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i'm mute we're live welcome everybody to the campus of dover sherburne high school here at norris earl field beautiful afternoon vastly soccer match between the ten one and one lady raiders of dover sherburne and the four six and one medway mustangs game's about to get underway both teams taking the fields special thanks in advance to the pride the fourth grade girls base soccer team that will be assisting today's match by serving as ball girls midway looks ready to go ds one more huddle up about 70 degrees and sunny no wind to speak of sun might be a factor as it sets sort of behind the bleachers [Applause] so be in the face of anybody playing the left side of the field for dover sherburne [Applause] [Music] looks like they're starting the sumner sisters up top the striker marty phillips out there courtney mahoney and net medway gets us underway [Applause] trying to work the ball up through midfield elise higgins can't possess it diaz works it across the back of their defense up to sumner the freshman now cycled back towards the goaltender ball is clear to the sidelines but possessed by medway emily landry trying to cross at camp landry again with a ball that's batted around rachel herman trying to find marty phillips on the wing herman again steps in there now wins the ball looking for a target and the ball went over the line but it's a throw to blue waverly sumner the junior having an incredible season goal scoring wise i had four goals the other night on senior night ball worked wide hello scout trying to put that ball through for the younger sumner who does win possession tries to center it in the middle but it's kicked away by the midway defense now medway with the ball at midfield chip lock trying to work down the sideline but the ball rolls over the line be a blue throw nice defense there from natasha seal [Music] abby desalvo with the throw find seal seal trying to go 1v2 and it ends up a midway throw ds defense working the ball up field seal up in the midfield now it's batted backwards now wide nicely under the feet of abbey de salvo playing right full back trying to work the ball up to herman can't long ball through for higgins the ds defender wins that race ball goes over the line for a throw in midway pushing up trying to establish something here in the ds end of the field the salvo heads up all the way out of danger very nicely that's going to roll over the line for another throw in looks like the captain ellis sense is going to take this one midway senior looking at her options ball coming into the box can't find higgins cleared away herman fighting for it still midway condon moving that ball wide to longval trying to work our way down the sideline gets past one defender but not the second one ds in an effort to keep that ball away from higgins plays it over the line but it's going to be a goal kick must have gone off higgins [Music] ball played forward now batted up and finds sumner her first touch of the game we really going wide for phillips doesn't reach her ds working the ball up to the midfield again herman gets knocked down phillips plays the ball backwards now gets it again looking to switch into the midfield doesn't like what she sees now goes forward herman herman switches moscow ball goes down the sideline for hayden sumner and it's wisely played over the line by alice sense midway regroups well played into salvo back to the salvo looking for a big cross right to the goalkeeper [Music] now it's being played as a goal kick skips over a couple of midway players to salvo just plays the ball over the line never replayed it before it went out but apparently not aware which line is out [Music] ball crossed in the middle by medway batted around a little bit but now herman's going to win it counter-attacking more white shirts in blue but there's a ball through the sumner goaltender way off our line beyond the top of our box plays that away from danger salvo for hermann moscow can't quite get that ball through but handball on midway gonna be a kick here for ds gonna get taken by tessa broderick rules over the left-hand side of the field there's phillips and ceo working the ball on the sideline now forward to sumner sumner working on victoria bullard can't get around her ball cleared away nicely by midway but the ds defense as they have quite often so far this game playing the ball right up to an open midfielder and ds is back on the counter attack now it's wide for sumner she's going to try to go down the line for abby's salvo but that ball goes over the line eva benani playing that ball forward he is trying to retain possession but now medway has it fall there on ds middleweight's going to take a kick it will sense booting the ball up the left wing that's not going to be caught by emily landry it's going to be a goal kick a couple substitutions coming on including a goal a new goaltender for diaz i don't know if courtney mahoney's having an issue i guess she was getting some treatment on her hand during warm up and wants to revisit the medical tent diaz will take this goal kick ball batted right back in by long ball diaz clears it up phillips phillips controls carries oh nice plane to the midfield i think that's herman herman's still carrying the ball trying to get off a shot but it's blocked by the midway defense batted around back there between bernani [Music] moscow de salvo now medway has it i played back the ball back to their central defense los cal again with the touch lily stocks trying to win the ball that ball goes over the line for a blue throw [Music] to salvo down to sumner sumner inside sort of a shot cross there yes ball goes wide it could be a goal kick for medway this is ella scott with that take never too early to test the goaltender ball's booty forward to midfield lead forward by reagan chip block down the wing long ball is trying to win it ds wins it instead trying to hold on to it but giving away there slightly to chip block chip block moving the ball to the middle higgins is all alone plays the ball back over here's the shot testing that new replacement goaltender she rises to the challenge [Applause] [Music] punching that ball forward phillips playing the ball to the center of the field but nobody there but white shirts now condon from midway big blast on the right wing intercepted by the ds defense now ds possesses the ball in the midfield long ball forward looking for sumner we'll just get through the defense no midway regroups plays the ball wide for nicholas phillips forces that pass out of play ds throw i'll plead to the feet of herman back to herman herman finds sumner so i'm trying to get past a slew of midway defenders now phillips buying herself a little room with a nice idea playing that ball in ball's getting batted around substitutions coming in from midway this will here by the referee gonna be a free kick for medway i think somebody uh somebody from that way kind of hand to the face or a ball to the face person explaining to me what happened put his hand to his face so i assume that's what happened uh now sportsmanship is played back to blue but cleared away by medway gonna be another blue throw herman possesses nicely place the ball back to the left full back now the ball's back in the ds defense now desalvo she's gonna help wide good step there from the midway defender but diaz still able to hold on with lascaux switches fields finds broaddrick [Music] and whistling a free kick for ds looks like that's lily stock's there at the left fullback position looks like broderick's going to play the stocks stocks with a nice turn into the midfield seal up for sumner summoner for phillips doesn't quite get through nice little build up there midway just able to clear it away and out of bounds ball nice nice play there by herman phillips seal stocks herman phillips ball forward for herman gets away from her perez now just booting the ball up field trying to connect with higgins almost does defended there nicely by the central defenders of benigni and broderick now de salvo up forward finds herman herman trying to get that ball through for one of the sumners intercepted by medway good step there from desalvo [Music] shea from midway trying to work the ball up oh nice back tracking from waverly summer wins that ball away now moscow moscow loses it to chiplock chiplock with the ball through goaltender's way out safely booting that ball up to midfield midway still has it but they give it away ball's put through for hayden sumner but way too far and scooped up by the cold hunter from medway [Music] midway now trying to move the ball forward for higgins batted back by the ds defense eventually midway chopping that ball out of play condom with a volley a bunch of subs coming on mario goldenian hammerness and catherine mahoney on for ds looks like hayden summers coming off oh timeout so both teams will come back to their benches strategy drives a little bit with the coaches i'll be back to live action as soon as it resumes yes both teams retaking the field still 0-0 here in the 16th minute play resumes i think it's going to be a throw for ds really no dangerous chances to speak of both teams still feeling each other out ds with the majority of the possession but not able to translate that possession in the back through the midfield to really good scoring opportunities just yet they throw that ball and play down the line and out again so midway throw sumner ball played for mahoney mahoney trying to reconnect with sumner can't rachel herman's there though now moscow and desalvo nice play there by megan tompkins in midway the ball goes out mahoney fighting for it with herman and desalvo gonna be a midway throw danielle smith playing the ball in mahoney trying to find help eventually finds the feet of moscow let's go with the big switch nicely to mario goganian you can't keep possession but does collide with sarah longval who's now down and referee stops play a little shoulder to shoulder action there and i think sarah long ball may have gotten a charlie horst or something she's coming off under her own power replaced by delaney condon it's gonna be a kick here for white that way goaltender's gonna play this [Music] nice boot forward that's headed by broderick kept in by ds down the sideline trying to find sumner doesn't quite oh ball ricky shades off the hand but no call ball played back to the goaltender who plays it out of danger [Music] higgins gets a turn plays the ball over to megan tompkins tompkins trying to put a ball through the middle but cleared away by stocks thompkins again trying to control that keep it in but rolls over the line moscow up the line paul finds mahoney i'll play to the middle of the field but nobody there except delaney condon for medway she gets pressured by hermann all now played forward by the medway defense see if kelly nicholas can keep that in and she can't stocks will take this throw go gaining up the line play to the middle of the field lust gown playing that ball forward ooh ricochets off a couple heads sumner now finds lost cow [Applause] salvo trying to win this ball back [Applause] good effort there from tompkins but she can't keep it in now higgins will get replaced by number 14.
kayla hansen up top [Music] moscow turns away nicely trying to find a blue shirt up field now the ball comes back to her trying to switch fields here through the central defense stocks up to goganian just play wide for stocks but read well by longval of midway midway's she got fouled midway's gonna have a free kick here [Music] big boot inside the 20-yard line played wide there by keaney keaney looking for help here's a cross cleared out of danger by the ds defense copeland now coming on and chip block is off sense with the throw into the box volleyed out nicely by diaz says we'll take another stab at it ds getting a foot on that ball it's played out to the 30. midway's gone it played back into the box over everybody right into the arms of the keeper [Applause] she'll throw this ball forward to moscow ello trying to turn plays it back to the defender [Music] a little one two played there with the outside midfielder now it's at the feet of luskow she finds sumner briefly that's intercepted by perez now won backed by ds [Applause] ball played wide los gao looking for options trying to go way down the line for sumner goalie retreats to her line summoner with a big cross it goes off the defender but scooped up by the goalie close to a corner kick there for diaz now midway trying to attack up the right hand side nice step there from stocks wins that ball turns finds it open teammate ball's played forward now [Applause] now medway wins it in the midfield going down the line so we schwartz in a foot race with tompkins [Music] and wins that battle well played up the line to mahoney trying to settle it chips it ahead herman [Music] somebody got fouled might have been summer now it's down the line for sumner somewhere in a battle with mahond wins that battle turns gets it to goganian she runs into a crowd of defenders midway able to just clear that for a throw-in before it became a corner referee wants this ds to throw that in again i think move down the line a bit a little over 17 minutes left in this first half still scoreless 0-0 ball's punted high in the air not played before the bounce ds in possession in the back though but then we're putting the pressure on ball is played forward kayla hanson trying to win it for medway now herman with a nice turn possessing the ball big ball forward for sumner summer's going to win this race get oh and the defender just slides in there gordon was way out kind of in no man's land if someone was able to slide that ball across the goganian would have been a great opportunity for diaz nice play by the defense diaz starting to increase the pressure here a little bit starting to get those long balls through and get sumner running onto him another throw deep in the corner for ds i'm sorry corner ball's played in goaltender gets away from her but she recovers and grabs it [Applause] and threw her hands and over her shoulder but maybe just spin around and snag that now punting from the top of her box looking to connect with hanson ball played forward by tompkins but that's gonna get all the way to the goalie before medway can get there punted forward nicely sumner now to hermann she's going to help up the right wing zoe schwartz running onto it just can't quite get there before that ball runs out ds outside fullbacks get more involved sarah worcester coming into the game natasha seals back [Applause] goganian's off slew of substitutions herman trying to win this ball [Applause] ball battle four in the middle there with natasha seoul now de salvo going down the line finds herman ball goes over the line though she can play that forward for sumner midway throw sense looking for options down the line that's going to get played forward back by ben and annie hayden sumner trying to win this ball now from the defender desalvo can't quite get a foot on that one throw in four cents again gets through everybody back to the ds defense hermann nice play plays that ball to an open defender who settles it plays it forward again now herman's got a foot on it can't get through to hayden summer though seal with a bump there and gets called for the foul two freshmen on this roster for ds both on the field at the moment sarah worcester and hayden sumner caleb perez is going to take this kick from midway balls boom 4 gets through everybody goaltender comes out scoops that up nicely another big punt forward herman and marty phillips battling for it midway's gonna fight for along the sideline with sarah wooster and ball goes over for a ds throw back into the midfield for hermann herman's still possessing trying to work the ball up to worcester can't quite now it's herman again playing the ball back to the right outside defender now it finds worcester worcester with a little cut back oh the nice play the phillips just got away from philip she wasn't able to redirect that exactly where she wanted to now i'm edward with a counter attack here nice step from broderick midway still in possession though a little chip through defenders letting it go for the goalkeeper she scoops it up there before emily landry can get there still 0-0 under 13 minutes left here in the first half [Music] ball put down into the corner by medway hanson running onto it trying to win it but can't keep it in another mass substitution rather the uh mclaughlin is coming in for ds three or four players coming on for midway [Applause] you have a ben and i coming off for ds [Music] bomb is played back there by ds now it's gonna be midway throw centered into the middle ricochets off a few bodies still in danger midway getting off a left-footed shot emily landry not able to get that on goal and probably get as much force on it as you wanted mclaughlin with the goal kick ball gets up to midfield herman turns big ball forward is batted away by midway herman again a little chip over the top trying to find worcester worcester heads it on nicely ball now comes to phillips and follow on phillips ball intercepted there nicely by desalvo but inadvertent handball called somewhat dangerous spot here midway's got the ball to 30.
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three midway players confirm on what they're gonna do five midway players up in the line top of the box ball's batted with some force knicks off a ds defender it's going to be a midway corner [Music] delaney conan's gonna take this midway goaltender way off our line out at the 40 ball batted into the box and goes through a hole in the net for a goal kick [Applause] hello back on rachel harmon's gonna take a break mclaughlin with another big goal kick finds the feet of worcester can't quite control it [Music] now i meant with a big ball down the line that mclaughlin steps in front of higgins with it higgins trying to win that race before it goes over the line but can't [Applause] but it's going to be a corner for medway again moved into the box rather nicely gets over the goaltender midway got a body part on it but it went over the net [Music] courtney mahoney the starting goaltender has had a wrist iced and re-taped and still on the bench i think she might not be well enough to rejoin this game trying to find out at halftime who actually is in net caitlin every battling for the ball over there now the balls look forward to phillips in the midfield she's got embry making a run works the ball forward to her nicely embry with a nice ball inside for worcester that that was intercepted by perez now the ball's battle falling over the line is going to be a midway throw ambry with a nice touch that ball's boom forward mclaughlin back to mclaughlin but off her and over the line and out now it's gonna be emory taking the throw back to embry and move the big ball forward batted back by the medway defense mclaughlin intercepts cycles through the central defense broderick now ceo going wide for desalvo she's got herman hermanoff luskow momentarily kept in by ds but another throw from midway sense again right in front of the bench it does find higgins but ball is off higgins and not apply [Music] salvo now good strong throw forward sense intercept so worcester tracking back turn when that ball does nicely a lot of white shirts and waverly sumner but that doesn't mean waverly's not gonna win that battle but there is a foul here and it is on ds [Applause] midway goal tender playing that ball forward flicked on by midway but it's going to roll all the way to the keeper the salvo under pressure sumner way down the line riverly summer can't quite catch up with that goaltender way out in a box now hayden sumner steps in front of that seal stepping away from the midway defenders twice with nice control and then taking a shot on net that was labeled fisted over the crossbar by the goalie that was a nice place she was in a great position she's been wandering all over the place in the first half was right where she needed to be for that shot corner kick for ds [Music] ball played into the box nicely oh somebody almost got a head on that now it's cleared away by midway wooster dancing around the defender getting a shot off that is wider than that tompkins is back on landry's off [Music] ball is over worcester but she's still battling for the ball now medway plays it forward to nobody and it's gonna roll over the line ambry ball's still in embry worcester phillips sumner summoner turns finds her sister tries to play it back to the elder sumner medway's got it there's a nice step there from seal worcester trying to get through a crowd midway again just blasting the ball at the wing and it rolls over the line mclaughlin with the throw glasgow with a nice play in the midfield turning away from white shirts finds phillips phillips with a lot of room to advance the ball now plays it wide for sumner summoner with a nice cross it's over worcester every pushing way up trying to keep this threat alive does it's played inside now back to phillips now back to lusk out let's go turns and fires it's off a defender took a little momentum off that shot he's starting to pick up the pace here less than three minutes left here in the first half still zero zero midway keeper putting that ball forward batting around a little bit getting over the back line mclaughlin [Music] now place the ball wide to embry every looking for options place the ball inside but it's intercepted by medway it's going to come to the feet of number 23.
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thank you Carlos thank you so much uh marel I apologize for interrupting if you can help us with broke call now today is a regular board meeting of October 14 2021 at 5:30 pm members of the board and attendance president Corina alera present vice president Ando clerk anesto Beano here can you hear me thank you Carlos thank you so much marel I apologize uh oh we having some feedback um I think the YouTube sometimes lags a little bit so we'll wait for her yes we can hear you Ernesto okay just I already um fixed it so um member Linda Chavez member mimf present and members of Administration superintendent Dr Bower I know she's having connection issues uh yes I was just gonna say that so um I know she will be logging in pretty soon if not with her computer probably through her phone um so we'll go ahead and continue um we have Quorum so let's do now if you can all join me in doing the pledge of allegiance I pledge of allegiance Al to FL of the United United States of America and to the for stand nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you and uh today I would like to open uh our meeting in honor of uh the indigenous people's day that we just celebrated on Monday um and and um also want to do start off with a land acknowledgment uh that we are on the ancestral homeland of the M Malone um that's who uh we are um here that's the indigenous peoples the First Nations peoples of this land so I would like to uh open up today's meeting in their honor uh moving on to item 102 uh discussion Andor modification okay uh if I see please raise your hand if you'd like to make any changes or have any comments around the agenda uh trano now we can't hear you or I don't know if you're saying anything we can't hear you madam president uh uh I wanted to advise you that board vice president quo has just arrived to the district office and he should be logging in soon okay great and uh trusty fam can you hear me yes I hear you loud clear perfect I just want to make sure I know adesto just testing at nesto can you say something uh can you hear me now yes now I can okay go ahead um I apologize I had this written down and I forgot the paper at my office so I wanted to see if we could move [Music] item uh four .3 the energy solar Savings Program um to directly [Music] before uh if I can find it uh there Mr CA was going to be giving us a presentation and I wanted to do it right before trust can I not um and I I had a suggestion after reviewing the agenda and maybe it has to do with that can I can I give maybe some my suggestions I kind of saw 403 in relation with 502 um when we talk about that's the that's the one yes so if we can maybe hear those together uh it sounds like um 403 with 502 yes that's the agenda um would you like to bring up 502 or would you like sounds like you want to put 403 over closer to 502 a little later in the agenda is that correct yeah 403 directly before okay sounds thank you uh any other changes to the agenda please raise your hand you my screen I don't see anybody else with any changes I know andrees is logging on your full screen no more if you can please mute yourself if you're not um speaking that would help uh okay so seeing no others we'll go ahead and um is there any oppositions to the changes on the agenda no other okay great so we'll go ahead and move on to 103 welcome and explanation to the audience so just a reminder to the audience we are meeting virtually um today obviously uh and if you wish wish to speak on a specific item there will be public comment so um please make sure to stay on raise your hand I will usually give a couple seconds to allow you know people and the technology to catch up um to ensure that everybody has the opportunity to speak on the item um if there is um anything that you wish to speak to the board on that is not on the agenda you will have an opportunity to speak on that on item 2011 um so everybody has an opportunity uh to speak to us today um if you have a specific agenda item you're going to speak to we will have public comment for that and if there's an item that is not on the agenda we will open it up for uh General uh public comments on item 2011 so with that moving forward 2011 uh public members who wish to address the board um so this is for any items that are not on the agenda today uh Jose I did see you um if you can please help me find any members of the public wishing to address a board on this item hello Madame President yes we have two speakers first speaker is is Rand Randall barber Mr Barber you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening board can I can you hear me testing one two we can hear you thank you okay I didn't see the clock okay uh thank thank you for listening today um I'm checking in to let you know that we need to get this contract done it's uh way way way overdue this really should have been accomplished last spring um of course it's been an interesting year of course uh but it's now time to get it done so please tell your bargaining team to start uh presenting uh communication that is Meaningful because right now it's not happening it's not happening and our hope as teacher is beginning to really really wne U we're starting to lose faith in the district bargaining team so please tell him pay attention be prepared for the meetings don't sit silently and provide please provide information that's pertinent to our conversation uh because this is just not good this is this situation is getting bad very quickly so I urge you tell your bargaining team do their homework put a reasonable offer on the table and let's get this thing done we've got enough work to do without having to uh to plow through this kind of difficulty it's really not necessary we're ready we hope you are thank you our next speaker is Miss Tanner Miss Tanner you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening Bor and Dr Bower my Preamble is nothing that you can solve but to let you see a glimpse into why my amble is so important within seven days all last week I lost one of my dearest people in my life of almost 40 years to covid I had my mom rush to the ER to the hospital stay where I wasn't sure she would come home my house was burglarized and rans set I don't need your sympathy I don't want your sympathy it's life but working at Alam Rock right now adds even more stress to these difficult times I had to be out for a few days last week just to deal with my mom's situation and here's where you come in I prepared detailed sub plans I came to school at 6:30 in the morning to be sure everything was set up but guess what no sub the admin split up my class of 31 to almost every teacher on campus not only is this safe due to covid cies it's unfair to my colleagues and it's also unfair to my students who missed an entire day of academics each time how is it that you're supporting this practice is it really in the best interest of students wouldn't it bother you if it were your kids I've also added stress because my colleagues are complaining about the partial potential exposure the overcrowding in their classrooms and having assumed that this is okay we've been told that the admin would step in if there was no sub that's not reality when I had Direct contact of Co in my classroom I reached out to my administrator to share my concerns my fears and the impact of my isolation from my octogenarian parents the reply I got was this is hard for everyone you have repeatedly said to take care of yourself but create an environment where that is impossible please do what is right and best for our students and take and for us to be able to take care of ourselves it's difficult enough in this year without disrespect thank you our next speaker is Adrian B Miss V you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello um you know last year was a rough year as we all know this year is seems to be even harder and I'm at the point where it's clear you don't care about us um I am I've been a teacher for 13 years and it's almost impossible to live right now in Silicon Valley gas prices are at $5 a gallon just to commute to elmrock is a huge chunk of my paycheck we have teacher turnover because our our school district is in the bottom third salary schedule in the County teachers are quitting our schools right now to go to other schools I'm not talking about in the future they're quitting right now and this is not okay we we need some sort of pay increase that is not happening it's it's just ridiculous and I'd like to say also as far as safety our school I work at Joseph George Middle School our PA system is not working and that's not because our principal hasn't put a work order in she's put in multiple work orders from the of the year since August she has put this in it has not been fixed and we have had to shelter in place we've had the uh announcement of teachers please shelter in place already this year some of us teachers did not hear it this is not acceptable and if we go on strike we will be the laughing stock thank you thank you miss our next speaker is Sean s Mr s we have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin all right so like all my other teachers have said you need to solve this crisis that we're dealing with in Rays I'll make it nice and sweet I was going to be mean but I that it all be nice and sweet um I heard that your board meet your other bargaining meeting the other day was pretty silent from the district standpoint they showed a salary schedule they've been telling you guys about that wasn't agreed upon about the from the dist from the area about 162 days that's misleading you about what we agreed upon or did not we did not agree upon it to me that's putting on something on paper paper that's liable for them to be looked at so I don't know who in district office decided to write something up that wasn't agreed upon um you are going to lose a lot of teachers teachers who can't afford to live here anymore can't afford to pay can't afford to dip into their own pockets for these kids if we end up going on on work to rule or go on strike board members you are going to suffer big time the kids are already suffering enough I don't want to do that my kids are I have 12 kids leing at a first grade level there's no way if we go on work to rule we can't do intervention programs we can't do a lot of things remember I hope there are some parents out there because there are three to four seats up for grabs for next year for 2022 and so you board members are on it you better start fighting for us you're on that board for us in the community not for the the do people and I hope nobody in the doo gets a raise there should be no more conferences that you can go to if we don't have the money nobody gets a raise thank you our next speaker is Maestra Diz Maestra Diz you have two minutes to speak please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening everyone my name is El Rodriguez and I'm a teacher at adante academy please demonstrate that you truly have your teachers in your best interest and settle on a fair contract now thank you thank you m yes our next speaker is Miss Lo Miss lo you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi uh my name is Miss lo I or Kathy lo I teach at Shephard middle school and I've been teaching in alrock for 15 years um yesterday I read an article about Campbell district and their troubles with the teachers troubles with their salary and I look happen to notice um that they were talking about you know starting salaries at different school districts in the area so I went and looked at some of those salary schedules um like I said I've been teaching in alrock for 15 years and my mom taught in alrock before me um we taught together at Shephard and when I was looking at some of the other um districts I was noticing in that I would be making tens of thousand dollars more if I worked at those districts and if I had been at those districts for all that time but instead I've stayed with all rock and you know I live in a garage right now um I've lived in a garage for the entirety of lockdown um since Co started it's been very difficult and I I put in thousands of dollars of my own money into my classroom and I I don't even know how much is it's probably $10,000 if not more it was the first time I've thought in 15 years maybe I should go somewhere else next year um I don't want to leave I love my district I I love my school I love the kids I love teaching you know siblings of younger of kids that I taught in the past cousins you know families means a lot to me but I I can't keep living in a garage and spending thousands of dollars that you know you you're not spending on me you're not investing in us thank you thank you m Lo next speaker is Michael py Mr py you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin yes my name is uh Michael polling I'm a teacher in Joseph George School District I've attempted to correspond with uh many of you during covid uh a very small number of you did respond to my uh emails those of you who did thank you I won't name names but I probably should because those of you that don't care enough about your teachers to send an email back to uh what are you doing why are you here uh Dr Bower thank you you have responded to me several times I truly believe that you as our superintendent have the best interest of our students and a teachers at heart but the members of the board what are you doing where is your effort to match the effort of your teachers who are we're fatigued we feel like we're in an abusive relationship with you be honest we feel like we keep coming back because you know that we care about the kids and you can get away with almost anything that will keep showing up you're losing teachers like that last teacher spoke just a few moments ago Talk of the faculty you know we don't have a faculty room anymore we have to sit outside and uh we don't have a tent over our heads we have to figure out how to keep the sun off our faces but we talk about where we might go how long we might stay with this District that is just so horrible to us you're losing good teachers veteran teachers new teachers they're going to go why should they stay they're not vested settle the contract now thank you Mr P next speaker is Menda Master mandosa you have two minutes please unmute yourself when we begin speaking the timer will begin good evening trustees and Dr Bower tonight I want to urge you to please set Federal Affair contract as my colleagues have said we have a lot to worry about already please help our social emotional as we are doing for our students we need to be healthy mentally and emotionally to do our jobs so please settle our contract thank you thank you miss mendosa our next speaker is Jessica leod Miss voting you have 2 minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi yes I also just want to reiterate what my fellow teachers were saying please settle this contract um we still don't even have a safety mou we're going to work every day without any sort of safety measures that have been agreed upon um the teachers are exhausted if it wasn't for my principal and the staff at Linda Vista I don't know who would be showing up to work our principal goes beyond anything ever imagined and our staff do too you know we are a family there and we're trying to literally survive day in and day out um without any sort of agreement by the do or the board steping in what are you doing about our covid sick leave uh our teachers left right and Center asking do I actually to take personal dat to quarantine or get tested or if I get covid at work do I actually have to use my 10 hard-earned six days for Co sorry excuse me um and the fact that we have no subs so then our classrooms are overcrowded every day because we have to split them up or our sub or our principal has to sub all day um for two classes um back for back and forth back and forth back and forth so please settle our contract invest in your teachers and staff because we are exhausted and I I don't know how much is left in us we are we have flyed the parents are we are we striking are we picking because we're at that point we are done so please please show up to the negotiating meetings prepared thank you thank you Mr our next speaker is elad re Miss re you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin uh hi there my name is f ruise and I'm a parent of a child that goes to Alam Rock School District and um it's it's sad to hear all these teachers and it's it angers me but it also makes me very sad because all of these teachers work so so hard for all of our students and I just want to say to the board that you're there your positions are elected positions you're there for a reason you're there to support our children who are the future of not only our commun but of you know of of San so it's important that you guys are being fair and Equitable and that you guys settle this contract um my child basically um has gone to school this entire Co she started from kindergarten through Co now and she is extremely behind and all this going back and forth and you guys not settling is not affecting not only affecting the teachers but ultimately is affecting the kids and remember your whole reason for being on this board is to be good stewards of alam rocks money for our kids not for you not for game not for anything else but for our children so I please I'm asking you to please consider that and you know the teachers and and as a parent again that had to go through this Zoom teaching throughout covid uh my respects to you the amount of work and dedication that you guys put into your work is amazing and you guys are not paid enough so I urge you guys to be fair and Equitable and make a vote and and make sure that this is resolved as soon as possible thank you thank you Miss Reese our next speaker is BAS missas you have two minutes please H me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi good evening can you hear me yes we can hear you hi my name is Brenda syas I'm here today to sending solidarity with our teachers our teachers have been our Champions they've been resilient they've been everything they've been our heroes they've been our heroes and I keep hearing all the great things about our teachers but what I'm listening to right now is not what I want to hear I want to continue to hear all the good things that our teachers are doing but I don't want to hear the lack of support that they're getting from this District I want our teachers to have a safe environment to feel that they are not only wanted and needed but that they are respected they have gone above and beyond they put their body their health in front of the lines for our students and today I urge you guys to agree and give them a fair contract I've heard our teachers are exhausted and tired and I agree with them and I I cannot see how they wouldn't feel this way abandoned that's the word they are abandoned right now and a lot of you in this board have been supported and endorsed by them and the least you can do is half their backs stick up for them speak up for them don't tell them to go to the chain of command that's why they're here today asking you imploring you to listen to them to all our teachers I want to say thank you because my kids wouldn't be where they are without you guys continue to use your voice and speak I really do hope that you guys come to an agreement and stick up for our teachers if I can do it through my voice I hope you guys can as well thank you thank you Mr Indus our next speaker is Ron Mones R Mones you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening my name is Rand Montes I'm currently teaching at Joseph George Middle School this year has had many challenges one topic that stands out to me is equity in our classrooms we have discussions about what Equity means and how it affects our daily lives as a teacher I understand not only the importance of this myself but in how I teach my students in our society we have to take care of how we you we have to take care of each other so why are teachers getting getting treated so poorly as for our salary I get paid about 64,000 a year as a third-year teacher I received an offer from another district for $11,000 something has to change teacher turnover hurts students performance and leads to long-term costs for the districts teachers want to stay if conditions are improved so I speak for myself too as someone who genuinely enjoys working at alen Rock but if I go down the street and I can get $35,000 more per year I need to act on that the cost of living in this area is crazy this is the Bay Area I love this community but with the way things currently are it makes it so difficult to stay please please please negotiate better terms for us teachers so that we can stay in this area thank you thank you Mr Montes next speaker is Danielle vandas Danielle vas you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello actually my name is Danielle de Ambrosio and I am a teacher at so my name is Danielle de Ambrosio and I'm a teacher at Lindale I've been teaching in alen rock for 21 years I am also part of the area's bargaining team so I have actually been in 11 all 11 of those meetings Yes you heard the number people it's 11 so board members I hope you're listening because we've already met 11 times and we can't settle a fair contract that is not okay it's also not okay that we are working without a safety mou in place it's not okay that our salary schedule is one of the lowest in the county bottom third it is also not okay that the district is claiming to offer area 3.4% raise when in reality it's really a 1.75% raise it is very misleading so board members please ask your District's bargaining team to clarify this for you so remember it is not they're not coming to the table with a 3.4 they are coming to the table with a 1.75 both are not acceptable but that's what's happening so board members I hope you're listening we need to get this done fairly with the money that the district actually has we need to not drag this on and if the end goal is and the end goal is for you for the teachers for the students for the families end goal to retain and hire teachers for the students and families in Alam rock thank you for your time thank you Miss D Ambrosio next speaker is Tanika Rod Fox Thana you have two minutes please unmute yourself when we begin speaking the time will begin Ana please unmute yourself I'm wondering if she's having technical difficulties if we can go to any others and then come back to her yes Madam president next speaker is sh director Miss director you have 2 minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin Miss W can you please there we go thank you I made it too complicated um I wanted you to share um something that went well at our school this week um and it was a quite a startling experience yesterday afternoon um just moments before our Upper Grade were to go in uh to finish their day after lunch we had an alarm a fire alarm that went off and um everyone did what they were supposed to do and we thought it was a student maybe that pulled the alarm at turns out it was some wiring that touched because of a spiderweb or something um we were given the explanation I what I want to say is that felt good to know that we were all working together what didn't feel good is that clearly there's some things that need to be checked I don't know if anyone said anything to you but we have ants in all of our classrooms um they crawl in my arms they're on my paper my computer they get in my lunch bring them home it's it's really an unpleasant experience we have ant tramps we've had our classrooms have been bombed but it's it's just not working um there has been a decision made at my site to no longer have the Disposable water bottles uh and I and I understand that but I'm concerned that water is still being delivered to all schools but not our school and I'm concerned about the equity of that our bell schedule have been off all year when our kids are at recess they can hear up to five or six bells and that seems kind of ridiculous I don't know why we don't have the the things in place that these things can be fixed we've also bought um the an AR program and we can't use it because it's not been set up and it's a wasted resource for all of our students um in gem we don't feel valued please settle our contract give us something to look forward to when we go to work every day thank you miss our next speaker is Tanika red fox Tena please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin I'm not sure if she's having technical difficulties this is the same person that we tried earlier yes yes mam president and her microphone looks uned we're just not getting any sound I'm wondering if she can call in um do we have any other speakers in addition to her we have one other speaker Mr Michael ping um Mr ping I believe he spoke already maybe he had hand up and S so maybe he just didn't put it down um um I'm hoping that the other speaker that were're able to get her um wondering if she can call in the option of calling in um do we have any other speakers we do we have uh D Gonzalez okay so um what's the other member's name who's having technical difficulties I hope I'm saying their last name correctly but it's Tanika life Fox if um T you can call in maybe on the phone I would love to hear what you have to say um for some reason we cannot hear you so I'm hoping that you're able to connect with us um we're going to go ahead and go on to daa and then hopefully during that time we're able to connect um so let's go to vaa and then we'll come back to Cha Miss please unmute yourself um good evening members of the board my name is Lisa Gonzalez and I am here as a parent of two students in the lra school district um I'm sad to hear how our teachers are feeling I wasn't gonna be talking today but based on a comment of one of our teachers said he said that he felt that he's like in a bad relationship and we know that when a person feels like if they're in a bad relationships our kids students have the effect on that too they feel that too I heard that there has been 11 meetings and we haven't have come to a a point where there's an agreement I want everybody here to keep in mind that when we don't have agreements our kids pay the consequences our students are the ones that get affected I'm not saying who's right who's wrong because I haven't been in those meetings but I know that when a person feels left out or not part of it or not heard it starts feeling it starts looking for other options we have a teacher shortage like go said we have families returning from a pandemic we have kids with Mental Health social emotional needs and our teachers do too let's try to work together let's try to find a common ground opportunity and let's try to think of what is best for our kids is it getting to an agreement and being able to have not everybody happy because there's nothing that's gonna keep everybody happy but at least content and let's ensure that we kids start and our teachers start focusing on the curriculum that they're GNA teach the next day not how they're gonna pay rent or how they're gonna survive hear our teachers out come to Common agreement I'm not I'm not saying there's a bad guy or good guy let's just think about that and bring everybody to that table for the sake of our students thank you and have a good evening thank you Miss Madam president at this time we have no more speakers sorry about that I'm wondering if tama's back and maybe on a phone um and I'm wondering if she can raise your hand via phone we do we see her uh I do see a phone number but not a raised hand and I'm wondering if I'm not sure how the phone number works but we don't know if it's the phone number is on the agendas correct yes but can they raise their hand from if they call in um I'm not sure but I'm just making sure that that she hears that the that's where she could find the phone number maybe she didn't know what number to call so the phone number is on the agenda absolutely but when she calls yeah when she calls I don't know the hand raising part um so to raise your hand it's usually star nine let me just confirm thank you Jose so T if you're on your phone if you can PR press star n and then hopefully we can get you on and if uh we can't get you on right now and you come on later in the agenda we're able to hear you um I'll go ahead and uh take you at any point when you're able to make it in um but if you're on right now on the phone if you can press star n and see uh Jose do we see her maybe I think uh there's a phone number on so yes I do see a phone number great hello can you hear me yes okay thank you my name is Tena Roa Fox um I apologize I have to repeat my statement again um but I did want to say that I am a firsttime kindergarten mom um I knew that sending my son to kindergarten was going to be difficult he was short changed a preschool experience pulling him out um when covid began um but I was hoping for so much more just some genuine smile some Joy like that experience that a kindergartener is supposed to have and I see in my teacher's face that she seems either really unhappy or really overwhelmed I mean my son got um uh what is it called um stitches a week ago and I and I was telling her oh you know Mason got you know liquid stitches and she's so busy in the front that she was basically not even able to like show any concern and I just was trying to find out if there was a Sandbox so that he wouldn't play in that to not get his eye infected it's it's it's down to the point where the parents I literally don't go a day I've dropped my son off every day at school minus this week because there was a covid scare and he had to be tested but I have dropped him off every single day and there's not one day that a parent like I'm I'm moving my child out of this class I'm taking my child out of this school and as a firsttime mom it's really sad for me because I'm still working on trying to let my baby go meanwhile there's all of this negativity on top of what we've already experienced and I I received this you know yellow flyer from someone at the school and I said I'm an involved parent I email my teacher almost every day I make sure that we're doing the things that are asked we follow her directions but I have also seen the principal you know taking over the classrooms and it's a very stressful situation at that school um it it's nothing like what I thought a first time kindergarten experience would be like it it really needs to improve I would like everyone on the call to know that I have seen our principal going way above and beyond and I don't know what pres um we have no more rais hands at the moment thank you um and I I um did notice uh like I mentioned Mr polling's hand up I'm wondering um I don't know maybe there's another teacher with him that maybe was going to use his phone so um can you put him on I just wanted uh to see if maybe there was somebody else other than his statement since he already had to minutes um that maybe wanted to speak maybe through his device just want to make sure can we um unmute him please yes Mr poing you're able to unmute yourself now Mr polling can you just please clarify if it's somebody else or um if your hand was up from earlier no my hands uh not up from earlier uh so just to clarify we uh you already gave a two-minute statement so um you can't get you can't give any more statement on this item but if you have um somebody else with you maybe or not sure you just one moment I I I might be able to get someone from the next room um I was just wondering right now why your hand was up my hand is up because I didn't know that we were GNA be silenced after only two minutes okay yeah and I apologize it is in our agenda and I do have to follow the protocols so thank you so much but there will be definitely other opportunities for you to come on um we have many items on the agenda and I look forward to hearing from you uh thank you Mr poing okay moving on I just wanted to make sure that um we didn't have anybody else and that we give everybody the opportunity to speak to the uh board on any um item not on the agenda today so with that we'll go ahead and move on to item 301 The alen Rock administrators Association report uh do we have anybody from AA to address board yes Madam President we have uh Dr Mones thank you good evening uh president superintendent Bower members of the board members of the community my name is Ivan Rosales Mones and I serve as a proud principal of San Antonio elementary school I also serve as the president of the alumrock administrators Association I want to provide a few updates for you all tonight uh specifically um start off by uh just recognizing the tremendous work that our administrators are doing in in the in our current reality um many colleagues are are are going above and beyond uh to to support our schools and our school community and I just want to recognize their tremendous work um I specifically want to highlight a few departments um from and the work of Administrators in these departments um I want to give a shout out to Mr Colona in our speci special education department for his the work with he's doing and his team to provide continued support with IEPs and and continued support to sites and principles on the on providing um fap and and in IEPs to the students we serve uh the work that Dr artigos and Dr Amazon are doing um particularly around social emotional learning and uh mental well-being is is very timely and very um critical particularly now during our return to full return to in-person instruction and I know that they have been supporting sites uh with um additional training around trauma and how to uh support uh students in um students who have experienced trauma uh within the school setting uh they have have um supported multiple sites with uh seal instructional programs that are are very timely in providing targeted support to students vapa coordinator denell finnen has uh been deepening the vampa programming across schools with uh additional opportunities for students to get engaged um specifically the get down dance studio program the Community School for music and art The Hip Hop for Change and science from scientists are supplemental programs that are also um deepening work in the after school space at adalante and hubard these schools started the Envision The Envision years program where middle school students are paired with uh mentors in the tech field to work on a project that they will be presenting at the wow Exposition later this year it is a great opport opportunity for students to gain skills in College and Career Readiness um looking at um some more um up updates and news many administrators as as frontlight workers have taken action to get their additional dose of the covid vaccine which we know is an important step um in the fight against covid and to ensure a safe uh School community and keep our administrators safe who are on the front lines um we are hopeful uh with the update on fizer um that will be taking place um uh in the approval of um you know additional covid vaccines being permitted for our more younger uh kiddos and we look forward to an update pending the panel on October 26th I do want to state that you know these are um these are unique times within our education landscape and as administrators we're we're wearing many hats in the service of our school and Community to ensure that our schools continue to run and stay open along um the people that we serve with in in our school communities um and I just want to recognize that our administrators our principles are are really doing a lot of work um covering classrooms uh and supporting because we want to continue to provide do everything we can to Prov provide a quality program and there's a lot of great things happening but um these are unique times and I just want to recognize the work of Administrators day in and day out for their service within our district thank you thank you so much Mr um Rosales um and now if we can uh turn it over to Teamsters uh do we have anybody from Teamsters here yes mad President we [Music] have thank you please yourself hi um my name is j Rees I'm hoping you guys can hear me I hope you guys doing well salutations to all to the board members to the community to the teachers and everybody there I'm so glad to be with you guys this is my first time um I'm representing the teamsters and I just want to let you guys know that we do our best and everything even in the kitchen um guys and Landscaping mot electricians everybody do our best to do everything to have everything running nice and smooth for having a healthy and safe environment for a kidos and for the people in our community thank you so much uh and welcome y hope to see you more often uh do we have anybody here from California School Employees association csca yes we have Shar good evening um can you hear me yes oh good good evening Dr Bower board president members of the board I'm not going to take a whole lot of your time but I did want to express my thanks to the um alen rock employees managers and so forth that sent um emails and cards and flowers during an extremely difficult time for myself and my family all the kind words were greatly appreciated Especial thank you to Mr fam for your personal email um your kind words were meant a whole lot to me since we've actually never met in person someday we will so moving on because this is very difficult for me but um anyway on in the on your board agenda and in the book is our um negotiated contract for the 2020 to 20203 school year and I must apologize for it taking quite some time to get it to the board um we were unable to ratify it until September given my situation basically and and um hopefully the board will be able to approve the changes we made in our contract and we'll be able to submit it for print and it will be then distributed to our members to management Dr Bower board members everybody that would be interested in having a copy and then soon of course we'll be starting on our 2122 negotiations and I also wanted to say we all know in our unit as everybody does the difficult times that every everybody is living through and I wanted to give kind of a shout out to everybody that the classified staff the management staff the teachers the district office that are really putting their best foot forward um to keep the schools up and running to keep the district office is buzzing I talk to a lot of people they're very busy new books are coming everything's you know at a moving at a rapid pace and we know there is a challenge especially in the as substitutes not only for teachers but for classified um and I attended a meeting the other night with other districts and they are having the same issues um a hiring getting Subs it seems to be Norm right now hopefully as the pandemic gets better we can move through it and um come out on the other side just better and stronger as I know that is the wish for everybody at the district and I thank you and once again thank you everybody for all of your thoughts that you express to my my family good night and have a good evening thank you Sharon uh do we have anyone from the elmrock Educators Association Joselyn or anybody else a representative J yes mam President we have M Jos lers great everyone first I would like to say Sharon I'm glad to hear your voice and we've all been thinking about you um I would also like to Echo the thanks and the great job that I know so many people are doing doing different you know I I I've heard many of the administrators that have in principal site administrators that have been um substituting in the classrooms and I know that it's got to be a challenge especially for those who may have not been in one for many many years um we appreciate everything that everybody's doing to chip in and and keep things going uh and as much as I would love to talk about all the other wonderful things that I'm sure are taking place throughout the district I would be remiss to not share the need and concerns of our area members some of which you heard tonight uh uh unfortunately I have in the position of hearing them on a daily basis and relating very closely to it um we have been in school for two months now and we still do not have a safety mou in place I don't know why it hasn't actually been brought up it was brought up in bargaining like we still don't have a safety mou in place and the district said yep and that was where it ended um our collective bargaining agreement expired the end of June and as you know we took a zero% increase on the salary schedule for the two years in a row um during that time the cost of food utilities gas rent pretty much everything has skyrocketed teachers as you've heard cannot afford to stay working in alumrock when they have their choice of districts throughout the county to go to and make upwards of what I thought was only like 20,000 a year more but from what I heard tonight from I know a reliable source upwards of $35,000 a year more in the same county since the school year began we have had 17 teachers leave and others waiting until the until there is a replacement for them so that they can leave as well the stress and burden that these last 18 months have put on our teachers has been too much for many to handle as I said I'm receiving emails or calls several times a week from teachers asking what are the options for me can I take a leave or can I quit how do I get out of my position and it's a it's a really sad State of Affairs it's not the challenges that come with being a teacher that are bringing the people down it's the lack of respect and the lack of value given to the teachers of alumrock specifically when we are constantly placed as the last priority when Administration builds its budget not only are we an a afterthought or uh whatever's left over but it truly appears that the administration will go to all lengths to create a budget to make it look like there won't be any money left although it never fails in retrospect the amount of money budgeted for certain line items is typically left unspent as evidenced by the increasing percent in our reserves just last month we learned from the presentation of the UN audited actuals that our Reserve had increased from I think it was 9% to like 14% or close to that speaking of that presentation and our reserves for economic uncertainty it really came as quite a shock to hear from our CBO during the presentation of the UN audited actuals that he responded to a question from trusty fam when trusty fam asked for clarification on the per percent of Reserve that we are required to maintain trustee fam asked if it was 3% for three years that must be in reserve so that it actually means that we must maintain a 9% Reserve he received an affirmative response which you can go back and listen to on the YouTube video right about our 2.40 rather than being given a clear explanation that the requirement for reserve for economic uncertainty is actually 3% the same 3% of money is that Reserve each year in other words that Al with Alam rock that works out to be I think it's somewhere around $3.4 million it's that same 3.4 million that would continue on and remain for each of the following three years it's not I guess you would call it compounded or added on top of that three million each year it's a the same amount of money that's set aside that's not touched whether or not that was a misunderstanding or a misleading response I don't know but the bottom line is that the community and you as trustees have a right to have that understood it makes a difference of over $6 million our teachers are tired of pleading for a salary increase we are tired but in spite of that we are also agitated we're irritated and we're organ organized to take whatever steps are necessary to re receive our cost of living increase the cola that the district is receiving for this year is 5.07% if you have any hope of retaining and or attracting teachers to our district you need to offer up our share even the federal government is increasing Social Security benefits by 5 .9% to keep up with a cost of living increase beginning in January our next bargaining date is scheduled for November 3rd that will be our 12th bargaining session in a period of 11 months please ensure that your bargaining team comes prepared with the authority to reach an agreement that shows the teachers that the district does value them if in fact you do and I believe I believe at least in words you do but in we haven't seen it and we're not feeling it so we can't go on much longer like this teachers are dropping like flies please get this done without any escalated action taking place thank you thank you Joselyn um Jose oh I we're done with the general reports uh superintendent Dr eladia Bower good evening everybody and I apologize um for not being not not being able to connect on time we all have the the connectivity bugs some one one time or another but but I'm here and I uh appreciate everyone who spoke tonight I Echo joselyn's uh comment about listening to Sharon fontaine's voice again is very reassuring she is a great partner so welcome back Sharon I also want to welcome Yad to her new position in our district she is our night lead custodian and for the first time it's a woman taking that position and a very proud to support that because it takes a lot of courage and Leadership to be able to do that Yad and thank you so much you know we're moving forward we're changing our district for the best I um I want to thank every staff member because everybody has been the very strong chain that has allow us to reopen our schools in the most difficult year um since I be since I've been an educator I had and I have been an educator for 37 years um this is a very nobody knew no none of us right last year we were hoping to reopen our schools to come back to health everybody believe once the vaccine is here we're going to be fine and we were not thinking that we still had to wear a Mas Mas to uh have so many different layers of protection to be able to be safe not only in our schools but as we walk around in our daily lives uh having said that I want to thank uh every Teamster every csca every area member all of our administrators congratulations because this is administrator week I know that what they have done is above and beyond the Call of Duty and we cannot do this by ourselves so I also thank um want to thank everybody who has made the accommodations because the sub situation as uh Sharon mentioned earlier is not only in our district but um Statewide and Nationwide um we are recovering from a pandemic we are recovering from many kinds of things that were put to a halt and none of us were able to predict some of the impact not only to our families and our systems but specifically to the job market with so many people rethinking about what they wanted to do in so many areas including education um so thank you everybody and and before I stop um my my comments I want to highlight uh a little boy in painter Elementary I had the privilege of visiting with trusty kto and trusty fam painter Elementary last Friday and while the principal was walking around I became the sub for um supervision during recess because um you know we all do whatever it takes to make sure our children are safe and little Frankie uh helped me uh reconnect one little boy that was crying because his friends didn't want to play with him and I know this is a very small act and this is a very you know in some ways I you know many people would have chosen not to say what I am about to say but I want to thank Frankie for being a hero for his unknown friend because he didn't know the boy who was crying and reconnect him to the group and I challenge all of us to be like Frankie because when people are crying and people are hurting there's there should always be a Frankie listening paying attention saying I'm going to help I'm going to listen I'm going to be the bridge that is going to connect people that are hurting with the rest of the group thank you Frankie for doing that thank you for reminding me what a good relationship is all about for being such a hero for that little boy last Friday and thank you everybody let's be all heroes for each other during these very difficult times thanks thank you so much Dr bow um and now I'd like to open it up for the rest of the trustees um if you have any reports during this section please raise your hand and I will call you as I see your hand come up anybody uh vice president kto and I see fam so after you can go after I just wanted to um thank all those uh the teachers the administrators that have been making the site visits real reward a rewarding experience we've been able to see what's going on in the school sites it's always exciting to be back on in person on the school sit to see the campuses alive uh full of energy I know that it's uh still uh people have to be socially distant and they have to um have the proper uh ma face masks but nevertheless to see uh the children active and engaged in using the technology that's available in the classrooms um as well as just you know hanging out and um being in the same place with other human beings it's important it's part of the the socialization that has to take place it's it's a massive learning experience that they're getting just by hanging out with each other so while still dealing with with the um remnants of this hopefully the remnants of this uh pandemic um I'm very I've been very excited to see the work that's been taking place at schools like San Antonio uh painter Shepherd uh Renaissance at Matson among uh a lot of other sites that uh we've been able to visit been able to take a very in-depth look at uh what's going on in the uh kitchens and and being able to talk to staff uh and so it's um it's been very rewarding and very exciting to see what's taking place in Al Rock I understand from the comments that have been raised there are concerns as always I remind the administration to be fair and provide proper remuneration um as long as we can afford it I'm I'm all for it and uh you know we do have to maintain fiscal solvency of the district but I want to be fair and I want to also make sure that we are being able to retain and attract uh teachers I understand there is a crisis it's been going on in terms of people not no longer joining the education profession and so that um puts the pressure on us to make sure that we are uh competitive so just just a reminder I hear you and I do uh support our efforts to make sure that we have proper and fair remuneration as long as we are able to maintain fiscal Sovereign thank you vice president trusty Pam uh can you hear me now okay first of all uh I I wanted to note that uh I am glad that Sharon Fontaine is back and I I uh you know I certainly do hope to to meet Sharon in person and I you know take this as my acceptance of her uh invitation to meet I look forward to learning more about uh cssea at Alan Rock uh on that you know uh segueing into that you know I want to make clear to to those who spoke in public comment um I hear your frustration uh you know I've always maintained an open door policy as a trustee and uh always open to uh suggestions from uh every member of the Alam Rock Comm community and uh I certainly hope to uh be a part in Bridging the divide and I remain optimistic that we you know hopefully we will find find find an agreement uh you know next on that uh I wanted to note that this is a I too wanted to note that this is the week of the school administrator so I'm in in the spirit of honoring those who serve Alam Rock I wanted to take this opportunity to to thank uh all the administrators as well as the teachers the classified staff who who make this who who make this District work every day uh as trustee I wanted to note that yes I have uh you know in keeping with my pledge to uh be an accessible trustee I have visited School sites uh I wanted to mark that I have today visited one half of our district anante Lucha San Antonio aptitude at gos Cesar Chavez Renaissance at Matson Renaissance at fiser brusso mckinty painter Shephard and Linda Vesta and I you know continuing to uh visit visit you know visit our schools and my hope is to visit every school at least once uh you know I am thrilled to see good things happening uh I'm very and heartened to you know see that uh you know despite the challenges our children are in good hands I uh I've seen principls interact near like family to be to our kids at Avante uh I was warmly greeted by the Vietnamese and dual immersion students at painter uh also got to be part of a math game and a uh impromptu class picture and thank you for having me as part of that class picture uh got to see the band practice at Shephard uh many many good you know uh even you know our school secretaries handling a school bullying problem at Cesar shavez I want to thank every you know uh those are just a few examples I wanted to thank you know everyone at at the schools I've visit visited for you know doing doing right by our students and I look forward to uh continuing to uh continuing to get to know our district better uh also I have the opportunity to visit the Alam Rock Jazz man auditions at uh on September 30th and I'm glad to say that uh those students that I got to see audition made it into the band The alen Rock jazz band is one of the highlights of our our school district's Visual and Performing Arts program and I'm hopeful that as in conditions improved uh you know I and I believe the rest of this community want to see our kids perform uh lastly uh in terms of schools I I had pleasure uh along with board president and board vice president and the superintendent of seeing our kids per being seeing the students of pter Vietnamese language dual immersion program perform at the Moon Festival at yba bua high school on the 7 19 of September uh you know from from kickoff to Center Stage I've never seen students uh go so far so fast in such a short time uh we were the uh painter was the only Elementary School that performed that night and I I I I'm proud to say it gave the high schools of run for their money in terms of the entertainment so I'm very glad to see our our district uh continue to build on the momentum of the 90th anniversary and I wanted to end one on one last note you know uh you know in regards to the school visits I want I want to make sure that the community knows that these are thorough School visits and as uh board vice president noted I check everything uh I went into the kitchens I looked looked at the air filters and the air conditioners and the walls and physical infrastructure of the school site and uh while we're doing good things I know that you know we we've still got plenty of work to do many of our campuses are are in their sixth decade if not their seventh decade and uh you know [Music] uh we we've got we've got a lot of uh work to do in keeping those facilities up and making sure that they continue to serve the needs of our children into the 21st century so on that note thank you very much Madame President thank you trusty fam and I see uh I saw trusty Chavez's hand up now I don't see it up uh would you like to say say something trusty Chavis uh sure um I wanted to speak to all of the staff thank you thank you for teaching and encouraging and inspiring the students at alen Mo your strength and dedication is much appreciated that's it thank you thank you trusty Chavez and I see trusty Vos up yes thank you can you hear I think so um okay I just uh I just wanted to make a couple of comments and thanks first of all I um want to this being the the week that we recognize School administrators I think it's especially appr propo in light of um the very recent efforts that that have been going on with administrators stepping in to address the challenges that we have in this very unique time as their um their spokesman said a few minutes ago this is a time that's very non-traditional that's no one has ever seen anything like and I I really want to since the beginning of all this recognize that our administrators have have performed Beyond admirably and just adapting to this reality and and making things work um in light of all the challenges that they face so I want to thank them for that um and the other thing I wanted to just say is that you know as everyone else has already stated we hear the concerns we hear the opinions of of you know those who provide comments and you know as as I've mentioned and a number of us have have mentioned we do take those seriously and and we do listen to them I sometimes hear um the comment that you're not listening or or listen to us and we do listen um and as we mentioned before we ask our our team and and we probe and we look for you know Solutions and and and press them on certain items and so we do take comments that we hear into account when we are um either meeting one-on-one with Dr Bower or meeting in close session or whatever it may be and just you know a an individual's what they may bring to public comment although you may not see always the answer or the response or what you wanted or hoped to hear it doesn't mean that it was not addressed or or attempted to be um part of the conversation at some point point and so I want to say that and along those lines you know I do also want to recognize and thank our negotiating team um it's for them also it's a very difficult and challenging time and they're in a unique position to try to find a solution to to where we currently are um you know in a negotiation by definition there are two sides to to you know that negotiation and the goal is to try to find something in the middle and so I know that our team takes um as as trusty kto mentioned the the fiscal solvency of our district into account um the priorities of our students and our children as first and foremost and so I just want to thank them and and knowing that that's their approach I'm very hopeful that we will um find a solution in the near future um but I think most of all I guess my last thing that I wanted to um mention is a couple of things I heard um in the in public comment from from actually parents who spoke um that really resonated with me because it's kind of the perspective that I take on on the situation as well and so one of the comments that was made was that the job of the board is to be and I'm paraphrasing probably I try to take as good a notes as I could but to be good STS of alam Rock money for our kids and I I think that's 100% true you know at the the end of the day whether we're you know looking at budgets forcl programs or budgets for Staffing or whatever the bottom line is our students in the district and you know that is what we have to keep in mind when we're looking at limited resources and ways to try to be creative is will our students at the end of the day have the biggest impact positively for that and so so I I really appreciated that comment and then another parent who said let's focus on what is best for our kids and so again you know everyone has their thoughts of how things should go and and where resources should be directed you know we offer a lot of programming in this District um from our sports activities to our you know music and band and and and those things are not free you know we have to have budgets for all those things and they directly impact our students and so you know I just everything is a priority from staff to students to programs to everything else and when your resources are limited therein lies the challenge that we all find ourselves but I just want to I guess finish on you know but I think there's room I do believe that there is room for um both parties to to be able to come to some agreement um and I won't go any further just because obviously I don't want to be negotiating in public but I do will say that I think that I I don't think I know I'm confident that everyone's um bottom line best interest is what's best for our students first and foremost so with that I will end my comments and um thank everyone for their participation even thank you trusty and thank you for putting all that so eloquently I was like how do I say that and you did it so cut my uh report in half thank you so much um definitely it's been a tough time for us all um you know from the front lines like I also heard you know some of the parents staff say um you know being at the front lines I can only imagine um day in day out having to follow mandates and masking and additional things that weren't there two three years ago um and then you know having to uh hear back from negotiations maybe um the team maybe not hearing what they wanted to hear I'm also a part of a union so I understand you know um that feeling where it's like you know here we are doing more and you know where is my compensation so I hear you I feel you um I think by now we all know somebody that either has been affected by covid or have passed away to due to it um you know it's it's been it's been a tough time it feels you know like that Darkness has like gone we've gone through so much I know um you know when I first came on as a as a board member as an appointed board member I remember somebody tell me are you crazy you know why would you do that you know it's volunteer and do you see how you know things are going on right now at alrock and I think now um you know things were hard then in a different way but I I feel like we're closer you know to that end of the tunnel where um you know I I get to remember um even though we have some of these hard you know conversations and feedback which is good um again like trusty Bano said to continue to ask you know uh staff ensure that you know um what we are uh having conversations with whether it's on oneon-one or um as a as a board as a whole to ensure that what we're saying you know is getting followed through right um and that everything um adds up right and that the information that's coming back um that that that it makes sure that um those conversations that we're having that are getting followed through um and I trust that we're all doing our best right I don't I don't see any M uh doing and any you know whether it's a staff or Administration sometimes it's a misunderstanding or a percentage or how we see it um and so just ensuring that there's Clarity ensuring that you know there's transparency ensuring that again we are being fair with the contract and that we are you know absolutely you know raising what we can for the teachers at the same time looking at the overall phisical solvency of our district not just today you know because we're in charge of it today but for the next year and the next three years and you know for future generations and so just doing all that um thank you trusty for putting all that in a in a way that's you know people can maybe better understand it without again getting into the details of the negotiation ations um in public which I look forward to do that is my job and we will do that and know public that we're doing that um but we obviously cannot do that in public um and so with that just wanted to end on a positive note um in our community there's a lot of good things happening um we do have a couple of uh theater um plays coming up um which we haven't had you know um one of them is the PARTA at the alumrock um I'm sorry at the AL Rock un Elementary School District at the Mexican heritage Plaza um it's opening up tonight and it'll be going on this weekend and next weekend um my daughteri Ortiz happens to be one of the actors so of course a proud mother there but um I assure you if you get to go you you know will love it um and make sure to bring your tissues because you will shed a tear or two um and then after that um thank you uh trusty fam for uh pointing out that we got to go to the Moon Festival and celebrate with our Vietnamese uh Community here um in our Silicon Valley um so proud of our Vietnamese dual immersion program uh students who were out there singing smiling dancing laughing it was so beautiful to see along with the rest of the Vietnamese Community um and I also want to point out that the Vietnamese American Service Center will be opening up on October 23rd so very proud of that here in our Silicon Valley um 12 to5 on the 23rd 2 in uh look for information if you're interested in that um very proud to uh work with the county and ensure that we're also servicing our Vietnamese community and then um as we know in our uh Mexican indigenous cultures we're celebrating the Day of the Dead coming up um so the Mexican heritage Plaza um also will be having Avenida the Alis so an alter walk um on the 30th of October here in our community uh the alter walk is at 7 and then there's a community festival at 7:30 so I think things that we haven't been able to do in the past year and a half we're able to start you know uh getting out there with our families to enjoy um so hope to see you out in the community you know smile at one another wave at least from afar um to remember you know that um we are still here we are still thriving regardless of how it feels sometimes um you know there is that light at the end of the tunnel and as long as we maintain strong and together you know we'll we'll get through this um and we'll see ourselves on the other end of this pandemic soon hopefully so thank you for that uh we'll go ahead and move on to item 401 uh superintendent um I'll turn it over to you at this time is that your item or I'm not sure if you have somebody else so this is something that we have to bring to the board in order to continue uh having access um virtually the the board meetings virtually so I have asked our legal counil to give a brief um explanation so that the audience is able to understand you know why we have to do this particular um item so uh Mr reys I think you are on the phones and can you help us see why we need to have this item 401 thank you I I can good evening can you hear me okay yes welcome okay thank you um so a couple of weeks ago uh Governor Nome signed into law assembly Bill 361 and this relates to uh the ability of public agencies like this school district and the school board to continue to to conduct meetings virtually through Zoom uh through telephone or through other electronic means recall that before the pandemic um if a board member wanted to participate in a uh public meeting the district had to satisfy certain requirements namely uh the the um the agenda had to include the fact that a member was going to be participating electronically the agenda had to disclose where the the member was going to be participating from the location wherever the board member was had to be open and available to the public um and there were there were several other requirements when the pandemic hit of course there was an emergency situation and so the governor through a series of executive orders um suspended those requirements under the brown act and allowed public agencies and this board to hold its meetings virtually uh which this district has done for the last 19 months or so through zoom and telephone and then broadcasting on YouTube um so uh those executive orders have expired but the governor signed a assembly Bill 361 this new law allows school districts and other public agencies to continue to hold public meetings virtually electronically provided there are two conditions being met number one there is a state of or a declaration of emergency circumstances uh and of course in this case the governor's uh emergency declaration declaration relating to covid is still in existence and the other requirement is that local or state public health authorities have either imposed or recommending social distancing uh in crowds and in public spaces or publicly AC accessible spaces that is the case again also because our local Santa Clair County Public Health Department is recommending social distancing under certain circumstances and so the conditions upon which uh an agency and this board can continue to hold uh meetings [Music] vir uh are met um but the board has to make those findings and so that is included in the resolution for this evening for consideration in addition the new law also other requirements um the agenda has to publish uh the the links um uh for the zoom meetings or or the telephone numbers your agendas do that uh the board meetings also have to allow members of the public to comment on agenda items on a realtime basis in other words uh the agency cannot require citizens to submit written comments uh which will then be read during a board meeting you have to allow realtime comments and the agency has to allow a reasonable time and opportunity for members of the public to comment um I will say that this board uh and board president in particular over the last several months has made a point of a waiting a period of time to make sure there are no additional comments and so you have met those requirements as well and then the other significant uh one of the other significant requirements is that if the board wants to go down this path and to continue to hold uh its meetings virtually then it has to make these findings every 30 days um and so if the board for example was to adopt this resolution this evening you would have to do it in another 30 days if the conditions still exist uh for you to continue to uh meet virtually um if you cannot make the findings or if the or if the conditions no longer exist for example if the governor resends his Declaration of a state of emergency then you would have to go back to full in-person instruction in accordance with the terms of the brown act and any telephonic appearance by any board member would have to meet those requirements so this uh the resolution before you includes all of these requirements and these findings uh but again if the board were to adopt this resolution this evening you would also have to do it uh in another 30 days uh to continue to meet virtually thank you so much um at this time what I'll do is I'll open it up for public comments and then I'll bring it back to the trustees for any comments questions concerns um and then we'll go for there so just a reminder to the public we are on uh this item and this item only uh that uh our Council just talked about um regarding the resolution to authorize remote virtual teleconference meetings of the board and District committees subject to the brown act for the period uh between October 14th and November 13 uh Jose do we have any members of the uh public wishing to address the board but before we go there I do see trusty fam uh hand up do you want to say something before we open it up to public comment uh you're on mute I can wait until the public is comment I perfect okay uh Mr Chavis do we have any members of the public wish to address the board on this item uh yes Madam President we have three speakers uh our first speaker is Rose Ramos Miss Ramos you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello can you hear me yes welcome hi uh good evening to everyone um I just want to let the board members know that the school my children well I've been a parent of my older son six years at Adelante uh we have the problem at school like especially the gate you know it's been six years that my son goes Rose um thank you for um assisting we're actually just make having comment on item 41 discussing this uh agenda item um so I'm sorry that we're not able to discuss any other items at this time um so please raise your hand up again if it's specific to this item that our Council just talked about um Jose we can go to the next H person yes our next speaker is Adrian B M you have 2 minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin all right so uh I have a few things um so I heard something about uh no text comments and so I would like to uh hear a little bit more about that um from my understanding from what was just presented is that we were allowed we should be allowed to text this and um also with the agenda we should be able to amend it as well or or make our suggestions so that's that's number one number two I have a a big problem with the fact that and this to me is a Williams Act sort of thing of not all of our families have Wi-Fi and if we are going to continue to do our meetings on Zoom we need to make sure that everybody all of our community is able to attend these meetings and that includes WiFi which is has been a problem for the past as we all know 19 months so this is something that we really need to and I know that this is something that you guys may not be able to get to do but this is a something that in all of California Wi-Fi should be utility that everybody has available and the fact that not all of our uh kids or families have Wi-Fi is ridiculous thank you our next speaker is Mr Michael poing Mr poing you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin yes uh a couple of things that I'm hearing here first uh can can you hear me I I don't see my the clock ticking oh there it goes okay the act as the your your attorney has has spelled it out seems to indicate that the general public should have ample time to comment I don't believe your two-minute time frame provides that ample time I would suggest that that be doubled if not extended or when there's not a line of people waiting that you allow people to return and make a comment as I had hoped to earlier but was essentially told to go away part of the kind of disrespect that I feel teachers have to endure on a regular basis the uh comments that Miss vain was making are also terribly accurate our kids uh have got limited Wi-Fi why wasn't that dealt with months ago okay months ago I know the Delta variant was a bit of a curveball but I don't think anybody really expected that we would all be back in September or late August with everything just being fine and you guys dropped the ball President Biden and the federal government have dropped millions of dollars into your laps and what are you doing with it what are you doing with it to help our kids get educated you're waiting for handouts from Verizon and other places Step Up get the job done and you need to compensate your teachers you need to pay us a fair wage so we can live in this district and continue to serve the kids we want to serve that we love and I'm about to be silenced again goodbye Madam president at this time we have no more speakers thank you um I'll go ahead and turn it over to the trustees at this time uh I know trusty fam you had your hand up uh yes Madam president so uh question to General councel yes yes thank you so so the board having to approve this declaration once every 30 days um now for purposes of this meeting I mean it's sort of Def fact it it's sort of a how you say a done deal because we're here and also the fact that the conditions are you know conditions are still quite serious but I noticed that the end date of this resolution is November the 13 uh if my calendar is not wrong the next scheduled board meeting uh regular board meeting is uh I believe the 18th of November so this so once the the board approves this resolution it would actually expire prior it would expire five days prior to the next board meeting so uh so basically does this mean that if you know we would have to return to divor have some sort of meeting prior to the expiration of this order and vote on another resolution in order to in order for it to take effect for the next board meeting so the quick answer is no uh and that's because um the legislature in their great wisdom in this instance uh included within AB 361 that the board can meet virtually for purposes of deciding whether or not the conditions exist uh to implement the virtual meetings so you will be able to do it again on the 18th even though the 30 days have expired um uh but on the 18th I would recommend that this item also be placed uh also be on the agenda as the first action item for for that meeting as well okay so uh I I so then you know let's play out the scenario now supposedly you know say the board does not approve that item on the 18th uh what happens then do we have to be do we have to immediately reassemble in in an in-person session in in the event that the board does not P does not renew the resolution in November so that you know whereas the the legislature had great wisdom uh with regards to the last question I think there was a there is a gap in the legislation uh you know relating to the circumstance that you described uh you just described so I would say in the interest of of approaching this in a conservative and safe way that if the board does not pass the resolution then and yes the the meeting should continue on an in-person basis with the boardroom openly available to the public um and uh you know otherwise complying with the brown act Provisions that may also require that the meeting be recessed for some period of time to allow for that but that would be my Approach oh okay okay very well and you know so I'll end with a comment that you know for for this month yes I I understand that the situation is uh as such that uh for the time being I am inclined to support this item however uh I you know I I uh but you know I would have to really consider it for for next for next month and you know in that uh you know uh the the zoom I I admit these Zoom meetings have been tough and you know I'm a little oldfashioned and great believer in in the in-person meeting so uh you know for the time being I I I would be in support of this item given given the import given the current situation but you know it it's not guaranteed uh you know I I am I am up in the air in regards to Renewal uh 30 days from now thank you trusty fam uh trusty Viano and then trusty Travis yes thank you um I also had a question for general counsel um with regards to like both scenarios at any point in time if this board chose to approve um this or to not approve it what would be the impact on the the public would it be that if it was obviously if we approve it then we just move forward as we have done so you know for the 19 months because of safety precautions and all those reasons but if we were to not approve it then and then I hear you say that we would be to come into the boardroom does that mean that the boardroom the public would then only have access because we're meeting in person they would they would have to come in in person as well to the boardroom to participate um in the meetings what would be the yes that that's correct except and unless uh the board decides to also hold to broadcast its meetings virtually so in other words uh the board could return to full in-person board meetings in the boardroom it could also establish capacity limitations uh to address the issue of social distancing uh which would reduce the number of persons allowed in the boardroom but then it could also choose to continue to broadcast its meetings virtually through Zoom through YouTube and also allow for participation telephonically okay um and so then I guess this is a question to staff if we were to do that are we prepared or would we would we be prepared to be able to meet in person and you know be brought broadcasting and take public comment in person and also public comment virtually and all these different scenarios would that be within our capacity realistically not yet we would have to really re tool our Board Room to be able to have the capacity to broadcast the way we're doing it right now because that's what you're asking right to have the the inperson and the broadcast simultaneously that and also you know the full menu the in-person meeting the broadcasted meeting the in-person comments the virtual comments like the full gamut of every everything is that we will have to invest in our boardroom our boardroom as you know you guys know it's it's also a little bit outdated in terms of the technology and the devices that we have there in terms of broadcasting in terms of all of those kinds of things that need to be uh in place in order to get the kind of uh event that you're talking about trusty Beano okay thank you so then I guess my comments would be that um I mean I think first and foremost I am supportive tonight and as long as you know our Public Health officials and everyone that that this is the safe route and um you know it it puts the least amount of people um at risk that uh that you know that's one thing just listening to our Public Health officials um but also I um you know not only within our own District which I think we have heard but also in general just nationally i' I've read and and seen things that um there's a strong push or a strong feeling by the public that they do appreciate the accessibility that virtual meetings provide to them because you know especially when we have you know we've had meetings in the past where we have kids in the boardroom and it's late and they have homework and and you know the virtual meetings do provide the opportunity for people to participate kind of more at their convenience um so I'm mindful of of that piece of the puzzle as well um and I do understand also just to some of the comments that you know connectivity is not perfect and there is certainly a digital divide that's a very real thing um and we I think when those things have occurred we've as a district we've addressed them by um you know I know we have our help desk that we've established and you know the the data that we received back if I'm not U mistaken was that parents um had felt that they for the most part in I if I remember right correctly in the 90% range that they were happy with the um distance learning and the connectivity and I I don't I'm not speaking specifically to that point but I know it's an issue and it can be an issue and we have the systems in place to address it so um if there's an issue of connectivity for anyone in the district wanting to participate I think that that is is within our capacity to address because we have already established um systems to address that during distance learning so for all those reasons I would be supportive of I will be supportive of this um tonight and in the future so long as our Public Health officials um that we staying on the same page with our Public Health officials so that will be it for my comments thank you thank you trusty I know I do see your hand up trusty fan but I know trusty Travis had her hand up first I don't see it anymore so I just want to give her an opportunity uh trusty Travis uh yes um I believe because we have gotten a good response from Zoom meetings I believe that it's helpful uh to keep the communication with the community and the accessibility for the community is helpful to families with kids because I remember at the board meetings they used to always say that they were there with the kids and they would rather be home and this is an opportunity as far as connectivity every single month I have an issue uh even though I have a district computer and a Hotpot now the connectivity is not good so I feel for the people who are not having good uh connections also uh perhaps we can investigate on some of the different hotspots that they're using because we know that certain hotspots work best in different areas and uh maybe that can I I don't know how the district would work that out but maybe uh we can offer the community uh that to make the communication better um that's it thank you thank you trusty fam okay uh two-parter uh again question general counsel you mentioned that the board does have the right to the board does have the right to set capacity limits in the boardroom is that correct yes in light of the public health concerns yes so you know to be on the same page with you know our our our Public Health officials so uh you know question to Dr Bower so you know given the problems with connectivity and the fact that you know if we return to an in-person board meeting uh that would all you know that would all uh we would return to to what they you know status quo pre pandemic which if I remember we had the in-person meeting but also the board meeting was televised on Create TV uh you know wouldn't it just be advisable to allow you know to to set to set uh capacity limitations in accordance with public health guidelines and resume in board meetings Well yeah if that's what the board would like to do of course you know we can we can do that in terms of creativ just to remind you trusty F those were not simultaneous broadcasts it was after the fact so people were not participating they were not part of the board meeting they kind of saw it after the fact just to remind you oh thank you trusty fam uh I do see your hand up again try Chavez uh go ahead and go and then I'll say a few comments and ask a few questions go ahead okay so I was watching the numbers on the participants tonight this is just an example of tonight's uh numbers so in at 6:15 there was 111 participants at 653 there was 84 participants at 659 881 participants and at 72066 participants and as of right now the participants is 61 at 7:34 so this does help the community to be able to connect with us and if they need to speak they are allowed and one of the uh teachers said that he was cut off so if there isn't that many speakers maybe we can allow if there's one or two speakers more than two minutes thank you that's it thank you um so I have a few questions um roio if you're still there in regards to the comments and writing um I know you mentioned something about not allowing and I know that we have so I just wanted to clarify um if somebody is not able to make it can they send their message with somebody else and is somebody else able to read that on their behalf ye yes I'm sorry if I misspoke so what the statute says is that the board cannot limit public comment to written comments it has to provide the opportunity to comment in real time um but the board can still accept written comments as long as the um the public member wants to submit them that way that's fine okay thank you and then um Dr Brower I just wanted to confirm uh because I know there was a a comment made um during public comment and I just want to ensure that all of our students all of our elmrock community all of our students and teachers and staff um have connectivity whether it's a Hotpot that they're able to connect to the internet now how strong it is that's another conversation but I just want to make sure that everybody has um the ability to connect they don't we don't have the same thing that we had last year because the City stop the service to a number of hotpots connectivities are very complex uh Endeavor and so we do have devices and the students and kid you there are some schools we that already have through the vs program the connectivity and we did keep some of our hotpots with um T-Mobile but it's not Ono one throughout the community because we did have a very strong partnership with the city and the city cut that service in July so I just wanna you know in transparency I just want to be very clear that everybody knows why that is the case we do have a cycle of replenishing devices so we don't only have Verizon or iPads that are provided by Verizon we have a multitude of devices to throughout the the system and there is a cycle through which schools order new replenish devices we are not yet at one on-one so that everybody can take one home and get one in the site we don't have like two devices per per staff and per kid and so there those are the differences that that people notice um the other thing that I wanted to say is that when we are connecting is not only the ability to have a hot spot or a district line in terms of connecting with with a WiFi there are so many other variables that get in the way including um the places where we live right sometimes the connectivity is not just that it's not that the the sign is is not the signal is not being able to be captured by the machine but the the sometimes the walls the trees you you guys know that when you're walking in in very close places like Alam Rock Park you're not able to get WiFi in the middle of the canyon but you're able to get Wi-Fi way up in the in the Hills so it there's a a a variety of of of of I want I don't want to say challenges but reality right in terms of connecting and thank you for clarifying that because I did not know that all of our students were not connected anymore like they were last year um and I think you know part of it is our issue and part of it's not right like it's a greater issue but at least as a leader in our community then we're able to Advocate whether it's with City or the county and bring in those resources because you know just like 20 years ago if somebody didn't have a phone they would not be able to be connected to a lot of other resources um so anyways that's another conversation so bringing it back here to uh board president may I say something very fast go ahead I just also want you to know that we are in conversations with the city to renew some of those okay good because I was I was gonna follow up with you I already had my list going because I know we're gonna have our one-on-one so so good um and I figured and I knew that you and I are gonna follow up on this later um okay so that's that and back to this specific item um I for the very same reasons that trust pointed out will be supporting this now I have a question for roio um if we were to have a special board meeting between now and our next scheduled regular scheduled meeting are we able to put it in there and would it you know give us another week or two um if we approve it let's say October 28th um let's just say we had a meeting then and we put this on the agenda um it's every 30 days from whenever we approve it is that correct yes yeah so you could do do that it doesn't mean that it has to be 30 days on the dot if you happen to have a meeting between a special meeting between now and your next regular schedule meeting you could put it on the agenda and adopt the resolution that way okay um okay that that helps me in uh the way that I'm going to support this um I'm with you know trusty in regards to the what the public health officials you know direct us to do where we're at especially in our community um I don't think we're at a place where we get to just open it up as pre PR pandemic yet um I think we're closed but we're not there yet so um I will be supporting this I do say trusty Chavez hand up so I'll go ahead and open it up uh Jus Chavis motion to approve resolution 122122 uh and for it to be on the board agenda for the next month and every consecutive month should we need to vote it in again thank you thank you any seconds second second by Trust okay um we'll go ahead and uh call for the vote as I see you on my screen uh we'll go ahead and start with trusty fam I trusty Chavez I trusty Beano hi vice president K hi myself I passes unanimously thank you so much next item 402 um approved uh District governance handbook um Dr Boward is there anything you want to bring up on this um this was something that the board has discussed you know and and the board agreed to bring back in October so we brought it back clean there's only one minor uh place that needs a little bit of direction from the board it's on page 11 and it's the protocols for um sending emails so that's the only thing that is missing and we are asking the board uh whether you want to send us some ideas and we put them together bring it back in November to um approve it completely you want to approve it as you know as it is and then with the the edits that that that you will send so I'm you know this is this is a board uh conversation uh Justin Travis approve as is with the edits um to follow motion I mean I I'll second just to continue the questions and discussion okay second by I I do have a question though um I thought that I did see several places in the handbook and I think there are just areas that we still haven't gotten to as a board um with regards to really finishing out the entire um you know long-term strategy type stuff that that's included in there and so if we approve this tonight Dr bow that you're still able to go back in and modify this is a living document in in essence is that correct yes and and and remember trusty Beano this was kind of adopted I don't want to you know as as it was and and the board did not go through Page by page so I just want to refresh everybody's memory there were some items that were the board but the majority of it was not discussed at length so it it was kind of it was brought back uh and and the understanding was that that you like the format that you like what it said that it align with what the board uh saw and there were some minor edits that needed to be added and yes this is a living document so the board is able to change anytime the board wishes okay thank you thank you and I do see um you know that one on page nine um in parenthesis to be considered by the board still um which is uh definitely there and then like you said Dr bar on page 11 um so I mean do we want to approve today or do we want to bring it back um once we've identified those do we want to talk about those right now do we want to send those to Dr Bower um and then bring it back to then approve any thoughts I know there's a um motion to approve as is um I guess maybe I would just add to like hold off on printing um you know I would hate to print even if it is five copies of this when it's not fully finished when we still have the to be considered by the board in there um but I I do have you know I I do know that with our board we it will be finished by November you know if we all get that uh to you I do see all the hands up I'll go with as I see you on my screen trusty Chavez Verano and then trusty fam approve we can put in draft on my motion thank you um trano I know you second and I don't know you have a comment to that uh just have a I mean I have a second I don't have a second to that one I I still keep my second to the original motion um but I the question the qu the question that I had was what is the um benefit or is there a benefit to approving it tonight or I I mean I would like to if possible default to approving it similar to what you're saying president approve it when it's actually completed um and just have a finished product completed and done um so I just want to make sure I understand if there's any particular benefit to approving it in its current State tonight can I yes please so um and I totally understand that we have to clean it up such as what board president mentioned and we will but one of the benefits is that that we will be able to respond to the state audit that ask us to have a a governance book it didn't say that the governance book needed to be perfect they just asked you know and and every six months I get a little reminder and I'm very diligent about it and I respond and then I respond to the stuff that we finished and this one we have not I have not been able to say because it has not been approved so for whatever is worth that is from my humble opinion it would be helpful so that we can you know it's not going to be perfect but at least I will be able to say this is a governance book that the board approved um and I do see all the other hands I know trusty F can I just just in relation to this if I can just add something trusty F before we go um I know Dr Robert you and I talked about some language for the um page 11 um I don't know if you captured it you know that maybe we can put it in if the board agrees you know that it would be a little bit more full um and it's just you know again in relation to that um I would feel better if we had it in there if the again the rest of the board agreed to it but I don't know if you have the language I know you and I just briefly spoke about it did you capture it I didn't email it to you either yet so in terms of the protocols for responding to emails um the idea was that the board May respond to any emails that they in in terms of events you know making your Sal available talking to your to the stakeholders and and then the second bullet will be if the board receives any complaints or concerns regarding staff regarding anything that has to do directly with the district that that email will be forward to the superintendent for the superintendent to follow up and that's just so that we can protect everything that you know needs to be covered in terms of confidentiality and things like that yes so thank you and then think about that staff if you are okay with that and that would go on um 11 and the under the protocols we agree for those two items uh trusty fam yes well actually I was about to address that so I think you know so I think that it my proposal is it should be codified as such that you know uh email uh board members may you know uh May reply to emails provided that it is some it is uh it is something within the privy of the board member uh as Dr B mentioned uh appearances it events for example uh now uh and to cify that if an email is uh regarding a district issue the board member should forward it to the superintendent or design and uh you know uh as you know as appropriate you know and the only other thing I was I might say is that uh that um board uh board members should not disclose confidential items uh in email correspondence thank you trusty bam uh trusty Chavis I would like to add uh on a need to know basis and you would like to add that to what just want to clarify so that when we do put that part in on page 11 on a need to know basis corre if you can just tell me specific speically where that would go because I know marel and Dr bar are writing down the language and I just want to make sure that so doc Dr Bowers said that we would um contact her if it had to do uh with a complaint about the district and you're saying to add what on a need to know basis I don't agree with that because I think it's at least in my understanding is it's very clear that we as board members are able to respond to any emails uh provided if it's something you know privy to us um and then the second item would be that any any um any emails received regarding staff or District issues should be forwarded to the superintendent correct but the only thing that I'm referring to on a need to know basis is the second part that you just read when Dr Bower said that not the first part okay and I don't agree with that because I think on a need to know basis kind of has each board member kind of pick and choose and I think all items regarding staff and District issues should be forwarded to um the superintendent that's just my thought uh let's see uh vice president GTO and then trust uh Madam president I would appreciate if we if there needs to be significant work on this then we should set up a work a workshop or some other time but to we Smith this out right here at this moment I don't think it's very productive given the fact that we have a lot of items on the agenda or uh board members should send their stuff in writing and work it out with the superintendent and then we can in a in written form deal with it at a future meeting by accepting or or rejecting written uh edits just my two s thank you and I know we have a motion on the floor um I just wanted to um ask you presidenta that a second ago you said you don't agree with um what trusty Chavez said but I was just wondering if you trusty laa could clarify your understanding of what you said because I'm not quite sure I still understand what that need to know basis means so that according to your understanding of it trusty can you can you explain what what your interpretation is uh so according to my understanding as to what uh trust Travis is mentioning is that on the second bullet point uh if the board receives any emails regarding staff or District issues then the board member should forward it to the superintendent and trusty Chavez would like to add on a need to know basis but so so she's meaning then that if it's regarding staff or that we get to do yeah exactly let's inter what I'm saying why not go to the what I'm saying is sometimes people want a vent and I wouldn't want to send that to her so she doesn't need to know that it's like the important things that are gonna be a reflection on the district the things that she needs to know those is what that is what I would like to pass on that's why I said on a need to know basis so of course the important stuff by all means she's going to get it right away but the other stuff that's you know maybe something that just needed to be vented out I heard it I listened and and that's it then I to would um then I I too would disagree uh presidenta because I think determining what is venting versus what needs to go to the superintendent is subjective and any one of us could have a different interpretation of that so that's why I I would not be in favor of saying as as needed or on a need to know basis because it's just too subjective based on the five of our um personalities or interpretations um and then I I see your hand trusty Chavez uh and I do want to take in consideration what vice president kto did mention I think we are doing the word smithing right now and maybe we do um save it for a special board meeting or um for November's meeting between now and then um I I saw your hand up again try Travis I want to give you that time go ahead so can we just approve this with the edit so that Dr Bower can say to the state this is what we got so far we're working on it is that okay Dr Bower she's she's waiting for our Direction uh let's see justo I know you second the moot motion so let's we have a motion on the floor so we'll work with that and then um we'll open it up for public comments as soon as we're done here trusty any thoughts uh the original motion was to approve it as it is correct and bring it was there any other piece to it in the original motion if M could clarify that with yeah it was it was with edits approve as is with edits that's what okay so my my second remains for that motion and Mar just to clarify when you say with edits are you do you have any edits as of now um no Dr bar wants to answer to that Dr bar uh I just want to make sure because we don't then right is what we're saying none no edits just as is and then we'll come back to it the I'm sorry po president the edits have not been approved right yes so you guys are going back and forth we're taking not and I just want to clarify words right now that we don't have any edits with because he said with edits but really then it's as is without edits and then we'll come back to it yeah okay we're good any we want to clarify something else trusty Chavis go ahead as is as a first draft or second draft is that easier for you guys to vote on if I I say it like that and no it's not okay just keep it the same and can we vote now not yet because we got to go to public comment so thank you for helping us move forward here thank you okay so uh seeing no other hands we'll go ahead and open it up for public comment at this time uh Jose if you can help us please identify any members of the board wishing members of the public wishing to address the board yes Madam president at this time we have two speakers first speaker is Adrien Bing Miss Bing you have two minutes please unmute yourself and You Begin speaking the timer will begin uh yes I'm very confused as to what you're voting on right now um I would assume it's uh uh 402 and uh 4.03 was I believe moved to uh the 5 02 correct I'm I'm just sort of confused as to where we are right now and so if somebody could please tell me that I would greatly appreciate it for purposes of you getting time to speak we are on item 402 I want to make sure you have your time to speak um is she done then then uh sorry I I apologize I I'm going back and forth with my phone so yes I have no problem with anything okay thank you I appreciate that our next speaker is Michael ping Mr ping you have have 2 minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin yes um I'd like to ask you guys to help Dr Bower out here it's like she's asking for pretty simple thing here she just needs to go to the state and be able to say that you're making some progress which you know come on you got to get some stuff done here and move on to the more important things I.E retaining quality teachers not losing the new good teachers that you have uh and it's this kind of you know round and round uh you just look disorganized and any you know prospective parent that's thinking oh maybe I'm going to put my kid into this alumrock District or maybe I'm G to go somewhere else or maybe I'm going to go to a private school watching the way you guys operate is is just kind of embarrassing sometimes and you know again get your act together and do things more professionally more correctly with more concern for the students for the staff for your teachers uh that we we bust our butts for our students we do our best to get things done we deal with illness and uh crisis our students are you know I I have our counselors for example you're thinking of doubling the number of of of students of counselors responsible from 500 to 1,000 that's insane we're talking about social emotional learning let's show them some love let's cut the number from 500 to 250 the recommended amount by the American Counselors Association uh again get your act together please support Dr Bower goodbye Madam president at this time we have uh no more public speakers thank you so much now we'll go to the uh vote I'll call you as I see on the screen trusty fam hi trusty wano hi trusty Chavez hi vice president kto Hi and myself I passes unanimously thank you so much item uh 40 I'm sorry 501 uh we did move 403 over after 501 so we'll move on to 501 at this time approv contract for Legal Services with uh Dennis Boliver Kelly Dr bow if you remember we had a special board meeting in at the end of September because we needed to uh uh secure firms that will help us with some more legal support specifically in the areas of contracts so um we sent an RFP back in July uh Late July early August and we didn't have anybody responding we asked the board permission to have roel and CA called uh three of the biggest firms to be able to see if that will generate more interest it that that's how we ended up with dwk responding to us uh one of the firms said that they no longer uh deal with this kind with um this kind of of work that we are seeking and the other one never responded so you have before you the a contract with dwk because they were the firm that responded and they talked to um roio and CA in in let letting us know that they're interested in partnering with us so I hope that you uh support this contract U just to remind you we have our program manager contract pending because we need somebody to review this um this particular work thank you thank you trusty B uh vice president kto uh move approval of the contract as recommended by the administration second second uh second by trusty wano uh at this time I'm gonna open it up for public comment first and then I'll uh come back to the trustees uh Jose if you can help us with any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item yes we have uh one person Miss Adrian V Miss V you have two minutes please unmute yourself and You Begin speaking the timer will begin hello again um my name is Adrien Vay and I am a teacher at Jose George middle school and well I frankly love the fact that we're looking into um solar paneling and all of this stuff I would invite you please tomorrow within the week the next two weeks come to our campus at Joseph George because my my classroom for the past I'm Sorry Miss way uh we are on item 501 and we are talking about approving contract for Legal Services with uh dwk um you mentioned uh that about the solar power that is item 403 and we will be discussing that next um so if you can please raise your hand up if you had something to say on 501 regarding this legal service contract with dwk please raise your hand if you're uh going to talk about that um otherwise I welcome you back on item 403 when we discuss the solar power Jose is she back no we do have two other speakers Mr Michael Mr ping we have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will be yes um yes I not sure what you're spending money on here for and then I think that's part of the problem so many of the teachers have with the board and the the way you operate you're hiring a law firm to do something about contracts yet it takes you 11 meetings to basically come up with an impass that you have no contract with the majority of your employees your teachers and yet in few moments you're like oh this these people don't do it anymore these people will do it let throw the money um I'd like all of you to attest that you have no connection to this firm in any way shape or form that none of your family members have any connection to this firm in any way shape or form because frankly there's been a history of corruption within our district and you know I know many of you are new uh but contracts just seem to go out the window really quick to anybody that's not a teacher and uh explain what this is for you need a law firm to help you figure out whether you can sign a contract with somebody or not I don't get it I really just don't get it and if you're hearing the frustration in my voice it's there and you know frankly I probably could be better spending this time looking on Ed join for another District to work in because the more I try to engage the more frustrated I get and you're about to lose a teacher who's been with you for seven years who has got 30 years of experience of teaching 25 of which in the Santa Clara County area seven with you plenty more with other places you're going to lose good teachers get your act together pass the contract our next speaker is Rachel Lopez Miss Lopez you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you um my name is Rachel Lopez I am a first grade teacher at San Antonio which I love I was at aptitude before that um I think Alam rock is one of the best communities I've ever had the pleasure to work in but I spent the first 20 years of my my career in real estate and finance I understand contracts very very well and I want to understand how well vetted the this Law Firm is it sounds like they answered their phone so we're giving them a contract um maybe before we approve it we could do a little investigation maybe um find out um a little more about what Prov what services are actually being provided how long is this contract going to be um for what exactly are they going to do for us um and like the previous um teacher was stating that it would be great if we could have some sort of like um agreement where everybody signs that they have no personal um tie to anybody in this company for for transparency because the best way to earn trust of the teachers the community the parents is is through transparency and everything that you do be overly transparent and I believe that this is a great example if we could do that thank you our next speaker is hild Ree Miss ree we have two minutes pleas some me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi M re please please unmute yourself I'm sorry can you guys hear me now yes yes okay um I don't know if you guys heard anything of what I said but basically what I'm saying that I'm in agreement with both of the teachers that uh talked a little bit earlier uh for me it's important I'm a parent um so for me um I just have been um I've had kids that have been in the alen Rock district for many years but for me it's important that there's transparency from this board it's a new board yes but you guys have to earn our trust um there's been so much corruption with the previous um board and I think it's important that we vet um you know we go through a a very um detailed background of this firm ensure that they're not related to anyone that's on the board and that there's no Kickbacks to anyone on the board of why we're giving this contract um so again I I definitely like to agree with uh the last teacher that there has to be transparency and that's really the only way that you will earn the trust back of the community because um I'm sorry that that there's really no trust on this particular board so we want to make sure that we are being transparent and that we really do our due diligence and that we're getting the right firm on board thank you our next speaker is miss brendas missas you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi my name is Renda SAS good evening to everyone on this board um I did have some concerns um I was at the previous meeting and I do remember hearing that you guys did not send rfqs to all firms it was a certain amount of firms um that you guys had sent I just want to ensure that you guys did put a recent request and these aren't the same ones that I believe I could be wrong um you guys didn't get any answers back from and so I do remember Miss Chavez mentioning if there would be maybe more requests for more firms and make this a bidding process where you have actual people that want to come into this board and you can do the proper questionnaires and ensure that this is a transparent process that it isn't something that somebody wants that one person wants this firm and make it get um an open process so we can see who they are and maybe even have a an uh interview right that we can also um participate in because this isn't um something that we should just go with because this one person responded I would like to see that there was a recent request made and ensure that this is transparent we've been through a lot with this district and yeah there is a lack of trust I'm not saying that you guys are the reason just saying this is something that takes time and if the public like the previous speakers were saying this um then I think we should be listening thank you next speaker is Adrian B Miss F you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you for uh letting me speak again for this specific thing um you know we we need to really look into because you guys keep on looking at our finances and you guys don't want to give us prises yada yada yada there all these other things and you're one company [Music] that than one we should be so we could get the best price th this is not the best way way to do things come on most of the people on this you you guys have so much experience that you would never take the first and only thing and that's what you're doing with our district right now and that's not okay treat us better treat us equally than you would treat yourself thank you Madam president at this time we have no more public thank you so much um at this point i' would like to open it up to the trustees any questions comments concerns on this item all yes second yes trust each uh vice president G can we have uh the administration go through the process of that we went through that was announced this happened over the course of several meetings um and then can you can the administration please disclose those folks who vetted this uh and went through the process of of confirming that this was a firm that was going to work for the district um can we please have a thorough explanation for the benefit of the public that's watching out there thank you vice president you said go through the process I said oh my God we went through a th process you're gonna have him go through it again I mean provide an overview of the process for the benefit of those who are watching I appreciate it thank you uh superintendent Bower if you can uh please go over our process that we how we got to where we're at today um I'm gonna ask uh Mr Chang to uh help explain the process and then I'm gonna ask a timeline yes yeah I mean we've been through this since July so uh Mr Chang would you please help us yes good evening thank you Dr bow and good evening Madame board president uh members of the board um yeah I can give a brief timeline in terms of um what we did uh up to the point until we got here uh you you may recall that the district did Issue an RP for Legal Services um around the scope of work to review contracts that were related to um Public Works bidding um constructions related issues um and so the scope of work for that legal services was very limited um we did Issue the um RP the RP was sent out to five reputable firms um after a survey that I conducted with uh various cbos um in this County um who have worked with um other legal firms who have the expertise in this area um unfortunately um we did not get a response um from the um from the RP that we sent out and um as a result of that um the administration um asked the board for permission to contact directly um those firms that did not respond um and the board fortunately approved that process um Council Ros and I did um uh reach out to the firms that that the RP was sent out we also reach out to an additional firm which is Orbach huff and Henderson and they're also well known in the areas of uh Public Works and also constructions um as Dr bar mentioned previously um the other firms did not respond um and um dwk did respond uh Council Ru and I um had an interview um with dwk um and felt that they were able to provide the necessary support to the district surrounding the scope of work um and that's why um we're here today uh recommending that the board um provide the support and approve um the contract with dwk thank you Mr Chang uh any other questions comments on the board trusty Bano yeah and just to go a little further uh with Mr Chang um so then I I heard you say that your yourself and Mr Ruiz um did interviews and and the vetting process so can we safely assume and I think you've answered this previously but um that you yourself and Mr Ruiz have experience in the area um of of vetting these types of firms and you understand what is needed um you understand the types of contracts that are necessary in order to move the district forward in this area and things of that nature that the two of you um have the experience and qualifications to have been able to done the process process that you did to get us where we are tonight yes I believe it did um you know we did some due diligence in terms of I mean on my end um you know I reached out to um cbos in this County um just to get their experience um and also um get some feedback in terms of um you know their their their experience of working with the various vendors um surrounding this type of work um it's very specialized and not a lot of law firms are able to provide the necessary support and so that's why the RP was limited to a small number of firms who uh we found to be reputable and yes uh to your point um Council brius and I did um sit down and interview um the leading partner or one of the leading Partners at dwk just to get the background and the level support um that they they would be able to provide um and based on our discussion we feel comfortable that um dwk would able to um provide that support okay and is this something that um yourself and Mr D have have done in the past similar similar things to this process um I mean we talked on just not necessarily uh anything like this but in terms of up having dialogues um with the professions that we as a school districts um work with and partners with um yeah there there has been those type of discussions um because he is familiar um on his end in terms of being able to um you know vet his um I would say counterpart yeah counterpart of colleagues um that he has networked with and also um that that has also worked with you know other school districts okay thank you um and I don't see any hands right now I have a a question on Mr re um I think you're still with us if you can come on um I think in the past we've had forms signed by our committee members that um you know none of the committee members have any ties or and I don't I don't I can't remember the name of the form but I personally don't have a problem signing that you know I wish that you know somebody close to me owned a legal Law Firm but I have nobody close to me that does or I'm not related to this Law Firm at all um so I personally have no problem signing it I don't know I think it's a great idea moving forward I know where we've been as a district not with this uh board um but I know where we've been and I would hate to ever go back um to that um and so I don't know Mr re can you remind me of that form um if if you're on there's a name for that but I have no problem signing it and I don't know anybody on the board would have a problem signing it um I see okay Mr Chang yes I believe the form you're referring to is form 700 which is a declaration of a conflict of interest um for all the board members to to sign yeah to disclose any financial interest um with anyone I think that would be great and I'm wondering if we can even implement it as a board and I don't know if it's now or in the future um I see go ahead it's it's a form you have to fill out every year already so there's any oh then I would have to say it okay that makes sense I mean I signed already I just I just want to clarify that you know none of us have any ties with this one um okay yeah we've signed it there you go um okay trusty yeah I mean I think I was just going to confirm um trusty kto that is something that's publicly available um that we all sign um and I personally I understand the sentiment obviously what the district has been through over the past you know number of years however this board or the majority of this board has been together for three years now and to the contrary I think we've done we've gone above and beyond as has been mentioned in many instances with regards to our transparency in all areas um we have you know we to we have eliminated or addressed those past issues of lack of transparency and all the different things we we addressed those and and we've eliminated those things and made very big decisions early on and so I'm personally given the fact that we all signed the the um the 700 form and ually I I would not necessarily be in favor of doing something separate for this one because I think that the implication is that there's reason to doubt our um transparency or our conflict of interest and I think very clearly that this board has demonstrated to the contrary that um that in fact we have been very transparent and trustworthy and so for to single out this item without any to my knowledge um justification or or rationale I don't know that I would be in favor of that given that we already signed the um conflict of interest form I agree know so I just needed him to remind me uh because we have nothing to hide and yes I'm in agreement we don't need to do one specifically for this one trust you fam I too would like to add uh I signed my form 700 earlier this year and uh you know I I before the board meeting I went to the uh d K website just to make sure I didn't know someone who was someone there and uh you know uh you know let me be clear I I know no one who is in any way shape or form connected to the firm or working for the firm in any capacity so I wanted to make that clear that I I have no relationship to anyone associated with dwk thank you trusty P um I do see trusty M's hand up and I also I think I saw Mr Reese's hand up um so if he has anything to add but we'll go to trusty veano and then um Mr Reese if he is I just forgot I forgot to put it down sorry okay uh Mr re did I see your hand up yeah yes I'm sorry I I got I've been getting bounced out of this meeting I don't know why but I'm I'm participating by telephone um but with respect to the conflict of interest form so there's there's two different uh aspects to it one is your form 700 which you all fill out as elected officials every year the other aspect is that in connection with Bond programs um when the district retains a vendor in connect to provide services in connection with the bond program there is a standard form of conflict of interest form that the vendor is asked to fill out uh affirming that they have not had separate independent Communications and have not offered or or promised anything in return for uh the contract or the the opportunity to provide services so if the board approves uh the selection of DW The dwk Firm they will also be asked to fill out a conflict of interest form which will be a part of the contract file for the district this was a specific recommendation that was made by F back in 2017 which the district has implemented thank you Mr re any other questions comments concerns from the board before we move on to the vote okay seeing none then we'll go ahead and move on to the vote uh I'll call you as I see on my screen trusty wano hi trusty fam hi trusty Chavez no vice president kto I and myself I okay moving on to item 403 District Energy savings solar power agreement followup information only um Dr bow or Jano I mean I don't know if Dr had anything but I'm I'm open to I just want to remind everybody that trusty Beano had requested to bring the solar uh Power conversation back to the board and that's why this item is in the in the agenda and I know that I missed earlier on because I I had my own connectivity issues um that uh CA uh and I place the um the bond update um information because we are seeking direction from the board about going to the the next step in in us reating our bond program so with that I know that trusty Beano wants to to share some ideas around um this concept thank you thank you um yes so you know for those who who have been around for a while and been paying attention um as was mentioned I brought this particular concept or this idea um I think more than a year ago now um but it's something that I had been kind of talking to people and working on on even prior to that probably another year and so this is something that we that we kind of put on the back burner because we had a lot of a lot of things in front of us that were you know immediately needed attention and so um we you know we put this on hold for the for that particular time um and just again for those who don't maybe have the background so um since the time that we brought it up and even during that time the large majority of the public at least that either contacted me or took part in forums or things like that or or um Community discussions um were very supportive of the concept of a solar energy program for the district um one of the things that I think maybe people are don't quite um have the knowledge of is that these programs it it would seem on its face that the that it's a money spender like we need to spend money a significant amount of money to set these programs up and indeed tonight we I think we heard comments to that effect and that's quite possible that there would be money that you know it's one of the options that other districts have taken is investing in um a system like this however there are a number of different financing options a number of different options available to districts and public entities that many many districts all over have taken advantage of um that in fact do not take any upfront money um from the district or very little a minimal amount and that was a discussion we were kind of getting into at that time but it's a minimal if any amount um Upfront for some of these programs and in return the district um stands to save in the neighborhood of $500,000 per year I believe it was and that's very ballparked um but it's very realistic and in talking with other districts we Alam rock is kind of like an island in our area that doesn't have a solar energy program every almost every other District around us has invested in solar energy and they're saving like I mentioned to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars every year that can go towards you know the needs of the district and so this on its face the people who may not be familiar with these program seem like maybe it it's something that we don't have money to invest in but there are many options that um in my estimation and many in the public are worth looking into because it's it is a very likely or strong possibility to actually get money into the district coffers on an annual basis for you know 25 30 years out every single year um and so that's kind of just the background on it the reason why I wanted to move it up and kind of have it in conjunction with or or close to the discussion on on the bond program is that since the time that we put this on kind of on the back burner um as a district I think we have really put into place a more strategic um methodical process as to how we're going to move the district forward with regards to our facilities and things like that and so that's you know the hiring of all these things we've been talking about with hiring of legal firms and hiring of program managers and all those things it's part of a bigger picture and so I I would like um I guess I'm throwing out there for discussion with my colleagues um the concept of kind of rolling in these um energy saving programs as part of the overall picture of our um you know our facilities discussions and work that can be um possibly put you know as part of what our program manag would PR manager would do my understanding at the time when I agreed to kind of put this on the back burner was that we needed a program manager to manage any potential impl implementation of this because it's not just something that our staff could take on and so now we're at a place where we're close hopefully to having our program manager our legal team in place everything in place so that we can move forward and potentially and we can realize these annual you know multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings every year to our district um and so again that's that's some that would be part of the program manager is to look into that and bring us back options and see what's available but it's a very um you know it's it's a very good possibility that those options are out there so I kind of just wanted to give an update um maybe get any updates and have the discussion about you know bringing making this a comprehensive approach to to our facilities um work that we're going to be doing in the coming years so with that go ahead thank you and I just want to clarify because I know you mentioned um that and then maybe combining it with the bond program conversation and so I want to ask Roo if we can like at this time if also maybe CA can give an update on that um are we able to do that uh roio are we able to bring 403 and 502 together yes I I think you can but you should make make clear when you're getting public comment that you will still when you get to the next item or to the item on the bond program you will take public comment there as well I guess what I'm saying is if we hear both of them together are we able to take public comment together too no on for information only both are since since there's yeah but since it's a separate agenda item you would have to open it up to public comment when you get to that item as well okay so then we'll keep it separate because I think it'll be too confusing um all right so back to 403 and just staying on 403 for now uh trusty Chavez I see your hand up I would like to see two things done first I would like to see the contracts with the teachers resolved first and the repairs on the safety issues first and then we could possibly move forward on the solar thank you uh vice president Gino um I I feels like we've been here before about holding off sometimes people would even make comments that hold off till December because there was something coming up an election or something like that at this point the fact of the matter is that we need to um start realizing savings and if this can realize savings and that means that it leaves more money for us to be able to go ahead and provide the proper remuneration so I'm I'm all for moving forward to investigate to get some good information and then ultimately make a decision once we have the right information and uh so I I would encourage us to direct staff to begin the process of putting forward an RFQ that allows us to go out there and find out what our options are uh in a very transparent way that's available to the public uh to go ahead and hold this off simply because want to make a point it's counterproductive if we realize savings allows us to to be able to have more resources to one of our colleagues point and like I said I'm the fact of the matter is that this we've been here before people were calling in asking us to hold off until December not sure why something was going to happen in November I guess they didn't want this to to move forward and so it's very unfortunate that it gets conflated with other stuff we need to start moving moving on this now thank you vice president and then uh trusty fam and then I'll say something okay uh first of all you know I I you know I of all you know um I would too would love to to resolve contract with the teachers and the issues with the safety uh but at the you know but at the same time you know I'd like to remind my colleagues that uh you know one does not have to come before the other we are in a position where we can work on two tracks uh simultaneously you know I say this because I you know for the last couple weeks I've visited half this District so far and you know we have real infrastructure needs that need to be taken care of uh as uh trusty Beano mentioned you know if a solar program is able to save us hundreds of thousand dollars a year that certainly will give this District extra room uh down the road uh you know to have even more flexibility with compensation in the future uh I also wanted to mention that uh you know Bond programs also mean uh resolving some of the safety issues um it means means uh newer and Modern Heating uh ventilation and air conditioning systems possibly down the future uh that would certainly help deal uh with you know uh covid is a respiratory virus and it would certainly uh allow our classrooms to operate a lot more safely in inclement weather so I I certainly do Ur you know uh believeing when I say I know I'm trying you know do in my own way trying to help bridge The Divide but at the same time Bridging the Divide does not mean that we can't work on uh fixing our real immediate physical infrastructure needs at the moment and uh you know I want to make it clear you know uh solar H you know we are open to ways to improve Alam Rock facilities make them more sustainable for the future at the same time saving money so that we can provide a safer environment for staff and students and uh have more flexibility for staff compensation in the future thank you very much thank you trust P I see trust me have those hands up but I'll say a couple things um and so you know really at think at the end of the day um after hearing some of the teachers speak earlier about uh some of the wiring uh that sparked that caused an electrical issue and you know um the response from the schools I think that all has to do right with what we're talking about um and I also agree trusty Beano that uh this is combined with the bonds program where uh maybe some of that work could be done in collaboration with so I look forward to eventually bringing those two together um even though today they were on a separate agenda items um and like vice president said that we can't wait any longer there will always be a reason to wait um and I think you know the sooner we start the sooner we can start saving money to then exactly with what trusty fam said we can address some of our you know issues at hand um but we need to start and so um I look forward to also hearing the update about the bonds program and where we're at with that because as we also discussed um as I'm also and all of us I know are very concerned with the safety issues I think all of it aligns um and at the end of the day we will be able to identify all these needs that were all in agreement with the teachers the trustees you know staff um so I look forward to to moving forward on on these items um that I think go hand inand um and even you know I'm hearing about ants you know and you know I'm sure it's not an overnight issue I'm sure it's been an issue of over years um you know I'm thinking and you saw trusty fam when you went to the schools you know I also went to all the schools of these old buildings right that I mean as much as you clean maybe or you know there's just Corners you know cracks and spaces and places that you know unless um somebody that's in that um construction and and is able to maybe dig deeper than what we can see right those of us like me like okay let me just clean this area but if we still continue to have an ant issue for example um you know which that teacher shouldn't be taking ants back home or anything like that um and that means that our children are also dealing with that you know that also something as simple as that can be dealt with when we look at this entire um uh the picture um anyway so with that um I know I heard some direction from um from vice president Kinto um and I don't know if uh somebody wants to second on that direction um I do see trusty Beano's hand up so maybe um he's gonna guide us with that so I'll go ahead and open it up to trusty Beano at this time yeah thank you I think um because it's agenda as information only it's we can't make a motion on it but I think trust kto does is able to provide direction as he has um which I think is a is a good direction that he provided um my comment actually was that I two things number one I want to make very clear that um this board has been very clear on a number of fronts that there's lots of things that we would like to do um you know that we just don't have the the monetary resources to do and and so if we were our program manager were to come back and say Here's your options each one of them you have to Shell out x amount of money I'm confident and I personally would say that given our current scenario our fiscal scenario we would not that's not something that we would be able to do but because of the fact that I know at least at the time and I believe it still to be true there are options where we could realize these savings and not have to put money up front um you know I think that's why it's important to look into it so to ensure anybody in the public who's you you know worried about us spending money that we don't have I think we very clearly have as a board have taken that stand that we're not going to spend money that we don't have and in fact this money um that potentially could be generated would actually go to resolve or could potentially go to resolve many of those issues that people bring up all the different things that they question why would you know people may question why you want to put the solar program in when you don't even have money for x y and z well the answer would be that theoretically given the availability of programs that are available the solar panels would in fact pay for those things that are the concerns that we need to pay for first um or would be able to so that's kind of that piece of it um and I think I had one other part but I think that so I'm comfortable um I really would like to see myself personally I would like to see this solar um work that we may do to be rolled into what we have as part of our work for the program manager obviously we can't make a um put a motion to anything tonight but I think starting to move in that direction again this is not any decision being made but it's just taking the information that we have which seems very obvious that we should at least investigate It's Our obligation to investigate in fact as as stewards of the district if there's an opportunity for us to generate money or save money for the district we have the obligation to do that and so um I'm comfortable with the direction that trusty chetto has put forth so we can get the ball rolling and and get started in that direction great if I don't see any other hands up I'm going to open it up for public comment at this time uh so uh Mr Travis can you help me uh identify members of the public wishing to address the board on this item uh yes Madam president at this time we have uh four speakers uh first speaker is Adrian B Miss V you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello uh once again Adrien ban um at Jus George Middle School um uh first off I love the fact that we would be going to solar I think that's awesome and I think that's in a step in the right direction but we still have a few things that we need to figure out before we can go into solar and unfortunately my school just George Middle School we don't have what the other schools have um apparently tomorrow uh uh board member Cano uh fam and Bower are going to be visiting our school tomorrow please come to my class come to our school and look at how our school is so behind all of the other schools it's absolutely ridiculous for the past five years whenever it rains my classroom drips water rain comes through my classroom and I have brought it up every year things don't get fixed at my middle school and I we feel like we're the redheaded step child that nobody cares about us because it's just really sad how much nobody cares about us thank you for listening to me our next speaker is Rachel Miss Locus you have two minutes please unmute yourself can you begin speaking the timer will begin hi thank you for again for taking um my question or comments um I'm Rachel Lopez at San Antonio um I want to applaud that this effort is moving um forward that we're having the conversation that we're being forward thinkers and not um backwards thinkers um I do have a couple of concerns that I would like to address is um I would like to say thank you to trusty Chavez because she um understands that there is no support for teachers right now um in negotiating and addressing our concerns um and I also want to address um something that um trusty fam um said that we can do both things you're absolutely right we can do both things but the problem is is that we don't and we're not and I support moving forward with this agenda because in air quotes potentially this has money to be a revenue and not just a cost um but I would like to um caution that the conditions of many of the schools it is going to be a huge Money Pit to bring all of that electrical up to code to make solar even possible so I think that whatever the cost of the solar is we really need to think about the the cost that is then not The Upfront cost not the installing cost it's the other it's the other hidden cost you know when you remodel a bathroom it's not just about getting a new toilet and a new sink it's everything behind the walls that we need to think about so um I just want to caution you as you're moving forward to think about all of these hidden costs that are going to be with many many many of the schools and um I just want to stress that we can do both but we need to do both thank you our next speaker is Brenda SAS missas you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi good evening again my name is Brenda SAS um I do want to say that I do agree that solar panels will save a lot of money but I want to Echo what the previous speaker said I couldn't have said it in a more better way than what she said but thank you we do need to also look at the buildings uh electrical panels um they're not up to date in many buildings um I want you guys to know that that we have a lot of roofing problems a lot in our district and to have solar panels you have to have good foundation not only that you have to have electrical outlets that are up to date because more modern solar panels require electric still they're not just fully solar you still need electrical outlets and I believe one of the presenters did State this and so I know that this can happen but I I want it to happen that I just want to make sure that you guys are cautious that it's not only about the insul ation price like the previous speaker said it's also about the cost to update our buildings I'm sure we could strategize and find better ways uh to avoid these costs but I do want you guys to be mindful that not everything is as easy as it said and um maybe uh strategizing and finding options would be the best thing I do support having this because we do have to start bringing Revenue into this District I also want to um comment we we did close or repurpose some schools and I want to know if we do this and this happens what happens to these buildings that have these solar panels um do they just sit there until we I don't know we rent them or I don't know what's going to happen in the future with our schools as well right I don't want to think about that but I am going to be um honest because we just went through that last year thank you our next speak speaker is Michael P Mr py you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin yes um I'm not sure which of you said it uh but you mentioned that that our District's a bit of an island uh behind the times in terms of getting solar updating and uh I'm glad you're recognizing ing that you're behind the times and solar and I agree that solar is a good thing I'd also throw in let's be forward thinking like at least six or seven of the teachers at Joseph George are we've invested in electric cars and why do teachers do that perhaps more than other places because we're looking at the future every day in front of us in our 30 seats in a classroom 32 in my case for several classes um so let's think about what we can do for our students as well as what we can do for our buildings uh we need uh the solar yes that's a good idea uh I'd have you throw in there put in some solar some uh car charging stations for the teachers that are doing the right thing and driving solar cars the other issue that I want you to think about are these other basic infrastructure things that um we need to deal with uh again I'm a Joseph George as Miss V is saying please come visit um our school I'll show you dozens of things little annoying things big things that need to be taken care of um and they've been there for a long time the the staff the maintenance staff had again 16 17 months with no one in the buildings to fix some of these things I'm talking about obvious warping of bathroom tiles you know the the lolium is warping because there the wood is wet underneath it and it's out of place uh George needs Equity too every other school has got these beautiful fresh colors of paint we have been prison gray for as long as I can remember and it looks like a prison and it's how's it going to attract a student if we can't get that cleaned up our next speaker is Rose Ramos miss ronal you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello um good evening everyone um can you hear me yes Mr speak okay yeah my main concern about the adelan school is their gate you know um since the they the student came back to school this year there's few episode already that somebody came in that they had to lock down the school and the students were terrified and it happened couple times already so I don't know if uh the district or the board members can do something about it because my little one is you know all he talk about after the lockdown it's like mama you know the the bad people came to the school and we have to lock down and we have to hide we have to lock the doors for the safety of the children so I think we need to do something about it because it's been going on for so many years I have the older one too that it's been there for six years and until now it's not gated around it's very easy to um have access for The Outsiders to come the bad people to come during class so I think we have to uh do something about it and also the field there's a lot of holes and um a lot of children trip during PE and some children fracture their bones and I think we have to do something about it too uh those are my main two concerns thank you our next speaker is Sandra Rivera Miss Rivera you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board my name is Sandra rera teacher at Chavez um I would love to applaud the move towards solar um when my mom passed away and I inherited her house that was actually one of the very first things I did was replace my roof and put solar panels on and then buy an electric car so that I could save in my own personal budget but I would like to please point out that while we're investing in solar we did just repurpose or close two schools rename them um what would happen in that case if we lost another building um can we think outside the box Maybe cover the district parking lot with solar panels in a parking structure type setup kind of like I believe James lick high school has done as well if we're going to be putting them in installing them at the different School sites in per se like parking lot areas and such I would just also like to caution that things like yard work and maintenance in that aspect should be taken into account because recently all the trees at Chavez in fact over the last two days have gotten their haircuts and so I can actually like see in the parking lot and see across my campus now but if we're going to be installing solar panels where there's a lot of trees and maintenance isn't getting done on a regular basis it's kind of counterproductive to install solar panels where there's trees and our parking lot and such so please take into account those kinds of decisions when you're looking to install and do these contracts thank you madam president at this time we has no more public comment thank you uh trusty witho I see your hand up yeah I'm mindful of time and and that we need to kind of move forward and um I just want to say I appreciate the um the support from from the public speakers and also the mind the thoughtful questions um that people have and and suggestions and I in the interest of time I would just um encourage people I want to say and Dr b or anyone could correct me it was June of 2020 a me the meeting when um there was some information that was provided by our legal council and our district team at that time um there was also there's also a Facebook uh presentation that you can find online I think it's on might be on my Facebook page that also talks about and answers and addresses some of the questions that were brought up um because I think some of those concerns are addressed in those presentations again and things could have changed and as we move forward potentially we'll we'll get better information but I think that's the point of this is moving forward and getting the right information to make the right decision so thank you everyone thank you and I see uh vice president hand up yeah um just wanted to say that I appreciate all the comments I think those are great uh points that people brought up and raised and so part of the process is to go through and um go out there and get answers to the questions to the concerns because this should be a thoughtful process that takes into account all of the the the possibility the variables all that's out there U before we move forward uh one of the things I do want to remind everyone is regardless of what happens if you place panels they produce regardless of where they're at they continue to produce and so there's electricity as long as the sun's out they continue to produce energy which translates into savings for us thank you and then just uh to clarify and before we move on um to the next item um I know that uh vice president kto um directed staff and so I look forward to hearing more about that um in the near future um and uh I don't know Dr Bower if you need any clarification or we're good to move forward she's there Dr Bower we're good nice all right moving on to item 502 uh Dr bow or Mr I'm gonna turn it over to Mr changen thank you Dr bar um good evening um in regards to this item um I will be providing a brief update um and now that the board has um provided support and approved um the contract for dwk um we can get that started um with reviewing the contracts for our program manager um which leads us to um next steps in terms the bond programs um the next steps that the district is working on is developing um RP for both financial advisor and bond councel um to facilitate with the issuance of the measure I Bond and so um that should be ready in the coming week or weeks or um to be able to release those RPS um and then we'll provide a board and update and also we'll need some further directions in terms of um the election process for both financial advisor and um Bond Council um yeah so that that concludes the update thank you thank you Mr chain um I'll go ahead and open it up for public first and then bring it back to the trustees uh question comments concerns uh Mr Chavez can you um help us out with the public wishing to address the board on this item yes uh at this time we have uh Mr Michael py Mr py you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin yes okay so can I can you uh clarify so you you've just approved the the law the contract with the law firm can that's I'm correct in that I see Mr Chavez nodding um thank you so you're you now have you're going to have that law firm approve a contract for your operation person you're muted MZ I think Dr Bower should answer that but and just to clarify we're not allowed to have a conversation with public unfortunately and Mr re our attorney something else i' have you consider revising the bylaws so that it can be more natural instead of talking and cutting off and talking and cutting off all right then well I guess um yeah I like solar but that's great go for it but how about some fresh coats of paint how about a sprinkler system that works at our school I've been trying to revive a a garden that the citizen school people started uh a long while ago it went to seed and is a mess of weeds right now but we're making some progress on it all with the help of my students and myself and we could use some water I'd like to just plant some flowers out of my own pocket but our Gardens you know our Landscaping isn't even irrigated and I'd like some basic things like this to be considered in address too appearances matter when a parent Drives By say St John viani just down the road from us they see a beautiful maintained facility okay why can't we do that at our school if I was a parent driving by and thinking oh I could could go to this public school I've heard a few good things about their program they've got music they've got art they've got some experienced quality teachers there but then they look around and they see our gray colors that haven't been updated except to cover the graffiti let's clean up Joseph George our next speaker is Rachel Lopez M Lopez you have two minutes please s me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi thank you again for indulging me I really appreciate it um I am fairly new to the school district so I um kind of came in after the fact so I just want to go on record saying when we're asking for transparency it's not because we don't trust you specifically it's because we want to um enthusiastically support Alam Rock we all are on the same team we all want the kids to come back to school there's nothing sadder than empty classrooms and we are filled with them and we also understand the business of school that we are going to be underfunded until our schools are full and so we would like to attract um students to come back that have left for Charter and part of that is our kids telling their friends and their the parents telling the other parents how great our schools are and how much we've grown and changed and all of these new programs and the new looks and things like that and with this Bond program it would be really um great for transparency like I I've said before um if we had a hierarchy of needs so that we could say these are the needs that we're going to address in a b and c order so that people know what to look for they know how our money is being spent I know that we're going to hi have a bond manager and things like that that will be disclosing yada yada yada but it be would be really nice to know oh this school's supposed to get this this and that and as you're driving by seeing these things happen in a natural way it really does Foster a lot of um support because I have to believe that the charter schools are not doing it better than us they are just the alternative because we have failed them so I would like to re establish trust with those families mam president at this time we have no more public comment thank you Mr Chavez I just see vice president gto's hand up first and then truste M Madam president um I just want to remind all folks that we we are this is part of the transparency having public in open meetings we go to some of our competitors at Charter Schools and they make it nearly impossible to get access to their agendas to public information uh quite the opposite here we have everything on our website and I'm very proud of that you know and and that is exactly what everybody should be doing who's managing public funds for the purposes of the public and uh those viewing uh I would request Madam president that Administration go over a timeline and overview of the process that we went through to get to this place uh with our our our program managers which was part of a very transparent open process where people were interviewed it took quite a while ago but then I would remind folks that uh the dwk contract is getting the way we needed the attorneys to review those contracts to allow us to come on board but if you will indulge me and allow our Administration to go through an overview or a timeline of the process that would be great I think it would be beneficial to the public overall great idea yes um Dr Bower uh should I just turn it over to ca or would you like to address that I think Mr Chang can help me where should we start Co I know Mr I know that there's a number of people who are new to the district I just want to say one thing um and then CA can help us with all the the facilities and the timelines and all of that but for those of you who are new if you remember the well we went through very challenging times with the bone program um and right when the board changed and we cleaned up so many things including um yeah so many things that's all I'm going to say then covid hit so we are sort of like a year behind in terms of the process because obviously you know this the all of these things take time but um the whole notion of going back to having a financial advisor a bond counsel all of that was because um the county of Santa Clara declared um alumrock cannot sell bonds until um some things were addressed and we have been addressing them one by one um a long history and I'm not going to revive all of that but just for those of you who are new we are now resetting the program things are clean things have been addressed and um there is a process so Mr changen um if you want to start with a facilities assessment which was done a long time time ago and we've been waiting because that's something that the public requested about five years ago four years ago thank you sure I'll piggy back on I'll start with the facility assessment which was done back in 2018 which identified um some urgent uh repair that needs to be done unfortunately um the district hasn't had a program manager to oversee the bronze program um to be able to to um work on some of those projects that were identified um and just recently back in um I want to say either March of April of 21 we released an RP for a program manager uh we did receive four proposals um and as a result of that the district um set up a special board meeting which was on July 22nd 2021 um to conduct interviews in person VI invited all those four firms um to the district office um and all those four firms were um interviewed um by the board members um in the the firms were in person but the interviews were broadcast um via zoom and also I believe on YouTube TV um where everyone could see the process and what the questions were um and ultimately at the end of the night um the board did select coming um as our program manager um unfortunately um you know as I mentioned before in those type of work it's very complicated very specific and so we felt that we needed a legal some additional legal support to vet and review the contract between the districts and coming um and fortunately enough um at tonight's board meeting the board did approve dwk um to be able to do that work in terms of reviewing um the contract uh with dwk and the districts in order for um the parties to move forward um and bring um Coming which is our program manager to be able to um work with the district um as a part of the bonds program The Districts then would need to um secure a financial advisor and a bound counsel um to facilitate and assist the districts with the issuance um of measure ey bonds and um as I previously um shared with the board earlier um the district is in the process developing those um RP for both financial and bond Council and then we'll bring that to the board later for um an update and also to get further directions uh regarding the vetting and the selection process um for financial advisor and bond program I mean so Bond Council thank you great thank you so much I mean I was like ah you know to relive relive some of that so I like the way we did it and focusing where we at now because we're in a very good place you know even though sometimes it feels like you know it's a little painful but you know we're getting it done and so um very proud of us um I do see trusty's head up and then trusty fam um but not before I see vice president kto St still up do you still wanna no that was from before perfect trusty yeah mine is just a very quick clarifying reminder um that it's for the for the Public's understanding of the meetings here that we unfortunately we're not able to um change bylaws that allow for dialogue during public comment because that's part of the brown act and we are not allowed can't change the brown act and so just you know it's it's a common thing that people have questions and um if they're not familiar with the process maybe they they want an answer and it's just not um necessarily the way that public meetings are required to operate under the brown act so just that reminder to people I appreciate that because it's hard to be the facilitator and have to you know cut people off but facilitate in a way that it's um lawful um and ensure that we're doing things right um thank you for clarifying that okay uh trusty Pam okay Madam president you know just you know I I want to State clearly because I I've have some history with the bond prior to to my appointment to the board I was vice chair of the uh Bond oversight committee and uh talk about uh uncompensated I'm GNA be Ser this uncompensated heartache on certain uh on certain days uh we have moved uh very far uh you know the bond committee is also an open public meeting uh you know in in in in the three plus years I was on that committee we asked serious questions uh you know from getting to the bottom of Dela and on the associated um fiscal control issues that were identified in in the audits for two straight years to see it resolved in my last and final year on the bond committee uh this is you know I I want to make clear that you know we have come very far and this is a this is an opportunity that this district has been waiting for in a long long time to address the the real infrastructure needs uh of the many school sites we have uh I also wanted to note that it looks like the cat is out of the bag yes I'm going to be visiting uh Joseph George middle school tomorrow and I look forward to having those candid conversations about the state of our facilities that's part of the reason why I'm I I put in much time on the bond committee and on the board of this District to see this to see us be able to provide uh the best possible learning environment for our children as well as the best possible working environment for uh the teachers the classified staff and the maintenance staff who work in our district and in and you know at the school sites um you know uh I am you know I certainly am I certainly look forward to seeing George and I certainly look for as well as the other schools I'll be visiting tomorrow to and just like as I mentioned earlier when I go to the school sites I am looking at the physical infrastructure I mentioned that I visited the kitchen I v I checked air filters heaters air conditioning units the black top uh um I know that we've got we've got real needs and I'm very hopeful that we are we are coming to a position where these needs are going to be met and resolve and as always uh you know I wanted to act Co board vice president that we've you know we've been more trans uh you know we've been more transparent than the charter school I remember someone in in public comments saying that you know we uh I know that Alam Alam Rock has gone through a rough patch but I am you know I'm determined to see us uh get to the other side get to the end of the rainbow and be in a better place and I I and I hope that uh I know that you know we're you know just like just like ice you know sometimes some some of us like strawberry others like Rocky Row but I think we all agree that yes it's time for ice cream it's time to it's time to fix our schools for the 21st century and you know again I encourage everyone in this community from parents to teachers to share their concerns their opinions with me and you know hopefully we can we can get to that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow together thank you thank you was just going to move on but I think uh trano your hand is up go for yeah um I guess just kind of quickly I wanted to I guess Echo a comment I believe I heard I don't remember if it was even on this to topic or maybe a previous one but there was some discussion along the lines of thinking out of the box being creative and so as we continue to move forward with our bonds program I know that we have had a facilities assessment and you know potentially may need a new one to address things um uh you know I think that it's going to be it's going to behoove us to be creative and think out of the box with regards to our bonds um because I know that kind of a a structure or an idea or some thoughts about how we should abro approach um our facilities was set forth at one point in time in the past several years um but the environment has changed many things have changed since that time and so I think as I mentioned it will behoove us to just maybe think out of the box and be creative as we look at how to best utilize um Bond monies moving forward so that at the end of the day we're able to offer the best most modern up dated facilities that are possible to our um you know to our community so just wanted to throw that out there as a reflection of comments that I heard at some point this evening thank you absolutely thank you so much for putting that all um in a nice way I look forward to having those conversations as well so if we're all okay we'll move forward on this item since it's on for information only and uh more to come on this one more thing I see Dr Bower maybe wanting to add I just want to make sure that we're clear as a staff that we're okay to move forward to be looking for financial advisor and for Bond councel and then we'll come to the board with you know a recommendation I just wanted so that we can start the process yes that's my understanding uh board anybody else on the board anything different no yes um please move in that direction and we look forward to continuing this conversation thank you Dr B okay moving on to item 601 approved quarterly report on Williams uniform complaints uh Dr bar anything specific on this no the just we just need for the board to um approve this it's um you know the concerns are uh public information and everybody has an access to that we will be addressing them thank you move to approve move to approve by second by vice president GTO okay um opening up for public comment at this time uh Mr Chavis any members of the board wishing to address of the public wishing to address the board on this item I see uh yes one uh member Mr Michael ping Mr ping you have two minutes please sub mute yourself when you begin speaking that timer will begin uh yes um I just I've been reflecting here a little bit and I I'm thinking I've sounded a little harsh a little uh Angry and I want to let you know that I know you all have a tough job too and I'd like to see you guys a lot more as partners than as adversaries and uh I don't know I don't want to say I'm apologizing because a lot of the things I said are heartfelt uh I don't think that any of you in particular the corruption comment I made earlier not directed at any of you the history of corruption I hope is the phrase I said I can't recall if that's what I said but there have been s in the past as as you all delicately refer to it uh and I I want to be uh meeting with you as partners as with people who I can say hey here is this problem and this problem how can you help us to fix that here at George here is my vision for planting just a few flowers back in the front space of this school so someone walking by goes hey that looks like a nice place to visit uh and I know that you can't wave a wand and make money flow to us uh but it would be a good thing if we could see each other as as partners and uh not as adversaries and I just want to let you know that that's how I see this I feel I have that relationship with Dr Bower and uh I look forward to meeting with you Mr fam um you know I don't I don't know if I should announce my school address to you what room to come see me but ask it's Mr polling ask uh whoever you come see and and Madam president at this time we have no more public comment thank you okay uh bringing it back to the board any questions comment comments concerns from the board uh trusty Chavez yes um here on the Williams report it says aptitude so I believe the the uh teacher who spoke earlier was that a different school and if so is there a reason why it's not on the agenda uh could you answer that can you answer that please Dr Bower could you please repeat your question okay so here on the report if you look on the book it says aptitude so there was another teacher that came from another school I believe um could you could you tell me which school that was from when she said that they had the ant problem because this one says what I don't believe that she said that she was from aptitude is this is she from another school I believe so was she from what school was that again please I think he I don't think the teacher mention the school she's from I think her name is Sher DTE what school is she at I think she's in Russo mcke I'm trying to remember every you know we have a lot of teachers and it's hard for me to remember what school they teach and Trac can you point oh oh I don't know if you were I wasn't sure where you saw um I don't know exactly what part of the Williams you answer okay yeah I wasn't sure what you were referring to T Chavez but it sounds like you first line on the page it says to whom it may concern after that are you looking at uh hold on on the Williams report right 601 item 6 601 that's what I'm looking at and you're looking at oh got it the letter in the back the last P got it I was looking at the first two pages okay thank you um okay thank you for clarifying that trusty Chavez any other members of the board wishing to ask any questions comments or concerns all right see none I think this is um it is on through approval so uh please it's 9:30 so help me do we make a motion and do we second already yes right motion to approve it was did already we did already thank you trusty um marel I'm sure got it down if she didn't she would let us know all right let's go to the vote I'll go ahead and call you as I see on my screen trusty famam hi trusty Chavez so I'm a little bit conflicted before I vote so if it's not if the other one wasn't on there and that was a complaint should it be put down as two or we just voting on this one now because this was the only one that was on file could you answer that Dr Bower please miss trusty Chavez we can only address the ones that are officially submitted so there will be throughout the year if there's another complaint the person can submit a Complaint Form officially this is an official document and and we have have to follow the process thank you iano I vice president g i and myself I Madam president yes um sorry to bring I would encourage us to be careful because that letter that was submitted with the Williams complaint was unsigned it didn't have anybody's name on it and so attempting to connect a per a speaker here with the complaint that was UN signed is bad form and it may discourage people from coming forward and and raising complaints and so Madam president I'm just raising that as a concern that we may want to avoid here at this public meeting attempting to connect who spoke and how it may connect with the complaint or anything like that just just a thought thank you vice president GTO uh trusty Travis thank you for that that wasn't my concern my concern was uh with the school if that also in addition needs to be taken care of thank you though for pointing that out right and then just moving forward um not to point out names thank you okay moving on to item 602 learning communities for school Success program lcsp information only Dr Brower I'm very pleased to introduce Dr almasan and Dr artigas and they have the first first report of our newly uh established uh socio emotional learning Department with that I'm gonna turn it over to Dr almasan uh good evening uh president era loera H Board of Trustees Dr Bower and our alrock community uh I'm Dr alazon and I serve as the Director of social emotional learning and I'm joined by colleague Dr Ana artiguez and she serves as the coordinator of uh mental wellness support services and we will present a brief update on uh a grant that arusd was awarded from the state of California which is the learning communities for uh School Success program or lcsp and am I able to share my slide deck um by chance um I'm not able to you should thank you do we give our ACC already Yes okay thank you very much our agenda tonight is going to hit on three points that we would like to um bring to you which is uh reviewing the background of the learning communities for school Success program and we would like to also give a status update for year one which was last year and um our next steps so in 2014 um California voters uh passed proposition 47 which is also known as the safe neighborhoods and schools act and um within this legislation there was an important provision related to K12 public education and so um this provision created um The Learning communities for school Success um and so through the lcsp um the California Department of Ed administers grants and um coordinates uh support to local um educational agencies uh to assist their efforts in uh identifying and implementing evidence-based non-punitive programs and practices um that are aligned with the goals uh for students contained um in uh the local control and accountability plan so which in our case um this aligns to our district alcap goal number three which is sorry to interrupt you are you um sharing already because we can't see uh yes I am uh I see it on my screen see um yeah we cannot see it okay um um I am on I am I'm on present mode uh maybe share or click on the share uh yeah button again I'm sure you did already there we go okay thank you I should have double checked to make sure everyone saw it I apologize thank you all right I'm going to triple check now I can can you see my screen yes we can all right perfect thank you um so as I was I was saying um you know through through the lcsp uh you know the these are the goals um that are contained in there and it does um align and connect with our ELC cap goal number three which is again uh to provide all students um and families a safe welcoming and caring environment conducive to learning and so therefore um in January uh 2020 uh our district was awarded the lcsp funding um in the amount of uh 1,100 uh100 $349 over the three years so last year was our first year we are currently in our second year and our third and final year will be next year and um but for tonight we are going to be reporting on uh year one only um so to dat um we we uh want to share our accomplishments um with the funding that we had received from the state of California and of course um we created the department um which uh was part of our uh application narrative um it was really important for us uh to bring forth um you know a department that was going to be concentrating mostly on the social emotional learning and well-being and mental Wellness of our students um and staff um many of the activities that fall under the SE Department include but are not limited to um the development of social emotional learning restorative practices as well as uh PBIS districtwide um overseeing um Grant activities aligned tocl um as well as the uh implementation of the uh ofcl curriculum um that is in our uh elementary and middle schools and um of course coordination of professional development for staff and families and so um it just highlighting just uh some of the professional development that you see there um you know we we uh introduce theal framework through Castle which highlights the five SEAL competencies and skills of self-management M self-awareness social awareness uh relationship skills and responsible decision making we also spent uh a considerable amount of time um with our uh management team in training uh in training last year um using the um onward and uh transformational seal uh framework to uh bring uh building emotional resilience um to our to our uh management which included uh you know improving our well-being preventing burnout and reflecting on actions that we take every day to cultivate resilience and um we are currently also uh part of an mtss trauma competency series that um a group of Administrators and um site staff uh participated in last uh year in 2021 and uh we are bringing that um to to to our district this year actually um and so um and so uh another another piece of coures that you see there um that came from last year was uh the development of our morning meetings at that time and it was utilized to build connections and relationships among uh students um and their teachers so uh this is um uh uh some of our accomplishments and now moving on to um our accomplishments in our m mental uh health and wellness um I'm going to turn this over to Dr artiguez Who will give us a brief uh overview of that thank you very much Dr Alazan good evening um so in terms of the one mental Wellness component we wanted to talk a little bit about the accomplishments that we had in 2021 uh and so through the 2021 year we were able to serve approximately 400 students uh actually 2019 2020 we were able to serve approximately 400 students during 2020 2021 um we did uh provide uh comprehensive support to different schools that were dealing with various crises um throughout the school year and we were able to provide those supports in real time um you know we were able to organize and structure bringing in support within 24 hours of finding out you know uh what may have occurred uh and then we were also able to work with staff and faculty and connect them with resources like the center for living with dying um to provide individual as well as small group support uh we were able to serve approximately 165 students with one-on-one counseling through 2021 and this is the school counselor intern program I just want to be very clear about that um and approximately 264 students and these are not duplicated students were supported via guidance lessons during 2021 and a lot of the guidance lessons we were doing were of the psychosocial emotional variety so we were doing a lot of things on Stress Management we were also doing things in the classroom around grief and loss um and so there were a number that were served through guidance lessons we also provided grief Crisis Support for approximately 206 students out at aptitude uh provided grief counseling support for approximately seven of the faculty and staff from optitude uh provided grief counseling support for entire Madison staff and conducted multiple assessments for families impacted by the laala incident leading to service referrals Dr next slide please perfect and so um what in terms of the 2021 uh budget expenditures for mental illness you know there was expenditures around staff salary uh also expenditures around extended Duty um some expenditure for curriculum materials and supplies and also contracted services with Community Partners so next steps for us moving forward because we're always looking at how we can grow the amount of support coming in for our students as well as for our families and our staff uh we're looking to build more Partnerships with community- based organizations to expand the services that we have uh and to create more linkage in terms of resources for students and families we're also currently facilitating parent trainings on the salal competencies um we're also uh working on developing uh self-care series for parents we're going to be piloting that through the mayfer um Mayer quadrant to begin and then development of self-care series for staff we're actually working on that as well uh continued seal implementation support at both the site and the district level participation in the multi-tier system of support training um and coordination of professional development opportunities for both staff as well as parents and we do look forward to continuing to advance you know the and mental Wellness work and continuing to grow the uh resources and the linkages moving forward so that not just our students but also the adults throughout the district are able to benefit from the support thank you thank you so much wow this is great especially with the need um huge need that we currently have um thank you for this uh great presentation uh what I'm going to do is I'm going to um open it up to public comments and then I'll bring it back to the board um and you answered a lot of my questions I was reading it but uh I had specific questions so thank you for answering some of those um and I might come out with others but for right now I am I'm so glad that um that this is happening I I know you all doing a great job and it's always nice to hear the details that go into all the amazing work that you're all doing so I'll go ahead and open it up to public comment Jose if you can help me with that if we have any members of the public wishing to um address this item at this time we have no public comment okay I'll wait a couple of seconds maybe they're running to press the button uh yes we have one person okay Miss Rachel lope uh two actually I'm sorry uh Rachel Lopez Miss Lopez you have two minutes please unmute yourself and You Begin speaking the timer will begin okay can you hear me okay thank you so much um I promise this will be my last comment tonight but I also just want to go on the record saying this is 100% exactly what alumrock needs um this is a I hope that when the grant runs out we can either get an additional Grant an extension more money more funds this is exactly how um the support teachers need the support students need the families um when you are talking about reducing toxic stress and um um you know secondhand trauma for for teachers um for parents um how to deal with you know stress especially during the covid year um these tools have been absolutely invaluable um I've been the recipient of um being able to attend classes my morning meetings have been huge um game changers in terms of relationship building um where we are you know destigmatizing talking about our feelings and um I'm just really really proud to be associated with um this school that this program that we are um promoting secl this should be like as important as curriculum in my opinion so thank you so much I really appreciate all the things that you've done our next speaker is Jessica Navaro you have two minutes please un yourself and You Begin speaking the time good evening everyone I appreciate um Dr Aras and Dr amazan for speaking today on this very important topic I am one of the uh newly elementary school counselors that has come on to board with the district and I can tell you firsthand that this is an incredible need um and I'm very excited to be part of the team and I can see already in many of the schools in the district with their students and with the staff that this is going to be very beneficial um and I as well as uh Miss Liz was mentioning hope this can continue um not just for this year and next year um but making steps in moving forward the right direction to helping our our students um and adults is incredibly incredibly important so I appreciate everyone for uh letting us be in the district and helping everyone as best as we can and appreciate your patience as well with us as we're working with students and families thank you our next speaker is Michael py Mr py you have two minutes please unmute yourself and You Begin speaking the timer will begin uh yes uh the social emotional learning is necessary is a great benefit and I'm glad that we are bringing these programs to our school uh schools plural uh our counseling staff needs to be supported uh so much more so than they are now there are too few of them I know you've hired a few new people but you really need to consider hiring more of them I would have you seriously consider getting bonuses to the people who have been with this district for a long time who have uh in the case of my school Joseph George uh our counseling staff have been there as long as I've been there perhaps uh well definitely more years I can't I can't be sure but they' both been there a long time and they deserve so much better they need support they need to have the number of students that they're uh assigned to reduced not increased and uh they like the teachers are also waiting for uh a salary schedule for uh some reason as another teacher said earlier give us some reason to be happy to come to work in the morning besides the feeling good that we're helping students of course that's what is a major motivator for most teachers but we also live in the real world we need to pay our bills we need to be able to uh make it in this crazy Valley where the prices just keep going up and up and we see no change in our salaries over the course of years and years so help out the counselors help out the teachers we can't be emotional support when we're emotional wrecks our next speaker is Sandra Rivera Rivera we have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board I would just like to say that during this unprecedented time these counselors have been a tremendous help to us and I would like to see a way for us to move forward to keep unit members and the counseling staff um as regular as possible especially in the the elementary school level and in all grade levels if you don't have somebody that's consistent it's very hard to build trust and so to have the consistency of not Contracting this out like we have in the past every year we saw new counselors coming in and while it's great to have the support that we had had in the past if we can have regular staff counselors and support staff that are part of our school district that are hired and our actual alumrock employees that this program has brought in it is tremendous in what we will be able to conquer and accomplish together that way the kids not having to build that trust every year with a new person coming in so please continue to do this work please continue to bring staff in so that we can get lower student to staff ratios and please continue to do it so that they are part of our our school district and not contracted out thank you so much our next speaker is brenos missos you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you um hi again my name is R Dez and um I just want to thank the for this presentation that gave uh really good information on what our students go through and I love the next steps um something to look forward to to see that we will be looking into Partnerships with community-based organizations and most importantly I think self-care series for parents we don't often think about them or our staff um it's been a tough year there's been a lot of Mental Health crisis with our students and I think that we really need need to focus on this area as the top priority for our students even our teachers and staff um consistency is one of the things that I will say and agree with that we do need and not only that we need full-time counselors that are in one site when we have counselors that go to to three sites it takes away that dedication to that school because they're having to go to another school and our students need full-time counselors so I really I really want to urge you guys to think about that just having someone that is in all School sites full-time I know that costs money but if we can get Partnerships and maybe programs that can help us do that um I think our teachers and staff and students will appreciate that again I want to thank you for this and I I do think that this is a really important subject um for our students who've been at home for a whole year almost two years coming back to school um and we don't know what situations they were at home so this is something great and I just want to thank you guys for this and I look forward to seeing all the great things that will be happening in our schools thank you now president at this time we have no more public comment thank you Mr Travis um okay I'm going to go ahead and open it up to the trustees any questions comments concerns on this item uh trusty Travis I'm glad to see that the teachers and the students most of all are getting the support and I heard one of the teachers say that if they can continue this um I for one will be asking for that later thank you thank you uh trusty with yes thank you I want to um first of all thank the team for the presentation um which gives us a very good background or understanding of what the work has been to this point and where we're going with this um and I want to remind everyone I guess in some sense that what we're doing here I mean there's other districts that do similar work but I feel like a lot of what we're doing the the things that have been um put into place the strategies and and and protocols and everything that staff and everyone has put together are in many ways groundbreaking um you know there's not a lot of districts that have this extensive or this robust of a program that we have and and I hear a lot of the comments of how it might even be better and I think that you know we're definitely can move in that direction and I want but I also kind of want to kind of remind people that um couple things number one typically the charge of a district obviously is to educate students and so traditionally you know the emphasis would be on those academic um Pursuits which obviously we want to do but we know that in our district it you can't it's almost it's very difficult to proceed forward with the academics when there's so much socially emotional I'm I think I'm preaching to the choir for our our whole Community we know that and so you know the fact that we have put this stuff in place it it's it's just a reminder that the there are resources that we need to devote to this we love doing this we love moving in this direction um but it takes resources it takes Partnerships and it takes all the hard work and strategy that we've been doing but resources go this way so this you know just to kind of fill in the picture of the where the challenges come for us as a board and a district team when we want to you know invest in so many different parts of our district and this is one example of a of a high priority for us that takes resources um and the other just last thing I wanted to say is that you know I've I've worked for the county and and mostly in child protect services for 25 years now and most of that time I've always advocated for our Eastside kids and families because ever since I've worked there there's always been a disproportionate number of children that come into the child welfare system from our area um and a conversation I had with Dr bar this week kind of had me reflecting on on the work that that we're doing here in the district with our department is that we're not only by doing this work we're not only impacting first of all just the day-to-day lives of children and parents and teachers even um but we're we're not only at um impacting in their academics because as they take care of themselves they can focus on their academics but potentially we're impacting generational cycles of involvement in the child welfare system because if we can address at this level um and from a preventative approach some of the issues that exist in our community we can prevent these children from coming into the child welfare system where outcomes are quite often not good for our family and children are are traumatized in many ways in that system so I just want us to recognize that this work although it certainly is having impact on our directly on our on our district and academics it's bigger than that the work that you're all doing is is in my opinion much bigger generationally in terms of Children and Families being safe in this Eide community so I want to thank everyone that's worked on this for all those reasons and I look forward to where we're going thank you trusty veano and just as a probation officer who hasn't been silent about about this and also breaking that pipeline to prison right and um knowing that it starts at a much younger age um similar to what you're saying you know just adding to that that they're not just keeping them from this you know your the social services but also keeping them from you know uh going into juvenile and eventually prison I mean it really directs them and I know they know this but I also just want to you know thank them for everything they're doing um as Leaders you know both of you who presented today and then everybody that's there I'm glad that some tuned in for the meeting um who are doing the work you know every second that you spend with that child you know um that impact that it has so I just want to reiterate that you know thank you from uh the bottom of my heart um somebody who's in in law enforcement and is working my way out of a job you know that one day I get that call that there's no more crimes being committed again you know no more youth being um detained uh because we've learned how to heal at a younger age so thank you so much um I'm gonna go ahead and uh turn it over to trusty fam okay uh first of all uh I want to thank the social and emotional learning team Dr Amazon Dr artigas for for moving so far so fast uh I actually work in a educational counseling position so you know that the Maxim in the education is it's better to intervene early than to intervene later because Miss uh mistakes are a lot more costly to a child as they get older it it it's but it's sad that it's but that that's how you know how life comes about you know kind of like in academics I'd rather have a student mess up in high school go to the Community College and then transfer rather than flunk out in college because that's a much financially that's a much more damaging life event than at the high school so you know you guys are in a sense changing the direction of the lives of our kids for the better you know before you before these problems get bigger and just a little anecdote uh for Dr alazon uh you handle an incident the day that I did my site visit aptitude at gos and when Dr Bower told me about it prior to arriving that oh my what you know uh you know that that's you know and believe me gos is you know I started out Goss the the Cubbies in the kindergarten rooms are the exact same Cubbies I used 30 years ago so uh I I wanted to to commend you and your team for handling that situation uh so very professionally and in a way that it did not dis it was not a larger disruption uh to the school site that day so uh uh thank you for what you've done now and I I want to keep up the good work and you know hopefully where this where we have the wherewithal you know yes we we should whether it be getting a grand extension or trying you know hopefully if our fiscal condition improves find Space so we can continue to support this very important priority thank you trusty famam um and sening other hands I have one question um I know that uh the schools that you've been at are um outlined on the presentation um I'm wondering if in this funding is it going to allow for other schools are we looking for um additional funding I know we talked about Partnerships and things like that the next steps in the back um but in this specific one are we looking to adding schools we actually um in our narrative um president Etta Letta we included all schools these are just a snapshot of what which schools we were able to serve in in you know in in such a um in a time where the need was was great and we wanted to show you the response um that we had taken um because the need was so great but uh we we have all schools included in this particular Grant and it is not it is not just Elementary or juste middle school it's it's our entire District entire District okay um and I'm I'm you know because the need is so huge right and um even if we had I think one full-time staff at every school it still wouldn't be enough um I'm sure um but are are we looking at because I know this is for three years right this specific Grant is for three years um are we looking at uh whether it's if it's a possibility of extending this grant or bringing in additional grants so that we don't have to to end it after the three years and we can keep that going according to this particular Grant um we uh must use all the funds by the third by the end of the third year um there is no extension however um we we have been uh looking and applying actually as we speak uh to additional grants and the most recent one uh that we had submitted was to the Department of Justice for another Grant and uh we will not be hearing from them until probably closer to maybe December um is what I was told so keep your fingers crossed that we are awarded that Grant so it will uh help continue the efforts that we have started okay thank you so much and that that was all the questions I had um if I don't see any other hands we'll go ahead um and uh move forward I know we're probably in middle of our agenda so maybe a bio break would be good thank you both for your presentation and thank you for your work and your leadership um and please thank the team on our behalf as well thank you thank you um so we've been here for a long time I think it's good for uh to get a little bio break water break whatever you might need um fresh air break uh but maybe we should extend the time already because we'll definitely be here past 10:30 um and since we can only extend it once I think it's uh proper to extend it a little bit further than what we think we might go to and if we need the time we'll use it and if we don't then we won't I know I've been doing pretty good about trying to keep it under you know at an early time but this one I think we'll go long um so any suggestions as far as time before we take a vir break 12 Dr bar you think that's sufficient time um we I'm sorry I missed the time the time 12 midnight I think so yeah okay so that's as late as we can go anyway isn't it 11 actually I think it's 115 1159 okay you're okay uh Chavez with 11:59 I just remember going till 3 in the morning you know back in the day so 11:59 sounds good um um trusty Travis if I don't see any opposition to that we'll leave it at 11:59 um let's take a 10minute bio break so we'll be back here at 10:17 we have to take official action to extend it oh can I get a motion motion two second second that's for the extension correct motion for the extension to 11:59 all right second by trusty Chavez um and we'll see you back here at 1017 we need to vote oh God yes public comment sorry okay um let's open it up for public comment uh Mr traveis anybody wishing to uh address this item I see no public coming I'll wait a couple seconds any now still there okay so we'll vote uh trusty B hi trusty hi trusty Chavez hi vice president GTO hi and myself I okay now we'll take a 10 minute bio break 10:18 I we'll see you back here at 10:18 thank you welcome back welcome back all right looks like we have Quorum looks like we're all back not sure but hanano is probably there in the background somewhere um let's see we need to call uh roll call oh we just moveed forward it's you already recall Ro at the beginning of the meeting correct can you hear me uh vice president GTO I can't hear you I can hear you check our audio too good I'm sry we're checking our audio can't hear you you can't hear me no hello can you hear me no so maybe your audio your speakers or something I can we can hear him we can all hear you can you say something I can hear him yeah we I think you're the only one who AIO I can hear yes sorry about that okay I just saying that you called it was me I hardly wear my earphones but since I'm sharing room and uh we have some private matters to discuss today I decided to wear my earphones okay my fault I we're back all right and I see all of us back um all right moving on to item 701 approve ratify tentative agreement between the Elam Rock Elementary School District and California School employee Association chapter 305 for the period of July 1st 2020 through June 30th 2022 move to approve by Vice second I just see Mr fam raise your hand and say second um okay so let's go to the public comment first and then we'll come back for any questions comments concerns uh Mr Chavez can you help us with the public comment yes M president at this time I see no public comment we'll wait a couple seconds do we now still now okay all right uh coming to the trustees any questions comments concerns all right seeing none uh we'll go ahead and uh go to vote trusty Bano hi trusty fam hi hi vice president GTO hi trusty Chavez hi and myself I passes unanimously next item 702 approve classified substitute rate fees move approval second move to approve by Vice pres second by trusty fam all right uh we'll go ahead and open it up for a public comment at this time Mr Chavez this time we have no public com okay we'll wait a couple seconds do we now uh still none okay seeing none uh we're go ahead and move on for trustees questions comments concerns see none we'll go ahead and move on to the vote trusty Verano hi trusty fam hi vice president GTO hi trusty Chavez hi and myself I passes unanimously uh 703 resignations only uh for information only um I'll go ahead and still open it up for public comment Mr Travis uh yes Madam president at this time we have no public com okay I'll wait a couple seconds do we know still no okay seeing none uh coming back to the trustees any questions comments concerns all right right seeing none it's on for information only so we'll go ahead and move on to item 801 um and Dr president it's listed as consent it's advertised consent so I would ask that we approve the consent uh contracts over $100,000 okay and we're talking about 801 through 803 correct correct yeah so move to approved by vice president GTO second second uh uh I'll trusty Chavez because you both said it at the same time so second by trusty Chavez and then I see trusty Beano hand up I just I just want to confirm that I saw that too I just want to confirm that we can do that I don't recall this area having that before but want to make sure we're good okay yes we're good uh Mr Dre yes as part of the consent calendar that's fine okay even though it's separate from the actual consent calendar on 10 item or section 10 maybe I just maybe we have seen it before and I just don't recognize it but okay well if it's good it's good thank you sure no problem uh we'll go ahead and open it up for any public comments on any of these items 801 through um yes Madam president this time I see no public comment okay we'll wait a couple of seconds do we know still not okay so I'll go ahead and bring it back to the trustees any questions comments concerns right seeing none we'll go ahead and uh take it to the vote uh we'll start with trusty Bano hi uh vice president kto Hi trusty Chavez hi trusty men hi sorry my screens keep changing and I don't know why but myself I passes unanimously all right moving on to uh 901 approve contract extension for 2021 uh with achieve kids move approve approve second move to approve by vice president GTO second by trano all right we'll go ahead and open it up for public comment Mr Chavez uh no public comments at this time okay we'll wait a couple seconds any now still none okay we'll go ahead and bring it back trustees any questions comments concerns seeing none we'll go ahead and take it to the vote uh trusty Beano I trusty Keno I trusty Chavez hi trusty fam hi and myself I passes unanimously 902 move to approve approve was that Chavez second you moved you moved to approve thank youo and then I heard everybody else second but we'll go ahead and go with truste Chavez uh second um all right uh let's go ahead and open it up for public comment at this time Mr Chavis any members of the public wish to address support on this item uh no public comment at this okay well wait count a couple seconds any now uh still none okay uh we'll come back to the trustees any questions comments concerns on this item seeing none we'll go ahead and take it to the vote trusty Beano hi trusty fam hi vice president GTO hi trusty Chavez hi and myself by pass unanimously three contract 2022 2122 being together sound really garbled is that just me or I can't hear her either for me am I back or no you're back now huh okay all right get ready uh vice president GTO because you might have to take it on if I go out okay next item move to approve 2122 think together Mo approval second move to approv by vice president GTO second by sounded like everybody else we'll go we'll go with Chavez thank you for speaking for me you can be president again one of these days Chavez you can be I just want to terrify it was actually it was actually me but I'll defer to trust each other thank you all all right for purposes of moving forward trusty Chavez this time second the motion we'll go ahead and open it up for public comment uh Mr Chavez yes pres we have one speaker all right you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin can you hear me now yes yes so and behalf of all the um Union guys Teamsters I'm very thankful for um the opportunity to to do more for our subs I know the money is going to be increased for the subs um now we can have more subs we need it in the district thank you and the money is going to go for theot we really need all the equipment is going to be by with that money and I really thank you all and then honestly the bo is very entertaining I like it I like it thank you we have uh no more speakers at this time Madam president thank you Mr Chavez uh thank you yes y we like having you here too is all right um so coming back to the board any questions comments concerns on this item in relation to think together all right seeing none we'll go ahead and open up for a vote uh starting with trusty Chavez hi trusty Beano hi trusty famam I vice president GTO I and myself I moving on to 904 approve extension for 2021 with some belt Staffing motion to approve 904 please everybody I heard everybody all right second uh we'll go ahead and move to approve by trusty Chavez second by vice president GTO uh we can uh open it up for public comment at this time Mr Chavez can you help us with public comment on this item yes no public comment at this time all right I'm gonna uh count a few seconds any now still none okay coming back to trustees any questions comments concerns on this item all right seeing none we'll go ahead and go to the vote trusty fam hi trusty Chavez hi trusty Beano I vice president kto I and myself I all right consent calendar okay M the hold on one second u i see uh trusty F raising his hand yes move to approve the entirety of consent calendar items 10.01 through 10.08 second it was second by trust St kto is the okay so let's go and open up for public comment at this time on items 10:1 through 10:08 Madame President I'm sorry yes Dr b i I just have to remind the board that this amend this agenda was amended to add item 109 it was amended on Monday and just to remind everybody that um we alerted everybody and so I I feel that we're not you know following the on board dogs so that's okay we just want to make sure that 10:09 is the school field trips for the year for the science camps for two schools adante one and adant two uh I I'd be willing to amend it to include 10.09 second person person and second vice president I think that was you you're good all right I see a thumb up all right thank you Dr Barber for that reminder yes we do remember and I only have one screen so yes thank you for catching that uh all right so open it up to public comment at this time Mr Chavis any members of the public wishing to address the board on 10:01 through 10:09 no public comment at this okay we'll wait a couple seconds any now still now all right bringing it back to the board any questions comments concerns from the board I see trusty Chavez with her hand up trusty Chavez whoops sorry I didn't put it down okay no worries um anybody body else I don't see anyone else we'll go ahead and go to the uh vote uh trusty fam hi vice president kto Hi trusty Chavez hi trusty Bano hi and myself I passes unanimously all right so close session um Dr bow how long do you think we'll be in closed session um before we um yeah break I think about an hour no more than an hour okay hopefully less so be back here by 11:30 or should we say 11:15 11:30 okay so 11:30 um any uh announcements that need to be made before breaking just going down the public comment on the items in close comment okay but no announcements on our part before I open it up for public comment okay all right opening it up to public comment Mr Chavez any public comment on any items in close session no public comment at this time Madam president okay we'll wait a couple [Music] seconds any no still not okay all right so we'll close to public comment and then come back here at 11:30 p.m.
you uh board over in post session thank you all right I see trusty fam I see vice president kimto all right we have a quorum okay um Dr barer any report Backs from the close session is she here uh I I was going to ask roio and I don't I don't know if he has made it uh let me see he's here I don't see him yet yes he he he needs to report okay can you text him and see if he's a logging on he's logging on nice yeah he we have four minutes before the end of the meeting and thank you public for being patient with us I remember he was having a little bit of a challenge there he is all right roio welcome back thank you can I report Clos session actions yes please okay um with respect to close session item 11.03 a motion by member kto second by member cha Chavez the board authorize the initiation of litigation against uh responsible parties and contractors uh in connection with the HVAC projects in 2017 uh at dorsa and Lucha elementary schools and the construction defects uh in connection with those projects and that was a unanimous vote by the board there are no further actions to report thank you roio um and moving on to third item 13 any future board agenda items please send them in writing uh to uh the superintendent um or myself so we can include them in the next scheduled uh agenda um board meeting agenda and at this time I'd like to uh adjourn the meeting at 11:56 pm thank you so much and um we have our next regular scheduled meeting on November 18th thank you
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and 4.7 the board of trustees took formal action with a 5-0 vote to approve the expulsions of students 21-01 and 21-02 thank you moving on to recognitions the board of trustees would like to recognize our community stakeholders for your interest in the anaheim union high school district and for attending our board meeting thank you all so much to each of you for your participation and contribution as we create an education environment that graduates socially aware civic minded students who are college and career ready for the 21st century and this evening we have several guests yazmin hussein who's the vice president branch manager of city national bank sharmila shamel the client officer for city national bank song kim president of i-k-e-n and k-e-c-l-a then we have grant schuster president of the asta association and then we have amanda bean representing the alta she's the vp of alta our administrative group did i miss any other of our presidents of groups all right all right and we have one of the first things we want to recognize madam president can i um i was just informed that yasmin hussein is stuck in traffic so maybe we could go to the second recognition and then we'll come back to it after okay we can go to the second donation then and um then we'll so we'll do six two first all right okay some kim will be in it is hopefully here okay just have a seat for a minute and then i'm going to ask you to come forward and have a word with the rest of us the board of trustees wants to recognize you president of the international korean education network for the donation of a total of thirty thousand dollars to help fund our first district online korean course your leadership in establishing iken curriculum and the korean american culture and society course your diligent work in ensuring ensuring that the icann courses achieved university of the california office of the president ada g approval and your effort in helping to showcase showcase the district's korean rural language program most importantly we want to recognize that president sung kim's over 40 years of contributions to increasing the awareness access and importance of the korean language and culture as a public school teacher at a korean dual language immersion program and work within the international korean education network and korean education center all right come forward and have a few words oh okay uh good evening everyone ladies and gentlemen uh world of trustees of anaheim union high school district president anna l uh percy castlin h smith l jabber brian o'neill anne-marie render treasure and superintendent mr michael matsuda dr jaron fried dr luna bryant miss jackie counts and executive cabinet members as former parents i am honored to be here today my son and my daughter-in-law attended from elementary to high school in anaheim in in the 1990s a long time ago and graduated from cyprus high school here i would like to thank anaheim union high school district for teaching a well-rounded educational philosophy and strong citizenship i want to emphasize that not only my children but their friends all of their friends are all diligent and successful citizens of society so i heartily appreciate it as the president of icann i am pleased that the cambridge virtual academy has opened an online korean language class from and is growing well and especially mr david kim the korean language teachers dedication makes it happen and i can want to provide funding to the ni union high school district to support the growth of korean language and cultural classes we hope that the korean education center grant will help korean language classes take root in the cambridge virtual academy and e-learning of anaheim union high school district continue to grow in the future thank you again for giving me such a wonderful opportunity thank you [Applause] um so last year um 10 000 and next year [Applause] thank you so much a little bit more is [Applause] check this is so cool okay we're going to continue on to the next item because we you know our uh the the acknowledgement for for your uh yes mean the same yeah saying is is that is still taking traffic so we'll move on to 7.1 this is what so many of you in our audience are here about and we're glad to see you um i believe carol's i mean this is uh let me read a little bit about this because what we're currently considering is the request to approve to rename the business wing building 500 at south junior high school after carol shaw carol was a business teacher at south junior high for 18 years and she recently passed away from cancer during her tenure mrs shaw developed the digital animation program at south junior high school that is now used district-wide she co-founded south's 8th grade day to celebrate their promoting 8th graders and was named as south junior high school's teacher of the year in 2012-13 carol had an immeasurable impact and was beloved by her south community the district's ad hoc committee evaluated the request developed a report and made a recommendation to the board for their consideration and the board will now take a motion to approve this so moved second i have a motion in a second do i have any questions comments all right seeing none right now all in favor aye aye opposed none so we will name the building 500.
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[Applause] would you stand up please would you like to come up and say a few words yeah it's difficult is the rest of your family here i can introduce the family stand up please and let everyone know that they are here [Applause] so i'll take great pride in introducing carol's family we have carol's brother jack who's at the at the aisle her husband ron shaw her mom mrs hip her daughter who's by the way it's her 15th birthday today that's alyssa and then her son jack our whoops our will will jack is the brother will that's great thank you is there anybody in the audience who would like to say something in honor of this occasion grant please do so my name is grant shuster i'm the president of the anaheim secondary teachers association but actually i'm not speaking in that position i met carol hipp when she was in college she and my brother were both playing soccer together at san francisco state um soon after that when we were getting our teaching credentials carol worked at disneyland uh with myself and my brother i got to know her very well and then of course we ended up teaching together in auhsd and there are things that you obviously don't see on a paper like that the years that she was a coach and supporting all of her students in that way um obviously the the mom that she was to her kids and ju the friend that she was to all of us it was an honor to know her i know my brother knew her far better than i did and was incredibly impacted uh by her in his life and it is a wonderful tribute to her that the students at the school will forever know her name and what she gave to to the community thank you thank you [Applause] okay this now i think it's a great thing and when we have somebody who's been that outstanding in in a school and has left a mark that we should recall that person and have it there something named after them so that building will forever be carol shaw all right absolutely um is there a gentleman here yet not yet okay moving on to seven point two seven point two school sponsored student organizations hello except for seven point two uh five seven point two four yes we have eight we took that out any questions or comments good evening alan and uh thank you for coming um any questions any comments being done all in favor all right opposed okay did you yeah oh one more one more there we go now it's official okay reports yeah just keep going okay let's keep going okay reports 8.1 student representative your report you're on abdullah all right thank you uh good evening everyone i'm just going to share a few things that are going along at the district and some updates that i along with the other ambassadors have so across the district i'm so happy to announce that all students have received an octa bus pass if they signed up for one which is a really great thing that everyone's really excited for because now we have a new means of transportation for students that didn't have one before all ambassadors are now serving on our district task forces and have had many opportunities to advocate for student voice across the district i along with my fellow ambassadors are also trained on our career preparedness systems framework which we will soon be presenting to parents and students across the school sites so check us out when we go do those uh and we're gonna have the great chance to share these presentations on november 5th at an artificial intelligence summit which we just found out that we are invited to and my one of the happiest one of my best pieces of news right now that i'd like to share is that for the first time in ambassador history we officially have um a school site ambassador for hope school his name is adrian barrios um so hopefully he'll be able to join us at our next um meeting once we get him a nice outfit like this one so hopefully you get to see him soon yeah it's great i'm really excited about that um many of our schools had their homecoming game and dance for the first time in almost two years so it's great to see that we're finally getting back to our new normal thanks to grant anaheim high school students have been able to purchase a refrigerator which they are calling their community fridge program and everyone's really excited about that because they get to share um all these non-perishable items and dairy products and whatnot for their community oxford academy's robotics team participated in a nationwide first technology competition kickoff they also participated along with cyprus in the jack howe tournament which uh junior from oxford academy benjamin huang placed first in his event along with rebecca ciao from cypress high school veren metta from oxford academy also placed first place in the national speech and debate for varsity lincoln douglas oxford academy and cva korean language program was honored by many distinguished guests such as the vice consulate from korea for unveiling a new korean class in media begin being the first in the nation which we got to hear from today many schools like lawera are holding activities for hispanic heritage month that are showcasing the different heritages and communities that we have here in the district kennedy high school in fact is holding a community processing circle about the hispanic heritage and they're having an open discussion about their culture laura high school is also having a house of reps meeting for the first time this year and they're going to be informing students about all the info that's going on such as the board of trustee meeting today since the last board of trustee meeting many schools have held forums in fact for dress code to help inform students about some of the guidelines that were kind of confusing savannah high school held a forum where students all watched a presentation that got to clarify some of the rules that they had some confusions about and magnolia high school is working with their administration and students to kind of shift the discussion around dress code so that people understand that it's not about body shaming or being judged but instead about school environment and i wanted to take this time because i was told that four graduates from gilbert high school have officially been have officially graduated so i want to take this time to announce their names christopher dominguez carlos mendoza uh angeline quiet cueto guillermo zuniga so i just want to shout them out real quick congratulations and finally i just want to close out this report with a few quotes that i got from a few students that i'd like to share so one student said i felt very welcomed and safe returning back to on-school learning i'm happy that i can resume activities and events in person that was from andrea rodarte a senior at anaheim high school another student shared as a junior i feel very stressed about being in school as searching for information about scholarships and how i get to be involved in school is scarce to come by however i am very delighted about how enthusiastic teachers are about teaching in person because as a student one could tell how passionate teachers have become it has been tough to adopt the new circumstances we were left in after online school but it has awakened people's desire to teach and learn this was by yedrique gomi gomez class of 23 from lower high school and finally being in person has definitely helped me in terms of understanding the material and paying attention in class this has made doing the homework a lot easier compared to online but there is a large increase of workload from previous years which i'm trying to work on a sophomore from western high school thank you all right very good thank you i like the fact that you got some comments from some of the students from various schools that's very good thank you that's great to hear thank you okay i believe our our guests are here okay guests are here so we will back to donations from city national bank okay city national bank is a full-service bank that offers a complement of banking trust and investment services at city national they proudly offer services tools and technology that put people and communities first their car belief is to make a difference in the community by investing in the communities they serve they take pride in their literacy program and support local schools with yearly backpacks supply as well as volunteer with school districts when their irvine office was closing in march the first thing that came to mind was how to distribute furniture to local non-profits or communities rather than just leaving it for movers to put it in waste city national started calling and part of that call was to trustee al jabar the district picked up most of the furniture to be used for our community resource center at sycamore junior high school on behalf of the board and the anaheim union high school district community we thank you profusely for your generous donation i know we have uh yes vin hussein uh back there so we will probably ask you to come up forward um with also my sister who works for the bank sharmila haseem who's also back there so i would like to while they come up i just want to mention that mrs cena has been a big supporter of the sikomo community we did a couple of backpack drives which assisted some of our families in sycamore junior high she also spearheaded a food distribution program for our kids or families who are actually affected by covet so that happened but at the same time uh she was also very active and involved in the community uh i think she has a private group which actually go goes ahead and raises funds for uh communities that i need so i'm glad that my sister put me in touch with her so we are actually in a in a good place to support our anaheim communities which i need so thank you very much on behalf of the board and that community thank you all right i don't know if it's work but my apologies to be late i thought 10 miles will take me in about 45 minutes but it took me hour and a half so oh my apology but i just want to thank you guys for giving us an opportunity to work with you thank you for giving us in touch with the curve with the anaheim school district and i was actually looking at my new office storage room and i found a lot of things i think we can talk about it so we can distribute to the school yeah thank you for having me i appreciate it i just want to make a point that the the furniture that was used is going to our new community school and it's more than five thousand dollars worth so i'm very appreciative of that thank you oh don't go away come yeah we got that okay and uh do we have the branch manager also here no no it's uh actually she's the branch brother he is the branch manager oh i'm sorry and anybody else come up forward please we'll give you a presentation and take a picture i really appreciate it thank you so much for thinking about that instead of wasting it and giving it thank you very much that is so well appreciated just for the picture thank you so much [Applause] we are so appreciative in this district of anything which we are given or donated things like that furniture it's a great asset for us you know we put it to good use and we appreciate it very very much and of course the financial support for the korean language outstanding okay uh next will be our reports of the associations uh we'll start with astor grant shuster we'll have you come back up and speak as the president of asta thank you good evening board president piercy trustees cabinet and others in attendance here and online we've made it through uh one of the most difficult first quarters of a year that we've all experienced there have been challenges and obstacles too numerous to list so tonight i just want to acknowledge what we're all going through to the board we know how hard it has been to represent your constituencies so impacted over the past year and a half the concern frustration and anger foisted upon you regularly by a community passionate about their children and their safety has been a massive load on your work and your work is appreciated to the cabinet in addition to all of the same contacts that you receive that are similar to those on the board you also plan and implement all of the programs and protocols that support students employees and the community we see what you do and acknowledge how difficult and stressful it has been to all of our district and site support staff your time and effort spent on a daily basis with the students and families is invaluable families show up at schools with needs far beyond the scope that we have been trained or funded to address but you take everyone in and do whatever you can to help them we see you doing this and acknowledge the where it has put on you this year to my asta members in the classrooms nurses offices and speech therapy rooms i want to lift up all that you are doing this year under extraordinary circumstances bringing students back to a campus setting after such a long absence coupled with the anxiety and trauma so many of our children have returned to school with has made your jobs more challenging than ever we see the toll it has taken and acknowledge all that you are doing to support students and create conditions for them to grow and thrive once again there are countless stories of stress and struggle and all of us wondering at times how we're all going to possibly get through this but we're going to do it together and it's really important for us not to just acknowledge each other but then look for ways that we can support each other and ease the burden and stress and make it easier to get through this difficult time uh we must acknowledge what we're all going through and as their leaders we must continue to find ways to support all of our employees whatever needs they have so their focus can stay on students i along with asta leadership and committed to do so and we know that everyone else in this room will join us i would also like to discuss on another topic our progress with community schools asta has continued to work with parents community group representatives and district personnel to organize the stakeholders in order to nurture our community schools by getting input regarding their structure and implementation as well as reviewing programs in place tanya garcia the anaheim high schools community school coordinator and i had a presentation this morning at anaheim high school at their late start meeting we have already had stakeholders responding to become part of the site team asta is working with cta to make sure these collaborative teams are part of the requirements put in place in order to receive a community schools grant from the state we must reinforce the neighborhood public school as the foundational cornerstone of every local community our process will do just that to close i want to again acknowledge the work of asta members and everyone else in the district and call on all of us to keep an eye out for each other for our students for our families and other employees in need of any kind of support we must provide whatever we can to keep everyone safe healthy and prepared to learn in our schools thank you thank you grant and then we have the alta vice president amanda bean good evening for president piercy board of trustees superintendent matt souda cabinet guests and those joining us online first i'd like to give a shout out to all of our school administrators we are in the week of the school administrator so i want to acknowledge just the hard work of this group you know the evenings weekends all the things that they do to support our our our teachers our counselors our administra the other administrators students and families we know that they're working very hard to to make sure our schools are safe and wonderful places to be some of the things going on for the administrative team is that we just had the ed summit this last monday and um so i want to just shout out give them a shout out uh for their support of helping us get our facilities ready we held um they had summit across various sites and so our teams needed to help us get rooms and technology ready and um just to make sure that we have a successful event for our teaching and clerical staff sites are in full swing right now with student activities including homecoming and athletics and i'm having lots of fun doing that they've been very busy coordinating the implementation of our district-wide system around the college and career fair and so working with their teams to make sure that um students are getting registered on the socio platform to uh making sure that thriving assessments are taking place and that students are having career exploration activities prior to attending the college and career fair and just helping making sure those systems on their campuses are um running there are busy holding saturday academies and the upcoming psat which is actually this coming saturday um also in the middle reviewing first quarter data and looking for opportunities for real-time grade recovery for students and making sure that we're supporting students before they might not pass a course at the end of the semester and they're starting to have conversations around master schedule and those reflective conversations to help aid us in this year's planning also continuing with coffee with the principals and having various parent nights on campus so again while it's very busy our teams are very happy to be with students and supporting the community and just i'm so happy to be back in person um and to be able to just um have a good time and and again meet the needs of our families so thank you are there any other let's see pta or apga we have sylvia i can't see you with the mask my hair's different today i straightened it for you so little trustees district cabinet auhsd students families and community members prior to covid we used this time to allow our schools to come and report on their counseling programs tonight i am honored to be able to introduce two counseling programs catella high school and south junior high we will begin this evening with my friend and colleague mr ken gompert speaking on behalf of catella's counseling department after him miss candace dion will be sharing for south junior high school thank you good evening lord it's nice to see you again i'm ken gompert counselor at catalan high school joining me tonight is my principal dr hernandez lacey monger counselor and counselor janet lowe we were doing the math of our counseling team and we have over 100 years of experience here at anaheim union as counselors and if you if you take the number that we work with cohorts of four years and then you multiply it by our case load that comes about seventeen thousand that's about seventeen thousand students that we've had direct contact with during our tenure and that's just catella high school that's pretty significant if you think about it because as a professional school counselor we have an opportunity to reach a lot of students and not just in the schools because i was at the dentist and my dentist asked me what do you do for a living i said i'm a professional school counselor i worked at cypress high school and i work at catalan she says you've got to be kidding me my best friend went to one of your schools she may have been your counsel or your student i said what was your friend's name she says fabulous but her name was not fabulous i'm just going to tell you right now but she had a fabulous name one you would never forget and she says yeah fabulous she she went to new york she studied fashion she uh started her own business super successful happier than ever and as a counselor listening to that that's music to the ears so of course i left and no cavities just so you know came came back six months later because i go every six months and she says ken you won't believe who i had lunch with fabulous i told her that you were my client and she's oh mr gompert wow mr gompert well i'll tell you and i'm not bragging but she says i don't know if i would have been in new york had it not been for his guidance i was in his office every day constantly getting guidance from him now let's be let's be honest uh long-term memories are distorted and it's not likely she was in my office every single day i know that to be true but i know long-term memories are distorted but they're distorted by emotion and i know that whatever she left with she left with positive regards she left with support and that i can say did happen not just by me but also by my team by the professional school counselors in our district now i tell you the story because this situation with the dentist was fairly recent but she graduated 17 years ago and she's still telling that story so what we do is professional school counselors yes it does affect the immediate but it is long and far-reaching and it affects our entire community even the dentist's office i'm a celebrity in the dentist office now so it's kind of nice but i do want to take the time to thank you because i've always felt great support from our board from our district administration from our site administration because we do know that professional school counselors make a big difference so i want to take the time to thank you and it's good to see you again have a fabulous evening [Applause] hello good evening i'm cecilia soberanis i'm one of the counselors at south junior high um i love that ken highlighted a student that we see the success after years today i want to share a story with you of a student that we're seeing success in the now and the today and i think this is a great way to highlight what we do as a profession so this year more than most quarter one at south junior high and every other counseling office across the district has it's been a time to explore our students and their stories their needs how we can support them each day unique in its own way has provided us with the opportunity to build rapport and stu and support students through a myriad of experiences during a year of such high social emotional need it's difficult to choose just one student on which to focus on in this narrative and so we chose a student we're going to name this student student s um it's not as clever as fabulous i wish i would have thought of something like that but student as it is as a cohesive and collaborative counseling team all three of the counselors at south junior high have developed an invested interest in the well-being and success of this student each of us have brainstormed ways to support him as he navigates the challenges and successes of his junior high experience we first learned of the student during our elementary school counselor collaboration which ensures a smooth transition with our most at-risk rising seventh graders it was shared with us that stu this that student s should be challenged in honors classes and we noticed that student s did not request any honors classes so we were able through meeting with the student with their family um able to make sure that we met their needs by providing them with honors classes for the in their schedule however there was so much more to learn about him as we delved a little deeper through the queue reviews consultations with teachers meetings with parents and daily interactions with the students experiencing significant anxiety during the first few weeks of school this student needed help advocating for his needs as a member of south lgbtq plus community we helped him with emails that outlined his preferred name and pronouns with his teachers so that his authentic self could be recognized additionally a five-minute grace period at the end of class before pe was given so that student s could change in a general gender-neutral bathroom through the development of supports such as these we discovered that there are some other hurdles based on our pe uniforms that this student has been very vocal in our south gsa which we call the rainbow warriors which is advised by two of our school counselors and he has vowed to voice his opinion on the topic and make some real change in our south community he even ran for a leadership position in our rainbow warriors through the process of getting to know this student and helping him manage his anxiety with daily check-ins scheduled for each morning before class during those few minutes the student was able to share thoughts emotions processes and challenges it gave him a place that to feel safe and supported before starting a hectic and stressful day the rapport that was built during these moments led the student to self-reporting suicide ideation once a formal risk assessment was conducted the student appeared to be low risk and the benefit of this was that we were able to provide the student and his family with resources outside of the school setting that offer opportunities for both individual and family counseling although we never know what the next day will bring we have watched student s become more independent and comfortable with his identity he is advocating for himself more often he is also excelling in his honors classes and now only checking in on the mornings when he feels that it's necessary he was even a september student of the month the school counseling team looks forward to a year of growth for this student as well as all the other students that we have at south junior high south junior high we're so lucky to have a hard-working and caring team and this is just one story of how school counselors can really affect change in the here and now in the today of every student so thank you for taking the time for us to share these stories they're just one in a million of stories that are um currently happening at south at auhst actually so thank you so much [Applause] okay lots of work thank you uh okay pta sptsa report do we have the parent teacher representative here i don't see any okay so we will move on to our presentations and our first presentation this evening will be about trusty area boundary adjustment following comprehensive study and community input the district transitioned to a buy trustee area election method in 2014.
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so that you, the voter, can make an informed voting decision. Again, if you're interested in being a league member, we're not paid people. We're all kind of just love this. This is what we do for all our side time when we're away from our families um running forums like this. But if you are interested, please see one of the ladies, get one of our membership brochures, sign up, or go to lwvpppr.org. Thank you to Academy District 20, Tina Matson, the communications department, District 20 Security, the League of Women Voters at the Pikes Peak Region Voter Service Team volunteers that you've seen several places tonight, the Liberty High School AP government students that are collecting your questions and checking those cards. And of course, thank you all for just being here tonight and all of you for volunteering. I have a disclaimer. Actually, we've added to our disclaimer since last week's forum.
We've got lots of input. Wow. I try to tend to um adapt and and I I welcome challenges. So, I appreciate um the comments. Um unfortunately, the negativity had to we had to stop some things. So, unfortunately, we couldn't act like some adults. So you've seen some repercussions for the last week and this disclaimer and added disclaimer is one of those. So the views expressed this evening will be those of the candidates not of the sponsoring organizations. Some of the positions expressed here should be considered opinions not facts agreed to by experts and we encourage the voters to learn more and do your own research to get factual information. Please be aware that the League of Women Voters neither supports nor opposes candidates. We don't care who you vote for, just vote in every election. And being here tonight shows me that you care about every election.
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Thank you again for attending tonight and being an active, engaged citizen. Let's explain these offices that these people up here are running for tonight. For Academy District 20 School Board, there are 10 candidates running for three open seats for four-year terms. This election is a mailin or drop off ballot only. And ballots have been mailed. Has everyone gotten theirs? Yeah. Awesome. If you don't, if you haven't received yours or your blue book or that Taber notice, I want you to contact the El Paso County Clerk and Recorders Office and their phone number is a pretty easy one to remember. It's vote. So again, 5758683. Tonight's format, similar to last week, will be opening remarks by each candidate for two minutes, followed by questions. Um, mainly we're going to be taking ones from the audience tonight. Um, just we only have one prepared question, but after the the my prepared question, handwritten questions that you've been turning in will be addressed as time allows tonight.
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kayla hansen up top [Music] moscow turns away nicely trying to find a blue shirt up field now the ball comes back to her trying to switch fields here through the central defense stocks up to goganian just play wide for stocks but read well by longval of midway midway's she got fouled midway's gonna have a free kick here [Music] big boot inside the 20-yard line played wide there by keaney keaney looking for help here's a cross cleared out of danger by the ds defense copeland now coming on and chip block is off sense with the throw into the box volleyed out nicely by diaz says we'll take another stab at it ds getting a foot on that ball it's played out to the 30. midway's gone it played back into the box over everybody right into the arms of the keeper [Applause] she'll throw this ball forward to moscow ello trying to turn plays it back to the defender [Music] a little one two played there with the outside midfielder now it's at the feet of luskow she finds sumner briefly that's intercepted by perez now won backed by ds [Applause] ball played wide los gao looking for options trying to go way down the line for sumner goalie retreats to her line summoner with a big cross it goes off the defender but scooped up by the goalie close to a corner kick there for diaz now midway trying to attack up the right hand side nice step there from stocks wins that ball turns finds it open teammate ball's played forward now [Applause] now medway wins it in the midfield going down the line so we schwartz in a foot race with tompkins [Music] and wins that battle well played up the line to mahoney trying to settle it chips it ahead herman [Music] somebody got fouled might have been summer now it's down the line for sumner somewhere in a battle with mahond wins that battle turns gets it to goganian she runs into a crowd of defenders midway able to just clear that for a throw-in before it became a corner referee wants this ds to throw that in again i think move down the line a bit a little over 17 minutes left in this first half still scoreless 0-0 ball's punted high in the air not played before the bounce ds in possession in the back though but then we're putting the pressure on ball is played forward kayla hanson trying to win it for medway now herman with a nice turn possessing the ball big ball forward for sumner summer's going to win this race get oh and the defender just slides in there gordon was way out kind of in no man's land if someone was able to slide that ball across the goganian would have been a great opportunity for diaz nice play by the defense diaz starting to increase the pressure here a little bit starting to get those long balls through and get sumner running onto him another throw deep in the corner for ds i'm sorry corner ball's played in goaltender gets away from her but she recovers and grabs it [Applause] and threw her hands and over her shoulder but maybe just spin around and snag that now punting from the top of her box looking to connect with hanson ball played forward by tompkins but that's gonna get all the way to the goalie before medway can get there punted forward nicely sumner now to hermann she's going to help up the right wing zoe schwartz running onto it just can't quite get there before that ball runs out ds outside fullbacks get more involved sarah worcester coming into the game natasha seals back [Applause] goganian's off slew of substitutions herman trying to win this ball [Applause] ball battle four in the middle there with natasha seoul now de salvo going down the line finds herman ball goes over the line though she can play that forward for sumner midway throw sense looking for options down the line that's going to get played forward back by ben and annie hayden sumner trying to win this ball now from the defender desalvo can't quite get a foot on that one throw in four cents again gets through everybody back to the ds defense hermann nice play plays that ball to an open defender who settles it plays it forward again now herman's got a foot on it can't get through to hayden summer though seal with a bump there and gets called for the foul two freshmen on this roster for ds both on the field at the moment sarah worcester and hayden sumner caleb perez is going to take this kick from midway balls boom 4 gets through everybody goaltender comes out scoops that up nicely another big punt forward herman and marty phillips battling for it midway's gonna fight for along the sideline with sarah wooster and ball goes over for a ds throw back into the midfield for hermann herman's still possessing trying to work the ball up to worcester can't quite now it's herman again playing the ball back to the right outside defender now it finds worcester worcester with a little cut back oh the nice play the phillips just got away from philip she wasn't able to redirect that exactly where she wanted to now i'm edward with a counter attack here nice step from broderick midway still in possession though a little chip through defenders letting it go for the goalkeeper she scoops it up there before emily landry can get there still 0-0 under 13 minutes left here in the first half [Music] ball put down into the corner by medway hanson running onto it trying to win it but can't keep it in another mass substitution rather the uh mclaughlin is coming in for ds three or four players coming on for midway [Applause] you have a ben and i coming off for ds [Music] bomb is played back there by ds now it's gonna be midway throw centered into the middle ricochets off a few bodies still in danger midway getting off a left-footed shot emily landry not able to get that on goal and probably get as much force on it as you wanted mclaughlin with the goal kick ball gets up to midfield herman turns big ball forward is batted away by midway herman again a little chip over the top trying to find worcester worcester heads it on nicely ball now comes to phillips and follow on phillips ball intercepted there nicely by desalvo but inadvertent handball called somewhat dangerous spot here midway's got the ball to 30.
three midway players confirm on what they're gonna do five midway players up in the line top of the box ball's batted with some force knicks off a ds defender it's going to be a midway corner [Music] delaney conan's gonna take this midway goaltender way off our line out at the 40 ball batted into the box and goes through a hole in the net for a goal kick [Applause] hello back on rachel harmon's gonna take a break mclaughlin with another big goal kick finds the feet of worcester can't quite control it [Music] now i meant with a big ball down the line that mclaughlin steps in front of higgins with it higgins trying to win that race before it goes over the line but can't [Applause] but it's going to be a corner for medway again moved into the box rather nicely gets over the goaltender midway got a body part on it but it went over the net [Music] courtney mahoney the starting goaltender has had a wrist iced and re-taped and still on the bench i think she might not be well enough to rejoin this game trying to find out at halftime who actually is in net caitlin every battling for the ball over there now the balls look forward to phillips in the midfield she's got embry making a run works the ball forward to her nicely embry with a nice ball inside for worcester that that was intercepted by perez now the ball's battle falling over the line is going to be a midway throw ambry with a nice touch that ball's boom forward mclaughlin back to mclaughlin but off her and over the line and out now it's gonna be emory taking the throw back to embry and move the big ball forward batted back by the medway defense mclaughlin intercepts cycles through the central defense broderick now ceo going wide for desalvo she's got herman hermanoff luskow momentarily kept in by ds but another throw from midway sense again right in front of the bench it does find higgins but ball is off higgins and not apply [Music] salvo now good strong throw forward sense intercept so worcester tracking back turn when that ball does nicely a lot of white shirts and waverly sumner but that doesn't mean waverly's not gonna win that battle but there is a foul here and it is on ds [Applause] midway goal tender playing that ball forward flicked on by midway but it's going to roll all the way to the keeper the salvo under pressure sumner way down the line riverly summer can't quite catch up with that goaltender way out in a box now hayden sumner steps in front of that seal stepping away from the midway defenders twice with nice control and then taking a shot on net that was labeled fisted over the crossbar by the goalie that was a nice place she was in a great position she's been wandering all over the place in the first half was right where she needed to be for that shot corner kick for ds [Music] ball played into the box nicely oh somebody almost got a head on that now it's cleared away by midway wooster dancing around the defender getting a shot off that is wider than that tompkins is back on landry's off [Music] ball is over worcester but she's still battling for the ball now medway plays it forward to nobody and it's gonna roll over the line ambry ball's still in embry worcester phillips sumner summoner turns finds her sister tries to play it back to the elder sumner medway's got it there's a nice step there from seal worcester trying to get through a crowd midway again just blasting the ball at the wing and it rolls over the line mclaughlin with the throw glasgow with a nice play in the midfield turning away from white shirts finds phillips phillips with a lot of room to advance the ball now plays it wide for sumner summoner with a nice cross it's over worcester every pushing way up trying to keep this threat alive does it's played inside now back to phillips now back to lusk out let's go turns and fires it's off a defender took a little momentum off that shot he's starting to pick up the pace here less than three minutes left here in the first half still zero zero midway keeper putting that ball forward batting around a little bit getting over the back line mclaughlin [Music] now place the ball wide to embry every looking for options place the ball inside but it's intercepted by medway it's going to come to the feet of number 23.
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[Applause] now it's hayden sumner going down the line for waverly we've really been in a battle all first half with mahan oh los gao keeps that threat alive but the ball's gonna roll over the line for a goal kick inside of two minutes here in the first half catherine mahoney's back on waverly summer's finally gonna get a breather [Applause] midway goal kick up short of the 50 phillips finds mahoney mahoney los gao phillips phillips looking right place the ball wide to sumner summoner with a nice cross off a midway defender off that same defender again and now that defender gets followed by mahoney kick here to medway midway's got to be pleased with their first half [Music] and slightly outplayed but not on the scoreboard still zero zero against what one would expect to be a heavily favored ds team coming in with an excellent record now the ball's in the back line for ds ball play forward to phillips batted around a bit seal moscow ball played forward worcester can't quite win that foot race now again midway conservatively playing the ball wide and it goes over the line and there's the double whistle for halftime so again the score 0-0 here at halftime between dover-sherburne and medway and we'll be back with second half action as soon as it resumes hey guys [Music] welcome back everybody to norris field for second half action zero zero halftime score between the dover sherman raiders and the medway mustangs emma williams who came on an emergency duty as the goalkeeper in the first half has been replaced not totally sure who's in that now for ds but we'll try to figure that out but emma did an excellent job playing basically 37 minutes of the first half after courtney mahoney who's normally the starting goalkeeper tried to give it a go but was unable to due to a wrist issue [Music] ds looking to uh keep the momentum going that they had started to build a little bit towards the end of the first half that led to a couple of corners a couple shots on net [Applause] yes we'll restart here herman we're gonna go up the right side for worcester herman and worcester still battling for it sequester and waverly summer playing up top falls batted back mclaughlin settles it works it up the right wing and just salvo pushing up herman ball move down into the corner for worcester worcester cuts the ball back gets around her defender but the senior captain l sense steps in there to save the day phillips gonna work the ball backwards and it's played out of play tessa broderick midway with a throwing down the line mclaughlin [Music] salvo up the right wing pleading to the middle but one by medway midway switching fields kind of come up the right side here victoria bullard plays a long ball forward trying to connect with longval long ball gets a foot on it she's in a foot race with ben and adi cuts back nicely gets a left-footed cross off stepped in front of there by tessa broderick but there's a shot in on the goaltender why delaney condon first sort of legitimate shot of the day on net for medway it was a nice little counter attack conan plays the ball forward phillips trying to win it she does mclaughlin up for herman falls back forward by desalvo worcester trying to win it she shielded off the ball by midway but then the balls played right out throw into herman herman turns gets the ball in the to los gao who flicks it forward but now medway's got it but salvo's fighting for it rachel hermann back to mclaughlin waffling with a big switch field now it's benigni back to phillips in the middle mclaughlin to salvo ball played through the middle for phillips intercepted but diaz trying to hold on to possession here now medway booming the ball forward mclaughlin trying to settle it they worked the ball up to phillips who gets pressured by chip lock falls forward for sumner good step there from perez and the midway midfield can't quite get the ball where they wanted to go now let's go up the wing for stocks substitution here from medway landry coming off now midway with the throw stocks gets a foot on that nice win there from hermann finds sumner battling medway's doing a good job on riverly summers today trying to keep her down moscow not happy with that and it does go out and over the line midway with just a big kick forward that goes out ball worked wide for stocks ball played down into the corner and that is going to be a corner kick [Music] phillips down there in the corner ball boomed into the box nicely a bunch of players leaping to trying to get a head on it eventually gets kicked wide by a midway defender and out and over the line [Applause] oh bobby and battle foreign some are just ripping off a shot saved by the midway goalie plays the ball to the right door right full back right something defender [Applause] ball being pressured by ids lascaux finds phillips phillips goes wide for herman herman with a nice turn on her defender shielding the ball off down into the corner for stocks but rolls over the line herman playing the ball back to the defense comes back to luskal in the middle nice turn finds herman finds sumner sumner with a nice ball through for worcester ellie mahan of medway getting a foot on that to save the day ds starting to heat up in their attack really crisp touches and turns moving the ball around looking for a in this back armor of medway phillips stocks herman phillips please it off a medway player is that ball going to get over the line no midway saves himself from a corner with a nice clear there from perez stocks with a throw [Music] find sumner summoner ball back for herman but i'm sorry phillips but doesn't reach her and midway again gets possession but just clears the ball up the line and it rolls out into touch unable to string anything together any sort of possession so far here in the second half by the way now lascaux all day back to broderick broderick for ben nadi pressure on ben and adi plays the ball for luskal that's intercepted by medway and midway player pushed by moscow midway now the free kick just over the halfway line [Applause] ball over everybody down at the 10-yard line shouldered forward by a ds defender now stocks leads to charge nice move around lunging defender she's still got herman to the inside now plays herman herman tries to play a little give and go stox runs out of room and gets shouldered off the ball midway trying to counter attack now broderick steps in front of that medway still in possession through midfield [Applause] playing the ball forward nicely but [Applause] a little too far ahead of higgins ds goaltender coming out to scoop that up [Applause] yes sorry uh medway in the midfield switching fields trying to get the ball to higgins gets through everybody comes to the feet of long ball long ball is in on net tries to get a shot off gets blocked initially by mclaughlin now bodied away and that rebound goes right to higgins but she's unable to get it on target dangerous for a there for medfield their most dangerous scoring opportunity the game to date we're in about the 50th minute here in the second half [Music] initially mclaughlin with that block of that first shot getting her body in front of that substitutions amassing at the midfield line gonna be hayden sumner and kaitlin embry coming in here's another shot from edway scooped up by the goalie [Music] zoe schwartz also coming back on top of the box for the ds goaltender punting the ball forward ball's kind of batted around a little bit something with a little touch that herman can't quite control and she collides with a midway player and now she's down on the ground it's a heavy collision as both players were going for the ball racial hermann coming off under her own power natasha seoul taking her place rachel herman in a little bit of discomfort hopefully we'll see her later here in the second half both teams taking this opportunity to huddle up and strategize a little bit let me drop all here to medway that they're getting instructed by their coach too just play back to ds and show sportsmanship ball's batted down to the ds goalie and now we'll restart action punch punted forward by the goalie looking for worcester worcester gets a head on it volleyed by the midway defender but luskow be able to win that ball and turn but ends up at the feet of a midway player they can't play it forward salvo's battling over there medway keeps it in phillips challenging for that ball now ceo gets a foot on it enables diaz to win it broderick left foot a chip forward he has one in it now sumner and a big crowd of traffic but trying to find a salvo jack him back nicely was tompkins played forward by sense but mclaughlin does have to play it and ends up kicking it out ds unable substitute is going to be a white throw much to the dismay of the players wanting to come on got bad information from this near side referee initially so now mclaughlin off her and out again sense with another throw and apparently that throw is no good and it's not going to be a ds throw so now diaz can substitute mclaughlin is going to take this throw looks like stocks is off desalvo is off as is eva benani we'll go off and again taking the throw goffin with a big ball forward worcester can't win that ball now the ball does come to worcester around a little bit nice turn by chip block nice turn also by hanson midway trying to work the ball forward spraying the ball wide to nicholas on the wing she's getting well defended by embry but this is going to be a midway throw and be refused to let her get that cross off hold waltz as a referee as uh arie keaney comes in from midway content is coming off embry playing the ball of the line big ball into the box mclaughlin with a nice clear d is trying to work this ball off the field meter recovers still possessing again looking to go down the right sideline for nicholas being chased by zoe schwartz and results in a goal kick [Applause] ball's played forward off the goal kick phillips fighting for it wins that battle nice recovery though from chip lock she's able to play the ball forward broaddricks clear up the line intercepted by chip block leads the ball backwards to the d who boom it forward mclaughlin heads that out of trouble embry gets another head on it balls play forward nicely to martin marty phillips gets away from sumner but charging to the midfield to collect that is seal seals trying to find worcester phillips back to zoe schwartz embry attacking up the left side she's going to put up nope she's going to cut back playing the ball nicely to the feet of sumner sumner going one on two that doesn't matter but the third defender jumps in there nicely to clear away that uh threat sense with a good step so i'm gonna kind of split the first two defenders ball bounces up awkwardly and hits the hand of sense it's gonna be a kick here for ds somewhat dangerous position inside the 20.
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and 4.7 the board of trustees took formal action with a 5-0 vote to approve the expulsions of students 21-01 and 21-02 thank you moving on to recognitions the board of trustees would like to recognize our community stakeholders for your interest in the anaheim union high school district and for attending our board meeting thank you all so much to each of you for your participation and contribution as we create an education environment that graduates socially aware civic minded students who are college and career ready for the 21st century and this evening we have several guests yazmin hussein who's the vice president branch manager of city national bank sharmila shamel the client officer for city national bank song kim president of i-k-e-n and k-e-c-l-a then we have grant schuster president of the asta association and then we have amanda bean representing the alta she's the vp of alta our administrative group did i miss any other of our presidents of groups all right all right and we have one of the first things we want to recognize madam president can i um i was just informed that yasmin hussein is stuck in traffic so maybe we could go to the second recognition and then we'll come back to it after okay we can go to the second donation then and um then we'll so we'll do six two first all right okay some kim will be in it is hopefully here okay just have a seat for a minute and then i'm going to ask you to come forward and have a word with the rest of us the board of trustees wants to recognize you president of the international korean education network for the donation of a total of thirty thousand dollars to help fund our first district online korean course your leadership in establishing iken curriculum and the korean american culture and society course your diligent work in ensuring ensuring that the icann courses achieved university of the california office of the president ada g approval and your effort in helping to showcase showcase the district's korean rural language program most importantly we want to recognize that president sung kim's over 40 years of contributions to increasing the awareness access and importance of the korean language and culture as a public school teacher at a korean dual language immersion program and work within the international korean education network and korean education center all right come forward and have a few words oh okay uh good evening everyone ladies and gentlemen uh world of trustees of anaheim union high school district president anna l uh percy castlin h smith l jabber brian o'neill anne-marie render treasure and superintendent mr michael matsuda dr jaron fried dr luna bryant miss jackie counts and executive cabinet members as former parents i am honored to be here today my son and my daughter-in-law attended from elementary to high school in anaheim in in the 1990s a long time ago and graduated from cyprus high school here i would like to thank anaheim union high school district for teaching a well-rounded educational philosophy and strong citizenship i want to emphasize that not only my children but their friends all of their friends are all diligent and successful citizens of society so i heartily appreciate it as the president of icann i am pleased that the cambridge virtual academy has opened an online korean language class from and is growing well and especially mr david kim the korean language teachers dedication makes it happen and i can want to provide funding to the ni union high school district to support the growth of korean language and cultural classes we hope that the korean education center grant will help korean language classes take root in the cambridge virtual academy and e-learning of anaheim union high school district continue to grow in the future thank you again for giving me such a wonderful opportunity thank you [Applause] um so last year um 10 000 and next year [Applause] thank you so much a little bit more is [Applause] check this is so cool okay we're going to continue on to the next item because we you know our uh the the acknowledgement for for your uh yes mean the same yeah saying is is that is still taking traffic so we'll move on to 7.1 this is what so many of you in our audience are here about and we're glad to see you um i believe carol's i mean this is uh let me read a little bit about this because what we're currently considering is the request to approve to rename the business wing building 500 at south junior high school after carol shaw carol was a business teacher at south junior high for 18 years and she recently passed away from cancer during her tenure mrs shaw developed the digital animation program at south junior high school that is now used district-wide she co-founded south's 8th grade day to celebrate their promoting 8th graders and was named as south junior high school's teacher of the year in 2012-13 carol had an immeasurable impact and was beloved by her south community the district's ad hoc committee evaluated the request developed a report and made a recommendation to the board for their consideration and the board will now take a motion to approve this so moved second i have a motion in a second do i have any questions comments all right seeing none right now all in favor aye aye opposed none so we will name the building 500.
[Applause] would you stand up please would you like to come up and say a few words yeah it's difficult is the rest of your family here i can introduce the family stand up please and let everyone know that they are here [Applause] so i'll take great pride in introducing carol's family we have carol's brother jack who's at the at the aisle her husband ron shaw her mom mrs hip her daughter who's by the way it's her 15th birthday today that's alyssa and then her son jack our whoops our will will jack is the brother will that's great thank you is there anybody in the audience who would like to say something in honor of this occasion grant please do so my name is grant shuster i'm the president of the anaheim secondary teachers association but actually i'm not speaking in that position i met carol hipp when she was in college she and my brother were both playing soccer together at san francisco state um soon after that when we were getting our teaching credentials carol worked at disneyland uh with myself and my brother i got to know her very well and then of course we ended up teaching together in auhsd and there are things that you obviously don't see on a paper like that the years that she was a coach and supporting all of her students in that way um obviously the the mom that she was to her kids and ju the friend that she was to all of us it was an honor to know her i know my brother knew her far better than i did and was incredibly impacted uh by her in his life and it is a wonderful tribute to her that the students at the school will forever know her name and what she gave to to the community thank you thank you [Applause] okay this now i think it's a great thing and when we have somebody who's been that outstanding in in a school and has left a mark that we should recall that person and have it there something named after them so that building will forever be carol shaw all right absolutely um is there a gentleman here yet not yet okay moving on to seven point two seven point two school sponsored student organizations hello except for seven point two uh five seven point two four yes we have eight we took that out any questions or comments good evening alan and uh thank you for coming um any questions any comments being done all in favor all right opposed okay did you yeah oh one more one more there we go now it's official okay reports yeah just keep going okay let's keep going okay reports 8.1 student representative your report you're on abdullah all right thank you uh good evening everyone i'm just going to share a few things that are going along at the district and some updates that i along with the other ambassadors have so across the district i'm so happy to announce that all students have received an octa bus pass if they signed up for one which is a really great thing that everyone's really excited for because now we have a new means of transportation for students that didn't have one before all ambassadors are now serving on our district task forces and have had many opportunities to advocate for student voice across the district i along with my fellow ambassadors are also trained on our career preparedness systems framework which we will soon be presenting to parents and students across the school sites so check us out when we go do those uh and we're gonna have the great chance to share these presentations on november 5th at an artificial intelligence summit which we just found out that we are invited to and my one of the happiest one of my best pieces of news right now that i'd like to share is that for the first time in ambassador history we officially have um a school site ambassador for hope school his name is adrian barrios um so hopefully he'll be able to join us at our next um meeting once we get him a nice outfit like this one so hopefully you get to see him soon yeah it's great i'm really excited about that um many of our schools had their homecoming game and dance for the first time in almost two years so it's great to see that we're finally getting back to our new normal thanks to grant anaheim high school students have been able to purchase a refrigerator which they are calling their community fridge program and everyone's really excited about that because they get to share um all these non-perishable items and dairy products and whatnot for their community oxford academy's robotics team participated in a nationwide first technology competition kickoff they also participated along with cyprus in the jack howe tournament which uh junior from oxford academy benjamin huang placed first in his event along with rebecca ciao from cypress high school veren metta from oxford academy also placed first place in the national speech and debate for varsity lincoln douglas oxford academy and cva korean language program was honored by many distinguished guests such as the vice consulate from korea for unveiling a new korean class in media begin being the first in the nation which we got to hear from today many schools like lawera are holding activities for hispanic heritage month that are showcasing the different heritages and communities that we have here in the district kennedy high school in fact is holding a community processing circle about the hispanic heritage and they're having an open discussion about their culture laura high school is also having a house of reps meeting for the first time this year and they're going to be informing students about all the info that's going on such as the board of trustee meeting today since the last board of trustee meeting many schools have held forums in fact for dress code to help inform students about some of the guidelines that were kind of confusing savannah high school held a forum where students all watched a presentation that got to clarify some of the rules that they had some confusions about and magnolia high school is working with their administration and students to kind of shift the discussion around dress code so that people understand that it's not about body shaming or being judged but instead about school environment and i wanted to take this time because i was told that four graduates from gilbert high school have officially been have officially graduated so i want to take this time to announce their names christopher dominguez carlos mendoza uh angeline quiet cueto guillermo zuniga so i just want to shout them out real quick congratulations and finally i just want to close out this report with a few quotes that i got from a few students that i'd like to share so one student said i felt very welcomed and safe returning back to on-school learning i'm happy that i can resume activities and events in person that was from andrea rodarte a senior at anaheim high school another student shared as a junior i feel very stressed about being in school as searching for information about scholarships and how i get to be involved in school is scarce to come by however i am very delighted about how enthusiastic teachers are about teaching in person because as a student one could tell how passionate teachers have become it has been tough to adopt the new circumstances we were left in after online school but it has awakened people's desire to teach and learn this was by yedrique gomi gomez class of 23 from lower high school and finally being in person has definitely helped me in terms of understanding the material and paying attention in class this has made doing the homework a lot easier compared to online but there is a large increase of workload from previous years which i'm trying to work on a sophomore from western high school thank you all right very good thank you i like the fact that you got some comments from some of the students from various schools that's very good thank you that's great to hear thank you okay i believe our our guests are here okay guests are here so we will back to donations from city national bank okay city national bank is a full-service bank that offers a complement of banking trust and investment services at city national they proudly offer services tools and technology that put people and communities first their car belief is to make a difference in the community by investing in the communities they serve they take pride in their literacy program and support local schools with yearly backpacks supply as well as volunteer with school districts when their irvine office was closing in march the first thing that came to mind was how to distribute furniture to local non-profits or communities rather than just leaving it for movers to put it in waste city national started calling and part of that call was to trustee al jabar the district picked up most of the furniture to be used for our community resource center at sycamore junior high school on behalf of the board and the anaheim union high school district community we thank you profusely for your generous donation i know we have uh yes vin hussein uh back there so we will probably ask you to come up forward um with also my sister who works for the bank sharmila haseem who's also back there so i would like to while they come up i just want to mention that mrs cena has been a big supporter of the sikomo community we did a couple of backpack drives which assisted some of our families in sycamore junior high she also spearheaded a food distribution program for our kids or families who are actually affected by covet so that happened but at the same time uh she was also very active and involved in the community uh i think she has a private group which actually go goes ahead and raises funds for uh communities that i need so i'm glad that my sister put me in touch with her so we are actually in a in a good place to support our anaheim communities which i need so thank you very much on behalf of the board and that community thank you all right i don't know if it's work but my apologies to be late i thought 10 miles will take me in about 45 minutes but it took me hour and a half so oh my apology but i just want to thank you guys for giving us an opportunity to work with you thank you for giving us in touch with the curve with the anaheim school district and i was actually looking at my new office storage room and i found a lot of things i think we can talk about it so we can distribute to the school yeah thank you for having me i appreciate it i just want to make a point that the the furniture that was used is going to our new community school and it's more than five thousand dollars worth so i'm very appreciative of that thank you oh don't go away come yeah we got that okay and uh do we have the branch manager also here no no it's uh actually she's the branch brother he is the branch manager oh i'm sorry and anybody else come up forward please we'll give you a presentation and take a picture i really appreciate it thank you so much for thinking about that instead of wasting it and giving it thank you very much that is so well appreciated just for the picture thank you so much [Applause] we are so appreciative in this district of anything which we are given or donated things like that furniture it's a great asset for us you know we put it to good use and we appreciate it very very much and of course the financial support for the korean language outstanding okay uh next will be our reports of the associations uh we'll start with astor grant shuster we'll have you come back up and speak as the president of asta thank you good evening board president piercy trustees cabinet and others in attendance here and online we've made it through uh one of the most difficult first quarters of a year that we've all experienced there have been challenges and obstacles too numerous to list so tonight i just want to acknowledge what we're all going through to the board we know how hard it has been to represent your constituencies so impacted over the past year and a half the concern frustration and anger foisted upon you regularly by a community passionate about their children and their safety has been a massive load on your work and your work is appreciated to the cabinet in addition to all of the same contacts that you receive that are similar to those on the board you also plan and implement all of the programs and protocols that support students employees and the community we see what you do and acknowledge how difficult and stressful it has been to all of our district and site support staff your time and effort spent on a daily basis with the students and families is invaluable families show up at schools with needs far beyond the scope that we have been trained or funded to address but you take everyone in and do whatever you can to help them we see you doing this and acknowledge the where it has put on you this year to my asta members in the classrooms nurses offices and speech therapy rooms i want to lift up all that you are doing this year under extraordinary circumstances bringing students back to a campus setting after such a long absence coupled with the anxiety and trauma so many of our children have returned to school with has made your jobs more challenging than ever we see the toll it has taken and acknowledge all that you are doing to support students and create conditions for them to grow and thrive once again there are countless stories of stress and struggle and all of us wondering at times how we're all going to possibly get through this but we're going to do it together and it's really important for us not to just acknowledge each other but then look for ways that we can support each other and ease the burden and stress and make it easier to get through this difficult time uh we must acknowledge what we're all going through and as their leaders we must continue to find ways to support all of our employees whatever needs they have so their focus can stay on students i along with asta leadership and committed to do so and we know that everyone else in this room will join us i would also like to discuss on another topic our progress with community schools asta has continued to work with parents community group representatives and district personnel to organize the stakeholders in order to nurture our community schools by getting input regarding their structure and implementation as well as reviewing programs in place tanya garcia the anaheim high schools community school coordinator and i had a presentation this morning at anaheim high school at their late start meeting we have already had stakeholders responding to become part of the site team asta is working with cta to make sure these collaborative teams are part of the requirements put in place in order to receive a community schools grant from the state we must reinforce the neighborhood public school as the foundational cornerstone of every local community our process will do just that to close i want to again acknowledge the work of asta members and everyone else in the district and call on all of us to keep an eye out for each other for our students for our families and other employees in need of any kind of support we must provide whatever we can to keep everyone safe healthy and prepared to learn in our schools thank you thank you grant and then we have the alta vice president amanda bean good evening for president piercy board of trustees superintendent matt souda cabinet guests and those joining us online first i'd like to give a shout out to all of our school administrators we are in the week of the school administrator so i want to acknowledge just the hard work of this group you know the evenings weekends all the things that they do to support our our our teachers our counselors our administra the other administrators students and families we know that they're working very hard to to make sure our schools are safe and wonderful places to be some of the things going on for the administrative team is that we just had the ed summit this last monday and um so i want to just shout out give them a shout out uh for their support of helping us get our facilities ready we held um they had summit across various sites and so our teams needed to help us get rooms and technology ready and um just to make sure that we have a successful event for our teaching and clerical staff sites are in full swing right now with student activities including homecoming and athletics and i'm having lots of fun doing that they've been very busy coordinating the implementation of our district-wide system around the college and career fair and so working with their teams to make sure that um students are getting registered on the socio platform to uh making sure that thriving assessments are taking place and that students are having career exploration activities prior to attending the college and career fair and just helping making sure those systems on their campuses are um running there are busy holding saturday academies and the upcoming psat which is actually this coming saturday um also in the middle reviewing first quarter data and looking for opportunities for real-time grade recovery for students and making sure that we're supporting students before they might not pass a course at the end of the semester and they're starting to have conversations around master schedule and those reflective conversations to help aid us in this year's planning also continuing with coffee with the principals and having various parent nights on campus so again while it's very busy our teams are very happy to be with students and supporting the community and just i'm so happy to be back in person um and to be able to just um have a good time and and again meet the needs of our families so thank you are there any other let's see pta or apga we have sylvia i can't see you with the mask my hair's different today i straightened it for you so little trustees district cabinet auhsd students families and community members prior to covid we used this time to allow our schools to come and report on their counseling programs tonight i am honored to be able to introduce two counseling programs catella high school and south junior high we will begin this evening with my friend and colleague mr ken gompert speaking on behalf of catella's counseling department after him miss candace dion will be sharing for south junior high school thank you good evening lord it's nice to see you again i'm ken gompert counselor at catalan high school joining me tonight is my principal dr hernandez lacey monger counselor and counselor janet lowe we were doing the math of our counseling team and we have over 100 years of experience here at anaheim union as counselors and if you if you take the number that we work with cohorts of four years and then you multiply it by our case load that comes about seventeen thousand that's about seventeen thousand students that we've had direct contact with during our tenure and that's just catella high school that's pretty significant if you think about it because as a professional school counselor we have an opportunity to reach a lot of students and not just in the schools because i was at the dentist and my dentist asked me what do you do for a living i said i'm a professional school counselor i worked at cypress high school and i work at catalan she says you've got to be kidding me my best friend went to one of your schools she may have been your counsel or your student i said what was your friend's name she says fabulous but her name was not fabulous i'm just going to tell you right now but she had a fabulous name one you would never forget and she says yeah fabulous she she went to new york she studied fashion she uh started her own business super successful happier than ever and as a counselor listening to that that's music to the ears so of course i left and no cavities just so you know came came back six months later because i go every six months and she says ken you won't believe who i had lunch with fabulous i told her that you were my client and she's oh mr gompert wow mr gompert well i'll tell you and i'm not bragging but she says i don't know if i would have been in new york had it not been for his guidance i was in his office every day constantly getting guidance from him now let's be let's be honest uh long-term memories are distorted and it's not likely she was in my office every single day i know that to be true but i know long-term memories are distorted but they're distorted by emotion and i know that whatever she left with she left with positive regards she left with support and that i can say did happen not just by me but also by my team by the professional school counselors in our district now i tell you the story because this situation with the dentist was fairly recent but she graduated 17 years ago and she's still telling that story so what we do is professional school counselors yes it does affect the immediate but it is long and far-reaching and it affects our entire community even the dentist's office i'm a celebrity in the dentist office now so it's kind of nice but i do want to take the time to thank you because i've always felt great support from our board from our district administration from our site administration because we do know that professional school counselors make a big difference so i want to take the time to thank you and it's good to see you again have a fabulous evening [Applause] hello good evening i'm cecilia soberanis i'm one of the counselors at south junior high um i love that ken highlighted a student that we see the success after years today i want to share a story with you of a student that we're seeing success in the now and the today and i think this is a great way to highlight what we do as a profession so this year more than most quarter one at south junior high and every other counseling office across the district has it's been a time to explore our students and their stories their needs how we can support them each day unique in its own way has provided us with the opportunity to build rapport and stu and support students through a myriad of experiences during a year of such high social emotional need it's difficult to choose just one student on which to focus on in this narrative and so we chose a student we're going to name this student student s um it's not as clever as fabulous i wish i would have thought of something like that but student as it is as a cohesive and collaborative counseling team all three of the counselors at south junior high have developed an invested interest in the well-being and success of this student each of us have brainstormed ways to support him as he navigates the challenges and successes of his junior high experience we first learned of the student during our elementary school counselor collaboration which ensures a smooth transition with our most at-risk rising seventh graders it was shared with us that stu this that student s should be challenged in honors classes and we noticed that student s did not request any honors classes so we were able through meeting with the student with their family um able to make sure that we met their needs by providing them with honors classes for the in their schedule however there was so much more to learn about him as we delved a little deeper through the queue reviews consultations with teachers meetings with parents and daily interactions with the students experiencing significant anxiety during the first few weeks of school this student needed help advocating for his needs as a member of south lgbtq plus community we helped him with emails that outlined his preferred name and pronouns with his teachers so that his authentic self could be recognized additionally a five-minute grace period at the end of class before pe was given so that student s could change in a general gender-neutral bathroom through the development of supports such as these we discovered that there are some other hurdles based on our pe uniforms that this student has been very vocal in our south gsa which we call the rainbow warriors which is advised by two of our school counselors and he has vowed to voice his opinion on the topic and make some real change in our south community he even ran for a leadership position in our rainbow warriors through the process of getting to know this student and helping him manage his anxiety with daily check-ins scheduled for each morning before class during those few minutes the student was able to share thoughts emotions processes and challenges it gave him a place that to feel safe and supported before starting a hectic and stressful day the rapport that was built during these moments led the student to self-reporting suicide ideation once a formal risk assessment was conducted the student appeared to be low risk and the benefit of this was that we were able to provide the student and his family with resources outside of the school setting that offer opportunities for both individual and family counseling although we never know what the next day will bring we have watched student s become more independent and comfortable with his identity he is advocating for himself more often he is also excelling in his honors classes and now only checking in on the mornings when he feels that it's necessary he was even a september student of the month the school counseling team looks forward to a year of growth for this student as well as all the other students that we have at south junior high south junior high we're so lucky to have a hard-working and caring team and this is just one story of how school counselors can really affect change in the here and now in the today of every student so thank you for taking the time for us to share these stories they're just one in a million of stories that are um currently happening at south at auhst actually so thank you so much [Applause] okay lots of work thank you uh okay pta sptsa report do we have the parent teacher representative here i don't see any okay so we will move on to our presentations and our first presentation this evening will be about trusty area boundary adjustment following comprehensive study and community input the district transitioned to a buy trustee area election method in 2014.
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education code section 50 19.5 requires that the district adjust trustee area boundaries so they are proportional to the number of trustees and overall population of the district based on the decennial federal census i will refer the rest of this presentation to carl waddell thank you trustee piercy uh tonight we're we're happy to welcome uh the team that will be assisting the district uh mr justin rich from cooperative strategies is here and he'll present to you uh i'd like to welcome him up to the podium with him is michael toy he's an attorney with parker covert who's also assisting tonight i got it good evening thank you for having me here tonight um as was discussed we're here to to come back and after eight years now uh when when the the trustee areas were uh originally adopted we're gonna review based on the 2020 census data to see both the demographics and the population balance for your trustee areas and i think there's a couple of key things that as as demographers when when we went through your data there's a couple of things that stood out to us first of all there's been overall population growth within the district of 3.3 percent so that's from 2010 to 2020 and there's also been some uh some shifts in terms of the demographics of the district and probably not not surprising for for you all that live in the community uh and so we'll highlight some of those what we see based on our analysis and we'll talk more about this but the the key uh under education code 501 9.5 what we're supposed to do is make sure that after the census that trustee areas are roughly in balance so what we look at you'll see in the i guess it's the fifth column here where it shows the variance the variance between the smallest and the largest trustee area is nine percent and and generally we're shooting for under 10 percent so i think that's good news you'll see that trustee area one is the smallest and it has a variance of negative 4.1 percent below that ideal size and trustee area 2 is the largest about 4.8 percent above the ideal size or average i will say also that that the deadline for completing this process is february 28 2022 uh that that's a few months away um but and and again that's that's if necessary that's if the board decides to to make any adjustments to the maps so i provided a snapshot here based on the 2020 census data and this shows the demographic composition of the district based on that new data we've showed both the total population and also for reference the age 18 and over population you'll see that now your total population is just shy of 400 000 and it shows that your largest protected class and we'll talk a little bit more about that is the latinx group and at 47.6 when we talk about protected classes this is as defined by the federal voting rights act these are uh racial and language minority groups uh and and again we'll talk a little bit more about how that factors into drawing boundaries we've also shown the citizen voting age population and for those that can recall the last process the the relevance of that is to make sure uh that we're looking at not just the total number of people which is what the census counts and what we showed but also to look at who are the likely eligible voters uh and this is prepared prepared by the american community survey the 2015 through 2019 citizen voting age population and so these numbers uh obviously are smaller than the total population but this is a proxy that we use to to determine who's who's likely to vote in an election again the largest protected class is the latinx group at just about 38 percent just by means of orientation here we've we've included the the current trustee areas the map that you adopted previously for reference and i think that this was a key highlight of the last process is just to overlay the high school attendance boundaries on this so you'll see the red lines show the various high school attendance boundaries and excuse me the colored areas show the current trusty areas it's probably a little hard to see exactly what those are area 1 is in yellow area 2 is in green area 3 is in red area 4 is in blue and area 5 is sort of a pink color so on this slide i want to point out a couple of things uh first of all when we're we're looking at variance i talked about that earlier when when we're looking at variants this is really just a fairly simple math problem we take the total population and we divide that by the number of trustee areas and that gives us our average or our ideal size and then when we're calculating the variance what we do is we take the largest and we take the smallest and and we calculate what the difference is and then we divide that by that ideal size that gives us our our variance in terms of percentage again i pointed out that area one is the smallest in terms of total population and two is the largest in terms of total population those are the colors or the columns i should say that are that are lightly colored and then the darker columns we've included the percentages of the citizen voting age population as well as was the case when you when you originally adopted these boundaries you have a a majority latin x group based on citizen voting age population of just about 56 percent uh that's up from you know i had it here uh it was roughly 52 if i remember correctly previously so so that's grown and you are close to having a majority but you have a plurality of latinx voters again based on citizen voting age population in trustee area 2.
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three midway players confirm on what they're gonna do five midway players up in the line top of the box ball's batted with some force knicks off a ds defender it's going to be a midway corner [Music] delaney conan's gonna take this midway goaltender way off our line out at the 40 ball batted into the box and goes through a hole in the net for a goal kick [Applause] hello back on rachel harmon's gonna take a break mclaughlin with another big goal kick finds the feet of worcester can't quite control it [Music] now i meant with a big ball down the line that mclaughlin steps in front of higgins with it higgins trying to win that race before it goes over the line but can't [Applause] but it's going to be a corner for medway again moved into the box rather nicely gets over the goaltender midway got a body part on it but it went over the net [Music] courtney mahoney the starting goaltender has had a wrist iced and re-taped and still on the bench i think she might not be well enough to rejoin this game trying to find out at halftime who actually is in net caitlin every battling for the ball over there now the balls look forward to phillips in the midfield she's got embry making a run works the ball forward to her nicely embry with a nice ball inside for worcester that that was intercepted by perez now the ball's battle falling over the line is going to be a midway throw ambry with a nice touch that ball's boom forward mclaughlin back to mclaughlin but off her and over the line and out now it's gonna be emory taking the throw back to embry and move the big ball forward batted back by the medway defense mclaughlin intercepts cycles through the central defense broderick now ceo going wide for desalvo she's got herman hermanoff luskow momentarily kept in by ds but another throw from midway sense again right in front of the bench it does find higgins but ball is off higgins and not apply [Music] salvo now good strong throw forward sense intercept so worcester tracking back turn when that ball does nicely a lot of white shirts and waverly sumner but that doesn't mean waverly's not gonna win that battle but there is a foul here and it is on ds [Applause] midway goal tender playing that ball forward flicked on by midway but it's going to roll all the way to the keeper the salvo under pressure sumner way down the line riverly summer can't quite catch up with that goaltender way out in a box now hayden sumner steps in front of that seal stepping away from the midway defenders twice with nice control and then taking a shot on net that was labeled fisted over the crossbar by the goalie that was a nice place she was in a great position she's been wandering all over the place in the first half was right where she needed to be for that shot corner kick for ds [Music] ball played into the box nicely oh somebody almost got a head on that now it's cleared away by midway wooster dancing around the defender getting a shot off that is wider than that tompkins is back on landry's off [Music] ball is over worcester but she's still battling for the ball now medway plays it forward to nobody and it's gonna roll over the line ambry ball's still in embry worcester phillips sumner summoner turns finds her sister tries to play it back to the elder sumner medway's got it there's a nice step there from seal worcester trying to get through a crowd midway again just blasting the ball at the wing and it rolls over the line mclaughlin with the throw glasgow with a nice play in the midfield turning away from white shirts finds phillips phillips with a lot of room to advance the ball now plays it wide for sumner summoner with a nice cross it's over worcester every pushing way up trying to keep this threat alive does it's played inside now back to phillips now back to lusk out let's go turns and fires it's off a defender took a little momentum off that shot he's starting to pick up the pace here less than three minutes left here in the first half still zero zero midway keeper putting that ball forward batting around a little bit getting over the back line mclaughlin [Music] now place the ball wide to embry every looking for options place the ball inside but it's intercepted by medway it's going to come to the feet of number 23.
[Applause] now it's hayden sumner going down the line for waverly we've really been in a battle all first half with mahan oh los gao keeps that threat alive but the ball's gonna roll over the line for a goal kick inside of two minutes here in the first half catherine mahoney's back on waverly summer's finally gonna get a breather [Applause] midway goal kick up short of the 50 phillips finds mahoney mahoney los gao phillips phillips looking right place the ball wide to sumner summoner with a nice cross off a midway defender off that same defender again and now that defender gets followed by mahoney kick here to medway midway's got to be pleased with their first half [Music] and slightly outplayed but not on the scoreboard still zero zero against what one would expect to be a heavily favored ds team coming in with an excellent record now the ball's in the back line for ds ball play forward to phillips batted around a bit seal moscow ball played forward worcester can't quite win that foot race now again midway conservatively playing the ball wide and it goes over the line and there's the double whistle for halftime so again the score 0-0 here at halftime between dover-sherburne and medway and we'll be back with second half action as soon as it resumes hey guys [Music] welcome back everybody to norris field for second half action zero zero halftime score between the dover sherman raiders and the medway mustangs emma williams who came on an emergency duty as the goalkeeper in the first half has been replaced not totally sure who's in that now for ds but we'll try to figure that out but emma did an excellent job playing basically 37 minutes of the first half after courtney mahoney who's normally the starting goalkeeper tried to give it a go but was unable to due to a wrist issue [Music] ds looking to uh keep the momentum going that they had started to build a little bit towards the end of the first half that led to a couple of corners a couple shots on net [Applause] yes we'll restart here herman we're gonna go up the right side for worcester herman and worcester still battling for it sequester and waverly summer playing up top falls batted back mclaughlin settles it works it up the right wing and just salvo pushing up herman ball move down into the corner for worcester worcester cuts the ball back gets around her defender but the senior captain l sense steps in there to save the day phillips gonna work the ball backwards and it's played out of play tessa broderick midway with a throwing down the line mclaughlin [Music] salvo up the right wing pleading to the middle but one by medway midway switching fields kind of come up the right side here victoria bullard plays a long ball forward trying to connect with longval long ball gets a foot on it she's in a foot race with ben and adi cuts back nicely gets a left-footed cross off stepped in front of there by tessa broderick but there's a shot in on the goaltender why delaney condon first sort of legitimate shot of the day on net for medway it was a nice little counter attack conan plays the ball forward phillips trying to win it she does mclaughlin up for herman falls back forward by desalvo worcester trying to win it she shielded off the ball by midway but then the balls played right out throw into herman herman turns gets the ball in the to los gao who flicks it forward but now medway's got it but salvo's fighting for it rachel hermann back to mclaughlin waffling with a big switch field now it's benigni back to phillips in the middle mclaughlin to salvo ball played through the middle for phillips intercepted but diaz trying to hold on to possession here now medway booming the ball forward mclaughlin trying to settle it they worked the ball up to phillips who gets pressured by chip lock falls forward for sumner good step there from perez and the midway midfield can't quite get the ball where they wanted to go now let's go up the wing for stocks substitution here from medway landry coming off now midway with the throw stocks gets a foot on that nice win there from hermann finds sumner battling medway's doing a good job on riverly summers today trying to keep her down moscow not happy with that and it does go out and over the line midway with just a big kick forward that goes out ball worked wide for stocks ball played down into the corner and that is going to be a corner kick [Music] phillips down there in the corner ball boomed into the box nicely a bunch of players leaping to trying to get a head on it eventually gets kicked wide by a midway defender and out and over the line [Applause] oh bobby and battle foreign some are just ripping off a shot saved by the midway goalie plays the ball to the right door right full back right something defender [Applause] ball being pressured by ids lascaux finds phillips phillips goes wide for herman herman with a nice turn on her defender shielding the ball off down into the corner for stocks but rolls over the line herman playing the ball back to the defense comes back to luskal in the middle nice turn finds herman finds sumner sumner with a nice ball through for worcester ellie mahan of medway getting a foot on that to save the day ds starting to heat up in their attack really crisp touches and turns moving the ball around looking for a in this back armor of medway phillips stocks herman phillips please it off a medway player is that ball going to get over the line no midway saves himself from a corner with a nice clear there from perez stocks with a throw [Music] find sumner summoner ball back for herman but i'm sorry phillips but doesn't reach her and midway again gets possession but just clears the ball up the line and it rolls out into touch unable to string anything together any sort of possession so far here in the second half by the way now lascaux all day back to broderick broderick for ben nadi pressure on ben and adi plays the ball for luskal that's intercepted by medway and midway player pushed by moscow midway now the free kick just over the halfway line [Applause] ball over everybody down at the 10-yard line shouldered forward by a ds defender now stocks leads to charge nice move around lunging defender she's still got herman to the inside now plays herman herman tries to play a little give and go stox runs out of room and gets shouldered off the ball midway trying to counter attack now broderick steps in front of that medway still in possession through midfield [Applause] playing the ball forward nicely but [Applause] a little too far ahead of higgins ds goaltender coming out to scoop that up [Applause] yes sorry uh medway in the midfield switching fields trying to get the ball to higgins gets through everybody comes to the feet of long ball long ball is in on net tries to get a shot off gets blocked initially by mclaughlin now bodied away and that rebound goes right to higgins but she's unable to get it on target dangerous for a there for medfield their most dangerous scoring opportunity the game to date we're in about the 50th minute here in the second half [Music] initially mclaughlin with that block of that first shot getting her body in front of that substitutions amassing at the midfield line gonna be hayden sumner and kaitlin embry coming in here's another shot from edway scooped up by the goalie [Music] zoe schwartz also coming back on top of the box for the ds goaltender punting the ball forward ball's kind of batted around a little bit something with a little touch that herman can't quite control and she collides with a midway player and now she's down on the ground it's a heavy collision as both players were going for the ball racial hermann coming off under her own power natasha seoul taking her place rachel herman in a little bit of discomfort hopefully we'll see her later here in the second half both teams taking this opportunity to huddle up and strategize a little bit let me drop all here to medway that they're getting instructed by their coach too just play back to ds and show sportsmanship ball's batted down to the ds goalie and now we'll restart action punch punted forward by the goalie looking for worcester worcester gets a head on it volleyed by the midway defender but luskow be able to win that ball and turn but ends up at the feet of a midway player they can't play it forward salvo's battling over there medway keeps it in phillips challenging for that ball now ceo gets a foot on it enables diaz to win it broderick left foot a chip forward he has one in it now sumner and a big crowd of traffic but trying to find a salvo jack him back nicely was tompkins played forward by sense but mclaughlin does have to play it and ends up kicking it out ds unable substitute is going to be a white throw much to the dismay of the players wanting to come on got bad information from this near side referee initially so now mclaughlin off her and out again sense with another throw and apparently that throw is no good and it's not going to be a ds throw so now diaz can substitute mclaughlin is going to take this throw looks like stocks is off desalvo is off as is eva benani we'll go off and again taking the throw goffin with a big ball forward worcester can't win that ball now the ball does come to worcester around a little bit nice turn by chip block nice turn also by hanson midway trying to work the ball forward spraying the ball wide to nicholas on the wing she's getting well defended by embry but this is going to be a midway throw and be refused to let her get that cross off hold waltz as a referee as uh arie keaney comes in from midway content is coming off embry playing the ball of the line big ball into the box mclaughlin with a nice clear d is trying to work this ball off the field meter recovers still possessing again looking to go down the right sideline for nicholas being chased by zoe schwartz and results in a goal kick [Applause] ball's played forward off the goal kick phillips fighting for it wins that battle nice recovery though from chip lock she's able to play the ball forward broaddricks clear up the line intercepted by chip block leads the ball backwards to the d who boom it forward mclaughlin heads that out of trouble embry gets another head on it balls play forward nicely to martin marty phillips gets away from sumner but charging to the midfield to collect that is seal seals trying to find worcester phillips back to zoe schwartz embry attacking up the left side she's going to put up nope she's going to cut back playing the ball nicely to the feet of sumner sumner going one on two that doesn't matter but the third defender jumps in there nicely to clear away that uh threat sense with a good step so i'm gonna kind of split the first two defenders ball bounces up awkwardly and hits the hand of sense it's gonna be a kick here for ds somewhat dangerous position inside the 20.
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oh that's a very dangerous ball goaltender back pedaling just got a hand on it to send it up over the net into the football crossbar resulting in a corner kick but that was a terrific ball from mclaughlin coldtender's nightmare she's going backwards you don't know where that back post is you don't know if this thing's on that or not [Applause] [Music] corner boomed in d has got a head on it but it's wider than that [Applause] rachel herman's back in the game it's good to see came in for marty phillips ball's played forward by the midway keeper battle between embry and landry landry wins the throw but now diaz has the ball and that's off bed weighing out schwartz finds embry embry back for schwartz schwartz pressured by landry herman nice good centering ball but here uh step in front of nicely by the midway defender broderick playing the ball forward they find herman herman dances away from trouble and puts a nice ball through into the corner racing on it is hayden sumner trying to get a crossover results in a [Applause] corner i believe i was misunderstood the information that i received and emma williams is now in that playing second half here for ds i'm not sure who the emergency goaltender was in the first half but she did a fantastic job [Applause] ds i'm asking at the top of the box getting ready to play this corner in well defended by medway but there was a handball just outside the box this is going to be a very dangerous spot for medway as diaz will be taking a free kick from just outside the box looks like rachel herman's going to take this all kinds of bodies in front of this goalkeeper three-person wall that herman will have to negotiate around oh plays the ball flat nice chip but unfortunately that volley went up and over the crossbar [Music] i believe that was natasha seal the effort but she moved nicely to get open and well done by herman to see her that ball was touched by the goaltender another corner for ds ds definitely outside of that one really good opportunity for medway it's carried the play here in the second half a little too much spin on that went into the side of the net [Music] hayden summers had a lot of good corner balls today that not one of them but there will be more opportunities no doubt midway playing that ball forward just gonna skip over some folks [Applause] off medway and over the line embry right away finds herman midway all over herman body's flying everywhere herman's got it controlling the ball wide for embry embry with a volley through that almost went to sumner now second effort does find sumner summoner with a shot that was going to go wide but scooped up by the midway goalie emery jumping in the attack there from her left full back position now emperor's back on defense ball gets away from her landry landry and embry embry gets in front of that cross edward's gonna have a corner [Music] stocks back on ben and i is back on as is abby desalvo looks like embry is coming off zoe schwartz [Applause] and hayden sumner gonna take a break cross by medway headed away matter women's possession but rachel herman's all over sense little give and go back for herman she gonna be able to keep this in no midway throw just over midfield [Music] throwing for higgins ball kicked over the top higgins trying to play it onto herself and get through the defense and midway through landry with the throw here midway bringing on number 23 and a long ball is coming off to take a break ran a long ball switching positions yes gets in front of that ceo with the ball forward looking for sumner goalie's way out of her box um but does play that ball forward nicely now stocks benenoti trying to find the feet of los gao ball played forward almost got through but does find herman eventually stocks again trying to send herman down the line intercepted by condom and played out stocks will take this throw headed forward flicked on nicely by sumner midway content just to clear that out about the 30 yard line stocks finds the feet of hermann back to stocks settles the ball nicely really good teamwork big cross skips away from de salvo some remember with a rocket straight across the field now midway gotta get something going here playing the ball up the line but it goes out sun getting low in the sky and becoming a factor if you're on the far side of the field looking back towards the camera [Music] nice skill there from chip block trying to find teammates going forward since lost her footing [Music] now some substitutions as uh hayden sumner's back on mclaughlin's coming off [Music] worcester that ball on nicely and she's done a few times today oh desalvo down the line but intercepted by midway but ds moscow to stocks stocks can't get through number 11 condon now dies wins the ball back moscow again can't quite connect with herman ball controlled in the back by ds real nicely up for los gao kind of take their time seoul moscow benani now the balls move forward out to the right wing sumner lots of space big cross over her sister and here comes the goalkeeper to come out and scoop that up [Applause] ball punted forward [Music] let's step there from broderick now herman oh out of the feet of los gao she controls it nicely pushes the ball wide sumner hayden with the ball forward again looking for waverly doesn't quite get through now stocks seal seal with a nice ball forward to waverly does fine feet but midway defense is all over her and then stocks with an effort that seals water the net kelly nichols coming on tompkins off [Applause] [Music] goal kick here from medway still 0-0 11 minutes plus left here in the second half ball kind of bouncing around seal trying to get a foot on that now it's played forward by medway but then seals back to intercept scoop that up some nifty teamwork through the midfield and here comes stocks going wide for summer skips under her foot but still in she's gonna chase that down and perez just content to kick that out of bounds [Applause] ball played through now worcester [Music] both players point at each other and apparently the referee thinks it was off blue goal kick ds bench up trying to encourage your teammates pick up the intensity here [Music] ball's coming right to stocks while he's that forward herman herman gonna run on keep that in but it's volley forward by longvol and then off embryon out midway again with another throw that skipped off broderick now that thrown to the middle won by ds worcester gets fouled herman's gonna take this free kick goes wide to stocks stocks got a lot of room gonna take a shot from distance scooped up nicely by the midway goaltender [Music] now herman trying to win the ball in midfield big long ball through looking for bullard who's not going to get there oh takes a little bit of a spill on the track but she seems fine it's a throw not a goal kick [Applause] down by the corner flag [Applause] referee encouraging albie to solve what it back out [Applause] [Music] throw that was won by midway and could have turned into a dangerous chance there but referee blew the whistle because maybe it was still subbing south will get another shot at it [Music] this time ball's played back to her and she was able to volley it up the line now it's played into the box and scooped up by emma williams somewhat quiet second half other than that one flurry by midway and midway trying to get something going here switching to the right side of the field walls wide for landry embry with a big step summoner and enemy at embry get in front of that opportunity but now medway's got the throw [Music] broderick good step there from seal [Applause] worcester putting on all kinds of pressure trying to get in the face of mahan mahan switches fields nicely finds long ball but there's herman sumner plays the ball off white he's going to win this throw substitution so seal's coming off phillips coming on unlucky there between embry and herman midway returns to favor blue throw again caitlyn everybody looking at her options plays the ball backwards ben and adi uh ben and i somehow got called for a foul i mean the midway player definitely got injured but i'm not sure better not he was even focused on it or aware of her and she won that ball nicely turned and found broderick but in any case we'll have a little injury break here timeout both teams will kind of huddle up similarly injury appears to be in some level of discomfort [Music] she's up and coming off with some assistance terrific game put in today by emily landry i hope she's okay [Music] we have another drop ball situation here where ds will play the ball back to white [Applause] wait now winning the ball nicely down the sideline but there's uh broderick snuff out that attack plays the ball forward now herman finds a teammate worcester trying to flick onto herself gets over her head chip block trying to work the ball wide but desalvo is there [Applause] ball is played into the middle and won by white now higgins turns and tries to give that to a teammate but this is the mark but now midway defense with a big ball forward higgins trying to win this ball sprayed forward by longval i think she might want that one back gonna be a goal kick for yes play forward up into the midfield but to a midway player now desalvo heading the ball forward that ball goes out couldn't be kept in by hayden sumner [Music] higgins going 1v2 trying to win the ball desalvo plays that out [Music] [Applause] ball skips away from midway player ds gives it right back now tompkins gonna play the ball back for bullard bullet harassed by sumner summer gets a foot on it right in front of the midway bench [Applause] that ends up being a blue throw even better now he's gonna take this ball headed forward back to benigni chip block here in the middle of the field trying to keep possession but yes is all over him now the ball's played through and broaddricks in a foot race with higgins higgins gets there gets a touch on it broderick recovers and clears up all of the line here's condon and and embry is able to defend her opposite number and get that ball out of bounds now medway with the throw again boomed in on that goaltender's way out it's over her hands this is gonna be trouble oh and it's in the net from medway victoria bullard was there charging onto the ball as it skipped through the outstretched arms of the goaltender and may have gone over the line before bullet got there in which case it would be delaney condon's goal or might have been bullied nice dangerous ball into the box there for uh condon so diaz down one nothing under five minutes left needing to rally here nicholas coming off landry's back on diaz with the restart herman big ball forward too far for sumner scooped up by the midway keeper [Music] [Applause] [Music] pumped up phillips with a nice head on it but right to a medway player oh higgins with a push in the back of tessa broderick seen by all including the referees broderick now with a ball forward into a crowd midway flicking the ball forward but here's phillips fog goes wide for desalvo seal switches feels back to benigni ball forward for worcester just gets away from her very solid defense being played all day by the midway back line against some very talented strikers speaking of which ball in for embry embryo for sumner somebody with a header that is eventually corralled by the midway goaltender dangerous opportunity there nice cross into the box by hayden sumner [Applause] waverly sumner with the head on net now medway with possession in the middle of the field broderick's going to chase this down tries to turn on the attacking landry landry now wins the ball higgins calling for it but andrew's cross is misses everybody goal kick [Applause] [Music] goal kick played forward salvo under pressure from higgins and it is a white throw ball played in now chip block under pressure [Applause] seal now the ball comes to phillips can't quite corral it chip block chip block with a shot from distance ricochets off a defender [Music] now the ball's played wide embry and we can't connect with any blue shirts oh here's the ball in for higgins [Applause] tapped away nicely by broderick that was shaping up to be a dangerous opportunity broderick's clear though over the line so a corner kick for medway [Music] the corner goes in on top of the net [Music] broderick plays this goal kick forward ben and addy finds phillips phillips finds embry henry with a nice touch out races longval but can't work the ball into the center of the field for worcester midway's counter attack goes out bernardi will take this throw skips away from emery but one now by ds big ball forward here's sumner it's a race to the ball got a little piece of it but largely cleared by the midway keeper coming way off the line very aggressive today but always uh always in the right position and their aggressiveness has paid off on a number of occasions she's been able to beat a ds player to a ball [Music] herman trying to work this down to the forwards now it's back to herman over ben and notty higgins trying to get on this 1v2 she does win the ball pushes the ball down the sideline with broderick they battle for it broderick's able to win the ball and clear it over the line for a throw a long ball now i'm going to throw this in for medway looking to keep it short it was right to his couple ds shirts now herman ford for worcester flicked on oh there's full time and medway with the stunning upset as the four six and one now five six and one medway mustangs come into diaz's home field and notch a one-nothing victory with a late second half goal by either condon or bullard but it was a terrific all-around effort by the mustangs played great defense all day ds played well as well but was never able to string together enough to get the ball past the bedway goaltender so once again your final score here from north searle field is the medway mustangs one and the dover sherbert lady raider zero 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[Applause] would you stand up please would you like to come up and say a few words yeah it's difficult is the rest of your family here i can introduce the family stand up please and let everyone know that they are here [Applause] so i'll take great pride in introducing carol's family we have carol's brother jack who's at the at the aisle her husband ron shaw her mom mrs hip her daughter who's by the way it's her 15th birthday today that's alyssa and then her son jack our whoops our will will jack is the brother will that's great thank you is there anybody in the audience who would like to say something in honor of this occasion grant please do so my name is grant shuster i'm the president of the anaheim secondary teachers association but actually i'm not speaking in that position i met carol hipp when she was in college she and my brother were both playing soccer together at san francisco state um soon after that when we were getting our teaching credentials carol worked at disneyland uh with myself and my brother i got to know her very well and then of course we ended up teaching together in auhsd and there are things that you obviously don't see on a paper like that the years that she was a coach and supporting all of her students in that way um obviously the the mom that she was to her kids and ju the friend that she was to all of us it was an honor to know her i know my brother knew her far better than i did and was incredibly impacted uh by her in his life and it is a wonderful tribute to her that the students at the school will forever know her name and what she gave to to the community thank you thank you [Applause] okay this now i think it's a great thing and when we have somebody who's been that outstanding in in a school and has left a mark that we should recall that person and have it there something named after them so that building will forever be carol shaw all right absolutely um is there a gentleman here yet not yet okay moving on to seven point two seven point two school sponsored student organizations hello except for seven point two uh five seven point two four yes we have eight we took that out any questions or comments good evening alan and uh thank you for coming um any questions any comments being done all in favor all right opposed okay did you yeah oh one more one more there we go now it's official okay reports yeah just keep going okay let's keep going okay reports 8.1 student representative your report you're on abdullah all right thank you uh good evening everyone i'm just going to share a few things that are going along at the district and some updates that i along with the other ambassadors have so across the district i'm so happy to announce that all students have received an octa bus pass if they signed up for one which is a really great thing that everyone's really excited for because now we have a new means of transportation for students that didn't have one before all ambassadors are now serving on our district task forces and have had many opportunities to advocate for student voice across the district i along with my fellow ambassadors are also trained on our career preparedness systems framework which we will soon be presenting to parents and students across the school sites so check us out when we go do those uh and we're gonna have the great chance to share these presentations on november 5th at an artificial intelligence summit which we just found out that we are invited to and my one of the happiest one of my best pieces of news right now that i'd like to share is that for the first time in ambassador history we officially have um a school site ambassador for hope school his name is adrian barrios um so hopefully he'll be able to join us at our next um meeting once we get him a nice outfit like this one so hopefully you get to see him soon yeah it's great i'm really excited about that um many of our schools had their homecoming game and dance for the first time in almost two years so it's great to see that we're finally getting back to our new normal thanks to grant anaheim high school students have been able to purchase a refrigerator which they are calling their community fridge program and everyone's really excited about that because they get to share um all these non-perishable items and dairy products and whatnot for their community oxford academy's robotics team participated in a nationwide first technology competition kickoff they also participated along with cyprus in the jack howe tournament which uh junior from oxford academy benjamin huang placed first in his event along with rebecca ciao from cypress high school veren metta from oxford academy also placed first place in the national speech and debate for varsity lincoln douglas oxford academy and cva korean language program was honored by many distinguished guests such as the vice consulate from korea for unveiling a new korean class in media begin being the first in the nation which we got to hear from today many schools like lawera are holding activities for hispanic heritage month that are showcasing the different heritages and communities that we have here in the district kennedy high school in fact is holding a community processing circle about the hispanic heritage and they're having an open discussion about their culture laura high school is also having a house of reps meeting for the first time this year and they're going to be informing students about all the info that's going on such as the board of trustee meeting today since the last board of trustee meeting many schools have held forums in fact for dress code to help inform students about some of the guidelines that were kind of confusing savannah high school held a forum where students all watched a presentation that got to clarify some of the rules that they had some confusions about and magnolia high school is working with their administration and students to kind of shift the discussion around dress code so that people understand that it's not about body shaming or being judged but instead about school environment and i wanted to take this time because i was told that four graduates from gilbert high school have officially been have officially graduated so i want to take this time to announce their names christopher dominguez carlos mendoza uh angeline quiet cueto guillermo zuniga so i just want to shout them out real quick congratulations and finally i just want to close out this report with a few quotes that i got from a few students that i'd like to share so one student said i felt very welcomed and safe returning back to on-school learning i'm happy that i can resume activities and events in person that was from andrea rodarte a senior at anaheim high school another student shared as a junior i feel very stressed about being in school as searching for information about scholarships and how i get to be involved in school is scarce to come by however i am very delighted about how enthusiastic teachers are about teaching in person because as a student one could tell how passionate teachers have become it has been tough to adopt the new circumstances we were left in after online school but it has awakened people's desire to teach and learn this was by yedrique gomi gomez class of 23 from lower high school and finally being in person has definitely helped me in terms of understanding the material and paying attention in class this has made doing the homework a lot easier compared to online but there is a large increase of workload from previous years which i'm trying to work on a sophomore from western high school thank you all right very good thank you i like the fact that you got some comments from some of the students from various schools that's very good thank you that's great to hear thank you okay i believe our our guests are here okay guests are here so we will back to donations from city national bank okay city national bank is a full-service bank that offers a complement of banking trust and investment services at city national they proudly offer services tools and technology that put people and communities first their car belief is to make a difference in the community by investing in the communities they serve they take pride in their literacy program and support local schools with yearly backpacks supply as well as volunteer with school districts when their irvine office was closing in march the first thing that came to mind was how to distribute furniture to local non-profits or communities rather than just leaving it for movers to put it in waste city national started calling and part of that call was to trustee al jabar the district picked up most of the furniture to be used for our community resource center at sycamore junior high school on behalf of the board and the anaheim union high school district community we thank you profusely for your generous donation i know we have uh yes vin hussein uh back there so we will probably ask you to come up forward um with also my sister who works for the bank sharmila haseem who's also back there so i would like to while they come up i just want to mention that mrs cena has been a big supporter of the sikomo community we did a couple of backpack drives which assisted some of our families in sycamore junior high she also spearheaded a food distribution program for our kids or families who are actually affected by covet so that happened but at the same time uh she was also very active and involved in the community uh i think she has a private group which actually go goes ahead and raises funds for uh communities that i need so i'm glad that my sister put me in touch with her so we are actually in a in a good place to support our anaheim communities which i need so thank you very much on behalf of the board and that community thank you all right i don't know if it's work but my apologies to be late i thought 10 miles will take me in about 45 minutes but it took me hour and a half so oh my apology but i just want to thank you guys for giving us an opportunity to work with you thank you for giving us in touch with the curve with the anaheim school district and i was actually looking at my new office storage room and i found a lot of things i think we can talk about it so we can distribute to the school yeah thank you for having me i appreciate it i just want to make a point that the the furniture that was used is going to our new community school and it's more than five thousand dollars worth so i'm very appreciative of that thank you oh don't go away come yeah we got that okay and uh do we have the branch manager also here no no it's uh actually she's the branch brother he is the branch manager oh i'm sorry and anybody else come up forward please we'll give you a presentation and take a picture i really appreciate it thank you so much for thinking about that instead of wasting it and giving it thank you very much that is so well appreciated just for the picture thank you so much [Applause] we are so appreciative in this district of anything which we are given or donated things like that furniture it's a great asset for us you know we put it to good use and we appreciate it very very much and of course the financial support for the korean language outstanding okay uh next will be our reports of the associations uh we'll start with astor grant shuster we'll have you come back up and speak as the president of asta thank you good evening board president piercy trustees cabinet and others in attendance here and online we've made it through uh one of the most difficult first quarters of a year that we've all experienced there have been challenges and obstacles too numerous to list so tonight i just want to acknowledge what we're all going through to the board we know how hard it has been to represent your constituencies so impacted over the past year and a half the concern frustration and anger foisted upon you regularly by a community passionate about their children and their safety has been a massive load on your work and your work is appreciated to the cabinet in addition to all of the same contacts that you receive that are similar to those on the board you also plan and implement all of the programs and protocols that support students employees and the community we see what you do and acknowledge how difficult and stressful it has been to all of our district and site support staff your time and effort spent on a daily basis with the students and families is invaluable families show up at schools with needs far beyond the scope that we have been trained or funded to address but you take everyone in and do whatever you can to help them we see you doing this and acknowledge the where it has put on you this year to my asta members in the classrooms nurses offices and speech therapy rooms i want to lift up all that you are doing this year under extraordinary circumstances bringing students back to a campus setting after such a long absence coupled with the anxiety and trauma so many of our children have returned to school with has made your jobs more challenging than ever we see the toll it has taken and acknowledge all that you are doing to support students and create conditions for them to grow and thrive once again there are countless stories of stress and struggle and all of us wondering at times how we're all going to possibly get through this but we're going to do it together and it's really important for us not to just acknowledge each other but then look for ways that we can support each other and ease the burden and stress and make it easier to get through this difficult time uh we must acknowledge what we're all going through and as their leaders we must continue to find ways to support all of our employees whatever needs they have so their focus can stay on students i along with asta leadership and committed to do so and we know that everyone else in this room will join us i would also like to discuss on another topic our progress with community schools asta has continued to work with parents community group representatives and district personnel to organize the stakeholders in order to nurture our community schools by getting input regarding their structure and implementation as well as reviewing programs in place tanya garcia the anaheim high schools community school coordinator and i had a presentation this morning at anaheim high school at their late start meeting we have already had stakeholders responding to become part of the site team asta is working with cta to make sure these collaborative teams are part of the requirements put in place in order to receive a community schools grant from the state we must reinforce the neighborhood public school as the foundational cornerstone of every local community our process will do just that to close i want to again acknowledge the work of asta members and everyone else in the district and call on all of us to keep an eye out for each other for our students for our families and other employees in need of any kind of support we must provide whatever we can to keep everyone safe healthy and prepared to learn in our schools thank you thank you grant and then we have the alta vice president amanda bean good evening for president piercy board of trustees superintendent matt souda cabinet guests and those joining us online first i'd like to give a shout out to all of our school administrators we are in the week of the school administrator so i want to acknowledge just the hard work of this group you know the evenings weekends all the things that they do to support our our our teachers our counselors our administra the other administrators students and families we know that they're working very hard to to make sure our schools are safe and wonderful places to be some of the things going on for the administrative team is that we just had the ed summit this last monday and um so i want to just shout out give them a shout out uh for their support of helping us get our facilities ready we held um they had summit across various sites and so our teams needed to help us get rooms and technology ready and um just to make sure that we have a successful event for our teaching and clerical staff sites are in full swing right now with student activities including homecoming and athletics and i'm having lots of fun doing that they've been very busy coordinating the implementation of our district-wide system around the college and career fair and so working with their teams to make sure that um students are getting registered on the socio platform to uh making sure that thriving assessments are taking place and that students are having career exploration activities prior to attending the college and career fair and just helping making sure those systems on their campuses are um running there are busy holding saturday academies and the upcoming psat which is actually this coming saturday um also in the middle reviewing first quarter data and looking for opportunities for real-time grade recovery for students and making sure that we're supporting students before they might not pass a course at the end of the semester and they're starting to have conversations around master schedule and those reflective conversations to help aid us in this year's planning also continuing with coffee with the principals and having various parent nights on campus so again while it's very busy our teams are very happy to be with students and supporting the community and just i'm so happy to be back in person um and to be able to just um have a good time and and again meet the needs of our families so thank you are there any other let's see pta or apga we have sylvia i can't see you with the mask my hair's different today i straightened it for you so little trustees district cabinet auhsd students families and community members prior to covid we used this time to allow our schools to come and report on their counseling programs tonight i am honored to be able to introduce two counseling programs catella high school and south junior high we will begin this evening with my friend and colleague mr ken gompert speaking on behalf of catella's counseling department after him miss candace dion will be sharing for south junior high school thank you good evening lord it's nice to see you again i'm ken gompert counselor at catalan high school joining me tonight is my principal dr hernandez lacey monger counselor and counselor janet lowe we were doing the math of our counseling team and we have over 100 years of experience here at anaheim union as counselors and if you if you take the number that we work with cohorts of four years and then you multiply it by our case load that comes about seventeen thousand that's about seventeen thousand students that we've had direct contact with during our tenure and that's just catella high school that's pretty significant if you think about it because as a professional school counselor we have an opportunity to reach a lot of students and not just in the schools because i was at the dentist and my dentist asked me what do you do for a living i said i'm a professional school counselor i worked at cypress high school and i work at catalan she says you've got to be kidding me my best friend went to one of your schools she may have been your counsel or your student i said what was your friend's name she says fabulous but her name was not fabulous i'm just going to tell you right now but she had a fabulous name one you would never forget and she says yeah fabulous she she went to new york she studied fashion she uh started her own business super successful happier than ever and as a counselor listening to that that's music to the ears so of course i left and no cavities just so you know came came back six months later because i go every six months and she says ken you won't believe who i had lunch with fabulous i told her that you were my client and she's oh mr gompert wow mr gompert well i'll tell you and i'm not bragging but she says i don't know if i would have been in new york had it not been for his guidance i was in his office every day constantly getting guidance from him now let's be let's be honest uh long-term memories are distorted and it's not likely she was in my office every single day i know that to be true but i know long-term memories are distorted but they're distorted by emotion and i know that whatever she left with she left with positive regards she left with support and that i can say did happen not just by me but also by my team by the professional school counselors in our district now i tell you the story because this situation with the dentist was fairly recent but she graduated 17 years ago and she's still telling that story so what we do is professional school counselors yes it does affect the immediate but it is long and far-reaching and it affects our entire community even the dentist's office i'm a celebrity in the dentist office now so it's kind of nice but i do want to take the time to thank you because i've always felt great support from our board from our district administration from our site administration because we do know that professional school counselors make a big difference so i want to take the time to thank you and it's good to see you again have a fabulous evening [Applause] hello good evening i'm cecilia soberanis i'm one of the counselors at south junior high um i love that ken highlighted a student that we see the success after years today i want to share a story with you of a student that we're seeing success in the now and the today and i think this is a great way to highlight what we do as a profession so this year more than most quarter one at south junior high and every other counseling office across the district has it's been a time to explore our students and their stories their needs how we can support them each day unique in its own way has provided us with the opportunity to build rapport and stu and support students through a myriad of experiences during a year of such high social emotional need it's difficult to choose just one student on which to focus on in this narrative and so we chose a student we're going to name this student student s um it's not as clever as fabulous i wish i would have thought of something like that but student as it is as a cohesive and collaborative counseling team all three of the counselors at south junior high have developed an invested interest in the well-being and success of this student each of us have brainstormed ways to support him as he navigates the challenges and successes of his junior high experience we first learned of the student during our elementary school counselor collaboration which ensures a smooth transition with our most at-risk rising seventh graders it was shared with us that stu this that student s should be challenged in honors classes and we noticed that student s did not request any honors classes so we were able through meeting with the student with their family um able to make sure that we met their needs by providing them with honors classes for the in their schedule however there was so much more to learn about him as we delved a little deeper through the queue reviews consultations with teachers meetings with parents and daily interactions with the students experiencing significant anxiety during the first few weeks of school this student needed help advocating for his needs as a member of south lgbtq plus community we helped him with emails that outlined his preferred name and pronouns with his teachers so that his authentic self could be recognized additionally a five-minute grace period at the end of class before pe was given so that student s could change in a general gender-neutral bathroom through the development of supports such as these we discovered that there are some other hurdles based on our pe uniforms that this student has been very vocal in our south gsa which we call the rainbow warriors which is advised by two of our school counselors and he has vowed to voice his opinion on the topic and make some real change in our south community he even ran for a leadership position in our rainbow warriors through the process of getting to know this student and helping him manage his anxiety with daily check-ins scheduled for each morning before class during those few minutes the student was able to share thoughts emotions processes and challenges it gave him a place that to feel safe and supported before starting a hectic and stressful day the rapport that was built during these moments led the student to self-reporting suicide ideation once a formal risk assessment was conducted the student appeared to be low risk and the benefit of this was that we were able to provide the student and his family with resources outside of the school setting that offer opportunities for both individual and family counseling although we never know what the next day will bring we have watched student s become more independent and comfortable with his identity he is advocating for himself more often he is also excelling in his honors classes and now only checking in on the mornings when he feels that it's necessary he was even a september student of the month the school counseling team looks forward to a year of growth for this student as well as all the other students that we have at south junior high south junior high we're so lucky to have a hard-working and caring team and this is just one story of how school counselors can really affect change in the here and now in the today of every student so thank you for taking the time for us to share these stories they're just one in a million of stories that are um currently happening at south at auhst actually so thank you so much [Applause] okay lots of work thank you uh okay pta sptsa report do we have the parent teacher representative here i don't see any okay so we will move on to our presentations and our first presentation this evening will be about trusty area boundary adjustment following comprehensive study and community input the district transitioned to a buy trustee area election method in 2014.
education code section 50 19.5 requires that the district adjust trustee area boundaries so they are proportional to the number of trustees and overall population of the district based on the decennial federal census i will refer the rest of this presentation to carl waddell thank you trustee piercy uh tonight we're we're happy to welcome uh the team that will be assisting the district uh mr justin rich from cooperative strategies is here and he'll present to you uh i'd like to welcome him up to the podium with him is michael toy he's an attorney with parker covert who's also assisting tonight i got it good evening thank you for having me here tonight um as was discussed we're here to to come back and after eight years now uh when when the the trustee areas were uh originally adopted we're gonna review based on the 2020 census data to see both the demographics and the population balance for your trustee areas and i think there's a couple of key things that as as demographers when when we went through your data there's a couple of things that stood out to us first of all there's been overall population growth within the district of 3.3 percent so that's from 2010 to 2020 and there's also been some uh some shifts in terms of the demographics of the district and probably not not surprising for for you all that live in the community uh and so we'll highlight some of those what we see based on our analysis and we'll talk more about this but the the key uh under education code 501 9.5 what we're supposed to do is make sure that after the census that trustee areas are roughly in balance so what we look at you'll see in the i guess it's the fifth column here where it shows the variance the variance between the smallest and the largest trustee area is nine percent and and generally we're shooting for under 10 percent so i think that's good news you'll see that trustee area one is the smallest and it has a variance of negative 4.1 percent below that ideal size and trustee area 2 is the largest about 4.8 percent above the ideal size or average i will say also that that the deadline for completing this process is february 28 2022 uh that that's a few months away um but and and again that's that's if necessary that's if the board decides to to make any adjustments to the maps so i provided a snapshot here based on the 2020 census data and this shows the demographic composition of the district based on that new data we've showed both the total population and also for reference the age 18 and over population you'll see that now your total population is just shy of 400 000 and it shows that your largest protected class and we'll talk a little bit more about that is the latinx group and at 47.6 when we talk about protected classes this is as defined by the federal voting rights act these are uh racial and language minority groups uh and and again we'll talk a little bit more about how that factors into drawing boundaries we've also shown the citizen voting age population and for those that can recall the last process the the relevance of that is to make sure uh that we're looking at not just the total number of people which is what the census counts and what we showed but also to look at who are the likely eligible voters uh and this is prepared prepared by the american community survey the 2015 through 2019 citizen voting age population and so these numbers uh obviously are smaller than the total population but this is a proxy that we use to to determine who's who's likely to vote in an election again the largest protected class is the latinx group at just about 38 percent just by means of orientation here we've we've included the the current trustee areas the map that you adopted previously for reference and i think that this was a key highlight of the last process is just to overlay the high school attendance boundaries on this so you'll see the red lines show the various high school attendance boundaries and excuse me the colored areas show the current trusty areas it's probably a little hard to see exactly what those are area 1 is in yellow area 2 is in green area 3 is in red area 4 is in blue and area 5 is sort of a pink color so on this slide i want to point out a couple of things uh first of all when we're we're looking at variance i talked about that earlier when when we're looking at variants this is really just a fairly simple math problem we take the total population and we divide that by the number of trustee areas and that gives us our average or our ideal size and then when we're calculating the variance what we do is we take the largest and we take the smallest and and we calculate what the difference is and then we divide that by that ideal size that gives us our our variance in terms of percentage again i pointed out that area one is the smallest in terms of total population and two is the largest in terms of total population those are the colors or the columns i should say that are that are lightly colored and then the darker columns we've included the percentages of the citizen voting age population as well as was the case when you when you originally adopted these boundaries you have a a majority latin x group based on citizen voting age population of just about 56 percent uh that's up from you know i had it here uh it was roughly 52 if i remember correctly previously so so that's grown and you are close to having a majority but you have a plurality of latinx voters again based on citizen voting age population in trustee area 2.
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again the the total variance looking at the total population is just about nine percent and so when as as demographers when when we're looking at drawing these areas there's a number of different considerations that that go into that and um all categories categorize those two ways there's things that we must do in order in order to comply with the law and then there's other things that we should do uh based on uh stuff that is in uh the the california education code um and and we should do to the extent possible but but it also represents good keeping communities together good good representation and i think that's the idea behind these so in that first category the things that we must do is we must roughly balance each area they can't they they will not be in and and won't you know they won't be perfect uh but but they will be roughly balanced and again we we take that to mean based on legal precedence that that anything less than 10 percent is kind of gives you the safe harbor um so so that's the first thing we have to do the the second thing we have to do is we have to comply with the federal voting rights act and that means that we will not draw areas such that it impairs the ability of a protected class to elect the candidate of their choice uh you you may be familiar with the terms packing and cracking we wouldn't want to draw areas such that it it diminished the influence of one of these protected classes by either grouping them together in a way that uh kept them from uh having their full voice heard in another area or drawing it such that it split those those protected classes and diminished it that way so so that's another thing that we must comply with we should also keep them as compact and contiguous as much as possible sometimes these things can be a balancing act when we have varying degrees of population density and and communities and neighborhoods and things like that but to the extent we can we should we should also respect communities of interest and in this context we we define that as groups that have shared social and economic characteristics this could be groups based on national origin or religion or other things of that nature oftentimes the boundaries for for those communities of interest may be at natural or or man-made geographic boundaries whether it's major roads or highways or railroad tracks things like that so we should also take that into consideration those often make logical choices for for dividing lines and to the extent we can and this shouldn't be a predominant concern but we should also respect incumbency to the extent that that we can uh there's there's other local considerations and although i wasn't involved the the entire process i do recall when you when you drew your boundaries previously there was thought about the high school attendance boundaries so so that might be something that you would consider uh or or other factors that that makes sense for for your community and you know for for your role um providing k-12 education so that's all i have i'm happy to ask any error to answer any questions and if i can't answer them i'm sure mike will be able to answer any of the legal questions do i have any questions from board members and murray mrs trejo so i just bought bottom line even though there was a growth uh in trustee area 2 it's still still we're still in compliance because you said it's under the 10 percent yeah that's that's correct there's a legal presumption excuse me that below and this is based on federal voting rights or federal voting law cases um that that if you're below 10 you're you're still roughly balanced and there may be rationales as to why you might not be you know again we can't be perfectly balanced across the board um but um yeah if you're below 10 that's i think most would tell you that you're in a good spot is there a should and if that there is what would that percentage be yeah i mean um i think if if there's aspects of the boundaries currently that that you would want to look at um that you know maybe there is a community that is being split or there's a neighborhood that's being split and that's that's something that you know is is concerning then then i think this would be the time to address that uh really uh that section of the education code is just to ensure that you're within balance and so um that's that's the purpose of this and and again based on that criteria you are in balance um but as you know as a board you have the option to to address other things if you want this was a very obvious process and and this was uh we we were really pleased with with our with our balance and so um yeah okay just nice to see that we are we have maintained a pretty good balance generally speaking that we haven't gone way one way or the other so thank you for your report welcome so i have a few questions so i see that we're obviously under the variance of 10 we're meeting that but looking at the growth model right growth of district 2 uh and looking at district 1 because of the decrease in growth would it be i wouldn't say not legally but would it be a good advice to take a look at the districts and maybe redraw the maps just so that we are ready for i mean 10 years from now right that we're not over balancing ourselves or by district 2 exploding in population because it makes a big difference i've been looking at the anaheim city maps right and we see where the growth is in the platinum triangle area there's a possibility that that could increase so my question to you is that is it advisable for us to take a look at it now since we're in the process and read all the boundaries at least to balance out in this case it will be i don't see any difference in four and five but maybe one two and three adjust the boundaries a little bit so that it makes sense to get that without compromising any other numbers i i think that's that's a question that that you all have to consider in way you know again are there do the boundaries work well currently uh are there areas where we could make some slight adjustments to bring those more into balance to your point i think that's you know completely valid to look into the future and and know that there's going to be a certain amount of growth that's still coming in those areas uh and to to to plan accordingly and the good thing is that you are going to address this every 10 years and so so you will have those opportunities to to rebalance in the future but you know it's a long period of time as well so um so what would be the process so uh so we're right now you're giving us a presentation of it yep and let's say that you come back at the direction of the board to say look at different models of the map again or if the board decides no i think we're meeting all the criteria so we don't want to move forward then this ends today right certainly yeah so let's say we do give direction to go back and take a look at the maps what would be like to open up the process in terms of not only the board but the community getting involved yeah and and there's there's nothing that's laid out in in statute there's there's no legal requirement about how how you approach that i think there's a lot of school districts uh the way that they're approaching it is they're holding public hearings if they go through that process of redrawing maps you know and inviting the community in uh they're they're using uh you know their their information resources their website social media in order to to get the word out there um some opt for uh holding community meetings um and so so there's really a wide spectrum of uh you know how how folks approach that and i'm and i'm just looking at the process at the city of the county we have enough time to do all that before the february deadline correct yeah it depends how we would would sequence it you know just in terms of when those those board meetings would happen were where you would review maps and how many meetings would be required and how many iterations we would go through so yeah i think that's a so my question to carl what happens after tonight's presentation after this discussion does a board member make the motion to say go back and come back or open up the process to redraw maps or tonight tonight's meeting was really just informational to explain the data it was released two weeks ago we're starting the process it's only an information item i don't know if mr toy wants to maybe explain what the legal process would be for next steps but we we will go and have a discussion about this and then if we're going to move further which we may want to do uh we'll backwards map it from from the deadline good evening board president percy and members of the board as cooperative strategies laid out for school districts the procedures that that the school board wants to follow is very open cities and counties are under a statutory scheme so if if you direct staff to say that you want to follow a particular procedure that one of the constituent cities in anaheim follows you'd you may follow it you do not have to follow it you can listen uh to what feedback you get if you take a look at what we did in 2014 there was a a particular section of your website that was set up you published all of the data on your website and then on your website if you decided that maybe one or more community hearings would be feasible you can do that if you want to have a public hearing after if you direct cooperative strategies to publish one or more draft maps there is no legal requirement but we do recommend that you give at least a seven days notice of putting the map up on your website so that the community can respond to it just remember that the cities and counties are under a tighter deadline than school boards are the cities and counties i believe are probably have to do this by january so there's going to be the primary election yeah with the primary election uh they're under a a tighter process so you as a board can take a look at what's happening uh with the city and and perhaps the constituent uh elementary school districts to see what what they're doing um there's going to be plenty of time between now and february the 28th uh in order to are we stuck to that february 28th deadline you are the ed code says that if the school board the local school board does not take action to adjust its trustee area boundaries the county office of education and the county committee on school district organization have the ability to do it uh on their own unlike the procedure that we undertook in 2014 where the board received a a number of maps picked a a particular map that they wanted to go with and then submit that to the county committee on school district reorganization that procedural step does not take place this time it's totally within the discretion of the board between now and february the 28th to consider any adjustments to the boundaries if if the board wants to okay thank you for answering that because i was i thought that this process took a really long time and if we don't have to do that uh yes uh the the procedures for moving from at large to by trusty areas is set forth in statute but once you've moved from at large to trustee area elections it's it it's pretty much within the board's discretion in order to how to do that and if you remember if if there are members of the board who ran for election before 2014 you had to run at large and so there was a lot more shoe leather i don't know if people still do that or if everybody does it by facebook nowadays but you know for the for the five trustees before they used to have to run throughout uh the district now it's within the trustee area boundaries so it's a much a simpler way of campaigning yes all right well i might i'm done with the questions but i would like the board to entertain maybe coming back and at least taking a look at redrawing the maps just to make sure that we're balancing out certain trusty areas so yes and and and moving back from that february the 28th deadline we've been telling our clients that you should publish at least seven days before the february the 28th if you want to make any adjustments so uh staff can take a look at your you know the board schedule february the 28th what's the first or second meeting of february and then work backwards from that or you you can move quicker but you know i i would suggest that as a starting point for staff to to give you some options and then the board can make a decision as if what procedures you want to undergo in order to get the map adjusted if necessary yeah i i i just kind of take a exception to a deadline you know i think it's still a little bit early but you know we're just getting this data from the census so i i find that you know objectionable well uh you know and it was unfortunate that the the census data was late this year uh yeah about six months late it would have been nice if the the people up in sacramento had had had given uh you know some more time but from from february to 28th the steps that has to happen is that those maps have to go to the registrar of voters and then they've got to figure and and and you know in 2014 when when people were elected at large it was very easy when once you move to buy trustee areas it it created a lot of logistical steps for the registrar of voters you could be in uh one area for anaheim union you could be in a separate area for the city council you could be in a separate area for your feeder elementary school district and you know before it was everybody was at large it was very simple for the registrar of voters now they they really need the february 28th date in order to make sure that they can do a june election as well as a november election all right thank you for explaining that and thank you for uh telling us that it was six months so our public understands that we have to get this done pretty quickly thank you okay and and and i think uh cooperative strategies i said it you're you're within the ed code 501 9.5 now in in terms of of of the you know the population so that's the baseline that that that your district is starting from appreciate it thank you thank you thank you thank you very much [Applause] okay our next presentation will be on the covet 19 and the reopening of our schools dr fred yes while they're transitioning good evening again for president pierce members of our board to my colleagues on the cabinet and then our guests and colleagues in the audience and those watching online gives me a great pleasure tonight to to be joined by our director risk management we're going to give you a brief update on some items related to cove 19 and related protocols i will also be sharing an update on around the educational summit that we had last week and highlight with a video that was made to highlight our work as a district so with that i'm going to turn it to my colleague leanna williams good evening president piercy board trustees cabinet mr matsuda guest joining us this evening just some quick updates on our covet efforts right now so we continue to post our dashboard up weekly we are updating those numbers as if you've been looking at the dashboard you see that the numbers do go in ebbs and flows um what we can trace the student increases and decreases too are to our activities so obviously when we have a positive athlete we have to then take a look at all the support teams and and identify those close contacts and so when you have a positive person it can sometimes lead anywhere to ten to almost two dozen kids having to be quarantined so we're seeing the spikes in those numbers related to those types of activities we are doing well with our staff um positivity rates those numbers have been decreasing over to over the last few weeks and so we will continue to update those numbers every friday so this is the big day on august 11th the governor issued the mandatory weekly testing for any public private school employees who were not fully vaccinated and fully vaccinated in the order means those people who have re who have not received excuse me fully vaccination means uh an individual who has received both doses of the moderna and the pfizer vaccine two weeks after that second dose or the single dose of the johnson johnson if you are anything outside of that you are not considered fully vaccinated so anyone who only has one dose of the two dose is is partially vaccinated so we were mandated to have weekly testing put in place by october 15th tomorrow's october 15th however i am happy to say that we were able to get and launch our weekly mandate testing effective monday october 18th we have partnered with the state and through them have partnered with mobilemed will be coming to each one of our sites one day a week we've actually got a resource of six team members from mobilemed and we've scheduled it such that you have at least two one to three people at each site about five sites in the morning five sites in the afternoon and they'll be rotating throughout the district um every day and we will have that testing available for our staff members so there is on-site available on-site testing available employees are not bound to test on-site though employees can seek to test off-site if they would like however we do encourage that employees do tests with us for it's convenient it's right there on their site but they can also seek testing anywhere else at one of the district offered locations so we've scheduled it to where junior high schools are testing in the morning and we've got high schools testing in the afternoon part of that is because we would like to offer the wrestlers or those athletes who are mandated to test weekly as well be able to receive the testing on their sites so we've made it to where the high schools will test in the afternoon so in this particular moment the wrestlers can participate in the testing this portion of the partnership with cdph will run through december of 2021 at which point we may be eligible for an additional six month extension of this program so that that cdbh grant you mean correct so we will be getting six months we could be eligible yes for an additional six months however it'll be two weeks ago yet tomorrow that the governor issued a new mandate this mandate being that all employees of public and private schools k through 12 must be vaccinated in addition to mandatory vaccination for students and this mandate can be as early as january 1st or july 1st of 2022 and the mandate will be in effect the term following full fda approval of the vaccinations for those students 12 ages 12 to 18.
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education code section 50 19.5 requires that the district adjust trustee area boundaries so they are proportional to the number of trustees and overall population of the district based on the decennial federal census i will refer the rest of this presentation to carl waddell thank you trustee piercy uh tonight we're we're happy to welcome uh the team that will be assisting the district uh mr justin rich from cooperative strategies is here and he'll present to you uh i'd like to welcome him up to the podium with him is michael toy he's an attorney with parker covert who's also assisting tonight i got it good evening thank you for having me here tonight um as was discussed we're here to to come back and after eight years now uh when when the the trustee areas were uh originally adopted we're gonna review based on the 2020 census data to see both the demographics and the population balance for your trustee areas and i think there's a couple of key things that as as demographers when when we went through your data there's a couple of things that stood out to us first of all there's been overall population growth within the district of 3.3 percent so that's from 2010 to 2020 and there's also been some uh some shifts in terms of the demographics of the district and probably not not surprising for for you all that live in the community uh and so we'll highlight some of those what we see based on our analysis and we'll talk more about this but the the key uh under education code 501 9.5 what we're supposed to do is make sure that after the census that trustee areas are roughly in balance so what we look at you'll see in the i guess it's the fifth column here where it shows the variance the variance between the smallest and the largest trustee area is nine percent and and generally we're shooting for under 10 percent so i think that's good news you'll see that trustee area one is the smallest and it has a variance of negative 4.1 percent below that ideal size and trustee area 2 is the largest about 4.8 percent above the ideal size or average i will say also that that the deadline for completing this process is february 28 2022 uh that that's a few months away um but and and again that's that's if necessary that's if the board decides to to make any adjustments to the maps so i provided a snapshot here based on the 2020 census data and this shows the demographic composition of the district based on that new data we've showed both the total population and also for reference the age 18 and over population you'll see that now your total population is just shy of 400 000 and it shows that your largest protected class and we'll talk a little bit more about that is the latinx group and at 47.6 when we talk about protected classes this is as defined by the federal voting rights act these are uh racial and language minority groups uh and and again we'll talk a little bit more about how that factors into drawing boundaries we've also shown the citizen voting age population and for those that can recall the last process the the relevance of that is to make sure uh that we're looking at not just the total number of people which is what the census counts and what we showed but also to look at who are the likely eligible voters uh and this is prepared prepared by the american community survey the 2015 through 2019 citizen voting age population and so these numbers uh obviously are smaller than the total population but this is a proxy that we use to to determine who's who's likely to vote in an election again the largest protected class is the latinx group at just about 38 percent just by means of orientation here we've we've included the the current trustee areas the map that you adopted previously for reference and i think that this was a key highlight of the last process is just to overlay the high school attendance boundaries on this so you'll see the red lines show the various high school attendance boundaries and excuse me the colored areas show the current trusty areas it's probably a little hard to see exactly what those are area 1 is in yellow area 2 is in green area 3 is in red area 4 is in blue and area 5 is sort of a pink color so on this slide i want to point out a couple of things uh first of all when we're we're looking at variance i talked about that earlier when when we're looking at variants this is really just a fairly simple math problem we take the total population and we divide that by the number of trustee areas and that gives us our average or our ideal size and then when we're calculating the variance what we do is we take the largest and we take the smallest and and we calculate what the difference is and then we divide that by that ideal size that gives us our our variance in terms of percentage again i pointed out that area one is the smallest in terms of total population and two is the largest in terms of total population those are the colors or the columns i should say that are that are lightly colored and then the darker columns we've included the percentages of the citizen voting age population as well as was the case when you when you originally adopted these boundaries you have a a majority latin x group based on citizen voting age population of just about 56 percent uh that's up from you know i had it here uh it was roughly 52 if i remember correctly previously so so that's grown and you are close to having a majority but you have a plurality of latinx voters again based on citizen voting age population in trustee area 2.
again the the total variance looking at the total population is just about nine percent and so when as as demographers when when we're looking at drawing these areas there's a number of different considerations that that go into that and um all categories categorize those two ways there's things that we must do in order in order to comply with the law and then there's other things that we should do uh based on uh stuff that is in uh the the california education code um and and we should do to the extent possible but but it also represents good keeping communities together good good representation and i think that's the idea behind these so in that first category the things that we must do is we must roughly balance each area they can't they they will not be in and and won't you know they won't be perfect uh but but they will be roughly balanced and again we we take that to mean based on legal precedence that that anything less than 10 percent is kind of gives you the safe harbor um so so that's the first thing we have to do the the second thing we have to do is we have to comply with the federal voting rights act and that means that we will not draw areas such that it impairs the ability of a protected class to elect the candidate of their choice uh you you may be familiar with the terms packing and cracking we wouldn't want to draw areas such that it it diminished the influence of one of these protected classes by either grouping them together in a way that uh kept them from uh having their full voice heard in another area or drawing it such that it split those those protected classes and diminished it that way so so that's another thing that we must comply with we should also keep them as compact and contiguous as much as possible sometimes these things can be a balancing act when we have varying degrees of population density and and communities and neighborhoods and things like that but to the extent we can we should we should also respect communities of interest and in this context we we define that as groups that have shared social and economic characteristics this could be groups based on national origin or religion or other things of that nature oftentimes the boundaries for for those communities of interest may be at natural or or man-made geographic boundaries whether it's major roads or highways or railroad tracks things like that so we should also take that into consideration those often make logical choices for for dividing lines and to the extent we can and this shouldn't be a predominant concern but we should also respect incumbency to the extent that that we can uh there's there's other local considerations and although i wasn't involved the the entire process i do recall when you when you drew your boundaries previously there was thought about the high school attendance boundaries so so that might be something that you would consider uh or or other factors that that makes sense for for your community and you know for for your role um providing k-12 education so that's all i have i'm happy to ask any error to answer any questions and if i can't answer them i'm sure mike will be able to answer any of the legal questions do i have any questions from board members and murray mrs trejo so i just bought bottom line even though there was a growth uh in trustee area 2 it's still still we're still in compliance because you said it's under the 10 percent yeah that's that's correct there's a legal presumption excuse me that below and this is based on federal voting rights or federal voting law cases um that that if you're below 10 you're you're still roughly balanced and there may be rationales as to why you might not be you know again we can't be perfectly balanced across the board um but um yeah if you're below 10 that's i think most would tell you that you're in a good spot is there a should and if that there is what would that percentage be yeah i mean um i think if if there's aspects of the boundaries currently that that you would want to look at um that you know maybe there is a community that is being split or there's a neighborhood that's being split and that's that's something that you know is is concerning then then i think this would be the time to address that uh really uh that section of the education code is just to ensure that you're within balance and so um that's that's the purpose of this and and again based on that criteria you are in balance um but as you know as a board you have the option to to address other things if you want this was a very obvious process and and this was uh we we were really pleased with with our with our balance and so um yeah okay just nice to see that we are we have maintained a pretty good balance generally speaking that we haven't gone way one way or the other so thank you for your report welcome so i have a few questions so i see that we're obviously under the variance of 10 we're meeting that but looking at the growth model right growth of district 2 uh and looking at district 1 because of the decrease in growth would it be i wouldn't say not legally but would it be a good advice to take a look at the districts and maybe redraw the maps just so that we are ready for i mean 10 years from now right that we're not over balancing ourselves or by district 2 exploding in population because it makes a big difference i've been looking at the anaheim city maps right and we see where the growth is in the platinum triangle area there's a possibility that that could increase so my question to you is that is it advisable for us to take a look at it now since we're in the process and read all the boundaries at least to balance out in this case it will be i don't see any difference in four and five but maybe one two and three adjust the boundaries a little bit so that it makes sense to get that without compromising any other numbers i i think that's that's a question that that you all have to consider in way you know again are there do the boundaries work well currently uh are there areas where we could make some slight adjustments to bring those more into balance to your point i think that's you know completely valid to look into the future and and know that there's going to be a certain amount of growth that's still coming in those areas uh and to to to plan accordingly and the good thing is that you are going to address this every 10 years and so so you will have those opportunities to to rebalance in the future but you know it's a long period of time as well so um so what would be the process so uh so we're right now you're giving us a presentation of it yep and let's say that you come back at the direction of the board to say look at different models of the map again or if the board decides no i think we're meeting all the criteria so we don't want to move forward then this ends today right certainly yeah so let's say we do give direction to go back and take a look at the maps what would be like to open up the process in terms of not only the board but the community getting involved yeah and and there's there's nothing that's laid out in in statute there's there's no legal requirement about how how you approach that i think there's a lot of school districts uh the way that they're approaching it is they're holding public hearings if they go through that process of redrawing maps you know and inviting the community in uh they're they're using uh you know their their information resources their website social media in order to to get the word out there um some opt for uh holding community meetings um and so so there's really a wide spectrum of uh you know how how folks approach that and i'm and i'm just looking at the process at the city of the county we have enough time to do all that before the february deadline correct yeah it depends how we would would sequence it you know just in terms of when those those board meetings would happen were where you would review maps and how many meetings would be required and how many iterations we would go through so yeah i think that's a so my question to carl what happens after tonight's presentation after this discussion does a board member make the motion to say go back and come back or open up the process to redraw maps or tonight tonight's meeting was really just informational to explain the data it was released two weeks ago we're starting the process it's only an information item i don't know if mr toy wants to maybe explain what the legal process would be for next steps but we we will go and have a discussion about this and then if we're going to move further which we may want to do uh we'll backwards map it from from the deadline good evening board president percy and members of the board as cooperative strategies laid out for school districts the procedures that that the school board wants to follow is very open cities and counties are under a statutory scheme so if if you direct staff to say that you want to follow a particular procedure that one of the constituent cities in anaheim follows you'd you may follow it you do not have to follow it you can listen uh to what feedback you get if you take a look at what we did in 2014 there was a a particular section of your website that was set up you published all of the data on your website and then on your website if you decided that maybe one or more community hearings would be feasible you can do that if you want to have a public hearing after if you direct cooperative strategies to publish one or more draft maps there is no legal requirement but we do recommend that you give at least a seven days notice of putting the map up on your website so that the community can respond to it just remember that the cities and counties are under a tighter deadline than school boards are the cities and counties i believe are probably have to do this by january so there's going to be the primary election yeah with the primary election uh they're under a a tighter process so you as a board can take a look at what's happening uh with the city and and perhaps the constituent uh elementary school districts to see what what they're doing um there's going to be plenty of time between now and february the 28th uh in order to are we stuck to that february 28th deadline you are the ed code says that if the school board the local school board does not take action to adjust its trustee area boundaries the county office of education and the county committee on school district organization have the ability to do it uh on their own unlike the procedure that we undertook in 2014 where the board received a a number of maps picked a a particular map that they wanted to go with and then submit that to the county committee on school district reorganization that procedural step does not take place this time it's totally within the discretion of the board between now and february the 28th to consider any adjustments to the boundaries if if the board wants to okay thank you for answering that because i was i thought that this process took a really long time and if we don't have to do that uh yes uh the the procedures for moving from at large to by trusty areas is set forth in statute but once you've moved from at large to trustee area elections it's it it's pretty much within the board's discretion in order to how to do that and if you remember if if there are members of the board who ran for election before 2014 you had to run at large and so there was a lot more shoe leather i don't know if people still do that or if everybody does it by facebook nowadays but you know for the for the five trustees before they used to have to run throughout uh the district now it's within the trustee area boundaries so it's a much a simpler way of campaigning yes all right well i might i'm done with the questions but i would like the board to entertain maybe coming back and at least taking a look at redrawing the maps just to make sure that we're balancing out certain trusty areas so yes and and and moving back from that february the 28th deadline we've been telling our clients that you should publish at least seven days before the february the 28th if you want to make any adjustments so uh staff can take a look at your you know the board schedule february the 28th what's the first or second meeting of february and then work backwards from that or you you can move quicker but you know i i would suggest that as a starting point for staff to to give you some options and then the board can make a decision as if what procedures you want to undergo in order to get the map adjusted if necessary yeah i i i just kind of take a exception to a deadline you know i think it's still a little bit early but you know we're just getting this data from the census so i i find that you know objectionable well uh you know and it was unfortunate that the the census data was late this year uh yeah about six months late it would have been nice if the the people up in sacramento had had had given uh you know some more time but from from february to 28th the steps that has to happen is that those maps have to go to the registrar of voters and then they've got to figure and and and you know in 2014 when when people were elected at large it was very easy when once you move to buy trustee areas it it created a lot of logistical steps for the registrar of voters you could be in uh one area for anaheim union you could be in a separate area for the city council you could be in a separate area for your feeder elementary school district and you know before it was everybody was at large it was very simple for the registrar of voters now they they really need the february 28th date in order to make sure that they can do a june election as well as a november election all right thank you for explaining that and thank you for uh telling us that it was six months so our public understands that we have to get this done pretty quickly thank you okay and and and i think uh cooperative strategies i said it you're you're within the ed code 501 9.5 now in in terms of of of the you know the population so that's the baseline that that that your district is starting from appreciate it thank you thank you thank you thank you very much [Applause] okay our next presentation will be on the covet 19 and the reopening of our schools dr fred yes while they're transitioning good evening again for president pierce members of our board to my colleagues on the cabinet and then our guests and colleagues in the audience and those watching online gives me a great pleasure tonight to to be joined by our director risk management we're going to give you a brief update on some items related to cove 19 and related protocols i will also be sharing an update on around the educational summit that we had last week and highlight with a video that was made to highlight our work as a district so with that i'm going to turn it to my colleague leanna williams good evening president piercy board trustees cabinet mr matsuda guest joining us this evening just some quick updates on our covet efforts right now so we continue to post our dashboard up weekly we are updating those numbers as if you've been looking at the dashboard you see that the numbers do go in ebbs and flows um what we can trace the student increases and decreases too are to our activities so obviously when we have a positive athlete we have to then take a look at all the support teams and and identify those close contacts and so when you have a positive person it can sometimes lead anywhere to ten to almost two dozen kids having to be quarantined so we're seeing the spikes in those numbers related to those types of activities we are doing well with our staff um positivity rates those numbers have been decreasing over to over the last few weeks and so we will continue to update those numbers every friday so this is the big day on august 11th the governor issued the mandatory weekly testing for any public private school employees who were not fully vaccinated and fully vaccinated in the order means those people who have re who have not received excuse me fully vaccination means uh an individual who has received both doses of the moderna and the pfizer vaccine two weeks after that second dose or the single dose of the johnson johnson if you are anything outside of that you are not considered fully vaccinated so anyone who only has one dose of the two dose is is partially vaccinated so we were mandated to have weekly testing put in place by october 15th tomorrow's october 15th however i am happy to say that we were able to get and launch our weekly mandate testing effective monday october 18th we have partnered with the state and through them have partnered with mobilemed will be coming to each one of our sites one day a week we've actually got a resource of six team members from mobilemed and we've scheduled it such that you have at least two one to three people at each site about five sites in the morning five sites in the afternoon and they'll be rotating throughout the district um every day and we will have that testing available for our staff members so there is on-site available on-site testing available employees are not bound to test on-site though employees can seek to test off-site if they would like however we do encourage that employees do tests with us for it's convenient it's right there on their site but they can also seek testing anywhere else at one of the district offered locations so we've scheduled it to where junior high schools are testing in the morning and we've got high schools testing in the afternoon part of that is because we would like to offer the wrestlers or those athletes who are mandated to test weekly as well be able to receive the testing on their sites so we've made it to where the high schools will test in the afternoon so in this particular moment the wrestlers can participate in the testing this portion of the partnership with cdph will run through december of 2021 at which point we may be eligible for an additional six month extension of this program so that that cdbh grant you mean correct so we will be getting six months we could be eligible yes for an additional six months however it'll be two weeks ago yet tomorrow that the governor issued a new mandate this mandate being that all employees of public and private schools k through 12 must be vaccinated in addition to mandatory vaccination for students and this mandate can be as early as january 1st or july 1st of 2022 and the mandate will be in effect the term following full fda approval of the vaccinations for those students 12 ages 12 to 18.
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okay so there's not more beyond that that we know obviously we will have there'll be there will be some discussions on exemptions and what qualifies for exemptions and how exactly school districts will implement this fully but that is something that we are keeping our an eye on because that could occur as as early as january 1st for the mandatory testing or excuse me vaccination so that that obviously as of right now it's just pfizer just as of right now just pfizer for fda approved fda approved that's fully fda approved i don't believe we have uh i don't believe they're either one of them any of them are fully fda approved i thought but i can check for you it's just the booster no it was given a booster i don't believe it's been fully fda approved though it's not it's uh that's for the next variant of this booster you can i'll get back to you sir are there any other questions related to our mandatory weekly testing that we are launching on monday or with the upcoming mandate as we know it today just congratulations on getting that done that's amazing work thank you appreciate it thank you everyone have a good night thank you all right so i'm going to conclude our presentation with a review of our anaheim union educational summit as you know each year annually we meet as a district on a non-student day to do professional learning geared towards our district's drivers set forth by the vision of our our board and of course implemented through our superintendent cabinet and incite leaders both admin teachers and classified staff and counselors alike so on this day october 11th we did something a little different this year we took all of our content area folks and spread them out across the different sites what we did is we allowed sites to really go deep with their content specific work i'm really proud to say that our curriculum specialist did just an incredible job leading this effort uh we the feedback we had been given was tremendous in terms of the work and the the impact of what they were learning and engaging in on that day it was all centered around instructional practices geared and connected to their content but also be remiss if i didn't take a moment to also thank our directors our coordinators and our program administrators they often helped facilitate uh this day as well given some of the content areas or the teams that they also serve or oversee so it was a it was a really beautiful day that engaged our stakeholders our staff stakeholders across the district on this day also we unveiled district-wide the launch of the career preparedness systems framework as you may recall cpsf as it's as we often refer to it really embodies three concepts that we want to make sure are alive and well in front and center in what happens in a classroom each and every day the first of the three circles talks about the five c's or what we call the soft skills right those soft skills are something that we would want to see in every classroom every day that's the collaboration communication critical thinking creativity and of course the most important in our opinion is the compassion and good character the second of the three three circles uh incorporates what we call the heart skills this is the more traditional content it also connects with uh certification that you might get through the google certificates or dual enrollment courses with cyprus and fullerton college along with courses they may take through our partnership with north orange county rop where students can actually earn certification based on courses that they take and then the third circle talks about really empowering our students and their voice and helping them find their passion and their purpose so these three circles make up that career preparedness systems framework and again on monday we launched that district wide what i want to share with you is a launch to our our presentation i know pauline is going to put this up for us is a video that we want to share with you as the board may recall a few months ago we brought forward an item for a gentleman named dr kevin fleming who's been working with our district to develop a video that really tells our story talks about this framework and the work that we're doing to transform education in hopes that we can also connect and collaborate with other districts across not just the county but the state and nationally to help continue to transform education as we rapidly see the world of work changing before our eyes and the drivers that we maybe once had in k-12 education they're not necessarily the same drivers that will help prepare our kids for the for the the demands the world of work is asking for now so this video is a beautiful tribute to the work that we're doing as a district uh just know it's also being done in five or i think five other languages so it's going to be something we plan to use to support and share with our families our communities again with other colleagues in other districts throughout the country to really help frame the dialogue around the need for this kind of change so with that paulina go ahead and hit play and enjoy the video over the past several years many americans have experienced economic turmoil and unemployment families and communities are suffering many of the jobs that have disappeared will not return and almost half of all existing jobs are likely to be replaced by technology in the future in addition the employability gap that's the gap between what skills employers need and what skills workers have is growing larger most school systems are failing to address the skills development challenge adequately we must act urgently to rebuild the california economy and train young people for the jobs of the future to ensure their college career and life ready thankfully over the past decade innovative educators and advocates have pushed career education in california embracing a more holistic approach to developing academic workforce and real-world world skills together in fact according to the california department of education students who complete a rigorous academic core coupled with a career concentration have equal or higher test scores higher graduation rates are more likely to pursue such secondary education and have a higher grade than average in college in short it works however there are still challenges to successful career education in schools and missed opportunities due to disjointed frameworks and lack of alignment between educators systems and employers there is a shortage of relevant courses for students and often the failure to put student purpose at the forefront in the current mixture of career readiness strategies across california students are not receiving long-term coordinated support in building their post-secondary futures and too many still view career education as an extra and not related to traditional general education subjects moreover according to anaheim union high school district superintendent michael mitsuda the ultimate barometer of social justice in society is access to meaningful and purposeful jobs well we realized that its intersection of academic skills workforce skills and civic skills is where we could improve student long term success this is why the anaheim union high school district developed a career preparedness systems framework it's a leading model for workforce development where young people can pursue their learning and work passions through this framework auhsd has maximized its internal alignment and infrastructure around three essential components 21st century skills technical skills and cultivation of youth voice and purpose 21st century skills also called power or life skills are needed for a person to be successful while navigating their multiple future careers yes this includes emotional and relational intelligence time management and project management but so much more so as cornerstones of instruction and reflection throughout all courses and extracurricular opportunities are the five c's they are transferable rooted in all industries and include character and compassion collaboration communication creativity and critical thinking then there are technical skills these can be very industry specific they include the ability to apply what you have learned to the areas of cyber security artificial intelligence biotechnology business and entrepreneurship and other high demand fields high school students savvy with skills in areas of interest find jobs keep jobs are promoted more quickly and more importantly create jobs technical skills are attained through career technical education coursework dual credit community college courses align to career pathways project-based learning as well as mentorships and internships opportunities youth voice and purpose are rooted in the development and affirmation of a student's identity and motivation it is vital students choose how they learn and thus develop purpose in their own education this is achieved through civic engagement service learning and career exploration activities that are meaningful and relevant driven by their interests and often self-initiated with appropriate guidance from educators in fact there are numerous innovative features to the anaheim career preparedness systems framework strategy this strategy intentionally leverages a variety of initiatives partners and approaches to achieve our vision the anaheim union career preparedness systems framework inserts career education into the center of the mission of each school because it works and will provide all learners with a competitive advantage in this framework students bring their passion voice and strengths into the career exploration process the skills and tools in cpsf each contribute to form a powerful mosaic of integrative learning and skill building preparing students for meaningful careers grounded in purpose join the anaheim union high school district in building a better world through unlimited you [Music] [Applause] that concludes our presentation thank you that was good okay okay so at the end of that presentation it takes us up to public comments open session items this is the opportunities for public comments occurring at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for items not on the agenda persons wishing to address the board of trustees should complete a speaker request form which is available on the information table at the back of the room and submit it to the executive assistant prior to the meeting each speaker is limited to a maximum of five minutes each topic or item is limited to a total of 20 minutes so board members cannot immediately respond to your public comments that is stated on the speaker request form this evening i have a few here and we'll begin with rudy krauss [Music] hi my name is rudy krauss i'm a writer author i have a master's i'm writing my covid thesis on the covid virus a vaccine the microbiology of the vaccine i'm just looking at some photographs from dr zielewski who's from france and he put the covid vaccine under his microscopy is microscopes and uh what we find is we find a parasite the parasite this this one comes from doctor young he's an american but the zalewski uh parasite is is quite revealing he's measured it it's uh 30 microns that's uh you know measured in millions this thing is huge it's got a huge head it's got even longer tentacles now this is from dr midday this was on stu peter's last week the whole internet this is all over the internet everyone's playing stu peter's interviews with dr ruby and dr midday and uh this is quite startling this is the covid parasite you can see it has a head a body and long tentacles these tentacles get extremely long even dr zalewski was thinking this seems like it's from the matrix those things that were flying around in the matrix see there's the parasite right there this is what you have in your body they shut you with a parasite this spiked protein is made inside the body of this parasite right in here this parasite is nanometers to 100 nanometers if you have a real big fat one it's 140 nanometers nanometers are measured in billionths they're the size of a atom a nanometer a nano is an atom microns they're measured in millions how many of these parasites can you put in one blood cell blood cells are are measured in microns you probably put a thousand of them in one blood cell and believe me that's what they're doing and you want to put this monster in children it's bad enough that you suckered out and you put it in your own body because you're ignorant and now old fools teach young fools how to become old fools and you want to vaccinate all the children and turn them into covid creatures this parasite you have a a parallel life form in your body it is in every cell of your body from your toes all the way up to your brain to where the blood cells line up one by one to go through the micro capillaries and this is in there oh you think oh it's the corona virus oh i'm so confused it's is that something out in the ether out there what is the virus the virus is the environment the envelope this parasite has to travel in because it cannot live in our environment because this virus is anaerobic now the doctor over here can you tell me what anaerobic means no you can't of course do you know that covet is an anaerobic virus no of course you don't know that do you know that you're an aerobic human being that means you inhale oxygen the parasite lives without oxygen it loves it at 30 000 feet on the top of mount everest why do you think the pilots are so afraid because they're up there in the environment that the parasite loves to be in now what do you do you put mass on all the kids you're in here looking foolish to me you got mass on yourselves twenty percent reduction and oxygen inhalation that feeds the covid parasite you're breeding an environment for it to live grow and thrive in the coveted parasite makes the covid virus the virus 30 seconds is how it reproduces this is like it's eggs like it's like it's sperm that's what it puts inside of you and then what it does is it goes in your blood cells and immediately starts to decrease the oxygen to deoxify the blood the blood cells what you guys have is deoxification the gradual reduction in the daily consumption of oxygen and that's what you're doing to the kids if the covid virus were here and there's a boy with a mask and a boy without a mask who do you think the covid virus is going to go to that's time the kid with the mask any questions where does this lead anyone anyone want to know where this leads to you guys are mutating rapidly and all the people that are having little copic babies they're no questions are being forwarded thank you okay district 19.
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again the the total variance looking at the total population is just about nine percent and so when as as demographers when when we're looking at drawing these areas there's a number of different considerations that that go into that and um all categories categorize those two ways there's things that we must do in order in order to comply with the law and then there's other things that we should do uh based on uh stuff that is in uh the the california education code um and and we should do to the extent possible but but it also represents good keeping communities together good good representation and i think that's the idea behind these so in that first category the things that we must do is we must roughly balance each area they can't they they will not be in and and won't you know they won't be perfect uh but but they will be roughly balanced and again we we take that to mean based on legal precedence that that anything less than 10 percent is kind of gives you the safe harbor um so so that's the first thing we have to do the the second thing we have to do is we have to comply with the federal voting rights act and that means that we will not draw areas such that it impairs the ability of a protected class to elect the candidate of their choice uh you you may be familiar with the terms packing and cracking we wouldn't want to draw areas such that it it diminished the influence of one of these protected classes by either grouping them together in a way that uh kept them from uh having their full voice heard in another area or drawing it such that it split those those protected classes and diminished it that way so so that's another thing that we must comply with we should also keep them as compact and contiguous as much as possible sometimes these things can be a balancing act when we have varying degrees of population density and and communities and neighborhoods and things like that but to the extent we can we should we should also respect communities of interest and in this context we we define that as groups that have shared social and economic characteristics this could be groups based on national origin or religion or other things of that nature oftentimes the boundaries for for those communities of interest may be at natural or or man-made geographic boundaries whether it's major roads or highways or railroad tracks things like that so we should also take that into consideration those often make logical choices for for dividing lines and to the extent we can and this shouldn't be a predominant concern but we should also respect incumbency to the extent that that we can uh there's there's other local considerations and although i wasn't involved the the entire process i do recall when you when you drew your boundaries previously there was thought about the high school attendance boundaries so so that might be something that you would consider uh or or other factors that that makes sense for for your community and you know for for your role um providing k-12 education so that's all i have i'm happy to ask any error to answer any questions and if i can't answer them i'm sure mike will be able to answer any of the legal questions do i have any questions from board members and murray mrs trejo so i just bought bottom line even though there was a growth uh in trustee area 2 it's still still we're still in compliance because you said it's under the 10 percent yeah that's that's correct there's a legal presumption excuse me that below and this is based on federal voting rights or federal voting law cases um that that if you're below 10 you're you're still roughly balanced and there may be rationales as to why you might not be you know again we can't be perfectly balanced across the board um but um yeah if you're below 10 that's i think most would tell you that you're in a good spot is there a should and if that there is what would that percentage be yeah i mean um i think if if there's aspects of the boundaries currently that that you would want to look at um that you know maybe there is a community that is being split or there's a neighborhood that's being split and that's that's something that you know is is concerning then then i think this would be the time to address that uh really uh that section of the education code is just to ensure that you're within balance and so um that's that's the purpose of this and and again based on that criteria you are in balance um but as you know as a board you have the option to to address other things if you want this was a very obvious process and and this was uh we we were really pleased with with our with our balance and so um yeah okay just nice to see that we are we have maintained a pretty good balance generally speaking that we haven't gone way one way or the other so thank you for your report welcome so i have a few questions so i see that we're obviously under the variance of 10 we're meeting that but looking at the growth model right growth of district 2 uh and looking at district 1 because of the decrease in growth would it be i wouldn't say not legally but would it be a good advice to take a look at the districts and maybe redraw the maps just so that we are ready for i mean 10 years from now right that we're not over balancing ourselves or by district 2 exploding in population because it makes a big difference i've been looking at the anaheim city maps right and we see where the growth is in the platinum triangle area there's a possibility that that could increase so my question to you is that is it advisable for us to take a look at it now since we're in the process and read all the boundaries at least to balance out in this case it will be i don't see any difference in four and five but maybe one two and three adjust the boundaries a little bit so that it makes sense to get that without compromising any other numbers i i think that's that's a question that that you all have to consider in way you know again are there do the boundaries work well currently uh are there areas where we could make some slight adjustments to bring those more into balance to your point i think that's you know completely valid to look into the future and and know that there's going to be a certain amount of growth that's still coming in those areas uh and to to to plan accordingly and the good thing is that you are going to address this every 10 years and so so you will have those opportunities to to rebalance in the future but you know it's a long period of time as well so um so what would be the process so uh so we're right now you're giving us a presentation of it yep and let's say that you come back at the direction of the board to say look at different models of the map again or if the board decides no i think we're meeting all the criteria so we don't want to move forward then this ends today right certainly yeah so let's say we do give direction to go back and take a look at the maps what would be like to open up the process in terms of not only the board but the community getting involved yeah and and there's there's nothing that's laid out in in statute there's there's no legal requirement about how how you approach that i think there's a lot of school districts uh the way that they're approaching it is they're holding public hearings if they go through that process of redrawing maps you know and inviting the community in uh they're they're using uh you know their their information resources their website social media in order to to get the word out there um some opt for uh holding community meetings um and so so there's really a wide spectrum of uh you know how how folks approach that and i'm and i'm just looking at the process at the city of the county we have enough time to do all that before the february deadline correct yeah it depends how we would would sequence it you know just in terms of when those those board meetings would happen were where you would review maps and how many meetings would be required and how many iterations we would go through so yeah i think that's a so my question to carl what happens after tonight's presentation after this discussion does a board member make the motion to say go back and come back or open up the process to redraw maps or tonight tonight's meeting was really just informational to explain the data it was released two weeks ago we're starting the process it's only an information item i don't know if mr toy wants to maybe explain what the legal process would be for next steps but we we will go and have a discussion about this and then if we're going to move further which we may want to do uh we'll backwards map it from from the deadline good evening board president percy and members of the board as cooperative strategies laid out for school districts the procedures that that the school board wants to follow is very open cities and counties are under a statutory scheme so if if you direct staff to say that you want to follow a particular procedure that one of the constituent cities in anaheim follows you'd you may follow it you do not have to follow it you can listen uh to what feedback you get if you take a look at what we did in 2014 there was a a particular section of your website that was set up you published all of the data on your website and then on your website if you decided that maybe one or more community hearings would be feasible you can do that if you want to have a public hearing after if you direct cooperative strategies to publish one or more draft maps there is no legal requirement but we do recommend that you give at least a seven days notice of putting the map up on your website so that the community can respond to it just remember that the cities and counties are under a tighter deadline than school boards are the cities and counties i believe are probably have to do this by january so there's going to be the primary election yeah with the primary election uh they're under a a tighter process so you as a board can take a look at what's happening uh with the city and and perhaps the constituent uh elementary school districts to see what what they're doing um there's going to be plenty of time between now and february the 28th uh in order to are we stuck to that february 28th deadline you are the ed code says that if the school board the local school board does not take action to adjust its trustee area boundaries the county office of education and the county committee on school district organization have the ability to do it uh on their own unlike the procedure that we undertook in 2014 where the board received a a number of maps picked a a particular map that they wanted to go with and then submit that to the county committee on school district reorganization that procedural step does not take place this time it's totally within the discretion of the board between now and february the 28th to consider any adjustments to the boundaries if if the board wants to okay thank you for answering that because i was i thought that this process took a really long time and if we don't have to do that uh yes uh the the procedures for moving from at large to by trusty areas is set forth in statute but once you've moved from at large to trustee area elections it's it it's pretty much within the board's discretion in order to how to do that and if you remember if if there are members of the board who ran for election before 2014 you had to run at large and so there was a lot more shoe leather i don't know if people still do that or if everybody does it by facebook nowadays but you know for the for the five trustees before they used to have to run throughout uh the district now it's within the trustee area boundaries so it's a much a simpler way of campaigning yes all right well i might i'm done with the questions but i would like the board to entertain maybe coming back and at least taking a look at redrawing the maps just to make sure that we're balancing out certain trusty areas so yes and and and moving back from that february the 28th deadline we've been telling our clients that you should publish at least seven days before the february the 28th if you want to make any adjustments so uh staff can take a look at your you know the board schedule february the 28th what's the first or second meeting of february and then work backwards from that or you you can move quicker but you know i i would suggest that as a starting point for staff to to give you some options and then the board can make a decision as if what procedures you want to undergo in order to get the map adjusted if necessary yeah i i i just kind of take a exception to a deadline you know i think it's still a little bit early but you know we're just getting this data from the census so i i find that you know objectionable well uh you know and it was unfortunate that the the census data was late this year uh yeah about six months late it would have been nice if the the people up in sacramento had had had given uh you know some more time but from from february to 28th the steps that has to happen is that those maps have to go to the registrar of voters and then they've got to figure and and and you know in 2014 when when people were elected at large it was very easy when once you move to buy trustee areas it it created a lot of logistical steps for the registrar of voters you could be in uh one area for anaheim union you could be in a separate area for the city council you could be in a separate area for your feeder elementary school district and you know before it was everybody was at large it was very simple for the registrar of voters now they they really need the february 28th date in order to make sure that they can do a june election as well as a november election all right thank you for explaining that and thank you for uh telling us that it was six months so our public understands that we have to get this done pretty quickly thank you okay and and and i think uh cooperative strategies i said it you're you're within the ed code 501 9.5 now in in terms of of of the you know the population so that's the baseline that that that your district is starting from appreciate it thank you thank you thank you thank you very much [Applause] okay our next presentation will be on the covet 19 and the reopening of our schools dr fred yes while they're transitioning good evening again for president pierce members of our board to my colleagues on the cabinet and then our guests and colleagues in the audience and those watching online gives me a great pleasure tonight to to be joined by our director risk management we're going to give you a brief update on some items related to cove 19 and related protocols i will also be sharing an update on around the educational summit that we had last week and highlight with a video that was made to highlight our work as a district so with that i'm going to turn it to my colleague leanna williams good evening president piercy board trustees cabinet mr matsuda guest joining us this evening just some quick updates on our covet efforts right now so we continue to post our dashboard up weekly we are updating those numbers as if you've been looking at the dashboard you see that the numbers do go in ebbs and flows um what we can trace the student increases and decreases too are to our activities so obviously when we have a positive athlete we have to then take a look at all the support teams and and identify those close contacts and so when you have a positive person it can sometimes lead anywhere to ten to almost two dozen kids having to be quarantined so we're seeing the spikes in those numbers related to those types of activities we are doing well with our staff um positivity rates those numbers have been decreasing over to over the last few weeks and so we will continue to update those numbers every friday so this is the big day on august 11th the governor issued the mandatory weekly testing for any public private school employees who were not fully vaccinated and fully vaccinated in the order means those people who have re who have not received excuse me fully vaccination means uh an individual who has received both doses of the moderna and the pfizer vaccine two weeks after that second dose or the single dose of the johnson johnson if you are anything outside of that you are not considered fully vaccinated so anyone who only has one dose of the two dose is is partially vaccinated so we were mandated to have weekly testing put in place by october 15th tomorrow's october 15th however i am happy to say that we were able to get and launch our weekly mandate testing effective monday october 18th we have partnered with the state and through them have partnered with mobilemed will be coming to each one of our sites one day a week we've actually got a resource of six team members from mobilemed and we've scheduled it such that you have at least two one to three people at each site about five sites in the morning five sites in the afternoon and they'll be rotating throughout the district um every day and we will have that testing available for our staff members so there is on-site available on-site testing available employees are not bound to test on-site though employees can seek to test off-site if they would like however we do encourage that employees do tests with us for it's convenient it's right there on their site but they can also seek testing anywhere else at one of the district offered locations so we've scheduled it to where junior high schools are testing in the morning and we've got high schools testing in the afternoon part of that is because we would like to offer the wrestlers or those athletes who are mandated to test weekly as well be able to receive the testing on their sites so we've made it to where the high schools will test in the afternoon so in this particular moment the wrestlers can participate in the testing this portion of the partnership with cdph will run through december of 2021 at which point we may be eligible for an additional six month extension of this program so that that cdbh grant you mean correct so we will be getting six months we could be eligible yes for an additional six months however it'll be two weeks ago yet tomorrow that the governor issued a new mandate this mandate being that all employees of public and private schools k through 12 must be vaccinated in addition to mandatory vaccination for students and this mandate can be as early as january 1st or july 1st of 2022 and the mandate will be in effect the term following full fda approval of the vaccinations for those students 12 ages 12 to 18.
okay so there's not more beyond that that we know obviously we will have there'll be there will be some discussions on exemptions and what qualifies for exemptions and how exactly school districts will implement this fully but that is something that we are keeping our an eye on because that could occur as as early as january 1st for the mandatory testing or excuse me vaccination so that that obviously as of right now it's just pfizer just as of right now just pfizer for fda approved fda approved that's fully fda approved i don't believe we have uh i don't believe they're either one of them any of them are fully fda approved i thought but i can check for you it's just the booster no it was given a booster i don't believe it's been fully fda approved though it's not it's uh that's for the next variant of this booster you can i'll get back to you sir are there any other questions related to our mandatory weekly testing that we are launching on monday or with the upcoming mandate as we know it today just congratulations on getting that done that's amazing work thank you appreciate it thank you everyone have a good night thank you all right so i'm going to conclude our presentation with a review of our anaheim union educational summit as you know each year annually we meet as a district on a non-student day to do professional learning geared towards our district's drivers set forth by the vision of our our board and of course implemented through our superintendent cabinet and incite leaders both admin teachers and classified staff and counselors alike so on this day october 11th we did something a little different this year we took all of our content area folks and spread them out across the different sites what we did is we allowed sites to really go deep with their content specific work i'm really proud to say that our curriculum specialist did just an incredible job leading this effort uh we the feedback we had been given was tremendous in terms of the work and the the impact of what they were learning and engaging in on that day it was all centered around instructional practices geared and connected to their content but also be remiss if i didn't take a moment to also thank our directors our coordinators and our program administrators they often helped facilitate uh this day as well given some of the content areas or the teams that they also serve or oversee so it was a it was a really beautiful day that engaged our stakeholders our staff stakeholders across the district on this day also we unveiled district-wide the launch of the career preparedness systems framework as you may recall cpsf as it's as we often refer to it really embodies three concepts that we want to make sure are alive and well in front and center in what happens in a classroom each and every day the first of the three circles talks about the five c's or what we call the soft skills right those soft skills are something that we would want to see in every classroom every day that's the collaboration communication critical thinking creativity and of course the most important in our opinion is the compassion and good character the second of the three three circles uh incorporates what we call the heart skills this is the more traditional content it also connects with uh certification that you might get through the google certificates or dual enrollment courses with cyprus and fullerton college along with courses they may take through our partnership with north orange county rop where students can actually earn certification based on courses that they take and then the third circle talks about really empowering our students and their voice and helping them find their passion and their purpose so these three circles make up that career preparedness systems framework and again on monday we launched that district wide what i want to share with you is a launch to our our presentation i know pauline is going to put this up for us is a video that we want to share with you as the board may recall a few months ago we brought forward an item for a gentleman named dr kevin fleming who's been working with our district to develop a video that really tells our story talks about this framework and the work that we're doing to transform education in hopes that we can also connect and collaborate with other districts across not just the county but the state and nationally to help continue to transform education as we rapidly see the world of work changing before our eyes and the drivers that we maybe once had in k-12 education they're not necessarily the same drivers that will help prepare our kids for the for the the demands the world of work is asking for now so this video is a beautiful tribute to the work that we're doing as a district uh just know it's also being done in five or i think five other languages so it's going to be something we plan to use to support and share with our families our communities again with other colleagues in other districts throughout the country to really help frame the dialogue around the need for this kind of change so with that paulina go ahead and hit play and enjoy the video over the past several years many americans have experienced economic turmoil and unemployment families and communities are suffering many of the jobs that have disappeared will not return and almost half of all existing jobs are likely to be replaced by technology in the future in addition the employability gap that's the gap between what skills employers need and what skills workers have is growing larger most school systems are failing to address the skills development challenge adequately we must act urgently to rebuild the california economy and train young people for the jobs of the future to ensure their college career and life ready thankfully over the past decade innovative educators and advocates have pushed career education in california embracing a more holistic approach to developing academic workforce and real-world world skills together in fact according to the california department of education students who complete a rigorous academic core coupled with a career concentration have equal or higher test scores higher graduation rates are more likely to pursue such secondary education and have a higher grade than average in college in short it works however there are still challenges to successful career education in schools and missed opportunities due to disjointed frameworks and lack of alignment between educators systems and employers there is a shortage of relevant courses for students and often the failure to put student purpose at the forefront in the current mixture of career readiness strategies across california students are not receiving long-term coordinated support in building their post-secondary futures and too many still view career education as an extra and not related to traditional general education subjects moreover according to anaheim union high school district superintendent michael mitsuda the ultimate barometer of social justice in society is access to meaningful and purposeful jobs well we realized that its intersection of academic skills workforce skills and civic skills is where we could improve student long term success this is why the anaheim union high school district developed a career preparedness systems framework it's a leading model for workforce development where young people can pursue their learning and work passions through this framework auhsd has maximized its internal alignment and infrastructure around three essential components 21st century skills technical skills and cultivation of youth voice and purpose 21st century skills also called power or life skills are needed for a person to be successful while navigating their multiple future careers yes this includes emotional and relational intelligence time management and project management but so much more so as cornerstones of instruction and reflection throughout all courses and extracurricular opportunities are the five c's they are transferable rooted in all industries and include character and compassion collaboration communication creativity and critical thinking then there are technical skills these can be very industry specific they include the ability to apply what you have learned to the areas of cyber security artificial intelligence biotechnology business and entrepreneurship and other high demand fields high school students savvy with skills in areas of interest find jobs keep jobs are promoted more quickly and more importantly create jobs technical skills are attained through career technical education coursework dual credit community college courses align to career pathways project-based learning as well as mentorships and internships opportunities youth voice and purpose are rooted in the development and affirmation of a student's identity and motivation it is vital students choose how they learn and thus develop purpose in their own education this is achieved through civic engagement service learning and career exploration activities that are meaningful and relevant driven by their interests and often self-initiated with appropriate guidance from educators in fact there are numerous innovative features to the anaheim career preparedness systems framework strategy this strategy intentionally leverages a variety of initiatives partners and approaches to achieve our vision the anaheim union career preparedness systems framework inserts career education into the center of the mission of each school because it works and will provide all learners with a competitive advantage in this framework students bring their passion voice and strengths into the career exploration process the skills and tools in cpsf each contribute to form a powerful mosaic of integrative learning and skill building preparing students for meaningful careers grounded in purpose join the anaheim union high school district in building a better world through unlimited you [Music] [Applause] that concludes our presentation thank you that was good okay okay so at the end of that presentation it takes us up to public comments open session items this is the opportunities for public comments occurring at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for items not on the agenda persons wishing to address the board of trustees should complete a speaker request form which is available on the information table at the back of the room and submit it to the executive assistant prior to the meeting each speaker is limited to a maximum of five minutes each topic or item is limited to a total of 20 minutes so board members cannot immediately respond to your public comments that is stated on the speaker request form this evening i have a few here and we'll begin with rudy krauss [Music] hi my name is rudy krauss i'm a writer author i have a master's i'm writing my covid thesis on the covid virus a vaccine the microbiology of the vaccine i'm just looking at some photographs from dr zielewski who's from france and he put the covid vaccine under his microscopy is microscopes and uh what we find is we find a parasite the parasite this this one comes from doctor young he's an american but the zalewski uh parasite is is quite revealing he's measured it it's uh 30 microns that's uh you know measured in millions this thing is huge it's got a huge head it's got even longer tentacles now this is from dr midday this was on stu peter's last week the whole internet this is all over the internet everyone's playing stu peter's interviews with dr ruby and dr midday and uh this is quite startling this is the covid parasite you can see it has a head a body and long tentacles these tentacles get extremely long even dr zalewski was thinking this seems like it's from the matrix those things that were flying around in the matrix see there's the parasite right there this is what you have in your body they shut you with a parasite this spiked protein is made inside the body of this parasite right in here this parasite is nanometers to 100 nanometers if you have a real big fat one it's 140 nanometers nanometers are measured in billionths they're the size of a atom a nanometer a nano is an atom microns they're measured in millions how many of these parasites can you put in one blood cell blood cells are are measured in microns you probably put a thousand of them in one blood cell and believe me that's what they're doing and you want to put this monster in children it's bad enough that you suckered out and you put it in your own body because you're ignorant and now old fools teach young fools how to become old fools and you want to vaccinate all the children and turn them into covid creatures this parasite you have a a parallel life form in your body it is in every cell of your body from your toes all the way up to your brain to where the blood cells line up one by one to go through the micro capillaries and this is in there oh you think oh it's the corona virus oh i'm so confused it's is that something out in the ether out there what is the virus the virus is the environment the envelope this parasite has to travel in because it cannot live in our environment because this virus is anaerobic now the doctor over here can you tell me what anaerobic means no you can't of course do you know that covet is an anaerobic virus no of course you don't know that do you know that you're an aerobic human being that means you inhale oxygen the parasite lives without oxygen it loves it at 30 000 feet on the top of mount everest why do you think the pilots are so afraid because they're up there in the environment that the parasite loves to be in now what do you do you put mass on all the kids you're in here looking foolish to me you got mass on yourselves twenty percent reduction and oxygen inhalation that feeds the covid parasite you're breeding an environment for it to live grow and thrive in the coveted parasite makes the covid virus the virus 30 seconds is how it reproduces this is like it's eggs like it's like it's sperm that's what it puts inside of you and then what it does is it goes in your blood cells and immediately starts to decrease the oxygen to deoxify the blood the blood cells what you guys have is deoxification the gradual reduction in the daily consumption of oxygen and that's what you're doing to the kids if the covid virus were here and there's a boy with a mask and a boy without a mask who do you think the covid virus is going to go to that's time the kid with the mask any questions where does this lead anyone anyone want to know where this leads to you guys are mutating rapidly and all the people that are having little copic babies they're no questions are being forwarded thank you okay district 19.
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that's what we're talking about mutagenic containment you're going to kill all the kids turn them into creatures our next speaker thank you mazzottel i'm not going to slaughter your last name i'm sorry anaheim california 9285 traditional land of the tango i said uh good afternoon hello hola i speak three languages spanish hispanic and english and also meshika nawa which is the native american language of the utah azteca linguistic family which includes the tanguas the ahachemens hopi which we just can't we just came from a trip over and also to honor ottom yaki nawabi pilis from uh el salvador and um i am we're here many of us to present something to the board it's a an issue that's uh been up in the air for a while and i think it's time that we break that silence because as a born mexicano mexicano from registered from oaxaca i actually went to south junior high katelyn high school and i am high school and i spoke here when i was 13 years old and i'm really happy i met some good people some good leaders activists to uh to fight for chicano studies mexican american studies which is under native american studies if you really look into it into the history and um we're here to talk about a mascot called anaheim colonists it's very degrading to us native americans with all your respect we have a petition it's about almost going up to 6 000 signatures and we just came back from uh speaking to other tribes and non-tribal members you know that sign of all colors you know and uh we just want to let you guys know that the mascot um does commit suicide to certain students it's actually cultural castration it's a psychological genocide because when you have an image that creates white supremacy a white man with all your respect to mangle brothers with two guns how can that be educational how can we teach violence with someone of any color doesn't matter if it's a black man with guns a white man a red man yellow man we don't promote that and it's time that we change that we heal together and to end this off we just established indigenous peoples in anaheim the anaheim city council voted for indigenous peoples day october 11th october 12th we just had our first indigenous peoples day spiritual walk and a spiritual run uh we were really happy to say that it's the beginning of something big and we're all healing psychologically spiritually physically and i just uh just preparing all of you with all your respect that we will be coming and we are getting the tangos ready and we have the permission that tango gabileno's virginia camillo and adam loya will be coming to these meetings to educate to communicate because that's the key what saved me was my identity my grandpa to teach me oral tradition the language the history that i was not being taught in the schools and i think that's the key to uh prevent from suicide or prevent from being in gangs or drugs or alcohol that is the key in the education we need to change the school curriculum by then i believe our president biden is now pushing for a for a uh indigenous peoples day uh in the in all of the us make it a paid holiday so this is the beginning this is something big and something to think about and i believe i have a minute and something left okay um but thank you so much for for listening there's so much to say um in memory of david de la soya he was a hopi that worked in the city of anaheim probably worked in your homes uh he's got kids that went to catella i actually went to anaheim high school graduate i'm a graduate from the institute of american arts in santa fe new mexico i left lived there for 13 14 years in santa fe new mexico i went to fullerton college santa ana college cyprus and cypress college took speech and um i just wanted to connect with what my grandpa was teaching me the oral tradition and i connected a lot of our words i teach the language the law language david vasquez that passed away came out on oc weekly and we connected a lot of the language so when i see this this percentage the demographics when we have hispanic or latino latino really means italian we're not latin people a hispanic really means somebody from spain and that image that mascot it's a reminder of our trauma and what they did to us raped our ancestors and so there needs to be corrections on this you know and if we talk about american indians native americans our language is the key they cannot break us with the language if you speak now what if you say seattle chicago wisconsin uh tata nana in our language in the mexican chicano culture we use those words and even in the native american reservation so that's the key so this there's a lack of education there's a lot of ignorance but with time it will heal and thank you so much for listening i mean no disrespect and i hope we can heal together and communicate and make this change of the school mascot and the school name colonists thank you thank you [Applause] our next speaker will be david garcia thank you and also to those who have lost their loved ones because of the covert my condolence uh my name is david garcia member of the tonal autumn nation and i'll spell it for you t-o-h-o-n-o that's one that's desert autumn is capital o-o-d-h-a-m part of the nation that means desert people i am from arizona we are the second largest fairly recognized tribe in the united states and so um i'm here in solidarity in behalf of people who are totally against the mascot and the name of the school here and i say that it's because uh as a former tribal leader have traveled and walked the halls of congress and as a member as a delegate for an ngo haven't been to the united nations in 2007 the united nations council passed the international declaration on indigenous people and i would suggest that you look at the articles that that's that was passed because there's articles that speaks to education and so uh and also the nation is a member of the national congress of american indians which represents over 565 tribes who also have past resolution opposing mascots and if those of you who are football players who like to watch nfl you know the washington skins you know changed their name did away with their mascot which is the washington red skins and so the these are things that have been ongoing uh public schools even schools on reservations but it's interesting that when i looked at the the present when i listened to the presentation on the redistricting and if you look at the numbers uh the number speaks for itself when you talk when you look at the communities the representation of the communities and back then when the school of anaheim was given the name and also the mascot the community has changed the numbers have changed so because of that there's no question in my mind that uh you need to do away with because there is no representation based on uh nationality and so when you look at the communities in all the districts because we're talking about education the number speaks for itself i know how difficult it is and i know how sense sensitive it is but it was said earlier that you know the cultural heritage committee under the umbrella of the city council we just celebrated the indigenous peoples day and just giving up another proclamation and so that's a good example that has been happening for several years it's not just within one state it's happening throughout the country and so when we look and when you look at what has been happening there needs to be a serious dialogue there needs to be an understanding there needs to be consultation so that everybody is on the same page so that things will go the way that the system has been broken and you need to repair it and so it has a direct or indirect impact when we come to what's been happening in communities when it comes to native americans or indigenous people or whatever whatever is politically correct and so coming from the city of tucson living in tucson and also on the reservation the city of tucson has also done away with a lot of mascots in the high schools and a good example is the high school it was pueblo warriors high school they did away with damascus they did away with the word warriors and now it's just pueblo high school so i want to i want you to seriously think about that because those are the changes that that needs to take place and those are the discussions that have end that have been going on and will continue to go on so those of you who are decision makers and then listening to your presentation on redirecting because those are the things that are happening so thank you so much thank you okay our next speaker will be raquel good evening salaam alaikum um my name is raquel ramirez i am actually an orange county native i was born and raised in orange county i am also part of the hashema nation that's in san juan capistrano that we have been fighting for to be federally recognized um also a little bit about myself is that uh i served in the army i did eight years uh served one tour in afghanistan so i've become very influential i've i can understand the urban language that's uh one of the languages commonly known in afghanistan i also understand a little bit of french spanish english and anything else in between that is latin one of the main reasons of why i'm here is because i also um the the name the colonist it's um i feel that it's a very derogatory name especially i i actually did a little bit of um researching and back in the 1800s 1898 is i believe is when the school was originally first founded also within that time also was um it was when the colonists came into anaheim and also um the germans were one of the beginning settlers in anaheim also we also tell our children to we also tell we also tell our children that we they are the future they are the future they own and not to rely so much in the past and also um because one of the major things that um the colonists did to the native americans and the indigenous people as um how oh sorry i saw um a few people sorry i'm a little bit nervous bear with me um as far as it was um already stated that the um the colonists came into america and they actually um i'm going blank i'm so sorry i'm so sorry that's okay that's quite all right um but what i was what i was trying to say is that we teach our children to learn from our past to not let history repeat itself and i feel that by having the colon the name colonist and also the mascot is a little bit degrading because what was happening to us before was that we were being raped taken away from homes and being sh and being and telling us to just be quiet because if we actually spoke up i mean many of us know that we would be killed the woman would be raped you know i mean and it's not something that you know that i feel that the kids that our children should be exposed to it's fine to learn about history but not just you know keep it in the forefront you know our our education our schools are there to be able to educate our children you know not to send the i feel that it's sending like a subliminal message a message it's i feel that that it's telling us the native and the indigenous people to just be quiet to not speak up you know i come here you know with you know i thank you thank you for um having this meeting and letting us speak here but i feel that we just need to make a positive change a positive change for our kids a positive change because i mean just like we have um many you know the psychiatrist or i'm sorry not the psychiatrist but the psychology yes i'm sorry the psychologist you know helping the kids um to be able to you know do better in school and become and be okay within themselves but if we have this mascot you know that it still has this derogatory term that's kind of like still you know pushed you know pushed back in the back of our minds like what are we actually really doing to these kids what are we doing to the community in general you know because we want our kids to succeed we want our kids to be successful in every area of our lives but if you have something like this you know that it's just you know defeating the purpose if that makes sense um let's see and i mean i don't i um i think that's all i have thank you so much for your time thank you for letting us speak and have a nice evening thank you [Applause] okay our next speaker is marcela perez good evening well uh a lot has happened throughout this uh pandemic for me to seek out and get in touch with my my lineage and i come from a i've come to find out i've come from a strong lineage of mashika meshika people and for those that don't know that is situated in tenochtitlan mexico city and and i'm also here in support of our tongven relatives in the name change of of of a zim of a symbol that has uh it's just been a a lingering constant reminder of just the genocide of our our ancestors and i mean you could tell me all day long that you know george hansen was the founder of these lands but you know that that is not what our our system uh was founded on uh bartering compromising i mean you know our our native youth right now we they are exposed to social media the news uh you know on right now with uh you know the the the digging of of our you know the indian schools you know and uh honestly it's uh i see it now i mean [Music] i mean you you couldn't compromise you know that paycheck you know i mean because honestly that that's what we are right we're a paycheck to learn your history right you want our native youth to learn your history you know you could at least compromise with the name change does that make sense i mean that you know i don't it just it it's mind-boggling how i mean since uh mr daniel la torre de lira and i want to thank him wherever you are brother for starting this petition so yeah it's just uh it's intriguing to me as if any of you um don't uphold any of your family traditions you know so you know it's uh and also just uh it's it's sad to see that you know it's uh this is almost like a like a pearl panel you know because as it is it's already that we feel enough reserved in the various right that reservation right and it and and you can't compromise with one simple name change on that marquee so i again i would just like to thank uh you know every everything and and and everyone you know that uh has contributed to where we're at tonight good night and our last speaker will be cecilia iglesias good evening board members superintendent and members of the public my name is cecilia iglesias i'm the founder of the parent union i'm an immigrant from el salvador i'm a proud i am very proud to be an american citizen so grateful for the contributions of all cultures that makes america what it is today i am a proud product of the public school system therefore i believe that children should be taught the truth about america not one influenced by politics i know that america may sometimes fall short of its ideals but was founded with principles that value all people and these principles are worth striving for critical race theory will undo decades of progress in the united states instead of fostering unity and equality crt highlights the differences between people and races crt focuses on people's skin color not their character we should be creating unity among students not dividing them critical race theory teaches immigrants and children of color to be victims and white children to feel guilty about their heritage and skin color instead of teaching students that hard work pays off and will set them up for a lifetime of success even when success brings challenges critical race theory teaches students that stu that america will always be out to get them because of their race and skin color we know that the teachers union is driving critical race theory the teachers union embraces critical race theory because it shifts the blame away from them teachers unions have neglected their duties as educators and are now claiming institutional and systemic racism as the reason for their failures we won't overcome the union-created institutional problems by dividing students and teaching them to be victims our current system where only students from wealthy families can leave poor performing public schools for ones where they can receive a quality education now that is racist ultimately what crt does is to weaken american principles of equality and freedom and promote a theory which won't help students at all i humbly ask that you take my comments into consideration when voting on policy and curriculum that negatively affects our students regardless of race please vote on curriculum that will focus more on the fundamentals of learning like english reading writing math and sciences one last thing i also want to ask you that that if you're a member of the national school boards association please cancel your membership with them the national school boards association considers parents who peacefully voice their concerns on curriculum being taught to their children as terrorists i know for a fact you guys don't consider parents as terrorists thank you for the opportunity to address you thank you thank you and thank you to all our speakers now we will move on to our regular items of business item 11.1 is resolution number 2021-22-e-08 great american smoke-out escape the vape day 2021 second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments seeing none this is a roll call vote mrs trejo aye mr o'neill aye mr javar aye mr smith aye and i vote i bad we can't have abdullah's yeah vote on this right 11.2 business services this is the agreement california i.t and education some move a second i have a motion and a second is there any questions or comments seeing none this all in favor aye aye opposed seeing none we motion passes 11.3 agreement informed k-12 some move second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments yes mrs trejo i see eric eric can you give me a quick uh synopsis of this information i like to pride myself and when i read these that i can be informed this just kind of threw me a little bit some of the the i.t language so do you mind in a nutshell these are digital forms so if you think historically we have a paper form that we fill out manually we progress to a computer copy of it like a pdf inform k-12 puts a lot of additional features behind a form like workflow so you submit a form it'll automatically go to the next step the next step it has electronic signature so we can have people sign it that's a legally binding signature and we can potentially move information from the form into some of our other systems like aries okay as simple as that simple i made it more difficult than it was i appreciate it eric thank you okay thank you any other questions comments seeing none all in favor aye aye opposed seeing none moving on emotion passes 11.4 agreement optimism so move second i have a motion and a second any questions or comments seeing none all in favor aye opposed okay motion passes 11.5 use of facilities agreement grand theater banquet and event center action a second i have a motion and a second any questions or comments i'm glad we found a police yeah and it and we got a deal because this was an alumni of anaheim high school huh fantastic okay any questions no we already got that okay all in favor aye opposed motion passes 11.6 revised board policy 71101.01.01 and in parentheses one two three promotion retention second reading second i have a motion in a second any other questions or comments seeing none all in favor aye aye aye opposed motion passes 11.7 expenditure plan report elementary and secondary school emergency relief or sr3 funds so move second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments being none all in favor all right opposed motion passes 11.8 agreement for services technology and software coursera inc so i moved second i have a motion and a second any questions comments seeing none all in favor aye opposed motion passes 11 19 consulting agreement robert morrison i'll move second i have a motion in a second any questions comments seeing none all in favor opposed motion passes 11.2 public hearing board of trustees appointment reappointment a personnel commission meeting let's open the public hearing any any comments public comments seeing none close the public hearing uh may speak on this important may i speak on this i don't know yes you've read closed it now that we've closed the public hearing questions here just wanted to say that mr andresen said that he is grateful for the um the candidacy and he is willing to serve him next term and he couldn't be here tonight because he's having a procedure tomorrow but i wanted to thank the board and is very grateful to be to have been appointed and is willing to serve another term very good thank you for relaying that information okay any other questions or comments all right seeing none moving on to 11.11 this is the revised board policy 6306 substitute teacher salary schedule first and final reading so move second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments my comment is i hope it brings some more subs in you know i'm on the warpath to change some of the requirements so we can get easier more subs in other words i firmly believe and i've started my own campaign trying to contact our legislators and encourage them to uh move to ease the requirements for substitutes right now because we have such a shortage and this is i think a pen you know because of the pandemic and there are a lot of people that are still hesitant to step into a room of 35 students so we are really having problems getting substitutes not just us all the school districts that's why we're kind of competing with each other trying to see who can outdo the other one to get the subs to come but i'm contacting my legislators and asking them to ease the requirement in other words to be a substitute in the state of california you must have your ba degree pass the sea best and past all security screening well there's a lot of college students out there who would love to work a day or two here and there and they're not stupid they could take that sea best pass the security and be a good substitute and i mean we've got professionals who've retired and who were self-employed or whatever and maybe they wouldn't mind working a day or two here but maybe they came up through the ranks and they didn't have an a a ba but they had an aaa they could take the sea bass pass the security screening and then we'd have more people willing to substitute and i think it'd be a great thing for some of our seniors who would love to do that so anyway that's what i'm trying and if anybody wants to help contact your legislators i'm hounding them okay i really think it needs to be done maybe i'm wrong but that's what i'm thinking you know we need and if nothing else if they want to do it temporarily i mean it's just because california has one of the strictest requirements for teaching as far as across the nation i mean i had to go four years to get my ba then a fifth year to get my teaching credentials so it's a five year process and it's really tough for now for some of these candidates who cannot even work when they student teach and i think that's really tough so anyway i got on my soapbox anybody else have a comment or question no ma'am okay so all in favor aye aye opposed okay 11.12 agreement umass global supervised fieldwork so moved okay motion and a second any questions or comments all right seeing none all in favor aye opposed okay and we come to our consent calendar and we will list all the items together unless you wish to pull please pull 12.8 bb and 12.9 okay 12.88 and 12.89 any other items to be pulled move for the balance second i have a motion the second for the balance all in favor aye aye opposed okay item 12.8 0.8 and 12.8.9 how moved second second i can't find it okay okay i have a second i'll and any all in 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okay so there's not more beyond that that we know obviously we will have there'll be there will be some discussions on exemptions and what qualifies for exemptions and how exactly school districts will implement this fully but that is something that we are keeping our an eye on because that could occur as as early as january 1st for the mandatory testing or excuse me vaccination so that that obviously as of right now it's just pfizer just as of right now just pfizer for fda approved fda approved that's fully fda approved i don't believe we have uh i don't believe they're either one of them any of them are fully fda approved i thought but i can check for you it's just the booster no it was given a booster i don't believe it's been fully fda approved though it's not it's uh that's for the next variant of this booster you can i'll get back to you sir are there any other questions related to our mandatory weekly testing that we are launching on monday or with the upcoming mandate as we know it today just congratulations on getting that done that's amazing work thank you appreciate it thank you everyone have a good night thank you all right so i'm going to conclude our presentation with a review of our anaheim union educational summit as you know each year annually we meet as a district on a non-student day to do professional learning geared towards our district's drivers set forth by the vision of our our board and of course implemented through our superintendent cabinet and incite leaders both admin teachers and classified staff and counselors alike so on this day october 11th we did something a little different this year we took all of our content area folks and spread them out across the different sites what we did is we allowed sites to really go deep with their content specific work i'm really proud to say that our curriculum specialist did just an incredible job leading this effort uh we the feedback we had been given was tremendous in terms of the work and the the impact of what they were learning and engaging in on that day it was all centered around instructional practices geared and connected to their content but also be remiss if i didn't take a moment to also thank our directors our coordinators and our program administrators they often helped facilitate uh this day as well given some of the content areas or the teams that they also serve or oversee so it was a it was a really beautiful day that engaged our stakeholders our staff stakeholders across the district on this day also we unveiled district-wide the launch of the career preparedness systems framework as you may recall cpsf as it's as we often refer to it really embodies three concepts that we want to make sure are alive and well in front and center in what happens in a classroom each and every day the first of the three circles talks about the five c's or what we call the soft skills right those soft skills are something that we would want to see in every classroom every day that's the collaboration communication critical thinking creativity and of course the most important in our opinion is the compassion and good character the second of the three three circles uh incorporates what we call the heart skills this is the more traditional content it also connects with uh certification that you might get through the google certificates or dual enrollment courses with cyprus and fullerton college along with courses they may take through our partnership with north orange county rop where students can actually earn certification based on courses that they take and then the third circle talks about really empowering our students and their voice and helping them find their passion and their purpose so these three circles make up that career preparedness systems framework and again on monday we launched that district wide what i want to share with you is a launch to our our presentation i know pauline is going to put this up for us is a video that we want to share with you as the board may recall a few months ago we brought forward an item for a gentleman named dr kevin fleming who's been working with our district to develop a video that really tells our story talks about this framework and the work that we're doing to transform education in hopes that we can also connect and collaborate with other districts across not just the county but the state and nationally to help continue to transform education as we rapidly see the world of work changing before our eyes and the drivers that we maybe once had in k-12 education they're not necessarily the same drivers that will help prepare our kids for the for the the demands the world of work is asking for now so this video is a beautiful tribute to the work that we're doing as a district uh just know it's also being done in five or i think five other languages so it's going to be something we plan to use to support and share with our families our communities again with other colleagues in other districts throughout the country to really help frame the dialogue around the need for this kind of change so with that paulina go ahead and hit play and enjoy the video over the past several years many americans have experienced economic turmoil and unemployment families and communities are suffering many of the jobs that have disappeared will not return and almost half of all existing jobs are likely to be replaced by technology in the future in addition the employability gap that's the gap between what skills employers need and what skills workers have is growing larger most school systems are failing to address the skills development challenge adequately we must act urgently to rebuild the california economy and train young people for the jobs of the future to ensure their college career and life ready thankfully over the past decade innovative educators and advocates have pushed career education in california embracing a more holistic approach to developing academic workforce and real-world world skills together in fact according to the california department of education students who complete a rigorous academic core coupled with a career concentration have equal or higher test scores higher graduation rates are more likely to pursue such secondary education and have a higher grade than average in college in short it works however there are still challenges to successful career education in schools and missed opportunities due to disjointed frameworks and lack of alignment between educators systems and employers there is a shortage of relevant courses for students and often the failure to put student purpose at the forefront in the current mixture of career readiness strategies across california students are not receiving long-term coordinated support in building their post-secondary futures and too many still view career education as an extra and not related to traditional general education subjects moreover according to anaheim union high school district superintendent michael mitsuda the ultimate barometer of social justice in society is access to meaningful and purposeful jobs well we realized that its intersection of academic skills workforce skills and civic skills is where we could improve student long term success this is why the anaheim union high school district developed a career preparedness systems framework it's a leading model for workforce development where young people can pursue their learning and work passions through this framework auhsd has maximized its internal alignment and infrastructure around three essential components 21st century skills technical skills and cultivation of youth voice and purpose 21st century skills also called power or life skills are needed for a person to be successful while navigating their multiple future careers yes this includes emotional and relational intelligence time management and project management but so much more so as cornerstones of instruction and reflection throughout all courses and extracurricular opportunities are the five c's they are transferable rooted in all industries and include character and compassion collaboration communication creativity and critical thinking then there are technical skills these can be very industry specific they include the ability to apply what you have learned to the areas of cyber security artificial intelligence biotechnology business and entrepreneurship and other high demand fields high school students savvy with skills in areas of interest find jobs keep jobs are promoted more quickly and more importantly create jobs technical skills are attained through career technical education coursework dual credit community college courses align to career pathways project-based learning as well as mentorships and internships opportunities youth voice and purpose are rooted in the development and affirmation of a student's identity and motivation it is vital students choose how they learn and thus develop purpose in their own education this is achieved through civic engagement service learning and career exploration activities that are meaningful and relevant driven by their interests and often self-initiated with appropriate guidance from educators in fact there are numerous innovative features to the anaheim career preparedness systems framework strategy this strategy intentionally leverages a variety of initiatives partners and approaches to achieve our vision the anaheim union career preparedness systems framework inserts career education into the center of the mission of each school because it works and will provide all learners with a competitive advantage in this framework students bring their passion voice and strengths into the career exploration process the skills and tools in cpsf each contribute to form a powerful mosaic of integrative learning and skill building preparing students for meaningful careers grounded in purpose join the anaheim union high school district in building a better world through unlimited you [Music] [Applause] that concludes our presentation thank you that was good okay okay so at the end of that presentation it takes us up to public comments open session items this is the opportunities for public comments occurring at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for items not on the agenda persons wishing to address the board of trustees should complete a speaker request form which is available on the information table at the back of the room and submit it to the executive assistant prior to the meeting each speaker is limited to a maximum of five minutes each topic or item is limited to a total of 20 minutes so board members cannot immediately respond to your public comments that is stated on the speaker request form this evening i have a few here and we'll begin with rudy krauss [Music] hi my name is rudy krauss i'm a writer author i have a master's i'm writing my covid thesis on the covid virus a vaccine the microbiology of the vaccine i'm just looking at some photographs from dr zielewski who's from france and he put the covid vaccine under his microscopy is microscopes and uh what we find is we find a parasite the parasite this this one comes from doctor young he's an american but the zalewski uh parasite is is quite revealing he's measured it it's uh 30 microns that's uh you know measured in millions this thing is huge it's got a huge head it's got even longer tentacles now this is from dr midday this was on stu peter's last week the whole internet this is all over the internet everyone's playing stu peter's interviews with dr ruby and dr midday and uh this is quite startling this is the covid parasite you can see it has a head a body and long tentacles these tentacles get extremely long even dr zalewski was thinking this seems like it's from the matrix those things that were flying around in the matrix see there's the parasite right there this is what you have in your body they shut you with a parasite this spiked protein is made inside the body of this parasite right in here this parasite is nanometers to 100 nanometers if you have a real big fat one it's 140 nanometers nanometers are measured in billionths they're the size of a atom a nanometer a nano is an atom microns they're measured in millions how many of these parasites can you put in one blood cell blood cells are are measured in microns you probably put a thousand of them in one blood cell and believe me that's what they're doing and you want to put this monster in children it's bad enough that you suckered out and you put it in your own body because you're ignorant and now old fools teach young fools how to become old fools and you want to vaccinate all the children and turn them into covid creatures this parasite you have a a parallel life form in your body it is in every cell of your body from your toes all the way up to your brain to where the blood cells line up one by one to go through the micro capillaries and this is in there oh you think oh it's the corona virus oh i'm so confused it's is that something out in the ether out there what is the virus the virus is the environment the envelope this parasite has to travel in because it cannot live in our environment because this virus is anaerobic now the doctor over here can you tell me what anaerobic means no you can't of course do you know that covet is an anaerobic virus no of course you don't know that do you know that you're an aerobic human being that means you inhale oxygen the parasite lives without oxygen it loves it at 30 000 feet on the top of mount everest why do you think the pilots are so afraid because they're up there in the environment that the parasite loves to be in now what do you do you put mass on all the kids you're in here looking foolish to me you got mass on yourselves twenty percent reduction and oxygen inhalation that feeds the covid parasite you're breeding an environment for it to live grow and thrive in the coveted parasite makes the covid virus the virus 30 seconds is how it reproduces this is like it's eggs like it's like it's sperm that's what it puts inside of you and then what it does is it goes in your blood cells and immediately starts to decrease the oxygen to deoxify the blood the blood cells what you guys have is deoxification the gradual reduction in the daily consumption of oxygen and that's what you're doing to the kids if the covid virus were here and there's a boy with a mask and a boy without a mask who do you think the covid virus is going to go to that's time the kid with the mask any questions where does this lead anyone anyone want to know where this leads to you guys are mutating rapidly and all the people that are having little copic babies they're no questions are being forwarded thank you okay district 19.
that's what we're talking about mutagenic containment you're going to kill all the kids turn them into creatures our next speaker thank you mazzottel i'm not going to slaughter your last name i'm sorry anaheim california 9285 traditional land of the tango i said uh good afternoon hello hola i speak three languages spanish hispanic and english and also meshika nawa which is the native american language of the utah azteca linguistic family which includes the tanguas the ahachemens hopi which we just can't we just came from a trip over and also to honor ottom yaki nawabi pilis from uh el salvador and um i am we're here many of us to present something to the board it's a an issue that's uh been up in the air for a while and i think it's time that we break that silence because as a born mexicano mexicano from registered from oaxaca i actually went to south junior high katelyn high school and i am high school and i spoke here when i was 13 years old and i'm really happy i met some good people some good leaders activists to uh to fight for chicano studies mexican american studies which is under native american studies if you really look into it into the history and um we're here to talk about a mascot called anaheim colonists it's very degrading to us native americans with all your respect we have a petition it's about almost going up to 6 000 signatures and we just came back from uh speaking to other tribes and non-tribal members you know that sign of all colors you know and uh we just want to let you guys know that the mascot um does commit suicide to certain students it's actually cultural castration it's a psychological genocide because when you have an image that creates white supremacy a white man with all your respect to mangle brothers with two guns how can that be educational how can we teach violence with someone of any color doesn't matter if it's a black man with guns a white man a red man yellow man we don't promote that and it's time that we change that we heal together and to end this off we just established indigenous peoples in anaheim the anaheim city council voted for indigenous peoples day october 11th october 12th we just had our first indigenous peoples day spiritual walk and a spiritual run uh we were really happy to say that it's the beginning of something big and we're all healing psychologically spiritually physically and i just uh just preparing all of you with all your respect that we will be coming and we are getting the tangos ready and we have the permission that tango gabileno's virginia camillo and adam loya will be coming to these meetings to educate to communicate because that's the key what saved me was my identity my grandpa to teach me oral tradition the language the history that i was not being taught in the schools and i think that's the key to uh prevent from suicide or prevent from being in gangs or drugs or alcohol that is the key in the education we need to change the school curriculum by then i believe our president biden is now pushing for a for a uh indigenous peoples day uh in the in all of the us make it a paid holiday so this is the beginning this is something big and something to think about and i believe i have a minute and something left okay um but thank you so much for for listening there's so much to say um in memory of david de la soya he was a hopi that worked in the city of anaheim probably worked in your homes uh he's got kids that went to catella i actually went to anaheim high school graduate i'm a graduate from the institute of american arts in santa fe new mexico i left lived there for 13 14 years in santa fe new mexico i went to fullerton college santa ana college cyprus and cypress college took speech and um i just wanted to connect with what my grandpa was teaching me the oral tradition and i connected a lot of our words i teach the language the law language david vasquez that passed away came out on oc weekly and we connected a lot of the language so when i see this this percentage the demographics when we have hispanic or latino latino really means italian we're not latin people a hispanic really means somebody from spain and that image that mascot it's a reminder of our trauma and what they did to us raped our ancestors and so there needs to be corrections on this you know and if we talk about american indians native americans our language is the key they cannot break us with the language if you speak now what if you say seattle chicago wisconsin uh tata nana in our language in the mexican chicano culture we use those words and even in the native american reservation so that's the key so this there's a lack of education there's a lot of ignorance but with time it will heal and thank you so much for listening i mean no disrespect and i hope we can heal together and communicate and make this change of the school mascot and the school name colonists thank you thank you [Applause] our next speaker will be david garcia thank you and also to those who have lost their loved ones because of the covert my condolence uh my name is david garcia member of the tonal autumn nation and i'll spell it for you t-o-h-o-n-o that's one that's desert autumn is capital o-o-d-h-a-m part of the nation that means desert people i am from arizona we are the second largest fairly recognized tribe in the united states and so um i'm here in solidarity in behalf of people who are totally against the mascot and the name of the school here and i say that it's because uh as a former tribal leader have traveled and walked the halls of congress and as a member as a delegate for an ngo haven't been to the united nations in 2007 the united nations council passed the international declaration on indigenous people and i would suggest that you look at the articles that that's that was passed because there's articles that speaks to education and so uh and also the nation is a member of the national congress of american indians which represents over 565 tribes who also have past resolution opposing mascots and if those of you who are football players who like to watch nfl you know the washington skins you know changed their name did away with their mascot which is the washington red skins and so the these are things that have been ongoing uh public schools even schools on reservations but it's interesting that when i looked at the the present when i listened to the presentation on the redistricting and if you look at the numbers uh the number speaks for itself when you talk when you look at the communities the representation of the communities and back then when the school of anaheim was given the name and also the mascot the community has changed the numbers have changed so because of that there's no question in my mind that uh you need to do away with because there is no representation based on uh nationality and so when you look at the communities in all the districts because we're talking about education the number speaks for itself i know how difficult it is and i know how sense sensitive it is but it was said earlier that you know the cultural heritage committee under the umbrella of the city council we just celebrated the indigenous peoples day and just giving up another proclamation and so that's a good example that has been happening for several years it's not just within one state it's happening throughout the country and so when we look and when you look at what has been happening there needs to be a serious dialogue there needs to be an understanding there needs to be consultation so that everybody is on the same page so that things will go the way that the system has been broken and you need to repair it and so it has a direct or indirect impact when we come to what's been happening in communities when it comes to native americans or indigenous people or whatever whatever is politically correct and so coming from the city of tucson living in tucson and also on the reservation the city of tucson has also done away with a lot of mascots in the high schools and a good example is the high school it was pueblo warriors high school they did away with damascus they did away with the word warriors and now it's just pueblo high school so i want to i want you to seriously think about that because those are the changes that that needs to take place and those are the discussions that have end that have been going on and will continue to go on so those of you who are decision makers and then listening to your presentation on redirecting because those are the things that are happening so thank you so much thank you okay our next speaker will be raquel good evening salaam alaikum um my name is raquel ramirez i am actually an orange county native i was born and raised in orange county i am also part of the hashema nation that's in san juan capistrano that we have been fighting for to be federally recognized um also a little bit about myself is that uh i served in the army i did eight years uh served one tour in afghanistan so i've become very influential i've i can understand the urban language that's uh one of the languages commonly known in afghanistan i also understand a little bit of french spanish english and anything else in between that is latin one of the main reasons of why i'm here is because i also um the the name the colonist it's um i feel that it's a very derogatory name especially i i actually did a little bit of um researching and back in the 1800s 1898 is i believe is when the school was originally first founded also within that time also was um it was when the colonists came into anaheim and also um the germans were one of the beginning settlers in anaheim also we also tell our children to we also tell we also tell our children that we they are the future they are the future they own and not to rely so much in the past and also um because one of the major things that um the colonists did to the native americans and the indigenous people as um how oh sorry i saw um a few people sorry i'm a little bit nervous bear with me um as far as it was um already stated that the um the colonists came into america and they actually um i'm going blank i'm so sorry i'm so sorry that's okay that's quite all right um but what i was what i was trying to say is that we teach our children to learn from our past to not let history repeat itself and i feel that by having the colon the name colonist and also the mascot is a little bit degrading because what was happening to us before was that we were being raped taken away from homes and being sh and being and telling us to just be quiet because if we actually spoke up i mean many of us know that we would be killed the woman would be raped you know i mean and it's not something that you know that i feel that the kids that our children should be exposed to it's fine to learn about history but not just you know keep it in the forefront you know our our education our schools are there to be able to educate our children you know not to send the i feel that it's sending like a subliminal message a message it's i feel that that it's telling us the native and the indigenous people to just be quiet to not speak up you know i come here you know with you know i thank you thank you for um having this meeting and letting us speak here but i feel that we just need to make a positive change a positive change for our kids a positive change because i mean just like we have um many you know the psychiatrist or i'm sorry not the psychiatrist but the psychology yes i'm sorry the psychologist you know helping the kids um to be able to you know do better in school and become and be okay within themselves but if we have this mascot you know that it still has this derogatory term that's kind of like still you know pushed you know pushed back in the back of our minds like what are we actually really doing to these kids what are we doing to the community in general you know because we want our kids to succeed we want our kids to be successful in every area of our lives but if you have something like this you know that it's just you know defeating the purpose if that makes sense um let's see and i mean i don't i um i think that's all i have thank you so much for your time thank you for letting us speak and have a nice evening thank you [Applause] okay our next speaker is marcela perez good evening well uh a lot has happened throughout this uh pandemic for me to seek out and get in touch with my my lineage and i come from a i've come to find out i've come from a strong lineage of mashika meshika people and for those that don't know that is situated in tenochtitlan mexico city and and i'm also here in support of our tongven relatives in the name change of of of a zim of a symbol that has uh it's just been a a lingering constant reminder of just the genocide of our our ancestors and i mean you could tell me all day long that you know george hansen was the founder of these lands but you know that that is not what our our system uh was founded on uh bartering compromising i mean you know our our native youth right now we they are exposed to social media the news uh you know on right now with uh you know the the the digging of of our you know the indian schools you know and uh honestly it's uh i see it now i mean [Music] i mean you you couldn't compromise you know that paycheck you know i mean because honestly that that's what we are right we're a paycheck to learn your history right you want our native youth to learn your history you know you could at least compromise with the name change does that make sense i mean that you know i don't it just it it's mind-boggling how i mean since uh mr daniel la torre de lira and i want to thank him wherever you are brother for starting this petition so yeah it's just uh it's intriguing to me as if any of you um don't uphold any of your family traditions you know so you know it's uh and also just uh it's it's sad to see that you know it's uh this is almost like a like a pearl panel you know because as it is it's already that we feel enough reserved in the various right that reservation right and it and and you can't compromise with one simple name change on that marquee so i again i would just like to thank uh you know every everything and and and everyone you know that uh has contributed to where we're at tonight good night and our last speaker will be cecilia iglesias good evening board members superintendent and members of the public my name is cecilia iglesias i'm the founder of the parent union i'm an immigrant from el salvador i'm a proud i am very proud to be an american citizen so grateful for the contributions of all cultures that makes america what it is today i am a proud product of the public school system therefore i believe that children should be taught the truth about america not one influenced by politics i know that america may sometimes fall short of its ideals but was founded with principles that value all people and these principles are worth striving for critical race theory will undo decades of progress in the united states instead of fostering unity and equality crt highlights the differences between people and races crt focuses on people's skin color not their character we should be creating unity among students not dividing them critical race theory teaches immigrants and children of color to be victims and white children to feel guilty about their heritage and skin color instead of teaching students that hard work pays off and will set them up for a lifetime of success even when success brings challenges critical race theory teaches students that stu that america will always be out to get them because of their race and skin color we know that the teachers union is driving critical race theory the teachers union embraces critical race theory because it shifts the blame away from them teachers unions have neglected their duties as educators and are now claiming institutional and systemic racism as the reason for their failures we won't overcome the union-created institutional problems by dividing students and teaching them to be victims our current system where only students from wealthy families can leave poor performing public schools for ones where they can receive a quality education now that is racist ultimately what crt does is to weaken american principles of equality and freedom and promote a theory which won't help students at all i humbly ask that you take my comments into consideration when voting on policy and curriculum that negatively affects our students regardless of race please vote on curriculum that will focus more on the fundamentals of learning like english reading writing math and sciences one last thing i also want to ask you that that if you're a member of the national school boards association please cancel your membership with them the national school boards association considers parents who peacefully voice their concerns on curriculum being taught to their children as terrorists i know for a fact you guys don't consider parents as terrorists thank you for the opportunity to address you thank you thank you and thank you to all our speakers now we will move on to our regular items of business item 11.1 is resolution number 2021-22-e-08 great american smoke-out escape the vape day 2021 second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments seeing none this is a roll call vote mrs trejo aye mr o'neill aye mr javar aye mr smith aye and i vote i bad we can't have abdullah's yeah vote on this right 11.2 business services this is the agreement california i.t and education some move a second i have a motion and a second is there any questions or comments seeing none this all in favor aye aye opposed seeing none we motion passes 11.3 agreement informed k-12 some move second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments yes mrs trejo i see eric eric can you give me a quick uh synopsis of this information i like to pride myself and when i read these that i can be informed this just kind of threw me a little bit some of the the i.t language so do you mind in a nutshell these are digital forms so if you think historically we have a paper form that we fill out manually we progress to a computer copy of it like a pdf inform k-12 puts a lot of additional features behind a form like workflow so you submit a form it'll automatically go to the next step the next step it has electronic signature so we can have people sign it that's a legally binding signature and we can potentially move information from the form into some of our other systems like aries okay as simple as that simple i made it more difficult than it was i appreciate it eric thank you okay thank you any other questions comments seeing none all in favor aye aye opposed seeing none moving on emotion passes 11.4 agreement optimism so move second i have a motion and a second any questions or comments seeing none all in favor aye opposed okay motion passes 11.5 use of facilities agreement grand theater banquet and event center action a second i have a motion and a second any questions or comments i'm glad we found a police yeah and it and we got a deal because this was an alumni of anaheim high school huh fantastic okay any questions no we already got that okay all in favor aye opposed motion passes 11.6 revised board policy 71101.01.01 and in parentheses one two three promotion retention second reading second i have a motion in a second any other questions or comments seeing none all in favor aye aye aye opposed motion passes 11.7 expenditure plan report elementary and secondary school emergency relief or sr3 funds so move second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments being none all in favor all right opposed motion passes 11.8 agreement for services technology and software coursera inc so i moved second i have a motion and a second any questions comments seeing none all in favor aye opposed motion passes 11 19 consulting agreement robert morrison i'll move second i have a motion in a second any questions comments seeing none all in favor opposed motion passes 11.2 public hearing board of trustees appointment reappointment a personnel commission meeting let's open the public hearing any any comments public comments seeing none close the public hearing uh may speak on this important may i speak on this i don't know yes you've read closed it now that we've closed the public hearing questions here just wanted to say that mr andresen said that he is grateful for the um the candidacy and he is willing to serve him next term and he couldn't be here tonight because he's having a procedure tomorrow but i wanted to thank the board and is very grateful to be to have been appointed and is willing to serve another term very good thank you for relaying that information okay any other questions or comments all right seeing none moving on to 11.11 this is the revised board policy 6306 substitute teacher salary schedule first and final reading so move second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments my comment is i hope it brings some more subs in you know i'm on the warpath to change some of the requirements so we can get easier more subs in other words i firmly believe and i've started my own campaign trying to contact our legislators and encourage them to uh move to ease the requirements for substitutes right now because we have such a shortage and this is i think a pen you know because of the pandemic and there are a lot of people that are still hesitant to step into a room of 35 students so we are really having problems getting substitutes not just us all the school districts that's why we're kind of competing with each other trying to see who can outdo the other one to get the subs to come but i'm contacting my legislators and asking them to ease the requirement in other words to be a substitute in the state of california you must have your ba degree pass the sea best and past all security screening well there's a lot of college students out there who would love to work a day or two here and there and they're not stupid they could take that sea best pass the security and be a good substitute and i mean we've got professionals who've retired and who were self-employed or whatever and maybe they wouldn't mind working a day or two here but maybe they came up through the ranks and they didn't have an a a ba but they had an aaa they could take the sea bass pass the security screening and then we'd have more people willing to substitute and i think it'd be a great thing for some of our seniors who would love to do that so anyway that's what i'm trying and if anybody wants to help contact your legislators i'm hounding them okay i really think it needs to be done maybe i'm wrong but that's what i'm thinking you know we need and if nothing else if they want to do it temporarily i mean it's just because california has one of the strictest requirements for teaching as far as across the nation i mean i had to go four years to get my ba then a fifth year to get my teaching credentials so it's a five year process and it's really tough for now for some of these candidates who cannot even work when they student teach and i think that's really tough so anyway i got on my soapbox anybody else have a comment or question no ma'am okay so all in favor aye aye opposed okay 11.12 agreement umass global supervised fieldwork so moved okay motion and a second any questions or comments all right seeing none all in favor aye opposed okay and we come to our consent calendar and we will list all the items together unless you wish to pull please pull 12.8 bb and 12.9 okay 12.88 and 12.89 any other items to be pulled move for the balance second i have a motion the second for the balance all in favor aye aye opposed okay item 12.8 0.8 and 12.8.9 how moved second second i can't find it okay okay i have a second i'll and any all in 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let me see if i can find yeah superintendent and staff report no report my goodness okay you forgot someone he has a long report okay uh item oh you know what did i admit abdullah from voting on the clubs no he voted you you omitted but anne marie reminded okay and he voted i didn't say anything i'm just oh boy that was an hour an hour and a half ago i know [Laughter] i had my mind on some other things here i'm not that late oh how could i do that okay i'm gonna have to make a little note here to remind him because i wanted to remind him okay board of trustees report starting with mrs trejo i just want to publicly say abdullah your report was just outstanding uh i don't know you're you're just you're getting more and more grand so you just you could tear it tone it down a little bit because you're out doing yourself it's awesome i really really loved getting the perspective of the students and uh thank you for adding the graduation of the gilbert students that was a really nice touch so thank the ambassador and uh i am so excited hope has an ambassador yes that's great that's so great thank you for all the work you're doing i know now i need to calm down huh all righty um thank you to the wonderful uh zoom world that we're in i was able to attend cambridge academy's um back-to-school night and uh boy the enthusiasm there uh they need to tone it down i'm just kidding they're they're great they had a great opening back to school night and the teachers are just so excited and so are the students it's really wonderful also able to intend the vietnamese parent meeting with our existing distinguished superintendent presiding um lots of great great questions and a lot of really good information given to to that i was able to attend the back to school night um at gilbert and uh i went there about an hour uh before and uh got kind of like a little grand tour i really oh my goodness the the the back area now that is um that has been built out is just oh my goodness i just i i was gushing it was just really beautiful and then to have that backstage area where they set up and just just nice so beautiful and the kids deserve that over there at gilbert so it was a really festive beginning that i saw saw all the artwork displayed and a lot of i think there they had a really great um turnout this parents were coming as i was as i was going um and i know that uh dr laura is doing a fabulous job a lot of camaraderie there um another fun thing that i got to do um besides going to the gasalpa meeting and the rop meeting i was asked to be part of a judging panel for south junior high school a program that they just started it's called engage academy where the honor students in history english and science are combining their talents and they had to do a presentation and it was done in the multi-purpose room it was a great way to get the parents there and and and have the students give their presentations um was a really um interesting the project really was their final their final project was they had to answer um a driving question uh in their presentations um and i want to give the shout out to miss humphrey dr bethancourt and um miss chow they work together collaboratively collaboratively with this but the driving question was what would make a family leave their home and move to another place and this could be from another country or moving to another state really to answer that that question and what they had to do was kind of make up an imaginary family and answer that question and talk about the journey so there were a number of different countries um representatives so the students have really had to do that research um into all the cultures and traditions and um and find out really really how hard those journeys were um and some were across an ocean or you know a desert and it was very fascinating and it was very difficult to judge because the students did tremendous work um and just uh they had i think uh six minutes to do their presentation and there was a group of four students um but the one that really stood out for me was they kind of made it interactive and they asked the they asked the um so the parents were also able to go from table to table to listen to their presentations and so were the judges but this interactive um one was really really cute because uh they had like they made a box cube with their present their visual presentation on it and then um they were they would ask a a question like kind of a yes or a no or either or question and um and it was interactive and what would you do if you uh say you know you you hadn't eaten for three days and you had to you know give all of your money that you had for you know a loaf of bread or something it was really really tough you know to answer some of these questions and i just thought that was really brilliant because it really brought us into their presentation so um bravo to them uh of course we all attended the wonderful dale um reopening ribbon cutting that was just uh fabulous and i'm so happy for um the students and the staff there that were anxiously waiting all of that to be done and it was a great celebration um and to other i can't read my writing sometimes on my cards oh the um auhsd town hall a covet update with dr clayton chow and dr jose mayorga and our own manuel colon who hosted that event i really loved that we were just really open and transparent i was very i was especially intrigued and and grateful for dr clayton ciao for being so honest about really putting the numbers as you had mentioned the depths um and when you said that um in the month of august in orange county um or did you see orange county or anaheim manuel i can't remember but it was two it's too many so 100 deaths orange county and 100 deaths um and that that was preventable uh just it's crushing it's crushing to to to know that that could have been prevented um and those people could have been with us still um but thank you for for hosting putting that on thank you for everyone who contributed to that for bringing um dr clayton chao and jose mayorga and of course al you were there speaking as well and it was a it was a very emotional town hall and i believe you answered all of the questions that our parents had um so thankful for that and our artificial intelligence cyber security town hall uh wow uh anna you told us that you had heard um mr gupta um the prosecutor in cyber security for orange county you said that he scared you yeah he scared me and i took i took away with that the one thing that we could possibly do um you know because i always like in tragedy or or when we're scared about something i always like to find one thing that i can do and he reminded us that really really look at your one email that you use for everything that you use for your banking medical records all these important things that are linked to that one email make sure that is secure make sure that you are changing that password because when that gets hacked um then your life is pretty much you know a mess so um but thank you for having him come and and speak to our families i hope that people really go on our website and look at those presentations i believe they're recorded and you know really take the time to um to really listen to the messages and to the the correct factual information that we are providing uh for our family so thank you very much thank you mr o'neal yes um i attended the orange county school board association budget meeting down at ocde and it seems like it's a never ending moving bullet or target i should say because uh it changes the next day so i'm not going to go into any details but it's interesting to hear i attended the hope and savannah back to school nights along with cambridge virtual academy kennedy and and gilbert so i got around to a few campuses they're all doing very well i like to see the the turnout for the students and the teachers the teachers enthusiasm uh for the engaging almost everybody has been outside their classrooms i think there's only been two schools that have been within the classroom but all campuses have had good turnout uh 10 of the covet town hall the zoom educational and so i thank you for that presentation i hope it was educational to the community the dale ribbon cutting as you said was fantastic they it was a well-deserved upgrade to the campus i'm looking forward to continuing upgrading other campuses so we can go and do some ribbon cutting canada a kennedy homecoming football game that was exciting i was a little surprised on on the uh the queen usually they have a half a dozen corvettes taking the princesses around this they had a a lowered pickup truck that took away the queen after she was crowned uh well that was it that was different maybe nobody wanted to volunteer their corvettes so i said i'll have to buy a few for next year uh okay i won't buy any then um attended sister city meeting and lori dinwiddie who was very very involved even though she's a buena parkian she is extremely involved in anaheim and she is now the the chair of that committee um actually it's a commission not a committee uh the artificial intelligence and cyber security presentation was very interesting and how would you portray the uh the attendance would you portray it as being okay [Music] i don't have a feel for it well you have to understand too it was also virtual which one which one did we attend to in kennedy that was the one at kennedy cyber security and artificial intelligence yeah yeah right 25 people in there right and then it was oh that's right it was virtual wasn't virtual okay i forgot all about the virtuality of that i was at the desert so i had to watch it there okay all right speaking of being deserves or being places i had a very very nice uh week up in new england states the four states touring the fantastic changing of the colors so if you ever get an opportunity in your lifetime and i hit it absolutely i couldn't done any better uh usually it's around the second week of october first second week of october and i hit it right on the button so i was that's neat months of you know waiting and it happened so it was fun a lot of fun great mr javar all right yeah i went to a few back-to-school nights i'm not sure if i mentioned it at the last board meeting but i went to the south back back to school and the savannah and magnolia back to school nights dale junior high the campus again absolutely wonderful and i i want to thank uh is it pinnacle construction right or pinot pinot construction for donating ten thousand dollars to uh the asb of dale junior high i met the gentleman and he said i just wrote a check just because i heard uh chris christie christina mandragon who actually gave a very very eloquent speech so he said just looking at that speech i wanted to open up my wallet and donate ten thousand so i want to congratulate the school on that one um i've been attending some of our anaheim football games it's nice to be back i did attend the homecoming and the bell game unfortunately the bell game we lost so it was uh again to western high school but you know again we'll we'll make it one day uh anaheim will make it one day uh we did the kobe town hall i wanted to thank our coalition of clinic which has been doing a lot of work with anaheim union high school district and they approached me to say hey we want to have a kobe town hall at anaheim union high school district i just couldn't say no to that opportunity i think our community was well deserved by uh answering all those questions from not only dr chow but also dr mayorga so it will be great to have some of these clinics on a regular basis because i did have a lot of parents who have been meeting at anaheim and sycamore who said oh sorry we missed it so maybe we can look at doing another one of those in the near future um did it attend the uh sycamore junior high coffee with the principal we started the uh the coffee at eight o'clock and it went on till 11 30.
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We want to be here as efficiently and your and we are cognitive of your time and out of here in efficient manner. Just a reminder, any recording, video, or audio of tonight's event must be approved by the League of Women Voters in Academy District 20. You will be able to view the full recording from tonight's event on the Academyy's District 20's YouTube page soon. Uh, again, sorry, no clapping or yelling after your candidate. If you would like to show your agreement, you can simply nod or use the International Sign Language for applause, right? Um, if you want to show your disagreement, right, I encouraged you last time to just sit there. I didn't think I had to point it out, but I guess I do. If you're going to sit there and be negative and, you know, do your thumbs down and and 100% your first amendment right, I am not going to take that away from you.
But these candidates are up here and they've taken of their time and they are um they deserve your respect and and that you know if you want to be negative I I think you know there's a time and a place for it. Not necessarily sure if this is the place. Um okay housekeeping items. Silence your phones for me. Any recording again of tonight's event must be approved by the league and academy district 20. Questions for the candidates? get them up to those students for me and they will collect them and then the question sorters the league members will be able to avoid duplication with that restrooms are located directly out the doors immediately to your right look for those restroom signs all right anybody good everybody good we're going to do a little bit different this time I mentioned to the candidates so if everyone's ready we're going to get started we're going to begin with candidate opening state I'm sorry we're going to begin by naming all of the candidates in alphabetical order, right?
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You guys remember last time, right? And then hear from each individually with their opening statements. So, starting in alphabetical order, I'm just going to call your name and then we'll get you um opening statements. Mr. Jason Silva, we're going to start with you. So, Miss Tiana Clark, Mr. Brian Cororum, Mr. Nathan Johnson, Miss Nicole KS, Mr. Thomas Lavali, Miss Jackie Leesh, Miss Lindseay Moore, Mr. Michael Riffle, Mr. Aaron Salt, and Mr. Jason Silva. And again, we're going to work backwards on your opening statements. So, Mr. Silva, you will kick things off with your two-minute introduction. And I'm sorry before you start, I forgot my awesome person who's my helper this evening. She is your timekeeper in that front row. You everybody see her? When that red sign comes up, it is not an immediate stop at that very end. That stop sign. That is your my southern hospitality coming out in me and giving you 10 seconds to wrap up your thoughts.
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that's what we're talking about mutagenic containment you're going to kill all the kids turn them into creatures our next speaker thank you mazzottel i'm not going to slaughter your last name i'm sorry anaheim california 9285 traditional land of the tango i said uh good afternoon hello hola i speak three languages spanish hispanic and english and also meshika nawa which is the native american language of the utah azteca linguistic family which includes the tanguas the ahachemens hopi which we just can't we just came from a trip over and also to honor ottom yaki nawabi pilis from uh el salvador and um i am we're here many of us to present something to the board it's a an issue that's uh been up in the air for a while and i think it's time that we break that silence because as a born mexicano mexicano from registered from oaxaca i actually went to south junior high katelyn high school and i am high school and i spoke here when i was 13 years old and i'm really happy i met some good people some good leaders activists to uh to fight for chicano studies mexican american studies which is under native american studies if you really look into it into the history and um we're here to talk about a mascot called anaheim colonists it's very degrading to us native americans with all your respect we have a petition it's about almost going up to 6 000 signatures and we just came back from uh speaking to other tribes and non-tribal members you know that sign of all colors you know and uh we just want to let you guys know that the mascot um does commit suicide to certain students it's actually cultural castration it's a psychological genocide because when you have an image that creates white supremacy a white man with all your respect to mangle brothers with two guns how can that be educational how can we teach violence with someone of any color doesn't matter if it's a black man with guns a white man a red man yellow man we don't promote that and it's time that we change that we heal together and to end this off we just established indigenous peoples in anaheim the anaheim city council voted for indigenous peoples day october 11th october 12th we just had our first indigenous peoples day spiritual walk and a spiritual run uh we were really happy to say that it's the beginning of something big and we're all healing psychologically spiritually physically and i just uh just preparing all of you with all your respect that we will be coming and we are getting the tangos ready and we have the permission that tango gabileno's virginia camillo and adam loya will be coming to these meetings to educate to communicate because that's the key what saved me was my identity my grandpa to teach me oral tradition the language the history that i was not being taught in the schools and i think that's the key to uh prevent from suicide or prevent from being in gangs or drugs or alcohol that is the key in the education we need to change the school curriculum by then i believe our president biden is now pushing for a for a uh indigenous peoples day uh in the in all of the us make it a paid holiday so this is the beginning this is something big and something to think about and i believe i have a minute and something left okay um but thank you so much for for listening there's so much to say um in memory of david de la soya he was a hopi that worked in the city of anaheim probably worked in your homes uh he's got kids that went to catella i actually went to anaheim high school graduate i'm a graduate from the institute of american arts in santa fe new mexico i left lived there for 13 14 years in santa fe new mexico i went to fullerton college santa ana college cyprus and cypress college took speech and um i just wanted to connect with what my grandpa was teaching me the oral tradition and i connected a lot of our words i teach the language the law language david vasquez that passed away came out on oc weekly and we connected a lot of the language so when i see this this percentage the demographics when we have hispanic or latino latino really means italian we're not latin people a hispanic really means somebody from spain and that image that mascot it's a reminder of our trauma and what they did to us raped our ancestors and so there needs to be corrections on this you know and if we talk about american indians native americans our language is the key they cannot break us with the language if you speak now what if you say seattle chicago wisconsin uh tata nana in our language in the mexican chicano culture we use those words and even in the native american reservation so that's the key so this there's a lack of education there's a lot of ignorance but with time it will heal and thank you so much for listening i mean no disrespect and i hope we can heal together and communicate and make this change of the school mascot and the school name colonists thank you thank you [Applause] our next speaker will be david garcia thank you and also to those who have lost their loved ones because of the covert my condolence uh my name is david garcia member of the tonal autumn nation and i'll spell it for you t-o-h-o-n-o that's one that's desert autumn is capital o-o-d-h-a-m part of the nation that means desert people i am from arizona we are the second largest fairly recognized tribe in the united states and so um i'm here in solidarity in behalf of people who are totally against the mascot and the name of the school here and i say that it's because uh as a former tribal leader have traveled and walked the halls of congress and as a member as a delegate for an ngo haven't been to the united nations in 2007 the united nations council passed the international declaration on indigenous people and i would suggest that you look at the articles that that's that was passed because there's articles that speaks to education and so uh and also the nation is a member of the national congress of american indians which represents over 565 tribes who also have past resolution opposing mascots and if those of you who are football players who like to watch nfl you know the washington skins you know changed their name did away with their mascot which is the washington red skins and so the these are things that have been ongoing uh public schools even schools on reservations but it's interesting that when i looked at the the present when i listened to the presentation on the redistricting and if you look at the numbers uh the number speaks for itself when you talk when you look at the communities the representation of the communities and back then when the school of anaheim was given the name and also the mascot the community has changed the numbers have changed so because of that there's no question in my mind that uh you need to do away with because there is no representation based on uh nationality and so when you look at the communities in all the districts because we're talking about education the number speaks for itself i know how difficult it is and i know how sense sensitive it is but it was said earlier that you know the cultural heritage committee under the umbrella of the city council we just celebrated the indigenous peoples day and just giving up another proclamation and so that's a good example that has been happening for several years it's not just within one state it's happening throughout the country and so when we look and when you look at what has been happening there needs to be a serious dialogue there needs to be an understanding there needs to be consultation so that everybody is on the same page so that things will go the way that the system has been broken and you need to repair it and so it has a direct or indirect impact when we come to what's been happening in communities when it comes to native americans or indigenous people or whatever whatever is politically correct and so coming from the city of tucson living in tucson and also on the reservation the city of tucson has also done away with a lot of mascots in the high schools and a good example is the high school it was pueblo warriors high school they did away with damascus they did away with the word warriors and now it's just pueblo high school so i want to i want you to seriously think about that because those are the changes that that needs to take place and those are the discussions that have end that have been going on and will continue to go on so those of you who are decision makers and then listening to your presentation on redirecting because those are the things that are happening so thank you so much thank you okay our next speaker will be raquel good evening salaam alaikum um my name is raquel ramirez i am actually an orange county native i was born and raised in orange county i am also part of the hashema nation that's in san juan capistrano that we have been fighting for to be federally recognized um also a little bit about myself is that uh i served in the army i did eight years uh served one tour in afghanistan so i've become very influential i've i can understand the urban language that's uh one of the languages commonly known in afghanistan i also understand a little bit of french spanish english and anything else in between that is latin one of the main reasons of why i'm here is because i also um the the name the colonist it's um i feel that it's a very derogatory name especially i i actually did a little bit of um researching and back in the 1800s 1898 is i believe is when the school was originally first founded also within that time also was um it was when the colonists came into anaheim and also um the germans were one of the beginning settlers in anaheim also we also tell our children to we also tell we also tell our children that we they are the future they are the future they own and not to rely so much in the past and also um because one of the major things that um the colonists did to the native americans and the indigenous people as um how oh sorry i saw um a few people sorry i'm a little bit nervous bear with me um as far as it was um already stated that the um the colonists came into america and they actually um i'm going blank i'm so sorry i'm so sorry that's okay that's quite all right um but what i was what i was trying to say is that we teach our children to learn from our past to not let history repeat itself and i feel that by having the colon the name colonist and also the mascot is a little bit degrading because what was happening to us before was that we were being raped taken away from homes and being sh and being and telling us to just be quiet because if we actually spoke up i mean many of us know that we would be killed the woman would be raped you know i mean and it's not something that you know that i feel that the kids that our children should be exposed to it's fine to learn about history but not just you know keep it in the forefront you know our our education our schools are there to be able to educate our children you know not to send the i feel that it's sending like a subliminal message a message it's i feel that that it's telling us the native and the indigenous people to just be quiet to not speak up you know i come here you know with you know i thank you thank you for um having this meeting and letting us speak here but i feel that we just need to make a positive change a positive change for our kids a positive change because i mean just like we have um many you know the psychiatrist or i'm sorry not the psychiatrist but the psychology yes i'm sorry the psychologist you know helping the kids um to be able to you know do better in school and become and be okay within themselves but if we have this mascot you know that it still has this derogatory term that's kind of like still you know pushed you know pushed back in the back of our minds like what are we actually really doing to these kids what are we doing to the community in general you know because we want our kids to succeed we want our kids to be successful in every area of our lives but if you have something like this you know that it's just you know defeating the purpose if that makes sense um let's see and i mean i don't i um i think that's all i have thank you so much for your time thank you for letting us speak and have a nice evening thank you [Applause] okay our next speaker is marcela perez good evening well uh a lot has happened throughout this uh pandemic for me to seek out and get in touch with my my lineage and i come from a i've come to find out i've come from a strong lineage of mashika meshika people and for those that don't know that is situated in tenochtitlan mexico city and and i'm also here in support of our tongven relatives in the name change of of of a zim of a symbol that has uh it's just been a a lingering constant reminder of just the genocide of our our ancestors and i mean you could tell me all day long that you know george hansen was the founder of these lands but you know that that is not what our our system uh was founded on uh bartering compromising i mean you know our our native youth right now we they are exposed to social media the news uh you know on right now with uh you know the the the digging of of our you know the indian schools you know and uh honestly it's uh i see it now i mean [Music] i mean you you couldn't compromise you know that paycheck you know i mean because honestly that that's what we are right we're a paycheck to learn your history right you want our native youth to learn your history you know you could at least compromise with the name change does that make sense i mean that you know i don't it just it it's mind-boggling how i mean since uh mr daniel la torre de lira and i want to thank him wherever you are brother for starting this petition so yeah it's just uh it's intriguing to me as if any of you um don't uphold any of your family traditions you know so you know it's uh and also just uh it's it's sad to see that you know it's uh this is almost like a like a pearl panel you know because as it is it's already that we feel enough reserved in the various right that reservation right and it and and you can't compromise with one simple name change on that marquee so i again i would just like to thank uh you know every everything and and and everyone you know that uh has contributed to where we're at tonight good night and our last speaker will be cecilia iglesias good evening board members superintendent and members of the public my name is cecilia iglesias i'm the founder of the parent union i'm an immigrant from el salvador i'm a proud i am very proud to be an american citizen so grateful for the contributions of all cultures that makes america what it is today i am a proud product of the public school system therefore i believe that children should be taught the truth about america not one influenced by politics i know that america may sometimes fall short of its ideals but was founded with principles that value all people and these principles are worth striving for critical race theory will undo decades of progress in the united states instead of fostering unity and equality crt highlights the differences between people and races crt focuses on people's skin color not their character we should be creating unity among students not dividing them critical race theory teaches immigrants and children of color to be victims and white children to feel guilty about their heritage and skin color instead of teaching students that hard work pays off and will set them up for a lifetime of success even when success brings challenges critical race theory teaches students that stu that america will always be out to get them because of their race and skin color we know that the teachers union is driving critical race theory the teachers union embraces critical race theory because it shifts the blame away from them teachers unions have neglected their duties as educators and are now claiming institutional and systemic racism as the reason for their failures we won't overcome the union-created institutional problems by dividing students and teaching them to be victims our current system where only students from wealthy families can leave poor performing public schools for ones where they can receive a quality education now that is racist ultimately what crt does is to weaken american principles of equality and freedom and promote a theory which won't help students at all i humbly ask that you take my comments into consideration when voting on policy and curriculum that negatively affects our students regardless of race please vote on curriculum that will focus more on the fundamentals of learning like english reading writing math and sciences one last thing i also want to ask you that that if you're a member of the national school boards association please cancel your membership with them the national school boards association considers parents who peacefully voice their concerns on curriculum being taught to their children as terrorists i know for a fact you guys don't consider parents as terrorists thank you for the opportunity to address you thank you thank you and thank you to all our speakers now we will move on to our regular items of business item 11.1 is resolution number 2021-22-e-08 great american smoke-out escape the vape day 2021 second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments seeing none this is a roll call vote mrs trejo aye mr o'neill aye mr javar aye mr smith aye and i vote i bad we can't have abdullah's yeah vote on this right 11.2 business services this is the agreement california i.t and education some move a second i have a motion and a second is there any questions or comments seeing none this all in favor aye aye opposed seeing none we motion passes 11.3 agreement informed k-12 some move second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments yes mrs trejo i see eric eric can you give me a quick uh synopsis of this information i like to pride myself and when i read these that i can be informed this just kind of threw me a little bit some of the the i.t language so do you mind in a nutshell these are digital forms so if you think historically we have a paper form that we fill out manually we progress to a computer copy of it like a pdf inform k-12 puts a lot of additional features behind a form like workflow so you submit a form it'll automatically go to the next step the next step it has electronic signature so we can have people sign it that's a legally binding signature and we can potentially move information from the form into some of our other systems like aries okay as simple as that simple i made it more difficult than it was i appreciate it eric thank you okay thank you any other questions comments seeing none all in favor aye aye opposed seeing none moving on emotion passes 11.4 agreement optimism so move second i have a motion and a second any questions or comments seeing none all in favor aye opposed okay motion passes 11.5 use of facilities agreement grand theater banquet and event center action a second i have a motion and a second any questions or comments i'm glad we found a police yeah and it and we got a deal because this was an alumni of anaheim high school huh fantastic okay any questions no we already got that okay all in favor aye opposed motion passes 11.6 revised board policy 71101.01.01 and in parentheses one two three promotion retention second reading second i have a motion in a second any other questions or comments seeing none all in favor aye aye aye opposed motion passes 11.7 expenditure plan report elementary and secondary school emergency relief or sr3 funds so move second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments being none all in favor all right opposed motion passes 11.8 agreement for services technology and software coursera inc so i moved second i have a motion and a second any questions comments seeing none all in favor aye opposed motion passes 11 19 consulting agreement robert morrison i'll move second i have a motion in a second any questions comments seeing none all in favor opposed motion passes 11.2 public hearing board of trustees appointment reappointment a personnel commission meeting let's open the public hearing any any comments public comments seeing none close the public hearing uh may speak on this important may i speak on this i don't know yes you've read closed it now that we've closed the public hearing questions here just wanted to say that mr andresen said that he is grateful for the um the candidacy and he is willing to serve him next term and he couldn't be here tonight because he's having a procedure tomorrow but i wanted to thank the board and is very grateful to be to have been appointed and is willing to serve another term very good thank you for relaying that information okay any other questions or comments all right seeing none moving on to 11.11 this is the revised board policy 6306 substitute teacher salary schedule first and final reading so move second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments my comment is i hope it brings some more subs in you know i'm on the warpath to change some of the requirements so we can get easier more subs in other words i firmly believe and i've started my own campaign trying to contact our legislators and encourage them to uh move to ease the requirements for substitutes right now because we have such a shortage and this is i think a pen you know because of the pandemic and there are a lot of people that are still hesitant to step into a room of 35 students so we are really having problems getting substitutes not just us all the school districts that's why we're kind of competing with each other trying to see who can outdo the other one to get the subs to come but i'm contacting my legislators and asking them to ease the requirement in other words to be a substitute in the state of california you must have your ba degree pass the sea best and past all security screening well there's a lot of college students out there who would love to work a day or two here and there and they're not stupid they could take that sea best pass the security and be a good substitute and i mean we've got professionals who've retired and who were self-employed or whatever and maybe they wouldn't mind working a day or two here but maybe they came up through the ranks and they didn't have an a a ba but they had an aaa they could take the sea bass pass the security screening and then we'd have more people willing to substitute and i think it'd be a great thing for some of our seniors who would love to do that so anyway that's what i'm trying and if anybody wants to help contact your legislators i'm hounding them okay i really think it needs to be done maybe i'm wrong but that's what i'm thinking you know we need and if nothing else if they want to do it temporarily i mean it's just because california has one of the strictest requirements for teaching as far as across the nation i mean i had to go four years to get my ba then a fifth year to get my teaching credentials so it's a five year process and it's really tough for now for some of these candidates who cannot even work when they student teach and i think that's really tough so anyway i got on my soapbox anybody else have a comment or question no ma'am okay so all in favor aye aye opposed okay 11.12 agreement umass global supervised fieldwork so moved okay motion and a second any questions or comments all right seeing none all in favor aye opposed okay and we come to our consent calendar and we will list all the items together unless you wish to pull please pull 12.8 bb and 12.9 okay 12.88 and 12.89 any other items to be pulled move for the balance second i have a motion the second for the balance all in favor aye aye opposed okay item 12.8 0.8 and 12.8.9 how moved second second i can't find it okay okay i have a second i'll and any all in favor aye opposed abstain yes all right okay motion passes okay going to item 13.
let me see if i can find yeah superintendent and staff report no report my goodness okay you forgot someone he has a long report okay uh item oh you know what did i admit abdullah from voting on the clubs no he voted you you omitted but anne marie reminded okay and he voted i didn't say anything i'm just oh boy that was an hour an hour and a half ago i know [Laughter] i had my mind on some other things here i'm not that late oh how could i do that okay i'm gonna have to make a little note here to remind him because i wanted to remind him okay board of trustees report starting with mrs trejo i just want to publicly say abdullah your report was just outstanding uh i don't know you're you're just you're getting more and more grand so you just you could tear it tone it down a little bit because you're out doing yourself it's awesome i really really loved getting the perspective of the students and uh thank you for adding the graduation of the gilbert students that was a really nice touch so thank the ambassador and uh i am so excited hope has an ambassador yes that's great that's so great thank you for all the work you're doing i know now i need to calm down huh all righty um thank you to the wonderful uh zoom world that we're in i was able to attend cambridge academy's um back-to-school night and uh boy the enthusiasm there uh they need to tone it down i'm just kidding they're they're great they had a great opening back to school night and the teachers are just so excited and so are the students it's really wonderful also able to intend the vietnamese parent meeting with our existing distinguished superintendent presiding um lots of great great questions and a lot of really good information given to to that i was able to attend the back to school night um at gilbert and uh i went there about an hour uh before and uh got kind of like a little grand tour i really oh my goodness the the the back area now that is um that has been built out is just oh my goodness i just i i was gushing it was just really beautiful and then to have that backstage area where they set up and just just nice so beautiful and the kids deserve that over there at gilbert so it was a really festive beginning that i saw saw all the artwork displayed and a lot of i think there they had a really great um turnout this parents were coming as i was as i was going um and i know that uh dr laura is doing a fabulous job a lot of camaraderie there um another fun thing that i got to do um besides going to the gasalpa meeting and the rop meeting i was asked to be part of a judging panel for south junior high school a program that they just started it's called engage academy where the honor students in history english and science are combining their talents and they had to do a presentation and it was done in the multi-purpose room it was a great way to get the parents there and and and have the students give their presentations um was a really um interesting the project really was their final their final project was they had to answer um a driving question uh in their presentations um and i want to give the shout out to miss humphrey dr bethancourt and um miss chow they work together collaboratively collaboratively with this but the driving question was what would make a family leave their home and move to another place and this could be from another country or moving to another state really to answer that that question and what they had to do was kind of make up an imaginary family and answer that question and talk about the journey so there were a number of different countries um representatives so the students have really had to do that research um into all the cultures and traditions and um and find out really really how hard those journeys were um and some were across an ocean or you know a desert and it was very fascinating and it was very difficult to judge because the students did tremendous work um and just uh they had i think uh six minutes to do their presentation and there was a group of four students um but the one that really stood out for me was they kind of made it interactive and they asked the they asked the um so the parents were also able to go from table to table to listen to their presentations and so were the judges but this interactive um one was really really cute because uh they had like they made a box cube with their present their visual presentation on it and then um they were they would ask a a question like kind of a yes or a no or either or question and um and it was interactive and what would you do if you uh say you know you you hadn't eaten for three days and you had to you know give all of your money that you had for you know a loaf of bread or something it was really really tough you know to answer some of these questions and i just thought that was really brilliant because it really brought us into their presentation so um bravo to them uh of course we all attended the wonderful dale um reopening ribbon cutting that was just uh fabulous and i'm so happy for um the students and the staff there that were anxiously waiting all of that to be done and it was a great celebration um and to other i can't read my writing sometimes on my cards oh the um auhsd town hall a covet update with dr clayton chow and dr jose mayorga and our own manuel colon who hosted that event i really loved that we were just really open and transparent i was very i was especially intrigued and and grateful for dr clayton ciao for being so honest about really putting the numbers as you had mentioned the depths um and when you said that um in the month of august in orange county um or did you see orange county or anaheim manuel i can't remember but it was two it's too many so 100 deaths orange county and 100 deaths um and that that was preventable uh just it's crushing it's crushing to to to know that that could have been prevented um and those people could have been with us still um but thank you for for hosting putting that on thank you for everyone who contributed to that for bringing um dr clayton chao and jose mayorga and of course al you were there speaking as well and it was a it was a very emotional town hall and i believe you answered all of the questions that our parents had um so thankful for that and our artificial intelligence cyber security town hall uh wow uh anna you told us that you had heard um mr gupta um the prosecutor in cyber security for orange county you said that he scared you yeah he scared me and i took i took away with that the one thing that we could possibly do um you know because i always like in tragedy or or when we're scared about something i always like to find one thing that i can do and he reminded us that really really look at your one email that you use for everything that you use for your banking medical records all these important things that are linked to that one email make sure that is secure make sure that you are changing that password because when that gets hacked um then your life is pretty much you know a mess so um but thank you for having him come and and speak to our families i hope that people really go on our website and look at those presentations i believe they're recorded and you know really take the time to um to really listen to the messages and to the the correct factual information that we are providing uh for our family so thank you very much thank you mr o'neal yes um i attended the orange county school board association budget meeting down at ocde and it seems like it's a never ending moving bullet or target i should say because uh it changes the next day so i'm not going to go into any details but it's interesting to hear i attended the hope and savannah back to school nights along with cambridge virtual academy kennedy and and gilbert so i got around to a few campuses they're all doing very well i like to see the the turnout for the students and the teachers the teachers enthusiasm uh for the engaging almost everybody has been outside their classrooms i think there's only been two schools that have been within the classroom but all campuses have had good turnout uh 10 of the covet town hall the zoom educational and so i thank you for that presentation i hope it was educational to the community the dale ribbon cutting as you said was fantastic they it was a well-deserved upgrade to the campus i'm looking forward to continuing upgrading other campuses so we can go and do some ribbon cutting canada a kennedy homecoming football game that was exciting i was a little surprised on on the uh the queen usually they have a half a dozen corvettes taking the princesses around this they had a a lowered pickup truck that took away the queen after she was crowned uh well that was it that was different maybe nobody wanted to volunteer their corvettes so i said i'll have to buy a few for next year uh okay i won't buy any then um attended sister city meeting and lori dinwiddie who was very very involved even though she's a buena parkian she is extremely involved in anaheim and she is now the the chair of that committee um actually it's a commission not a committee uh the artificial intelligence and cyber security presentation was very interesting and how would you portray the uh the attendance would you portray it as being okay [Music] i don't have a feel for it well you have to understand too it was also virtual which one which one did we attend to in kennedy that was the one at kennedy cyber security and artificial intelligence yeah yeah right 25 people in there right and then it was oh that's right it was virtual wasn't virtual okay i forgot all about the virtuality of that i was at the desert so i had to watch it there okay all right speaking of being deserves or being places i had a very very nice uh week up in new england states the four states touring the fantastic changing of the colors so if you ever get an opportunity in your lifetime and i hit it absolutely i couldn't done any better uh usually it's around the second week of october first second week of october and i hit it right on the button so i was that's neat months of you know waiting and it happened so it was fun a lot of fun great mr javar all right yeah i went to a few back-to-school nights i'm not sure if i mentioned it at the last board meeting but i went to the south back back to school and the savannah and magnolia back to school nights dale junior high the campus again absolutely wonderful and i i want to thank uh is it pinnacle construction right or pinot pinot construction for donating ten thousand dollars to uh the asb of dale junior high i met the gentleman and he said i just wrote a check just because i heard uh chris christie christina mandragon who actually gave a very very eloquent speech so he said just looking at that speech i wanted to open up my wallet and donate ten thousand so i want to congratulate the school on that one um i've been attending some of our anaheim football games it's nice to be back i did attend the homecoming and the bell game unfortunately the bell game we lost so it was uh again to western high school but you know again we'll we'll make it one day uh anaheim will make it one day uh we did the kobe town hall i wanted to thank our coalition of clinic which has been doing a lot of work with anaheim union high school district and they approached me to say hey we want to have a kobe town hall at anaheim union high school district i just couldn't say no to that opportunity i think our community was well deserved by uh answering all those questions from not only dr chow but also dr mayorga so it will be great to have some of these clinics on a regular basis because i did have a lot of parents who have been meeting at anaheim and sycamore who said oh sorry we missed it so maybe we can look at doing another one of those in the near future um did it attend the uh sycamore junior high coffee with the principal we started the uh the coffee at 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the spanish and english so it was a it was a very good coffee with principal and then i also attended the anaheim high school coffee with principal that ended right on time met with some of our sycamore parents regarding some of the concerns that they had i also want to commend bros a bros group which actually uh organized a vaccine clinic on anaheim campus as a result of this ability for them to fundraise as well part of it they had 25 people signed up but end of the day they vaccinated 80 people so that's 80 people not being vaccinated who bros got to get them vaccinated so they're having a the follow-up clinic this saturday but we're also giving first doses on that day so if anybody want to spread the word it's on social media so let's make that happen um same day we had the anaheim high school vapa workshops uh amazing this is like my third or fourth one that i've been to and it's amazing to see industry leaders coming in and actually teaching our kids some of the uh trade secrets so this week i was fascinated i was actually in one of the classrooms which did the the gentleman who does makeup for lion king was actually giving a presentation to the kids that was really nice and then another one i had a recently retired dance teacher from brookhurst autumn brown she she had a cast on her foot and she was there helping out and she was doing the class so that shows how passionate she was about it so it was very nice to see that and uh it was great to see all our ambassadors in there actually the entire crew was there helping out with the day's activities so thank you very much for being there i i grabbed a picture with all of you guys i should post that somehow yeah and then yes we attended the rop board meeting yesterday and marie and i it was great to see their presentation on all of the different classes that they're doing in different schools school districts but anaheim was a fascinating uh for me at least to kind of sit there and go like wow we have all that in our schools right so i think i know you did mention we need probably ask them i told them that they need to take that on a road tour but i ann marie wanted to bring them here too in terms of taking on a road tour with our parents because they need to know what type of uh programs we have finally i just wanted to say i want to congratulate speed castillo one of our former employees who is actually inducted into the hall of fame and we want to make sure if there is a possibility to i know he's failing in health too so but if we can actually recognize him for that at one of the board meetings uh sooner rather than later to actually congratulate him on that uh hall of fame inducted that'll be great that ends my report thank you all right all righty i am so delighted to say that the reopening and ribbon coveting at dale junior high was wonderful and i can't help but just say that patty neely and the people that her team of people that created all that wonderful positive change plus wonderful landscape were a delight and i was given a tour by nicole gemini anno who is the asb vice president and she walked me around on the campus and expressed her delight of what she's experiencing and her older sister graduated from there and she has a younger sister coming up behind her so i think that has brought a lot of joy in that neighborhood and i uh attended virtually the discipline committee and then yesterday the insurance committee and um a couple of things i wanted to suggest i spent 14 years on the rop board and it was a delight because many people don't understand in the community the community what rop does and over the years they will develop programs that will be directive to what the needs are in a community and the economy and i want to suggest to two board members who now serve on the rop board that i saw a piece on television where there is a school that they are teaching 15 and 16 year old boys and girls how to drive trucks and it it was so instructional for me because i've never taken the class but i know many more women are driving and because of what the reality is here societally in our country with these ports and the needs for trucks and drivers is it's a a given and so for rop today to maybe entertain starting a driving school for our youngsters who might want to become truck drivers i think it would be an opportunity and then on 60 minutes last sunday i don't even know how to describe this but it was mind jolting it was on a i and there are two young men in europe who have developed ai programs where they could develop any of us or any person famous or a politician and reproduce them as an actor speaking something and i it was jolting to me because of the potential that this has for the future for your generation and it's a wake up for people to become knowledgeable about this i was grateful that 60 minutes did do that so um i just want to thank the team i think when you heard our as um asta president grant shuster speak nobody walks in the shoes of another person but these teachers having to go to virtual teaching never been instructed in college they have to get them up to doing that and now they're back with children many of them are unable to adjudicate their world their real world and i just would say that i would hope that the community would be patient with the schools and we're doing the best we can given the problems that we have been dealt and that's the end of my report thank you okay i attended a few different meetings the opening of schools task force and the student discipline committee and i love being able to listen to some of what the teachers have to say and some of the issues that they bring up it's it's really it's really interesting and i attended a number of back to school nights savannah and magnolia walker anaheim and i also attended the ai in cyber security uh town hall but it was while i was sitting at the river but i didn't want to miss it so since i wasn't able to go in person i you know tuned in i brought my laptop with me and i it was very interesting um irene okay is it the the gentleman mate uh what was his name anyway yeah he spoke once before at magnolia oh yeah and i thought he did a phenomenal job then and he did another really good job on this it was really interesting he did a phenomenal job and of course i attended the dale ribbon cutting that was really a lot of fun and it's a beautiful campus it's just what has happened to that campus is phenomenal it is just really state of the art and let's just hope we can do some more like that i also attended the virtual breakfast with sharon kirk silva and the secretary of secretary of state dr shirley weber that was a very interesting hour and very informative uh dr weber really was very interesting i really enjoyed listening to her and and how she's kind of come up through the the levels and whatever and it's interesting um i also attended the cypher state of the city and um that was held at first for the first time it was held outside on the green the civic center green and i have to say this cypress high schools culinary arts was there serving hors d'oeuvres fellaini it was right there and it was really good but it was a really good state of the city now they didn't highlight anaheim a lot but they did mention that we had started and gone back to school so because i chided the mayor about oh you guys are mad at us he didn't say much so but he said but i did he had to show me this speech to show me that they mentioned us so at least it was better than buena park okay unfortunately i missed the insurance committee meeting in my calendar i got to get to my get my calendar straightened out i think i'm going to start using a written copy uh my phone is doing something funny okay um i also attended a can kennedy's show choir show on that one friday night i decided i had time so i went over even though i didn't have a ticket and then but uh she got me a ticket but it was delightful and that was when we had that little earthquake in the middle of that show and everybody just kind of sat there and waited there's gonna be more but then nothing else happens and then they continued on so and our pd day this la this monday that was interesting i decided to visit a couple of sites and i went to cypress we had a really big turnout of cte uh people i there had to be over 50.
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But these candidates are up here and they've taken of their time and they are um they deserve your respect and and that you know if you want to be negative I I think you know there's a time and a place for it. Not necessarily sure if this is the place. Um okay housekeeping items. Silence your phones for me. Any recording again of tonight's event must be approved by the league and academy district 20. Questions for the candidates? get them up to those students for me and they will collect them and then the question sorters the league members will be able to avoid duplication with that restrooms are located directly out the doors immediately to your right look for those restroom signs all right anybody good everybody good we're going to do a little bit different this time I mentioned to the candidates so if everyone's ready we're going to get started we're going to begin with candidate opening state I'm sorry we're going to begin by naming all of the candidates in alphabetical order, right?
You guys remember last time, right? And then hear from each individually with their opening statements. So, starting in alphabetical order, I'm just going to call your name and then we'll get you um opening statements. Mr. Jason Silva, we're going to start with you. So, Miss Tiana Clark, Mr. Brian Cororum, Mr. Nathan Johnson, Miss Nicole KS, Mr. Thomas Lavali, Miss Jackie Leesh, Miss Lindseay Moore, Mr. Michael Riffle, Mr. Aaron Salt, and Mr. Jason Silva. And again, we're going to work backwards on your opening statements. So, Mr. Silva, you will kick things off with your two-minute introduction. And I'm sorry before you start, I forgot my awesome person who's my helper this evening. She is your timekeeper in that front row. You everybody see her? When that red sign comes up, it is not an immediate stop at that very end. That stop sign. That is your my southern hospitality coming out in me and giving you 10 seconds to wrap up your thoughts.
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It's not an immediate stop. You don't have to shut your mouth, but you know, it's it's a 10-second grace period. So, thank you, Miss Christine, for being our timekeeper this evening. And I'm sorry, Mr. Jason Silva. Thank you everybody. Thanks for everyone for being here. Um I'll start out by saying a little bit about myself for those who have not heard. Uh my name is Jason Silva. Um I am a former Marine served in OF1 in the infantry. After that I served uh my community city of Richmond, California where I served as a police officer for a little over 10 years. I moved to Colorado Springs by uh in 2017. I was done with law enforcement and decided to move my family uh to the next mountain range over since I grew up in the Sierra Neadas. I wanted to see what the Colorado Rockies were about and I chose Colorado Springs.
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let me see if i can find yeah superintendent and staff report no report my goodness okay you forgot someone he has a long report okay uh item oh you know what did i admit abdullah from voting on the clubs no he voted you you omitted but anne marie reminded okay and he voted i didn't say anything i'm just oh boy that was an hour an hour and a half ago i know [Laughter] i had my mind on some other things here i'm not that late oh how could i do that okay i'm gonna have to make a little note here to remind him because i wanted to remind him okay board of trustees report starting with mrs trejo i just want to publicly say abdullah your report was just outstanding uh i don't know you're you're just you're getting more and more grand so you just you could tear it tone it down a little bit because you're out doing yourself it's awesome i really really loved getting the perspective of the students and uh thank you for adding the graduation of the gilbert students that was a really nice touch so thank the ambassador and uh i am so excited hope has an ambassador yes that's great that's so great thank you for all the work you're doing i know now i need to calm down huh all righty um thank you to the wonderful uh zoom world that we're in i was able to attend cambridge academy's um back-to-school night and uh boy the enthusiasm there uh they need to tone it down i'm just kidding they're they're great they had a great opening back to school night and the teachers are just so excited and so are the students it's really wonderful also able to intend the vietnamese parent meeting with our existing distinguished superintendent presiding um lots of great great questions and a lot of really good information given to to that i was able to attend the back to school night um at gilbert and uh i went there about an hour uh before and uh got kind of like a little grand tour i really oh my goodness the the the back area now that is um that has been built out is just oh my goodness i just i i was gushing it was just really beautiful and then to have that backstage area where they set up and just just nice so beautiful and the kids deserve that over there at gilbert so it was a really festive beginning that i saw saw all the artwork displayed and a lot of i think there they had a really great um turnout this parents were coming as i was as i was going um and i know that uh dr laura is doing a fabulous job a lot of camaraderie there um another fun thing that i got to do um besides going to the gasalpa meeting and the rop meeting i was asked to be part of a judging panel for south junior high school a program that they just started it's called engage academy where the honor students in history english and science are combining their talents and they had to do a presentation and it was done in the multi-purpose room it was a great way to get the parents there and and and have the students give their presentations um was a really um interesting the project really was their final their final project was they had to answer um a driving question uh in their presentations um and i want to give the shout out to miss humphrey dr bethancourt and um miss chow they work together collaboratively collaboratively with this but the driving question was what would make a family leave their home and move to another place and this could be from another country or moving to another state really to answer that that question and what they had to do was kind of make up an imaginary family and answer that question and talk about the journey so there were a number of different countries um representatives so the students have really had to do that research um into all the cultures and traditions and um and find out really really how hard those journeys were um and some were across an ocean or you know a desert and it was very fascinating and it was very difficult to judge because the students did tremendous work um and just uh they had i think uh six minutes to do their presentation and there was a group of four students um but the one that really stood out for me was they kind of made it interactive and they asked the they asked the um so the parents were also able to go from table to table to listen to their presentations and so were the judges but this interactive um one was really really cute because uh they had like they made a box cube with their present their visual presentation on it and then um they were they would ask a a question like kind of a yes or a no or either or question and um and it was interactive and what would you do if you uh say you know you you hadn't eaten for three days and you had to you know give all of your money that you had for you know a loaf of bread or something it was really really tough you know to answer some of these questions and i just thought that was really brilliant because it really brought us into their presentation so um bravo to them uh of course we all attended the wonderful dale um reopening ribbon cutting that was just uh fabulous and i'm so happy for um the students and the staff there that were anxiously waiting all of that to be done and it was a great celebration um and to other i can't read my writing sometimes on my cards oh the um auhsd town hall a covet update with dr clayton chow and dr jose mayorga and our own manuel colon who hosted that event i really loved that we were just really open and transparent i was very i was especially intrigued and and grateful for dr clayton ciao for being so honest about really putting the numbers as you had mentioned the depths um and when you said that um in the month of august in orange county um or did you see orange county or anaheim manuel i can't remember but it was two it's too many so 100 deaths orange county and 100 deaths um and that that was preventable uh just it's crushing it's crushing to to to know that that could have been prevented um and those people could have been with us still um but thank you for for hosting putting that on thank you for everyone who contributed to that for bringing um dr clayton chao and jose mayorga and of course al you were there speaking as well and it was a it was a very emotional town hall and i believe you answered all of the questions that our parents had um so thankful for that and our artificial intelligence cyber security town hall uh wow uh anna you told us that you had heard um mr gupta um the prosecutor in cyber security for orange county you said that he scared you yeah he scared me and i took i took away with that the one thing that we could possibly do um you know because i always like in tragedy or or when we're scared about something i always like to find one thing that i can do and he reminded us that really really look at your one email that you use for everything that you use for your banking medical records all these important things that are linked to that one email make sure that is secure make sure that you are changing that password because when that gets hacked um then your life is pretty much you know a mess so um but thank you for having him come and and speak to our families i hope that people really go on our website and look at those presentations i believe they're recorded and you know really take the time to um to really listen to the messages and to the the correct factual information that we are providing uh for our family so thank you very much thank you mr o'neal yes um i attended the orange county school board association budget meeting down at ocde and it seems like it's a never ending moving bullet or target i should say because uh it changes the next day so i'm not going to go into any details but it's interesting to hear i attended the hope and savannah back to school nights along with cambridge virtual academy kennedy and and gilbert so i got around to a few campuses they're all doing very well i like to see the the turnout for the students and the teachers the teachers enthusiasm uh for the engaging almost everybody has been outside their classrooms i think there's only been two schools that have been within the classroom but all campuses have had good turnout uh 10 of the covet town hall the zoom educational and so i thank you for that presentation i hope it was educational to the community the dale ribbon cutting as you said was fantastic they it was a well-deserved upgrade to the campus i'm looking forward to continuing upgrading other campuses so we can go and do some ribbon cutting canada a kennedy homecoming football game that was exciting i was a little surprised on on the uh the queen usually they have a half a dozen corvettes taking the princesses around this they had a a lowered pickup truck that took away the queen after she was crowned uh well that was it that was different maybe nobody wanted to volunteer their corvettes so i said i'll have to buy a few for next year uh okay i won't buy any then um attended sister city meeting and lori dinwiddie who was very very involved even though she's a buena parkian she is extremely involved in anaheim and she is now the the chair of that committee um actually it's a commission not a committee uh the artificial intelligence and cyber security presentation was very interesting and how would you portray the uh the attendance would you portray it as being okay [Music] i don't have a feel for it well you have to understand too it was also virtual which one which one did we attend to in kennedy that was the one at kennedy cyber security and artificial intelligence yeah yeah right 25 people in there right and then it was oh that's right it was virtual wasn't virtual okay i forgot all about the virtuality of that i was at the desert so i had to watch it there okay all right speaking of being deserves or being places i had a very very nice uh week up in new england states the four states touring the fantastic changing of the colors so if you ever get an opportunity in your lifetime and i hit it absolutely i couldn't done any better uh usually it's around the second week of october first second week of october and i hit it right on the button so i was that's neat months of you know waiting and it happened so it was fun a lot of fun great mr javar all right yeah i went to a few back-to-school nights i'm not sure if i mentioned it at the last board meeting but i went to the south back back to school and the savannah and magnolia back to school nights dale junior high the campus again absolutely wonderful and i i want to thank uh is it pinnacle construction right or pinot pinot construction for donating ten thousand dollars to uh the asb of dale junior high i met the gentleman and he said i just wrote a check just because i heard uh chris christie christina mandragon who actually gave a very very eloquent speech so he said just looking at that speech i wanted to open up my wallet and donate ten thousand so i want to congratulate the school on that one um i've been attending some of our anaheim football games it's nice to be back i did attend the homecoming and the bell game unfortunately the bell game we lost so it was uh again to western high school but you know again we'll we'll make it one day uh anaheim will make it one day uh we did the kobe town hall i wanted to thank our coalition of clinic which has been doing a lot of work with anaheim union high school district and they approached me to say hey we want to have a kobe town hall at anaheim union high school district i just couldn't say no to that opportunity i think our community was well deserved by uh answering all those questions from not only dr chow but also dr mayorga so it will be great to have some of these clinics on a regular basis because i did have a lot of parents who have been meeting at anaheim and sycamore who said oh sorry we missed it so maybe we can look at doing another one of those in the near future um did it attend the uh sycamore junior high coffee with the principal we started the uh the coffee at eight o'clock and it went on till 11 30.
the spanish and english so it was a it was a very good coffee with principal and then i also attended the anaheim high school coffee with principal that ended right on time met with some of our sycamore parents regarding some of the concerns that they had i also want to commend bros a bros group which actually uh organized a vaccine clinic on anaheim campus as a result of this ability for them to fundraise as well part of it they had 25 people signed up but end of the day they vaccinated 80 people so that's 80 people not being vaccinated who bros got to get them vaccinated so they're having a the follow-up clinic this saturday but we're also giving first doses on that day so if anybody want to spread the word it's on social media so let's make that happen um same day we had the anaheim high school vapa workshops uh amazing this is like my third or fourth one that i've been to and it's amazing to see industry leaders coming in and actually teaching our kids some of the uh trade secrets so this week i was fascinated i was actually in one of the classrooms which did the the gentleman who does makeup for lion king was actually giving a presentation to the kids that was really nice and then another one i had a recently retired dance teacher from brookhurst autumn brown she she had a cast on her foot and she was there helping out and she was doing the class so that shows how passionate she was about it so it was very nice to see that and uh it was great to see all our ambassadors in there actually the entire crew was there helping out with the day's activities so thank you very much for being there i i grabbed a picture with all of you guys i should post that somehow yeah and then yes we attended the rop board meeting yesterday and marie and i it was great to see their presentation on all of the different classes that they're doing in different schools school districts but anaheim was a fascinating uh for me at least to kind of sit there and go like wow we have all that in our schools right so i think i know you did mention we need probably ask them i told them that they need to take that on a road tour but i ann marie wanted to bring them here too in terms of taking on a road tour with our parents because they need to know what type of uh programs we have finally i just wanted to say i want to congratulate speed castillo one of our former employees who is actually inducted into the hall of fame and we want to make sure if there is a possibility to i know he's failing in health too so but if we can actually recognize him for that at one of the board meetings uh sooner rather than later to actually congratulate him on that uh hall of fame inducted that'll be great that ends my report thank you all right all righty i am so delighted to say that the reopening and ribbon coveting at dale junior high was wonderful and i can't help but just say that patty neely and the people that her team of people that created all that wonderful positive change plus wonderful landscape were a delight and i was given a tour by nicole gemini anno who is the asb vice president and she walked me around on the campus and expressed her delight of what she's experiencing and her older sister graduated from there and she has a younger sister coming up behind her so i think that has brought a lot of joy in that neighborhood and i uh attended virtually the discipline committee and then yesterday the insurance committee and um a couple of things i wanted to suggest i spent 14 years on the rop board and it was a delight because many people don't understand in the community the community what rop does and over the years they will develop programs that will be directive to what the needs are in a community and the economy and i want to suggest to two board members who now serve on the rop board that i saw a piece on television where there is a school that they are teaching 15 and 16 year old boys and girls how to drive trucks and it it was so instructional for me because i've never taken the class but i know many more women are driving and because of what the reality is here societally in our country with these ports and the needs for trucks and drivers is it's a a given and so for rop today to maybe entertain starting a driving school for our youngsters who might want to become truck drivers i think it would be an opportunity and then on 60 minutes last sunday i don't even know how to describe this but it was mind jolting it was on a i and there are two young men in europe who have developed ai programs where they could develop any of us or any person famous or a politician and reproduce them as an actor speaking something and i it was jolting to me because of the potential that this has for the future for your generation and it's a wake up for people to become knowledgeable about this i was grateful that 60 minutes did do that so um i just want to thank the team i think when you heard our as um asta president grant shuster speak nobody walks in the shoes of another person but these teachers having to go to virtual teaching never been instructed in college they have to get them up to doing that and now they're back with children many of them are unable to adjudicate their world their real world and i just would say that i would hope that the community would be patient with the schools and we're doing the best we can given the problems that we have been dealt and that's the end of my report thank you okay i attended a few different meetings the opening of schools task force and the student discipline committee and i love being able to listen to some of what the teachers have to say and some of the issues that they bring up it's it's really it's really interesting and i attended a number of back to school nights savannah and magnolia walker anaheim and i also attended the ai in cyber security uh town hall but it was while i was sitting at the river but i didn't want to miss it so since i wasn't able to go in person i you know tuned in i brought my laptop with me and i it was very interesting um irene okay is it the the gentleman mate uh what was his name anyway yeah he spoke once before at magnolia oh yeah and i thought he did a phenomenal job then and he did another really good job on this it was really interesting he did a phenomenal job and of course i attended the dale ribbon cutting that was really a lot of fun and it's a beautiful campus it's just what has happened to that campus is phenomenal it is just really state of the art and let's just hope we can do some more like that i also attended the virtual breakfast with sharon kirk silva and the secretary of secretary of state dr shirley weber that was a very interesting hour and very informative uh dr weber really was very interesting i really enjoyed listening to her and and how she's kind of come up through the the levels and whatever and it's interesting um i also attended the cypher state of the city and um that was held at first for the first time it was held outside on the green the civic center green and i have to say this cypress high schools culinary arts was there serving hors d'oeuvres fellaini it was right there and it was really good but it was a really good state of the city now they didn't highlight anaheim a lot but they did mention that we had started and gone back to school so because i chided the mayor about oh you guys are mad at us he didn't say much so but he said but i did he had to show me this speech to show me that they mentioned us so at least it was better than buena park okay unfortunately i missed the insurance committee meeting in my calendar i got to get to my get my calendar straightened out i think i'm going to start using a written copy uh my phone is doing something funny okay um i also attended a can kennedy's show choir show on that one friday night i decided i had time so i went over even though i didn't have a ticket and then but uh she got me a ticket but it was delightful and that was when we had that little earthquake in the middle of that show and everybody just kind of sat there and waited there's gonna be more but then nothing else happens and then they continued on so and our pd day this la this monday that was interesting i decided to visit a couple of sites and i went to cypress we had a really big turnout of cte uh people i there had to be over 50.
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it was very well done and they they were getting a lot done and then i also visited uh oxford's vapa program to see what was going on there and say hello to some people and i want to say also i am so proud to see the ambassadors all over the district at all of our activities they're there they're working they were at the open houses the back to schools and you know and it's just makes me proud you know they are a really good group and we have an exceptional young man he's very well prepared and very well speaking and it's just i know he'll remind me about voting next time okay i don't want to slide you okay and i think that was about it as much as i could get from my calendar right now madam president yes i uh just want to say on behalf of the board that we congratulate uh karen orr and patty neely [Applause] and i know uh we all want to wish um articelli chavez the the best um in in her future and we hope that she'll come back in a year we've given her a year or so um okay so we we wish her the best we love her we're gonna have a very difficult time replacing her and we wish her the best all right thank you anna one thing i did forget to say um mike matsuda our superintendent joined dr janice billings and myself at oxford academy and the purpose was to meet with the faculty and to explain to younger faculty members how the school started and how it was imp the pro process was implemented and i thought it was very informational for people that teach there and dr billings was saying the difficulties of getting the school started and so forth and to convince the community that it would be a worthwhile project and i mentioned uh property values too because they went up so i want to thank all of you at the oxford academy no i mean would that uh when was that i mean dan billings was there yeah about two weeks ago a couple weeks ago during the day the morning oh okay we missed her you kept her from us that's right also also happy administrators day to everybody we've received in recognition of happy administrators today i think that's a good idea i wasn't sure that's what you said okay all right we will close the meeting in honor of our administrators and administrator day at 8 44.