i got a phone call and a text from the county superintendent and no superintendent wants to get a call at 3 15 on a friday from the county superintendent uh you know i called him and said how can i help you he says i'm doing a survey and i want to know what's going on right now and i told him uh colin uh has secured as of now on friday that overlapped will be coming to our building and he said no way there is not one school in monmouth county that got more relaxed not one nobody sets me on front i said well doctor it could change colin has another meeting on tuesday and the dolly said great everything is still a little changes and then you meet me teachers on thursdays the rules change on friday so colin has his meeting on tuesday comes in my office he says you're not going to believe it we are the only school that will be tested by broker this friday not only kidding me and really uh colin and karen really stayed on top of it because this was something that we thought we should have when we were told you know we're going to tell teachers and some districts just told you you're on your own go get it on your own and so i don't know before the test lab as i said the column but broker will be here on friday at 12 30.
no it's katie ritzer ritzer my bad [Music] ritzer playing good [Music] defense it's gonna be out of bounds it'll be a free hit for diaz [Music] yeah she used to think oh no denim not making it easy to get that up is it just me or does ava federico's goggles don't look like they're on oh no no that's a headband dead i'm forming some kind of wall to block those free shots yep centers it up oh nice deflection there yeah oh she lost her stick oh almost true tumbled pretty good there hopefully she says she's okay she's a little banged up but she's a tough one nice block there i'm sorry wow big save corner i don't think you're allowed to cover like the ball like in um yeah hockey i think you gotta like clear up and tie it up well under 30 seconds left in the first quarter remember game cannot end on a corner so down could what just wait wait it out but that'd be kind of pointless start trying to get there ben clears it mayor trying to get behind there no that's gonna be another corner it's kind of funny to me sebastian how they call it hockey when it appears to be just a completely different game you know not even close that'd be like street hockey would be more like ice hockey yep quarter will end when ds touches i a believe flip oh that's our goal no goal no goal no he's waving it off yeah what do you say no goal someone from dedham jumped early oh good break there for the raiders and it looks like there's a timeout so tell them what the score is at the end of the quarter well scores one nothing almost could have been two but diaz gets a lucky break there yes exactly so we'll be here for second quarter action in a bit and welcome back everyone to second quarter action of today's game between your dover turbine raiders and the denim marauders dead i'm up one nothing right now diaz still entirely in this game absolutely [Music] denim's goalie did make a couple very nice saves already and root has been playing outstanding outstanding um but now she's on the sideline and they're rolling with the other goalie yep caroline harvey yeah who's absolutely no slouch either she's a very good goalie as well that hit off the foot of mayor that's gonna move the ball back a bit let's move around there gonna be okay hit for denim at the 25.
mrs brooks suggested the possibility of seeking donations or sponsorships to make up for the additional funding possibly needed for the high school boys locker room project or possibly seeking a full private donation for maybe like a new field house stadium seating or concessions those are good um suggestions we also had can i just say the special meeting yeah okay we also had a special meeting on monday probably the quickest meeting ever three minutes um we just had to vote on um the estimate for replacing the floor in the wisconnier cafeteria mr post met with mr dunn and miss marion and they recommend submitting the capital plan with you'll notice later in the agenda it's to be determined cost for that item we do have an estimate at this time which we'll share later it's going to be part when the estimates receive the town wide capital committee will determine if the project will be brought forward and then we made a motion to approve the plan and bring it to you today so that's it um i just have a question on the building condition study when we did the one with tekton five years ago a lot of things were already at or past their useful life is there is it easier or cheaper to just update that study looking at the things that maybe were still good five years ago but maybe are now at or past their useful life so part of the i and ken if you want to come up because you actually were able to get to that meeting last week one of the things that we're talking about is going even deeper than what we did uh for whiskenier and the high school um but ken and dan were at the meeting with techno i think it was just last friday afternoon so ken maybe shed a little light on rosie's question it was last friday afternoon and what we've asked them to do is to really get in a little deeper and and you know they went around and they looked at how old the boilers were and how old this was and that was we're asking them to to uh commission a study where people will actually get in there and do a little more kicking the tires things like that seeing what kind of condition things really are in for their age and you know whether we need to accelerate things or or modify things or if we can wait longer on things so just get a little a little more deeper especially in the mechanical systems of the buildings and to your point things are five years older yeah yeah yeah so i i expect anything that was past its useful life five years ago is even in worse shape now yeah yes i would agree okay any other questions for joy okay uh finance all right so we met on october 11th it wasn't the shortest meeting ever that's the first time we've had a two page minutes in a while the important news for us as a board is we had our first projection for the current year budget spending and we're actually running ahead of budget by about 151 thousand dollars uh the reason for that is that we got an unexpected e-rate immersement of 122 000 um and it was not something we were expecting so that is now a benefit to the district and uh we're going to just leave it there and monitor it as the as the year goes on so the whole situation the uh there are the other important news is remember we always put an assumption in our budget for how much turnover we're going to get and mr posted reported that we actually have come in on or better than that budget on turnover savings so that's actually one of the risks we always have in our budget the other big risk in our budget is special ed costs and he reported that we're continuing on track on special ed especially outplacement tuitions so there's a lot of other smaller items we talked about um uh you know with some substitutes and professional services and uh the like but the net they were all relatively small so um the net of it is 151 thousand dollars better than budget as we stand right now so now we'll continue to monitor fifty one thousand at the beginning of the year is not a it's not a uh something to write home about and it's not something but it's at least in the right side right we've had years where it was the other way so um we uh we talked about the arp esser um grant we're gonna what's on the agenda for later so i'm not gonna talk about that here we also talked about the busing rfp i remember last month i had reported that we were looking into extending it for a year the problem we're running into is that the bus fleet is old and the bus company really does need to go to a a full new uh contract bid in order to actually update the buses right because they're they're exceeding their useful life as well because we've already extended it one or two years two yeah so um so we agreed that we're going to proceed down the path of doing an rfp process so that was that's a change from what we talked about last month we've had some discussions about student activity fund and in particular around how tickets are being paid for because athletic tickets have been an ongoing issue over the years of do where does the money go who's handling and the like and the good news is that we're implementing under mr baldwin's leadership a online ticket service which will take the cash handling out of anybody's hands so that is good and we also confirmed that it is going into the general fund it is not going through the student activity fund and it is not going in anybody's hands but school employees so that was an important that was a question that had come up to us so we've responded to that so um we talked a little bit about some we got an update on the facilities things that joy you just briefed us on so that was just an update um including uh the the high school and the center school roof um we are um we do have an after the after school grant does need to come for our formal approval so that's on the agenda today um the we we approved and the the thoughts of contract tracing investment and and then we talked i think we talked about the last meeting about the enrollment study so um that's that's old move that's kind of the new news on the on the finance committee so it was an hour and five minutes so not three minutes but i went a three minute uh finance committee one day about i had a question on the uh the tickets so is that online service was that covered by the sound well now it's on is that what's the cost of that online service dollar fee per ticket dollar okay which is paid for by the purchaser so and ken you told us it was actually the take-up on doing online ordering was actually pretty good that is the way we started the implementation it's been uh relative it's not a hundred percent yet but it's starting to really um it's been positively received yeah i was going to bring the actual data to the next finance committee meeting but i know as at least the first two football games uh the first game i think was around 50 or maybe a little less than that and the second game was a higher percentage of the online so be curious to see how that continues to trend well that's perfect actually good controls for us i mean the the ticket thing is it's not a lot of money for the district it does cover you know some things for us but um the controls around cash handling it's very valuable to have an online tool like that all right any other questions yes thank you equity and inclusion so the committee met last thursday it was also not the shortest meeting ever we hadn't met since last spring so we had a lot of catching up to do we opened up with a welcome back kind of icebreaker activity that's called what's in a name and everyone shared um something about their first or last name something that was unique or that they liked or disliked so that was really interesting and enlightening uh then dr brill shared with the group that when he and mrs holly met back in june that they decided that she would step in as the administrative lead for the committee due to dr brill having so many time constraints and other demands it was becoming difficult for him to put the time in necessary for the committee so we thank him and mrs holly for stepping up to help lead this committee we did a quick check-in on meeting time we were having a lot of issues with people not showing up to meetings last spring and it's a large committee with important work to do so we sort of set you know this is our set time it's an hour and we sort of set a rule like three missed meetings and it's time to re-evaluate your membership then mrs holly presented the presentation that she shared at the board retreat in july that covers where we've been where we're going how she and dr burle took a lot of effort in examining the equity and inclusion process that's already going on in other districts and states to help guide our work going forward we have a proposed timeline that begins with an equity audit so beginning with our next meeting and into early 2022 is a coordination of data where we're going to divide into four focus groups to gather information those groups and groups include teacher quality programmatic equity achievement equity and stakeholder equity so before our next meeting the members are going to choose a focus group and in november we're going to have one of our high school teachers he's going to be consulting with us mr andrew hill who's going to provide some lessons on data collection and analysis from what i hear he's quite a whiz with statistics and then next winter into early spring we'll present the subgroups we'll present the um findings from each focus group to the full committee and then we'll eventually come to the full board then after the slideshow we had some discussion and feedback from the committee so everyone has kind of has a lot to process going forward and thinking about what they'd like to pursue and then before we adjourn we took a quick vote and we added an ad hoc member we voted unanimously for ms jackie whiting who is the technology integration specialist new to the district so she will be an ad hoc member and will also provide tech support to the committee and that's it many questions thank you any questions all right um okay so that's it for subcommittee reports um next is the consent agenda i'll move that the board approve the items on the consent agenda which are new hires resignations and the september financials second all in favor on to new business first item is overnight field trips for a field trip i will move that the board approve an overnight trip to killington vermont for the bhs outdoors club from friday march 11 2022 to sunday march 13 2022 as requested by club advisor chris buckley and principal mark bellanda come on up chris um so second real quick oh i apologize that's okay i'll second thanks thank you joy um first of all introducing uh mr buckley our uh teacher of the year for brookfield uh school district so we're really proud of him thank you for being up here chris and all the extra work you do outside of the classroom for the district the other part about that is overnight trips by policy must be approved by the board and as you as you all will recall we have gotten to a point where our what we know is overnight trips uh in when fell swoop we now uh have a system where once a year we we approve those and bring them to you for consideration for approval this is a new club and chris is going to do a brief overview and you've all had a chance to read the trip it's a very detailed plan i really appreciate the work that went into it but chris i'll say no more and turn it over to you sure thanks for considering the trip uh you have a copy of it uh the trip is in march it is at the end of what we do for generally winter activities um the trip goes to killington vermont um the kids would leave friday after school be back on sunday kids need to know how to ski this is not a trip for kids who aren't aware of how to ski we do other opportunities for kids to learn this is a trip for kids who kind of know what they're doing it's a great opportunity for kids to spend some time with each other um it's a unique opportunity killington's a great mountain um we keep them busy you'll notice there's something to do on saturday night high school kids in hotels that are not exhausted are not a good thing so we keep them busy we take them to a rock climbing facility keep them there for a couple of hours get them tired bring them back they pass out get up in the morning take them skiing put them on the bus and pass out so it's a pretty good experience the trip is facilitated through a ski company called ski 93 trips i've been working with them since 2006 they're a very thorough and very well organized organization and they do a fantastic job they typically send a travel agent with us who facilitates the hotel experience the tickets keeps us on task the bus company is datco which is also a very good reliable bus company that we've worked with before the trip costs you can see up there are all inclusive i typically ask for a little bit of cash from them that we keep in envelopes give it to the kids that way they don't overspend all at one time and you have some kids starving on saturday afternoon because they spent 40 bucks at mcdonald's on friday night which would happen um so yeah the the the trip understanding that it is a experience during covid i did add that kids get a kova test prior to leaving the kids would be spending time in a hotel room together and i think it's a good idea for us to know with that said kids are masked when they're in side places when they're on ski lifts they're supposed to be masked for the regulations of the mountain but most of them wear gators anyway when they're in lodges when they're in hotel rooms when they're in the gym when they're outside far apart from each other and skiing on the mountain you know that's kind of their prerogative they're outside um the trip is a great opportunity for kids to show their responsibility to be kind of spending time with each other and to show kind of what they can do and represent brookfield high school and our community so it's a good trip i've done it many many years i've taken kids away on overnights since 2006.
once that would be fda approved for students in that age span than within the following semester uh the the mandate would go into effect uh that would be they're saying it's likely around july 1 if the fda approves things as far as a timeline for for our tk6 students i don't think there is any timeline that anyone's willing to share quite yet but that i've heard um the governor also stated with his proclamation that we would also staff would fall into that right now we're under a mandate for staff to either be vaccinated or tested weekly this proclamation would roll students students and staff into the same that all would be vaccinated and then the other interesting piece is since this is a regulation by the governor there are some exemptions for medical and also for personal belief if the legislature takes action uh then possibly they could remove some of the the uh personal beliefs there's there always seems to be a medical exception for the vaccines that we have required currently there is a medical exemption that could be filed for for a family through the doctor so that's what we know today the one thing also we know is the sacramento county public health is not going to accelerate the timeline uh for that some other districts statewide have accelerated their timeline and at this point of conversations with our staff we would not recommend that the board consider accelerating the timeline because there's so many variables within that that we would rather see a wait and see with it through the mandate yeah and just important to note that that's full fda approval so that means not the emergency use that we've been operating in most of this year we've only just recently gotten full approval for adult youths 16 and over for pfizer moderna and jj so you know we're we're nowhere near getting full you know the younger children are even going to be allowed to wasn't fighting didn't get four approval for play no not for not for 12 to 16.
so at that september first meeting we did receive uh largely board discussion uh which is perfectly permissible and as jamie said really more typical at this stage it is rather abstract for a lot of people and it is much easier to really engage and start pointing out specific things that you feel are working well or more likely not working as well as they could be once you can see a map and that's where we expect at the public hearing following this meeting to hear a lot more from the public and crucially that was exactly the stage where we were about to get to the first go-around when we had to pause the process but uh that was where we did hear uh the criterion that is number six there of interest in seeing the proportion of owners and renters we did uh put that data in that was not shown in the 2020 version and that was due to some of the discussion at that september first meeting and then on september 15th we did have a member of the community express explicitly that basing those trusty areas around the elementary boundaries is that most foundational element would be important and so we do have i mean for all the map options we're showing how that works for one of them i went into it using that as the primary guiding principle but for even one of the other maps i still use that as a secondary principle and was able to achieve a good degree of alignment on those just a point of clarification would it be accurate to say that that was the only public comment that we received that was not did not originate from the board in yes and in this iteration this year yes so going back to some of those original criteria that we came into this process with from last year some of those did also originate with public comments most prominently there was the inclusion of those named neighborhoods of south campus barber and chapmantown we did have a public speaker at the public hearings in this process last year who encouraged us to not just look at schools but to look at those neighborhoods as communities of interest and help identify what the boundaries of those should be could you send me the links to those or give me some some time stamps or something yeah our first board meeting in public hearing was on march 4th of 2020 and then the second was on march 11th and that it was at that march 11 2020 meeting where that comment was received oh yes and yeah and we can send you the timestamps on that thank you very very much appreciate that um i believe that at at our last in our september 15th meeting this year um we also had uh input where we wanted to be sure and take a look at the socioeconomic breakdown within the the maps and we were referring i believe uh dr kaiser we went we went back and looked at what we had already developed as possible maps before and there was a couple of areas where there was a significant socioeconomic difference and if i am not mistaken that has oh excuse me that too has changed with the latest census and maps if if i if i read it correctly uh correct then i don't have a side-by-side comparison because we've already moved beyond the 2010 data but yes there uh we that was information that we were looking at in the previous process and we definitely received that input to continue looking at that alongside other elements and another and again just i think wanting to mainly reiterate how very normal and common this is for again uh we often have our initial discussions with the board who bring up some points of interest and then we really want to hear from the community and we provide those opportunities both before the maps are drawn and then i think crucially going forward after the maps are drawn as jamie said i i personally would be shocked if one of these three initial options exactly as it is right now is what comes through to the end of the process we anticipate that we will be hearing increasingly more from members of the community and even an entirely new map option can potentially come into play here if we hear about something that none of these three options uh really seems to address that the community identifies as being really a crucial piece of this that hasn't uh really been covered uh and just so and as jamie also mentioned while we have this proposed timeline that we've thrown out and that's our goal uh should we need to hear from the community should we get the feeling that voices are beginning to enter who need some space to get some ideas out we do have some schedule where we can absorb that into the process i can't see behind you as our 13th district pta representative here there she is just making sure that you know that our that our interest and commitment to having input from 13th district pta is is working for you as far as getting reports and information if there are more details or more information that you feel you need to to carry back to your reports to 13th district please let us know so that we can get that information to you um good good thank you okay and so again just uh not to uh just keep uh belaboring on this one but just a quick review so kind of those top three criteria are the ones that i think are driving the map options you'll see we'll review these again when we get into the maps but looking at school boundaries and as a school district that makes sense that that is one of the most common things that we heard about but particularly in a district like chico where you have two main high schools with a boundary that you have a chico high and a pleasant valley high parts of the district i've kind of two different ways you can approach that and some interest in seeing both how it would look with trustee areas that are each essentially representing one high school or the other or inversely making sure that every trustee area has territory in both high schools and then of course hearing that input that perhaps the elementary schools really ought to be where we're showing our focus and then of course we'll be looking at how the neighborhoods that were identified stack out across those maps we'll be looking at the social economic information that we have and we'll be looking at that information that we have on the proportion of owners and renters so just a quick review of the elementary boundaries so again zooming in so that you can see the detail in the central part of chico and then you have the nsat where you can see how those boundaries extend out to the edges of the district which of course is much larger but just so that when i put these lines over the maps later this is just a good reference for you so that you can see which schools these are and be able to pick them out a little more easily here and then your high school boundaries that single dividing line between the two high school boundaries and where that runs through central chico and again the end set showing how that extends to the edges of the district and then lastly these are the identified neighborhoods that we are showing here and these are the boundaries that for this analysis have been used to define those neighborhoods again that can certainly be part of that public input to add additional neighborhoods or to clarify uh what should be or should not be included as some of these neighborhood identifications but for the purposes of what you'll be seeing tonight this is the map that identifies what those neighborhoods are and what territory they are encompassing so now we'll get into those draft trustee maps so this is just a quick overall summary so where you're calling them the blue green and purple maps and so just kind of in order at this top line level so the blue map is the one that is really creating uh the way the population works out you can have two trustee areas that are pretty much entirely within the pv boundary and three trustee areas that are pretty much entirely within the chico high boundary the green map option has every single trustee area covering territory in both high school boundaries and then that purple map option is really looking at the elementary boundaries to help as much as possible of course there's not a perfect match but as much as possible to delineate those trusty area boundaries and then for those other areas i will get kind of into all of this but they all meet the population balancing requirements and then you just see the kind of range of the hispanic latino population as just it works out as you go from blue to green to purple you do get the trustee areas with the most and least concentrated amounts of that population you start off in blue with the most balanced in terms of socio-economic indicators going to more disparity as you go to from green to purple and then we'll have a breakdown of how the neighborhoods are either all contained or split between trustee areas so we'll start with our blue option and so again just showing the trustee areas here with nothing else on them so just numbered one in yellow two in red three in green four in blue and five in purple and you can just see how those shapes look and i think when we put the high school boundary on here that's where you can really see how this was our guiding principle here with areas one and two in pv three four and five and chico high and a very very close fit uh again just some of that area between uh one and three just the shapes of the census blocks didn't allow us to keep a perfect match there but overall and most crucially that population requirement actually does work uh keeping those areas close enough in population to each other to allow you to take this uh way of looking at the trustee areas then we can also yes um this is actually probably a question for a staff but um not that this is would be an ideal situation but would it be feasible in a hypothetical situation if something like this was adopted where we were really trying to match up those boundaries with the high school boundary to shift our boundaries just slightly too so that those lined up does that make sense to move it over a block or two we'd really have to look at the population within that because we've worked real hard to keep our high school populations the same yeah i totally get that like i know it'd be a huge undertaking but i mean that would be something that we could look at later on kind of thing down there probably turn that right back over to rob and jamie to find out for us yeah the um thank you caitlin for for bringing that up because that we have seen actually some shift in the two senior high school populations um not being in balance so we might be able to um you know tackle that issue as as well as the um trustee though my experience is changing a school's boundary is much more difficult than change oh yes than changing a uh you know a representational boundary for voting districts i've lived through a couple of school boundary changes oh my goodness so if that's the case how at what point does the scale tip to where we're like okay we really need to adjust our our school boundaries and how close to that are we so that actually happened when we couldn't fit all of the population of shasta into shasta school so we had to go back out and look at changing the boundaries we had community input and we did end up taking a portion that then moved to neil dow but you know the short answer is because people grow up in neighborhoods and there is a lot of transfer between schools in chico so it's you know people still end up getting to go to the schools they want to but people get attached to communities and those boundaries are something we really try not to change yeah and so that was my other question that's been my burning question um is uh i because i can't remember off the top of my head i know i've asked this a few times but what is the rough percentage of students who form 10 and don't go to the school that they do where their home is in the district country have that data and presented it yeah i just uh these are all great questions um we actually have that in your previous uh demographic and student housing report from last year that we did we do a whole matrix that shows across the top the school of attendance and across the left-hand side the school of residence so you can actually see the exact number of students that are living in a boundary but going to another school um or we can we can send that out to the board absolutely yeah i mean i would i would think that you know if we're if we're seeing 25 percent or more of our students form ten tenning it almost doesn't make sense to even worry about school boundaries or anything like that because they're they're kind of all over the place anyway and really how does districting even change how i don't it just you know if folks are living in a place where they're voting on somebody who's going to be you know making decisions with weight for particular schools if that because that's what we're saying here but their students aren't actually going to those schools because they're form tenning like it just doesn't make sense to district at all well you don't have an option not to district i mean the district thing has to happen that still is the case because i thought that that was there was some there was some i don't know um push back or or i i just thought that you know the latest is that it's not necessarily as strict as it was prior to covet well that would be a question for your legal team it's my it's my understanding that it is not an option to not move to buy trustee areas because there's been a legal challenge so mr gant are you still available i am available i did not even know paul was here rob and company have been doing a great job so i've been sitting in the background um but no i it would be a significant issue at this point to change tracks and to uh attempt if if there was a move to withdraw the resolution to um make the change to the trustee areas we would be back in litigation and then of course the safe harbor that would apply prior to covet when the board did agree to move toward district area elections that safe harbor would be eliminated and then the caps on attorney fees and costs for a potential challenge would be lifted as well and you'd be looking at a very high legal cost associated with that process if you were to to go a different direction and and i think a court would look on it very with with great concern um unless there had been some really substantial change that would justify a change in direction that i'm not aware of one that would be um that would be in favor of the district in that scenario so paul our uh data has not changed significantly that would not if if we were to go back and look at this we would still fall under the requirement of needing to redistrict the issue that drives this is mostly historical or at least was and and remains the issue of a history of racially or ethnically polarized voting and and those facts on the ground as i think rob can attest are have not changed the history is still there that would support the demand and then if anything the current facts on the ground in terms of increased population in target groups such as the hispanic population increase would drive um would drive the analysis as well so um while i don't generally give an illegal advice in public meetings i would say it would it would significant it would present significant concerns to change tracks at this point my concern continues to be that this is not going to do what it's meant to do and it could actually hurt our representation for some of these targeted populations by moving to districting so i like i just don't feel like the evidence is prevalent enough especially in this area that that doing this big move is going to to accomplish what these uh these litigation threats set out for us to have to do the legal test was one of whether there is a substantial or significant history of racially polarized voting within the jurisdiction under the law and we can we can always debate the wisdom of the law that triggers the obligation to move to district area elections um that was the intent of the legislature and um you know absent a change in law we would be driven by that analysis right so what happens i mean i guess this would just have to it's just a big experiment really because what happens if we'd make these changes and then see that it actually doesn't do what it's intended to do but actually does the opposite or or nil um paul this is eileen i'm going to jump in here with some remembering of what we went through when we were initially confronted with the evidence that we needed to comply with what what the voting rights act said and um one of the things that i think we concluded at that point was that we have a situation here in chica unified where we allow a considerable amount of choice movement so that our families and parents are free to um you know if if there's room to move um uh not physically but by enrollment and our form tens from school to school within the district and that even though the historical voting pattern did make us make us qualify for needing to comply with what the law says one of the things we saw was that like caitlyn just mentioned you don't make a significant change in what you know what what the law thought it was going to accomplish but with the new data from the the 2020 census one of the things that it seems to show is that our community has in fact spread itself out and the concentration isn't as significant and and therefore that balance that we have to look at to make sure we don't balance a population to the point where they no longer have a significant impact in a particular voting area which is which is the problem you want to make sure that they have enough numbers within that district so that they can have sway over the results of that particular area's representative so i that's what i'm looking for when we're looking at these maps is that we don't dilute the voting power of an identified group and something else i just thought of and i'm going to cut in because it goes right along with what both eileen and i are saying this is caitlyn again paul um that we do have certain schools in our district that are very specialized to certain populations of students who i would say are are you know targeted uh populations that need special um services and they come from all over the district and so that's another concern is that you know then they are being represented by again if we're if we're going to districting that that those those schools won't be under representation by the people that that are they're voting for um i just at this at this micro scale of districting i just am not convinced that that it actually will accomplish what it is intended to even though it's the law and yes we could debate the law all day long but here we are well i i do want to i do draw a distinction between how you determine um attendance at your various schools and the uh the intent of the voting rights act and what we're doing with redistricting in terms of of the strength of voters you're not required to focus solely on attendance areas in forming maps that's just one option and you may decide that there's there's other ways that you want to do it and and i'm sure rob can talk about that and we could even probably generate more maps to look at that um and and the uh the districting for for purposes of voting does not impact on your ability to move students from place to place in any way um so i'm not sure that those factors really are are going to impact on the decision about how to develop the districts and the other thing i would point out though is that the decision to move to district area elections has been made the board voted in and that is currently if you will the law of the district if there were an interest or desire to revisit that it would have to take place through a reconsideration or a revisiting of that original vote and um that that could happen i suppose in parallel to moving forward to developing your plan but i would strongly suggest it would need to be it would need to be agendized i don't think the member of the public members of the public tonight would believe that the board was revisiting that fundamental decision because i don't think that's on the agenda you would have to really go back and agendize that and i would strongly recommend a closed session agenda item to look at anticipated litigation because you would almost certainly be facing a very high likelihood of a legal challenge and that would put us in jeopardy of losing our safe harbor status in in how we got to out of the litigation situation that we were in before that's is that something that we would have to cover enclosed paul or i really those are those are highly sensitive communications between attorney and client the board's my client that i wouldn't want to initiate that conversation here tonight particularly it's not even on the agenda i agree paul this is caitlin again i just want to um say that i appreciate you um there's four of us sitting up here on the board today and two of us are new this year and so um some of some of these concepts are really important for us to revisit especially after the census has come out and especially after we've already seen some of the early uh results of the 2020 election as well so i appreciate your input thank you well i absolutely agree and i am i am conscious of the changes on board given the lengthy the delay in picking the process back up i will say that part of part of our charge as we look at developing these district areas is to not develop a plan that would cut against the fundamental purpose of the law which i understand to be to um to strengthen the opportunity of the targeted groups of you know racial ethnic minority groups that may exist in the district to have a increased chance of electing at least one member uh of their preference which isn't necessarily a a candidate from their ethnic group but it may be it often is but it could also be simply the favored candidate um relatively speaking of a particular minority group so the the intent of the law is not to dilute but to to strengthen that that opportunity and i think that that as you look at your maps you're going to want to look at that very closely and kind of leave rob to crunch the numbers and talk about what each of the options is likely to do in that regard one of the things that we have available to us in what has already been developed is we have not only the neighborhood identifications the attendance boundaries for our different schools but we also have identified those schools that are we have one that's a magnet school uh at the elementary level and so so we have a lot of information um presented to us and outlined in the overview of the three currently proposed maps and you know we we can change our criteria move things around in the maps but we we have all of those elements pretty much before us and one thing that we did prepare for you in the previous go around because it was happening in the spring after we'd done that year is demographic analysis and student housing report your dasher was that detailed breakdown of the current years students by the attendance matrix we have uh we're you know we're past your census day we have your student list we can go ahead and do that same breakdown so that and what really jumped out with that process last time of course was that really with the choice that you have every single trustee area pretty much had uh families living in it who were sending kids to every single school in the district but one thing that does jump out is that one of the schools that does retain usually more of its resident population is chapman which also coincides with one of those areas that we've looked at with that concentrated uh hispanic and latino population so that you know some of this does dovetail a little bit but if it would be helpful uh we can certainly go ahead and prepare that information uh since we may be doing it for uh this year's demographic analysis uh we can just have that uh those numbers available a little bit sooner instead of waiting until we usually uh do a kind of after the winter break to present your dasher to you ford what's your pleasure would you like to have that at the next overview meeting i think that would be fine but i really think that rob hasn't been able to finish his presentation and uh that we should move with that yeah so yeah let's just go ahead and yeah we have two more options so you've seen this one uh just a really quick look there we go uh and then just putting those elementary boundaries on and again uh you can just see up there on the inside uh just keeping between the now shasta and northern part of the neo dao boundary keeping that as the main line between areas one and two and just in the south uh again between emma and chapman there uh being able to uh kind of carve out again where emma and citrus come together but just using those elementary boundaries as a logical place to look for where you can form some of these trusty areas so now on to your green option so again very different looking shapes we still have numbers one two three four and five but now as we put our high school boundary on uh looking both in the nsat and in the close-up portion here you can see that each area covers territory in both high schools and this does lead this is very similar to a map that we had last time around where you have the two areas on the sides of the district that really cover that north south span and then three more concentrated areas that are in the middle of the district but achieves that first goal this one does make it quite a bit harder to line up with the elementary boundaries so i wanted to include that map just to see that once you are straddling the high school boundary you're by nature also straddling a lot of the elementary boundaries but we still to the extent we can and to the extent of looking at the neighborhoods trying to keep those in mind as we're drawing boundaries but with a main purpose that's driven by the high school boundaries and now our purple map the third one presented tonight as an initial option and again that emphasis these initial options are just the beginning of a conversation we'll have our first public hearing about these maps next month early and then as we get feedback we will refine we will add we will do everything we can to come up with a map that checks as many boxes as we can for all of the stakeholders in this process but so for this start here in the purple map again you have your numbered areas so this time the high school boundary isn't done with as much relevance but now looking at the elementary boundaries and again just with the number of elementary school boundaries the way the populations are dispersed in your district very hard to get a perfect match but again able to put for example chapman and little chico creek together able to put a large part of shasta and with emma wilson citrus actually just because of the overall population in that boundary particularly with the campus at csu and with downtown uh winds up being most of its own boundary and then looking at the southern part of neo-dao with sierra view and marigold so there is a lot of correlation in this one that is again maybe some different groupings than what you saw with the blue option so we're not going to just go through every number point on this again we're happy to answer some questions about this this is just more looking at what is made available so that you have the information to just do some comparisons so first off with the 2020 census data we have two ways of breaking that population down the first is the total population and then second is the population that is 18 and over or your current voting age population and so what you tend to see is that the percent of latino and hispanic population is higher in the total population which makes sense demographically that is you already saw the increase overall from 2010 to 2020 that is the population that is increasing in the younger demographics and so as more of that population ages into voting age then you'll see you're almost kind of seeing a preview of you know by the next 10 years from now uh what that voting age population might then also look like but as we said we have the uh for any race or ethnic category that makes up at least one percent of the total district population we are providing the percentages by each trustee area you have at the top just the total district population so you can see it is the percent hispanic or latino percent white percent asian percent black or african-american that are all provided individually any other single race that was identified uh by itself was less than one percent of the total population so we for this analysis are grouping those together if there was interest in seeing that fully broken out we can certainly supply that and then also uh this was a question that came up in one of our early conversations about that percent of two or more races in this case i wanted all of the totals to add up to those hundreds but it is common practice to uh just for instance if someone had identified as both black and asian that you could add that population to both of those totals and so you will have totals that exceed 100 percent but again with the percentage of people identifying as any combination of two or more races uh it is still not going to bump any one category aside from the white population above uh 50 overall so for this initial analysis we're keeping that as its own group and so again it is really just if we hear input that it would be valuable to really break that down we are happy to continue supplying greater and greater detail but this lets you see across the blue green and purple maps the proportion of the population that would be in each trustee area as looked at through the 2020 census data on race and ethnic identity so i'll just go kind of go through these and just explain what they are and what the numbers you're looking at mean and then as you have questions we can go back and revisit some of them so socioeconomic and tenure data so socioeconomic we looked at two things the median household income now this is not data that is supplied from the 2020 census state yet it will come out but for the redistricting really what we have are population by race and ethnicity and a couple of other more specialized uh things like group quarters since you don't have a large prison in your district we're not as concerned uh with with kind of mitigating how that population should interface with everyone else so in this case we are looking at the american community survey which is the most recent snapshot we have from census data this is available also in the census block group level so we are still able to correlate this as closely as possible to get a average median household income for each of these trustee areas and then you can just see i've just rounded those to the nearest thousand and then you see how those can compare and contrast across the different trustee areas more precisely we have from your current student list uh one field that is provided is if that student is listed as qualifying for the free or reduced price meals program frpm and so we're seeing those side by side you see there is a fair amount of correlation between those but we're just presenting them both to you so that you can see how those compare across the district and then interestingly i actually thought it was really fascinating that looking at that 10-year data the owners and renters it is almost exactly district-wide 50-50 in terms of the households that own versus rent where they're living and so given that as your baseline that you're comparing everything to you can really see uh you know how which uh options are relatively more balanced or relatively deviated and again it's not that one is good or one is bad uh there might be some benefits to uh having a trustee area that has a more emphasis on one or the other but this just lets you see which ones are more or less balanced and which areas and particularly stand out and then finally we have that neighborhood analysis so what we've just done here is again that map to remind you of for this purpose what we're considering those neighborhoods to be and then under the blue green and purple options we have your trustee areas one two three four five and we've just checked off so in the blue map for example every neighborhood is entirely contained within a single trustee area you see just each column has just one x in it under the green option uh the avenues is actually split between three different trustee areas and again for some that might it's not that that is inherently good or bad it just depends on how that's approached but this is that you see how well the neighborhoods are either contained within or split between different trustee areas under these options and so i'll pause here because if we have any questions about this data i'm happy to speak to those before we move on to uh just a reminder of what our next steps look like ms dalby um yeah thank you and this is um probably more of a question for paul um for clarification and using this sort of as an example um so the some one of the last things that you said paul was um that the intent of the law if i was hearing this right and please please please obviously correct me if i'm wrong the intent of the law is to create districts in such a way that our um uh the what the protected class population uh in in our case um the hispanic voting population um has maybe more representation within one district um rather than being evenly split amongst the other districts is did i hear you explain that correctly well i don't know i don't know why i would define the the intent of the entire law i would say that the law is intended to do that if it increases the opportunity for minority group to elect a candidate of its choice whether uh whether that is um you know that the primary intent of the law is to increase the opportunity for uh those populations that that are a substantial minority within within the district uh to have an opportunity to elect candidates where they or or um candidates where they have not been able to in the past um and at least the legislation was written so that if that result can be obtained or at least promoted by concentrating a higher number of the target population into one of several districts that that is uh to be encouraged i again i i want to emphasize that the issue of whether to in initially pursue a movement to the uh trustee areas from at large voting is different issue than how to divide up those districts and if there is a desire by one or board member one or more board members to revisit the fundamental question that i believe is within your jurisdiction to go back and look at that but i would strongly recommend that it be brought forward as a new agenda item at a different meeting when it's on the agenda and that it also uh be recognized that that it will it we we got here by way of a demand letter and a resolution uh of litigation so we would be back in in the pos strong likelihood of litigation and the board would want to get legal advice uh before setting forth a record in public you know of your positions and and um and a debate on a topic that's not on the agenda sure the the reason for my my question is is strictly talking about the district again not whether two district or not um so um yeah so in terms of what you're saying um and i think rob can speak to this there are some scenarios that even in what we're seeing so far that would strengthen uh the hispanic minority in at least one or two um areas um but again it would lower their strength perhaps in other in other proposed district areas right yes i think that's a good summary and and that's kind of what i was getting to um so for example if we were just going to say we're going to vote on these three you know i know that we're definitely still the drawing board but for for the sake of examples um the purple map option shows that um the highest percentage of all three options is for district two um at 23.8 percent um hispanic voters in that in that option so if that was the goal we would say okay this we're going with the purple map with the anticipation that they have more representation for that district but what are we doing to the hispanic vote in the other four districts and that's you know a concern and something to maybe be taking into consideration especially with public comment and things like that um but i think thank you that clarifies and i think that that no i think that's a great point and i will be very curious what again as we i anticipate a steady increase in public engagement with this now that we have maps it's much easier to look at something and point out your concerns about it and i just say you meaning just a general person who comes into this process and might just be seeing some of this and really kind of having the light bulb click and say okay i have some now i have some opinions and now i'm going to come tell them about it at the next opportunity and that's what we've seen a lot talking to other demographers because we do hang out and talk to each other why am i not surprised yeah but who are doing this work that's it's very very common that it's very quiet in the early stages of this you you put and you kind of just need to put something out to just get the conversation really rolling and i think that's obviously we're already doing a lot of that tonight and then we'll uh really look forward to uh how many more voices we start hearing from from the general community at our official public hearing which will again no changes will be made to the maps between now and then uh again we're just making sure that we've presented the maps that everyone understands the data and what the maps are showing and then we can really talk about them as much as people want to at the public hearing rob it would be um permissible for any board member to ask for additional information to be presented at the next meeting correct we did that last time around right i i just clarifying again because we did have uh uh matt was not present at that last meeting and i know that that was one of the issues that um was mentioned for a bit tonight have had do you have anything that you've been able to i'm for those that are watching on uh zoom mr tennis is there anything that you would like rob to have available to present at the next meeting when we come back for more discussion just the information that we but i'm going to get it between now and i'm going to get it tomorrow so so um not really no no i wonder what the basis upon which are moving forward will be i guess community input and everything that you already addressed i just i'm just curious and intrigued as to what the little baby steps will look like of us actually moving toward one one map or another um frankly yeah and i can speak to that with a moment if you'd like me to um i something you said raised question for me because we are we are supposed to make sure that any information that's given to one board member that all board members have access to that same information and i'd be interested in making sure that if you if you do have information you'd like presented that it it come to the next board meeting am am i am i off base superintendent staley and wanting to make sure that we all have the same information available to us we can certainly bring it to the next board meeting we can also take this information and make sure any information given to the board is also posted on the website and we don't necessarily have to forget that website like if we go and and get the information that mr tennis is asking for and it comes back to staff tomorrow it can be emailed out to the full board as soon as it's available we just have to make sure we make it available to the public as well yeah that that was my concern was that we all have you know the information that we think about and request available okay that i i keep forgetting that we're in 2021 and we do have things like websites and actually the mention of the website does bring one more thing to mind uh in that the there is a dedicated page for this process on the website and the community input that has been received thus far is all available there so that everyone can look back at again the input received at our two public input uh meetings thus far and that will be a live living uh page that i expect to become much more prolific again as we move ahead and i think addressing mr tennis's point the i think really what we'll begin to see is uh requests for again maybe some additional information and then once that information comes in uh suggestions on sometimes it really does just get down to can we just move these couple of blocks like out of this one into this one and what would that look like uh it might just be hey none of these are really working for me uh based on x y or z let's see a new map and so again it's this initial process that we proposed is kind of assuming that we might introduce a [Music] new map early on in that process and then it could kind of gain some traction to obviously have everyone comfortable to say this one seems to be the one that has the most support behind it one tool that i've seen some other districts use is once we get to those final map options having them on the district web page with some kind of voting mechanism just so that you can gauge if there is uh you know disproportionate public support for one particular option over over the other two or three or however many we have by that point but really it will be that kind of iterative process where ideally these three maps will still be in it but can be tweaked and then if again it comes out that really a fourth or even a fifth or however many map options are needed to show people what they think represents a good system which ultimately is accomplishing the goal of having each member of the board representing an area and for future candidates to only need to campaign to the electorate in that area i think that's the other side of that equation that hasn't been discussed directly tonight and that it's hard to quantify but has that impact of who would run in the future that might not have bothered running in the past when you had to campaign to the entire district in that election so just some thoughts to keep in mind but i will uh again be at your pleasure here to just answer any further questions ms dalby i think this is my last one for tonight um because i i do remember last time we spoke up here that i had asked if we might be able to see if there's any preliminary data coming out of the 2020 election for chico city council because this was the first election with newly drawn districts at that small of a local level right here in chico um and i don't know if any of that data is accessible or you know if it if or how it would be useful but it would be something that i would be interested to see if it is available because it may tell us a little bit more about how districting is affecting the the voting turnout and and you know if it's if if it in chico for the city of chico if it if it does seem that it's doing what it's intended to do um if that makes sense we are so much bigger than the city of chico's 588 square miles but we overlap so i think it's important because the demographics are very similar minus cohasset and forest ranch and and nord yeah since we encompass the city of chico and then extend a little bit the data should be pretty similar right now i will see what i can rustle up if i look at you would probably be the butte county office of elections and again to the extent that there might be some data i'm happy to bring what is available and again to the extent that we uh again caveat anything that is the city election that this is as we just clarified just a subset of the area that we're looking at for chico unified school district it's it's it's funny someone did ask a very similar question um after the the city went through the process and what was discovered was that because um they are just in the city they have seven seats instead of five chapman had not yet been annexed and there was another another area that had not yet been annexed to the city it was hard to compare uh you know what what we're trying to do in our balance issues and what they went through it was amazing how they they just didn't it was worse than apples and oranges it was like throwing in a pomegranate in the middle of it a question yes unless you wanted to respond to her oh no i was i wasn't expecting a response i was just do you have socioeconomic and tenure data uh and for that matter i mean the total population by rather than race and ethnicity but um for elementary school um territory territories what do you call those districts what do you call it oh no yes so yeah so certainly uh the for the student freedom reduced lunch data that that is very easily provided the it would be a matter of it would definitely be an estimation using the census median household income data just because at the larger geographic units that those are provided by uh less likely that they'll line up as evenly with the elementary boundaries but we could give you at least an approximation but the student free and reduced lunch percentages would be quite precise to those elements to any school boundaries you have and so i if that is some i can certainly include i'd be interested in a summary of that i i lean toward the position that the um that the elementary boundaries are valuable because there's so many of them you know i mean we're trying to draw these nuanced you know district lines and and it just kind of we're familiar with them we know them they they are respective of neighborhood it's sort of like it's building on work that we've already got in place yeah i i agree and what fascinated me was that with some of the plans there were only two elementary schools within the the proposed district and another one had five elementaries in one district in order to you know balance and i think it's because our student population is so mobile between schools and no that is part of it and then as i mentioned in one of the maps when especially if you're looking at just that citrus boundary you are also keeping in mind that you have the resident csu chico population that is technically inside of that boundary and uh that your general population especially the parts where you have more of that aging population that don't currently have school-age children in the district but are still voters who live in your district that uh the the heat map of kind of that density is probably different from the density of families with kids right now so yeah we do have a few different things that we're all looking at and just trying to come down to easily digestible sets of numbers that we can look at without making this you know a three inch thick binder full of numbers uh but we'll certainly uh continue to just as information will be useful and move the conversation forward and help clarify uh a good outcome we'll certainly keep i mean you have to usually ask me to quit giving you numbers so yeah but yeah i can't imagine what that's like when all the demographers get together to talk about cvra it's like a rocking good time you guys right we're cool you are very cool yes uh they were so excited about the census data um you have a significantly high degree of what we call you know uh intra district transfers so you know somewhere some are up to 54 and a half percent of the students that are transferring into a elementary school boundary or out of that boundary and attending another school so i think to your point um it might be helpful to to provide that tomorrow as a data point with the other data that we're providing so you have that to look at um and to consider as part of this process so we're happy to provide just just that matrix we can provide it on its own so you're not digging through this study until you're just whatever that will be from the 2020-21 matrix though and then as we are able to prepare the matrix from the current year then we'll update that but yes we can uh just so that everyone has that as a refresher uh just to be able to see precisely uh you know which school boundaries uh had those interesting shifts and also which couple of them don't as much yeah that uh those particular details were what was um most interesting to me when we started this process two years ago was the um like you just said some schools had a 50 percent lived in the district but didn't attend in that elementary district it was that was huge right anything else board are we i'll just uh want just the last part of the presentation well so again i've actually kind of touched on this already but just to make sure it's very clear so uh the maps will not change i will bring some additional data on some of that student enrollment detail uh summaries of free and reduced launch by elementary boundary to the extent that there might be some city council election data that we can just show at the next meeting but otherwise we'll be looking at these same maps but we will have a public hearing and invite all interested members of the community to tell us what's working what's not working what else we can be looking at in regards to these maps or the potential for new map options and then again within incorporating that feedback we'll come back again on november 17th uh with uh potentially at that point revised map options and then continue to hear feedback uh and then this is just a kind of the default proposed timeline and i think really before we get too far much much further ahead of that we just want to see how these next couple of public hearings go and where we're standing after the 17th and we'll just continue to uh look forward on a proposed timeline that again is fairly flexible at this point you did well when starting the process early enough to build in some flexibility while at the same time that if we can reach a conclusion that is satisfactory and meets enough of the requirements that every you know people feel comfortable with that we can also move that forward sooner rather than later okay but that no that's all folks huh yeah thank you um yes yep i do want to point out that the only person that really related to tim's the limit were you two okay this is informational only as we've commented several times and we'll be back on november 3rd for more discussion and to continue to check information on our website even though the maps won't change you'll be able to look at comments and things that have been submitted and possibly submit some of your own okay um is it 10 to yes 10.2 yes are we uh are you closing the hearing at this time our our hearing is closed thank you paul that's okay just have a good evening everyone and i'm going to check out unless someone anticipates needing me for the rest thank you thank you paul i appreciate it it's been very it's been a very interesting meeting and and um i look forward to continuing the process and technically paul we we did not have a a hearing at this meeting it was an informational only item it was informational item only i apologize not my mistake that's okay i don't mind um being able to use this gorgeous um mallet [Laughter] goodnight paul have a good evening thank you yes so at our last board meeting we had the first reading of two board policies uh tina is bringing forward the uniform complaint procedures and marie is here if there are any questions regarding the conflict of interest board policy but this is the second reading and we're requesting approval for the changes in these board policies that is correct i don't have too much more to add to what kelly had said board do we have um any questions on uh either well let's let's take them one at a time the first submission is the nine two yes the conflict of interest and the major change on that is actually nearly at the bottom of uh that that involves a disciplinary action which tina of course you are yeah the conflict of interest is actually under marie oh okay any questions on on that uh provision i'm move approval thank you do i have a second do we have any public comment there is no public comment thank you oh we have excuse me i need to turn the page um the first one was i my computer does not want to it's 9270 yes okay i i know mr tennis uh you moved was there a second dr kaiser seconded there was no public comment so all those in favor signify by saying aye aye thank you board that's four yes the the motion passes the next one is the um there's a a lot of additional um this one is board policy 13 12.3 uniform complaint procedure which is it's still item 10.1.2 i'm sorry it would still be item 10.1.2 um so yes it is but it's it's the second one 1312.3 yes and and there's uh significant change in well not not a change but there's a lot of language that was deleted and the red language is the newly proposed language that is correct and that actually came from our reviewer for uniform complaints from the department of education so it's the most updated language okay board do you have any questions of ms keene on what's in these um uh was was the significant uh addition of the um parenting issues and the um homeless and foster child stuff was was that what that was some and but there was additional on preschool as well toward the end you see quite a bit of um preschool there and we do have some state group schools at our sites yep members okay i have a motion to approve by member tennis do i have a second i'll second the motion thank you i'll second the motion do we have any um there's no public comment no public comment thank you okay board i'll call for the vote all those in favor signify by saying aye aye thank you that passes for nothing uh just noting um that thank you tina and marie thank you yes um really quick point of order i just want to remind uh the board that we should make sure we just follow our steps appropriately and wait for doc for um president robinson to call for a motion so that we are going through our steps in order and not asking for public comment after we've already put a motion on the floor i know we all want to move through these items that aren't so controversial and kind of catch up with our agenda for the night um but yeah let's just please be cognizant of um of um president robinson's uh steps of order so we can't move approval until she specifically calls she should be calling for it it's in our yes our format that's recommended through the procedures that we have approved to to um okay the other thing that i thought i saw was that board discussion was out of order on my um no it's thank you caitlin i thought i was following it um anyone want to do a quick stand up and stretch or are we good and just move on board oh good i'm good to move on but i um i'm totally okay with a stretch as well i would vote that we power through as quickly as possible on these non-controversial items okay okay our educational services presentation by christian lauer oh wait um first we need to set the annual organizational meeting 10.1.3 well i know it's in here i just i didn't see it before i turned the oh yeah the uh december or uh organizational meeting um setting a date for the annual organizational meeting it usually is tied to when um the election occurs that that's uh not what we're basing our thing on because we have no new members that would be seated so um we do do you have do you have anything additional to add in the way of presentation miss daily no um we do need to set the date and we have to send this to the county office right and at our organizational meeting we're proposing we do that on december 15th that's where we will elect officers of the board and uh set our calendar for the following year as well as make any changes to our agenda the agenda says december 9th you just said my attachment here says december 15th i am let me open my december 15th okay it's just clarifying to make sure which one was accurate yep it's on the resolution it does say december 15th is there um any question or anything from any board member is there any public comment there is no public comment i was just going to say that i was i'm really hoping to actually be on vacation that week um i'm not kidding but i guess i'll have to change my plans i'm sorry i'm sobby i can't i said i was wanting to be on vacation that week and actually get again i haven't had a break in a religious game yeah when you're when you're not a teacher anymore you don't get to plan your vacations accordingly so anyway that's my only opposition is just that that was the time that i thought i'd be able to get out of the state but i can try to just not do that okay um if there's no public comment and it's been indicated that there is not does the board have any motions associated with this agenda item i've got a question is there an option for having it on a um so the board adopted calendar had the meeting on december 15th the board always has the right to change a date um you just have to act on it as a board i think the only issue is that we're coming we're going to be for the csba in san diego on the first which is our other board meeting but i don't i mean people need vacations [Music] so i guess that becomes the issue of it would be finals week if we postponed it a week it would be let me just check something very yeah how do we have a board meeting on the first which is what i'm showing when we have csba yeah that's true we don't have one on the first one we don't have we don't okay i don't show one on the okay well then i would say especially because that's the same meeting that we're supposed to be adopting the map um this december 15th meeting um just seems like a pretty big date so i will just not go on vacation write us a letter or what you think we ought to do during that and then we'll take that into consideration i'll make it into a resolution so what about wednesday the 8th is that not feasible or quite i don't believe we can get the um we don't get back from csba in time to get stuff submitted for the agenda oh okay well woman you just got sunk all right okay we we've i'm sorry we've set december 15th as our regular board meeting when we scheduled these last december and i don't see any option for changing that that doesn't appear with interfere with finals week so we're december 15th was there already a motion made huh was there already a motion made no nothing no we um do we have any public comment madam superintendent there is no public comment does the board have an emotion okay second second by dr kaiser no further discussion okay all those in favor of the organizational meeting being set for december 15th signify by saying i i thank you board motion passes with four eyes okay next is ed service's multi-year competition grant overview for um and this is christian i'm kristen so this is going to be quick and positive the purpose of this is three things to introduce myself one there's my slide up there that's tiny um to introduce myself to give you a snapshot of chico unified's grants and then just to tell you how we go about grants procurement and chico unified so i'm kristen lauer and i've been with chico unified for 20 years most of my time has been teaching english and for the last five years i've been managing chico unified's larger grants and writing grants with our previous grants coordinator liz metzger who is retired so this is me that's my contact up there you're welcome to reach out to me at any moment i write and coordinate our grants and uh you you can't see up on the slide there but we we have 25 active grants right now and three are pending and that's pretty normal that's a pretty normal amount for us the grant search on that slide there's four items mentioned there grant watch is a grant aggregator that basically you plug in your criteria and it kicks me stuff that i then share with ed services and then we've got some um you know stalwarts up there grants.gov for federal grants grants california.gov for california grants and then of course the north valley community foundation and there are actually many others but i was just trying to give you a snapshot and so how this works is if anybody is interested in a grant um superintendent kelly staley gets a lot of notifications probably more than any of us about opportunities they come to me and then i prepare a grant snapshot for ed services which i attend every week actually two times a week we'll have a new grant snapshot tomorrow morning at ed services and then we sort of look at our capacity um our need and our capacity to manage the grant because that's that's the other part of it um could you where is this a clicker for the slides look at that okay so you can't see the colors very well or the key you can't see the key very well okay okay so you can but they can't so anyway i'll just just uh a summary here this is these this is funding by the millions and it goes up in increments of 2.5 million so you can you're probably your first question is probably oh well why is there a drop in 2122 and i just wanted to point out that in um so the green and the orange bars from 2019 to 2021 was the year that we had all of our cte we wrote our cte facilities grants which had caps of three million so there was just a lot of funding in those years and a lot of that is actually in the works right now um anyway so these again are just our competitive grants we have other grant funding that's more formula grant but these are our competitive grant competitions and lastly how am i doing on time five minutes i've been told not to go longer than that um good just use the cards if you want to put the red card up on me you can do that i've created a grant support hub on our website and it's basically for teachers to let us know hey if they're interested in applying for a grant i can offer support we can offer support it's definitely not just a you know an effort by myself i love it i need that um i'm thankful for tim karis and his spicy data because oh is he gone i was giving oh there you are i couldn't do this job without his data so i'm so um appreciative of that anyway so there's support on our website we support individual teachers that might want to you know apply for a little grants on their own and then um i handle the the bigger ones in house with this team that i love working with questions thanks i miss her we we appreciate the over the years grants have kept us alive thank you i have a question kristen actually because that um the online help for teachers for those little grants that are out there how long has that been a thing so um that's a good question it it it's been a thing for a while but when i say it i've changed it so that it's a lot fewer words now basically and there's a button on the website now that they click and it goes to a google form and then it kicks me an email that shows me that somebody's interested in the grant and then i you know reach out to them um so it's been a thing for a while i would say probably for the last eight years but it hasn't taken the shape of a hub a support hub that's just brand new in fact it's not totally done i'm working on it right now gotcha um i guess just because in my current role i'm like deeply involved in the grant writing world now um and i come across those little grants all the time like oh if i was a teacher and i had the time and the energy i would have wanted to apply for that um and you know as a teacher when you're busy and you do occasionally like maybe once a year come across something like that you're like i have no time or energy i know this and i didn't know that even there was any kind of resource um available to help with so yep and we are we're as it's being built there's a tab now on the site where because i have a grant aggregator where i if i see little things that teachers might be interested in i i pop them onto the site and then we depend on director of secondary education and and the directive of elementary education to to push that out to get that out to the sites but that's that's sort of something that's up and coming because there are so many grants and i certainly couldn't write them all so just like you said right yeah cool i hope that you know teachers start to really know that that's there and and you get to take advantage of it that's the goal yeah okay thank you this is informational only board we don't need any motion next up is mr hanlon with 10.3.1 information and update on the covid employee testing yes thank you so um governor newsom declared that october starting october 15th our employees and staff on our campuses had to either be vaccinated or we had to test them weekly we're in our first week of testing and michelle bunch is going to give us an update on where we are we're literally on day three right now so um we're just taking our baby steps so michelle yeah that's has some good information for us good evening i'm michelle bunch coveted lead for chico unified and i wanted to just give you an update on how many people we tested last week last week was our first week and we tested employees through our screening program during that time we had two positive employees and this week we anticipate testing around 365 staff so you might be asking why so many more um we started last week knowing that the mandate began on friday and have been in the process of collecting vaccination cards and through our digital system as of today we've collected 1404 vaccine cards that have been uploaded by staff and that includes staff substitutes and coaches as well as student teachers when you look at regular employees that are not temps or long-term subs or substitutes the estimate was 1582.
uh over 90 percent of our staff has been vaccinated but for the staff members that are not they'll come here in this vidalia center and um i just want to give them the credit that it's happening here even been here um the test book collins said he heard that maybe they're also doing middletown we've heard that as a rumor i wouldn't find out until friday but maybe the middle ten because they're so large according to dr richard's i think 300 unvaccinated they're much larger than our father so i also want to say our back to school nights we have for many years done two this year we decided to do three and you know for us having to be here three nights oh well the parents and the teachers most importantly the parents and teachers really loved how we did the three nights uh felt very comfortable in the building going into the classrooms our teachers did a phenomenal job you know many districts are still doing virtual back-to-school nights it shows you that we're doing things here right and parents were great and follow the rules but our back-to-school nights went wonderful i told you last meeting our sports were just getting underway is it hard to leave spring sports seem to come and go so quickly in november there is a possibility that i could have our girls soccer or boys soccer or girls field talking and our cross-country team all here winning championships that is a possibility right now it's a possibility having half that is a probability that i'm going to have many kids here with their parents so you can as a board recognize our sports team they've had an excellent season you know parents are happy to see it with that said i think it was last tuesday october 12th uh we brought over 40 children to olympic night and i know we win every year but this year every child in there was over 40 that went to olympic tonight received the men uh yes the answer is we won i'm glad they don't keep score our children would have made me proud our coaches would have made you proud our children were amazing that olympic life so it's nice to have that charcoal back in our school [Music] our parent-teacher conferences it's going out to parents um we are doing parent-teacher conferences virtually but the parent wants to opt to come in there is that provision that we will allow parents to come in if they feel the need to come in for conferences uh but virtual gives parents if they're you know somewhere else especially since we're doing it starting next thursday the 28th and then we're following november first and second against both parents beyond login to get to talk to the teacher and so um i think those conferences will go down but if the parent needs to have stability we will have that provision for them i also want to say our in-service i think i mentioned it before colin and jen put a lot of work into our in-service we did um equity inclusion i ready did curriculum work the two teachers were here for a full day we got a lot done at the end of the day you don't see this often but teachers were thanking us for what a wonderful day uh that day was we gave you time to work on curriculum time to meet the teams and so it was a day you know well spent in this building we got a lot done we still have a lot more to do because of the work that didn't get completed then we are now doing hydraulic faculty meetings and plc so there's a lot to do but we've got a lot a lot of work done in that seven hours um yes we will have uh and we're working on that now sorry to mention that next friday will be our halloween parade uh we're gonna do you know our typical halloween parade they've got the east side around the building out in our backyard and come back in the building um not having any parents in the building but they can supply packaged snacks for children and some parents want to send in games for them to play in the classroom and you said yes that's important my second question one of the most important of the night exactly following us i was just wondering if you heard anything or whispers or anything in the superintendent about the governor's plans about the masses of what you know what what it it drives me a little crazy that we don't really have any guidance on to what numbers he's looking at to tell us that the kids can stop marrying advances forward 75 percent vaccination state that transmission rate is below 0.8 which means it's receding the numbers are dropping you know i are you getting i know you don't have a direct line to the governor obviously here he just had a press release the other day for an hour and [Music] i was surprised that it wasn't involved and it's silly i know olympic month and confidence but since my children have bay head and saint peters be one team called manhattan st peterson because you know what happens is you know our kids are crazy fast okay uh but like st happiness as good athletes but well you travel you trample it so i said if you have to join like our team is so good then because there's only six lanes then we could bring in you know bring in hopefully you know you bring someone else so that the kids have competition because some races it's competitive but some are not so yes we win it every year you know and even every year we win by a lot won they were wondering if they're going to say we won every race maybe except for four out of all the races and and it's broken into age groups they're in fourth grade fifth and sixth graders group and seventh and eighth and both groups are phenomenally best by destiny conference comes with i think five coaches and nine volunteers five two coaches i can show you the program like some of the schools they list all these people in our arsenal do whoever looks at the ceiling and um the most amazing images on the ceiling can you our friends would come out here did you tell us a little bit about that no i told the coaster they came in they're wonderful okay okay and i did say that one board meeting that right i said make sure you go out and look up you look up but the pto um our new art teacher met with us and colin at the end of the school year same thing and they wanted to we said yes parents i think for a time they spent 25 i think yes when we met in the committee and all these meetings that we had you know it was like let's do the nice primary colors and blah blah cult manufacturer they had had pastels and they were very disappointments and pastels and pastels was the answer the pictograph when you come in the main office you just look up i mean these tiles well that we said to parents do whatever you want okay there's no here's your paint i'm gonna use five colors here's your paint do whatever you want and every single child and the hunch are so proud of what our sailings look like so really you know if you've had because of the coordinated tv there's been now you're across any in every building um and i have to say i've got multiple comments from colleagues that have come to brielle but they're coordinated to see how amazing this building is and how beautiful it is and that's a credit to this board um to you press spokes and graphs they come into your teachers for making it and the ptl like everybody has a hand in keeping this building amazing but multiple colleagues have said oh my goodness that school is beautiful so courtyard ceiling the classroom stuff thanks for saying that the teachers are invited into our school if they've been here for the community um they do say it directly to us when i come into your school building i love it uh and and you just mentioned all the right people it's a coordinated effort that because of the beautiful building uh in my report i forgot to mention i kind of said jessica luca there's our new part-time tech person she's only here a short amount of time she's done an amazing job but one of the first things she said the first day that i gave her the tour she says i want you to know that i've been in a lot of schools lots of schools and i've never seen a school as beautiful as yours i said well come on she goes i'm serious i've been in a lot of schools and i don't see schools i think we take it for granted take advantage of it because a lot of us know like if we're just parents and walk in that's what we expect but in terms of lauren so thank you um okay let's move on we're getting like action items all right uh for human programs i'd like to put forth yes finance uh steve can you finance for me please sure emotions and blue light empty one three three yes yes great um buildings and grounds joe do i have a second second any questions can you please call the role yes i'd like to make a motion that the board approves the following policies and regulations on the first reading and for d2 notion that the board of education approves the following policy on a second preview any questions can you please call the call yes 1648.13 [Music] e14 do i have any questions can you please call the role yes great thank you everyone uh visitors business visitors are permitted to comment on agenda and non-agenda items at this time i'm sorry can you say that again how to check that um [Music] discussion i don't have anything for discussions but you know what i do yeah i'd like to i want to discuss something about um curriculum i want to talk about um the um african-american history curriculum and brielle and so i wrote some things i jotted some things down i'll read it because um i didn't talk about this for a long time and so i just really want to get to the point and um share with all of you my concerns now um i've spoken to i've met this curriculum i'm part of the curriculum committee and um and i've met with chris to discuss this and um but i do still have some concerns um so now currently our district is not compliant with policy 2260.
[Applause] yeah uh the dead on bench is like they're cheerleaders really i saw the coach just being like come on let's let's start cheering louder so i think that's pretty cool yeah another free hit for adam looks like this one off the shin nice block there for mayor oh is that not a back check yeah they're playing good defense right now that definitely hit our foot yep yep good eye there sebastian is the puck allowed to hit your skating hockey huh is the puck allowed to hit your skate yeah as long as you don't have a kicking motion in the goal you can absolutely use your skate yeah there's like the off also like the role where you're allowed to catch it if you just drop it immediately yeah i like that too hussar working a tightrope there [Music] now you got floor hockey which rules are pretty much exactly like hockey you got street hockey which his rules are pretty much exactly like street hockey floor hockey etc but then you got field hockey which is similarities but no not really and then you have table hockey which is not at all yeah then you have like knee hockey yeah knee hockey's more like the regular hockey yeah so apparently hockey's somewhat of a vague term number 19 i feel like i should have katie ritzer that last line of defense for the raiders makes a big stop and aaliyah el halali gets it to mayor one more thing about my hockey conversation they should name horse polo horse hockey yeah that'd be a good name no it should be croquet but on horses croquet hockey on horse hockey there's katie ritzer trying to pass that to mcstravik [Applause] i know that's not no is that much no that is why is it birmingham sorry the six and the eight look alike abby wayne trying to clear that to birmingham dad i'm centering it but good defense there from wayne [Music] trying to get it to lilly duplassy do plussies getting run down [Music] keeps it in passes it back to mayor mayor intercepts it again mit that's mayor yeah reception trying to pass it back to mayor and mcstrava can't get there dedham's gonna get there excellent defense there from ghetto yeah nice counter attack yeah sr oh great defense right back gonna be picked up by number 24 emily and that's going to be off the stick it's gonna be yeah sam marotta [Music] abby wayne rolled up all over and then it's gonna be out of bounds free hit for a goalie just under 10 minutes left in the first half get him up one nothing right out of the house yeah but was deflected so denim [Music] good through the legs here we go nice mayor down the line for the plessy right down the sideline excellent feed there and mayor does that a lot great play off the stick of dedham it could be an infraction on mayor and that's going to result in dedemba [Music] extravic stars just going to poke that out denim coach trying to get that ball so yes does not have hemi wants to get it moving yeah do you know like you know like in soccer or are you trying to like do the quick throw in just catch him off guard mayor nice trap there trying to work it down the line this girl for dedham there number four has just been tough to get the ball by yeah [Music] good interception there oh but denim gets it yep 8 30 left [Music] wow nice play extravagant this marauder team is aggressive [Music] wayne eight minutes got the call eight minutes left to go in the second quarter what happened there yeah [Music] oh abby hits tom mayor mayor with another great pass up you do posse du plessy number four oh yeah [Applause] evie schneider getting ready to check in [Music] okay yeah it looks ds ball i think that was a high speed has it or high ball to wah wah to do plasti you do plessy swarmed with dedham people and will be cleared out by denim wow dad i'm able to almost get it out pass it back to abby wayne abby wins got a power shot passes it off to mcstravik that's gonna be off of dedham foot 6 16 left [Applause] has a strong defensive core that's what i've noticed so far about this game there and just not making it easy to get anything on that yeah ds has not played bad but denim has just played unbelievable yeah especially in their defensive zone [Music] see if they can get through here intercepted [Applause] great foot speed there oh back check question mark i don't know hey at least this star didn't get tripped up oh [Music] nice through ball there from el hawali but you put that a bit too far but that ball still got her running you know soccer has the uh the young kids um collecting the the loose balls for them why doesn't field hockey i don't know it's a good question right it's out of bounds yes we'll get the ball i said [Music] breaking it out nice pass up the sideline [Music] good play there ritzer playing good defense on oh they get one through oh nice player there yeah was that abby wayne yep avery bent trying to get that ball she falls down looks like she's good wayne that's a high stick high stick this ball looks like just a little speck on this small little camera screen so yeah exactly it is i'm just further up [Applause] oh data with an opportunity here yeah outstanding defensive play from harvey number two there wayne harvey [Music] just trying to get it out right now yep and denim ball yep 230 left in this first half [Music] [Applause] okay this could be slightly dangerous here yep please it back nice deflection from ds emily in pursuit of that ball okay yeah raider ball the two minute marker here this hat wayne i'm gonna do that on a nice line to a sar oh no do a hawaii that passes it to a star star with the bad pass there right now working down the sideline good feed here yep let's move that i think that is i if i was cs i would definitely try to make a good attack from the right side of the field to try to not go after number four corner for ds so sometimes you got to do that you know say in football you have a really good cornerback that's shutting out your your best like wide receiver you know same things can happen for this [Music] looks like his heart is going to take this corner oh no plays it short to mayor mayor waiting for them to come up passes it to us sorry it's got four people on her i know just swarmed by marauders mayor off the foot so if it was off the foot shouldn't have been a whistle yeah that should have shoulda woulda wished thank you just yeah coulda diaz got gotta go fast emily wah centers it up [Applause] not looking great for ds there still plenty of times [Music] well six seconds on wall misses that one three two one yep okay at the end of the half diaz trails we'll see you here live for third quarter action in a bit well technically now we're live good morning good evening good evening everyone as we start the second second half of today's matchup between your dover sheriban raiders and the dead of marauders score here at the beginning of the third quarter is one do nothing in favor of the denim marauders diaz looking to get back on the scoreboard back into the game and maybe take home a win can hear the fans getting into it right 15 minutes on the clock getting ready to start this third quarter yep bears [Music] what they say girls just want to have fun okay diaz playing it back to ben bent to izzy frydell frydell near side now trying to pass that's gonna be out of bounds ds ball it's gonna be taken by number 19.
so i have some experience with it chris when you said this before this was at your other high school before prior to coming here although i did tickets to killington on a day trip um literally three weeks before covet yeah so how many kids are in the club in the club total um ben uh kids we are not taking 73 kids to killing them the bus carries 30. we um on the overnight we typically take 20.
except for it for adults i have a question for a superintendent lair our baby mr grimes i saw an email of to all staff um that was about the covid weekly testing deadline and i just wanted a point of clarification um it says if you are unsure how when or where to receive your weekly covet 19 vaccine please email me directly and we will be able to assist you are we requiring as a district that people get weekly coven 19 vaccines or is that a new requirement or i just wasn't on i wasn't sure about that it's a typo and so they're not getting weekly vaccines okay they're not i don't think anyone knows vaccinated thank you i was i was really concerned on that one no no i didn't even catch that right it seems like the requirements just keep changing so much i just didn't know if that slipped in somehow there it did not it it slipped in as a typo so so we have a motion in a second do we have any kind of discussion oh sorry come on let's do all the comments yeah okay hello uh my name is sarah king i am a fully credentialed teacher who has been teaching our adolescency rivals for three years along with experience of teaching k through 6th grade arts at lachlan unified school district i'm out of certified and i've led after school activities for multiple years for my students i continue um or i consider myself to be a very valuable staff member for all of my students [Music] in the classroom i teach my students to be in charge of their own bodies while encouraging diversity inclusion and equity for all students including those with medical disabilities and those with various religious beliefs the department of education defines inclusion in early childhood programs as including children with disabilities in early school settings together with their peers without disabilities as the byzant harris administration has explained the term equity means a consistent and some systematic fair dust and impartial treatment of all individuals including individuals who are underserved communities and that have been denied such treatment and members of religious minorities i am calling for the board to apply these concepts that i have that have been pushed so heavily into education for years by putting inclusion diversity and most importantly equity in the front of their minds when making decisions with regard to the koba 19 health orders the hypocrisy of telling a child from a young age that no one but them is in charge of their own body then requiring all students to follow an order that takes away their right to choose what goes into their bodies or their right to a free and fair education is unacceptable the reason for declining to abide by a vaccine or testing orders is not the department of health or the district's business at all and is a fundamental civil right however many are choosing to disclose the reasons they are declining which include valid medical and sincerely held beliefs as the reasons yet these individuals continue to be discriminated against and threatened with unpaid leave and or independent study as the only alternative to these orders of getting vaccinated or weakly tested these are not fair or equitable solutions proposed and center joint unified students parents and staff deserve much better students and staff our historically marginalized ethnic groups will suffer disproportionately from forcing independent study and unpaid lean as the only alternative to vaccination and testing according to a publication by aspe i provided this to you in the email that i sent you um it shows in the graph that the majority of people opting to not get vaccinated are from these um historically marginalized groups and i strive every day to provide my students with choices that will allow them to become motivated lifelong learners center center joint unified has an obligation to give these students and staff members equitable options when it comes to public school access and their own physical health choices alternative options such as this are such as social distancing voluntary testing options system or symptom checks sanitized stations hvac replacements and outdoor classes will prove to be measures center joint unified can take to equitably keep all students and staff in the classroom safely thank you so much you have any more public comments yes hey good evening everyone my name is rosemary i am a mother of a student that is currently at center i've had all four of my children's go through every single oak hill wilson center and to hear of the vaccination mandate of course it's alarming and upsetting um there were comments made that kind of i completely echo per sentiment i am not an educator i had a hard time helping my son with this 504 plan adhd everything that he has going on it was very difficult during the distance learning my son struggled tremendously my son also had kobe got sick just fine to my other four children three of my four children had a probate got sick like a cold and healed just fine they continue to be okay i know that's not the same for everyone i do know however that the numbers of people that are dying even though every single death matters absolutely it is a tragedy it's small compared to those that thrive and survive after this illness so a comment that you made kelly you had mentioned when you guys were discussing the [Music] virtual sessions you guys have that to require someone to risk their life when it's not necessary yeah exactly that you also had mentioned um that the people who a lot of the people that are suffering and dying currently have been fully maximized very small percentage a very small percentage of just now more and more people are getting vaccinated so this thing is shifting and changing and that's very understood and well respected but to see someone's actual immune system do its job is a beautiful thing as well so to to comment on what she had said about yes these students that already have a hard time it is going to affect them if they then have to homeschool my son said i don't want to get vaccinated but i'm also very afraid of going back to virtual learning i struggle and i don't want to go through that again to hear the actual distress in my son's voice is just disheartening and i just want it to be understood that parents and educators are saying we're vocalizing to you and i know i'm not alone because i've reached out to my antelope community there are several of us who feel this way this should be something that is absolutely i appreciate this that we can come in and talk to you all like this i actually want to continue to come because this is something very narrator to my heart and um i think that every aspect should be considered i know that there's a lot of fear and i understand that i also believe that there should be a lot more hope a lot more people are getting vaccinated those who want to absolutely should those who do not should not have to it is my child's body and he has already shown that he can thrive he we're doing you said the numbers are low and they're in school the numbers are low and they're in school already there's things that we can do there's more and more education that we can share i just really hope that you guys take some serious consideration when you all decide what you want to do on this thank you for your time it's going to be a state mandate it's not going to be something you decide unfortunately i i mean although i i don't necessarily agree with your perspective i respect your perspective and i understand that you know you feel it should be a choice i understand her immunity and that the community is you know my belief is that the community needs to be protected over the individual right but what i believe in what you believe probably isn't going to make a difference because if it's mandated that's like saying you know that the laws for the health department mandates for how a restaurant runs their business are optional and they're not that's probably they're not optional miss kell you just stated that it's my choice to choose and now you're saying that if it's mandated you have no i said i respect your perspective that it's your right to choose i understand that but i don't we're not going to be given a choice to be different for board members when they're talking about approving or disapproving being here in person versus students who come into classrooms in person like it's it goes for you too you just said it it's my choice to choose now let our students and let our staff choose as well but what i'm telling you is that what i'm saying is that we're not going to have a choice we as a board don't get to decide if it's a mandate it's a mandate that means it's a law and we have to follow it it's not a mandate it's not a law a mandate is not allowed but as stewards of this district if we leave our district open to liability like that it's not something we can do we should probably hear all the public comments before we yeah sorry is the district going to put something in place i agree with these women right here i think it should be my body my choice my children if this passes and it does mandate unfortunately my son is a sophomore right now at center i have a daughter who goes to oak hill who's in kindergarten and unfortunately when that mandate comes unless we can do something to stop it i have to pull my children out because i will not put them through that my question for you is is this board can you please approach the podium introduce yourself with the recording so that people can hear you yes so my question is there are a lot of people that feel the same thing with myself and these women right here is the board putting together something not just for independent study we end up not having a choice in having to pull our children out are there going to be processes in place because i think you're going to be really surprised when you see a huge influx of children being pulled from school because there's a bigger crowd of parents who are not okay with this than there are who are willing to vaccinate their kids i mean we would do whatever we're allowed to do and whatever we're capable of doing to serve all the students of this district and i respect that you're going to have something in place are there going to be emails that are going out to parents who need to learn how to do the independent study because i understand we have until july and i'm assuming that you guys are going to be working on plans for those parents who don't want to fail their kids with the education system but will not put them through that yeah absolutely yeah we absolutely would yeah if that comes down to it we don't know that drop dead time yet but absolutely we will work a critical instruction in in capitalize on the program we have for our families uh because we do have that obligation and duty and we we do understand that i'm sorry what was your name paulie thank you okay i was dismayed today when i put in the um zip code searcher and i put antelope and alberta as the two zip codes 55 has been vaccinated for those two zip codes did we have any more public comments i have one that's from sarah i'm assuming yes i'm assuming you don't okay so this one is from osama vaccination mandate when slash how do parents need to start applying for an exemption for their child medical or personnel [Music] next is from concerned parents the mandate is set in place for the vaccine how will parents submit personal belief exemptions [Music] and from concerned parent will the district take responsibility for any and all mathematical reactions to the experimental coca-19 vaccine if it is mandated that's all i have okay so regarding those questions do you have information on how what the exemption process would be so right now it is there is two processes there would be a medical uh exemption and then a personal belief um and so that's something we we're working on we know the state or our local attorney's things would help us with that that process but right now we don't even have the date of mandate but we would absolutely have those available for folks if that's permissible just as we do right now for the current vaccines we have the medical exemption process that we would go for we don't know what's going to happen at this point we don't know if they're going to mandate it we don't know although he did require that that could change by the time fda approval comes around and then personal exemption could change it could get more lenient or it could get more restrictive and so it really depends the the governor's proclamation is one thing that has to have that personal uh belief exemption uh my understanding is if it becomes through legislative action just as they have some other of the vaccines that we get there is a medical exemption that's it um i don't know of anything going through the legislature right now but to be honest i i haven't pulled through their book to see um rumor on the street was people might take a wait-see approach from the legislature but again that's hearsay through the groups that i connect with okay i have some comments that i'd like to make on this topic first of all i'd like to stress to everybody that this is a discussion on topic the board is not taking any action on this tonight so don't worry about that um now personally just to share my status i'm fully vaccinated i haven't yet received a booster but i will probably be doing that within the next few weeks the vaccine did hit me hard both times not nearly as hard as kobe did when i got that as a breakthrough that was one of the worst illnesses i've ever had in my life um it completely knocked me out for two weeks and it was a relatively mild case um i get tested almost every single week um i have to do the rapid test right now because the pcr test when you've had code within the last 90 days it comes back as vague essentially the data shows that the vaccine is safe for most people and is effective for most people but the reality is there are some people and some of whom i know personally that have had bad reactions to it um i'm a strong believer in bodily autonomy and as much as i think that the vaccine is generally a good idea i stop being so comfortable when i'm telling somebody else what they have to do um i have a student at center who just recently got their first vaccine uh dose and i was advising that they get vaccinated sooner but it's not my body it's not my choice so i gave access to information and eventually they decided that they wanted to get vaccinate so we went ahead and did that um as far as mandating it i honestly while i think that the vaccine is a good idea for most people i'm just not comfortable with making that determination for others um one concern that i have is right now there is the personal belief exemption and i have no idea what's going to happen in the future but if you guys want to hang on to that i encourage you to not only be involved with our meetings contact the legislature and let them know you want that to remain because frankly i don't think this is likely going to be the decision of anybody in this room i think this decision is going to happen at the state level and we're going to be told what we have to do and um and then we're just going to have to make the best of that situation now one question i have and i don't know if anyone has any guess on this do we know what the anticipated change to independent study numbers would be if vaccines do become natural yeah we i mean we don't know that um i i would suspect they would i don't know if you're in any thought you'd i mean i i know they will go up i just don't know okay at the other district where i work um surprisingly at their recent board meeting on this topic there were quite a few parents saying that they look forward to a vaccine mandate because they'd be more comfortable pulling their kids out of the independent studies uh that was not what i anticipated at all um so yeah i do encourage people if it's safe for you to get the vaccine but ultimately you that's between you and your doctor and i don't feel comfortable putting myself in disney i just want to add on a comment um to what trustee bruno um had to say um and just strongly encourage the parents who are in the room and who are watching um who are expressing their concerns to really direct those concerns to the people who are making the decisions that we then as a school board have to follow um i know for example that um you know our governor has stated um that this will take place once it's authorized and just so that those watching now um there's going to be an independent advisory committee a committee meeting of the fda coming up on october 26th um cdc's independent advisory committee is meeting on november 2nd and november 3rd if you are someone who wants to access and use a personal belief exemption or medical exemption get in contact with our california legislature we have folks sitting there such as richard pan who are committed to removing those items and if those are removed then we really will have no recourse for our people who have personal belief exemptions um and and potentially it might even impact those under medical exemptions so if you're someone who might be affected or might want to access that portion um of those exemptions please start reaching out to the legislature reach out to the folks who are making the decisions um from what i've heard it might be within a few weeks that we have fda approval and then things are going to probably roll pretty quickly from the rhetoric that i'm hearing any other comments [Music] oh yes james anderson uh i'd just like to appreciate all the comments i've been said on this topic i i can totally respect both sides of the equation um i know there's some uncertainty about how parents feel in general as a population i was wondering if the district or the board has considered doing a survey like has been done in the past because i found that to be very helpful having those numbers knowing how other parents think um we did a few of those surveys um back in the middle of the worst of the pandemic uh last year and i i found it very helpful and comforting as a parent to know that percentage of how everyone felt so i'm just wondering if uh and this is completely rhetorical but just wondering if that's something that's been considered and will could be implemented as an option to understand the district's parent opinions i think i think that's a great idea because you're reading my mind to those parents in the room do you find those surveys helpful yeah or are you tired of getting them i think they're helpful if people are actually reading them so if we're filling them out and they're being utilized and the school has really taken them seriously i find them convenient okay sometimes we wonder if you're just getting tired of you know the constant surveys thank you another comment that i wanted to make on this um before the governor uh before he uh made his proclamation the question came before us because a grand jury had asked us to weigh in on it about you know whether or not we wanted to do a vaccine mandate that really got me thinking and the biggest thing for me is what we are doing personally as a district with separating students requiring masks doing the regular testing and making things available it seems to be working and frankly i think the approach of educating people about the benefits of the vaccine rather than telling people they must get it would probably be more effective [Music] any other comments more comments thank you this one is from mr informed consent personal belief exceptions what is the criteria for a personal belief exemption what relig religions will be recognized will the personal belief in the science of natural herd immunity be recognized if the mandate goes through before the fda approval will the board accept the civil liability of enforcing a vaccine that is still under review by the fda so my understanding is that the mandate is that once they receive full fda approval then it goes into effect is that the following the following semester right that would not be that would not even be an option for us we wouldn't be able to approve something well although what mr lehrer was saying is that some counties are accelerating but they're not accelerating beyond having full fda approval right some school districts are i mean i can't speak for the rest of the board but i certainly don't i'll tell you my my opinion is that i would not do that though um and then what was the other part of his question i'm sorry carol um i think what what uh yeah we don't know what the requirements will be for for exemptions right we'll just have to wait and see what the what they tell us the personal belief exemption do they can they simply say i don't believe in it yeah that's what you did at natomas before they eliminated those that's my understanding fill out the form and that's that any other comments i actually have one more by all means um i 100 agree with what you said about um educating those who are on the fence or who do want to do it educating them and and making that available um i would also ask then that those of us who feel the opposite if the same information can be provided to us somehow via the website whatever center unified or what we can do once that information is divulged to you all once you guys know what's going on if we could be informed without being raped because i would like you know to also consider everybody else who feels the way that us concerned parents do to be absolutely considered because i don't know i just kind of letting fear win here a lot and it's hurting a lot of people and our choices and our children's choices and it's very confusing for them they're already going through an awful lot this is affecting everybody psychologically and emotionally so that's why i appreciated when he was talking about the increase in hiring people for mental wellness that's beautiful because that will continue if children are told that in order to go to school in order to see your friends in order to have a social life as a young developing child the things that come when you are social and you're around your peers that you can't get at home when they're told you have the choice between that or getting a shot in your arm to continue to do that that's a hard choice for a child and i really hope that that's definitely considered because you all are adults and you made that choice on your own these children children this is a very big choice for them they lean on us they lean on you all and lean on adults so just please make sure that we're informed of what we can do as well it does absolutely go both ways thank you i wanna say one more thing too so as you guys know i'm and i think that this whole pandemic has been very hard on educators as well and we've been um kind of adjusting as we've gone throughout this entire pandemic and we've been open to things like screening questions we've been open to things like social distinction we've been open to things like remote learning but now i feel like we're facing ultimatums of vaccinations and this is not acceptable for anyone including students [Music] [Laughter] grimes and i am a medical assistant and i work on staff as a health assistant here one of my jobs is i track the vaccinations that have already been given that are already required as students begin school and as they come into our district and there's a lot of reasons why people are decide one way or another in this issue and i'm not even going to address those but i just have to say that there is a medical um value to protecting our lives through vaccination i think of the whether or not you think this vaccination is ready that's something else i'm not even going to get into but i think about the the vaccines the deadly diseases that 150 years ago every family lost children over we're talking about diphtheria and polio whooping cough all those terrible things that now are virtually not part of our life and so i just want to say be careful don't let the heated political gunk that's going on stop you from trying to find out what was good health wise and just be aware of that and that's all i'm saying thanks it really is it strikes me that this is just like any other childhood vaccine except for it's being started up politically rather than the chickenpox and you know polio that they get when they're infants those are all mandated events i understand the concern about it being fairly new just just i also understand that they've given millions and millions and millions of billions of these vaccines and i i understand that part of it but they do but they do flu vaccines every single year this technology's been around since since the 20s i believe when they created the measles vaccine using the same rna technology the technology's been around for ages and um they know what they're doing and they tested it and it's been they collected data on literally billions of people so i mean but that's my opinion that's that's my perspective i completely understand people being concerned about it being new go ahead i'll shut up i do respect hearing other people's opinions like i don't get frustrated i think it's great and i think it's great when people hear us i think one of my frustrations in general overall is how everybody keeps comparing it to their vaccines my kids are fully vaccinated with other stuff i'm not anti-facts or whatever you want to call it that's not my problem my kids got the flu shots every year not my problem my problem is this one has not been studied enough in people so you can tell me in five years is my child going to have problems right my child's gonna do five years hasn't transpired and my husband however long it's been since those vaccines have been out right parents are more comfortable for lack of a work because they've been studied right chickenpox is gone because they've been able to tweak it do whatever they do in their their labs i'm not a scientist i don't know anything to be able to um perfect it for lack of a better word to where it works people are now getting one shot two shots booster shots because they're still trying to figure out things people do get sick there are people who get contraindications or have issues across the board it doesn't matter what it is but i think it frustrates me as a parent because i do believe in vaccines but this specific one has not been around long enough for them to tell us what type of long-term effects and issues it could have on our child if that's what i understand i absolutely i'm not disagreeing with you at all but i also know that we also don't know the same thing about cooking we don't know what's going to happen to people with long coven or who five years from now who had it and recovered we don't know those effects either so it again it's it's just a decision right it's a decision that you should be able to make it uh and i respect that more comments all right okay again from mr informed consent and this is a comment regarding a survey it says the survey i would like to fill out a survey that the school board will listen to last time i filled out a survey it was 52 that we wanted the students to go back to in-person school the 49 was allowed to get in contact and sway the board via email after the vote well the vote had the majority we were forced to keep our kids home will this happen again and the next one is also from mr informed consent and it says history at no time in history have the people forcing others into compliance been the good guys as educators you should think of this right any other comments responses discussion right so this is not a discussion item so we can go ahead and move on to item d california school board association equity network training trustee lee has requested that the board discuss and consider participating in the california school boards association csva equity network training the details of the program are included in the documentation for this item we have a motion to approve we should bring it to the floor well it again when we when we move to approve it's the same as bringing it to the floor it will bring it to the floor but if you don't want to move to approve you can move to bring it to the floor nancy moves right to the floor okay thank you sorry i thought you were i just wanted to know if this was something that you had time to do or wanted to do or what are your thoughts on it well service it would include you yeah so one one member maybe and then two board members is what they do i i saw the schedule that's fine with me um in fact thank you trustee lee for working with cspa because we did not have any dates we thought we had dates in october and then finally we do have something for spring i think it's uh a saturday a month february through april for three hours i believe it is the cost to the district's about three thousand dollars i believe but it would be two board members committing and myself um as i look through it i find it very interesting i think it would be worth the time as long as we have two board members that would be also interested in joining it i'm assuming trustee lee since you brought this up you were you are interested so and you know i'm interested if no one else is so i mean i don't want to take up all the oxygen but and it seems like the united principles are that that group the two members and then myself would bring back the information to the full board so you guys are also clued in whoever could not make it surgery no i i think that um you know we we all are aware that changes are among us changes are happening there is an awareness and awakening in our culture and i know that people who dealt who people of color people who have been marginalized have been dealing with these oppressive situations but it didn't end with lincoln declaring slavery over it didn't end with civil rights it didn't end with them being able to vote none of that has ended the impressive um society oppressing a what they consider to be a lesser part of our community and the fact that we all went through an educational system that whitewashed that and eliminated that from our education um is tragic and um and it's also an awareness that we need to have that people don't know just how tragic things are they don't know that entire communities were burnt down because they were being too successful or that people were medically tested on or that lynchings were an everyday occurrence of the south for a long long long long past civil rights or i mean sorry the end of slavery so these kind of things were not taught in school and that's wrong but again we're not taught in school so i mean i've lived most of my life believing what my parents told me to say oh all people are equal everyone's equal well that is a lie because people are not being treated equally so how can they be equal if they're not being treated and i think that there is an awareness that we are lacking in our entire society that just we just have to we have to jump off the cliff and say hey i'm part of this i'm part of the solution and equity training is definitely something we all need to take so what we'll do is i uh dr lee i didn't go there i don't think there's sign ups yet but we'll put it on our tickler to look for the sign ups and if if the board's okay with it we'll participate and i will sign up with trustee kelly and trustee lee and then we will bring that information back as we do the session this time was canceled for lack of i think it was a busy time this time too short of notice we didn't yeah i know it's like i think i think the fall semester it was people were busy so we'll put an articulate world watch for it to approve this for him to yeah okay but i will make that motion all right thank you thank you mr sanderson we'll call vote oh is there any further discussion okay uh roll call mr dr lee aye this is anderson hi mr bruno all right no i don't need love [Laughter] no chance sorry i got a little passion for their work um item e s or three expenditure plan leas that's local educational agencies that's us that receive elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds that's called ester funds elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds under the american rescue plan act are required to develop a plan for how they will use the sr3 funds to address students academic social emotional and mental health needs as well as any opportunity gaps that existed before and were worsened by the code of 19 pandemic we need to bring this good score for discussion or make a motion to aim [Music] to yes to approve do we have a second check okay do we have discussion the only thing i would share is just as an overview one of the the commitments as we've received and continue to receive uh sr funding or what we've so happily called covet money because there's about 10 different classes to come in one of the missions that we've had is to to try to create some sustained supports for our families and students not just what i'd like to say is like one and done and so i i have to start first by calling lisa coronado and her staff in the business office for navigating the timelines and requirements for each of these to allow us to achieve a more long-term uh solution to help our students and so uh those were planned for you the the plan before you is a required plan the state has in place [Music] um but but so with windows funds one of the systems that we wanted was to make sure that it was continued to support and we realized by bringing in the uh academic the social emotional supports that we knew the effects from the covenant of the 18 months we were weight would uh be longer than just a year so our plan takes us out through a three-year plan uh this is similar to what i shared with you in our elop the the expanded learning opportunity plan but to give you uh an overview the the things as we work with our our d-lax our dax or the advisory committees it kept coming back to within the requirements of what these funds would allow us to do would be to create safe and in-person learning was the goal within that and then also academic and social emotional supports so within this plan uh for the safe and personal learning we have a facility supervisor now that helps us order and maintain all of our ppe training custodial sap address ventilation needs we added additional health text for this plan so we have a health tech at each site and actually some roving ones because we found one in each site wasn't enough because of the volume of testing we were doing in addition it includes two million dollars in upgrades to hvac um going further down that just to highlight the academic impacts and social reports it provided for uh four extra teachers for ela and math at center high school and wilson riles to lower class size at both of those core subjects we brought in eight elementary intervention teachers and five elementary instructional specialists to support our our students and start addressing some of the gaps independent studies because independent study options did come up we have that as a part of it so we can provide that safe environment for families that choose not to uh send their students to school we also have a student and family engagement administrator and two assistants who next uh i think six months or december we'll bring back he's gonna give you an overview of the work he's doing with families to help engage them uh back in our school because there are still some problems that families are facing and we want to make sure that that is is addressed and supported through the district our social workers we've added four social workers elementary counselor uh intervention counselors and uh as i talked to all the sites uh those social emotional counselors and social workers are they're earning every dollar they are they are busy individuals on our site so it was great that we were able and i'll credit mr uh jordan for working hard to get those folks on every single site um further we have the intervention counselor teacher on assignment to support our digital technology uh teaching and learning because we're still trying to support the independent study kids are going out for quarantine so we're trying to support that piece and then increasing office hours for our student and family support services which is a family resource center which ryan miranda will be sharing a little bit more next month about uh from there so with that our our plan with this is to continue to um provide those supports that we have in place and not have them at the end of the year drop off um so that's kind of the overview and if there's questions or anything else but it's a required plan that we submit to the state um it just outlines the spending expenditures and then ms coronado gets the beautiful job of trying to come back and talk about how that money was spent and account for all of them so is this chiseled in stone or is this flexible uh i believe that there is some flexibility within it but right now these are most of the things that we're currently have in place that will allow us to carry out there are a couple spots that we don't have filled for example we hired pe uh instructors at every elementary site so we have specialists we also brought in music and right now we have one of the four music positions built so we're still trying to fill more because we know from a social emotional aspect giving the kids options is a very helpful thing um and north country is the one who did was able to hire someone they've seen some really positive benefits to starting up a band in fact mr farrell just sent me uh because we're doing a song which is kind of fun to see in here so that's our our plan once approved we would then take it back to the submit to the state and then any adjustments we would make along the way have any questions or comments i'd just like to uh echo what superintendent lair said thank you very much lisa i was just reading a news report about some other districts losing out on funds because they didn't you know they're not allocating them within the time frame and everything and it just made me really appreciate how much you do and how well you do your job thank you and this credit goes to tammy bailey because she writes the plan i just provide the dollar amounts to go with the idea thank you you and your staff thank you thank you today so with that we would seek your approval all right any other comments questions any public comment roll call vote dr lee hi mrs anderson aye mr bruno hi charitable side and the resolution is passed okay uh advanced planning future meeting dates the next week meeting regular meeting president kelly yes i'd like to make a statement real quick before you move on to that i was attacked earlier in the meeting and i'm going to hold most of my comments to a later date but i just want to say that the charges made against me were completely untrue i'm not a racist you could ask my black brother-in-law he'd be more than happy to stand up for me i'm not a homophobic i think the community knows that from my past actions i think the problem is laid with lee from the way she entered the board the way she has attacked people all along and that's why i stood up and thought to the people that couldn't stand up for themselves because they're at-will employees and they didn't feel like they could and it made me so angry that every time somebody spoke to her she would come back and attack them just to keep them quiet i don't do business that way and i don't expect anybody else to the employees that she attacked would leave here in tears that's what got us off to a bad start our meeting used to be wonderful meetings nobody even though we would disagree nobody would be angry with each other we would leave here trust me anderson this happy people this is not an item on the agenda we really shouldn't i'm sorry this is not an item on the agenda i am addressing the comments she made to me now just just to clarify um mrs anderson i appreciate what you're trying to say but mr bruno is correct this is not agendized we will have an opportunity to discuss this at a future meeting absolutely and um let's move on to advanced planning future meeting dates the regular meeting is that uh wednesday november 17 at six o'clock here in this room uh everyone is welcome to attend virtually and in person since we passed that resolution we have any suggested agenda items just the last meeting the board did ask to have family resource center and due to um the ryan miranda in that department we asked him for november he was likely going to be out possibly in december and so he's going to be next month um as well and then we will also be bringing forward the heritage uh conversation as requested the previous meeting and i'll make sure that that list is based off the cde list uh because i have that original ones as well um so i just want to point out the the last thing too was um one of the things i think i share with the board and the communication is we are looking at a different uh room uh for our facility a bigger room uh that's more airy we seem to be kind of growing out of this room so uh hopefully by 2022 uh we will have the opportunity to be in a a better facility for us so i think that will be good and work with allow us to continue to live stream and things like that and i was wondering dr lee did you want to ask to bring forward the disaggregated data you were referring to earlier yes thank you um i i would like to hear about our pre-diagnostic um you know assessments for ireti um and to have that um disaggregated data shared with us hopefully you know desegregated by race gender ell status all of the different categories that we're supposed to be looking at absolutely and mr jordan was that in december or november that you were planning to bring that forward or like i can do november is that okay okay so i'll put a note that will bring it i'll put it on my tickler for december and we might even have by then a second round of i writing data to show you so that'll be good we'll get a comparative because right now the comparative data is from the end of last year okay any of your suggested agenda items and the channel will indicate a motion function we have the second second okay all right you
so you can see we've we're getting close to our regular employee number there when i originally took numbers on the regular staff that needed to be tested weekly we thought it'd be around 350 and we are really close to that target i just did a recount today on cards collected for all of our testing sites and we're at 365.
it's the affirmative action program for school and classroom practices this is a mandated policy the policy states that african-american history as well as the history of other cultures is infused into the curriculum and taught as part of the history of the united states in 2002 the amistad bill became law and it requires new jersey schools to incorporate african-american history into their social studies curriculum this legislation also created the amistad commission it's a 23 member body charge with insurance that african-american history contributions and experiences are adequately taught in the state's classroom it's interesting because in 2002 i remember that um it came into law because there were deficiencies in the curriculum there were a lot of concerns with them and also the impact that it was on years and years of it not being taught properly or being included on the impact that it was having on african-american student students of course so they have this build then it was a couple of years ago and it was supposed to be implemented a couple of years ago um they found that it really wasn't being taught it still wasn't being incorporated into the school system so that's why they created young stock commission so the yamasa commission um well i'll explain some of them as well so the legislature on this is what they found they found that on since the days of slavery public school curriculum have consistently omitted or misrepresented the history of african americans to correct this on these omissions all public schools in the state of new jersey should include instruction that infuses into all forces on the united states the century's contributions and accomplishments by african americans and the building and development of africa the amistad commission is responsible for designing and promoting the implementation of education and awareness programs in new jersey concerns with slavery in america and the contributions of african americans we're developing curriculum guidelines for the teaching of this information the amistad commission is an ideal agency to recommend curricular materials to school districts so the goal is to infuse the history of africans and african-americans into the social studies curriculum in order to provide an accurate complete and inclusive history to ensure that new jersey teachers are equipped to effectively teach the revised social studies standards to create and coordinate workshops seminars uh institutes memorials and events which raise public awareness about the importance of the history of african americans to the growth and development of american society and global context the goal is to develop students academic strengths and cultural sensibilities about the inclusive nature of history and acknowledge the contributions of africans and african americans in us history diverse studies help to promote a healthy bridge between differences that exist amongst our students now my next section i put hopefully because um i met with whenever i see a problem a concern i think about well how can we solve this and um one of the ways that as an educator one of the ways that the first thing i think about was we'll think about is well we need to educate our kids and so um i met with um miss love i met with her last week and we talked about incorporating embedding using african-american studies and um she's been doing a really good job she's been working really hard um as we can see with the gifted talented program but she's also taken the time to work on providing resources for our teachers to start embedding african-american studies into the curriculum so um during the um in service um last week she did present to the teachers and when she was telling me this i i you know i was really pleased with that that i see that she's on putting forth effort towards this um now i express that we need to be intentional uh we need to be consistent one of the things that i found and i've been in education for over 20 years i've worked in places where there's a lack of diversity bless you but i also worked in many places where there's a lot of diversity and um every place is different one of the things i see is sometimes it's not consistent and i think that some districts will start out great with these programs and teaching them and then it sort of slows down his eyes down um i believe that um we're starting we're in a good place with what i saw that ms love has developed but i think that it needs to be monitored to ensure that it's being followed um it's not a choice as a mandate and also teachers need on they need pd professional development on this we improve a lot of development professional development on as a board and on i'm yet to see any professional development that has to do with on learning how to teach african-american studies um there's a lot more that comes with that it's not like teaching them it's not like teaching reading on there there needs to be training and and a sensitivity towards them um and so one of the things that um prompted me or has really been pushing me and i'll and i'll read this the protest and the wake of george floyd's kill sparked the national conversation on racial injustice but there's always been there's there's discrimination there's racial injustice there's racism but sometimes when things are good things you find we sort of just become complacent and when this occurred i think that seeing someone being killed in public um it sparked a lot of things and it was um it was a wake-up call for many people for me it was a wake-up call that we need to do better and there's a lot more work to be done i believe that if we teach our kids different people um different cultures if we start to teach them that um about contributions and not only about that one part of the history books that teaches about slavery i went to school in the 70s it's still the same you learn about slavery and i'll tell you many african-american children [Music] they uh they would rather be absent that day than be in the classroom especially when they're the only ones being taught about slavery as if that's the only thing that um african-americans have contributed to this world to this design um so okay so it was a wake-up call for me um that more work has to be done um we witnessed a protest right here in our small town of brielle which was organized by three brielle graduates one being my own daughter and um and i remember when she came to me and said she wanted to do this and my husband and i first sat down and we spoke with her why why do you want to do this and she said she wanted to bring about awareness that even in brielle race racism exists now many people um and brielle may not feel that it does as a matter of fact she received um a lot of messages from people who did not approve of her having this protest and they felt that everything was fine why are you bringing this up everything is fine well i think everything is fine if you've never been um the victim of any kind of discrimination and i have to say that the the racism the discrimination it's not on where someone's burning across in my front lawn god forbid right um it's and when i look at it when it happens because it's happened to my own children it's happened to my husband who grew up in this town went to school here in manaswan um and the stories are similar it still continues to happen and when i uh hear these stories i don't think children are racist i think that they don't there's a lack of understanding there's a lack of understanding that this person is different than me but in a way we're very much alike and this is like it's so important for us to teach to incorporate different cultures into our curriculum we won't be eliminating anything we won't be eliminating other uh important history but we have to start incorporating embedding into our curriculum that there are other people in this world than just white people um which is when you study history our history looks that's what you study um i mean my own experience as a as a person of color that's all that's all i learned i really didn't learn about other cultures or anything like that um when i was in school um and it needs to change that was a long time ago when i went to school in the 70s and and it needs to and things change um according to the academy american academ academy sorry the pediatrics um they found that um okay according to the american academy of pediatrics is committed to addressing the factors that affect child and adolescent health with the focus on issues that may leave some children more vulnerable than others racism is a social determinant of health that has a profound impact on the health status of children adolescents emerging adults and their families although progress has been made toward racial equality and equity that evidence to support the continued negative impact of racism on health and well-being through implicit and explicit biases of social instruction and so on um the whole point on i did research because i wanted to see what was the impact that this is having on our children i've seen it for years um in the different places where i've taught i've seen it for years and i've witnessed it in my own children the impact that it has um i mean like i said i could go on and on with this my whole point tonight is that it was something that i have a concern about um when i did research i found i was at the policies and the legislature and i saw that we weren't compliant i do have to say this that when this happened last year and just everything that you floyd and just all the racial tension i contacted chris um i spoke with her about it and she immediately said you know we'll have a meeting you know i spoke with parents or purpose we were all in curriculum and um they were very understanding and very willing to and they agree we do need to do this so i'm thankful that i i'm i don't stand alone here um that i know that everyone in greece that we need to do this um and as a matter of fact when i spoke with chris about it she contacted me maybe like a couple weeks later and said we ordered books we're going to have our library our classroom libraries will now be will now have books and that was a good first step and after meeting like i said i met with um miss love and i was impressed with what she put together um but we do but i want to see the effort to really make sure that we're pushing this not just because we have to be compliant although we do but because of the importance of it um even though we're in a district where there's very little diversity it doesn't matter sometimes in these types of districts that's where we need it the most um and i just want to say that um you said you know we don't stand by you we need to do this but i have to say we need to do it better you know we need to do better than what we're already doing and you know we have to do a better job that's just what it is and i know we will on our side on this board we will do a better job um but i agree that um you're right about the questionable development that's where it's going to start because it has to start with our teachers before it to get to our children so we need to do a better job thank you i think we all know that race relations and race are one of the uncomfortable conversations that people can have um everybody is not to offend everybody wants to do and say the right thing but we've got to know what the right thing is first be careful about how we stay informed this could not have been an easy thing to do thank you i think that as you observe karen said this board wants to do the right thing it wants to be compliant that's our responsibility but even though our town may not have a significant population who identify identifies color but we live in a world where lots of folks are of color and whatever minority or minorities that deserve the respect and the understanding of the folks and i know kurt you always have it on every curriculum meeting forward and we will always continue to do that it's it's again a topic that we have to do better so um thank you for dally i really appreciate your statement tonight um is there any other discussions for the board um very important it's great to hear that the teams are doing fantastic uh there's across across country and a little turnout so that uh opened it up to the fifth graders correct okay so you're gonna have the outstanding team from here because of that uh tomorrow is the last cross-country meet i believe the season the championships i delivered next week so but tomorrow is kind of the last school for school um just a couple of rep did a fantastic job with the football under the lights last week you know karen's part wreck they had to kind of change from saturday to thursday because of weather and they did a great job putting it together and it seemed like everybody had a fantastic time uh for some puppet coming events uh the fire company will be decorating the park for the dragon rides screen acres uh it will be on the 29th and the 30th ticket sales are tonight and will be also next thursday the 28th the rides go from roughly uh 6 pm to 9 pm on both nights uh two fundraisers i'm aware of is the e3 reselling pies for thanksgiving and the boy scouts were selling their wreaths and plants so both of them i think are ending probably the first week of november and for all the sending districts del mar has the wrestling team that invites all the sending districts to participate in which they start their program november 8th so for the boys and girls ascending districts you know just as uh you know a lot of people think this wrestling is a voice a female and that was only about three years ago i think the first year that wrestling for females had their own vision so ground steps one month one is one state champ and you know fella did a great job she's uh still wrestling in college and she is going to try to help try out the olympics so she's not giving up thank i think they might be doing that for the major invention we didn't get any such interest for the enrichment pcl we sent all that information out of the genesis the wrestling right just great reminder thank you all right payment of the bills dr laval will you do the honors please president i will uh motion that the board authorizes the statement of the following october 21 bill's list and then the secretary's authorized draw points of the treasury in the total amount of one million point eighteen thousand two hundred ninety five dollars yes great uh we do not have an executive session planned for this evening so can i have a motion to adjourn yes have a second okay all in favor all right thank you everyone have a good night
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um but honestly it's actually a division of how many kids in rooms per like gender right so like it's typically like three rooms of boys and three rooms of girls typically is kind of how it breaks down although if there's more girls or boys that want to go we tend to figure it out that way but 20 is like the sweet number to take okay is there any um a cancellation fee you know because obviously yeah they're uh hold on so covered make sure yeah makes that a little bit of a challenge um typically they refund it if if we don't go after a certain point you know once we've paid a certain point and they've lost certain money then then we can get a certain amount back um if students get coveted after a certain point that's a great question they're working that out for us they they had a rough year last year they didn't take very many trips so i don't have a great answer to that frankly we kind of cross our fingers but if if a kid didn't go because of a reason outside of their control we would refund as much of their money as we could possibly refund but it's certainly a risk when you plan anything like this that if a kid gets covered like a two days before we're leaving i don't know how much i can get back the trips are paid for at that point um but we do our best we don't want anybody to lose money on something that's out of their control i think it's important to communicate that to the parents yeah absolutely and you're going to have a meeting with parents correct yep it's in the beginning but we're very thorough and and have a meeting go over everything with them answer any questions you know that they would have this would be our second ski trip we're taking a day trip in january so most of the kids would go on that would go in this and the same policies would apply as far as covid refunds and things like that so um with that said we would be very clear and upfront about how that works um and that's actually in the in the what i tell parents to like if you cancel at the last minute i can't get all your money back you've canceled right so we would get more back clearly for covid but um you know those people run a business too so we trying to be cognizant of that what about i know we can't control it but the weather because it's tricky it's march i know it's vermont but uh it's marked as a tricky time and then what if it rains all weekend um it's not safe if it's icing yeah so um my experience going um we go unless the mountain is closed if the mountain is closed their policy is they refund the whole thing so the mountain is unskiable and they close we get a refund and we don't go i've run into it where we've gone to take the trip and the high school has been closed because we didn't have school on friday which has happened to me before and so that we typically get our money back because the school is closed and therefore we could not leave so those things are all built into our relationship with them and our and our contract with them but if the roads are open and the mountain is open by our contract with them we have to go so even if it's a crappy ski day we still have to go because in my experience working with them they've had high schools who have just decided it's just not nice weather we don't want to go and that's not a way to make a sustainable ski company so unfortunately even if it's not good weather um we're still going i know the lodge is open this year the lodges are open this year and killington has um they have three lodges so there's enough room um to spread out and uh they are limiting the number of people who can go um so when i tried to organize the other day trips we were very limited in which mountains would allow us in fact killington made an exception for us because of my relationship with ski 93 to allow us to go on a day trip if we had wanted to but there are not a lot of day trips going to mountains this year because the mountains are not allowing it so it's a lot more space up there in theory and my last question is there anything um [Music] talked about as far as fundraising for it or not um the club has certainly talked about fundraising the challenging part with fundraising for a trip like this is i don't typically know who's going on the trip until we start to get closer and so kids who fundraise but don't go on the trip there's a disproportionate like i'm raising money for something that i'm not participating in but once we start to narrow down who's going and who's committed then those kids are certainly welcome to work with me to raise money to defray the costs um skiing is an expensive sport unfortunately and that's always a a problem right um so yeah some of them sorry for all the questions not a problem at all happy to answer um how you know how are you assessing or can you even assess like a student's ski ability i just want to make you know sure um so i don't um and i can't so i tell the kids you have to know where you're going and you have to know your ability and you have to ski within that within that ability level i'm very clear with the students and the parents that skiing is a dangerous sport you need to know what you're doing and if you don't know don't go i've been doing in a very long time i have very rarely run into a student who pays this kind of money to go on a ski trip who is not a skier it's a lot of money to go skiing if you have no idea what you're doing with that said i just tell kids up front you know you have to i ask the kids directly i ask the parents directly does your child know how to ski and how well and i'm very clear with them that this is not mohawk so a green a killington or black at killington is not a black at mohawk which we run into um kids thinking that they can ski a black and mohawk and then they end up at killington terrified because they are stuck but um these are kind of life skills that i think the trip is really really good for it's about kids recognizing what they can do and working with with adults to figure out you know their capabilities and and it's in my experience having taken kids for many many years i really run into it thank you sounds great thank you what uh what else does the outdoor club do inside the ski so i see the rock climbing is that something that you guys normally do or is that um i normally do um they can do it uh so the trip is the club is run entirely by students actually ben is one of the student leaders of it and chris brooks sitting over there is one of the other ones and then we have two other students who run it they decide what trips we do we do a lot of hiking here in brookfield so we are go to williams park the kids have organized a scavenger hunt hiking experience they hit all the public lands here in brookfield to kind of explore where they live last year we did some winter hiking there are kayaks here in town that we're looking to do some stuff with so most of the stuff we do for kids is very accessible and very inexpensive though skiing is our winter activity one of our winter activities um it's kind of exciting a little bit of an alert to come be a part of the club because we go skiing but you know we do we do do a lot of other things uh here in town and then there's also a service project component so they're looking to work with the town to try to improve some of the areas that have come into disrepair and stuff like that for me it's a big part of what the club should be about and so they built it last year we were kind of limited in that capability but how many chaperones did you say would be on the trip so it's typically one chaperone for every 10 kids that goes it could be any variety of faculty members or certified parents who have done all the chaperoning certifications for the town typically the deal for the for the teachers who go is you have to be on duty in the lodge there's always a teacher on duty sitting somewhere in the lodge we pointed out to the kids that this is where they are um we hopefully rarely need them but if we do that's where they find them so the trade-off for the chaperones that are going is you get to ski kind of for free you're spending it with 30 high school students but you ski for free but you have to spend time in the lodge being on duty and being available for kids they all need to know how to ski for the most part i think one of the things that keeps the kids safe and keeps the kids effective is the fact that they don't know where the chaperones will be on the mountain at any given point i grew up in vermont i've been skiing since i was 12.
right now with cards still coming in and vaccinations still happening any questions about any of that mr tennis um i don't know if this is too far off topic but it's my understanding that we have um a policy on volunteers who want to come volunteer and help out at school is that and and that policy can you repeat that please let me jump in and take that one so uh the mandate does require that all adults on a school campus be either vaccinated or test weekly and we are currently putting our focus on getting all of our tests done with our staff ideally what our goal is is that we want to be able to test as mandated all of our staff we want to be able to offer testing to our students because if our students are a close contact and they can test twice weekly in their case then they can come to school and they don't lose class time if they cannot test or do not test then they're out for ten days that's a student that's the student with the parent our next group would be our parent volunteers and frankly we'd like to be able to have it open to our entire community we would like to be able to test so that then they have the ability to come in and test and go into and work in our schools currently we're really tapped on capacity we are working with california department of public health they are providing the employees to do the testing that's who we've contracted with we were promised nine we currently have three hopefully four tomorrow but we're way understaffed and in addition our tests we don't have enough tests to go to that amount yet so our goal is to phase this in as was mentioned were on day three so as we get this routine with our staff then our next step will be able to offer to students that desire to test so that they can do the modified quarantine and then open it up so any parents that are coming in wanting to volunteer in our schools would be able to test if i can just add a little bit to that one of the speakers earlier in the night and i wasn't able to respond because of the just the structure of the meeting but perhaps our district 13 folks can pass this on to parents and and we'll certainly try to communicate it on our end but she mentioned that achieve has interpreted the rules differently than we have that's really not the case it's just that a chief has a few hundred kids we have twelve thousand and um the logistics of tracking um potentially up to twenty four thousand parents um is is just a massive task um we're barely able to um track our staff right now um we're like i said we're in our first week fortunately we have michelle working full-time plus hours um just to track our staff and get those in a way that we can week by week know that all of our staff and our and our coaches and our student teachers and now our substitutes are either tested or vaccinated so so to add the parents on top of that would just be when they're not there daily there they come and go um it's not predictable um is it's just a task we're not prepared to take at this point there's no way we can we can and we're just worth repeating i think that the what we're talking about is a q-tip up the nose it's not that's a shallow it's not the brain scrape i actually wanted to bring a q-tip here to demonstrate for you all what it would kind of look like so um now cost of the tests versus availability of somebody to administer the test are those kind of co-equal problems in the in this situation or is one a bigger deal than the other well the tests are currently uh provided by the state so we get those for free so availability but it's getting them that's that's the key we have to we have to order them well in advance and um and then because like every um district in the state is is under the same requirement now so the availability is a is a challenge so why can't oh i just want to let you know the two biggest challenges are staffing and availability of the tests when we put in our orders originally it was a 14-day estimate and now they've pushed it to four weeks for delivery so we have to plan well in advance to order the tests and the staff that is covering our testing this week only two are permanent one actually is staying in the area in a hotel covering until they can hire and they really were optimistic they could hire nine employees and it's proved to be very challenging in butte county i mean we can't be the only school district that's dealing with this right no i mean um i'm going to be raising this issue in items for consideration for a future agenda because i think we need to write a nasty gram just to to the powers that be similar maybe to the one that we did about masks um can you we now education's important too now i understand these these these rules and everything or oh gosh they're so so important but you know we've got a job to do here and um one of our speakers earlier tonight during items from the floor i think i heard her say that you know can you have another test that would fulfill the same thing i mean we had a we got a little sniffle in my family the other day uh and so we went down to go get tested over on mangrove avenue and i mean you know there was no line at all i mean it was just like there's a whole room full of staff over there they're administering these tests and you find out i guess two days later i'm not an expert on testing and how long it takes and how good it is can people go get themselves one of those tests or something like that you know that was totally free and and um and is that not sufficient well so here's what we do need to do and i think it's something that we need to work on a policy to bring back to the board but there are only certain tests that qualify under this so it's very specific into which tests that we can use i do not know but we can certainly find out which facilities offer that test it is not going to be an over-the-counter test that you buy at cvs but it is very likely that perhaps um i i would assume that the optum serve or now it's called what is it lhi yeah now um that those tests do check identification and they do provide a date if that is the case then we can put together you know here are testing sites where you can provide us a positive test we will then need to look at how we process parents coming through because that will have an impact on offices office staff and again that's back to the staffing piece i think that we can put some things in place and hopefully we can bring them back by our next board meeting that would be the goal because we do want our parents on campus that's that's what we shoot for all the time we're always asking for parents volunteers volunteer at your school know what's going on so this is kind of a barrier to what our ultimate goal is but it is also a legal mandate so we need to find the ways to work within that and i will just to defend michelle she has been working more hours than you can know to just get our schools up and running to now add the task of parents when we haven't even gotten to the point where we're going to do our students yet is would be much much to ask of her at this point because we're just trying to fine-tune um making sure that none of our staff slip through the cracks because we're we're required to have notebooks at each work site so in case osha comes in they can see exactly that what we've what we're doing what's our process who's being tested who's not being tested and if you're not being tested what's your proof so there's a lot of work that goes into to each of those sites and we have 22 of them so regarding the idea this is my last comment of this being a legal mandate and all this kind of thing there are other legal mandates too you know some are very general in nature um but sometimes those are the most important now i'm no lawyer just like i'm no doctor but i think we also have a responsibility to provide a certain level of education and i would just posit that there's probably a lawyer out there who's sitting down right about now to try to write a letter you know that would say something along the lines of hey what you're giving up by not having these people you know volunteering is outweighs whatever legal benefit you think you're getting from you know having only this certain kind of test and you know mandatory for any parent who wants to come in and volunteer in their kids school and i strongly encourage them to send that to the governor and the california department of public health because they are the ones that are mandating this of our schools ms dalby um so just so it's all clear and out on the table what are the options right now for adult volunteers on campuses they have to be vaccinated okay that's that's the option right now we just don't have a system in place to track all the potential parents that want to come on campus if they're going to volunteer now we've gotten some other guidance from the department of health just within days ago kelly actually actually sat in on that and got some new information so we did get clarification um yesterday and we had a parent contact us and ask for the differentiation between a volunteer and an observer or a spectator and i think mrs lindstrom for asking this question and so we did contact butte county public health butte county public health did say that if we are having an outdoor event if there is separation between the students and staff and the observers likely parents and if there was no interaction between the two groups the parents and the student teachers then they could come in and we don't have to check vaccination status but it does have to be outdoors so that does allow for parents to be able to attend things such as jog-a-thons um halloween parades i think is a big one that's coming up but it does not allow for any indoor performances so you know that does give some leeway to some events and these are different than the high school games because they're during the school day where football games and field hockey and soccer is outdoors and it's after hours so it's work rules essentially during the work day so at this point especially for michelle's task order or the progression of how this is going phase one is to get this dialed in for staff phase two is to dial it in for students so we don't have students missing class time we want to keep our students in our classrooms and having testing on site for them is essential to do that and as capacity builds out then we would be able to offer that test on site for for parent volunteers or adult volunteers which i think you know makes sense in that progression because we can't just do it all at the same time because of the restrictions and limitations that you outlined and then so parallel to that at the same time or in the next couple of weeks it sounds like staff will be exploring options other options for adult volunteers on campuses during school hours to possibly have another alternative to provide a testing result other than what we would be providing if we could provide that test to to those folks correct i can reach out to beat county public health and ask them what facilities in our area can do the testing in the manner in which that would be submitted to the school district that meets the requirements of the mandate and would that be i um it might be written in the mandate is it once a week yes okay it's weekly during the week that they volunteer okay during the week that they're volunteering and so um if it's happens to be a center that it's a three-day turnaround time if they at least know in advance you know i'm going to volunteer next wednesday in my kids class you know get your get your test on friday so that you have that that result by by the time good question i'm not sure that that would work we'd have to check well that's going to depend on what public health says it's going to be an acceptable form i'm just saying hypothetically and that's the other challenge the current tests we have now are rapid tests so you get your results within 15 minutes the ones that like optimum serve sometimes it's two days sometimes it's four or five days it just depends on how busy they are so in that case it would not work yeah so and i think to mr tennis's point we want to make sure that classes are running as efficiently as they can be under the constraints that we're experiencing so we want to test our staff so staff can be in classes and we want to test our students so students can be in classes and those parent or adult volunteers are very essential also and so hopefully we'll find some alternatives for them in the meantime while we build our capacity correct that's the essential like good summary the summary thank you okay board any more questions of mr hanlon or superintendent staley i just want to congratulate you for all the really really difficult work that you've been doing thank you and being on it so thank you we're getting it done okay again i know i i see people leaning against the wall in the back and we are hurrying this is um this is an informational only we'll move now to really good stuff miss oh okay mr hanlon if you could please the uh discussion action for approval of the california school employees association chico chapter number 110 tentative agreement okay so last board meeting um i brought to you the cuta agreement this is the same agreement csea the difference is the percentage that you probably see here is because cuta put a portion of it in their their salary structure in two different ways one to increase salaries but then they also readjusted their upper end of their salary schedule this just goes into all of the salary cells equally so the percentage is a little higher but the number the overall percentage is the same so it looks different than the other one so the total cost for csea is a little over 830 000 to implement this so i'm looking for approval of this and then we can implement it starting at the next board do you have any questions is any public comment there is no public comment thank you board do you have any motions connected with this item so moved i'd like to move uh the approval of the uh dr kaiser um mr tennis just beat you to it i withdraw my emotion she seems like she really wants i mean she's doing a really good job i'll second it then thank you i have a motion in a second from dr kaiser um all those in no further discussion all those in favor signify by saying i i thank you and thank you mr hanlon and the bargaining teams from both sides and um board you did get copies of the the letter from csea representatives that were on site and complemented the district on the appearance of our school sites as well as the cooperation between classified and administration in chico unified um we voted yes four to four to nothing the vote was approved mr hanlon next we have approval of chico union unified management association kuma okay so similar agreement um the percentage is a little higher on this one only because uh the kuma members almost unanimously approved not putting any on their health benefits and they put it all in the salary schedule overall the same same percentage no more no less it's just the way they distribute it so all three groups distributed their their colas differently kuma decided not to put anything on benefits and all on the salary schedule that's the only difference for a total of 329 board do you have any technical questions of mr hanlon i kuma stands for chico unified management association assistant principals um directors psychic psychologists um occupational therapists um what about the superintendents and assistant superintendents so so the superintendent and the assistant superintendent for business are on um contracts everyone else's is on a salary schedule and so are they represented by a union no no no no there's no union we negotiate directly with the board but the by by further those contracts like maybe this is off to topic highly but um they're pegged to the union agreements so aren't they correct they are just on a contract by contract basis right okay right now there's no negotiation really with with kuma thank you yeah kuma's not actually a union right they're not a union they don't bargain mr marshawn may have a comment on that he's the president of kuma wow that is a very impressive problem it is i put it on my resume um four years running two by the way he has no power and i have no more further comments that's the truest statement i've heard today i'm just kidding jay with the exception of the current president i would like to move the approval of the kuma salary increase agreement is there a second to the motion i'll take it got in there quick okay no further discussion are we ready to vote board i see no objection all those in favor signify by saying aye aye thank you passes for public disclosure documents business services yes off what um jim and the board just approved before this evening to start off as this is our financial disclosure i'm related to assembly bill 2756 um which basically shows the financial or fiscal impact of the ta that you just ratified so as jim alluded for csea it was just over 830 000 dollars for their compensation agreement so we're just asking for approval of the disclosure this evening any questions board seen that has there been any public comment there has not is there a motion associated with this agenda item i i take that wave as the second i'd like to second that thank you okay members of all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye passes for nothing okay and the disclosure um uh pursuant to ab 2756 for the kuma agreement exactly so along the same lines we do have to do a financial disclosure um as ms dalby said even though kuma is not a bargaining unit there is a fiscal impact um to the district's budget so we do have to do the same disclosure that we do for cuta and csca so that's before you this evening about 330 000 to implement that and as jim alluded to it is just a salary schedule increase no increase to the health contribution on behalf of the district any questions board has there been any public comment there's no public comment do i have a motion related to this item i'll move to pass item uh yeah so second thank you motion by member dolby in a second by dr kaiser all those in favor aye was that an eye thank you that's for nothing the next item is resolution 1556-21 miss kissel this is regarding the um evaluating real property thank you so the previous board had directed staff to establish california department of education approval for the henshaw gwen site which is property that the district owns for a future elementary school the process for approval is a formidable one and we've now completed all of the documents and the steps necessary to submit that application to cde and so this resolution um needs to be approved by the board in order to do so any questions ford yes ms dalby i have a question that i noticed um in our consent calendar and i didn't have enough of a concern to make an issue then but about the exemption for sequa um can you like summarize that in like two sentences yes it is an exemption from sequa for the process of applying for cde approval so it's not an actual act not a construction project it doesn't have anything to do with the eventual construction of hanchukwen okay got it thank you okay exercise you guys any additional uh questions born any public comment no no public comment thank you are there any motions associated with this agenda item board i move passage okay and we have a motion in a second mr tennis move dr kaiser seconded all those in favor [Music] the item passes four to nothing okay miss kissel the um con construction of mcmanus new construction monetization project from the city of chico's um zoning ordinances yes thank you so the chico unified school district is under the purview of the division of the state architect state building officials that reviews and approves our plans for projects so it's customary that we exempt ourselves from the city of chica ordinances and that's what this resolution will accomplish for the mcmanus project any questions born i have a question um which is not for the mcmanus project but this reminds me when we had the discussion about the district site and possibly building onto the district office site and the parking issue and having to kind of fudge around the land a little bit because of our parking issue but that's a city ordinance so wouldn't we technically be able to do a resolution in that case as well no we cannot because it's not a school site okay got it thanks any other questions any comments from the thank you board do i have a motion associated with this item for a second mr tennis seconds dr kai is removed all those in favor aye thank you passes four zero okay next one miss kissel you're still up this is regarding the agreement with the city of chico regarding the public road easement deed of real property at the future canyon view high school site yes thank you so this is an exciting step in the process of eventually building the canyon view high school site the document has been reviewed and revised by our attorney and negotiated by district staff with the city of chico there's really three parts to the document there's right-of-way and utility easements for the widening of bruce road project where we would be providing an easement for the property on the frontage of the canyon view high school property that is on bruce road for curb gutter sidewalk utilities bike lane on our side of the road also an easement for a portion of the property where a storm drain will run across through our land we're actually the low point in elevation on the for the whole area down at the fremont street dead end so all water flows that direction so there will be a storm drain constructed on our property to allow that water to move off of the site and we're providing an easement for that for all time our master plan for the canyon view high school site works around that area so no buildings would be built over that area and they're not currently planned to be built over that area because we're looking ahead the district will be responsible for constructing those improvements on bruce road in the future when we build the high school so one of the things that we're getting out of the agreement is that the city will build those for us at no cost to us other than our land the easement for the land additionally the district will receive a discount on future storm drainage fees for our projects for inspire and for canyonview high school there is a change that i want to mention on page two the document you have says that we'll be receiving a hundred thousand dollar discount it's actually a twenty percent discount because we don't know when that will occur so we wanted it to be uh based on you know twenty percent of whatever the fees are at the time that we apply for them are there any questions any questions for ms dolby i just have um maybe more of like a comment or question but i do know that the city is right now in the process of of redeveloping their stormwater master plan um so i don't know if if that's all making sure that it all is an alignment or if that's something that is something that we need to have our eyes on but i do know that that's a process taking place currently um i think for the next month or so this is a i guess that's just a comment or yeah i don't know if that's anything of our concern as a district but um i do know that they're they're working on that right now so just one little thing that you know popped in my head while while we're talking about this so the the district um does have to comply with stormwater retention on our site slowing down storm water letting sediment settle out the the state and the country would really like all storm water to stay on particular property sometimes that's not possible but it's certainly a requirement to slow water down and the city is under those same obligations and this document does address that we will comply with those obligations any further questions ford okay do we have any public comment no public we have a motion so moved we have a motion by member tennis and a second by dr kaiser all those in favor aye aye aye unanimous for nothing thank you board okay unauthored actuals jacqueline yes so i'm going to bring marie to the podium she and i are going to do the unknotted actuals for last year but i also want to take this opportunity um to introduce the to the board my replacement the new director of fiscal services which is charisse bromley if you want to wait and stand up there welcome this is her first week on the job so i i didn't make her present tonight so she will be back at the december board meeting to help with first interim okay okay the slides were in the middle so i'm coming back okay this is the 2021 unaudited actuals presentation this represents actual revenues and expenditures for the year it's not a budget you guys are used to seeing budgets but this is our true financial performance of 2021 and these numbers are presented before our annual audit is complete the auditors were out on site on october 4th and we'll have the audit by the end of the year we'll be presenting it in january so our biggest income driver is average daily attendance ada our funded ada of 11846 is the same as the ada funded in prior year um if you look at 2021 it looks like we're missing a bar on the bar graph that's because we don't have actual ada for 2021 because the covid that requirement was waived the total revenue of the district you can see them oh the chart is missing its um percentages but it shouldn't be ours has it okay um so local control funding formula represents of our revenue um i looked at last year's slide because i was curious as to how much the federal kova dollars affected that last year local control funding formula was 75 percent so it just moved the marker a little bit is our income statement um if you look at the bottom the bot that's really the bottom line our change in fund balance unrestricted is 3.2 million 2.7 restricted so 6 million uh bottom line oh and there's no no percentages there either but anyway um for our expenditures restricted and unrestricted salaries and benefits make up 82 percent of our total expenses that's pretty typical for school district and then this one shows unrestricted expenditures plus the special education excess and when you add that in salaries and benefits are 91 of unrestricted expenditures so that's really where most of our money goes i have i have a quick question on the contribution to special ed is that a two percent increase from over the last time we saw this report it's it's 16 percent here i thought we were at 14 in the 1920s yes the 16 just represents that the dollars associated with the contribution is 16 of the total but not 16 of the program comes from unrestricted dollars it's actually closer to about 45 closer to 12. 45 of the dollars contributed special ed program come from the general fund i think you're you're talking about the identification rate and i believe that's around 12 or 13 i think i am left but yeah thank you okay um and in our sax formula we're asked to compute a calculation on our classroom expenses which is teachers and aides that are actually in the classroom uh unified school districts need to spend at least 55 percent on that and we are at 58.74 somebody's really shooting close i tell you impressive all right so this slide here has a lot of numbers on it but essentially what we want to show is the comparison between estimated actuals that was presented in june compared to where we actually ended so on the revenue side we were very very close less than 200 000 variants on the expenditure side we were a little too conservative at estimated actuals by about 3.3 million so if you go to the next slide essentially here's why so on the salaries and wages and benefits portion the estimation of the one-time money that we gave staff in may was too conservative and we had too much money budgeted there and then on the supplies and services what we saw is we had this large influx of covered relief dollars that came in that have a very restricted purpose and a timeline and as an agency we always want to spend our most restricted dollars first especially if they have a timeline so what resulted is in our sites and as the district as a whole utilizing those coveted relief dollars instead of using their site discretionary to buy a lot of items for the classroom and then our contributions and transfers we did have a lower contribution to special ed than we anticipated largely due to esy we didn't have as many permanent teachers we had a lot of subs and we reduced the number of aids that we used as well so speaking to your point ms robinson regarding the contributions to our restricted programs this year this year being 2021 which is really last year our special education program received just over 15 million dollars in the contribution um and to put that in perspective actually in 1920 we had it was a 16.6 million dollar contribution um the difference being we received a million dollars more through the ab602 calculation through ourselves passed through dollars and then we had about 500 thousand dollars less in expenditures thank you and then our routine restricted maintenance they always receive and this is per a code um three percent of our total general fund expenditures so there's 4.2 million dollars we did have transfers in from other funds of just over 3.5 million and you'll see that there was 112 000 related to an admin fee from our developer fee collections we had amazing developer fee collections last year about 3.6 million we typically budget around two and a half or so it's usually where we start out that's pretty consistent year over year but as you're all aware the housing both on the residential and the commercial side is booming in chico so we definitely saw that impact this last year the other piece we want to look at is our ending fund balance it's essentially a one-time savings account but we want to make sure it's healthy we did see another increase to that this year and that's largely related to the fact that we're still being funded off 1920 ada and so we have less students and less staff but we still have that hold harmless provision of being funded off of 1920.
yeah i can't see that far well lucky for you yeah there she is with a good defensive stop there zoom on my camera [Applause] there we go lauren root tells her defenders to let that go out of bounds yup no one home there on that side of the goalie luckily for diaz [Applause] abby wayne gonna take this free hit under 13 minutes wayne [Music] wayne clobbered it but almost got to evie schneider bent trying to get diaz back the ball katie ritzer sometimes when it's when in doubt just clobber it out that was supposed to sound cool it kind of didn't [Applause] but the kids don't use uh the word clobber anymore no oh god i know we're uneducated no one used it i just had to bring it back up so there you go played far trying to lay it down with the gun outstanding she laid out put her whole body on the line for that one i look like carrie price on that same when he's playing well that's the uh montreal goaltender yeah you pretty he pretty much almost made one lama stanley cup yeah exactly oh yeah another corner four [Music] [Applause] long past there rebound faster trying to get that stick down that's gonna be out of bounds another save huh yeah just under 10 minutes [Music] nice block there it looks like from el hawaii yes trying to get that ball out oh man you're lost or sick [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] no no two evie schneider mayor keeps that in outstanding mayor trying to get that down the line she might have put way too much on that out of bounds okay well yeah she shouldn't have touched that ball she should have let that go out because that would have been denim ball no it's the yes ball oh just excellent defensive play there yeah oh sorry guys turn around stick handling yeah she saw her start coming on her right and then just did a little move that ball is on a string for her right now finally cleared away by abby wayne yeah good play there from wayne stops it before it gets in the scoring position nine minutes left [Music] well took an unexpected bounce and that's off the mayor's foot again hey wait till you hear my new one ready okay um when you need to get the ball up just give it a wallop that's worse oh come on like what in context does wallet mean ooh means like hit mayor with a drive like smash hit it's like clobber [Applause] that's right work on your synonyms there or apparently i do i don't know [Music] i'm trying to pull out the webster on this one [Applause] come on yeah [Applause] seven minutes and 30 seconds left here in the third quarter that sir diaz still trying to get one on the board dedham has won if you're just joining us now and it was off a nice deflection yeah and about lucky bounce it's going yeah work right down the line for denim okay do you return it's going to get there for ds avery bent too easy friday friday coming on the counter attack oh jedi is just trying to ball handle that [Applause] katie ritzer almost missed that drive dude drew hussar alsar trying to get that move there is it trying to get to frydell yeah that's yeah she kind of like hit her stick away it's out of bounds what [Music] that did not look like it went off against it [Music] do that again what oh then i'm on the fast break [Music] unable to get it by ritzer though yeah we said her name a lot today been everywhere here yeah she has dad i'm having a tough time cracking the dover sherbet defense as well nice drive by mayor but she's just hitting it too far gotta take off a bit on that yes yes indeed she wants to make that a successful hit [Applause] [Music] [Applause] richer is going to let that go out of bounds [Music] san jose oh yeah trying to get that far side okay spread the field mayor okay how's that like not an infraction [Music] yeah it's just been a tough day for diaz it sure has this datum team is um is very that's off her foot yep playing advantage finally for once ben it's good defensive play there too much 350 left here third quarter denim up one nothing [Music] nice block there from his heart i hit selfish in god yep [Music] freidel come on keep it in yeah off of marauder no that was off of her i was kitty richard you hit that last oh well i stand correct yeah you do [Music] [Applause] [Music] off of willie aliyah gonna get that call so it's going to be hasar taking it at around 34.
i tell the kids if it wasn't any place in killington you won't find me and that keeps them honest um but yeah that so anywhere from three to four chaperones would be going on this trip that was sort of my question are the chaperones skiing with the kids and seeing them yeah there are when my my previous district actually my co-chaperone was not a skier which worked out well because she would just sit in the lodge just be on duty she just liked the coco i think um but usually they're skiers or snowboarders and they're out about on the mountain and so the kids are aware that they should behave because at any given point behind them a chaperone could be sitting on the lift but again it's a lot of money to go up and be silly so um i again i've been doing this a really long time and i can say one time we've had to send kids home for being inappropriate they just it's a lot of money to be out to get sent home on saturday morning because you were not doing what you were supposed to do most of the kids know that and they really want to be there so it's a good experience generally good thanks all right any other questions about the trip okay so all in favor hi thank you very much thanks mr buckley and mr conklin wanted me to ask if he could be a chaperone rit director just so you know unfortunately a very long list of parents who want to go on this trip he's been all over me dr ruby did you want to say something oh dr ruby oh geez so i i just wanted to add that mr buckley was one of the 17 semi-finalists for the state teacher of the year so he represented us very well thanks very much thank you chris have a great night okay the next item on our agenda is the american rescue plan elementary secondary school education recovery grant update so this is just um an action if we could um mr post is going up okay uh since our last update on the arp esser grant uh and we filled the finance committee on in on this in our last meeting we've identified the need for social worker services beyond the current year so we've added the cost of a social worker to the arbester grant in 2223 and then to the operating budget for 2324 and beyond to offset this addition to the grant we're taking advantage of additional e-rate funding that's being made available to pay for 55 000 in chromebooks that was originally planned to be purchased in 2324 with the grant and we're also absorbing some of the technology integrator salary into the operating budget in 2425 so that allows us to use the grant money for the social worker services other than that everything is the same as it was when we presented last and i'll just say it had unanimous support from the finance committee thank you any questions okay i guess that's it thank you you're welcome okay item c under new business is grant's approval i'll move that the board approved the attached list of grants as recommended by director of operations ken post and superintendent dr john burrow second [Music] just the point i'd like to make ken before you start on the detail of the grants um one of the things that that ken will share is that grants we have a policy where grants get approved by the board how we've handled that in years past is all of the grants are included in the annual budget binder so the board always sees those grants and all the way through the budget for the eight-month budget process that we have here in connecticut all of the boards see the bud the grants et cetera we wanted to really formalize the grant process before we enter into the budget uh really go full fledging into the budget season which are actually going to kick off with some discussion tonight but ken let you take over sure uh you covered a lot of it already i'm sorry nuts that's the point right so with that in mind i developed the document that you have in your board packet which seeks to give you a brief summary of what all these grants are used for the time frame they're going to be used in or they can be used in and the dollar amounts so these are what we have applied for this year most of these are called entitlement grants which means that the state tells us what our allocation is and we submit an application telling them what we will use the funds for based on the guidelines that are provided for each individual grant so they all they all have a fairly specific purpose and these are but a lot of these are not funds that have already been allocated to us right they will be sort of in incrementally over the over the term we draw the funds down as we need it oh okay during during that time period so has anything already been spent or encumbered yes okay i think that's other than i mean i hear it in the finance committee but um i don't know if the rest of the board would be interested in that information just knowing how much we've already spent from this i can certainly make that part of our finance committee and if you like the format i can bring it to the full board also yeah that'd be helpful yeah you know and i think it's important because some of these terms are are rather long and they'll go into several budget years and it ties into a lot of what you see on the rfs or sheet as well it coming into eventually the operating budget so um so yeah i think that's the only piece that's missing under here but yeah and most of the but the reason the our besser funds have to be absorbed into the operating budgets because those are one-time grants most of these other ones like the the regular idea the title one the title two those are grants we actually get every year and we have two years to spend the money typically the idea special education grants we spend most of the money in the first year which is what they want uh and the other grants varies depending on our needs at the time okay so we don't typically roll anything from those types of grants into the operating budget that's correct the the um especially the entitlement grants are designed and and by law are supposed to be supplemental okay yep that's right not supplant okay i don't have any other questions does anybody else okay um so all in favor all right thank you item is the special services caseload report so i'd like to invite up director of special education genoathonics all right you have the sheet in front of you correct and this is the october one count for the state of connecticut and for us to identify how many students we have in district and out of district and as far as caseload and services for students so i'm just going to go right down starting with center elementary school we have 55 students that are identified as special education our preschool program this year has 18 students which it is down two students from last year we have 29 students kindergarten through first grade the case loads there at our about 14.5 last year was at 11.5 we went up a little bit there our elc program we have eight students which we had 12 students last year huckleberry hill grades two through four we have three special education teachers and we case sodas approximately 11 students last year it was the same the elc program at huckleberry we have six students last year it was at five the social emotional enrichment program we had six students we have five students in there to date and again just keep in mind the caseloads it it may go up and down but it's also based on service hours and that's how we identify how many special education teachers that we need um so it's not just a matter of how many students it's really the service hours that we go by so when we see when you see the average there may be special education teachers who may have more students because the service hours are a little less okay at wisconier so total at huckleberry is 45 students i'm at wisconier grades five through eight we have seven special education teachers and the average caseload is uh 12.9 last year was 13.7 our elc program we have six students in there to date last year we had five the social emotional enrichment program we have one teacher 10 students last year we were at nine with a total of 106 students identified as special education at wisconsin on the next page we have brookfield high school we have seven special education teachers um to date and we do have 152 students which the caseloads are at 21.7 they were at 19.4 last year there is an increase from last year from 136 students to 152. so there was a big jump at the high school we have our life skills program we had nine students last year to date we have seven so there's about there's 161 students as far as the october one count at the brookfield high school our related services case loads again there's not a minimum or a maximum because it's all based on service hours at center school we have three speech and language pathologists and the average case load is 20.3 last year was 22.6 huckleberry we have two speech and language pathologists and last this year we have um 51 students on that caseload or excuse me 51 students for two case votes that's 25.5 whiskenier we have two speech and language pathologists and the average caseload is 34.
and so per the board's directive in prior years they've asked for a breakdown of on the restricted side of 6.3 million is our ending fund balance there and that is largely due to the state cova 19 response funds so on the state side we received a large chunk of our money up front and then spend it down according to the restricted purpose versus on the federal side it's reimbursement based and then our cash cash is always important we did have this last year february through may we had deferrals so we very actively managed our cash the good news is with the adoption of the 21 22 budget all of those deferrals have been eliminated so we anticipate we don't anticipate a cash issue going forward and this is pretty much the trend of the district we start out high in july we get dipped down we have our first payroll in august we get some federal dollars in september we dip down november gets a little close from my perspective and then we get property taxes in december and april and that really funds us through the remainder of the school year so in conclusion um again i just want to reiterate that we did surplus this year and that is that is due to being funded on our 1920 um dollars additionally we spent less local unrestricted dollars because of the large influx in our coven 19 so we will use those coven 19 for multiple years going into the future related to learning recovery and social emotional supports and as marie alluded to we are in the middle of our audit um on the compliance and fiscal side and they will be wrapping that up before christmas and then we will bring that back to the board in january for approval and if there's any adjustments we will certainly identify those to the board are there any questions do we know the um the s or three dollars amounts that because we've got two more years of the emergency or or whatever the federal government called the um support plan and that's so we got three rounds of money sr1 sr2 and sr3 from the federal government so we've seen esther three okay and that actually that will be tina and i will be talking about that in just just a moment on that and we'll elaborate okay all right so barry no questions we'd ask for your approval this evening and then i will send our documentation over to the county office bed tomorrow board any questions yes uh mr tennis i have some comments um on something we've communicated about this week um miss krueger particularly with respect to our memberships of the various associations and i don't want to do anything rash tonight um like vote against the whole budget because of these various memberships but um i've been doing some personal research on some of the things that they are advocating and that i don't necessarily agree with now i know that a lot of these associations um csba the superintendent's association um you know there have been some high profile actions that some of these groups i assume that the california association of administrators is is affiliated with the national association of administrators which recently um you know convinced attorney general merrick garland to treat some parents as domestic terrorists and so forth um not that we need to get all into it but but i'm i'm on i'm on the lookout for for things that these groups are advocating for that i don't agree with and um in the future you know i would be willing to oppose our membership in these associations if it means that we are contributing to some advocacy on the state or national level that that that i or we don't agree with um i'm going to comment on that part of what taking a look at something like that i believe needs to also take a look at benefit for our being associated by our i mean the the appropriate candidate being associated with a broader um spectrum of what those offices do in the state of california and nationally because there's usually a national component of most professional organizations so if we're going to look at at that part of it i would also want to look at what are the benefits of belonging to those organizations just an fyi yeah totally i mean um life is a complex thing sometimes and um you we have to make difficult judgment calls yeah no i i agree and i i've been through that when an organization that i was uh involved with wanted to join uh an international organization and that was the biggest problem was taking a look at what does how do we benefit from joining a an international group so it was an interesting process it was put part it was part of what needed to happen in order for everyone to feel well not everybody didn't feel good about what we did but it was enlightening thank you uh that is okay do we have any public comment there's no public comment board do you have any other additional questions do i have a motion regarding this item i moved the pass of the 20 20 21 on audited actuals is there a second a second thank you i have a motion from dr kaiser in a second from member dalby if there's no further discussion all those in favor aye aye any opposed okay thank you board we've approved all that work and thank you thank you for making it well at least for this board member understandable i know we struggled for a few years but you've really helped to um to make it so that we can understand and then question okay next is the gan appropriations limit [Music] this is jacqueline yes so every year subsequent to passage of the unknotted actuals we do have this pro forma formula that has to be approved by the board and sent to the state related began appropriations um it talks about linking of year to year expenditure changes it's really a formality at this point and would need board approval this evening you board do you have any technical questions and there's no public comment thank you do we have a motion associated with this agenda item i moved to pass the gans appropriation limit thank thank you dr kaiser do we have a second i'll say again thank you member dobby we have a motion in a second no further discussion all those in favor aye aye thank you board those four i vote oh speaking of esther iii plan thank you jacqueline so good evening as was mentioned a little bit earlier jaclyn and i are here to seek approval for the sr3 expenditure plan which all districts have to submit to their county offices by october 29th and then it moves on to the state but this sr-3 funding was 22.6 million dollars and it was this plan encapsulates all of the expenditures that the board approved last spring over a course of about three meetings in march and april when we um had brought with lots of input and and thoughts going forward about how to spend this money for our students it is really geared for and specific to addressing students academic social emotional and mental health needs as well as any opportunity gaps that existed before and were worsened by the covet 19 pandemic so it's very specific to that and like i said no other additions have been made other than what the board approved for expenditures last spring jacqueline you want to add anything no i would just reiterate what tina said we brought almost 45 million um to the board at two meetings in march an additional meeting in april and this plan here is just single singling out certain items that are funded specifically with us or three which is 22 million of the 45.
[Music] and the way wah trying to back down trying to get that down the line to mayor you're trying to get that in the middle to bent to a sorry that's gonna be a quarter that is good just over two minutes to go here in the third dies trying to get back in this game corner would be a great way to do it oh absolutely gain some momentum looks like juan may are talking about doing that little play they have like pass it out over to the side mayor looks like it's going to be set up to bent bent's gonna shoot that another corner [Applause] we got some excitement here on the sideline yeah diaz gotta get back in this game okay they gave it to you she better keep get this in make something out of this [Applause] [Music] hey don't be too hard on your sister okay another still going to be ds ball but it's 25 minutes at the 25.
last year it was 36.5 at brookfield high school we have a 1.0 speech and language pathologist and because of the service hours that were needed at wisconier the 0.5 speech and language pathologist does spend one day down at wisconier because of the service hours that needed to be to be addressed so if you look at the average caseload you have approximately 36 kids for the full-time at brookfield high school in the part-time split 14 at brookfield high school and 18 at wisconsin middle school and some of those services are pushing so that's how we we were able to to have that many in each building the school psychologist um just be aware that last column is not the case load those are the evaluations whether it's initial evaluations or triennial evaluations that each of the school psychologists on the average did last year so at center school we have a caseload of seven but they do oversee the 504s at center school so they oversaw 22 504 plans so the case average caseload for students identified with ieps is seven but the amount of testing that takes place is they did 38 um whether it be initial or triannial evaluations at uh huckleberry we have 11 identified students who see the school psychologist three which are five additional 504s and approximately 31 evaluations were completed there last year it was 35 and also keep in mind with the pandemic and not being in school for a period of time with the quarantine some of those evaluations are still being made up so there's additional there would have been additional to that number to date uh wisconner we have two school psychologists they are there's 30 students in their caseload is 15 and the 504s there is one last year they had split 63 this year it's 34 evaluations and at the high school case load is seven and approximately 68 evaluations were completed to date and 65 were last year and if you notice even though the caseloads look small for the school psychologist they also see some regular red students so keep that in mind and so does the speech and language speech and language pathologists can see students through regular ed social workers huckleberry hill um to date as the october one count their case load is 14 and there are 42 504s that the uh social worker does oversee so their case average case load is 14 with scanier 18 and they are overseeing six of the 504s keep in mind that the school counselors are responsible for most of those 504 plans in addition with working with the nursing staff for the students who are on 504s for medical issues brookfield high school we have two social workers their caseload is a little bit larger and their average caseload is 36.
the other items are related to coveted relief and learning recovery but are funded with either state dollars or s or two thank you board do you have any additional questions additional we haven't asked any yet so do we have any questions i do remember all of that agonizing over what to do just spend and prioritize thank you for taking care of what we thought was a good idea and as it turns out we did a good job my editorial comment um do we have any public comment we have an emotions associated with this item i'll move to pass item 10.4.8 for the sr3 plan second thank you ms dalby thank you dr kaiser any further discussion if not all those in favor aye aye any thank you board oh we're getting there i'm items from the floor do we have any additional items from the floor no additional items from the floor we have none okay item number 12.