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So those are things to look for as a parent. Just educate yourself. We're trying to do it here. I encourage you to do it at home. >> Kind of jumped around, but anything else? I mean, you guys have answered all my questions. Anything else come to mind? Want to add? >> I was um going to say um just a couple things where we support the schools in July when I meet with my governing board, which is myself and my five superintendent. We go over all of their policies um just to make sure that they have those policies. um safety policy, um seclusion and restraint. Um we also talk about what the threat assessment looks like. Um that is um becoming a more popular needed item. um when we have a student with a 504 or an IEP that has made a threat and it has led um to and I don't want to go into excuse me too much as Michelle you know already covered but um they have certain rights to certain type of of meeting that we we hold to look at um that and when that happens when we get to that point that is when um the principles or APS reach out to me because I help facilitate that meeting but also also ensure that the law is being followed um as well because my job is to protect the schools um from um ending up in a due process.
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So, we had functioned for a very long time. Yes, it's much better with one in every building, no question, but I also thought about the fact that um it it hid away um we now have just it it's not a shared position anymore, and so it's it's I think the ability to um and I don't know why I'm blanking on her name. >> Oh, Sarah. Thank you. Oh my gosh, I feel so sorry, Sarah. Um the ability of Sarah to focus just on special education, I think opens her capacity a little bit. Not saying she should be taking on other students in other schools, but it um that that was something that that played into my my mind, too, in terms of of the impact. But, I do agree with you both that this is >> But, I think the greater point is is like these some of these are painful, and they're going to have an impact, and um it's just us being realistic at working with the amount of money that's available to us.
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He'll forward them to me and we're happy to uh answer any questions. Uh we're a local company. We're not far away and uh we uh we enjoy uh the work we do. Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. Really appreciate you. >> All right. Find my agenda. Okay, I think that we are ready to move on to reports of the administration. Uh, and we'll start with you, Mr. Pette. >> Good evening. You have in your packets the budget update as of March 6. Um, I'll say it's all quiet on the Western Front. We're proceeding ahead, uh, believe it or not, winding down the year, looking at open purchase orders and incumbrances, but you have the status as of that day. Uh and we also have the revolving account report included as well. Uh and just uh not to be alarmed regarding in particular the school lunch revolving account because there are revenues that by the when we were reporting this just hadn't been posted yet.
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I can answer any questions that you might have as of this moment in time. No questions? All right. No questions for the business manager, so I think we'll go ahead and move on to uh Mr. Sullivan and superintendent. Good evening. Um you have my report. I want I do want to point out uh number one and number three. I included some an attachment. Um so, it's the blue hyperlink you can see and one it says slides and number three it says flyer. Um I I read the whole thing on number one to you. The slides are probably easier to follow and I I think the principles touched on a number of the points around our work around professional learning, specifically around our literacy initiatives. Um literacy has been our district-wide focus. This is at least our third year. Um as a district requiring intervention, considering we have two schools in the needs intervention status, we have to have a district instructional priority plan that's submitted to DESE um built around literacy.
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If a school is not showing positive results in those indicators, they would not be eligible for this award. So, it really is everything in totality. So, really um really a great um accomplishment uh for Pedmont Middle and we look forward to continuing to celebrate them. There will be a statewide um award celebration at the end of April in Southern California. So we look forward to that. In addition, uh just this week on Monday, our very own trustee uh Streivy Vasan was recognized um at the Beressa Citizens Advisory Council as this year's citizen of the year. So that's also phenomenal um recognition. You know, there's always lots of good people doing wonderful community service work around um our Beriesa neighborhood and it's always a a challenge to figure out who's that one person that rises to the occasion and this year the BCAC board acknowledged uh trustee Strini Vasan and not just for you know the um incredible leadership and support he has here as a trustee but a lot of other hats he plays in volunteering um in the city of San Jose as well as across our community to make sure we have a safe place for students um and a a good neighborhood for all of our families.
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Um let's go ahead and um well, do we have any discussion? All right, let's go ahead and vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed? All right, this passes. Along the same lines, resolution 1717-26. It's just separate because it's a uh different representation group, so this is a CSEA position. Um so, we separate them out and we no longer have a transportation supervisor.
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You would think it would be daytime hours, not night. That's >> I mean I I will tell you there are there is a push to start putting um I think just because of the coolness factor. You start to see schools putting well you can light up your track now with your football lights and to have night races and stuff and just make them a prime time event and just have a cool cool factor I guess or whatever. I don't know. >> Okay. >> So I I don't know. >> All right. I'll ask >> again. I'm just Yeah, I was just going off literally this document from the IHSAA. Um >> I'd say those are all pre-launch. >> Maybe those are >> because the 26 for the regional is on a Tuesday as well. I'm sure the regionals have to be ran on the final. >> Sometimes they will because well because you're out of school typically at certain points and things like that and they'll start running those but those may be prelim and but like the regional level you don't have prelims anymore.
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So I help them facilitate that. Um but those are some things that um we do to support the schools as well. >> Anything else? I would just say this that like officer Tman or Mr. Beckman, our assistant principal, when it comes to questioning a student, we have a a lot easier path than they do. And so I think that we we've all watched a lot of TV, watched a lot of movies, and we think that whatever we see from a legal standpoint is how the school has to do it. And that's not the truth. So it's we have to have reasonable suspicion to find to talk to a kid to search him. There's a probable cause. Those are not the same thing. And I I think that sometimes there's some confusion when we have to deal with things like that. I see everybody's way too officies.
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We only have a certain uh a few options for our sources of income. There's state funding, there's town funding. We've been given our marching orders, and we're trying to be as responsible as we can within within that um system. But, it's doesn't mean that it's not it's obviously not what is ideal, or we wouldn't have had those positions in the first place. You know, and I think that's an important point to be made though that we um are we we preemptively did this so that we could get to a budget that that works, and that we could still get decent funding from somewhere, and provide an education for our students, and meet the needs of all the div- diverse needs that we have in the district. But, it's not it's not going to be what we had. It's a setback. I mean, I'd just like to make a quick note on the other slide.
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So that's in a positive balance. I can answer any questions that you might have as of this moment in time. >> No questions. All right, no questions for the business manager. So, I think we'll go ahead and move on to uh Mr. Sullivan and superintendent. >> Good evening. Um, you have my report. I want I do want to point out uh number one and number three, I included some an attachment. Um, so it's the blue hyperlink you can see on one it says slides and number three it says flyer. Um, I won't read the whole thing on number one to you. The slides are probably easier to follow and I think the principles touched on a number of the points around our work around professional learning specifically around our literacy initiatives. Um, literacy has been our district-wide focus. This is at least our third year.
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So, we've submitted that the past few years and our goal is this year we're we're really about building school leader capacity to design and deliver professional learning. One of the things last year, in my first year, we heard a lot of feedback from teachers that it felt like vendors were coming in and delivering PD and then they were leaving and there was not necessarily this through line through what teachers were getting in prof- professional learning um and being able to follow up with questions. So, that's something that we worked really hard at over last spring and summer to plan for and then continuing to build robust literacy systems and structures. Um we've talked a lot about our ability to fill certain positions and challenges that come with filling some of those certain positions and we made a really intentional decision last spring to try to support teachers in building their capacity and building systems that can outlast, hopefully, any one of us in this room um because there is a structure and a system to the way we're doing things.
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Um he sits on the um Measure T, am I getting the letter right? Measure T uh oversight committee for the city of San Jose. He also was just recently uh appointed to the San Jose State Family Advisory Board. So lots of good places that his voice is making positive contribution for our our beriesa community. So thank you and congratulations. And then uh the congratulations continue with our trustee down at the end there with Thelma Boak who is going to be recognized next week on Monday in Sacramento assembly member Lee's congressional woman of the year. So, we are really looking forward to traveling up to our state capital to see uh Trustee Boak get that recognition. As you know, she has years of incredible leadership service. Again, not just as a trustee for our school district, but for all of the good work and mentorship that she does um across our community.
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Any questions? Yeah, we no longer have a transportation supervisor because we have a transportation manager. Is that what it is now? That is correct. >> Okay, thank you. Public comment? Can I just say something? Yes. I think this is all like an effort to just clean up the old stuff so that we don't have pages and pages and pages. Yeah, so I I just like to say that I thank you and I appreciate all the work you're doing. Thank you. All right. Um would any aboard member like to a motion at this time? Sure, I will move to adopt resolution 1717-26. All right, I'll second that. So, motion by member Lando, second by um Conkin.
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They just go straight to the final heats and everything. Then maybe >> I mean at the sectionals you always have prelims because you got to qualify to get to the finals. Yeah. >> Yeah. Swimming is Yeah. swimming and >> that's what I would think they did all in one day like have all their early races and have their finals that time >> because they'll they'll true. >> Yeah. Especially if you're doing like the two mile, right? Yeah. Or you know the mile things. So anyways, I just wanted to share all that with you. Right now this year graduation's on May 30th. Um, so we're out of school a full week before graduation. It's actually the week after graduation. When you look at that, um, this year, because Memorial Day is early, we fall into baseball and softball sectionals. Um, and we are the week after Memorial Day.
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Thank you. Appreciate all four of you. Um so we'll uh we'll go ahead and shift to our last spot. I know we've gone a little longer than I anticipated. So certainly if you uh if you feel like you need to leave, absolutely uh feel free to. There are some questions at the tables and and and again um thank you to our board members that are here and um if you're a parent or a teacher or whatever and you want to talk through some of those questions, we will certainly hang around. Uh but certainly I know it's gone a little longer than I had planned. So if you need to leave, I understand. But uh there are some questions at the table, but certainly talk about anything that comes to mind or questions you might have. And uh whenever you want to leave, feel free to leave.
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Um I was wondering these 13 uh or so cuts, it's of course they have to uh occur, but is there a scenario in which we could renew certain positions um that are being retired or uh vacated and cut additional ones uh by weighing them? Of course, it's not ideal to bring somebody on and then fire somebody else, but some of these positions of like the thing I'd point to directly is the HS science department, right? And uh Ms. Sherman, who's retiring this year, uh she's a great teacher. I had her sophomore year. Uh it's a bummer I can't have her uh future years, but she is servicing, I think, around 60 to 80 kids yearly uh taking chemistry. And of course, that is a foundational class uh for high school curriculum. Uh do you think it would be uh a certain scenario in which we could renew that position Sorry.
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Um, as a district requiring intervention, considering we have two schools in the needs intervention status, we have to have a district instructional priority plan that's submitted to DESIE um built around built around literacy. So we've submitted that the past few years and our goals this year were were really about building school leader capacity to design and deliver professional learning. One of the things last year in my first year, we heard a lot of feedback from teachers that it felt like vendors were coming in and delivering PD and then they were leaving and there was not necessarily this through line through what teachers were getting in professional learning um and being able to follow up with questions. So, that's something that we worked really hard at over last spring and summer to plan for and then continuing to build robust literacy systems and structures. Um, we've talked a lot about our ability to fill certain positions and challenges that come with filling some of those certain positions.
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Um this started last winter when we introduced, and it was optional at the time. Our U-Fly intervention curriculum and I'll say like the K-4 teachers took it in stride and while I had some questions about how much we put on people's plate, they kept coming back and asking for more to their credit. You know Miss Raincourt doesn't want to be doing U-Fly and she shouldn't have to be doing U-Fly as a fourth-grade teacher. And this is what we're saying to teachers. Like everybody has bought in, everybody has stepped up to the plate right now, but Miss Raincourt's right. We shouldn't have to do whole class intervention when students get to fourth grade. Teachers should have most students at grade level. And that's why we focused on building a system, a foundational system that we can build on every year. And I can tell you there are a handful of classrooms across the district already that have flipped our intervention model.
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um and also as a former um uh high school principal, the continued mentorship she's done uh at with a variety of administrators. I can't even I lose count of the number of administrators she has supported over the years in that mentoring and coaching capacity. So, you know, again, um you know, our trustees have many talents and wear many hats and so we thank you for that and look forward to um those celebrations. Uh you got to hear a lot tonight from our middle schools about, you know, their cell phone policy and how they're working with their students and educating them. This is a really busy time at the middle schools and they've got their career days coming up. So this week, actually on Thursday, we have both Piedmont Middle School and Sierramont Middle School will be hosting their career day events. And then next week on uh Thursday, March 19th, Morell Middle School will be hosting theirs.
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Any discussion? All right, okay, let's go ahead and vote. All those in favor um signify by saying I. I. Opposed? All right, this passes. Thank you. Thank you. Moving along um to 9C3, also discussion action um Chico Unified Teachers Association Chico Unified School District Negotiation Openers um for the school year, presented by John Shepherd. Thank you, President Conkin.
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