get a booster again in the not too distant future when they are recommending that um and as i was explaining to some family members recently if the vaccine provides let's say a 75 protection against infection that's pretty good however if you're getting exposed by let's say four different people that 75 protection multiplied four times over brings it down to only about a thirty percent protection that's rounding down it's a little it's close to like 31 32 i think but my point is when we only have some people vaccinated and we don't have hurt immunity yet that vaccination is at risk you know there's only so much it can do especially until the next so um i had a child that experienced a mistake situation um and almost lost her to this whole covalent missy um she was a child that was just in here she had no symptoms um none of my kids had symptoms only myself and my oldest daughter um it attacked her look hard it broke her liver down it it really took her down but she was one of the cases that survived within a week she recovered there was a lot of kids in this hospital at sutter memorial who was fighting their wife who was there for five and six weeks so mass i'm really really really recommended that mass does stay in schools you know in classes in the cafeteria i mean i understand kids need to breathe when they're outside but to really you know teachers need to really enforce things while these kids are at school that was really scary there is no evidence that the masks are impeding anyone's breathing so that's a a myth thank you for sharing thank you thank you so thank much mrs jenkins i'm very sorry that that happened to your family and so happy that she's better i hope it stays that way all right shall we move on do we have a motion on item f brought to the okay so um why i wanted to bring this to the board is for a couple reasons for one we own the property already so we may as well name it and number two we have a lot of building going on across the street and as well as placer county so eventually this school is going to be built not in five years probably not in eight but maybe 10 to 15.
so i wanted to give you a little history on the property and the community of antelope and it's so much information and i condensed it down to like 15 25 minutes so just bear with me here i'm joking but seriously just a few footnotes so the district was created in 1958 with the one room schoolhouse that was that we called it sorry 1858 thank you thank you 1862 the district boundaries were laid and our school disc our school was within the union district of placer county j.g gould dyer and j williams are the first trustees now jg pooled was the first clerk to be on the board j.g gould's property was north of pfe so across from the west side of riots so that was his whole property and i believe it was from beyond bularika to let's say folks and then so that was his property also um the ghouls that were born that says oj who was elected and became a clerk and who was elected i'm not sure what year but became clerk in 1881.
a.d gould was elected in 1908. now arthur gould is the grandson of j.g gould who was the first clerk and one of the first uh trustees and his wife beatrice pruitt owned the property in question um at west of briles now their family homestead um i don't know when it was established but it has been there for several years it was said that beaches pruitt was also a teacher at um dry creek was also a board member but i don't have ears on that either now after the death of arthur and beatrice school their children stanley and lynn gould bought or was handed down the property in 1941 the center bell that was removed from the school years ago years ago was then put into a bell tower at the gold ranch and they used that belt for signaling air raids and fire and they would alert the community in 1947 the bell was released from the tower at the google property and put on the rule property underneath the this walnut tree now i'm unsure of when the district was owner or has the bell came back to the district but i don't know if carol has that information but sometimes the district retrieved the bell back now around 2003 center joint unified school district purchased the property where we are right now from the farmland and stanley gould um and we made riles riddles middle school well then around 2005 our district purchased the property west of riles knowing that we're going to need an elementary school soon now since then stanley gould has passed he passed this may of 2021 um with non-copic symptoms however linwood is still alive and well so for this information based on the the pioneering of this family within the community i went with this district i would request or recommend the board to name that property the elementary school google raj elementary i'll um i i have some thoughts on this um and this has nothing to do with the gould family it has to do with the practice of naming schools after people in general i i have some reservations about doing so because sometimes information comes out at a later date that causes someone to be viewed differently than they were for instance and again this has nothing to do with the gould family i'm not trying to imply anything there but let's say we named a different school site after a different person and then five years later evidence came forward that they were a serial killer yes that's an outlandish example but that's the kind of thing that you know i i kind of am somewhat hesitant to name schools after people at the same time but at the same time as you just laid out there's a lot of history there with with the family and the district and i can see the point of honoring that i'm just i'm just kind of talking out loud and thinking out loud here you know steve i agree with you 100 if it was named after a person i would i would have not vote for that at all however we're naming it after a family and the family has been established since well 1858.
so if there was one person in the ballot but that might disarray you know you know i can see your point but this is a family so we're not naming it arthur gould elementary it's gold ranch or yeah gold ranch elementary and let me clarify those so the ghouls before pfp was even there maybe google's owned the property as well as oj googled aj rule that arthur google let's just say pmp was not there so it went from placer county where i mentioned where jb gould is all the way to past um up to redwater to alerica to folks and there was many families that own that property so as you can think when you settle into an area in the land somebody buys the land and they sell it after family members well that's what happened to the little family there was a gold on the board for over a hundred 1858 and then again at um 1881 and 1906.