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so i think we've been over that but then given that each of those maps introduces the potential for some complexity and potential extra expense for the district was it feasible to create a map that met all the other legal requirements but also took into consideration for the first time current board member addresses to create those areas and i was able to determine that that is something that was doable and this was the now called orange a map and so you see current members are one per area that makes the sequence very straightforward with the three areas that contain a current board member whose term expires in 2022 would hold their elections in 2022 the other two areas would hold elections in 2024. again you could do something different you get to select pick the election sequence but that would be certainly the most straightforward way to approach that one and then the orange one thing that was pointed out again i know that uh board members had an opportunity to as mr tennis said to see these maps prior to when they were published and one feedback that came in was in this first orange map and while again we've acknowledged that the allocation of school sites or even of school boundaries is not indicative of which students or which schools the students who live in those areas are attending uh there was only one school site located within trustee area five but with uh pv high marigold and loma vista were very near the border of four and five and the populations worked such that shifting just the area containing those schools and a little bit to the north of pb high out of four and into five still kept all of the populations and ethnic concentrations balanced and legal and so that was the option b so again areas one two and three are identical between the two maps and areas four and five just make one small change and so we'll quickly kind of go through this criteria criteria data there's no brand new data there are just two new maps showing the same data and for the neighborhood's analysis a new neighborhood that we've included so again total population by race and ethnicity lots of numbers but again on your blue green and purple this has not changed showing both for total population and for the population of voting age and comparing it with in the white at the top what the averages are across the entire school district uh and seeing that with particular focus on the hispanic or latino population the ability of some trustee areas to concentrate that population and therefore the strength of that vote to some extent and then that same information shown for the orange maps which again all the numbers for areas one two and three will be the same between both orange maps you should just see some small differences between areas four and five uh and again seeing a very comparable splits of the population and then the socio-economic and tenure data again we're showing you the median income based on the most recent american community survey from 2019 the percent of the students living there participating officially in the free and reduced lunch program and then again based on that american community survey data the percent of owners and renters uh the neighborhoods we have now added cal park to the map per feedback received through the district website as it turns out uh cal park is entirely within a single trustee area in all five of the map options and then for the orange maps seeing for the first time uh also applying the neighborhood criteria and keeping all neighborhoods within a single trustee area and that one as well and then again that student analysis that we've looked at or that we referenced a couple of times tonight but what you're seeing on each column just for those uh as a refresher is the percent of the students at the elementary level the junior high level or the high school level uh who buys who are attending which school so every column within each type of school adds up to 100 and then you can just see that there's no zeros anywhere in there and the same holds true when we get to orange a and orange b and then information that was requested kind of independent of the trustee areas but just looking at frpm by school and then finally the point of the registered voter analysis looking at the number of registered voters per view county elections in 2020 versus that 2020 census data with the population of voting age to see how much of a difference there is between those two totals so that brings us to the next steps as we said at the beginning uh tonight's meeting is really about presenting this information answering questions hearing additional input the next meeting is when the board has an opportunity to select any map that has been published to that point for at least seven days uh but if the board is not wanting to make that decision in february 2nd then we can come back again on the 16th of february at which point it would be ideal uh to have the process uh to meet timelines to get this onto the 2022 election because there are a number of other layers of the state and county that mr ghan can speak to as uh as needed but that is where we are so i will conclude my presentation and um uh here for additional questions very briefly um can you comment on the the medium income breakdown on the two orange maps as compared to the other three existing maps it's possible to pull that up again apologies for the it's just this is on slide 23.
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so that is pretty much our our big amount on facilities is this go around for the meeting any questions i believe you're muted anderson you're muted did you say would start building in fall no we will start uh we'll break ground in uh march of 22 so here in two months we'll start breaking ground and we anticipate to have everything completed to accept students in the fall of 23.
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okay let's just get there as quickly as we can oopsie there was a few too many clicks there we go and so yes you do see uh so uh it was probably uh even more so than the blue map which had previously had the area with the highest uh you know median income uh you do have uh just with area five uh all the areas that it covers uh does wind up with the highest uh uh in area five uh again it's slightly lower uh with the tweak that was made in orange b but under both orange maps yes you do have a very high median household and common area trustee area five so just for the listening audience i mean i'll read off on orange a the median income is 98 000 a year and in area 2 trustee area 2 the median income is 46 000 a year so that's you know just a little more than half um i just wanted to point that out for people yes no yeah every yeah you're absolutely correct in all those numbers okay i'm going to be available if any more questions come up but i think we do have uh some public who are speaking on this as well yes we do um so unless there's a a very specific question that somebody wants to ask i would like to move to the public um who had registered so the first person i had is under the classification of a parent paula n warren oh gav okay so we're going to the i'm sorry thank you public hearing yes and so just to remind you uh it's three minutes and you'll hear a little bell when you have 30 seconds left okay perfect my name is paula warren and i am a local parent um can you speak into the microphone please yeah paula warren and i'm a local parent can hear me now yes um i'll add that this is pretty new to me and i don't know anything about politics so i'm speaking based on just reviewing the data as i saw tonight um and as a parent i would oppose the two orange maps i i like the idea that the first three maps were more about the district and our community at large and looked at it that way and there are some areas in the orange maps under socioeconomic and tenure data where they are disproportionate among the areas while legally they likely meet the compact and continuous like their attorney said here it also says as possible i don't believe those are the most compact and continuous when viewing it that way also they were not in front of the public for the for input so just understanding now we have two weeks to review that and how to get our input that would be a question after i'm done and then i i understand that this adds complexity with an election and cost but i doubt that what we're doing here tonight doesn't cost the district an enormous amount of money as well and if we're going to do this once expensively let's do it right for future generations and not so much on the board at large now and where they live because they could move as well as students and parents also move so looking at this is more of a future generation as well if we're going to make this move once it's probably best to do it for future generations not just what we're doing today and i believe those were all my comments for tonight i just want to clarify that whenever the census is done there is a reassessment every 10 years yes if the reassessment comes back and it's balanced nothing is done correct you can just move forward though or do you the population areas have to be relatively equal yes but if the census aligns with what we have currently then we wouldn't have to make changes is that correct there would always be some tweaks okay but minimal okay thank you ma'am i would like to con the reason why this is so huge is that we were at large elections after the last census this this is an all you know a new process and so there's a considerable amount of things to consider and i'm i'm thrilled that there has been as much comment as there has apparently the fact that there were things created after the last meeting public did notice and have responded and that's that was the whole purpose of having all of these informational meetings was to make sure that we were hearing from the public and hi public and i'm glad you're here thank you ms robinson i appreciate that all right our next speaker is gina bax good evening thank you for having me here i would like to thank first of all the king consulting firm because i did give them a call i have a couple questions and they kindly call me back and they answer all my questions um i also want to make a comment that was not on my speech for the school district attorney you kept saying community input input public input for desired maps i'm the co-chair for chico parents we have a group of almost a thousand parents in that group i know they're not it's not that big compared to other cities but we stay in touch with other parents and we're very active and i never heard anything about wanting another map i think we were all you know not happy but at least we decided that three maps were good enough so i don't know where the community input or public input for desire maps came from but anyway so i'm also very concerned um about the unnecessary private and very last minute edition of these two orange maps i'm an immigrant i'm a latina i'm a minority and i don't think these orange maps will work or benefit my community it definitely looks like they were drawn to accommodate certain members of the board and given the fact most of this board leans towards one side i'm definitely concerned that these two maps were created to support certain board members and who could support unnecessary mandates while ignoring parents and their right of our kids to have a quality in-person education and it also minimizes the possibility of change in the upcoming elections in addition these orange maps disregard all the demographic work that has been performed those far in the creation of the original maps the blue the green the purple and they also show size discrepancy in terms of geography neighborhoods and elementary school districts should be kept together maps are supposed to be representing us equally there's there's no need to add more maps when no one have ever complained about these three original choices so i'm here today to ask you to remove these two last-minute options the maps a b orange maps and keep the originals one thank you okay so next i have julie treat okay oh my gosh i don't even know where to begin um so yeah um i decided this year that because we had all this redistricting going on at the county and then with you all and then the city of chico i was going to be involved with all of them from the get-go and i'm part of the one chico facebook group and so i kind of was representing that group and getting a lot of communications out so i learned a lot with the county very interesting process um and then so coming here the one thing that i really appreciated was it was like a consistent process for five months we were going through you know getting additional information you know expanding the um the renters versus the homeowners and then every time i could look at where you know i lived and adjust things and i added to cal park so i appreciate that um and the uh and then the question about the elementary schools so for me i was really focused on the philosophy i don't know you all and i and i was really focused on it's a democratic process for 10 years i don't care where you live but you know here's here's here's where we are so the philosophies i thought were really sound do you want to have one high school per trustee i thought that was wonderful and even though we have a lot of and i do appreciate you guys have the interdistricting you know you're not so hard like i was in my high school but at least i knew that i could call one of you just like my city council member reynolds or my county um uh supervisor rick ritter and go here's my deal here's my issue i need you to help me fix it and i know that you live in my area and you know and you appreciate what that issue is and i love that you know kids are coming and going but for me it's you live in my area and you appreciate this the schools that are there because i do expect all of you to represent all of chico um the how many do we know the percentage of kids that are outside that the city limits so i was surprised to see such a full um district map how many live like outside the city limits are there a lot there coming in from forest ranch or durham or wherever okay because that would be that'd be interesting to know um because like right now i think the orange map has me in the foothills i think we're calling it so i'm like i'm not the foothills but it's okay um fair map sac so i learned all about that so i guess for me this you know why wasn't any of this i did not see one public comment at all i looked at them every single time i was putting them in every single time so i don't know if there were phone calls that were coming in that we don't have logged as a public comment but there was not one single comment and in fact the comments that i saw yesterday i mean they're like this is a huge problem these types of actions the board are being noticed the people are tired of these ridiculous political games so i just think you need to like look at those comments because again i didn't see one single one about where y'all live or the am i done oh three seconds uh so organic i didn't know this legend sequencing i didn't understand anything at all i think if you just take the orange maps do put your guys's names up there tell me when you're going to be elected when you can run and then that just makes it a lot easier and if the public can't trust you on this process there's no way they're going to trust you when it comes to vaccine mandates and they're going to be like oh you say personal exemptions sure you're gonna turn this around you're gonna have some little language and they're not gonna be able to trust you on that so i think you better think about that with the election time so thank you carl oceaner i'm sorry carl delighted to be here good evening and thank you very much uh board members and wonderful staff and thank you for putting up with my frequent messages and occasional magazine subscriptions i'm going to speak on item 9-1-1 i'm a parent grandparent one of my three daughters graduated from chico high school in 2013 she's now ironically an eighth grade history teacher in watsonville my granddaughter graduated from pleasant valley high school in 2018 and so i'm also the guy that goes around and restocks the little libraries as a community project our service club built those um like some other folks here i want to encourage you to look you know two decades down the road we're we're changing something here we're putting something in place that's that's going to benefit kids your seats are going to be occupied by people that we haven't even met yet somewhere down there so and incidentally i have an acre behind my house if any of you have a double wide and you need to quickly relocate uh for purposes of you know get a hold of me yeah look two decades into the future i may be a little naive but i have a vision of this new system allowing parents neighbors people that are clustered around one or more elementary schools being close in geographic proximity so that they can actually meet and they start to generate board members that actually come up from the communities themselves that aren't necessarily all educational professionals i would never be a board member because i receive a check from the state teacher's retirement system and we consider that a conflict of interest i'd like to see people coming into the board that are kind of coming up from the grounds well and and they're board members being able to go out and meet with them as cohesive groups in cohesive areas and i'm sure none of you plans on still being at this board sitting in your chairs 25 or 30 years from now so kind of remove yourselves from the here and now and let's not create a permanent solution to a temporary problem again look to the day when the board has retired and remember that you are not accountable to the staff and you're not accountable to yourselves you are accountable to the children the parents and the taxpayers you are the governing board and these folks are your subordinates and your supervisors are out here in the audience thank you very much okay and so the last i have is brent mcguire brent mcguire okay so all right so that's the end of the speakers list on that one um so this this is not um and well it it's an action item in terms of what because it's listed as an action item yes um thank you president kaiser i believe that actions that we can take tonight are we can decide to eliminate a map or two we can decide to narrow the options we can ask for more information that we may feel is missing like someone just asked the question of how many students are within the city of chico and that's you know that's not a concern of ours because we are much larger than the city of chico but nevertheless it was a question that we haven't thought about and asked before so the actions we can take tonight are quite varied if we feel we don't have you know enough information to move forward with the things that are put in front of us um we also i believe need to keep in mind the um date um uh schedule so that we have the ability to make a decision before the cutoff date where the county says if you don't get this information to us before x we're probably not going to be able to get it on for the november ballot we have two dates february 2nd and february 16th yes i just want to give a little bit of input on that because it did come up that that we are i want to just advocate for the elections office they they are handling an awful large load normally if it were a slow year uh they want to have uh all their data maps and all their information needs to be in by june my understanding is they'd like it sooner i also know that the county board of education that serves as the school district the committee on school district reorganization which has to first approve and sort of pass this on in form of a resolution has uh indicated a preference to receive it in march and to receive it in march that means that we would want to send up your decision in february in time to make their march agenda that's not a bright line rule but it's i i was hearing because i spoke i've spoken a couple times with the attorney that represents the county committee on school district organization and it's it's a strong request they want to have adequate time and and do a due diligence so that's that's that was the strong okay i also want to uh address some of the stipulations that people quote unquote didn't see these there is a two-week period here for public comments to come in on any of these maps this is just a it is a a second hearing in terms of the the three options that we already have presented and it would be the first hearing on the orange maps so there certainly is time for public comment and and and other i think in reference to other questions people may phone in comments and they're not that's not recorded so we do have people who make phone just as you indicated you called them and they answered your questions we do have people who do call in and present questions or ideas so that does happen as well well is there a motion to take a particular action okay uh caitlyn um i would move to eliminate the blue and orange b maps the blue and the orange do you need to close the public hearing oh i'm sorry all right closing the public hearing um and so you're going to you want to introduce the motion to eliminate the blue and both orange just the orange b blue and orange b b-max oh orange b okay is there a second for that i'm gonna second this just because i'm really curious about what your rationalism we can't discuss it until emotions on the floor okay so that's not indication of support i'm just super curious about where you're going okay sure so um the reason i want to eliminate the blue map specifically um as my top priority um is sticking strictly with the the top priority criteria of this entire process which is making sure that we are elevating the hispanic vote and the blue option map is the of all five maps is the lowest um the lowest map in regard to concentrating the hispanic vote into a specific district and so just for the purpose of narrowing some of our options down for our next discussion and and obtaining meaningful public comment on you know maybe just three maps moving forward um my that's my rationale behind wanting to eliminate the blue map because it is not hitting our top priority as well as the other four options are and the reason i want to eliminate the orange beam map is because i feel like having both options on the floor is unnecessary but i also would like to allow the opportunity for the public to provide two weeks worth of public comment on an orange option map and not to take that option away from the community at this point so that's my rationale behind moving those two maps forward to eliminate all right any other comments mr dennis i think it's crazy to eliminate the blue map since we've had more public comments in favor of the blue map than any other map yeah i mean my i i have seen people from a very wide variety of people who i know intimately who have a very broad swath ideologically who have commented in favor of the blue map i think it's totally nuts to eliminate the blue map um could you maybe elaborate on the um the reasoning behind the support that you've heard from for the blue map i'm curious to know what the like specific criteria that folks are using to evaluate the blue map as being the favorable map to move forward my neighbor avalonia washington is one of the people who i have in mind and i don't i mean i don't recall the details of her email at the time i'm very surprised by your suggestion you know i mean no sorry the open is closed so so i'm i'm very surprised by this suggestion so um i i one reason i like the blue map is that um the parkview school district is preserved as was previously noted by our consultant um and that is actually my kids school district so that's one reason i like the blue map but um no there have been other reasons cited i think that all the reasons i would say that are listed in our demographer's breakdown of um arguments you know just right out of the shoot it was designed to create two trustee areas in pv boundary and three in chico high the range of hispanic and latino population is 14.2 to 21.8 all areas are within the required population range most overall balanced option by median household income there you go that's a good reason and all identified neighborhoods are contained within a single trustee area so i guess those are some just really quick off the cuff reasons why i think we should keep the blue map in the conversation for now all right eileen yes thank you madam president um i i'd like to suggest that we or you agree to separate your emotion because there's two totally different issues involved with why eliminate blue versus why keep in one of the oranges and there's so that's what i'd like to speak to and and the the blue map um was was a problem with some of the um the criteria in the um where were we the little chico creek and um parkview areas parkview does stay all in one spot in in blue if i'm reading it correctly and the the biggest concern for me is that if we do blue there's no way to guarantee that um that a representative for each of the areas will be elected and we'd have the same problem that we had with the city council because it where a whole segment of the population didn't have a representative in their district because of this the sequencing of the election and i just that bothers me tremendously are you suggesting uh an amendment to split yes that the actions be take blue out um i i would be favor i mean i would accept an amendment to consider both each motion separately yes all right that's my suggestion so the is the amendment acceptable then to you and is that acceptable to the board okay so that's um agree okay so we'll just do it one at a time and so the first motion then is to eliminate the blue should we make sure that there's no more discussion i just don't know if anybody else has anything else to say or add to the discussion well i was going to separate it so we could talk about just one at a time oh i see i'm sorry i apologize okay so the agreement is to separate this and so the motion in front of us for discussion is to keep or eliminate the blue map yes the blue map does it not separate the foothill communities that was one of the things we were talking about right doesn't it uh put cohasset in one and uh fourth range or another so and that was one of the few pieces of feedback we got i also heard a lot of conversation about uh parkview being all in one and i'm generally in favor of elementary schools being inside of one a district but as you were saying there's a lot of back and forth and i believe parkview is one of the higher ones because of the stem program there right is you guys uh staff do you know parkview have a higher than average amount of students who form 10am that would be in our demographic study and um i can get the answer to that i do not have it but yes we do have a lot of people that want to form 10 or transfer in the park so i'm just not sure there's a huge correlation between i mean there's some correlation for sure but i don't know how big it is between people who live there people who actually go to that school um point of clarification oh i'm sorry that was that question not answered i apologize sorry that was fine i think i'm done okay um can i please have rock solid confirmation that cohasset and forest ranch are not in the same trusty area in the blue map i'm looking at the map right now and it doesn't go out that far and yes uh just because that's where the high school boundary runs is between those two communities and so the blue map follows the high school boundary it does split the two into different trusty areas and incidentally i'd love to see that email where somebody says it's really important to them that cohasset and forrest ranch be together jamie just really quick i wanted to respond to the question there was a question about the parkview elementary school and how many students transfer out and how many in yes uh so 50 sorry i had it right 54.7 of the students of the enrollment transferred in last year and 37.3 of the students picked another school so more than half of the students at parkview don't live in the parkview correct geographic boundary thank you very much all right are there any other comments around the motion to eliminate the blue option um well i'm in support of eliminating it and i i do believe that um cohasset foothill and forest ranch areas should be in the same trustee area and it looks as though that blue separates according to the secondary boundaries to our democrat demographers okay okay is there any other um points to be made around this all right i will make one point um we're eliminating the blue map based on the fact that ostensibly there's an email somewhere where somebody said they wanted it uh you know the the mountain communities that would be forest ranch and cohasset to be in the same trusty area i'm looking forward to seeing this email but i'm looking at 25 or 30 emails that have come in over the last two days that say they basically hate the orange map and we're not talking about that right now understanding about blue but you're also ignoring a bunch of comments and i haven't taken a tally because again you caught me off guard with this eliminating the blue map um people who like the blue map and so we're making all these changes because one person said ostensibly that they want cohasset and forest ranch in the same area but were throwing all these other people under the bus who said that they like the blue map madam president yes um just as a point of clarification if you go to the kiko unified website and click on the link about trustee area elections there's a section at the very bottom that has all it says view public input received and one of the emails there is the email in question it does exist the imputation that it does is a little strange i haven't seen it i just said i want to see can you do me a favor and read the email please uh okay let's see i believe it was i was looking at them a while ago i don't have it right in front of me give me a second here i think it was sent on 1-7 i want to say there it is let's see january 6 2022 says i like this map i don't know which one they're referring to because it is the only one that keeps the mountain communities of interest together if we learned anything from the board of supervisors it's that the two mountain communities want to stay in a single district keep us together we have similar needs for transportation and unique challenges that make us different from other chico neighborhoods or from chico neighborhoods and eileen thank you madam president my decision vote is based on my judgment of the things that have been presented i take responsibility for my decisions even though i do listen to input when i asked to eliminate the blue map it was because in my judgment there are too many things that that don't make it appealing including separating forest ranch and cohasset and that that's it all right so if there are no other comments on this motion the motion is to eliminate one more comment sorry i folders um i just want to reiterate that our goals in this process are to create districts that are um that concentrate uh traditionally uh underrepresented groups and secondarily to keep community of interests with common interests together and one of the things that bugs me at the blue map is it does neither of those things so i think it's i don't think there's any political game or you know worry about election in this case it's just the map doesn't meet the goals we set but it does keep the neighborhoods together which are those floors okay all right so uh we have a motion a second to eliminate the blue map um given the amount of discussion i think we should have a voice vote i mean by name excuse me all right so all those in favor of eliminating the blue map robinson i landed i kaiser eye dolby aye tennis nay okay so that um that passes so the second motion is to eliminate the orange b option so any discussion comment comments on that i've got a question uh will this vote here be analogous to accepting orange a will will this also will this you know be an acceptance of orange a eliminating orange b that was not brought up in the world somebody will have to specifically we'll be talking about that presumably all right comments on the motion to eliminate orange b madam president yes i i think i need to have some more information from the demographers um the orange a keeps that little arm of um there's a marigold loma vista in five and b takes a little bit more of four out and adds it to um five in in my analysis of where the it it's talking about a thousand students in that one little area so one yeah one clarification it's it's a little bit more it's hard to see just because the [Music] the shapes of the schools are kind of blocking it but i'm just going to come point on the big screen that are switching uh to address the concern that there was a trustee area that only contained one physical school site location which is in orange a shasta elementary is the only school that is physically located within trustee area 5.
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oh gosh amazing so one other thing mr uh putnam didn't say is we will do a groundbreaking ceremony provided with covert protocols and all that so we'll we'll keep the board apprised and spring when we do that and figure it'd be nice to ask dr fortune and maybe some of his family to come out as well to of course so anyway just we'll keep keep you updated on that as it develops that would be great we all got hard hats last time too might even get you a gold shovel for each of you too our name on it and everything you bet then we could dig our own graves very carefully with gold-plated shovels very cool i'm excited thank you richard you're welcome thank you thank you very much okay moving swiftly along agenda items home board superintendent reports uh so trustee anderson just like to thank everybody for their well wishes and good thoughts and surgery went very well except for he found a mess in there and he had to replace all of the hardware was broken so i don't know how he did it but i broke titanium hardware real easy that things are going well and hopefully in three months i'll be rid of all these stupid braces nancy you're gonna have to stop doing gymnastics i mean titanium just can't hold up to it i'm telling you i don't know what i do okay next report trustee kelly i actually have no report okay thank you trustee lee hey greetings everybody and happy new year it's great to see everyone and know that we're all safe and well as we're continuing to navigate this global pandemic together i want to thank you and to say thank you to our classified and certificated staff who's working so hard with all the twists and turns and for the recognition that we really can't predict what's going to happen next um i was chatting with a couple of friends who are also school board trustee members and we concluded that perhaps it's best not to try to predict this thing because every time we do we end up with eight on the face uh mr president i know at the start of today's meeting ms kelly presented defamatory misinformation about me that was untrue and i do appreciate that information being stricken from the minutes i'm not sure where that misinformation is coming from but to clarify i have provided written verification via certified mail in response to the board's residency verification requirement and so these continued defamatory statements by ms kelly stating that i don't live in the district are really preposterous but informed and hostile whether some folks like it or not this community is my community too and i won't be bullied or harassed out of it and i will most definitely continue to do what i need to do to serve in my duly elected role moving onward next week many students and families in our community will begin preparing for the lunar new year celebrations and for the lunar new year on february 1st so i wish all an observance a wonderful year of the black water tiger and the focus on justice that it brings with that my next open office hours are monday february 7th and you can access the zoom link on our board website as usual annie and all members of our center community are welcome to drop in anytime during four to five first mondays i look forward to connecting with everybody in between and be safe and be well and that concludes my report thank you trustee pope um no board report okay thank you and i just want to wish everyone a happy new year uh welcome back and similar to what dr lee said i want to thank everybody who has been pitching in and helping make everything work with uh staff outages and you know our our families and communities dealing with illness is is just this is a tough time for everybody and i appreciate all the extra work that so many people are doing so thank you to everyone and um that will conclude my report superintendent lair uh thank you tracie bruno so i too want to wish everyone a happy new year and to echo yours and dr lee's statements i think our staff has been doing a remarkable job we don't know what will be uh the next day let alone the next hour in some cases so i i cannot say how proud i am to be a member of this center team because people are doing above and beyond to get get through this and uh i just truly appreciate the effort that all are making to make it continue a successful experience for our students because even though we're dealing with a lot of things on the outside i still see teachers teaching food being served kids getting to school and everyone's pulling together to to make it the best environment they can so i just continue to be amazed and commend them for for their continued work um and then also just to thank mr jordan for his report tonight thank him for uh continuing that work on looking at different disparities within our district and seeing how we can continue to improve and make it better for all of our students um so i appreciate his work and his team's work uh and our partnership with sacramento county office of ed to really dig into the data and see where where we need to improve and not just assume what we need to approve let's find the data and do what we need to do and then finally again just thank everyone and and i think i started with happy new year so that concludes me for today all right thank you very much um item agenda item 11 advanced planning so we have a future meeting date saturday february 5th at 9am we're going to be meeting virtually for a board workshop and we have a regular meeting wednesday february 16th presumably in the boardroom at the district office annex unless um we're told to still meet virtually we'll have to wait and see any suggested agenda items uh i would just sorry if i could interrupt just for the february 5th i know i sent the um draft template out of our governance handbook to you guys a couple times just please make sure if you've lost it you want it brought back up in your email shoot me an email i'm happy to send it to you again the whole concept there is we become familiar with the draft template it's just a starting point that there's nothing in there that has to be ours it's just a starting point rather than having a blank slate so if you want it pushed up in your email shoot me a quick email and i'll get it right back to you so that was it okay trustee anderson um mr bruno i would like to suggest that we put a letter on the agenda to governor newsom much like other districts have done addressing the issue of our children wearing masks in school and whether we support that or not and then we can use their format and adjust it any way we want to or talk about it at a meeting but i think we should have a discussion amongst ourselves about that whether or not we do want um to alert him whether we it's not about supporting the mandate but about whether or not we support his choice in the mandate okay we should go forward or not we can have a discussion about that thank you i think scott understands more what i'm trying to say because we discussed it yeah i would just want to trustee bruno talk with miss anderson to make sure i'm i'm clear before so i know what what we would want to bring back for the board if it's just a pure discussion and then that um i do know some districts have provided letters uh to uh maybe some sample letters that we could look at or you know so everybody has a general idea of what we're talking about sure okay and i would like to um i would like to ask that we have regular uh disaggregated state of presentations the one this evening was fantastic and i know that that information is available to us offline however i think it's really important for us to take a look at it as a group and as a community so i think um continuing to bring up that information i think dr lee has some wonderful questions tonight about you know um what kind of supports are in place that specifically target some of our populations with disparate outcomes so i i'm really interested in seeing that on a regular basis i don't know if it would be five monthly quarterly uh but but frequently and regularly so i can get with mr uh jordan and we can identify what would be the best time possibly with this eye ready possibly at least three times a year so we can see the progression that we're making but let me get with him and then i can come back to you guys and let you know what would be the best or certainly if you any of you have ideas and recommendations shoot me a message and we'll see if we can come up with a plan because i i agree i think having it in the forefront it allows it to be in the forefront versus just something else that we're doing yeah well and and possibly fully i'm sorry they'd say one more just quick question which comment uh possibly you know dissecting it a little bit differently each time so we're getting kind of different views of what that data might represent um that would be great okay and then i don't know that it really has to be on the agenda um but it did come up a couple of times tonight and that is the status of residency and reporting that out to the public so i think because um vanessa asked for that nation and because she didn't fill the public had been made clearly aware of it and because there's two different views of what has actually taken place i think we do need to bring that forward again and just report out the results of that there's clearly a misunderstanding there somewhere okay mr bruno you and i can discuss about that of how we would want to have that conversation i know the the bylaw that was produced talked about me sharing that information with the trustees i didn't say anything about public so i want to dissect that to make sure that we um treat it treat it the right way okay we'll discuss that in agreement with mrs anderson since there was some discrepancies in regards to the conversation of residency i think it would be nice to have it clarified to the public okay we will particularly since the public was who requested the information to begin with i think that they deserved a response back that's true it was okay so we will discuss this and figure out how to address that issue and i'd also like address in that meeting too uh president bruno um it seems that multiple members have we were told this will be a confidential process um and it seems that multiple members are making statements and um you know making uh direct and indirect statements about particular board members and i'd like to know how confidentiality is prediction why when that report is made i would like to address those issues and and basically our way of working together as part of the board workshop i i hope we can make some progress there okay any others i apologize so i thought that the confidentiality piece of it was purely that of course people's private residence information would be right so yeah i apologize we're getting away from food so we can't get into it any other future agenda items okay as long as we're having that as an agenda item because there are two different issues there so we like like i said i will discuss this with superintendent layer and we will figure out how to diminish this okay so there are no other suggested agenda items do i have a motion to adjourn so moved and you have a second a second second meeting adjourned at 7 48 p.m thank you everybody
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i just want to point out one of the reasons that the like between the two maps um i thought that orange b was just a little more imbalanced as far as the division of the population so trustee area five hat in this case in orange b has 24 918 people currently in it and the lowest um area um of population sizes is area three that has twenty three thousand so it's really close to two thousand uh dollars as you can see dollars i think we need a break close to a 2 000 person difference in population size whereas the orange a map spread is a little bit more balanced as far as just the population distribution goes so that was kind of one of my my bigger reasons of of of going with orange b in case anybody wanted other context of why i went that what that direction are there discussion or questions it's uh let me what uh what slide is the total population by race ethnicity contained on i'm looking for it and number 22 isn't what's up on screen and that population shift from four to five um correct it it is about a thousand total population but just to clarify i think when you first uh we're stating that you said the word students and so just to clarify we are looking at just total population there but a thousand people in those areas that were highlighted to the north of pve and then right immediately around pv marigold and loma vista the next column are columns are those student percentages where the first one is population yeah they're all so the everything under the so you have the header that says total population and so you have the wrong count and then yeah of those for example the trustee area uh five on orange b of those twenty four thousand nine hundred and eighteen people fourteen point seven of them are sorry fourteen point seven percent of them uh identified as hispanic or latino in the census uh 72.5 percent as non-hispanic white and then etc through the west and then you have the a separate tally for just the voting age population so again that which as we've seen doesn't necessarily mean people registered to vote but just people who are 18 years of age uh which leads to uh just demographically there'll be some slightly or sometimes more noticeable differences in those percentages by ethnicity when you're only looking at the 18 plus population as opposed to everybody i i'm going to oppose eliminating orange b because i think there are so many similarities that once we get to um narrowing uh options uh the the green and purple we may want to have orange a and b still on the table so that we can take a look at the the small differences between a and b so i'm going to oppose eliminating b orange b until we get further along with analyzing criteria for green and purple all right any other comments actually if you don't mind question for the demographers um do we have any idea how many um so i'm really familiar with okay i'm sorry you're prettier than i am and that's okay yeah that's all right the masters threw me off there your voices aren't even that similar but i think i think we're well mr king um [Laughter] so um next show at 11 all right um my concern is it um is about marigold and pleasant valley um this is mine this is where i grew up those schools um and they both are as opposed to parkview really kind of neighborhood school not pv but marigold is definitely a neighborhood school is there any way of extending uh that block of f if we take orange b it's a reasonable way to extend uh five south of marigold a little bit to capture more of the people who actually attend that school as well so uh it would involve a uh kind of yes and no and that i mean looking it but it wouldn't just be a straight extension it would have to be some kind of trade-off because as was pointed out with orange b uh the population range is already about at the most extreme that it can be yeah and so if you add any more population into trustee area five uh it has to give up some somewhere else to make you know to maintain that legal requirement so again so it's not a hard yes or no but it's a if we do that there has to be some kind of counter measure to keep everything in conjunction that needs to be you could almost do the opposite of that and extend the blue area out oh my gosh it's so small on my screen um trusty area 4 on like orange a out to that um wrote i can't i don't that yeah thank you eaton i can't read the tiny letters um and then and then you know displace that somewhere else for the district area five that would capture a little bit more of the neighborhood that's directly adjacent to marigold is what you're saying basically so you'd actually take away from um district five uh along that eaton road so it's just filling in that lube of eaten to be all four and then as needed and i would probably start looking at that uh kind of along the northern part of four if if there needed to be a counter uh yeah because i would have to i've talked in my head i can't tell you how many people live in that area but potentially if it's enough to lead to unbalance if we explored this as another variation then it would come back with showing that map that perhaps aligns that area around pv and marigold but uh then that would still as with orange a still lead to trustee area 5 at having just shasta elementary within the trustee area which was the original concern however that said that is the direction i'm happy to come back and provide that map if it's feasible yeah and actually now that you mentioned that point i think that it's important just to say it out loud for the public that you know when we're saying oh there's only one school in you know trustee area five that's that's the physical brick and mortar location but of course as we've seen with all of the maps and overlap there's literally students from every dish in every district going to every school so the brick and mortar is one thing i don't think that that should necessarily be take a huge precedent over our concerns necessarily um but i mean i could understand it as being a concern um but anyway i just wanted to address that because we actually haven't said that out loud tonight um but that was part of the i think conversations behind making some adjustments between the two orange maps so anyway sorry thank you for letting me say that all right any other uh comments on this motion yeah just briefly i'll say that i think that both orange a and orange b are blatant examples of gerrymandering on the part of the board majority and so i'm happy to oppose both orange a and orange b so if there's discussion of eliminating one of those two i'm all in favor of it uh eileen um thank you madam president board member tennis can you give me an any kind of example of why you consider this not following all of the other criteria that we've been dealing with over the months for how to set up these trust i mean i hear the term i don't see the evidence well the top criteria on the map as evidenced by the legend of the map which is was on the initial draft simply assigns five districts according to incumbents and so it's perfectly apparent that the board is taking steps to ensure their own safety in future elections i would put another possibility out there is that that i'm trying to make sure that the lack of having a trustee whatever trustee it is in each thing it doesn't create a situation where the people are not able to vote for one trustee because of the conflicts with the the voting sequencing and so i see it as a more positive representative of constituency freedom by allowing for the sequencing to provide the opportunity for the public to elect one trustee for each area as the sequence comes up and at this point you know there nobody has declared for office i certainly haven't i have until august of next year to decide whether or not i you know want to run for re-election and that's going to be based on what's happening with the state budget a number of things it's not going to be based on anything political it's going to be based on what the school district is facing and so i'm i'm a bit miffed i guess at being accused of something nefarious when i don't believe that's at all the intent by any board member i mean we're uh making up frankly this concern we have um you know audible voices in this room generated a narrative that there's people out there concerned about not having their own representative in their district for two year period okay i've never read a single you know actually i think there was one pro gerrymandering email that came in today all the other of the 25 or so or more emails that came in today were strongly against both the orange maps okay i mean any intelligent person which all you are can sit and make up a narrative about why we should do this why we should sync the blue map which is the most reasonable map and come up with these maps that feather our own nest you keep using the term gerrymandering but but clearly our legal counsel has explained to us legally what gerrymandering means and that is no way what's happening here and i would also um just argue that that the orange maps in no way protect any of us because what it does is gives the decision to the voters period just as evidence from the last election where both of us usurped incumbents it is still just as likely as any of these three board members could also be voted out by the community but the other three maps take that choice away from voters the voters don't even have the opportunity to vote out the current incumbents with some of the other maps whereas the orange map gives the voters the opportunity to state whether they're in support of the standing board members or not it actually puts the choice into the voters hands and not based off of a map that we choose what you basically just said was that we need to protect incumbents at all costs it's not a protection for incumbents at all it is just a continuation of how we've always operated which is leave the decision of of reelecting an incumbent to the the voice of the voters period but you don't want to do that if no one up here at this dios is in that district you you don't want to create a level playing field you want to put an incumbent in there so that whenever that person runs for re-election whether it's in 2022 or 2024 they get to write incumbent yeah and you know what you and i ran against those kinds of people and we blew them out of the water so i don't understand how it's giving them an advantage when clearly there are people out there that could come in uh your name's gina right you have been on fire this entire time and you could totally come in and blow one of these constitution these incumbents out of the water because you're so popular like that is not something that is is is the orange map does not eliminate that possibility i think we are uh having our conversation reduce in quality to uh more of a personal conflict we the motion we had was to eliminate the orange b map that was the motion that was uh presented and seconded so that's what's in front of us is there anyone else who has an observation about the orange b map that they think needs to be introduced that hasn't been introduced yet all right so with that i would say we move to voting and again vote yes or no so those if you are in favor of eliminating the orange b map please say yes okay yeah rocco i am not in favor so my vote would be no okay tom yeah i'm working on it uh okay sorry i'm not gonna end up uh voting for the orange map i don't think in the end i don't but also it just doesn't matter to me i it's more choice but i don't think i'm going to go with in the end i guess i say yay i i guess okay i'm a no with ms robinson's arguments i'm actually going to vote no are you sure it wasn't my arguments to make you want to vote no um i will vote i in favor of eliminating that particular orange map okay so the motion fails three to two all right with that then [Music] i think we're done with this public hearing action and we're going to move to yes yeah i'm going to ask erica smith to address that she is our coordinator for community relations members of the public can submit their comments in writing via email to all of the board your name will be a part of the agenda packet if you email public comment at chicousd.org there is also a comment form on the chico usd website you can search cvra or you can pull it down from the drop down on the very front home page there's a big orange button you can submit your comments that way if you do not want your comments a part of the agenda packet you can also email each member of the board individually if their emails are available on the website each board member can be has a district email and you can also mail your comments there are items available in the back there are independent maps that you can choose to draw your own maps and submit that for review and those are available on the back table and can also be downloaded from our website and you can mail them to chico unified school district and the mailing address is listed on that cvra portion of the website which is available with the orange button from the home page did you want to add a comment well i would just ask maybe staff could actually uh put the cusd website up here for a second so we can see what you're talking about i'm not sure who's in charge of the uh gotcha you're also welcome to call the superintendent's office and talk to erica and she has taken in lots of questions answered lots of questions so you can email you can call you can do the written format and then there is the online portion here that has the california voters right on our website all right eileen related to this um related to our next meeting and this topic no related to the question of how do people make comments no all right so there's an orange button right there in the middle if you click on that and then scroll to the very bottom there's a box where you can just all the way down keep on going because all the the evidence all the the emails that have been referenced as public input are also there and at the very bottom there's this box where you can type in whatever comment you want and we will all get that of course okay so uh we are now moving to educational services informational update on kovid all right point of point of order yes um i know you moved us on but were there any other i mean i would like to back up a little bit and see if there were any other motions related to oh dr kaiser it's not a motion i we i believe and this is what i'm trying to clarify asked for information about how many students are within chico unified versus the city of chico i i just wanted to make sure that we wanted to have somebody do that work before they went charging off to do that and is there anything else that we want our support demographers to bring forward to the next meeting did we ask did we ask directly about making adjustments to the one of the orange maps okay anything else okay well with your permission i'm going to excuse paul and james jamie and rob because they have to drive home and it's been a long a long night thank you thank you very much for helping us i want to thank the board for your for your questions and your diligence in this area and the focus on it uh i think it says a lot for you and i and i would just say that everything i'm hearing is completely in alignment with how this process is supposed to work so i appreciate that all right appreciate the opportunity thank you thank you drive safe okay so um informational update on covet j marchand oh yeah for sure yeah actually find a privilege oh um can i well i guess that's motion really um whatever do you mind if we take a break for uh five minutes okay um not usually the guy who asked that question but okay 10 minute break we're back in session so we have uh before us uh the um update on covet this is just an informational um item to bring to the board to let you know the changes before we went on winter break and after winter break just to give you a quick snapshot on how things have changed and just to give you a quick update the three things i'm going to try to cover tonight is staff students cone extracurricular activities those are the three things and if there's any other questions i have michelle bunch who's our cover coordinator and tina and john here to help support and address my director team okay so what this first one is certificate staff absences so on the right you can see where we were for a four-day snapshot before we went on winter break we had 42 absences they were all filled to 40 to 42 and 43 on those four days and all of them were filled if you go to the left it's a four day snapshot of our teacher absences for january 10th 11th 12th and 13th we went from 54 absences and four of them unfilled which jim and i can kind of go over what that means and then they had on january 11th we had our highest which was 70 absences and 11 unfilled and january 12 62 absences four unfilled and 68 with five on the field so when you get into the lower numbers of unfilled you're usually i'm taking care by teachers that are on prep we use them on prep or we'll pull a counselor or reading intervention specialist somebody or one of our administrators to go into that classroom that's what means we didn't have enough subs that means somebody on the campus went in that had a credential to go in and fill in those spots on today's i think yesterday's number that i got we had 57 uh teachers absent yesterday and we had only three of them three of them that were not filled okay so that was just that yes i just like to say that the increase in the subpay has helped greatly because other districts are struggling to get substitute teachers so um we're in pretty good shape next was confirm positive staff cases again you could see on the right the last four days before we went on winter break we had one staff one staff zero staff zero staff before we were gonna win a break when we came back the first day back at 13 january 11 20 january 12 18 and then january 13th we had uh 14 on staff that were um positive cases so again we've seen an uptick and we've seen that all in the whole state in the country when it comes to that confer positive student cases this is where you're going to see a pretty good increase we had to really again that week before we want to win a break we were all telling what a great job michelle was doing and getting keeping our kids from not getting covered so we had two student cases on the 13th zero then two then zero so that last four days before break we had only four student cases on january 10th we had 75 on its own january 11th we had 103 student cases that tested positive january 12 81 january 13 78 these are more cases each time yeah i'm just generally curious like to what extent does this correlate with the amount of tests that we're giving you know like um because we know how many the first time when they came back they came and reported that they were positive without the tests that we were giving they these are families and students and staff members that came without coming right off a break saying that they talk tested positive so when was that as i'm talking to the testers i can pull the number of tests and we have a lot of retesting so it's harder to get a really firm number but about 20 percent in the past week one in five tests are coming up positive at our district office site which is our symptomatic testing site so we're having a higher percentage of the district office testing site because that's where people can come for symptomatic testing how long has that site been there we opened it actually right after christmas break because we saw a need and it wasn't being filled in the community there was nowhere to go to get symptomatic testing done in a rapid test so we decided to make that move so my question is how many i'm not trying to be controversial here in any way i'm just genuinely curious like were we given like the same number of tests for this back in december increased in testing so so so the increase the surge in positive cases might have a lot to do with how many tests we're giving i mean if you didn't do a lot of tests you wouldn't have a lot of positive cases but also it's a percentage but also it's a percentage so you can give you know you can give ten tests and two out of ten would still be twenty percent when you give a hundred tests and twenty of them test positive it's still twenty percent so you would average what 300 tests to 400 tests a week before you know on our regular cycle and now we're well into the six seven eight hundred tests that we range yeah the first day we came back we had a line wrapped around the fence probably i would say over a hundred people waiting to test in the morning that first day back so it was they came in to ask to be tested because they felt that they were possibly positive but let's not lose sight of the fact that even if this is because of increased testing we're catching students who have coveted and keeping them away quantitating them so no it doesn't spread that's i mean that's a good thing about how you slice it yeah right to matt's point um you know if we did see the numbers divided out between asymptomatic testing where we're just you know doing regular testing like we were before and then the symptomatic testing you know we probably would see a different percentage to compare to pre-christmas break numbers if that was something that we would be interested in well according to the county data that got posted it was yesterday was one thousand one hundred and i think sixty uh positive they do that on confirmed confirmed yes confirmed tests that are sent to the valencia lab and other you know the pcr tests we're using rapids um because the pcrs are taking over a week so you know you're almost at a quarantine before you're getting any results all right so on some successes on co and extracurricular activities ban acquire performance performance vaccine and tested were happening currently offering all sports with all teams on track to complete league seasons and qualify for section playoffs in all varsity sports have testing protocols in place weekly testing tournament testing one of the examples i want to tell you we had a huge wrestling tournament over winter break um the joe rio rios we tested every student from every district that came in over 350 restaurants 350 rapid tests i believe we had 15 students test positive and only two of them were from chico unified so i'm just saying we got people out there because we didn't want we wanted to make sure everybody that was wrestling should be wrestling first of all and the people that michelle and the people that were doing the testing the kelly cereals of the world and everybody that chico high because it was their tournament it was an amazing thing to happen so that tournament can continue so that's a been a bit positive our kids know that they want in order to play they need to stay healthy and they're doing uh they're a lot more aware of coming back from winter break what they need to do to keep themselves healthy and so they can compete it hits us early right away when we are starting to play games and you can see we've had 22 games and matches that were canceled and our spectator expectations are still because we're still getting a lot of people showing up in in the gyms but i can tell you since then it's been a lot more effective with our with our teams that we really have we i think we've had to cancel one wrestling since then they're the initial when we came back that we got so those are the things that we wanted to cover just to show you yes we've had a a pretty big spike but we're able to keep our schools going got people covering classes kids going in uh one of the main things that if a kid does or a staff does test positive they can re-test five with after the fifth day and if they're not systematic and they test negative they can go back so that's one of the big changes we've seen in the testing so if anybody has any other questions about testing then i am going to pass it off to michelle at this point and i just wanted to say a big thank you to maintenance and operations because i put it out there hey we have a problem we need a place for positive or people that are presumptive positive to test what can we do and they had a trailer available and pulled it onto our district office site and daily they unlock it they lock it they get the generator going i mean they've just been instrumental in making that new testing location happen so it's made a huge difference and i could tell you our families are of our students because that's who we give the rapid test to as our students have been very appreciative because we've been telling the people with symptoms to come down to the district office trailer to get tested but we can go out there and actually hand them one with directions to what to do with it if they're touching negative or positive and it's made our line extremely a lot shorter and a lot of people more appreciative that they can do their own tests at home so i just wanted to add to you just to keep in perspective we certainly want to keep our numbers down as low as we possibly can and we've seen some spikes into the 70s 80s even the hundreds for students and up to 20s below 20s with with staff but combined we have 13 500 students and staff so we're talking about a hundred and some versus thirteen thousand 500 so even though the numbers have gone up a lot um just to keep it in perspective it's it's still a very small percentage but um but we have a lot of things in place to to keep it from spreading as mr lando said and i know we thanked michelle a lot but i'm going to tell you between the michelle and the nurses and the health assistants and everybody else getting all these students tested and our staff getting tested making sure that we're following all our protocol is extremely amazing because when we left we showed you that we have had maybe two kids or zero kids to maybe one staff member to now we're getting a hundred and then for them to handle it with such grace compared to when we first came out of the shoot at the beginning of the school year where we had schools trying to figure out how they were going to do all this it's amazing one with all the people that i mentioned and our administrations on each side have been able to take this on and and so it's been i don't want to say smooth but i'm going to say it's as many we had i am very um happy and how they've been able to handle the stress of all that i don't get to sit by michelle every day and i know what she has to go through debbie campos i want to thank also oh yeah our nursing staff's been amazing our nursing staff has been amazing they're working and they're in all of their support staff the health assistants and office staff have really pulled together to help them during this time and we've really focused on what can we do we pushed out n95 masks to all of our sites hand sanitizer reminded people about good mitigation techniques you know we're focusing on expanding testing if you don't feel well please test take all of the precautions because that's really key to you know keeping everybody healthy and and present as soon as we got those 24 000 just under twenty four thousand rapid tests um i wanna say well jacqueline and aaron who's in charge of our everything in our warehouse got them out to our school sites too to make sure we could give them to families that they were supposed to go to so they did a very good job of that also i i've heard from other districts of their staff and they just are stunned that we can go get a rapid test and i think it's really critical so wonderful yeah michelle is on it yeah yeah i do want to address the one public comment that says why don't we go online we're seeing this spike in cases why don't we move to online until this subsides and i do want to be very clear with the board and with the public that going on going to distance learning as a district really is a very complicated and almost impossible process at this point the legislature has made it very clear that they want kids in school and they have passed legislation that really limits the ability to get independent study dollars and even if we are in a staff crisis which some districts have faced where we don't have enough staff to cover classes we have to first consult with our county office and have the county office agreed that we don't have any other options but to close schools then we have to contact the california department of education and get their approval um in order for us to close if we want to receive any um dollars for being closed those days is that something sorry to interrupt you that was it cottonwood just went through correct cottonwood just closed i do believe there's was based on a lack of available staff i do not know whether or not they went through the process of asking their county and getting the state department approval but it we have been told over and over and over if we do not go through that process we will not receive funding they made base either not receiving funding for the days that they were not in school they may have to check those days on to the end of the school year and that's pretty much what i have for you unless you have any other questions michelle thank you so much thank you all right so uh next we have our upcoming uh local control oh we had some public comment oh yes one did member see that um this is good information too so yeah i'm a big advocate for continuing to ask for as much information to come out about the pending mandate if it's going to come down the road any information you can push out there whether it's meetings with the county um with the new york or you know you've started to test things in terms of the systems and other things and i highly recommend that um you all go look at this sacramento city unified school district because they're up and running as of january one so they've got the whole kit and caboodle um set up and um from um you know because their vaccinations are doing the um the 12 and up and everybody that's five and up basically considered unvaccinated has to go through testing on a regular basis but they've got all their um their marketing materials and um you know take a selfie with your friend this is the one that was really interesting so this is the snapshot of the um the vaccinated versus unvaccinated and it's developed by um by microsoft but it's in their system and it shows by school i'm like i don't know if that's a good idea or not but so it shows you know this school over here is really highly vaccinated this one's not and you can you know flip on the seventh to eighth graders the ninth to twelve so i don't know if this is something that they're gonna push out to all of the school districts or if they're gonna you guys are gonna do it individually but there's a lot of this information on there and then the um the testing i don't know they are requiring the registration um by the kids and if you're 13 and over you don't have to go through your parents do you guys do that okay and then so if they get covered it just goes right to the person okay that's and then the exemptions is the other thing that's got a lot of people um you know kind of nervous or wanting to see information so this is their form and it um the thing that again throws people so they have a personal or religious exemption the personal has to be authorized by a healthcare practitioner that says you know they've provided the parent and the student with information about the responsibility of um getting the vaccine so that they have to go get a doctor's approval and then the religious one is the religious one and at the very end they have to sign everybody has to sign the affidavit saying you know i understand that an immunized student may be excluded from attending school or child care during the outbreak or after exposure to code for the protection of the student and others and so just again some of that language you know people want to see rather than okay we take a personal exemption but they kind of want to see this and then the um the california notify um is an interesting concept i think they're using this at view and this is where you downloaded your phone and gps tracks you and if you walk by somebody else that has coven it pings you and sends you a note you've got coded somebody walked by you to have it and then it starts pushing stuff around on gps so this is a little awkward but um and then the last thing on here says you know again it helps to notify you immediately that you might be exposed even if you've been fully vaccinated you can still potentially spread copenhagen so join millions and getting kind of connected with your neighbors um the last thing i was gonna say there's a lot of d3 in the vitamins i don't know there's a lot of information about the supplements and i don't know if your biology classes or your science classes or health classes are doing a lot to explore this d3 is fascinating just has something to do with the immunology as does zinc so that would be great and then the um sure that's my last three thought ding that bell um i did want to clarify with uh staff the um the 13 and over that's a state law ed code right about medical freedoms for students of a certain age right okay yeah so all right so thank you for that and thanks for the public comment and so diane olsen you have the extended year i skipped jay ilcat meeting no cap meeting oh yeah i didn't mean to do that okay all right okay again one of this is informational item only we wanted to come forward because we do have all the dates that again that the board can tell us to change but we wanted to bring forward because last year um there was concerns that we are not going out to the community enough to with the dates and be able to get the offer them ahead of time when we're going to be having all of our different lcap meetings so i just want to present those dates to you guys tonight so we can put them out publicly yeah okay so we start march 8th local um our elf cap family community meeting number one i just kind of want to again this all preference on what our cova numbers are and what we're allowed to do but what that first one will look like is we will still be holding them at each school site so parents can go to their own school site for these community meetings but we will also be holding them at holding the big meeting will at marsh so they have if they want to come to marsh where all the directors and everybody will be presenting to all the different school sites that's still available and i would imagine we'll have food and child care for their families but they also get their child care on their sites if they go there also they'll have food at their sites we just got a very positive feedback from our families that they felt comfortable going to their school sites so when we were presenting the lcap as a whole then they could discuss it with their principals then they got the information back to us can i just clarify for my own like visioning how this goes so for that first meeting you'll you'll be hosting the like district-wide presentation um from marsh and pushing it out to each school site and folks and folks will come to their school site unless they want to go to marsh and see that presentation that you're projecting from marsh and then be able to talk amongst themselves when there's time for breakout times to discuss certainly sometimes they'll talk about feedback money as a district but what also they're doing with their own lcap money during that time and so they can get more easier to talk to their principal or their target case manager that they know right there and not sit sometimes they felt it was better to be on their school site and they felt more comfortable to do we're giving them both options while i'm asking questions it's a little ahead of myself but it's still on the same page um for parents of a fifth grader would they you know maybe attend the school that they think that their kids can be going to next year or would it just be their school site this is in the past it would just go to their last year they went to their school that they were attending okay thanks um and then then we started doing our breakout meetings on again that's more changes our first one where we said how we spent the money in the past this is the money we have moving forward and to give them some more options march 22nd we will be meeting with our bipart families our black and indigenous people of color uh we will meet with those families our target case managers do a very good job of pushing out to those families we'll be meeting again at marsh and that's where we've done that in the past march 24th will be our foster homeless parent gardening input meeting march 29th are students with disabilities parent guardian input meeting and again march 29th and 31 elementary student input meetings so those are the ones that like the elementary ones kelly and i and ted go to different sites what we'll be doing we'll be splitting the the schools and the two groups this year so last year we went to each school but this year we're going half the elementaries will come one time and the other have their half so we have a set questions to ask them but then they have an open forum that thinks what's working and not working at their school sites how we spend our money do they the kids give us actual input on what they think that we should be doing with our money and then we will do the same thing with junior high and then the high schools um on another date i'll show you those too so kelly and i are on the road quite a bit um with with john and ted when it comes to those meetings april 5th will be the junior high student input meeting and then um then we will also that evening to a local control uh an elk cap english learner parent guardian input meeting we'll meet with our dlac parents and talk to them about how things are working with our lcap dollars april 7th will be our high school student input meeting april 12 will be our our big family and community meeting number two so again we will give them all the input that we what we spent in the past and what we are looking to spend in the future for the following year or if they had things that they gave us input on on the first one that we can bring back to okay this is the stuff that we heard through you through through community input we've made some adjustments and then we're going to bring back the lcap plan to you as families to take a look at to see if that's what they want we actually have the vote on it if they agree with the goals or not and how we're spending the money under those goals and then on june 22nd will be our first public hearing and board meeting with the lcap and then june 29th is when the board takes action yes uh just one more question sorry um uh the student input meetings will those be taking place during school during school hours we normally do some type of lunch thing or a snack thing and we meet with them during school hours they get brought over by their administrators and all of the target population meetings and family and community meetings in the evening and all offer food and child care cool got it great thank you and we may need to have some flex flexibility with our student meetings if college rates stay very high we probably won't want to bring large groups of kids together we may have to go back to going to each school site but we did want to meet with school kids from different schools if we could that's been really useful in the past as well so we'll be putting these dates out on the district website and each school will have these dates on their website but if i could get john to click on the english one first that's a flyer i'm not going to say that i made it but chrissy benson did a very good job of making this flyer that we will be sending it out to every family flyer about the upcoming meetings so that has that on it and then you can see one in spanish that's been done also so we can send it out um one's in spanish also not to be a nitpick i have a lot to say i'm sorry um not to be a nit picker but the um scroll back up please the other way uh thank you um the where it says has the location and the time underneath i feel like it's just a little small uh i don't know this is hard maybe it's a little hard to read especially if it's yeah in print well it's going to be printed right especially if it's in print like that would be i think that that would be really i design on canva every single day so in my opinion in my professional graphic design opinion it's small and i if i know chrissy banks and well enough she's probably listening to you right now and she's already changing that right i think you're great thank you for all your hard work you're better than me that flyer is that in our materials anywhere i'm not seeing it no it's just in our presentation um we can definitely you can click on it let's see here in the board packet that's on there that you can click on looking at that um this is the three page presentation it's on the very last one on the bottom thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you so again if you guys have any other suggestions on getting this information out again we'll be sending this out in our parent communications that we have to erica and our school sites and we will having them up again so we want to make sure anybody any community member can come um to those meetings and any board member obviously and will we be able to publish those through or do you like press release through our our local media as well i'm sure we can right erica erica will set it up that we push it out one of us will push it out to our media it will be going out to every family and we can also and i think eric already planned to do this put it on our social media as well as send it out to the print media yes i mean well i was just scrolling through it and i don't see a featuring of the the fact that there will be child care and food and and and stuff available and and i know as i sat at different tables during these meetings before that was one of the main reasons why some of the parents were able to make it to these meetings so i think highlighting that would be a good idea yeah we can highlight that on the flyer plus our target case managers do a very good job of calling out the families to let them know but on the community meetings we can clearly put make sure that's on those flyers and our administrators will let families know okay anything else all right so thank you for that jay and now let's move to discussion action the extended school year diane olson and this is discussion about the extended school year waiver and so i want to hand it over to dana feingold she is my principal for extended school year hi there um on a yearly basis we need to come to you to get a board approval so that we can get state approval to move our esy from 20 days to 15 days we do that by increasing our hours so students can come to school have more intense instruction on a longer period but for three weeks so we will um run esy this year from the 6th of june through the 24th of june and it'll be for five hours a day have any questions am glad this came out because i i will confess my ignorance i didn't really even realize that this program even existed so i'm glad to have an opportunity to hear a little bit about it um what i mean who are the students who are in involved in the students who are on ieps who qualify for coming to um and iep teams have that discussion every year and um so we have anywhere from 250 to 300 students attend where do they go we have them all over the district we try to keep them in their classrooms the district is really good about opening up schools and air conditioners on the kids are in their environment that they're used to we have at both high schools we have it at eight or nine ten elementary schools and one of the junior highs and you said it was to come over and see us oh and then also 200 and 250 to 300 i um we had about 320 last year all ages yeah we do it preschool to the adult program yeah adult program yeah the adult program how many adults are involved teachers and about about 100 paraprofessionals that work for us during the summer thank you yeah it's excellent um i'm move passage of this item all right move is there a second all right second section all right any other discussion all right um just to comment uh madam president that this extended year program is so important for most of these um the student population relies on patterning and relying on when things are going to happen and to not have that long break it's just it's an amazingly positive experience are very important thank you all right so any other comments queries all right so we have a motion and a second um our last vote was uh okay yeah and it's by name okay so um all those in favor indicate i all right uh lando i okay kaiser dolby i i'll vote for this but only if you let me bring all my four kids to it please no just kidding all right so uh now we go to the business services uh the adoption of resolution 1568-22 the accounting of developer fees for the fiscal year 2021.
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good evening board every year we're required to report on our developer fees and so this is just a resolution saying that we have done the report that we're required to do the report includes information as far as the type of fees that we collect how many we collected for the last five years and then also the expenditures the projects that we've paid for out of these different fees so if you have any questions i can answer them now but it's pretty straightforward and like i said every year we're required to bring this to you for resolution for passing all right so you have one no okay so seeing none motion i move passage of this item a second okay so tennis and dolby all right so all those in favor signify by saying aye aye hi all right five to nothing good thank you okay thank you so uh now we move to resolution 1566-22 the resolution of chico unified school board district board of education certifying compliance with section 17 289 of the ed code and authorizing the execution of exemption requests with the state allocation board jacqueline yes that was a mouthful it is exciting news as you know the district has been in negotiations to purchase the property at 1350 east last avenue that purchase has been closed escrow's been closed that happened on monday january 10th so we are officially owners of that property at this point currently as we speak this week teachers are moving in from chico marketplace into that property and then students will be returning next week so great progress for the staff they're very excited to have a location we do have to find an exemption with the state allocation board because this is not a dsa property right department of state architects approved property it is basically office space so we can't have more than 25 students at any given point on that property and staff is aware of that principle's aware of that so we just filed this exemption every year to allow us to have that independent study program at that location we did the same thing when we were at chico marketplace so just ask for your approval this evening for that resolution so we can send it off right any questions okay second okay so eileen and then uh tom so all those in favor aye aye all right five to nathan okay thank you okay state budget jacqueline yes so state budget um the governor comes out around january 10th january 15th and gives his or her in this case his proposal preliminary proposal for the state budget for the next fiscal year which will start july 1st so this is kind of the first blush what the governor's office is thinking as far as how they're going to fund not only education but the state budget and in totality so the state budget for next year assumes three things it's assuming increased labor force participation rate and lower unemployment so i know locally hopefully we will all see that as well continued job growth and reliance on high wage earners so the silicon valley is a huge piece to the economy of the state of california but some of the risks that he did point out in his press conference were related to a potential additional coveted surge persistent labor market instability sustained high inflation you'll see that with the cola this year as well as ongoing supply chain interruptions that were continually observing as we're purchasing items so there's essentially i break down the budget into two components we have ongoing money and we have one time money so in relation to the ongoing money because inflation is so high the cola for next year is projected at 5.33 percent so all of our ada funding or average daily attendance funding will go up 5.33 percent as proposed so the other great news i think for chico unified is the governor did provide a third option for funding related to our average daily attendance so current ed code says school districts get to choose the larger of last year's ada or current year ada so in our situation because we didn't report in 2021 we can for the current year we can we can still use 1920 but going forward into next year we would have to use this year's average daily attendance which because of so many students out on quarantine we are significantly lower than we have been in prior years so what the governor is proposing for at least the 22 22-23 year we're unclear about future years is to do a three-year average so what that would mean for chico unified is we would be able to count 1920 two times because we didn't report in 2021 and then which would be our current ada so what that allows for chico unified to do is soften that funding cliff that we've talked about when we've done the budgets right where we've got we've for three years in a row we're at this level and then a significant drop so what it'll allow us to do is kind of land a little bit softer on that so we'll bring back exact dollar values in march when we have our second interim budget the other ongoing funding is related to our expanded learning opportunities program which is money received this year that allows for a nine hour instructional day and then 30 non-school days to help students universal meals which i'm really excited about there's funding for that so we'll be able to continue to provide at least two meals breakfast and lunch to every student of chico unified regardless of the economic background the other money that is there is related to ada for tk expansion so the district will be changing the timeline per guidelines for all children turning five between september 2nd and february 2nd right now it's december so we're adding an extra two months but no students would be eligible for ada funding so that's been part of the calculation at the state level and then the last piece for ongoing funding is that cola is being applied to our special ed revenues so it's great to see that not only our general ed population getting the cola but also also our special ed population so there'll be more financial resources for that program on the one-time funding side the state budget they are putting money into basically what i call the education savings fund but it's basically the formal name is the public school system stabilization count it's basically a prop 98 reserve so when money goes in that it's a set aside for a future economic downturn and so for me there's two pieces to that there's one that we're putting money aside for an economic downturn so you have the savings account so that it would soften anything going forward but additionally those dollars aren't being used on ongoing programs you might have to cut as well so with the deposit for next year we will be close at the state level to 10 percent which is what the code says that once you hit that 10 threshold then they don't have to deposit any future monies into that there is some one-time money um to help advance our college and career pathways so as you've seen we have a pretty robust cte program i think that's the next workshop jay yeah so we have additional money coming that way there's also some competitive grants to secure more electric electric buses as you know we have several here in the district but there will be competitive grants to secure more and then they are using some state general fund money to support the school facilities program and i will say at first flush that is great however they're setting aside 1.3 billion which sounds like a lot but there's currently 3 billion in approved unfunded projects so it's really only going to hit about half of what's already been approved so there wouldn't really be any opportunity for new programs new for new buildings to be put in the queue so that's kind of the highlight of the state budget overall i think it's pretty strong i will say though will be budget subcommittees and trailer bill language coming out in the coming months and then there'll be a revision in may by the governor after um he's able to see revenues from our april property taxes um i'm sorry income taxes that are that are filed and then we will because the legislature wants a paycheck we'll have a state budget by june 15th that will then be signed by the governor by the 30th okay yes finally yes thank you jaclyn um question regarding that uh money that uh is the the one time only for the it's three billion rather than three million right three billion at the state level we will be put into the prop 98 reserve education savings fund okay is is that the same money that's available to help with facilities expansion for the uh moving the uh the kids into tk no so we're still facing issues with that problem the facility side yeah yes okay yes i think it's not legal to have a totally positive budget report i was just going to say i i sat through a budget um a government you know state budget update meeting like four days ago for my job and you did a much better concise beautiful positive presentation thank you okay any other uh questions on the update the budget all right so we'll move on thank you jacqueline and we're going to human resources the discussion action the appointment of the chico unified school district rep to the personnel committee okay so as you know we're a court-ordered merit district we have a personnel commission that has three members and each member serves three years and i bring to you every year one of the members to be approved by the board this year is it is our turn to select and approve our own member gloria bevers has has represented the district side since 2002 so she's been a long-term member of the commission the other two members one is selected by csea and then there's a neutral that is jointly selected and agreed to for a membership but this year i bring to you gloria bevers it's our recommendation to approve her for another three-year term she's agreed to continue to sit on the commission and uh she's done a really good job for on behalf of the district so that's it yes eileen yes it gives me a great deal of pleasure to continue to support gloria bevers as our district appointee to the personnel commission all right she's currently the chair correct yes yes she's currently the chair and she has been the chair as long as i've been in the district office it's my seventh year so she's she's well respected all right by the other two members okay any other comments or questions can i have a motion i did oh i'm sorry um that would be a point of order because we need to wait for madam president to call for a motion yes ma'am i'm going to get you okay so you are now saying you made a motion i'm now saying i moved to have miss gloria bevers serve as the district's appointee to the personnel commission okay do we have a second a second okay okay any other questions or discussion all right all those in favor of gloria bevers uh being our representative to the personnel commission indicate by saying aye hi hi okay unanimous okay so now we have the agenda layout so at the um december 15th board meeting the board voted to bring this back at tonight's meeting the board did not take action to approve the format for either the regular board meetings or the special board workshops so we're bringing it back for board discussion you do have in your packet draft agendas for both regular board meetings and for special board meetings the workshops there was the request that for the workshops only that we bring a timed agenda and you do have that in your packet turn it back over to the board for discussion madam president yes um i have some discussion on on this uh the um and i'm looking at the uh special meeting board workshop uh agenda i would be i'm sorry i have to just really quick jump in on a point of order again um so if we're gonna discuss i think we have to have emotion on the floor by that point so if you have a question for clarification from staff we're in that we're in that point in our order right now okay i'm not staff sorry i know you're more awake than i am caitlyn i don't think i'm going to go to bed for a while actually okay so um what we have are two illustrations of uh agenda formats one for the regular meeting and one for the special meeting that were included and does someone want to make a motion um tom go ahead if you've got a something and well i uh i would like to make a motion but i'd like to um have caitlyn make a judgment on whether or not i can um add the words um it's not estimated that's what on on the red time numbers if they could be headed by estimated time for talking about the board workshop yes the board workshop not the board meetings the board meetings are a total different ballgame but board workshops are a little bit more not dependable but you can anticipate because you have some control over the presenters but i don't want to do anything that lists it as a mandate just an estimate so people get some idea of how long it may be kind of sort of should take if we're on our horse as horses does that make sense well i think what you need to do if if that's your intent is to make a motion to add that and see if you get us i was asking caitlyn if i could make a motion to make an alteration in what's presented yes i think you would just put a motion on the floor with that suggested change okay and then we can you know do modifying motions on top of that that's that's what i'd like to do then is all right is there a second i'll second it so we can talk about it how's that okay all right motion to add the word estimated for the board workshops eileen and then caitlin seconded it so what's the discussion then we're under discussion just i think that we've demonstrated over and over again that um that we tend to follow the um [Music] the necessity to discuss and to alter that would be taking away full full disclosure not disclosure but discussion of our items i think we're a good enough judge of when we've said enough like me right now i'm done so you don't want a rigid grid that we have to follow oh how many years have we been not able to do a rigid grid as long as i've been is that emotion that she made she didn't make emotions okay i i want a second emotion you already did okay i i support i support this yeah i think that the intent behind this idea was just to really a try to keep us on track so for you know those workshop nights we we can make sure that we're getting staffed through and done and you know all that but also we do have occasionally really important topics come up like next meeting we'll be doing our districting discussion again and so we would like the public to have an idea of when that's when that will be coming up on the agenda so that they're not necessarily although we would like them to be here in the audience a lot of families have dinner to make and chores to do and things like that and if they want to come and make a public comment they'll know at 6 15 or 6 45 or 6 30 is when chica usd m is going to be starting to address that item that i want to make a public comment on okay board shop workshops remember right focused absolutely but my point being is we do sometimes have some topics especially our hot button topics that are timely that we have to make decisions about that's been kind of the life that we've been living since i've been on this board um so that's why the focus is on the workshop that's why the workshop comes first here but then we can let the public know um that that item is going to be and and i don't necessarily oppose saying estimated but i would like to really try to honor and be mindful and get on each other about like hey like these are important discussion items but like can we just move it along like are sometimes our feel good comments take a lot of time and it's like can we just like move this along i'm sorry like i know you want to praise that certain certain thing but like do it in 30 seconds instead of three minutes and that's not to be rude that's just to be frank like we can move our meetings along a little bit better i think i wanted to ask in the context of the consent calendar for the workshops let me talk about the workshops what is the function of the board being included as a topic this would be if we have board policies that come under the board the for the next board meeting the california voters right act would be under that not under consent of course but the items that are very specific to the board are ones that come forward to the board frankly there are very few consent agenda items that come forward for the board but that's just that's how we organize them when they come forward so that's that's just a just in case placeholder doesn't mean we'll have it every time in fact we try to keep those to a minimum and tom are you getting ready to you got to stop this conversation because it's off the topic of the motion at hand which is adding the word uh or the phrase estimated we're still in the middle of that right we are what do you call that call for a vote or something like that yeah but then that is another motion you need another vote to call the question i'm just politely asking can we do it okay we can call the question yes all right so the motion was made seconded to add the word estimated by the timelines for the workshops only um all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye i'm gonna i'm gonna vote yes but i just really wanna emphasize that we wanna stick to what we publish as close as possible like getting off by you know more than 15 minutes i think would be a little out of line um for us um just because we don't want to tell the public about this time we're going to start this item and then they come and you know we're still drawing on you know for another 30 minutes and it gets stuff out of here if they're just here to present uh i was frowning at you because you are going on um so what is it about the regular uh meeting agenda that was changed other than what we already voted to eliminate negotiations that is correct you voted to eliminate negotiations but the board never voted to approve either agenda formats you just need to improve on the agenda formats um i would are you calling for a motion yeah okay i would like to move to approve this with um an alteration um following uh eileen's lead and um add just like we do on the other workshop in red just next to closed session 5 p.m and next to reconvene to regular section session 6 p.m i know it's at the top but that red those red numbers really draw people's attention just to re-remind people we won't be back in open session until six don't show up to our board meeting at five like six is when we will be back into open session just that's so yeah uh that's a motion i should have probably waited to explain myself until after it was um a second and sorry so i see erica offering information i thought so no i think you misheard me so i know it's at the top of this one but what i was saying on this example to have just on the side in red just like the workshop meeting to just have six five o'clock and six o'clock also listed in red on the side just like we do for the workshop just to be extra clear so on the printed yes on the printed version which is on the current ones it's just not on the example i i i mean it's on ours it's always on ours i'm talking about the what's published published for the public yep all right do i have a second for that motion okay and any discussion all right call for the vote all those in favor aye aye aye aye all right all those opposed well there were five yeses oh i didn't hear i didn't hear all of us yeah okay the other thing though is we now need a motion to approve this agenda as it is with the amendment oh so yes i i move approval um as amended second all right so eileen and matt okay all right any further discussion all those in favor aye aye okay all right so so um now we have uh the information that was people got at the csba it was suggested that it was written i have to confess i did not write mine i know eileen did hers would anybody like to present i think we had set aside five minutes or each four board up to five minutes you don't have to take the whole time for each board member to talk about uh what they had learned and certainly board members don't have to they can pass if they would like well since this was my idea again because this is one of the things that i've always encouraged after conference i'll start thank you president kaiser and i'm not going to be specific because i don't take notes like you do kathy but there were three messages that stood out for me at this year's conference the first was the recognition that the pandemic shut down and sub that the pandemic shutdown and subsequent move to distance learning created an emotional trauma for students staff and parents that will be long lasting but the supports to deal with those impacts will end before the need ends and that was one of the things that i heard in several different presentations the needs going to be there after our finances have gone how to finance those needs is going to take a deliberate plan during upcoming budget work the second message delivered by many speakers was the need to identify where your students are coming from socioeconomically racially sexual orientation living arrangements and other cultural and immigrant status conditions need to be recognized if our students and parents are going to find relevance in what our schools are offering i wish i could replay the part of the presentation that stressed that because it was significant it allows parents to feel supported by their school if these recognitions are in place the third major point i came away with was the need to keep all students receiving grade level instruction and use our mtss supports to work constantly to fill in the learning gaps and not allow the student to fall further behind in in the way of additional explanation of that that the presentation really stressed that you need to be instructing at the level where you were supposed to be instructing before any disruption or any that that if you don't you allow the student to f fall further behind and that what your responsibility is as educators is to use the mtss systems of support to help bring those students up and fill in the gaps while you're continuing to instruct beyond where they're currently possibly functioning dr rios demonstrated the importance of having a teacher believe in you just because mistakes had been made didn't mean we had a right to give up on a student just because they made they may present a bigger challenge than other students oh my goodness if if we don't adhere to that philosophy of not giving up on students no matter what we're doing a disservice to the individuals that are trying to survive to the students that are excelling in major areas that need continuing supports way beyond where others may be functioning and that just because the student is hard doesn't matter we don't give up on them ever that's it i'm done okay thank you amy uh tom did you have any sure um the two sessions that struck me the most are you know already kind of pet projects for me one was about um family resource centers on school sites uh aggregating uh services from outside community agencies uh something i wanted to see piloted for a long time the second one was similarly about a farm to table and i'll email this all to you in a lot more detail but again schools they use their garden not just on a small scale but on a big enough scale to provide food to their community i think that seeing schools is kind of the last bastion of social services in a lot of ways we need to kind of rethink what that looks like and how we can really meet the needs of our students on that note butte college is about to launch a similar program which is really cool which could also serve as a model if we wanted to push further into that concept okay is that all time okay uh caitlin sure um i would always suggest a board president's workshop it was incredibly helpful and enlightening especially when it comes to legal risks of board for board members in operating as a renegade where you can lose your actual liability coverage as an individual board member by um by not operating within the scope of of our limitations as as board members since we operate as a board and not as individuals so that was that was really interesting to kind of dive deeper into that there was a lot of culture talk about you know the board culture and you know trying to develop more which it always goes back to relationships but i think we did a really had a really great experience as a whole board in that in in that regard so it's kind of cool to watch it happen in real time just developing continuing to develop our relationships as a board so that you know we don't always have to agree but we always understand that everybody's bringing a perspective to the table that is valuable and does represent the the perspective of our community um the csba is developing a civility clause i think that that was what the name of it was which honestly like i just remember right now it was a really great idea um but it was just really establishing a board policy that discusses what it means to have a civil um a civil discourse in a board meeting um and then announcing that um frequently at but not frequently during a board meeting but at our board meetings um uh same same along the same lines and we have a little bit of this it touches on this in our own work on our own handbook um having a spokespeople or spokesperson especially for specific topics so we make sure that you know what is coming out to the public from the board um is typically being conveyed by an individual that understands the decisions that were being are being made and can speak to that and i know that most of our our most of our our public facing stuff comes from um from erica as far as like district specific things go but there is frequently the the happening of of this you know the um me local media reaching out to individual board members and so you know there's a certain times or certain place or certain people that that um you know developing the idea of having certain spokes people for certain topics could be beneficial um so if somebody were to reach out to me about a classified issue i could we know that you know eileen's the one that really can speak to policy regarding classified stuff and i'm going to deflect that interview to somebody else that's not like how it has to go but it's just something that was interest interesting to me in the president's workshop i attended a climate action naturally i attended a climate action student session and what struck me as really interesting was the concept of using students as paid interns so actually the district was providing paid jobs for students of the district to collect and analyze data as far as like their climate action plan was going and really looking into a lot of the things actually that it sounded like the m o person does that got the award tonight but utilizing students to obtain that data and analyze it and paying them for it i mean there's programs out there that do that so i thought that was really cool and just that concept of being able to provide jobs paid jobs to students and that extent work experience within the district i thought was a really cool idea um a couple of sessions clarifying clarifying what critical race theory is and isn't versus ethnic studies um not related to the board workshop but i did just see a teacher quote online recently that referred to learning history as our story instead of history so i thought that that was really cool that concept of of all encompassing perspectives of history is really what ethnic studies is about looking into increased cte and apprenticeship opportunities i'm looking forward to our boardwalk workshop basically to look more into those opportunities for students to get involved with local regional you know professionals to build trade skills um and then a side question um this is random staff question do we do year milestone awards for staff members like when they hit their 10 year mark and their 15-year mark and their 20-year work do we do anything like that that might be nice [Laughter] i think we should read off a list every meeting you know with the different benchmarks of people we'll do we'll do the the reading of people who have been here for 15 years and i shouldn't say we don't because i do believe it's recognized at some school sites but we could certainly publish it it would be a lot to read off with as many staff as well sure and i don't mean it school board meetings necessarily i just mean like i know some districts you know teachers get a 10-year pin and i'm like i didn't get a 10-year pin and we have done that for our administrative team you know recognize the years of surface just because it's a smaller group we have not done it with staff except for at retirement and then we do recognize the number of years of service of them yeah no i think it's a great idea okay and then i'm not going to talk anymore about it thank you okay matt my remarks are going to be closer to 15 or 20 minutes um [Laughter] throw something at you my emotions run the gamut following the the csba conference um you know i'm at the same time i'm loud i'm alarmed i'm impressed i'm enriched you know just i have a lot of reflections on the whole experience you know um the most noteworthy thing is you know getting closer to you all was positive you know um we're not bad people if we disagree you know uh any any worse than anyone else anyway um so just seeing the human side of each other was valuable to me um but uh one thing i'll tell you is that the world of education in california is a huge amazing powerful institution that is not going away anytime soon um it's just a it's a just a huge huge juggernaut that is um it's the product of problems and needs that exist in our society it also creates situations you know and so the policies that are enacted in the world of education are just hugely impactful to the future of our entire country and world so there you go that's it sorry i didn't use my full five minutes you're gonna give me a c plus okay so uh for me um definitely uh victor rios's uh i have his two books and my teacher believes in me he he really identifies that teacher that one teacher as helping him go from poverty and gangs to a phd in a very professional life but i stood behind him for 45 minutes while he was signing books and it's really interesting he does literally reach out to people on any kind of cultural connection that he thinks he can make with them so that was pretty interesting so he said i was his agent that's what he told people the other thing though that also made a real impact on me is we went to the one where the state attorney general was talking about the legal issues that boards were facing and a lot of boards are facing physical threats i mean literally physical threats and we had people riding very close to us because eileen gets to sit in the very front row who were expressing that their children had been verbally threatened their car windows had been broken just really horrendous physical actions against them because people got matted about a decision that they made as a board and attorney general was really clear you know you can have disagreements but you don't get to go to somebody's house and violate their privacy and their sanctity so i was kind of shocked at how many different board members in that session which was large were expressing a sense of having been threatened and to me that's a it is probably an after effect of the pandemic to some extent but it's also people using emotions and not their rational processing so that's what i saw is most powerful okay so um we don't have anybody here to do items from the floor uh does any board member have a request to agendize an item i do okay and i just came up with this so staff sorry for bringing this up right now but um without thinking of it earlier but that conversation that's going on about the um the degree the state seal for civic engagement um i'd like to have an opportunity to get some answers on that and maybe vote no on it because um i sent an email to staff this week and did not hear back and um i'm open-minded on on this this thing this this state seal of civic engagement but i think it needs to be objective you know i think that there's some like young republican person they ought to have just as much of a crack at getting a state seal for going out and hanging door hangers or something like that for something they believe in as somebody who's you know like you know a democrat or out competing against global warming or something like that i think that needs to be civic engagement comes in many different points of view so this thing needs to be uh taken that into consideration and and give opportunities to people from different walks of life and beliefs so it will be coming forward to the board as you will hear more about that um and and part of that presentation i will ask that we include what are the requirements that the state sets because it is a state seal and then are there uh variances that we as a local entity can add into that i appreciate that and it will be coming forward and if it could be um some version of an action item i would appreciate that madam president and madam superintendent i think it has to be okay thank you okay anything else all right seeing none um yep thank you you
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fast oh uh is so all right okay i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the clifton board of education for thursday january the 20th 2022. if everyone would please rise for the pledge of allegiance followed by a brief moment in silence i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you mr uc roll call please mr mr avadrava here mr awad here miss basford here miss beltran mr canova here dr danny here mr paris here vice president daley dear president smith here we have a quorum uh mission statement uh lucy would you like to read there for me miss danny the mission of the clifton school district in an open and reciprocal community partnership is to provide all students with a quality education to develop the skills necessary to become literate lifelong learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a democratic society in an ever-changing world thank you open plug with meeting statement in jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right to the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the clinton board of education has caused notice of this meeting to be publicized by having the date time and place thereof posted at the city clerk's office clifton public library administration building senior citizen nutrition center on cable tv in the local press on the district's website and mailed to presidents of parent-teacher organizations this meeting will be tape recorded in accordance with policy zero one six eight okay we'll move on to um recognitions uh we have our pbsis district coordinator ms paula rogoza here to make a presentation thank you mr president smith um mr pr vice president mr daly commissioners of the board of education dr robertosi and center administration for the opportunity to once again showcase the wonderful talents that our district has to offer with the multi-tiered system of um with the multi-tiered system of interventions pbsis the ongoing pursuit of implementing with fidelity or our multi-tiered system uh leads us today to tonight to tonight's recognition in a world where we recite teamwork makes the dream work we're reminded of the leaders that guide those teams and dreams mrs tracy muriji principal at school four is being recognized for the unwavering support of the pbsis framework her support in all settings that she graces is undoubtedly present at all in all parts of her life many look to her sage and problem-solving advice to help further drive everything from instruction staff professional development and school morale mrs murrigi's can-do attitude is positively infectious as she helps people see the easiest and best way to implement evidence-based practices most recently mrs muriji joined the district pbsis leadership team where she has already provided practical and constructive suggestions on sustaining district-wide pbsis implementation let's take a moment to hear from some of mrs marigi's colleagues reflect on her involvement in the pbsis framework in various settings mr horn would you please help us hi my name have the pleasure and is of working with mrs mourinho during her administrative internship here at school 11.
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uh aaron are we ready it's uh four o'clock yes sir we are live oh we are live okay um thank you uh it is four o'clock now is the time set for regular board meeting of the arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind uh we did move this meeting to zoom uh when we did our quorum check we were only going to have uh two board members live in tucson so um i thought this format would be better suited uh to have uh eight of us uh or nine of us all together some of them were else or capitalism it looks like looks like looks like someone's on not on mute so everyone can meet for a moment um in any event uh we're gonna go with 1.01 call to order uh and roll call uh sue k can you take the roll i sure can thank you brittany buchanan aaron wonders present dean howard present myself sue k conifer pv chance lynn davison present mike gordon i'm present linda bold and david nigro i am present thank you okay um we can move on to 1.02 colon republic on agendaized items um sue k i believe we have one of those do you have that yep great if you could read that thank you certainly i just have to find it got it okay this is from mary rimron and the subject is leadership contracts for 22 20 22 to 2024 and the comment reads now is the opportunity for change at the tucson campus the administrative environment marginalized marginalizes deaf and hard of hearing individuals and does not value a deaf person's experience as a linguistic and cultural minority this environment has led to deaf and hard of hearing staff seeking employment elsewhere deaf and hard of hearing individuals that use asl are allowed communication access to leadership via an interpreter from 8 am to 10 am and 2 to 4 pm staff that can speak and or hear have access anytime this is one example of an unhealthy environment the systemic issues on campus are not due to communication access the environment does not display a sense of understanding for deaf culture or the value of communicating without the use of interpreters asdb is a school for the deaf not a school for interpreters the students and staff in the school for the deaf deserve to have leadership with the background and experience in deaf education suggestions to address such issues may be hire a principal for the school for the deaf investigate what mentoring and support was given to the assistant principal that was recently reassigned require exit interviews to be submitted to the board so as to assure discriminatory practices are not contributing to attrition investigate how screening committees and hiring committees are selected for vacant positions ensure that individuals with a background in deaf education comprise a majority of the committees as the board of directors it is your responsibility to ensure an environment that values the deaf experience it is time to consider a change in leadership for the tucson campus uh thank you success 1.03 information item presentations from foundation for blind children and desert voices assistant superintendent dr rex good afternoon president nigro and board members i have two people to introduce you to this afternoon first i'm asking jared to go ahead and turn on his video so we know that you're here and i am introducing the ceo jared kittleson from foundation for blind children and he is going to share some information with our board this afternoon thank you thank you dr rex for the introduction uh president nigro members of the board thank you for for having me um as dr rex said my name is jared kittleson i'm chief operating officer at foundation for blind children i oversee all of our direct programs and i have the distinct pleasure to share with you our preschool program and in this valued partnership right do i have do i have a slide deck to to share is the board following along with me i have your presentation up perfect all right go to the the next slide um so before we get into the preschool i think it's important to understand a little background about foundation for for blind children we are not simply a preschool we truly are a one-stop shop for for all things all things vision um starting with with birth and in that first call from parents we show up on their doorstep all the way to our oldest client which is is 103 years old our early intervention program is is is also an asdb partnership we serve over 130 families in in maricopa county um we have a robust uh school-based program which you're going to hear about shortly we we we're proud to say we're the largest preschool for visually impaired students in the country and so that's a preschool uh specifically designed for for students with visual impairments uh so we're proud to proud to say that um we also have an internet department just like yours as well we see over 175 students all across the state representing about 50 districts in in charters next slide in addition to that we have a a media center that it produces a braille and alternative format we have the largest braille library in the united states along with a a very robust and growing prison braille network i believe we'll be in six different prison units um by the end of end of this year um so our ability to to serve students in arizona with all their resources is growing in capacity and then on the the second feature on here i'd like to point out is is we're in a second year of our teacher of the visually impaired preparation program in partnership with arizona state university uh just like every other educational organization across the country we have been dealing with teacher shortages and instead of you know trying over and over again with uh signing bonuses and job fairs uh we reached out to arizona state university came up with a plan and basically bootstrapped uh a tvi uh in bachelor's in in special education program and we're going to graduate 12 teachers of the visually impaired this may and and put them on the field to to serve the students of arizona so we are very proud of of that accomplishment and i'm looking forward to seeing that come to fruition and then we we do the summer programs um transition program age for ages 14 to 22 as well as an adult program and then support our community your community uh with some of the events you're familiar with braille challenge white king walk etc next slide so the preschool program currently looking at at this year um looking at the data as of as of january 6 um the the preschool program that that voucher that you guys voucher students to uh represents three campuses we have a campus in the east valley off the 101 in in chandler we have a central campus which is our our more prominent campus our main campus and then we have a west valley campus just off of 75th and lower buckeye the two east and west are definitely satellite campuses compared to the maine overall the institutional voucher partnership represents about uh 20 different school districts as of january 6 45 students in our preschool at all three campuses um and and based on on past year projections um as you guys you guys know with with preschool enrollment starts in august and continues to grow as students tuned three um and we'll we'll probably be pretty close to 60 preschoolers by the end of this school year next slide the next the this slide is is just a graphic and i won't break it down um cell by cell but just gives you an idea of a year over trend um month by month you guys can kind of see how the enrollment builds um you know month over month as the school year progresses you can also see you know over the past five years that that enrollment has continued to grow um kovid really didn't put a a a significant dent into the enrollment uh of our upper preschool we were pretty diligent about staying relevant and and meeting the needs of of students families and districts during covet and as a result that that enrollment was not not impacted next slide which brings me to student outcomes and i think this is probably what you guys are are are most excited about i think this is something that um our two organizations are very much aligned with um student outcomes is something very important to us this is a project we've been working on for since i've been here with and i've been here almost almost five years now is is figuring out how to measure student outcomes regardless unfortunately in the world of special ed student outcomes often result in uh very subjective long-winded narrative goals that are um understand understood by very few and hard to hard to measure um is and even harder to project where the student's supposed to be going and so what we did with our preschool program is we took a look at the arizona early childhood standards and created a curriculum that was aligned to those standards right so that our students were learning the skills that their sighted peers were learning and then adapted those skills to the expanded core curriculum so that our students were learning what their sighted peers are learning the skills that every visually impaired student needs to be successful and starts kindergarten with their sighted peers which is essentially what our preschool is all about so the expanded core curriculum uh which which may be a refresher for for some of you is is is a set of skills that every visually impaired student needs in order to access their cited uh the curriculum the same curriculum as their sighted peers so it's that that adaption next slide so this is just a sample and and leticia called me and said jared jared the the board is not going to be able to read this and that's okay this is just meant as a graphical representation as far as what these rubrics look like um these the the preschool rubric that we're that i'm i'll be referencing in this presentation is is a massive document and i'll be happy to share kendra and and i have talked about it um often and she's seen the document and this is what our teachers use this represents one section out of seven and these sections are aligned with the same sections that are in the arizona early childhood standards um the rubric itself and the skills progressed from a zero to ten and the reason we did that is we wanted one rubric for all of our students to take into account all abilities and the the argument for a lot of educators at that in our circles is well that doesn't measure my kid or my kids there of course absolutely and every kid is is is different at a different level but we wanted a tool that was going to measure them to the arizona state standards and where they were so this rubric progresses from foundational skills at 0 1 2 level all the way up to advanced 8 9 10 being able to show you know where a student was as they're about to start from preschool showing growth from the start of preschool to the end of preschool which is is what this is all about next slide and the result you get this is just a an example of one student you guys can see the seven different sections there teachers have lesson plans and curriculums that are aligned to these state standards they are documenting progress on these areas on a monthly basis and you're able to see these scores progress and some of it you can see is is is very subtle um but over time particularly in a two-year program like preschool you're going to be able to see where the growth is you're going to be able to see you know maybe where there's not growth plateau needs for intervention um as that student progresses into kindergarten that kindergarten teacher is going to have a great snapshot of of where you know the strengths the gaps the opportunities are for that student so that they can support that student and be successful in kindergarten next slide and here's here's another another graph just representing the the data as well you know we wanted to look at some different ways that we can represent this data to tell the story um whether it be parents districts people that aren't necessarily in our world 24 7.
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thank you carol i ask that we stand for the pledge of allegiance thank you welcome everyone thanks for those who brave enough to show up tonight in this nice cold january weather uh before we get into student representative report i'm going to turn over to marlene for a brief comment evening i'm sorry to share some sad news last week cheshire high school lost a cherished member of the cheshire high school community susan zwick who re his retiree passed away last week she had worked in the cheshire public schools as a department leader for the business department for over 28 years she was a beloved teacher in the business department and she leaves behind her loving family and many colleagues at cheshire high school so if we could have a moment of silence in her honor thank you marlene and to miss uh swiss family certainly please accept the condolences behalf of the board of education uh moving on to the agenda we're going to move on to the student representatives report rowan what you got all right um lovely to see you all today on this cold cold evening um so right now the high school is in the middle of midterm season um which is always a little stressful it's a hard time to get through but it's always it's an important time to do um and it's interesting talking to people around the school because we realized about half of the student population hasn't bid through midterms because we didn't have midterms last year both the sophomores and the freshmen haven't been through it so there were definitely efforts around the school to kind of help them reintegrate to what that's like one of the big things i know is usually the link crew does an event called coco and cram which is one saturday a bunch of link crew leaders get together and we help tutor and just help get freshmen ready for the event um with covid we decided to do an online version of that this year um and we opened it up to freshmen and sophomores and there also was an upperclassman opportunity just to talk about study tips and everything um and we got tutors from all sorts of different uh student leadership clubs to make sure we had enough people um i know people were there from link crew from national honors society science national honor society um there was a there's a tutoring club that was formed last year called scope and they helped to organize and run it um and so there were a lot of really great groups that kind of all came together to help make sure that people were ready and comfortable with it because most people don't love midterm seasons but it's an important thing to do kind of to get used to taking those style tests and so i think people out coming out of that we're more willing and more ready to go into it and the nice kind of breakup we've had this week definitely has given us a nice time to study um other than that kind of coming out of winter break it's kind we're kind of in a transitional period but there's definitely been some exciting things happening um winter sports um going on strong we've got spring sports registration coming up um we had both chorus band and orchestra concerts um a few weeks ago last week time is hard to attract at this point but it was really nice as part of the chorus to go and to be able to see us perform again it's we had one concert last year but it's really it's so nice to be back and be able to do it with everyone even with social distancing and masks on it's really just about being all together and being able to sing something and so i think that's most of it i'm definitely looking forward to as things start warming up and hopefully as covert numbers start getting better to kind of more activities starting up again in the spring but other than that we're just looking through getting through midterms most seniors have applied to colleges we have kind of course registration coming up for the underclassmen but there's lots of good things kind of coming up in these next few weeks and months thank you roland i know you're uh flying solo tonight and about couldn't be here uh thank you for the update is there any questions from from the board go ahead yeah sorry i just like the comment uh uh rowan i thought i was rolling rowan that you didn't have any notes and so i thought that was very impressive that he just rattled through that that was excellent very very good thanks thank you tim yeah please yeah thank you for coming tonight uh you mentioned [Music] you mentioned that people started applying for colleges i'm curious did have you heard of anybody doing early application and getting in anywhere yeah definitely um some people have done early decision and early action um a really wide range of schools people have gotten into and slowly there's along social media there's the instagram accounts and everything kind of to congratulate people who have confirmed where they're going and so there's definitely a number of seniors who have already confirmed and are gotten in places so it's nice to see kind of people who i've grown up with since we were like tiny it's a great experience to get to see like where they're all going um and it's just kind of crazy to think about thank you sam yes hi rowan i just want to comment on the fact that you guys put in you know a lot of um contributing your time and to your peers to help with that link crew and studying for midterms that's huge um i think it's a great leadership quality that you have and and i hope it continues um i'm sure word on the street would have been that you wanted to cancel midterms but since that didn't happen having this mechanism to help your peers is awesome so kudos to you guys well thank you thanks sam yeah yes please hi roland hello you going solo tonight huh um i just wanted to comment on um having the choral and music ensembles but um while i'm i kind of have a good idea of how horses can sing wearing masks because i'm also a member of a chorus an adult chorus um and we we do that but we don't have um performances these past two years but i'm wondering how some instruments are played wearing masks so can you just give me an idea of how an oboe player might perform yeah so i'm not entirely sure that's kind of they rehearse in a very different space for mars and i didn't make it to their concert um but i know for a lot of it i believe it's a mix of um thank you excellent thank you for that thank you rowan thank you so much for being here tonight good luck on remaining midterms and have a warm night you have to stay thanksgiving welcome ago thank you we'll see you next meeting thank you thank you everyone so up next we have a special school partnership award ms solano and miss ham would you like to present the award yeah okay so we'd like to call up tripp sanders if we could right up here there you are hi again um oh do you mind different okay six feet although there are many parents that do little who are extremely supportive of what supportive of what we do and are always willing to help if we ask trip has gone above and beyond for doolittle school over the last three years trip teaches at quinnipiac university when he learned last year that we were having a substitute shortage he called the school and immediately asked how he could help he shared that although he teaches a few courses at quinnipiac he is he was available some days to come to do little and help us out a few days a week he signed up right away for kelly services and became our first kelly services substitute to this day when we are short staffed we call tripp on the phone and he comes right over whenever he can he has stepped in to substitute for all staff members and has been a teacher's assistant instructional assistant and even a classroom teacher we are so happy to have him and have truly been able to count on him to be there for us not only has tripp given his time to our students in the classroom but he's also begun the doolittle ski club uh which he started last year many families and staff members joined last year and he's organized this it must be pretty tough um for this year again a little disappointing um but this the club will resume in january and february for students in grades two through six he worked with the team at mount southington to organize a reduced group price for do little families trip is also very active in scouts and has been instrumental along with other parents and in teaching the children to take part in service projects most recently pack 198 did some spring cleaning for the doolittle school they are in the process of working on and updating the remembrance garden thank you to tripp sanders for all you have done and continue to do for the doolittle school community the cheshire board of education thanks tripp for going above and beyond the students of cheshire public schools and i would like to say this um was like was written by um principal amy o'brien um in their lovely words congratulations [Applause] absolutely [Music] yes [Applause] thanks everybody know they've got fun okay yes thank you all for this this is great really appreciate it thank you tripp thank you for all your time and dedication i know it's been a difficult year teaching quinnipiac level doing this is not your service very grateful thank you so much my pleasure awesome thank you next up uh any members of the audience that wishes to address the board of education keep in mind that i believe we have a motion or two tonight and we do take audience input during the motion so there's an opportunity later in case you're too shy now as soon as there are none thank you so much moving on committee reports starting with curriculum the sam i'm actually reporting tonight on two meetings that we had they first was um all the way back in wow december 13th um we reviewed the minutes of an october 18th may 18th meeting at that time um under new business uh uh dr solon michelle picarelli picarello and tom vieira and dr gad gave an overview of what is called mental health first aid as a possible approach to consider for cheshire high school it is only in the exploratory stages um but the overview included what's called alg the acronym algae which stands for adult youth and teen programs uh well they're adult youth and team programs that teach participants to assess listen give and encourage in situations where a person may be at risk we agreed it was vital for this for the high school um to be to study this further um it would actually be targeted toward the sophomores and um so we are continuing to look at a potential framework for implementation in cheshire um we also had a spirited discussion on what students are reading at the elementary level what skills they're learning and um anne-marie wittenberg and kevin hanlon led the presentation on what's going on in the elementary schools in our reading program and it included information on the role of mentor texts which are under the junior great books heading or titles independent reading reading books and read-alouds in reading instruction and also the design of the classroom libraries at various grade levels was discussed we then had a lengthy discussion with mike pappa scott conway and tom um luwak um on st student dated privacy within the district and our practices um and that was that was a great discussion um and i would refer you to the um to the video if you can watch it and then finally we discussed um but it required no action um two overnight field trips one that occurred november 6 through 7th where the chs uh marching band went to the u.s band's national championships in east rutherford new jersey and a february 2nd through 3rd trip um again with the high schoolers um to the winter guard regional region competition in salem mass so our next meeting after that was held um um january 10th and again mostly it's an informational evening no actions were taken however it began with a discussion uh one which we opted to continue because we're dealing with a policy that was adopted in 1996 so it's rather dated but a process for reconsideration of library books and classroom resources and as i said that will be an ongoing topic that we'll be examining um had three and three uh updates and and overviews the first was our first look at the high school elective chorus african-american black puerto rican latino study and latino studies um and it was presented by don demayo and aaron griffiths who are are leading the course and teaching the course it is in our first year it is an elective uh by next year all schools in the state will be required to offer it as an elective but we are one of kind of the beta schools um but some of the key points that um ms demayo and ms griffiths made was um they went over the syllabus and it is divided into two semesters the first one focuses chronologically on african-american studies and the second focus is more thematically on the puerto rican and latino studies ms demaio and miss griffiths reported that student engagement has been high in the class which is good to hear we then had an elementary a review of changes that are going to be made to the elementary report card to incorporate characteristics of the graduate particularly focus their you know visions of the graduate particularly focusing on complex thinking um and then finally we continued our discussion of what our students are reading by looking at what's going on in the middle school and what skills are they learning and in this case kristen shanley and kevin hanlon gave an overview of what their what the students are reading at dodd middle school and what's being read in whole classes and then read independently by individual students and then finally through the book clubs and how each is connected to the standards throughout the year and um that pretty much sums up our two meetings any excuse any questions on the curriculum committee report yes sam i just wanted to i wasn't able to watch the last meeting you had in january 10th but um you know as an educator i always if i want to know something i ask the kids and from my understanding that black and latino course is very popular was there any discussion of i know we're in the beta phase but for next year you're going to have to open several sections because of the high interest was there any discussion about how that's going to look because of an increase is it touch activated okay there we go we didn't have any discussion about that at that night sam but um it will be treated like the other courses so with course registration coming up i know last year i think i'm accurate in saying we had about 86 88 students sign up for the course certain number as their first choice second choice etc so we would look at those numbers and we would plan accordingly for how many sections we were able to include based on those teachers etc i'm glad to hear that you've got you're hearing um good chatter about the class yeah and and i hope that again like you know anything else we can at least offer it to the kids instead of pushing it back to another semester or another year right right so sam another thing that came up and and it's a point that i guess i raised but um we have two very competent teachers teaching this course and it is a um top a hartford driven course i expressed my um concern and interest in seeing if there might be some way to work with the course to give those two teachers more autonomy in the development of the and uh adoption of resources that they feel would be appropriate for our community because it is a very general course and um you know we we've we've got a lot of smart people in our staff and so i would like very much to see them have some independence as this course progresses yeah i'll add uh this so my daughter's actually in the class and uh so i it's great because i uh trust me when things are going wrong i hear from her right but things are going right i usually don't so but she's been very happy with the course and uh you know i encourage parents with students interested in you know to reach out current students without teachers get some some information on it um because i for me i have the privilege of knowing what it is and what it is and i think for folks that wonder what it is it's very encouraging that being said one things that came up was the amount of material to cover not just for one uh group but each one of those three three areas black latino african studies and indigenous is also part of it could each be an offering so i know that uh dawn in particular had mentioned that they'll be getting feedback from arlene uh and at some point has to go back to circ and sde to see if there's a way to take that huge uh curriculum plan and make it more manageable to fit into the semester so i i raised this because uh i'm sure you were saying in your profession uh there's other boards school districts doing this class and hearing similar feedback a little bit more autonomy but is there a way to maybe split this out into other courses so we can spend enough time at cert so i expect at the end of the school year you'll be hearing marlene feedback from various folks so it's encouraging to see that the course is very popular and i forget what was the initial interest last year when we offered the course i believe we had about 86 88 students express interest in taking the course and it was that was our very first time offering it so you make some good points about the feedback and feeding that back to the state department and one of the reasons why we chose to hop on and be a part of this first implementation year was because we knew that those teachers myself the principal would be engaged in conversations with circ and the csde on feedback on the course so while they they gave us an avalanche of information and resources we certainly can't cover at all and so they have a little bit of autonomy in what they're able to utilize as we go through but more it'll be nice for us to have that opportunity and have those meetings so that we can provide feedback to cirque and the state great thank you yeah yes yes sam thanks for bringing that up um because we had a lot of good discussion about um the importance of a course such as that and so glad that we have the enthusiasm behind it amongst the student body one of the other things that we discuss which i think is really important that marlene brought up for us was that by us being part of the pilot project of this course we get to be involved in the conversation moving forward uh is that correct right yes so um i think it's really important that you know our administration our teachers that we jumped on this and we got in on the first iteration so that we can be part of that conversation moving forward great any other questions for curriculum committee report thank you faith thank you ann uh up next is finance mr grippo thank you mr chairman um see uh over the last let's see week we've been the finance committee has been meeting to go over the uh 2022-2023 budget um and those um i guess uh hearings are ongoing and uh that's that should be concluded somewhere before the middle of february um so for now i will uh hand over the report to mr massiana to give us a current update thank you mr grippo good evening everyone the finance report was in the board's package and i will just summarize with a couple of points this is the report through december 31st not much has changed from the november report from an operating budget point of view we are looking um strong in terms of meeting our budget you know the the couple of things that i pointed out in the report are that there's going to be some minor variances caused by fuel price increases in general inflation certainly manageable within the the context of our budget related to that there are um the non-payroll expenditure cap that the board is is aware of and i don't know if you're aware of it ms rosenberg but the way we manage our budget is the non-payroll expenditures that are available to our department heads and our principals uh we put a cap on the amount they can spend as a percentage of that allocation that cap is at 50 right now and then usually we'll raise that as we get closer to june so we're going to hold it 50 through the end of january assess that and then we'll probably raise it to 60 possibly 70 percent if things continue to trend along the way that they are the other thing that's occurring within our budget which is not a surprise but i just want to make the point again the persistence of the pandemic we certainly are still seeing costs associated with that within the operating budget tent rentals which we completed in the fall we're still doing intraday cleaning again i think we can manage that within the context of the dollars we have with the 50 non-payroll expenditure cap but we also do have essa funding that we can use for that it would take away from the learning loss component but those essa funds that we have total about 1.2 million and they're good through september of 2024.
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can we do that please uh board clerk herrera thank you for the vice president uh mr fam so i i i had a feeling you were gonna do that um we don't have the specific words that we you know approved on the resolution on here so excuse me i might not use that verbage but i do want to acknowledge that we are i'm here on the ancestral homeland of the mewekma ohlone um and want to acknowledge um their continued uh presence and um thriving here as we continue to um learn to live together and acknowledge one another and respect one another on their uh ancestral homeland of the moab alone thank you so much for vice president okay and thank you board clark herrera uh so with that we'll move to uh item 1.02 discussion and or modifications of the agenda uh the board may change the order of business including but not limited to an announcement that an agenda item will be considered out of order uh that consideration of an item has been withdrawn postponed rescheduled or removed from the consent calendar uh for separate discussion and possible action is there a call for uh discussion in the modern modification of the agenda and i believe war president has just entered the building so but in the meantime if there's anyone uh on uh any other member of the board wishing to um uh wishing to move an item or remove from and remove an item from the agenda please uh please raise your hand or signify [Music] signify to me if there's anything to be changed on this agenda okay uh seeing none we'll move on to item 1.03 uh welcome in explanation to audience uh any person may address this board on any item on the meeting agenda persons who wish to speak on an item on the agenda will have an opportunity to do so when that agenda item is introduced and presented during this meeting if you wish to speak on an item on this agenda please use the raise hand function on zoom as described above when the agenda item is called there is a limit of two minutes for each speaker the board has the right to limit total public comment on any agenda item to no more than 20 minutes persons who wish to speak to the board about any matter within the jurisdiction of the district uh but not on this agenda will have an opportunity to speak during item 3.01 on this agenda as stated below so uh with that uh i will turn it over to carlos to do the spanish translation is carlos there mr krapaldi um uh mr uh carlos tropody is translating in another channel oh oh okay so um jose would um assist you with the public comment okay okay uh this jose need uh is there a need for jose to say something at this moment in time mr uh i'm happy to i'm happy to explain if he's not able to the translation options and how to get to them okay okay uh thank you very much for clark herrera so if you would kindly do so please thank you so just reminding the public um if you are here and want to hear this english this meeting in english go to the bottom on the um bottom right you will see what looks like a world um signal symbol click on that click on english is [Music] thank you for the vice president okay thank you so much board clerk uh so with that uh we will move to uh item 2.01 racial equity committee presentation uh superintendent bower is there a need to uh have public comment first at this time on item 2.01 or uh because it is a presentation uh should we present should should the presenter present first and then open to public comment it's up to you for vice president either way is fine i just want to say that i'm very pleased to introduce miss veronica talton uh a teacher in our district music teacher in our district and miss kasturi basu principal at lindell they are the new leader in the racial equity committee and they are going to be bringing to the board an update of their work and it's up to you whichever way you want whether you want to consider public comment before or after that would be totally fine okay uh uh i think it might be edifying to have the presentation first so uh i uh recognize uh mrs taulton and mrs basu on item 2.01 thank you good evening uh molly bell we do uh need to have miss basu have access to share her screen with a slide presentation thank you maribel hope everyone is staying well greetings board vice president pham uh board of trustees dr bower alum rock employees and community it's my pleasure tonight to report on behalf of the racial equity committee and the work accomplished this school year i want to draw your attention to the top right corner of your screen where you'll find the racial equity committee's vision we also want to inform you that the racial equity committee partners with panorama education which assists educators with data analysis to improve student outcomes and social emotional learning school climate family engagement and more on the next slide you will find the members of the racial equity committee i'd like to highlight our newest members for 2021-22 dr aimee amazon and dr anya artigas who serve as our district liaisons we have as representatives employees of the district district staff parents as well as community partners and we thank all of them for their service to racial equity on the next slide you'll see the overview for spring 2021 the 24 schools that were surveyed in sel and equity and inclusion of those schools we had 3 408 students who were surveyed and they were surveyed on six topics this was in the height of the pandemic and the fall results reveal there was an increase of four percent in the response rate we're pleased to announce that 3643 students responded and in addition to the six topics there was a free response question that was given and created by the racial equity committee at this point my colleague ms basu will now share the next segment thank you veronica i'm kasturi basu from lindell and um the first part of our presentation will focus on a brief overview of the panorama false survey um the responses that we we collected and definitely our report is going to have a racial equity committee lens so the topics we asked students about as mentioned we had six topics um it was knowledge and fairness of discipline rules and norms climate of support for academic learning sense of belonging which is also how connected students feel to the school safety diversity and inclusion and finally cultural awareness and action i just want to point out the fifth and sixth topic they were asked only of are middle school students um who did we hear from overall so we had uh 15 uh 1507 responses from our family survey we had 48 of our staff which is 417 out of 868 staff in our district response to the survey take the survey um they were there were 56.9 of her students who participated in the climate survey and 67.4 percent of our students who participated in our seo skills survey so are some data insights so as we mentioned the school culture and climate was surveyed through three different topics one was the sense of belonging which again it's school connectedness uh cultural awareness and action and the third one was diversity and inclusion and like i mentioned diversity and inclusion was only for the middle school now i also want to point out cultural awareness and action were also this topic was also included in our staff survey this year racial equity committee we suggested to include a free response for our students and the question was describe a time when you feel when you felt a sense of belonging and respected at your school again this was a free response we had students response to this um using you know their uh their languages and i'm going to show you that we we actually generated two word clouds from these responses and as you know uh the word clause usually highlights or the words that are used multiple times in their responses they are you know they're bigger they appear more so we can see uh for a third through fifth grade responses again keeping in mind the question was describing a time when you felt a sense of belonging and respected we see words like friends yes time first day and for middle school what really stands out is the word friends so definitely friends play a big part in how our middle school students feel how they feel they belong and they feel respected at school so the next part is going to be we could talk about some district level action plans and how do we uh partner with our ar usd leaders um also some system system level action plans next steps and that is going to be um are from our uh another racial equity committee core uh group member joseph manluco and since he could not be present he has recorded his presentation for you good evening trustees district management and our alum rock community i'm principal manluco here at painter elementary to go over part two tools for action planning and our guiding next steps so first uh district level action seo how do we support caring adults to take action on student voice we have three parts here an seo roadmap developing multi-year sel that grows belonging and centers equity for students and adults number two we have equity action planning leveraging an action finding template at all levels to ensure we're adjusting for potential biases and blind spots in our data and decision making and then third continuing pd making sure that our staff have access to equity and inclusion action plan that has a tiered pd plan for district and school leaders and educators in our systems level action we center our reflection around two questions what types of programs are in place to drive our school or additional strategic efforts to create more equitable and inclusive schools specifically thinking through programs like sel and the committee such as our racial equity committee and our ethnic studies committee and then what aspects of what has been seen or heard today can support those programs how do we use the data that panorama has provided us that our community has completed to really inform how we design and develop these programs among many others that exist in our district so our racial equity committee has these defined next steps uh one we're going to partner with our school leaders um and district leaders to take action on this data this panorama fall survey data two we want to convene as a racial equity committee core group on february 8 2022 our third meeting of the year and then third we want to open up the spring to racial affinity group meetings how do uh different parts of our student and staff population um you know how do they feel within their affinity groups about this data all right that's everything from me oh sorry we have also our anti-racism resources for our district again this is a long list of resources recommended by panorama to kind of inform this process of reflecting about the data and developing our programs such as sel rec and the ethics studies committee and now it's all for me and i'm going to hand it back to our racial equity committee colleagues good evening trustee and now we'll entertain questions from the board of trustees all right thank you for that excellent presentation uh any questions from members of the board all right uh board member um i don't have a question other than thank you so much for the update um and doing this important work i mean it's great to see the responses from the children especially um you know there's a saying that our children will always tell the truth and that's true um and you know for me it's important to ensure that we have equitable responses and feedback so it for me was a big part of the presentation to see what the children are saying so thank you for including that um and i look forward to continuing to uh hear about the work and support the work and we ch whichever way um we continue to go in um and i'm happy to see um uh miss uh um on on this committee welcome um and uh yeah i think that's it for today i look forward to continuing to support the work board remember madam thank you i'm i don't know if people have the same problem with me i have like a million tabs open and so i'm trying to find the tab that i had based on the presentation that we got included in our documents but i i'm not going to make people wait because i cannot find it on all these tabs so i'll just ask this question that i had unless there's other people that have questions and can ask ask it after when you're i'm looking at i think i might have closed that tab and i would have to go into the history that's okay um because i do have another question um based on just tonight's presentation and so excuse me um i i know it was in tonight's presentation and i know it was in the documents that we received also um and i'm familiar with the term of de-centering whiteness um in in a broad general context what that means and the implications and you know what that the intention of that is i'm just wondering if the committee yet has started discussions about what that might look like in the context of the district of the schools like what might some and and if you if we haven't gotten there yet that's fine too but i'm just um trying to think what that may look like either from like a you know trying to support teachers and staff and having this framework or this lens or even how it might how the committee might be thinking it might um [Music] present itself or manifest itself in programming or or curriculum or just i'm just curious about the term and how we're seeing it from an edge from a district perspective thank you so um trustee bejarano de-centering whiteness is simply teaching truth and using culturally relevant teaching practices and in our foundational year which was 20 20 21 we had several schools lindale was one um hubbard was another that joined in and did culturally responsive uh and linguistic i think that's what it is which is clrt culturally and linguistically responsive teaching yes so what that basically does is to teach the accomplishments and the achievements of different cultures and we know uh in the the profession of education that primarily it is eurocentric focused so in a district like ours which has lots of different ethnicities we teach truth about the different accomplishments and achievements of other races and ethnicities we feel that all have been sufficient in making contributions and strides in our country and we seek to highlight that and amplify the voices of those who are most marginalized and traditionally that has been african-american and latinx so that's just a brief synopsis to try to answer your question of course we have a three-tiered um program and implementation we've had to adjust drastically this year because we're dealing with so many other things related to safety and and covid um but this work must continue it's especially important in the times that we're living in thank you so much rough start for me i just wanted to uh thank you for that response that is actually you know my understanding of decentring whiteness and and in in the classroom how um the importance of teaching latino and african american and asian and all native american all the different um accomplishments and achievements and contributions that we've had and but i noticed in the the materials that we received that it kind of starts delving into a little bit also like how we'll support our staff so um is can i infer then that at this time the involvement of staff will just be kind of supporting them in how to teach and and um kind of implement what you just explained in terms of uh recognizing these these um all of the cultures that that we have here is that what the does that what it would mean for staff at this time as far as the committee is concerned well the the panorama survey does find out from staff members how they feel a sense of belonging how they feel connected in the school communities as well and we certainly want to support staff members so that they feel equipped in order to do this so i will allow my colleague to speak a bit more about it to given kind of an overview of clrt and that was to train staff members and we certainly want to branch out by our final year we want to have all students feel the joy in learning that they have a pride in their identity but the the tone of the classroom is set by the teacher so i'll allow kasturi who was a leader in that clrt um initiative to speak a bit about that thank you veronica so yes uh trustee verano we did lead a a year-long series of pds we started off with um ratio understanding and mitigating biases so um our staff so this was held during our staff meeting time so we had teachers and staff um and leaders administrators who attended these these pd's we talked about uh first you know understanding biases mitigating you know what is bias understanding um you know how how to address those um so and then we moved on to the clrt which is the culture and linguistically responsive teaching um where we gave our teachers um you know how understanding of why do we need to do this and then tools of how to do this so specifically um and and teachers at the end of almost every pd they had to take a survey uh and they had to talk about like what they have uh you know they have internalized um from that meeting what they have learned what they plan to take back to the classroom so more work has to be done we were planning to continue it this year but again we had to put it in hold because of everything that is happening right now but it is extremely important the other part like veronica mentioned the panorama survey um for their staff it included questions around um around you know race like uh how how comfortable uh staff feel talking about races um you know what what do they have then do they you know if something comes up do they want to have a discussion around you know something that is uncomfortable so i think you know if we go delve deeper into our data and we can show you a report um you'll see that these questions were asked and um staff had an opportunity to answer those respond to those questions and um yeah i mean we we really need to do a lot more work and it's not never it's going to end until you know we have that climate and culture in each and every school at ellen rock but we are i think we are pioneers we are on the way yes well thank you all of you um for the work that particularly as you both have mentioned in these crazy times that you're still able to move the ball forward you know each step in that direction is the right way to go the last thing i'll say is um just a comment um one of the slides in the materials we received it was page 18 on the slide there's a quote at the top that says equity refers to the impact of action wherein outcomes are not related are not correlated with race ethnicity socioeconomic status sexuality gender or ability to name a non-exhaustive list and i think i look i look forward i think it'll be an interesting conversation um just based on what i know of this in this area that in in terms of having the discussion between equity of outcome and equity of opportunity i think those are sometimes words that we interchange outcome and opportunity but i think it makes a difference in how we approach things and so um you know i'm confident that with obviously is very obvious to me the work demonstrated by this group that we'll be able to tackle all these different nuances as we move forward and i look forward to that conversation um so thank you all for your work all right uh boardview vs president uh um oh yes uh first of all i want to thank the uh both co-leaders and the committee for their hard work on this uh so i just have two questions uh one to miss pursue because you're you're principal at lindale and now you mentioned when uh you know some of this work started at windmill so i know the last last semester and the previous year has been um very very challenging uh so i i'd like to ask that how is you know even if this were implemented in in chunks and pieces uh how is that played out you know with with the children and in the classroom so um i think and this is happening district-wide not just at lindell that uh we have a huge sel focus we really um you know bring our students uh social emotional mental health in the forefront so classrooms teachers they're very aware of that and i think most of all our teachers are focusing on acl type of learning giving you an example lindell is also doing my name my identity which is also you know a big uh push on validating our students uh recognizing them as individuals and um we are also uh talking about you know there are so something that has been developed by the santa clara county of education which also aligns to this so we are uh in the process again i said you know we want to do a lot this year and last year it's just probably happening slowly but steadily at lindell and at other sites too and thank you and i understand this is a huge and complex endeavor and it nothing nothing happens overnight uh the second question i had is um i read through the questions that were asked of the students and i i wanted that uh how did how how were you able to how were how was the committee able to uh get students uh to uh answer some of these very very weighty questions i i can remember uh i don't think i would i don't think i was going to be able to answer those questions uh in the age groups covered you know uh age groups participating in the survey so you know if you could shine a light on you know how how are you able to get get get our students to to open up and actually uh share their views on what is a very complex issue lord vice president fem i would have to give recognition to all of the teachers because in the elementary it's the teachers who go over the questions with the third through fifth grade students and in middle school of the responses that we receive teachers are encouraged and parents as well to have them weigh in but it's the teachers who encourage the students to take the survey so i want to give recognition to my colleagues in area who work daily for our students so it is we have to acknowledge that the teachers are doing it and administrators are reminding staff of the deadlines because we have a certain window of time in which to do the survey and there will be a spring 2022 so it's all parties working together but the teachers are the ones who make it happen um thank you very much thank you you have one final remark for uh board president quintero i want to hear from you if you were going to speak i apologize for interrupting oh no no worries i was just going to call on any other board members or remember travis who hadn't spoken yet just want to make sure but if not then uh yeah go ahead and make a comment okay we'd like to end we'd like to conclude this yes with a quote to honor someone very special we are caught in an escapable network of mutuality died in a single garment of destiny whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly dr martin luther king jr thank you so much for listening this concludes our report and again for those who'd like to contact us it has our school locations i'm at joseph george middle i'm at lindale elementary school and my colleague ms custeri basu is principal at lindell elementary thank you so much this concludes our report thank you thank you for that excellent presentation on behalf of the board in the district thank you for the work that you're doing we know that you already have a lot of work to do and on top of that you've taken this on and it's it's a very very important cause and we appreciate uh the effort that you're putting into this that everybody in this community is putting into it so thank you very much for that um at this point i'm gonna go ahead and open it up to public comment so um i'll call you as i see you uh hello president we have uh at the moment two speakers uh first speaker is nancy flores miss flores you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi yes just real quick um thank you for the presentation and thank you for the presentation and just to say one more thing on what miss talton was speaking of answering the questions how how were the students given getting getting the answers from the students and this was on zoom i believe last year and i just wanted to thank all the parents um last year getting their students on zoom and um you know having them sit still and be on zoom thanks thank you miss flores our next speaker is excuse me board president i don't see anyone else at the moment all right uh we'll go ahead and move on to item two point um sorry about that item 2.02 presentations on demographic enrollment projections by schoolworks uh dr bauer do you want to go ahead and introduce the item yes thank you for president i'm going to turn it over to mr covera chang so that he can provide some context for the board thank you thank you and good evening uh board president members of the board and superintendent dr bauer um jose if you can elevate both mr ryan uh reynolds and mr ken reynolds from schoolworks who will be doing the presentation good evening members of the board my name is ryan reynolds i'm the demographics and enrollment projections project manager for schoolworks tonight we just have a quick presentation to go over the results of our demographics and enrollment projections for your district on this slide it's uh we illustrate a kind of simplified version of our process for generating projections we take into account historic student counts local birth data the current student counts as well as the census data of housing counts to generate projections based on each of the individual schools boundaries as well as the transfers in and out to generate the school site projections this slide shows a map of the district boundary as well as the location the residential classification for each of the students attending your district and this forms the base of our analysis for the demographics so one of the key important topics right now facing school districts is the growth of the transitional kindergarten and we do this based on the birth rates comparing the births to the tk students that show up four years later and currently with your allowing more tk than just the three months we don't show a a real increase for next year because the additional two months will is already covered by your program but then we show that program growing over the next three years after that as it expands up to a total of 649 transitional kindergarten students in the 2025-26 school year we also um project the kindergarten enrollments based off of birth rates and as you can see the birth rates for your area as well as most of california but especially in the bay area has been declining and that is affecting your district by impacting smaller incoming kindergarten classes on this slide we show the current enrollment of your district in the green bars broken down by grade and then the blue data points above that show the corresponding kindergarten class from when they started in your school district for example the sixth grade class of 819 students six years ago in kindergarten there was a class of 1129 and so over time uh due to mobility and other factors your class sizes get a little smaller over time from their original kindergarten class on one of the big things that we analyze for the historic enrollment are the cohort factors as the class sizes move through the grades and as you can see here we as it showed in that previous uh graph the class sizes shrink over time as they move through the grades on this graph we show the entire district enrollment over the past 10 years as well as our six-year projection which has been declining and we show continuing to decline into the future but at a slightly less rate due to the growth of the tk program as shown here the tk5 students in the orange bar portion doesn't shrink as quick as the historic numbers due to that tk growth another or another data point that we analyze are the classroom counts and loading standards to try and understand the capacity at each school site and so we showed the classroom counts for each of the elementary middle schools and tk8 schools um as well as the low classroom voting breakdown on the left there for each of your school boundaries we analyze the students who live in the area and attend the school the students who live in that area and attend other schools in your district the students who live within other boundaries within your district but still attend that school as well as students living outside of your districts attending your schools and we analyze those transfer patterns over the past three or four years to understand how those are changing over time and that all comes together in our um by school enrollment projections where on this chart we show the uh solid black line for the classroom capacity count the blue line which illustrates the students that live in that attendance area the red line illustrates the students attending the district and we provide a chart of that for each school this chart here shows a detailed illustration of the transfer patterns for your district showing the school areas this and what students and where those students are attending and we also show that data in another format here for the middle schools showing the students living in the boundary in the blue bar and the students attending in the red bar so we can see that at the renaissance academy at fisher and matheson there are more students that attend those schools then live in that boundary whereas at the other schools there's more transfers out than in and then we analyze those capacity numbers and current enrollment as well as projected enrollment to understand the utilization of each site um in terms of their capacity and with that i will open up the floor to any questions all right give me a second before we take on the board uh comments let's go ahead and hear from the administration if there's any comments thank you trustee board president quintero just very quickly wanted to remind the board that we had a similar study done on november of 2019 before we knew anything about the pandemic and so i felt that it was important for the district to know a better have a better sense of our numbers and our projections after the pandemic and that's why we requested this study so this is the most updated uh considering the very harsh environment the pandemic created for our families and as you can see you're able to see a number of interesting findings in in terms of how we are faring in terms of the number of students amongst us including declining birth rate in a very um interest you know in a very sharp way um how the tk students are really the ones that are sustaining our schools in so many ways kind of where we're losing students the ones that are coming to us so i encourage the board to look at the book it has some really fascinating information regarding the trends in each of our sites and our district as a whole thank you all right questions from the board well remember vada uh yeah before that uh um wondering are we gonna take public comment first or after um yeah let's go ahead and uh call for full comment okay second thank you yes for president at this time we have one speaker miss brenda sandejas mr mesendejas you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you so much i just had a question i know um that this is projected uh the climbing of enrollment what is our current enrollment right now i know that there was one done in november and i believe one in january as well through the company and i'm just wondering where we're at right now because i know that the the numbers that were given were in my opinion a little bit too high um i don't know if maybe they were uh more accurate than what was predicted um and that's all i want to say and i do want to thank mean fam for taking over today's meeting when the board president was late you did a really good job and i'm very well prepared for that so i just wanted to thank him because he was able to take this meeting and did a really good job thank you miss sendejas our next speaker is rachel lopez miss lopez you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi thank you so much for taking my question i'm wondering if um the gentleman who gave the presentation could um let us know if these are similar trends that he is seeing in other districts in within santa clara county because as far as i know um we have a shrinking enrollment um just because due to high cost of housing etc etc so i'd love to get that feedback thank you thank you miss lopez uh board president at this time we have no more public speakers thank you uh um all right uh members of the board i'll take you as i see you uh we'll remember all right thank you well um you know obviously we all know that uh we can't respond to questions asked in public comment but luckily one of my questions actually is reflective of something something we may have heard so my first question is that if if um school works i'm sorry i did i didn't get your name mr [Music] reynolds reynolds mr randall sorry about that mr reynolds um obviously without sharing any specifics could you give us possibly just an idea of um maybe trends either regionally or or statewide or whatever and and as they relate to what you see in our district yes of course um so we have noticed with a lot of our bay area clients there has been a lot of um declining enrollment as well as our projections show that declining enrollment continuing largely impacted by declining birth rates which is actually been a factor across the entire state as well as an increased mobility of people moving out of the area due to that um high cost of living as well as the high housing costs and with the and with the pandemic having an increased impact on people's ability to work remotely we have seen people due to that moving more so it sounds like that you're in your rough ballpark estimation that our district is roughly um what's the word i'm looking for commensurate or looks the same as districts in the bay area at least that or roughly the same that is correct okay thank you for that so then my second question is um i'm not sure if you'll be able to answer or maybe mr chang or someone from staff but um with regards to well first before i get to that can you clear up or um clarify the term capture rate and and just how that's defined in the report so in regards to the kindergarten capture rate i'm i'm guessing is what you're mentioning yeah so we um gather the birth data based on zip codes which is how it's released and um available to us and we since those uh zip code um boundaries don't always line up with school district boundaries we do our best estimate of you know which zip codes to include in that for our analysis and um the capture rate illustrates both the um the kind of difference between those boundary lines as well as the mobility factor of people moving in or out of the area in those five years between birth and their student showing up in kindergarten okay thank you for that clarification so then this is the question that i was about to ask um and i'm not sure who might be able to answer it but there does a higher utilization factor theoretically translate to um [Music] increased resources or dollars for for those who are actually utilizing district resources or enrolled so what i'm asking is if the utilization factor were to increase does that then mean that money that or resources or money that's not being put towards um utilization of places where there are not enough students that that money or those resources would then be able to be focused on those who are in facilities and schools that are being utilized i hope that's a clear question um because it's uh it seems to me that if we are in a have a low utilization factor then we're spreading our resources thin but if we if we can um decrea or increase the utilization factor we can then focus in those resources into a a condensed set of schools or sites is that the answer is yes yes yes of course right when you have yes when you're able to provide services concentrated in one particular area rather than spreading them throughout and i'm just you know being very factual about them okay so thank you dr bauer and so my last couple things here are just comments thank you mr reynolds for um for answering those questions for me um but so i according to my um very rough estimations in order for us to reach close to full utilization we need to do something about 60 with about 60 of our schools if the utilization factor i think was 36.6 projected in six years um so if that is the case then that means about 60 of our schools we need to take some action on and you know we we talked about consolidating and closing schools roughly translate to translates to about 13 schools again i could be off on my math with this or they need maybe factors that i don't know about yet but um that's how i see it so far so to me clearly action needs to be taken otherwise we're going to be or the district will be here in six years with a huge i mean we already know based on our budget that we have decisions to make in a more in a much sooner time frame but in six years if we don't start doing something soon there will be a gigantic issue assuming that there aren't any significant changes with all of the other stuff mr reynolds talked about so for me i kind of see this um if we assume all that to be true that this report is accurate and there won't be any significant changes in the projections if we assume that what i just talked about about utilization rates then i think this actually if you know we can think about this at least how i think about it is this is a time of opportunity um because i think the opportunity of course the decisions that we or whatever whoever future board members will need to make are difficult decisions certainly um i think that if we zoom out we see that those decisions will actually lead to increase services increase resources increase the ability to support students and families and staff because the resources that we have won't be spread thin they'll be we'll be able to devote them to to those um you know you don't utilize sites or whatever you might call them so i really do see this although it's it's hard to talk about and we have difficult conversations to come i see it as an opportunity for us to improve what we have to offer um as a district um and so i guess the last thing i'll say for now is with with an election year coming up um we don't know what the future board configuration will be for this district you know current board members may or may not be here we may or may not have new board members that's all unknown um and so that being the case i i do believe that over the past several years we as a board we've demonstrated that we do have a uh in my opinion a cohesive thoughtful reasonable and rational rational board as a whole um and so that being said i i look forward to just setting some wheels in motion in the coming year um leading up to the election so that um you know regardless of who may be sitting in these seats or on these screens um a year from now that we will have action taking place that will kind of that will be wise um to get us to where we need to be in four to six years and so when we had our 7-eleven committee i'm not sure what month that was but at that time i did um provide or request some for staff to look into some specific um stuff with regards to closures and consolidations of schools and so i think um in the in the coming in the near future i think i you know i will be wanting to check in on that and revisit that and start in earnest the discussion of these discussions that we need to have so that we can use this reality as an opportunity to improve what we have to offer as a district so again thank you mr reynolds thank you everyone for obliging me and that's all my comments for now a board member thank you mr president uh question to mr reynolds uh in your presentation i saw that there is a uh glimmer of hope in the uh ah in the one in the tk projection so we sort of bottom out in the beginning of this rougher rough rough deck well the first couple years of this decade have proven to be rough for reasons beyond our control but it seems like there's an uptick in in tk enrollments in uh 2020 beginning in 2023 and you know we hit the 600 mark in so is this some sort are we are we turning the a small demographic corner here in the sense that birth is there an increase in is there some sort of trend where there's a bit of an increase in birth rates and and or possibly some people moving into the district that that is creating this uptick in tk enrollments so the uptick in the tk projections is actually due to the governor expanding the eligibility for the tk program so instead of only currently being eligible for three months worth of students um by 2025 it will be a full 12 month program similar to kindergarten and first grade and so it is just a little bit um of an illusion where it's looks like growth but it's really just the adding of a grade level served oh so basically uh the number of of avail let's just say enrollment age students just expanded within this population group so there it's sort of like same pool but within the pool there's a slightly larger eligible student population that is correct okay uh thank you very much and i guess i you know i'll end on uh a comment there not you know i would like to re remind my colleagues that yes they're you know this report is uh has outlined some challenges for this district but i i also want to remind my colleagues that uh you know these are valuable facilities uh many of which if were if they were to be a part they would not be acquirable with today's land and real estate prices so i i want to make sure express the uh necessity of uh making sure that alumni continues to have possession and the ability to use these uh use these facilities not just for the families of allen rock today but also for the children and families of alum rock in the future because uh uh you know once uh once it once indeed this use it is very very difficult to to put to restore and put the good use in good use again so i want to uh you know make sure that my colleagues know that uh we we have tough decisions to make in the coming years but also we we have a responsibility to make sure that these um assets uh remain assets to the allen walk community board member thank you president quintero um mr reynolds thank you for changing your name i i wasn't sure um i just want to highlight on page 8 and um we're not um here to answer any questions um of the public but i want to highlight some information and ask you um a question in regards to slide eight i see for 2122 we have an 8156 a moment what i'm looking at there um and i just i want to ask you is this numbers that you just um i mean what how do you come up with these numbers so our year by year enrollment numbers are trying to look at a snapshot of the seabed's day enrollment the first wednesday of october and then the project the historic enrollment as well as the projections are also based on a snapchat of that or a snapshot of that date as well often times the district districts can either grow or lose some students throughout the year but we want to try and have an apples to apples picture of the enrollments and so we use that seabed state for our data points thank you so much um and then just in general i want to thank our um dr bauer and whoever else uh you know had the idea of having this um done because you know it not only helps us make informed decisions as board members in the near future um of those very hard decisions we get to make but also shows transparency right so uh our community our alumni community knows the information that we're all dealing with and that in the future when we continue to move and make decisions that nobody's surprised and so um you know and also that you know maybe seeing some of these numbers and seeing some of the decisions that we get to make that our community um maybe even wants to get even more involved right um to be a part of um of the decision making that ultimately comes to this board however as we know with the 711 committee with other committees with uh getting information from our students from our parents from our community as to the needs in our community um that we take all those things into account and so um thank you so much for bringing this to us um definitely you know when i saw the numbers and it just does something to see those uh especially for me the last um second to the last slide on page 14 you know to see how much we are using or not um and what the opportunities that means right so it's not like oh you know where are we it's more like wow the opportunities that we have as mr fan mentioned to uh service our families here in alamo better um and in a way that you know can possibly even bring more resources to our district um be creative in collaborating with organizations um being able to see that snapshot of the picture of what um schools you know uh and i even had a conversation with dr bauer um you know it just really helped me spark you know just creative ideas to bring forward to see what is best for our students our families um in our district so thank you so much i look forward to you know being here i i'll be one of the five that will be remain consistent on this board um and know that i will use this um i will make sure that we stay transparent um that you know there are no made up numbers right because that serves no one when making decisions um and to ensure that our community knows that you know we're being transparent in this process that is not easy and will not be easy but we get to do as leaders in this community so thank you mr reynolds and that's it mr president remember travis you had your hand up earlier are you interested in speaking yes i have a specific question um on page 12 on the demographic study you put 703 was the total outflow and that was six months ago do you know what the total outflow is today six months later that um the teachers have been saying and emailing everybody that they're missing a lot of students do you know that figure today sir no i do not and that um 703 outflow is the is actually a analysis of students who are transferring to out a school that is um or sorry that's the net transfer rate um sorry i'm just looking at the data point real quick yeah because you could see that only two of them aren't losing students whereas all the rest are so that's why i asked that question and now i guess this next question i guess would be for the district is can i please see the enrollment figures of each school for the last two months because i know six months ago we had a lot more students than what we have today if we have a more accurate accurate reflection of the students we actually have we can make better decisions in the long run thank you so much for your presentation and all your hard work sir that's all all right um there's no other questions from members of the board or the administration here for their comments then i'll go ahead and i'll make my comments this is obviously very sobering information but i think it's very it's very necessary um the community the district everybody needs to see exactly what's happening and the very tough decisions that come before us um this is exactly why uh the community places here to go ahead and deal with these types of situations it wasn't to go to chicken dinners and get your name uh you know called out and wow good for you no this is exactly why um and i'm very glad that it's us making these decisions because we know what's going on our community and uh we're gonna make the the best decisions we can with the information that's provided i do want to agree that um as we move forward um i want us to be you know very thoughtful uh in what we do with our with uh the assets these decisions will have very very uh serious consequences for generations to come land isn't being made maybe in some places of the planet there's lava flowing somewhere with some new land that's being created but not here in san jose and um we need to be careful uh what we do with that land uh in those assets that the community's uh assets we've seen time and time again these uh impacts to the demographics 9011 hits and people stop having kids the great recession hits again and all of a sudden another impact and now i'm assuming that pandemic is also having uh that huge impact on on the birth rate and so um those are all things that we have to factor in as we're moving forward um i think that uh my preference and i've been pretty clear about it in the past is that strategic partnerships be developed uh that uh we go ahead and develop those partnerships so that um community organizations that are doing good and they're doing providing services that are in line with what we do are the ones that are first get first tips to use whatever space we may that may become available i i do not believe that a fire sale should happen and it's that our competitors go ahead and take over all of our sites i'm actually going to be you know working against that so um thank you for that information uh mr reynolds and your team uh we you know you've always done extensive work throughout the state and uh we're very confident that you provided us you know very sobering but very necessary information uh for us to make the decisions that we need thank you for that all right um for president i'm sorry i just wanted to let everybody know we will provide to the entire board i know trustee chavez requested the enrollment for the past two months and we she also requested moving forward to get those numbers monthly we will include that just so the audience will know we will include all of that in the board book every month thank you uh yeah i just wanted to actually if i could add on to little to what yourself president quintero and vice president fountain and um the two of you at least have said with regards to the sites if and when we make some decisions down the road i think that um you know the the way that we've governed up to this point as reflected by our audits by our um you know all the all the different reporting that has been done on how we've been functioning um as reflected by how we've governed and you know we're not perfect no one in the district is is perfect but i think the way that we have made decisions will indeed be attractive to um organizations in the community that will want to partner i i mean i think i could i would imagine and and i have some um you know i would i just would imagine and i and i think there are numerous organizations that currently are are seeing how we're doing things and seeing how we're um we've stabilized and we're navigating these choppy waters very um in my opinion and others that i've talked to in a very strategic way and so i i too um am encouraged that we will be able to find utilizations for our sites um if we if we get to that point that will reflect the needs of the community that will reflect the um recommendations of the 7-eleven committee and again i think it's because people and organizations will see that we're an organization that is transparent that can be trusted to make difficult decisions that can be trusted to um you know do what's needed when it's needed to be done and so um i just want to i guess echo yourself and um trusty fam that we we definitely will need to be strategic if it when it comes to this but again i think um if we reframe this which i've done for myself as an opportunity to better serve the community then then really the sky's the limit so um so thank you for allowing me that time all right um all right at this point uh we've uh heard the presentation to public comment and uh heard from members of the board so we will go ahead and be moving on to item 3.01 um uh public members who wish to address the board have the opportunity and you can see on the agenda the uh information that's provided uh remember that comments need to be related to matters that were within the jurisdiction of alan rock school district and they need to be on items that are not on the agenda uh there are no otherwise agendas so at this point uh let's go ahead and take on public comment we'll say will you call for public before you call public comment yes for president uh our first speaker is rachel lopez miss lopez you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin can you guys hear me okay yes we can hear you ms lopez okay thank you um i just wanted to um speak on behalf of um teachers um we have been doing work to rule as you know um we are advocating for ourselves for higher pay and cost of living commiserate with what is happening in the in the county but frankly i want to appeal to you um from science i believe that um there was a meta-analysis research by john hattie who's a statistician who focuses primarily on education and he compiled research from 500 000 um different resource projects and he pulled all of the resources and he came to the findings that in the out of a hundred things that make students successful in school and changes um test scores and improves um the outlook for a child's trajectory in their life most of them are teacher based and we need to retain quality teachers we need to retain them by paying them what they're worth we should not have to feel like we have to crawl over broken glass to get what we deserve every school district right now teachers are fleeing education they are fleeing which is opening up a huge vast amount of teaching positions and higher paying schools and districts our kids and our families deserve quality teachers they are the best they are absolutely the best and i also want to just take a quick second to talk about closing schools and all of the things that you guys are talking about we need to figure out how to get our kids back from charter schools that's where the resources lie we have kids in this district that need to come back thank you miss lopez next speaker is kelly chefsky kelly you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you uh superintendent bower and school trustees um i want to share with you a concrete example of the impact that not having a fair and reasonable settlement to our collective bargaining agreement is having on teachers and students at my school renaissance at madison for the past seven weeks several of my colleagues and i have been teaching three periods each day with 36 to 37 enrolled students my understanding is this is the highest class size outside of pe in the entire district classes that have this many students over the agreed to class limit of 31 create many challenges for both teachers and students the most important of which is it is virtually impossible to provide each student with the attention and support they need to thrive both academically and socially emotionally during this incredibly difficult school year back in november the school board approved renaissance hiring another full-time teacher in order to lower these huge class sizes and i appreciate that but the fact is the district has not been able to attract or hire a teacher to fill this position for two months and frankly it's no wonder we can't find a teacher to fill this position since alan rock currently sits near the bottom of the county in terms of starting salary for teachers this is the concrete effect that not having a fair and competitive salary schedule is having on me my colleagues my students and their families dr bauer refers to the alum rock school district as a family and personally i agree with her characterization but as a long-time member of this alum rock family i and many of my colleagues are feeling exhausted worn down and taken for granted i respectfully appeal to you to show us with your actions not just your words that we are not being taken for granted and to please settle this contract thank you thank you mr chef uh next speaker is gregory bonacorsi gregory you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening president of the board superintendent staff and honored guests i'm greg bonacorsi i'm a seventh eighth grade math science teacher for the last 33 years in the fremont unified school district and i represent alum rock education association as a member of the board of directors of the california teachers association this is the second time i've addressed this board the first since 2016.
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tracy is instrumental to the success that our rare team has experienced implementing the pds science program in september of 2019 mrs mourinho brought her distinctive leadership style and a wealth of information to our school it was clear from the beginning that we would work together to continue to develop our rare program tracy made a point of inviting all staff members to our meetings to get as many perspectives as possible she listened to all of our ideas and then helps us to implement that she helped streamline our ocr process and helped us to create the system that worked within our school and she was always willing and patient to sit and explain and re-explain and answer any questions that we had until we had a firm grasp on what we were doing tracy helped us to build a cohesive team that never lose focus on our goal of improving the experience of all school eleven students when there was work to be done tracy was the first to volunteer she dusted and painted shelves to help open our rare room she sold snacks at our socials she attended night events with her beautiful children in town and she even dressed up as a rare buff one halloween to this day mrs murray is the first person i call when i have a question of concern we just need to talk about something going on within our program tracy thank you for teaching leading and loving both the students and the staff of clifton public schools [Music] assisted me as i welcome back half the students to school three while the other half stayed remote during the school year school three also launched pbsis due to copenhagen our training looked very different from previous years instead of having a full year training we were given the second half of the school year instead of training with the entire team together most of our training was done individually listening to videos mrs murray seeing the vast difference brought our team together she provided opportunities for discussion questions and most importantly to come to shared understandings mrs murgy also created meaningful and fun team building experiences it was a great comfort to have mrs muriji assist us since she came to the table with so much pbsis experience we leaned on the smuriji for her knowledge while she guided us every step of the life it was a true pleasure working with mr muriji and i'm proud to now call her not only a principal colleague but a good friend i would like to finish by saying school 3 would like to wish mrs murray great success as she leads school four and i would like to also finish by saying have a good new year hi i'm corinne muskowski an elementary school counselor here in clemson and i've had the honor and privilege of working with miss murrayji for almost two years now first at school three and now at school four her desire and drive to make positive lasting changes in the lives of our students has been prevalent since day one of meeting her she has had many years of experience with pbsas since her years of working with the pre-k program and she has brought her expansive knowledge skills and ideas to helping school 3 and now school 4 continue to grow our pbsis programs although tracy has many years of experience is always open for new ideas tracy leads with kindness compassion and understanding in everything she does and it is truly an honor and a privilege to be on her pbsis team as her colleague and friend congratulations tracy this is well deserved that wonderful video together and everyone who took the time to contribute to the message for mrs marie if you have the opportunity to meet ms marina or interact you'll feel her power of being an amazing human being and an excellent educator mr president smith vice president mr daley dr robotozi would you do us an honor of helping present ms mariju with her certificate of achievement [Applause] the certificate says the clinton school district certificate of appreciation for outstanding pbsis implementation presented to tracy mourinho school number four showcase administrator for january [Applause] right next we have the recognition and award presentations of the clifton high school january students of the month we'll start out with our freshmen i have the honor of presenting to freshman declan einecker declan is a freshman student of the month declan's favorite subject is world history and he enjoys mr hyatt's class because he makes world history fun and interesting mr hyatt has daily quotes like if it's to be it's up to me and be the change in the world that you want to see he always makes sure we understand the subject and tries to keep everyone focused and learning ready declan also finds inspiration in his parents and appreciates how hard they've been working to guide him and his family towards success declan is a member of the boys cross country team and is now doing long distance running during the winter track season congratulations declan [Applause] sure so please very good [Applause] okay our sophomore dr denny sophomore stephanie feliciano stephanie is the sophomore student of the month her favorite subject is english because she has always been an avid reader and takes solace in the writing process stephanie praises her classmates and is academically motivated by her peers she states unfortunate enough to be surrounded by remarkable students every day whose ambition and intelligence constantly pushes me to strive for higher goals stephanie is involved in many extracurricular activities including the spring musical madcap choir athletic training club heroes and cool kids girls learn international psychology club and the end racism and sexism club congratulations stephanie [Applause] come on doctor hello thank you [Applause] okay junior mr abu drabo thank you president smith junior joseph abel joseph abel is our junior student of the month joe's favorite subject is history and he enjoys mr fakina's class because he talks about real world problems and teaches great lessons outside the classroom joe is a member of the 2021 state championship football team he led the team in tackles and sacks joe also wrestles and is looking forward to another successful season after placing fourth in last year's state tournament joe's future aspirations include includes playing football at the college level and majoring in criminal justice congratulations joe [Applause] i was going to say that but [Music] okay next we have our senior um joe you have to take it over yep um senior is luke santiago luke is our senior student of the month luke's favorite subject is called allied health terminology because of his future desire to become a nurse and to participate in the healthcare field the person that has inspired luke the most in his life is his mother lucille santiago she is always willing to support him whenever in whatever way she can and luke wants to be able to pay her back for everything she has given him luca attends the pre-med club on a monthly basis and has found the intro to health professions and the anatomy and physiology courses to be the most interesting and captivating classes at chs luke wants to be a registered nurse and already has been accepted to seton hall university congratulations to luke so congratulations to all of our high school students of the month we know you probably have other things to do and homework and stuff so if you would like to leave please do and thank you if not you're more than welcome to stay all right next we're going to have the report from our student representative um andrew our regular student representative is not here so tiffany here tonight taking his place so tiffany hi oh wow hi hi my name is tiffany guerrero the junior representative of the board of education this month i will be speaking on behalf of scene of the senior representative some extra curricular activities i participate in our jv cheerleader football manager and recording secretary for the junior student council here is the brief update on the chs winster sports boys basketball had a game today with wes milford away girls basketball had a home game today with west milford hockey had a game today with kearney away swimming had a meet today with passaic competitions cheer plays first on their first competition competition and their next competition will be on monday 24th at paramus high school bowling is playing with pci tomorrow at t-bowl lanes indoor track has its first hazards county meet on monday at ocean breeze in saturn island wrestling had a match today at hackensack some of the upcoming events will be ca sca is now officially going to be holding a batman tournament for chs students on saturday january 29th there's no registration fee and as for right now tickets are public are open to the public senior class will be doing their annual mr cupcake fundraiser the donations will be going towards senior activities like senior prom all order forms along with payments will be due by thursday february 3rd key club is holding a pie in the face contest in early february where students and faculty compete to raise donations for ocean of love a non-profit charity dedicated to helping children and their families fight cancer this is our way of building community building building community and generating school spirit while raising money for a loving cause you can donate through paypal cash app or venmo more information can be found on the chs key club instagram page moving forward i'll be moving forward i would like to bring up the at home instruction as covert cases rose again from december to winter break i began to notice more and more of my peers instead interested in a remote option for schools for school some of the concerns i were due to i heard were due to have many more people in school tested positive after after the thanksgiving break leaving many worried that cases would increase even more after winter break cold cases did begin to rise again upon our return it was it was a good thing that students had an option for home instruction or in person for families that were concerned there were many pros and cons about this the benefit of this is that students who received home instruction were protected from being in contact from covert students who chose in-person classes could get to class early finish their assignments in class so they don't have to worry about them later and there were less attendance meaning less contact with covid there were many issues that came out with the situation however students have been increasingly unem unmotivated and students have struggled to continue with their lesson plans for example there could be as few as as five out of 25 students in the classroom it would be almost pointless to try to teach since most of the students were at home i'm one of the students who picked in person because i believe being in president in a classroom is better way to learn how could i learn if my teachers can't continue with their lesson plan if half of my classmates are at home instruction the school has now created an environment conductive to learning these past three weeks there are still questions we have about this whole scenario what limitation are there from the new jersey department of education that are preventing us from the full remote option is it possible for just one school in the district to go remote with them with to go remote with the amount of students that chose at home instruction will you be considering an alternative model in the future again thank you tiffany we appreciate you filling in tonight and thank you for that uh wonderful report and uh you're welcome to leave as well thank you thank you tiffany i'm going to answer your question if you want to just wait all right so why don't we do that next superintendent no we have adoptions but go ahead oh but don't do that okay adoption of the minutes of december the 9th 2021 so i moved some movement mr abu drab seconded by mr canova any discussion seeing don roll call mr mr avadrava yes mr awa yes miss bassford yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris christine vice president daily yes president smith yes oh she carries adoption of the minutes of january 6 2022 reorganizational meeting motion dr danny second by mr abu drabo discussion see non-roll call mr aberdraba yes mr awad yes miss basford yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris yes vice president daily yes president smith yes ocean carries okay now our superintendent dr robertosi president smith i'm sorry really quick uh i don't see on here uh executive session minutes from the 9th of december i guess they're not ready yet okay just want to confirm okay superintendent thank you uh mr president good evening commissioners members of the community uh who have joined us tonight i just want to start by saying thank you to tiffany i always love hearing from students especially those who are very well spoken and who are sharing their experiences in our schools that's very important for for me to know and to hear so first thing is um tiffany i heard you say something about cupcakes right so um that's really what has stuck out to me and i'm remembering more than the other stuff so if there is this alleged cupcakes fundraiser can you please make sure that i get an email so that i can order some thank you on a more serious note um tiffany brought up the um the short-term asynchronous home instruction option um and i don't disagree with most of what she said it was not the best option for learning but it was meant to be a temporary i'm getting a lot of feedback is anybody else hearing that mr horn am i doing something wrong or is that better okay it was meant to be a a temporary situation and in fact um it will end on friday so all students are expected to be back in school on monday january 24th the reason for it was which tiffany so eloquently stated it was due to a rise in in a number of cases clifton high school is of course our largest building with almost 2 800 students uh in the building on a daily basis so in an effort to ease concerns about people coming back after the break i gave that home instruction option that is ending all students are required to be back in school on monday the new jersey department of education has not permitted still has not permitted there to be a choice a remote option choice tiffany asked could a school could one school in a district go remote or virtual and the answer is yes one whole school could go virtual or remote if in consultation with the with the health department we feel that it's not safe at this point in time um we are starting to see a downturn in a number of coveted cases so we're going to reopen on monday does that mean that you know two weeks from now we don't see an uptick in cases and and we have to shut down clifton high school and and go virtual that's always a possibility it's not something that not something that i really want to happen so there is no other option for a student to to go virtual unless they're being quarantined by the district so tiffany i hope that answers your question at least a little bit and please make sure i get a cupcake order form i also want to congratulate the students of the month and i want to put it in perspective what that award is so i mentioned obviously clifton high school is our biggest school but you're talking about a building with 2 800 students give or take so one st to be freshman of the month you're selected out of a class of almost 700 students i mean you you really have to stand out and that's just really very very very impressive so congratulations to those students of the month i look forward to seeing all the great things that they do in the future so as i mentioned we are starting to turn the corner on covet cases they're starting to decline nationally throughout the state and in our schools we're seeing it it's interesting because the last meeting we had here on january 9th i was talking to the board about the cdc and the new jersey department of health continually changing their guidance what's funny was that night while i was speaking they were changing their guidance when i got home that night the cdc had adopted the five-day isolation rule for schools and the new jersey department of health five days later then adopted those rules so we are operating under a shortened isolation period in most cases of five days for students who test positive or staff members who test positive or those staff members or students who are in close contact of a positive case with the exception of preschool that five day isolation period does not count for preschool that's still 10 days and then of course each situation is individualized so the response may vary based on a particular situation based on household context and other variables so even when a student does test positive we're hoping that their symptoms are mild and at the most they're only going to be missing five days of school it's a big difference in missing 10 days of school and previously it was 14 days as i mentioned the short term asynchronous home instruction option ends on friday and all students are expected to be back in school on monday and as i always like to do at our board meetings i'd like to give a brief update to the commissioners on our referendum excuse me um on the agenda tonight you will see a resolution to vote on the final contract for our construction management firm epic so that you've already approved them this is now the contract that has been reviewed by the board's attorney and hopefully will be aborted tonight we met we have been meeting with epic we've been meeting with our architect to cara rubino and the facilities committee we've had a meeting to discuss whether or not the board wanted to have a what's known as a pla which is a project labor agreement so in short what a what a pla is it's an agreement between a project's general contractor and their subcontractors and local labor unions the agreement is made through the local building trades council and the purpose of it is to ensure adequate labor staffing um through an available and consistent workforce by skilled and safely trained trades people who are in a labor union so the facilities committee seems to be on board with that at some time in the future there may have to be a resolution on the agenda to approve a pla but our construction management firm is also recommending a pla we have had two bi-weekly meetings with our construction management firm outlining the game plan so we're getting close to our bids going out we've been discussing the strategy on our bids whether bid should be individual or they should be bundled we've had our asbestos firm has completed they're called ahera is their name there they are doing the asbestos abatement and surveying the schools for asbestos they've completed the survey of all the schools we're going to arrange a meeting to discuss uh the results and to determine if there is a significant amount of asbestos abatement that will need to be done we're expecting that in some of our older schools there will be a need for asbestos abatement but that needs to happen real soon so that our project can begin we've determined there's no requirement for gas upgrades before we do our projects we did a water main test at woodrow wilson middle school for our new field there is a water line that was found underneath the field that the water company is saying they don't necessarily need that they could move but they might want us to pay for it so that's something that we're going to have to discuss between our architects and our construction management firm and get their recommendation we've completed phase one of our security camera and door access control systems at clifton high school in both middle schools we've interviewed a board committee interviewed for construction attorneys and there is a firm that was selected and that's on the agenda tonight to be voted this firm is to deal solely with referendum related construction projects where we hope that it's not necessary but in my experience with any construction project we're going to run into some issues where a lawyer will be needed and we're waiting on quotes for our new pa systems our strobes our message boards our phone integration and phase two of our camera system which is at our elementary schools and that'll be available soon so that's our update on the referendum if anybody has any questions i'll be happy to answer them and that completes my report for tonight mr president thank you thank you all right next we're going to move on to uh 13 presentation of reports from administration um mr michael doctor director of operations for our district has a brief presentation thank you president smith board of education commissioners dr robertosi and district administrators as you know twice a year we need to present our information concerning hibs and vvsas to all stakeholders and the board of education we're going to be discussing tonight hip trainings and programs for period 1 of the 2122 school year that's from july 1st to december 31st and then we'll also be speaking about incidents of hibs and vvsas which range from september 1st through december 31st during these time frames just following them we need to submit all of our data to the student safety data system for the state of new jersey first part of that is our vvsas of violence vandalism and substance abuse these usually for there are a lot of different examples but the ones that you usually see in schools are fights uh hibs both alleged and confirmed and substance offenses you could see from the data that our numbers are pretty commensurate with what we used to have prior to covet i could have a comparison to last year but essentially you would be looking at numbers like 1 and 0 versus 58 and 7 for vandalism and 11 for weapons and substance abuse of 42.
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so they can have a better idea as far as where a student is progressing possibly not progressing etc and and to be able to to tell that story and that next slide i think i don't know if i have boomer all right so this is this is i i i'd like to kind of end on the presentation and then i'll take any questions you guys have um the the the picture you guys see on the the screen um is a student in our east valley campus um and the reason i want to share this particular success story is because this is uh a success story of this partnership um as much as is this this student um indy came to us last school year in the middle of a pandemic didn't necessarily wasn't necessarily thrilled and excited about coming to preschool she came to us unable to walk she was in in a wheelchair and really really struggling and she she eventually got to preschool uh worked with our our teachers our para educators our therapists um and this this picture right here is is a video of indy on the playground last month and she is walking dang near running around the playground uh bossing people around like the mayor of the playground and having a great time and really succeeding and i want to give us a special shout out to to dr kendra benedict uh director of early learning programs albert duff director of operations who worked tireless with me to ensure that this student never missed a day of school whether it be with the lea transition from district asdb covid um they work tirelessly to make sure the students here to school every day and it has continued to see that grow so um it's a value partnership we're appreciative of it and thank you for for giving me the opportunity thank you jared very much appreciate that and now i'm going to ask deanne chapman to come on the video screen and i'm here to introduce you to the ceo of desert voices dan chapman she will be now here to give you information about our working partnership with desert voices good afternoon board president nigro and members of the board um i am deanne chapman executive director here at desert voices uh first i want to say thank you for inviting us and i'm excited for this first time opportunity to present to you so desert voices we provide early and intensive direct instruction and parent coaching within the educational environment we teach children with hearing loss to achieve age-appropriate oral language and build to and begin to build literacy skills our goal is for children with hearing loss to be equipped with the skills needed to thrive in a mainstream learning environment next next slide please our formal partnership with asdb began in march of 2017 and covered birth to three prior to this time hearing specialists would sometimes refer families to our program so we do have a long history with your agency the graph you're looking at here illustrates the number of unique hearing specialists that refer families to us each academic year since the contract began the range has been somewhere between six and ten uh hearing specialists so we feel like there's still room to grow we would like to see all hearing specialists in the zero to three program at least tour with their appropriate families next slide our experience and the current guidelines for care for children with hearing loss has proven when a family enters our program by at least 12 months of age there's a high probability of mainstreaming to a typical classroom by five years of age or earlier so entering our program between birth and 12 months only increases that probability so looking at our data the average age of referrals from asdb at this time is about two years of age but also with this graph it does show the fluctuation of referrals over the past five years and um i would like to explore this more with uh kendra during our regular meetings to find out the root cause of these flux fluctuations and how we can improve this next slide so families have a choice asdb services our services or with the zimmerman clinton clinic here at desert voices we stress the importance of early intervention with a listening and spoken language goal and encourage making a choice that fits for the family schools therefore we are not always the appropriate placement for all families in this graph we can see that we receive the most referrals in the first year of our contract and in the most recent two years our numbers of shared families and referrals have have decreased next slide what is alarming to us here is the birth rate in arizona has historically been stable so we may assume the number of families seeking listening of spoken language services is also stable it's it's easy i think for all of us to blame the pandemic but access to our services have been available through the pandemic and in-person services returned here on our campus in august of 2021.
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so i feel confident in where the budget is at this moment in time and and there are no glaring um concerns within the operating budget medical benefits is the next portion of the update because that is something that is an ongoing concern although it won't affect the operating budget directly so i'm going to turn to the medical benefits report which the board members have and then we can come back to answer questions so the the bad news is that the december claims were 1 million 545 000 so that was quite a significant jump um from the prior months where we've averaged about 1 to 1.1 million dollars per month um there are really two factors one that the board's aware of and one that i'll share of that are affecting this year's claims one is the high dollar claims that we're seeing continue to persist they started last year and they continue along in fact this based on the december report i did a review and we had two very large claims in the month of december that have taken um the total claims for several individuals above the 175 000 threshold and so the impact of that is we do get stop stop-loss reimbursement whenever an individual claim exceeds 175 000.
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i would like to read off a list of santa clara county school districts to you berryessa cambrian campbell elementary cupertino eastside union evergreen fremont union los altos los gatos elementary esp and saratoga joint union luther burbank milpitas oak grove orchard santa clara unified and county office of ed saratoga sunnyvale union what do they all have in common that you don't have a voluntary covet 19 sick leave as part of an overall safety mou if these districts can do it why can't you is it that you don't believe that you received a 5.07 cola this year and projected to get at least 5.33 cola next year in ongoing revenue do you like to keep a huge reserve well above the 3 legal minimum are you a school district or a bank is it that you could care less about the health and well-being of your certificated employees being in fact finding is disrespectful to professionals who work with students in this community every single day as an elected trustee each of you have a fiduciary responsibility to direct your superintendent to settle this matter so that our members can be safe they are able to provide the high quality of education they do daily and they can afford to live decently in this very expensive region of the bay area in closing as i said in 2016 i could promise you that cta completely and unapologetically backs the members of the alamo educators association we will be here until this matter is resolved get it done our members our students and our community deserve the less thank you for your comments our next speaker is amy rodriguez mrs rodriguez you have two minutes please admit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi i'm amy rodriguez i'm one of the district nurses and i would like to respectfully ask for you to come to a settlement with this contract i see myself our other district nurse all of the teachers all of the staff working tirelessly day and night during this pandemic and i truly believe that settling this contract would help the employees of this district to feel valued and respected so please support us and we will in turn support you and the community thank you thank you ms rodriguez our next speaker is randall barber mr barber you have two minutes please help me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin the board uh dr bauer i'm hearing speakers that speak uh speak from the heart they speak a lot better than i do so i'm just going to add my my bit been around a long time the teachers are not feeling a concern for the social emotional learning the condition of their teachers we're not feeling it and this is from what i hear the 90th year of this district to be in existence and in those 90 years there's only been one strike but the way things are going things are moving toward yet another strike that's that should be a very sobering thought uh nobody wants it but we are exhausted so um this is happening on your watch so we respectfully ask you to get our contract settled thank you mr barber our next speaker is mary cruz gonzalez ms gonzalez you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening my name is maricruz gonzalez and i am a transitional kindergarten teacher at adelante one all of us teachers and staff are putting ourselves at risk because we want to be there for our students and support our school but unfortunately i don't feel we are getting the same support i am having to use my sick time which i didn't have much of and will most likely deplete as not only do i have covet but my doctor confirmed that i got shingles as a result to my weakened immune system due to covet now my entire family has coveted which will delay my return even further i asked i asked that the same sick leave that was allotted previously be provided to us as kovit is still prevalent thank you for your time thank you ms gonzalez our next speaker is sandra coons miss sandra you have two minutes please meet yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening my name is sandra coons and i am a teacher at hubbard on december 16th i had emailed each board member and or superintendent regarding the status of refills for automat automated sanitizer machines our site had stopped receiving refills in october and our custodians were instructed by their manager to dump the individual pump bottles into each machine this is not practical both minfam and dr bauer promptly responded and i was told that the matter would be looked into it has now been two school weeks since my email and i have not had a response as an employee it is very disheartening when the uppermost level of management fails to follow through when you ask for help or at least acknowledge that they have not forgotten about your request sadly there is no longer clear or consistent communication between our district office and our teachers our school site has stopped receiving regular deliveries of child-sized masks that can be placed in the classroom no one from the district office has let the teachers know why we are not receiving masks that we can distribute from our classrooms we have a limited number of boxes that we can keep in the office teachers recently received two n95 masks at my site we have not been told if we are getting more masks or how many more when our administrative assistant called the district office to inquire about it she was told that the disposable masks were reusable how are we supposed to survive and teach when our questions go unanswered and there is no clear communication coming from the district office to the teachers thank you for your time thank you for your comments ms coons next speaker is miss tanner miss tanner you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin i don't know how to unmute we can hear you now miss tanner you can hear me there you go um there's uh two important things that i'd like to talk about first i want to go back to what miss koontz just said um that was my one of my things is that i we don't have enough ppe we were told that we were getting k 95 or n 95 or k in 95 masks and miss kuhn said that she got two and everybody in her school got two we got one we got one how is one gonna last us until june is that really what you think we need one mask it's just beyond me to understand what one mask does it's it's offensive although one mask was helpful for three days but those three days were two weeks ago the second thing i want to bring up is well um it's about class size and while i i'm saddened by the massive numbers of students who are out with code related issues i have to admit that having a class of 20 versus 32 or has had a significant positive impact on teacher-student on being able to have more direct instruction one-on-one with students and having less disruptive behaviors the last three weeks have proven to me that smaller class sizes especially in fourth and fifth grade is one of the best ways to help our students fill in the gaps from the prior two years having jammed classrooms with 30 to 36 students puts our health at risk and does nothing to help students improve and make up from the learning loss that they experienced over the last two years please send us more masks k95 okay that would be great thank you thank you miss tanner our next speaker is laura solis miss elise you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello my name is amamura i am 10 years old and in fourth grade i am really sad because i don't want to lose any teachers in ellen rock every teacher in atlanta is amazing but my mom is suffering a lot my mom doesn't know that i know she cries at night because she cannot buy basic things for example my mom doesn't buy clothes because she needs to buy them for me it is not fair that my mom is looking for a second job which will make me see her last so i ask you dr bauer and the board members to settle the teacher's contract so i can spend more time with my mom thank you any questions thank you for your comments our next speaker is adrian vane miss wayne you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello uh my name is adrian vane and um i'm a teacher at joseph george middle school um since the break i have only had two preps in the past two weeks and i say two weeks because this week i it turns out that i tested positive for kovid we are i am i knew this was going to happen because nothing has been taken care of i am upset i i live by myself with my cat and i'm pretty sure my cat didn't give me coven i know that i got kovid from teaching my kids and i love my kids i love teaching but i'm tired of being disrespected i'm tired of nobody caring about me i'm tired of being underpaid and you know for most of this meeting i actually was on ed join looking for a new job if you do not give us a contract with a cost of living increase you're gonna lose a lot of good teachers teachers that love their kids love what they do and i i it it's really just disheartening thank you thank you miss fain our next speaker is jill mckee joe you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin can you hear me yes we can hear you my name is jill mckea i work at meijer and good evening board members in dr bower i have been a teacher in the stitcher district since 1985 january of 1985.
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we were completely remote for the beginning part of last year so we had very few offenses as the high school principal last year i could tell you we had a few people smoking on camera two or three and that would be the extent of our violence and vandalism for last year for our hibs please remember that with ahib which is harassment intimidation and bullying that we need to have two parts in order for it to be an actual hib all of us realize that kids get picked on and that we call that bullying which is wrong and is dealt with however for it to be deemed bullying by the state it has to fit two criteria one is that there must be a distinguishable characteristic basically it's something that makes us different and that could be anything from race to gender sexual orientation uh appearance and then you also need a substantial disruption some type of change in that child's life they don't want to go to school they're more withdrawn they don't want to eat things like that with those for period 1 for this year we had 21 founded hip cases and 51 unfounded hip cases unfounded is essentially we've looked at a case and the anti-bullying specialist and principal have determined that there isn't a characteristic and or substantial disruption uh that is up from last year and obviously that has a lot to do with us being remote however we still did have some cases mostly because of cyber bullying and social media our hibs and trainings our hip trainings and programs for the first part of this year we had 133 trainings and 143 programs throughout the district and that is up from last year the fact that we are in the buildings although our administrators and our anti-bullying specialists did an amazing job uh having different programs and trainings for the students and staff last year being able to be inside the building made it even easier so those numbers increased by 20 for trainings and 46 for programs some areas where we need improvement we're going to continue communication and professional development for our administrators and building anti-bullying specialists our code of conduct will be reviewed as it is each year and we're going to continue implementation of additional restorative justice programs and from this data from last year and this year we're going to identify trends and hibs that have occurred within the district and address those issues specifically thank you there are any questions uh mr president i'd like to ask you a question doctor um i understand the comparison to when we were fully remote it's not really a reasonable one to make i don't know if you have this in your head or not but how does that compare to the last normal full year 2019 going back three years the numbers are commensurate we've made some changes with the vvsas and how we're categorizing vapes so that has increased our numbers from what they used to be but for the most part our numbers are commensurate thank you other questions thank you mr doctor appreciate it okay next we're going to move on to public recognition this portion of the meeting is open to the residents and non-residents of clifton for the purpose of addressing any subject matter pertinent to and or directly related to the operation of the clifton public school district residents and non-residents are requested if in person to sign the registered provider for this purpose all speakers are asked to state their names municipality and subject matter before they speak comments are limited to five minutes per person issues raised by a member of the public may or may not be responded to by the board all comments will be considered and the response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate your questions may or may not be answered by board members the board asks the members of the public to be courteous and mindful of the rights of other individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and will not be responded to by the board students and employees have specific legal rights afforded by the laws of the state of new jersey the board bears no responsibility nor will be liable for any comments made by members of the public should consider their comments in light of the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they are legally responsible and liable for their comments if you wish to address the board please step up to the the podium please good evening everybody mark prince at holly street clifton just wanted to discuss tonight the excessive quarantining that i i've dealt with in my own family among them my niece who had a close contact allegedly had a close contact with three other people in her classroom and she was required to quarantine for 10 days as a result of that this was just a few weeks ago and on january 13th the rules changed with the nj department of education so my brother-in-law inquired with with the school because of that new guidance was his daughter available was able to go back and they were not she was not able to do that she still had to complete her 10 days no symptoms no anything and i'm talking about these kids getting the same opportunity as everybody else not only in that classroom but i'm talking about the opportunities for everybody in this district so it's it's very frustrating to me it's frustrating to a lot of parents when this happens when they don't even have sniffles over here you know monitoring the situation i get it if your child is sick keep them home please and on top of that with all the things that we have over here as preventative measures mass requirements the dividers in between the deaths and for some reason it's still not good enough to this day almost two years later so this is why it's frustrating not only that but it's the same thing with my daughter as well she's six feet apart a bunch of her classmates ended up quarantining and it is just not good for some kids to be home they are not learning over here there are too many distractions they are more focused in the classroom just as a student representative said here earlier she made the absolute right call taking the risk to be in the classroom and i'm asking for parents to get that option it's enough at this point and these are just recommendations so they went from 14 days now it's down to five days so you could say all the science that you want but this is what continuously happens and because of this is why i reached out to dr robert tosie president smith mr abu drabo to please get on the agenda the next time the legislative committee meets to please let this district make make some calls on behalf of it we don't need to be hemmed down by the new jersey department of education for every little thing that's happening over here and there's positive news out there too i know it's hard to believe but there is positive news out there there are therapeutics out there these are the vaccines a lot of people have vaccines available the vaccines work but you can still catch it you can still spread it you still got to take a booster and you should still be scared of the unvaccinated and you need to carry proof in certain places that you have been vaccinated so this is what we're up against and i'm just asking so i i'm thankful that that uh we at least get it on the agenda to get to get parents an option to send their kids into school full remote because i know there's a lot of people that's still scared out there it's very concerning and the good news out there as well is that over 21 000 residents of this city have fully recovered as of january 13th so i want to thank donna popowicz for providing that information she always does online and i think it's very useful information and also for the clifton public school district that at least 700 in this school district who have gotten covet have fully recovered at the bare minimum out of the 1056 that have been reported again as of these as of the 17th i believe and finally thank you to mr steve goldberg who presented that 43 plus million americans have fully recovered from coven so there's a lot of good news out there too and a lot of lives have been destroyed because of the decision making that have because of decision making that has been made by bureaucrats and i don't know if they're going to be too happy i don't know if history looked too kindly on decisions that have been made over the past almost two years thank you for your time and god bless america good evening tom whittles president equipment against substance abuse i want to start by offering my condolences to the district on the passing of a former leader in this district peter salzano peter was not only you know a member employee here of the district but he sat on our board of trustees at casa and peter will be sorely missed at the last meeting when the meeting was breaking up i was standing in the back of the room watching and i saw some things that caught my eye i saw a lot of people leaving with white bags i started to ask questions it's in those bags it turns out it's food it's turned out it's food that's paid for by the taxpayers and ordered for the board members next morning i reached out to dr robertazi to find out what the story was and he responded and while he was founded on monday because the district was closed for snow on friday that it's allowed by policy and administrative code so i opened the bills from mr uchi i opened the policy and the administrative code for mr wrote mr uchi i received them earlier this week my question is is okay it's all wrapped up into a neat little bundle inside this whole bunch of gobbledygook in a policy but does that include former board members because there were former board members leaving with bags of food and trays of cookies here's the picture clearest day does it include the public because there was people from the public leaving with bags of food does it include trays of cookies does it include when the board was meeting remotely from their houses does it include sending food to the board members homes this is all on the taxpayers this is all paid for by the citizens of clifton this board should be ashamed of themselves taking food not only taking food for themselves taking food home are you do you need a ham sandwich that bad there are kids in this district that probably only get breakfast and lunch they don't get dinner but this board makes sure not only do they get it they take it home it may be allowed by policy but it's certainly not ethical but then again this board really doesn't care about ethics that's been proven mr smith as president of this board you should stop this practice immediately this is not a fraternal organization this is not the elks club this is not membership this is taxpayer dollars being spent each of you to take that food home really really you should be proud of yourself you're taking food that could probably be much better served being given to the kids i would hope a board member tonight makes a motion to stop this practice immediately and any food that you already have here in the back room let's box it up we'll take it to saint peter's haven we'll take it over to eva's kitchen let's feed the homeless down in botany village let's do something with the food i think everybody's sitting up here has the wherewithal to buy their own bottle of water or ham sandwich you shouldn't be taking it from the taxpayers on another note i went on the website today i looked at the the new committee assignments here in clifton it's actually it's it's actually pretty comical policy mr abu drabo maybe we'll write a policy for endangering children or stealing bracelets or dealing with ethics charges diversity chairperson mr abhijaba maybe we can add the letter from the jewish link newspaper into the diversity group student liaison and judiciary awad and mr abu drabba judiciary two members that have ethics charges filed against them really come on folks you could do better thank you mr munoz anyone else good evening nina otitella clifton boulevard first i'd like to say thank you to each of the board trustees for your dedication and service especially honoring you this month during school board recognition month every member of our community should know and understand the significance of your roles and your responsibilities and the heavy burdens that come along with making the challenging decisions in the best interest of our students congratulations to our newly appointed and re-elected board members i wish you a most impactful and successful term i also want to take a moment to recognize our superintendent dr robert tosi for your unwavering commitment to the students families and staff of our community before during and as we get through this pandemic together the decisions that you have made this school year were not easy ones but students and families have benefited from them and remained safe and healthy because of them so thank you i felt the need to speak tonight about the interactions that we have with one another during this forum as a proud product of clifton public schools i reflect on my own experiences i won't share how long ago that was and hope for similar ones for all of the children of clifton conflict resolution and peer mediation were skills that i learned as a student here which helped develop me as a child and guide my decision making as a youth and an adult i'm pleased to know that these programs are still taught in our schools today as i watch our board meetings and read about the counterproductive climates that exist during school board meetings across our nation it is important to address this here given that there seems to be more and more incidents that lack civility and decorum amongst ourselves as a reminder each of us serve as role models not only to our community but especially to our students we have high school students who aspire to civically engage and of course attend our board meetings as evident tonight and they turn to us for guidance as our students participate or tune in to watch our board meetings they observe our tone read our body language and follow our online activities i'm sure i can speak for everyone here and those watching at home that we do not want our children thinking that it is acceptable or appropriate to bash colleagues defame someone's character or speak disrespectfully to one another because of our views not aligning with one another as a school community we have prioritized teaching our students about their social and emotional growth but as adults when do we recognize and when are we cognizant of one another's social and emotional well-being we've repeatedly repetitively heard about past mistakes that some of our board members have made but where do we draw the line and when do we move forward and when can we as adults and as communities reinforce the notion of learning from our mistakes as a means to improve and demonstrate growth how can we work towards a resolution stop the name calling and gaslighting and build bridges rather rather than continuing these battles we need to recognize that it takes bravery to openly and publicly own an error in judgment and apologize for a mistake that was made but it does take more courage when we as a community come together to support one another in a positive and constructive manner the operative words being positive and together i'd like to ask the board to consider hosting a conflict resolution symposium open to the public the hope is to ultimately find meaningful alternatives to conflicts so that what we can refocus on what is important in our community the education of children and practice the ideals of one clifton i have no doubt that some of our own student leaders from the high school can probably facilitate these sessions and remind us of what really matters i hope for a new year of revitalized energy and change amongst our community so that we can truly demonstrate to our youth how adults can agree to disagree respectfully and tactfully i thank you for your time and your consideration stay stay safe be well and thank you for your service hi hi donna popovich dale woodrow the purpose of a public education in a public school is to teach the students what society needs them to know not what we want them to know whether we stands for parents or the community or the board of ed or the superintendent the goal of schools is to teach them what society needs them to know it is a student-centered and society-centered approach we teach children by what we say what we do it's called the implicit and in explicit curriculum in new jersey we have the new jersey learning standards which are similar to the core content standards these cover the academic areas and suing when are students become adults they possess the skills and knowledge necessary to function in society it's our explicit curriculum the implicit curriculum is teaching by what we do mindfulness self-care helping others kindness and ethics these are all part of the implicit curriculum this year as the committee starts to meet and the board of ed works on new initiatives i propose that the center of every decision every choice every action be rededicated to being student-centered and pursuing the implicit curriculum to better our society what is best for the students is to make them better equipped to become members of society students entered every action this would include helping others increasing kindness ethical and fair behavior and making everyone feel welcome for example i know my daughter often complained that all the novels that she read were white male centered and we did work on the curriculum unfortunately none of her teachers chose to choose any novels which were not white male centered and i'm sure that was good for whoever chose the novels but what was good for the students and for our community would have been to read something that was diverse i think community service and social justice need to become part of our curriculum serving others is a societal need we need to model kindness though that hasn't really been modeled at meetings lately actually people need to treat each other with respect maybe we could start here when i worked home instruction back after my daughter who just graduated college was born i used to teach on thursday mornings at the board of ed building in your conference room and that was after the wednesday night meetings and after i went to the left while i was down there i was approached by one of the secretaries who asked me to take the food that was left over at the meetings which she had wrapped up and she had backed and to bring it to my next stop and my next stop was at the transitional housing on trenton ave and that's where i gave the food to the students that i was teaching there who are unable to come to school that is kindness and compassion that i would like to see and have modeled for our students when i worked home instruction i used to go to the students homes and we have a lot of students who were living on their own which i know is something that we don't talk about but it happens and many of them we're really not living alone because they were 16 years old and they were living with their babies their newborns besides going there and trying to teach science so they can get their diploma we used to provide contacts for them that we developed through the county but sometimes what they near really needed were the other things i bought which were a bag of groceries or a gallon of milk or a pack of diapers for their new baby or maybe just showing them that you don't put a newborn in a bath ring in the tub in every aspect i want our guiding ethics in this district to be not what is good for the individual me but what is good for the students and society this is not about a win or power or racing to gather the most material things but it's about collaboration i want our students to know kindness and i want them to know hope so that when they go into society full of kindness and hope and help they can help others thank you good evening to everyone my name is lori lallaman i'm the president of the cea there are a few things i'd like to bring up i want to thank the teachers and the paraprofessionals for their hard work for the last two weeks and for the last two years they've been working really hard and they've gone through a lot of different obstacles and i want to personally thank them and thank dr robert tosi for his help in many of the situations that the staff has gone through and i really want the community to know the the duress that some of them feel and how hard they're working for everybody's children here in clifton i also want to thank our rutgers labor management collaborative between the management and the labor we're looking forward to our meeting coming down to rutgers so we're really excited about that mr uc on the on the packet under personnel it's not the cta anymore it's the cea so if you can just make those changes in the future i don't want my paraprofessionals to get mad at me all right so the referendum so when's the groundbreaking ceremony looking forward to that because there's a lot of things that we need to get fixed so especially my elevator so let me know that date because i have a shovel already for ccms now question about the project manager so let's say that i hired you to run the project you can subcontract that out so if i'm paying you let's say 10 million and you're getting a sub contractor to do it for five million do you get to pocket the other five million is that how it works for subcontracting i'm just throwing it out there so if somebody can okay just wanna make sure that we can use all of our money correctly for our district and mr doctor restorative justice issues we have some great trainers at njea that have done phenomenal work for the last four or five years on restorative justice and i think i could ask them for some guidance and to work with us i think that would be a powerful thing for the kids and from the issue from the last board meeting i'm just going to end with a poem by james vines my insides are tied in knots my face is flush with rage how dare you treat me this way my blood boils and my teeth grind as my eyes narrow their focus there he goes smiling as if nothing happened he will soon regret how he treated me he will know what it means to be a woman scorned thank you very much and have a good evening keith bassford mountain food drive mr smith can you do me a favor can you look around this room and see what you see everybody what do you say mask right white mr abba drabo since 7 30 don't have to wear a mask we all do okay can't see him i know it's a good joke right smile okay it's not fat everybody else i think mean you spoke last time on a side about a few things you know just standing you know i had a great time with you and october when we did the uh board education race for who's become a board member and i remember i spoke to you and i said to you got played and i said to you how you got played and i said to you the people who played you i'm willing to put up money for the lie detector test and i'll have a loser's pace for it and everything there's still one board member here one off the board i don't lie believe me and i and if you will if you're still one challenge that person you know someone on this administration said to me you know someone told me you know where all the bodies are buried yes i know where all the bodies are buried and what goes on and i i thought i was going to be able to sit back for a while and not have to say anything because many years i've been up here talking about who's doing what and the way this board's being ran now it looks like i'm going to be up here a while speaking about whatever i have to and you may not think anybody listens to me or this and that they listen they know i get up here and speak for no reason i get up here to speak the truth and that this board is headed for a disaster no question in my mind dr robitazi nothing personal than you we pay you 245 thousand dollars a year i don't think we should pay you 245 000 a year you know why you got board members doing your job walking in schools checking schools out how do you think that makes the administration and the schools feel and teachers and ask board members and the board members select who they want you know walk around like the big shots never happened years ago never we're always visiting school six to see what's going on why why pay you i think we can negotiate a better deal with some of the board members and everything and like i said it's not personal but it shouldn't be you get paid to run the district board members oversee excuse me policy and that stuff there is just too much leeway going on here just too much this this is what i used to call years ago and i see a lot of ministries remember me from years ago we're back to the globe boys club the good old boys club and you know what years ago i fought the good old boys club and i had no problem and the good old boys left they didn't get voted back in or nothing of course people believed me they believed what i was saying okay i can't talk about my wife because she stands up for herself and everything but thank you anyone else was to address the board seeing none seeing that motion closed much more closing way mr abu drabo mr awad uh if the board does not mind um i'd like to uh just move uh under personnel p21 uh because we have the employee here and i'd like to pass it so he can get uh he can go home if that's okay with everybody all right can i have a motion for uh p21 only motion second which my mr javo second by mr awad any discussion nice seeing none roll call please sorry mike just p-21 and p21 yes only miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yeah mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carries um our new um our new maintenance forum is foreman is here this evening mo would you like to come up and say a few words or [Applause] just want to say thank you for your support and i hope we do good things in clifton thank you we have a lot of faith in you great job thank you very much thank you [Applause] all right mo i did that so you can go home if you want okay let's move on uh to um [Music] unfinished business we have none um right next we have um if i could have uh someone read uh mr daily i'm sorry would you read um ea 17 uh condolences uh please okay section get mr mr president we skipped a section i'm not sure if you no we missed um committee reports way up top and i think your report too i mean if we're skipping okay sorry i will do committee reports first um residency and security uh mr awad is not here oh okay i will read it okay so we were um updated on the um this is residency and security so we're updated on uh security uh issues mr jingaro and mr constantino gave us scenario-based drill update a law import enforcement visit from numerous law enforcement agencies incidents occurring at middle schools and high school and ideas for additional staffing move on to residency mr doctor we focused on residency checks for pcti and they have been concluded pcti investigations we found 27 students that do not live in clifton anymore so those students being removed from chris clifton's role have now saved the district 636 dollars two hundred and seventy six twenty seven students removed fifty one total years fifty one total years of schooling uh general residency checks continuing 56 investigations five changes of address six non-residents all have left the district because of residency checks focused resident checks were for charter and non-public schools initial initial investigation continuing for 473 students receiving transportation at this time approximately 18 percent non-resident or change in status requiring anyone receiving funds from us to register for verification and tracking purposes the first time that's being done mailing will be going out in july in an attempt to catch additional non-residents so basically how i understand the from the committee that they make these mailings go out when they're not received at the address that it's sent to it comes back and then an investigation happens on those cases registration 53 cases pending including eight address changes and social media presence the residency has a facebook page uh sorry the res the welcome center has a facebook page and an instagram coming soon mr constantido provided updates on security drills and training of supervisors for security emergencies mr gingaro discussed the visit from the new jersey oem as clifton was the first district to be chosen as a bomb scenario test case observers from the state explained that clifton high school could be a national model for how to conduct such a drill an attempt was made to have a drill at ccms but a faulty alarm placed the building it's a lockdown instead so the drill was postponed a drill was also conducted at woodrow wilson mr jaguero mentioned issues which occurred at the high school uh that week and how changing situations may explain some of the issues the nationwide threats as of december 17th were discussed police had determined the threats as non-credible and notification was sent to the clifton school community mr gingaro discussed the potential for having additional staff within the high school moving forward they would be a presence in the hallways and lunchrooms as well as personnel that students can reach out to for help and provide information mr doctor explained the focused residency checks which have been taking place since the start of the school year for those focused investigation 27 students were found at a savings over their current and future time in school which i stated was six thousand thirty six thousand six excuse me six hundred and thirty six thousand two hundred and seventy six in addition there have been fifty six reported residency investigations where six non-students have been identified and have since left the district these savings to the district are a direct result of the hard work and dedication of our domicile investigators mr tom field house of mr vinci constantino the department is currently doing a second focus resident check and preliminary checks that shows a significant number of non-residents these are not students currently attending public clifton public schools mr doctor also explained that any child receiving a district education or funds from our district will be required to register with the school district so accurate verification and residency tracking can be done the department has additionally additional residency verification tools which will be utilized throughout the year pending registrations are about 50 and all families attempting to register are in direct contact with the registration department finally mr doctor explained that the welcome center now is a facebook and they will be looking for an instagram are there any questions on the residency and security minutes okay seeing none motion to approve no no no okay all right let's see what the other ones are i think it's um facilities um spelt on uh the facilities committee met on january 5th uh present was mr daley myself for us were you there i don't think so you were on the meeting list but i don't think you were actually there yeah yeah i think that one correction to this is that um mr awad was not there um in attendance and administration was dr robertosi um mr jangero mr usee mr uh shahada sorry i always say that one mr l marcion we also had the construction management and the architecture present as well the meeting started at 2 and it ended at 2 54.
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so the risk of late identification and amplification and late or inconsistent intervention leads to greater challenges and longer timelines for children closing their language gap and thus reaching their full potential so our hope is that we can work together to identify how to re-regain the traction among both of our teams so we can rebuild and highlight the benefits of our great partnership and what it does for children and families next slide here we are seeing the number of children in our early intervention program that transition from those programs into our preschool or other placements and typically other placements are parent choice relocation age-appropriate skills or or they have additional needs that we are unable to to meet next slide this is the good stuff so here are the outcomes of our shared children who entered or just entering our preschool program from our early intervention program so the ppvt measures understanding of common vocabulary evt measures expressive use of common vocabulary and both of these tests are important indicators of how quickly kids will transition from learning to read to reading to learn then core language measures the ability to manipulate and comprehend parts of language and grammar this piece is important when we think about the conversations that occur every day in learning from this data we can see that the children that do transition are still in need of intensive services or we are wanting to ensure children that have closed the gap before age three maintain or move into the above average range when compared to their typical hearing peers a majority of our students score in the average range of 86 to 115 we do have students that fall above and greatly above the average we also see some students fall below the average range the main impact is on their receptive vocabulary and language and in most of those cases this is due to late identification or a child that hasn't had a focused intervention plan next slide these are our tuition rates for early intervention just assuming a family is in each one for a year you can see those amounts but we do provide scholarships to all families and tuition is on a sliding scale and the next slide let's go on to the preschool so our preschool uh partnership is pretty new this began in june of 2020.
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so although we ended the month of december with a reserve balance of a million 49 we have about 370 000 in stop loss that will be funded back to um the reserve fund once we receive that funding back from the stop loss carrier so our balance if you consider the stop loss is about a million 400 000 that's where we'll be when the stop-loss reimbursements come and just looking at the trend in a couple of those claims they will be ongoing so that stop-loss amount may increase and obviously these are uh for individuals who have you know severe uh disease and issues unfortunately the second component that i wanted to talk about which i just received from cigna is a comparison of our covert costs within our claims last july through december compared to this july through december and they're up by about a factor of four now this is the town and of that combined the numbers aren't broken out yet um but because we're about 85 percent of the total claims the impact to us is about 85 percent of the totals i will share so from i'm sorry i said july from january um through december of 2020 our total covet expenditures were about 133 000 and of that 115 000 was for testing and about 18 000 was for treatment so that's the good news more of the money was spent on testing and not on people actually being sick with clothing so 133 000 last year compared to went to 439 000 so the spend is up significantly testing is the largest component like it was last year but testing went from 115 000 to 370 thousand dollars so not surprisingly you know especially over the last few months as the rate of covet has increased more testing has been undertaken you know by the town and border vet employees combined similarly treatment for covid is 25 000 again that's that's good news in that we're not seeing a lot of people um with very severe covet symptoms what's new in this year that wasn't there last year was the cost of vaccinations so year for this calendar year it's 43 000 compared to zero in the last year and so again the combination of those factors takes us from 133 to thirty eight thousand and of that four hundred thirty eight thousand about two hundred fifty thousand of it fell onto the board's claims so those are the the two most significant factors the other uh point of information i wanted to share after the presentation that we had where tom kowalczyk from usi gave us an update on the medical claims trends and and our budget for next year and we did talk and i've requested a report that compares our claims for the 2018-19 plan year which was pre-pandemic compared to 2021 which was obviously during the pandemic and broken down several different ways by claim tears less than 10 000 10 to 25 000 etc by diagnosis type as well as what the code claims were during that period so you know tom um is working with the underwriters over at usi and with cigna and he expects that we should have that report in about a week so when i receive that you know i will provide it as part of the operating budget you know review that we're going through i think that covers um what i wanted to update on the finance and the medical benefits report so if there are any questions be glad to answer them am i on i'm sorry um thanks ben for that i um just with regard to the covid uh is that included in the hundred and fifty or one point five four million uh well whatever portion hit december is included okay so that's in the number yeah okay good all right um just going back to your impla impact on of inflation on things are we getting contracts are we are we um looking at ways to extend the contracts or uh because no one really we're all a little jittery about how long this inflation um these is going to be here so i know you do have fuel contracts and other things are you looking at extending those so that we have greater savings down the road and are we are there other supply areas that we can get into long-term contracts that at least set the price for us so i'll answer um with a couple of different things our two biggest contracts are one uh transportation contract with daca that contract runs through 2024 and the increases are set at two percent per year how many years through 2024 oh sorry okay so we're fortunate that we don't have to negotiate that one because i would expect that they'll the school districts that are negotiating bus contracts i'm sure are going to see significant increases so we don't have to worry about that when the second largest contract is our cleaning contract and just to give you some context the deco contract is around three million dollars per year the cleaning contract is about 740 000 per year so it's quite a bit smaller but the cleaning contract uh what the board approved last year was the renewal for this year and next year so that's locked in as well and we we had pretty um good pricing that that contract did go up by several percentage points over the two years but that's locked in so fortunately we don't have to negotiate either one of those as far as supply and educational supply pricing a lot of those purchases are made under a state contract um w.b mason is one of our larger suppliers but our school staff shops not only the state supply but they'll use amazon where we have an account set up for the district um and and the inflation on on some of the supplies we're purchasing has not been anything that's a show-stopper for us um i'm just trying to think if there are any other there's no other real contracts that we're negotiating we do go out to bid on some of the things we need right now we just started prepping a bid for replacement of the scoreboard down at the high school so you know when those bids come in we'll we'll scrutinize them and hope that we can get what we need to replace that scoreboard so from the perspective of the larger contracts we're safe for a couple of years hopefully the pandemic eases by then the supply chain issues start to clear up and um you know we won't have any overwhelming budgetary concerns to deal with i hopefully that answers the question i don't know if there was something more that you wanted to know yeah and i guess just um going back a little bit just to so with our um fuel and our uh oil because we heat with oil don't we do um what are you anticipating there so probably a 20 increase is is what we're seeing um i mean the price of oil did jump up but it's kind of leveled off and it's just been ebbing and flowing i mean when we started this year the price of oil was somewhere around 50 dollars per barrel network 73 or 74.
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