a little light but looking forward into the 22 23 24 25 and 26 school years i used the thousand as a target if we actually have consistently had a thousand kindergartners i believe we have the potential for a thousand transitional kindergartners upon full implementation so in next school year the enrollment window expands by two months so we will enroll those children that turn five between september 2nd and december 2nd in this transitional kindergarten program so that's 5 out of 12 months so i'm the numbers guy so i do some math take a fraction and multiply it i got a potential enrollment of 415 kids for next year in our transitional kindergarten program keeping in mind that transitional kindergarten is not compulsory it's not required it's a grade level much like kindergarten that we will offer that parents can choose to enroll their children in will we get 415 transitional kindergartners next year probably not but that's a target in the 24 school year again it expands another two months to april 2nd so 7 months so possibly up to 580 transitional kindergartners in the 25 school year it expands another two months to june 2nd so possibly 750 transitional kindergartners and in the fall of 25 for the 25-26 school year it will we will be able to enroll all children that turn five during that school year from september second to the following september first so it basically has created another full grade level in the 25-26 school year so our projected enrollment is possibly a thousand transitional kindergartners classroom loading for transitional kindergarten is unique in the first year next year it's actually a 20 24 to 1 but it's 12 to 1 student to adult so we have to have two adults in every transitional kindergarten classroom with up to 24 kids in the second year in 23 24 that actually drops to 20 to 1 in the class i'm sorry 20 to 2 or 10 to 1 if funding is provided by the state of california and all signs point to funding will be provided by the state of california for this great program so there is a potential need over the next several years that we may need approximately 40 to 45 additional transitional kindergarten classrooms across our 10 elementary school sites our k-6s and our k-8s other things to consider other district athletic facilities we have a start time legislation that we're dealing with right now in our high schools and according to this current legislation cannot start before 8 30 beginning july 1 2022 so that is as early as next school year uh practices may go later and we're so we're looking at those ancillary athletic facilities and i say ancillary because it's athletics that can't necessarily happen in a stadium like newt bass so we have to consider what we have available at our schools what we don't have available and are there other needs in our athletic facilities and other things we need to take into consideration we have some older school sites yucca loma being the oldest mariana desert knowles and rancho verde they've been around for a while i think we've got people people in the district that have been students there that or have t have taught there that have taught kids now they are teaching their kids or their grandkids at some of these schools so we have a lot of history we have a lot of great people at these schools but our facilities are are aging so that's just some general high altitude discussion about facilities things we need to take into consideration the next thing we need to take into consideration that's the big question how do we pay for it typically in california school districts um utilize what's called a general obligation bond apple valley unified has a general obligation bond currently measure s from the spring of 2003.
if we did not wear masks imagine how many more coven 19 cases there would be currently in the springfield area we are at 2880 according to the cdc if we didn't wear masks imagine how many more cases there would be instead close to the five thousands i'm not sure but i do know this even though wearing a mask may bring a bit of discomfort it protects you and the people around you if you don't care about your health and safety think of your kids and friends and wearing a mask protects them as well just think about that before you go around shouting your beliefs at the world thank you have a great day hello i want to thank the parents that are being civilized about this whole matter to the parents who are yelling and being immature about the matter i would like you to know that you are setting a bad example for your children do you want to raise children that are unruly in public do you really think that yelling and threatening people is going to help you get what you want i'd hope not because if that is the case i don't want to see how the next generation turns out i think that the phrase kill them with kindness applies in this situation do you remember when kova 19 first started and people were going on walks together and being good people in general i do understand that everyone is sick and tired of covet 19 but you can't end it with sharp words and rude actions but we can't help each other through this so please be kind and stay strong have a wonderful evening thank you emily corvatt greetings i'm an 8th grade student at chauber who supports the idea of masks being optional at school first of all masks are uncomfortable when they pull on my ears all day and are uncomfortable around my face and i am distracted by how the mask may be sucking into my face when breathing i generally find it harder to concentrate while wearing it secondly it is harder to understand what people are saying when wearing masks most of the time we end up having to get closer to people when talking to understand what we're saying which defeats the purpose of social distancing there are also many problems with miscommunication such as students not quite picking up on teacher instructions as well as teachers not quite catching on to what students may be asking or answering additionally masks make it very difficult to socialize since most of a person's face is covered by the mask it is hard to see how they are reacting to what i'm saying and with all of these difficulties i feel like i've become less social and extroverted than i used to be because of a lot of the times i just give up on the idea of talking to people finally nobody seems to wear masks correctly at school anyway and most importantly the people have immunity to the virus by being vaccinated and or naturally infected overall having us wear masks all day probably doesn't make us all healthier but it does make it more difficult to learn and act normal sincerely emily cormat [Applause] yes i will give the names of two people so two people can move up closer to the front the first one is brian pope the second one is laila yahi i hope i've said that right bring the microphone closer please brian pope and leilahi can i go first does it matter okay my name is layla yahi i wanted to talk today to express my disgust with this state and specifically this board i'm a mother of three in this district my daughter my oldest is seven and has never had one normal day in her life i want everyone here to absorb that she has never had one normal day of school in her entire life she completely missed kindergarten and that's okay because we didn't know but now we do she missed memories i didn't realize were so important until they were never made now she's experiencing first grade and making best friends having never seen their faces except for 10 to 15 minutes during her snack i would like this board to present the evidence that these masks are protecting our children one shred of data anywhere in the world that this proves that proves this and defends your lack of reason all i see is hypocrites i guarantee everyone here has resumed their normal life is going to parties vacations whatever they want to do and then we all walk into school on monday and act like these kids are riddled with disease and they're just spreading it unless they have some mask muzzling them again according to the real data children with no comorbidities have the lowest hospitalization rates and death rates and we've known this since 2020.
And our students work across our system to obtain the competencies that you've seen listed here. We want to make sure that all of our students are socially, emotionally well, that they are they are communicating, great communicators, that they are engaged in our schools and our community, that they are innovators, and that they show their strong work ethic. And underneath each of these competencies, you will see the definitions associated with those. So, this is a good reminder as well as to what we're what we're working towards each and every day with our mission and the vision. What I want to share with you some of the state influences that brought us to career connected learning in this district. You can see some of the statistics listed up here. About 40% of our high school students in Indiana have no plan for life after graduation. And here in Brown County Schools, we just don't think that's acceptable.
looking at this one this is going back to those scores again we had fives in every area except for one and that looks at um i said it was untimely or incomplete and that is because with the switch over to data exchange our calendar was pulled incorrectly and so we have fixed that but they did not change our score for this but they have fixed that in their system and that was caused by the change and then this just compares um the difference in the years um whether we were compliant in those areas you'll see a couple years we had the no or not applicable for the i star kr because we had to fix that when we came in and then we had to have some of that with token and then finally when we look at our final score they take all of that information and they put it in and so we had with our compliance and data a 98.56 and then the results index a 56 and then that takes us to what level of corrective action or anything we would have to do and that would be level two which is the second level um so we didn't have to submit some corrective actions which we'll talk about so the next slide looks at our special ed numbers and our percentage of kiddos in special education so you can see that we are on the rise we are almost 80 students more from this time or from december 1st this was the december 1st count so from december 1st 2020 to december 1st 2021 we were almost up 80 students and that number changes daily and our percentage of students is almost reaching 25 so looking at ways to bring some of these numbers down we do have every one of our buildings are up and our special ed numbers so we're looking at helping provide support for our teachers our specialized teachers and in the school buildings and how we can provide that support and help so these are our areas of focus to kind of hit some of those key areas we had in the fall we had all of our special ed teachers come in for corrective reading intervention training this is it really targets building the foundation of reading and we're really looking at our k123 those kiddos who have missed kind of traditional schooling or haven't had a regular traditional school year looking at really building those foundations in those early early grades improving our district multi-tiered system of support and making sure we put that in place our district stream our stem and project-based learning initiative to work on getting engaging and hands-on lessons a lot of our specialized students like hands-on manipulatives activities so they can learn through the process a little easier and then our universal design for learning we're working to get professional development through the ict2 grant uh to make sure at that level one or that tier one process we're making sure we remove barriers uh to killer's line at that tier one process and then all of those things will have an impact on graduation we know if we can get kids interested and on track early they're going to be more likely to stay in school through graduation but to also help that is that emphasis on graduation pathways finding ways the pathways are key for a lot of our special ed kids because it's giving them more options to completing those graduation requirements it's not simply they have to pass that istep or that i learned test anymore let's get them in something that's interesting to them that's hands-on that's meaningful for their future and helping them get out of high school with a path to go on thank you very much um so now we'll go down to support stop recommendations yeah i have donna bellick gonna move to the interim head cook at the high school hiring devon dial for graham creek parapro jennifer ford for sand creek cook samantha garcia for sand creek pear pro rebecca oliphant is going to move from the head cook position to a cook for us at jennings county middle school hope weiner for jennings county high school and then amanda young as the high school girls head track and field coach okay do i have a motion to accept this pat is there a second tony any questions okay all of those in favor 7-0 um so now we'll move down to finances start with donations asking the board to accept a donation from new bethel church for five hundred dollars to sand creek for student activities do i have a motion travis do i have a second any discussion yes i'm asking for approval for resolution to allow treasure deputy treasurer to make adjustments to the appropriations within the major funds of education debt operations rainy day to establish the 2022 budget for the current year from the state approved budget order by major account classification all those in favor now it looks like we're down to relations i received a letter from the public library board asking for your appointment of a member they have asked that josh yeager be allowed to continue and be reappointed by the board so it's at your pleasure um looking for a motion to do that i suppose okay travis is there a second chelsea um any discussion all of those in favor 7-0 just want to thank josh for his work i think he's served four years already right and so what's that yeah i know so he'll continue to serve on the board for the library so we appreciate the commitment work he's done um and then school portrait and service agreement you know san crica is asking for approval of their school picture service so school portrait and services agreement between them and barksdale group so that's for the next school year 22-23 asking to accept and approve that agreement between them do i have a motion susan for a second which brings us down to other i don't have anything well then i'll entertain uh on motion to adjourn tony chelsea i'm sure there's no discussion so all those in favor 7-00
so why why why are the why are those two numbers different and then it's probably the specific people that we have step and what step they're on right because we we actually have a range of salaries and the the the ones you hire and the ones you uh are letting go maybe have different salaries so the ones being hired are actually being hired at a higher salary than the ones being let go according to this chart can you need a microphone so my point being that it would be you would save probably you know 15-ish thousand dollars if the salaries being let go were applied to the salaries being i hear what your question is yep so yeah the numbers don't stack right he's saying for two it's forty thousand for two on the removal side but when we get there i understand what the question is so we'll we'll get the specific answer back to you because we build that up from the bottom so so there's got there's there's it's a very interesting that how quick you are at spotlight it's been four years i'm curious to know what that salary range is for paris as well okay it's an hourly rate they're hourly employees so uh we actually our contracts are online and we'll get you the ranges yeah well contracts are online yeah and it should be in the book right i think all the yeah the salaries are in the book yeah all the salaries are in the book yeah we have all this information we do have this information yep we just got to look at it that's all good yeah we didn't see it for us to go back we just got it right back but we don't know the assumption this is why we do this exactly these questions on the table so we can talk our way through every lots of people in a room thank you um all right so this is the status quo 2.73 and i um two point seven three percent is one point one point two seven seven million dollars if you look at what's driving that it's in these first four lines and then there's a lot of little pluses and minuses on smaller line items the salaries is up two and a half percent that's actually better than we've seen um in in prior budgets we are um we're aggressively um we were keeping the same assumption on uh on retirement so we haven't tried to back off from what we've agreed to in the past so it's still two hundred thousand dollars there but we realize that's fluid too and that tends to be very understand we understand completely it's a good healthy discussion that we've had in the last you know three budgets if it changes we have to adapt to the change that's the good like i say number that we've agreed to so this is a nice this is the same tight budget philosophy and i'll need your support as we you know build the aggregate budget benefits are up 4.9 percent this was when we approved this it was before the most recent new news that we were getting that that's actually going to come in higher than that so you don't have that reflected in this budget yet so we've agreed that with uh with you and with uh the finance director for the town that we would patch that in after after we had approved this and that's part of us driving you yes so the town does know you always put in a higher estimate we try to get you down to you know closer we push you to get the latest information yeah so the latest information you got drove you down to 499 but then it take up new information that's going to drive you back that's correct so this is not an ad this is not any business no this is just where the number lies that's what the number is and this is one of those topical areas where the insurance companies aren't on the same budget calendar that we're on right they tend to bring you their number their actual final rates in february and march right but and so we're always doing a placeholder and it affects the town side and the school side the exact same change again yeah but we asked for that on our site for you to do this this isn't you this is we asked you to go with it so we had an idea sure but i just want to make sure this doesn't include anything since we had approved it back in midtown more than likely going to go up from the latest information that's correct okay transportation costs are up six percent that's nothing more than a new contract um every five years uh we are required by the state to go out to bid we've just completed the bid process the lowest uh bidder was was this bid and [Music] of course bus companies they the bidding process also involves new equipment and uh you know revamping for the next five years because you know buses wear out so they look at their fleet and they replace the ones that need to be replaced the problem is this cost of vehicles is going through the sky so so this is uh this is what's driving the transportation it is not a change in what we're doing this is all just the cost of the contract and utilities and fuel oils we had a really good rate for uh for fuel oil in this last year and uh and what were the numbers you told me this morning ken it was about a dollar sixty a gallon for diesel fuel and heating oil and the estimate we got from our contract here for the budget was 239 per gallon so this is uh it's a big driver to our uh to the to the overall so if you look at those four categories that's basically the entirety of the increase and i you know i i i you have a book that has all of the detailed line items i'll touch on one or two items the custodial and maintenance supplies is all about air handling and the fact that the air handling equipment in the schools is running non-stop and we are we need to replace filters and you know and all the things that go with that the cost of custodial and maintenance supplies are also going up helpfully and the furniture and equipment is a tiny little budget here and it just happens to be that we're doing some replacement of certain things in certain classrooms so and i i don't have the specifics of those but primarily the high school art classroom stools tables storage units so i'm terry you got a question sorry to back pedal but does the gasoline for the transportation come with the contractor do we pay separately we pay for the we pay for the gasoline thank you we generally would get a better deal by us doing it because we have more negotiating leverage so we usually go out to bid with the town with the furniture and equipment is what is the process for evaluating the condition is it based on a teacher reporting that my desks are kind of old and wobbly or is that is there like a schedule of replacing equipment at a certain time i don't believe there's a replacement but every year the teachers do make requests of the principal and principal checks out everything that they are asking for and makes a determination of what to bring forward okay okay how about how about equipping candlewood lake school is that and fun and furniture is that so in yeah so in the actually it's pretty exciting and dan i'm glad you asked the question because i should have said it when we were when i was on that early slide um as a matter of fact the board will be attending this board will be attending not in session but there at town hall for the municipal building committee on tuesday night where we're going through a presentation on all of the furniture that is in the cost of the new building so we will be moving into brand new furniture the teachers the nurses the administrators the you know so many people been a part of selecting this furniture so we're really excited about it so we're going to have a pres a presentation from the architects we're going to go through that with the municipal building committee there'll be an approval there most likely the board needs to see that presentation because to go out to bid the board on wednesday night at its regular meeting needs to uh also approve that same uh bid process right at that point yeah and those costs are in the the mbc budget that they made they're in the school project budget not at all in the operating system and and and uh the one of the interesting challenges uh because we're not bringing a lot of furniture over from huckleberry uh into the new school so one of the side questions we've asked is okay given the speed we have to exit huckleberry hill school what are we going to do and how are we going to you know what are we going to do with the existing stuff most of it's old right it probably just gets scrapped but there may be a opportunity to help local charitable organizations or maybe have a little auction or something right help the other schools and maybe help they will take some things over to the schools if they if they fit sure but like well the teachers the teachers shelves and teacher desks perhaps yeah so um and there are bob also just as i'm sorry to interrupt you the um there are some furniture that we are tagging it's furniture for occupational therapy physical therapy some of those students with profound needs fire proof cabinets which are extremely expensive we're tagging we will bring bringing those over uh all of the phys ed equipment will be brought over so we're tagging all of that taking pictures having that ready for move management services when the time comes to ask a question of the transportation um with the i know that we delayed the the new school start time but do we expect that that will impact maybe drive it down next year um when we're no no well basically the transportation companies have to guarantee their drivers a certain number of hours otherwise they can't keep them okay so going even though we're going to be consenting times a little bit and it was the same with both of the companies that did even with the driver shortages from the panda i mean maybe that will level off as the pandemic ends but um that's interesting yeah yeah the uh the the new school start times is an exciting uh proposal it actually gets the high school kids not up at the early early hours that they're getting up today and uh i think we move the time out eight o'clock to eight o'clock for the high school we will run two concurrent runs we'll run a middle school and high school run and then the second run is going to be a uh elementary school run so middle school high school are on separate buses i knew that question everybody wants to know it's not a budget question but that's a question everybody wants separate buses and then there and so there's a there's a it changes completely uh especially for the high school kids so bob what does that do to the uh closing time for the day of school for the high school it's 45 minutes later we moved everything 45 that doesn't interfere with the uh we've worked out with the sponsors most of i want to say about two-thirds at the time this is going back two or three years now when we did the study of the swc schools in the area schools are moving to that later start time or already have moved to that later start time because of that and it is a healthier start time for your superintendent who won't have to go i could at least get up at 4 45 on those days rather than four so trying that all right um so that's the status quo budget so here i'm just going to quickly go through some of these because i've already talked autumn the bilingual teacher law requires that if you have over 20 kids registered where a particular language is their their language spoken at home you need to have a bilingual teacher and a bilingual program that's not a english-speaking teacher coming in and and trying to teach them english that is somebody who speaks the language natively and you're running a program that helps them do that um at huckleberry we the way it works is you get the report this year it's the following year when you have to put it in so we actually know we've crossed the threshold of 20 spanish-speaking students at huckleberry when we put the new school in we're going to be well over 20 students between the all the grades that are going so this is going to whether we we we have to do it by law we really are going to have to do it you know as as we keep going forward this is going to be a a continuing need at the new elementary school and bilingual is a special certification different than a tesol teacher just in case anybody is curious about that is that is that a position that is easily hireable no okay i'm thinking back to some of the other people yeah you have to write a special letter to the state and request you have to post the job for bilingual if you exhaust through the summer candidates or can't find any candidates you can't find the right fit you then could with a special permission go to this go to the state obtain a special permission to then work and find a tesol teacher which is a little more common uh that wouldn't be ideal based on certification but you have to do what you can do because the students need to and these 20 or more students are not in the same class so they're floating around this teacher is going to be floating to different classrooms correct sometimes bring the students together other times be all over the place special schedules et cetera and then when you consolidate to candlewid lake elementary school if you hit 40 students you need to have two is it like a ratio if it's just one that's not just one okay for length we asked the question whether we were near the 20 on any other language and it doesn't look like we're there yet but it could go there right i mean there's a lot of change going on in our community and it is spanish is that spanish and now portuguese would be a different one if correct okay you're due we've we've got about 15 languages we've got a lot bring terror in there there you go perfect so that's that's that one um these are the uh the other enrollment driven items um we uh um we are we can reduce one fifth grade teacher and stay within the the class guidelines so we're doing that because it's so it's a tight way to run the budget which is the right thing to do um we've talked at length about the four and a half fte some of the data is here if we had put the teacher in we would have gone from over the top end of the range to 18 which is at the lower end of the range it would have been within the range and uh the cost difference the paris was a hundred thousand the a new teacher would have been 90.
2 million 2 million 600 2 000 2 million 16. all right so then that's leaving so the 32 right it's a 32 million five thirty two five hundred that's been the five year show listener budget right yep that's that number hasn't changed we just moved things out stuff to the right [Music] so let's just look at as my can you run back down with what would be next year's discussion that's fine from the top yeah let's take a look okay so we have so 50 that's designed for what is that for [Music] and the maintenance garage is the building that runs north south on the west side of the high school correct okay yeah it's roofing it's and it also includes uh ancillary uh buildings that we need we need a salt shed we need you know storage we have a small um prefabricated garage as a storage building which is you know dilapidated needs to be replaced it also needs to be reconfigured so there's a little bit there's a little bit of work involved there absolutely is that teaching like education of students or is it going to grow and that's where our offices are hosted as well okay thank you okay reorient me a bit yeah so for next year 22-23 we are doing 23-24 i'm so for this for the first year in the plan which is all that it's the only dollar funding we would get everything else is planning so we're at 2 ten thousand that's this number here right okay are you looking at andrew scheetz now you're trying to reconcile i'm looking at what you're doing okay so this is the problem we're looking at 22 so the first item is the chs hvhc right which is on the list the camlock for the rear electrical service next item on andrew's list the labs we took out so the next item that we have in right now acoustical ceiling tile replacement flooring replacement district-wide paving yeah district-wide roof repairs is 125 000.
uh do i have a motion to approve motion to is there any comments from the public no public comment at this time or president all right comments from the board see none then i'll go ahead and call for a vote as i see you remember [Music] hi remember about honor hi board remember linda chavez for remember chavez do you hear me aboard remember troubles thank you frozen i can't hear anything i can hear you now hi hear me all right gotcha we figured that you had frozen uh board remember from okay i i said yes and i wrote it down on the board sorry gotcha all right we heard you all right board vice president hi all right well myself 49 motion passes united states all right moving on to item 6.02 ballot for cspa delegate assembly uh do i have a motion on that item motion to approve second okay so i have a motion to approve but what are we approving our motion to open debate uh no you gotta make a motion on actual motion so we can have a discussion so what so what motion should it be a motion to it should be your decision on who you're going to support okay so so i believe it would be a motion hang on for a second there on page two of your packet in this item there's four candidates and we get to vote yes there are four candidates a motion to approve uh the vote you know the board voting for lorena chavez jody muirhead mary patterson and david guidry to the delegate assembly of the california school boards association second motion by vice president palm second five board members without comments from the public no public comments at this time or president see there's no public comment i'll go back to the board remember travis you had your hand up do you have comments uh yes i was gonna ask if we could uh maybe uh vote in two because um this area there's a better chance of her being on there if there's less candidates going towards it so uh would you reconsider the motion and i had my hand up but my right now my internet is kind of unstable okay well remember chavez um uh there is four positions and there are four candidates um there is no way that um they won't get elected unless nobody votes for one of them but in this case i'm assuming they'll hope for themselves so they're all going to get elected there's no need to leave offending programmers at this point all right thank you board member the only thing i was going to add to that is you know obviously i know lorena chavez and i support her um some of the others i know and some you know i haven't interacted with so um i'll go with what we go with as a board i agree on the four uh candidates in four seats um but i was just gonna you know mention if there's any reason that any uh one of us might know that maybe we shouldn't vote for you know one of them or regardless like you said they probably will all make it but um yeah i guess i just wanted to to mention that otherwise i'm okay with all i mean just to respond to trustee delora uh i also um i know or i'm familiar with two maybe two and a half ish of these um potential these delegates but i did look into the ones that i didn't know and from the the best that i could tell their work aligns um and it seems like they're the principles their work aligns with a lot of the stuff that we're doing here in alum rock so that's why i'm comfortable with the the the emotion on the floor and i'm you know similar to you i don't know them but i'm comfortable based on what i was able to ascertain from you know different stuff that i could find through my research so they seem to align with us as far as i can tell maybe trust our president keep that i might have more info though remember travis there was no oh you said there was no reason to take them off the only the only thing was that i thought it was gonna improve her chances thank you and my [Music] um yeah with regard to three of them i've worked with them uh in the past and they're good um members of the represent their respective areas um joey mearhead very mary patterson and wrench office david injury is new and so i don't have experience working with him but the others i can watch for and see that they've been there they're good members of delegate assembly and so would be supportive of this motion all right if there's no further comments i believe i called for comments from the public correct remind me if i haven't no you haven't i have not um do we have uh comments from the public no public comment at this time we're president all right then we'll go ahead and uh any further comments from members of the board uh we have a motion and a second i'll go ahead and call for a vote um i'll call you as i see you board member [Music] aye remember hi board member travis hi vice president plum hi myself 49 motion passes unanimously all right uh moving on to item 7.01 approve the alam rocket union elementary school district 2022 2025 instructional calendar uh we have uh pretty self-explanatory uh i saw vice president palmer's in his hand yes we're gonna make a motion a second a second second all right so we have a second for vice president bob um i'm gonna go ahead and take comments from the public yes uh we have miss jocelyn mers miss murray so you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you i knew there was something i failed to mention earlier but i wanted to give a huge shout out and thank you to barb campbell for her work on the on putting together three calend three years of instructional calendars that seem um not only did she keep in mind the interests of our own calendar that we've you know kind of gone by but also that of the east side school district and it was kind of um a compromise between both that i think will work well for everyone i hope and hopefully you will approve it so thank you and thanks to barb campbell for working on this i have further comments from the public no more public comment at this time board president any comments from members of the board board member so i plan to support you know the calendar thank you to everybody who uh put in a lot of hard work i can only imagine i never done it myself but i can only imagine all the hard work that goes into making sure that we have a calendar that um works with all the moving parts um the only thing i i will mention you know just in general um in my understanding and having worked in a couple schools now um and you know the um unfortunate uh part of not having a day where you know staff come together and um and learn about maybe something new a refresher or something that you know maybe might spark that maybe you know wasn't there and just being you know with others um it's unfortunate that we don't have that anymore and i just wanted to to mention that um yeah but other than that you know i plan to support the calendar for the comments from members of the board you know then i'm also want to add my uh thanks for the efforts to go ahead and coordinate the calendar with eastside union high school district or as best possible i think that's always a frustration amongst families that sometimes they the calendars don't align and the vacations or the time away from school is uh split up and so thank you for uh look uh attempting to address it as best you you could hopefully the line is aligned well all right um i'm gonna go ahead and call for the vote um as i see you or remember hi or member but i don't know i remember chavez hi vice president farm hi my sophomore united motion passes united states all right uh item 7.02 approved resolution uh number 26-21-22 arts education month uh to approve i have a motion by vice president trump second second by board member we have uh comments republican no public comment at this time for president no public comment do you have comments from the board uh vice president yes thank you mr president uh you know uh unbelievably i believe it was uh miss tolton who who brought this to the attention of the board earlier in the month so i do want to thank her for bringing this item to the attention uh you know being a comprehensive community based public school district yeah i will you know it's important to emphasize that uh we're we're still one of the only uh you know public school districts you know and any such organizations around that still offer a visual and performing arts education uh to our kids uh you know which i believe is something very fulfilling in life it's a great creative outlet and it allows our kids the ability to uh push the boundaries of their imagination as well as bringing tangible uh connections back to uh other academic subjects so uh i believe that uh you know this in a way reaffirms our commitment to offering a visual and performing arts program which which is something many charters do not offer to their students and this is a great way to again uh reaffirmed that commitment to the residents of allen rock to the families of alan rocket we are still committed to providing our kids uh with these uh additional educational opportunities to enrich their lives so i urge you yes though you're on mute president thank you uh i just want as just to add to it as a mother of uh seventh grader who is in ban adelante um i absolutely wholeheartedly uh support this um you know i see my daughter and really this is like the only place where like her spirit is just flying she has an oh period 7 30 a.m she wakes up at six every day you know is ready to go mom are you ready we can't be late you know i gotta get there five minutes early um so it just i see it really uh revive her and uh fool her fill her spirit and um keep her excited of going to school she's not you know very she's not one of those students that does well in a classroom all day and you know uh just sitting in her seat and just you know she these uh well-rounded experiences you know really fill her up and so um yeah thank you to the district thank you to the staff um i know as a leader here continuing to support these programs and doing all that we need to do in order to keep him going um and you know interestingly enough it's probably the only place she's gotten like awards from or uh you know and certificates because she really shines um during those classes so you know i know that really feels fills her heart mind body and spirit to keep going for all the other stuff that our children are dealing with um so yeah so thank you for bringing it forward ms talton and supporting also those programs in our district and everybody else that does thank you we'll remember chubbies okay um i just would like to thank miss talton for bringing this to the board and i would like to hear more about the furthering developments and strategies and maintaining this meaningful education for the students at alamo thank you for remember about animal yeah thank you i just want to also reaffirm and and concur with the rest of my colleagues here and i just a quick kind of at least for me personally real life um you know example or observation of how the programming that we offer in alum rock directly impacts or can impact students i know trustee trustee herrera shared her impact on a current student and you know my daughters are a few years ahead and one of my daughters was able to um you know nurture and further develop her interest in performing arts and that carried through to high school where she really you know took that foundation from alum rock built upon it in high school and now she's in college studying music and so that the real life application of what we offer in alum rock that a lot of other places don't as you've heard can literally you know go all the way through to college and my other daughter's still in high school but being involved in sports again in alum rock schools allowed her to continue that interest through high school and and pick up those skills of discipline and challenging herself and teamwork and all those kinds of skills that hopefully will um continue forward for her into college too so it's not just um just a piece of paper that we're you know approving here and just an idea but there's real life impacts and i'm sure there's any number of other examples from our district that we could point to probably even some of us that that came through alan rock and took music and played sports and stuff and i know i did and that carried through also like i said to college those learnings that i got that foundation in alum rock with this programming so that's i mean for me just in some examples of the real life impact that i've personally seen from what we do here in alam rock so it's important that we bring this forth and also thank you miss halton for for bringing this to us yes thank you very much for uh bringing this to the attention the board and ensuring that it got onto the agenda um i when i came onto this board uh we had some very difficult decisions to make around finances and the idea was to come in and slash basically decimate the arts you know so that i was not willing to do i'm very grateful that at that time we were able to take a surgical approach and leave enough to make sure that it was able to grow back and we were able to do that um we had very very difficult decisions to make um that's exactly why we're placed here but um we were able to grow back and so um there are things that make life fulfilling i think art is one of those things and uh um uh alan rock happens to be one of the as was mentioned earlier the last few districts that still invest in the arts in providing a comprehensive education that includes uh music art sports unfortunately some of our competitors have gone down to teaching to the test and they've gone bare bones in or in an attempt to make them make a buck or um you know in order to to to um not not spend as much and so i'm glad that uh al-marak has taken the approach of ensuring that we still maintain access to music to arts all those great things as i was working for the city i got to learn from my first boss councilman porus williams who made a very eloquent speech about the arts and the importance of maintaining that and reminded his uh colleagues on city council what exactly do you remember the romans or the the greeks for you amazing accounting strategies for their art and so uh it always stuck with me about the importance of maintaining the artist all right thank you very much for your comments um i think we have a motion in a second and i'll go ahead and call you as i see you i believe we called for public comment earlier correct yes yes excuse me uh board president no i was just saying that yes we took a public vice president i with myself wouldn't i the motion passes unanimously all right moving on to 7.03 resolution number 24 2122 read across america of emotion you have comments from the public no public comments at this time board president see no public comment i'll go back to the board any comments from members of the board vice president thumb uh you know i'll just say uh you know reading is one of the fundamental skill something that opens doors um you know leads our kids to and not just our kids by ourselves to uh new ideas and facts we you know have yet to learn and so uh you know i encourage wherever we can you know parents where when they have the opportunity to read to their kids and the teachers to read to their kids uh you know where there is room in the instructional day and for those reasons i urge you yes vote all right boy remember how yeah i just want to um also support uh trustee famine and his encouragement to support this and i think particularly in today's day and age where we are right now with you know all of the the tools that are available to ourselves and to our youth and and the challenges that those tools bring with regards to just focus and um you know being able to retain some level of attention on things and i think reading in addition to all the other benefits that it brings is something that we should in this time keep um at the forefront keep it at the front of a lot of what we do because the the pressure that there is from devices and social media and videos and everything that's there is so great that we have to do something to balance that out in my belief um with regards to [Music] reading and the importance of literature and literacy um and so i think it's these types of things that we do every year it's important that we continue to keep them at the forefront as part of as a not part of as one of the primary um you know things that we need to focus on for our children and that other stuff could be there and there's a place for it but as far as i'm concerned in terms of youth and education it's a supplement to the foundational skills that that children and students learn through reading so so i'm supportive of this as well for the comments from the board all right see you now then i'll go and close off with some comments i think it's more important than ever given the climate across our country the banning of books the burning of books in certain states it's uh unfortunate that um that type of uh behavior has hit our land um the type of things that were seen in other countries i went through fascist dictatorship and so uh it's not more important than ever to ensure that uh free access to literature to books that's available and so thank you those who have taken their time to put forward the resolution and to um to and looking forward to the activities that will take place as a result of reading across america usually we've pre-covered and take the opportunity to go into classroom and read i'm not sure if that's going to be available this time around and i completely understand safety first all right um i will go ahead and call you as i see you remember [Music] hi board member travis hi vice president uh all right approve resolution number 25-2122 women's history month to approve i'm going to go ahead i'm going to give it to your board uh member of little second uh emotion second by report vice president assuming that you had uh made a motion to approve america yes same time all right um and at this point at this moment i'll open it up to comments from the public no public comment at this time board president all right thank you president i appreciate that um i just want to mention you know uh being that as a woman we are the only ones that can give life right um uh i'm glad that we have a a month to honor the women you know in this way um but i just want to you know invite all of us to um you know just and not that we don't we obviously do you know but just um take account in regards to women and um you know be mindful of um i think growing up and you know thinking of generations before of how things have shifted you know i'm very um happy and glad that things have shifted um because i even think on this board right when when it first started it didn't look like this you know uh linda nor myself um would have been here um it was all males and so many other examples of that so i'm glad that you know we've moved and we're where we're at and you know there's women in leadership and there's women um you know being honored and uh representing represented in many many different um places um but i just you know continue to have us um i want to uh encourage us to continue to be mindful you know the things we watch of the music we listen to um you know it's funny because i you know i think of now the things that i would listen to growing up and i'm like wow i didn't realize right like the way that women were being portrayed and even though i didn't i didn't technically see that but it's you know in the back right when you start um talking like that or watching movies or um listening to to music um and so even you know with peers you know i i continue to um again urge you to you know call things out if you see something that you know is inappropriate maybe towards women um or maybe it was a way you know your dad or your grandfather or the way things were done by uncles you know before but you know i know that things are still lingering so i you know ask each and every one of us to be that person to speak up you know on behalf of of our of us as women our sisters our mothers our daughters um to continue to make this world you know a better place so thank you uh for bringing this forward um and honoring and proclaiming the month of march as women's history month and i look forward to continuing to you know honor women every day of the year thank you board of us president paul hey uh you know just uh you know i'll just bring it a little bit back to earth here you know this is uh to you know uh in recognition of the role that you know women play across our lives from mother to teacher school nurse school secretary and lunch lady but also uh you know women have made a uh great contribution to uh this country's democracy the culture to the sciences uh you know uh let's not forget you know susan b anthony and a fight for women's uh right to vote uh you know um you know this year maya angelou is going to be honored on a quarter this year along with four other women in the year 2022 uh in honor of the contributions that american women have made throughout history and so it's very important that we honor the those historical contributions and that our children also uh know uh you know the the role you know the the works that uh you know women across uh time and ages have uh done for the betterment of this country and just uh just a little a little bit of history for trustee herrera actually there were women on the allen rock board way beforehand you know i want to you know mention uh you know tr you know at one point we've had trustees juanita ramirez and patricia martinez roach who once uh sat on this board almost uh patricia potter and tonya freudenberger who once sat on uh and kim mesa who all wants that on this board too so women have uh have played a uh you know on dr bower you know at the uh making the big decisions that affect the uh the education of the largest portion of the east side of san jose so it is in that spirit that i urge a yes vote on this resolution board member chavez actually um pam also uh cut a little bit into what i was gonna say uh i also know the woman who was on the board uh 36 years ago who was the first woman to be on this board um i just one of the things that i asked dr bauer on our one-on-one was um i don't want to seem like a misogynist but i always ask if you're doing something for one group what about the other group i asked and are we going to honor with men later and because i always feel like since i have sons um that like for example now and rock we have uh girl scouts but we don't have boy scouts and i'm glad that this came to the board because it makes us reflect on hey we need to get for both of them but it's true that uh the positions or women were not as open as they are today and i'm very thankful for that uh but at the same time uh even when your kids are growing up you teach your kids um like my daughter she says ma can i play this accessory you can play anything you want just because you're a girl that doesn't mean you can't do what you want for yourself as and as far as education goes as well so i'm really thankful for this and this does show the young up and coming little girls that they could strive to be the president of the united states or anything they want or if they want to be uh and how do they call it uh a mom at home and and contributing to the next generation that is very important too and i'm thankful that they brought this to the board thanks all right uh further comments from the board uh we'll remember i just want to uh clarify and highlight i think mr fan might have misunderstood me i absolutely know many amazing women that have been on this board um and i think uh trustee chavez brought it up you know um very appropriately you know she said 36 years ago was when we had our first woman on the board so if you think about that you know we've been um in we just celebrated our 90th anniversary so 90-36 that's 54 years without a woman on the board so uh keeping that in mind is what i you know meant as far as how this sport looked like 90 years ago wouldn't look like what it looks like today but thank you for uh bringing them up many many amazing women that have been uh have gone through this board um and i consider trustee chavez and myself two of them as well thank you all right uh so if there's no for the comments from the board then i'll go ahead and i'll wrap up with my comments um really uh appreciate the inclusion of this resolution it's incredibly important women's history is everyone's history um although it's obviously recognizing the work and the effort but it the work that was done by those folks elizabeth kennedy stanton lucretia mott others all those involved benefited everyone um those efforts by uh the suffragettes and uh others eventually became part of a larger reform movement that cleaned up the way in which politics is done in the united states aside from providing the place for the 19th amendment to to um uh move forward and ultimately grant the vote and so um it's a you know a privilege to be able to be here and move forward with this uh resolution and acknowledge the hard work many people uh glorified and think that it's uh and it's right so it should be you know acknowledged but it was a very difficult struggle we're talking about beatings people getting killed um it wasn't just marches and cool things that you see on the in postcards or pictures it was really really incredibly hard work that was uh basically the vote was bought with blood uh and the lives of those who were killed in the process of moving forward and securing the right to vote and other rights for women so uh with that said i'll go ahead and call the vote as i see you remember hi we're remember chavez hi remember pham hi uh with myself 49 motion passed unanimously and i will go ahead and clarify that uh alan rock has had uh boy scout troops uh actually one was led by former uh board member solomon zenith uh here at alan rock so they have been active it's just a matter of getting people to create them this district itself does not run them uh whatever traffic do you have um i didn't say that they didn't have it before because i know gustavo did his friend my husband was on the board at the same time so i know that aero everything was happening i'm saying now we don't have that and i would like to see that uh once again at alamran thank you well go ahead and start up a trip all right uh 7.05 approved resolution number 28 2122 african american history motion by vice president second second second by board member chavez to have members of the public wishing to speak if so please indicate by raising your hand i see no public comment at the same time so you know public comments these are comments members of the board order vice president bob uh thank you mr president you know uh african am americans are a integral part of you know this nation uh i want uh you know uh in many ways they were the pioneers the you know the person that you know that went first in fighting many of the battles that uh you know may that open doors for uh people of color and minorities uh you know uh you know for example the founding of the uh national association for the advancement of colored people as one such organization but also you know the dovetail also with the fight to extend voting rights to all american citizens regardless of race regardless of economic status you know i also want to honor you know the fact that when i was a allen walk student you know this was uh kindergarten at gos school was the place where i actually first encountered african americans you know you know isaiah hill and i sat you know in the same kindergarten classroom and i also had a i had an african-american third grade teacher by the name of mrs jordan she did a a wonderful job uh providing an education to her uh class of i believe 30 some odd kids back in uh the 1992-93 school year and so uh you know in the spirit of you know i know that you know we we've lived through some very tumultuous times where uh old wounds were reopened and new wounds but you know i think that you know as a as a as the foundational local education k8 educational agency of the east side san jose community uh you know this this is our our contribution in uh healing those divisions bringing us together you know and are honoring you know that you know all the ethnicities attending ellen are you know have made contributions to our community and that they should be honored and recognized and so i urge a yes vote on this resolution [Music] i i i obviously will be supporting this resolution and you know have said many comments as to why um i the only thing i'm going to bring up um in addition to what mr fama has already brought up on this item um is i know that uh when we had the presentation in the beginning uh ms talton and the students referred to um the month as black history month um i'm gonna you know support it as it is now but if i can um ask you know the staff to go back and you know see if that's something that maybe um they prefer instead of african-american history month if that's uh appropriate um you know just to make sure that we're aligned with you know listening to our teachers and students and what they preferred this month to be identified as all right uh thank you for your comments uh we've uh got to public comment uh further comments from members of the board i myself will deny the motion capacity all right moving on to item 7.06 approved resolution number 27-21-22 season travis day move to approach 31st 20 20 22.
voters did approve a bond for us monies from that bond paid for some projects throughout the district particularly the construction of sitting bull elementary and sitting bull middle school now this is considered voter approved debt because it has to go to the voters under prop 39 in order to pass a general obligation bond we need a 55 percent plus one approval rating on that particular bond uh this particular prop 39 it does levy and under it would levy an ad alarm tax on your property tax bill and many uh the residents in apple valley right now currently have that you'll see that apple value unified property tax assessment for our measure s this would uh it's limited up to 60 per 100 000 of assessed value based on prop 39 and we are not able to exclude any property owners from a general obligation bond typical uses for g for geo bonds of course our facility improvements uh athletic academic facilities or to discharge existing cop debt service and as the board knows we did a recent cop so we currently do have some cop debt service another finance assumption that we could consider something called a parcel tax this is also a voter debt a parcel tax requires two-thirds almost 67 of the voters to say yes it levies a tax on parcels not based on assessed value just based on each parcel typically it's a flat dollar amount on parcels exclusions are allowed under a parcel tax for instance the most common exclusion you see districts build into a parcel tax are senior citizens or those individuals living more typically living on a fixed income typical uses for parcel tax however are not typically facilities they are more for operational costs because parcel tax tend to be more short-term issuances they have an expiration date many districts will do them for five years or seven years or possibly 10 years and then they will have to go back to the voters for additional parcel taxes if they so choose to do that another financing option you're familiar with is a certificate of our participation or a cop that is non-voter approved debt the the debt burden the debt service does not fall on the voters on their property tax bill the debt service is totally the responsibility of the district you typically those are issued at the direction of the local school board against a known revenue stream recently we did issue a certificate of participation in the amount of a little over 14 million dollars to pay for some local projects and we issued that cop against our redevelopment agent agency revenue stream that we get every year now this is just a hypothetical in this particular slide in terms of a certificate of participation we have a revenue stream the redevelopment agency revenue stream and we did not borrow against that entire revenue stream we were conservative in our borrowing and we still have some space on that particular revenue stream so i asked our financial advisor just to put together a little scenario if we were to issue a certificate of participation for and i chose 20 million dollars just as an example for the board if we were to issue a 20 million dollar certificate of participation on a 30-year debt service the debt service would be approximately 1.2 million dollars per year over 30 years it's essentially a mortgage about 700 000 per year the remaining rda revenue stream would be able to cover of that 1.2 million on average a year which would mean our unrestricted general fund would have to make up the remaining 500 000 on average during each of the 30-year debt service for a cop and that's at 20 million i could get different scenarios but as as you borrow more our rda revenue stream is only going to be able to cover so much of that debt service so it would be an impact on our unrestricted general fund just some other local funding sources our rda that is not used for debt services is deposited into fund 40 our special reserve for capital outlay we do have about three million dollars in there and then we have some remaining cop proceeds that it's also deposited in fund 40 to the tune of about four and a half million of that 14 million we recently issued other options of course they're state monies now i apologize for all the abbreviations on that first line but that's universal pre-kindergarten universal transitional kindergarten and a kindergarten facility grant governor brown recently offered another 490 million dollars across the state of california on the on this particular grant they had a hundred million three years ago and that hundred million dollars on this particular facility grant paid for 47 projects throughout the state of california no matching funds are required but an application is of course required for this particular grant there are state bond monies there are two pieces of legislation right now both proposing facility bonds at the state level that would be the state of california selling general obligation bonds and making that money accessible to school districts on an application basis for facilities projects a matching fund requirement is typically required with state bond monies and what most districts do in order to access state bond monies they have a local general obligation bond for instance if we were to take a local general obligation bond to the voters in apple valley unified and say i'm just going to pick an amount 50 million dollars and we had several projects within that 50 million go bond and of course our projects are going to cost more than 50 million dollars we apply for state matching funds to match our 50 then we have hundred to do projects throughout apple value unified in theory that's not always actually what happens with school districts and many times you'll wait many years on a list at the state level to be funded for projects but that is a resource for us thank you any questions uh chris go ahead and open it up for discussion here i was just wondering how much can the upk utk and the kindergarten facility grant how much can those be up to there's no set amount we can apply for as much as we'd like and i'm i'm learning this i did attend a office of public school construction webinar last week where they went through this process what we're faced with is if for instance if we have a small project at each of our 10 elementary schools that is 10 separate applications to the state for funding under this grant program the office of public school construction will typically go through their preference list after they score these applications and they'll make sure every district has at least one project and then they'll go through the list again and make sure they can get maybe a second project at every district and i'm sure they're going to run out of money long before they get to a second project in most districts across the state of california so as i mentioned earlier 100 million a couple years ago paid for 47 projects there are a thousand school districts in the state of california many with facilities issues much like ours they don't have room for another grade level thank you i'm going back to the facilities thank you so much for letting us know that we finally have the property to put a stadium at granite hills high school it's about time um but the question that i have is when you consider the track the natural and all-weather surface what will be the difference in cost that will be one question and if you should put an all-weather all-weather surface at granite hills will you be required to put one for apple valley high school so that they will be compar comparable to each other so that's my one question and i'll come back for the second one the the first part of your question the cost difference between a natural surface track and an all-weather track i'm not prepared to get that detailed in numbers in terms of cost so i could do some research and get back to you on that particular answer in terms of an all-weather football field if one is installed at granite hills high school as part of a new project we would not be required by anybody to install anything at newton bass stadium we would not be required to then the next question is if you should have the you have the if you should have the funds to pay for the stadium to get it going to set it up are you open to selling seats or plaques so that you can recruit some of the money to continue to expand on that property well i believe when new bass was built there were donations where individuals purchased certain seats for a donation um that's that actually would be something if if the board has the desire to do something like that in the future i think that would be up to the board or if the board wanted to give the school the ability to do that as a fundraiser for maybe their associated student body with the cost of building a stadium i don't believe selling seats would really gather enough revenue to do any meaningful expansion or additional construction it would i would i would recommend if asked today that uh probably steer that toward asb to support student activities and student programs on campus rather than build facilities with additional donations my final question mr president do i have permission to go further my final question has to do with the uh tk and the um additional classroom yes um i do know because i came from from the district i'm a product of this district so i do know how all of that plays out um that if you put classrooms you're going to put personnel so the classrooms are not going to sit all by itself there will be personnel that will be inside that classroom of where is the funding going to come from to cover the cost of personnel and their benefits because they are not going to be part-timers the kids are going to be there for most of the day so they won't be part-timers and they'll be benefits is that going to come from this grant money that we're going to apply for and how long will that grant money go for because as we all know when you file for a grant there's a time limit there's a space where you have to use it and what happens to continue to have the personnel to be covered outside of the grant well the grant money is solely for construction of facilities or modernization of existing facilities the grant money is not for any staff whatsoever the staff the money for staff would come from the ada generated by the enrollment of the transitional kindergarten students much like our funding under the local control funding formula comes based on the ada of the students attending our schools currently governor newsom has pledged a several billion dollar augmentation to the prop 98 base funding for districts across california in light of his recognition of the increased staffing to facilitate the expansion of transitional kindergarten okay so the governor gives us the says he's pledged because we hear about the pledge they pledge and are they going to ask us to spend first and then come back and ask are they going to give us the money up front so that we can get on with the business of educating kids my understanding in most instances is the government makes a pledge they tell us what we need to do and we go ahead and do it and then we go back and gravel to beg them to give us money to pay for what they've already told us to do so i'm i'm curious about how is the government going to do this and we're going to front load them and say we're going to have 400 students then give us the funds and if we didn't finish the funds we'll give it back to you but don't hold us hostage as we are waiting for this money to come because districts still need to run absolutely as i mentioned this will be part of our local control funding formulas so these students attending school will be part of our average daily attendance which is calculated projected at the beginning of the year when we do our lcff calculation based on our budget so as the state apportions the money to us throughout the year we basically getting it [Music] it's not up front it's not after the fact it's pretty much when we need it on a monthly basis when the state apportions the cash thank you very much thank you thank you um this is just the first step if we're going to move forward with any of these that have been proposed this board is going to need to make the decision so this is the first good step just discussing it finding out the my new details will be later on but uh thank you uh matt for the for the information so we don't want that land just to sit there and uh collect dust so definitely gonna move do something all right moving on to presentation two local control accountability el cap supplement and patrick schlosser thank you this is a report that is a little bit of background for this the budget trailer bill this year ab130 required an update to the board um an overview of the budget changes to the budget which you'll see in a moment and a supplement for the annual update to the lcap because there were increased concentration grant funds that came to us after lcap was adopted in june and so i've got a very abbreviated version of the lengthy report that you have in front of you that is also posted to the website because it's quite lengthy and the statute required an exhaustive amount of information to be presented but i'm going to hit some of the highlights here and summarize and so um generally the impact of the budget to those funds that are part of what matt mentioned the local control funding formula that comes to us as both sort of general funds overall our increased allocation went from 143 million our estimate now is about 153 and the great majority of that came in additional supplemental concentration grant funds you'll remember that those funds must be expended for those students who generate those funds english learners foster youth and students of poverty and so our lcap originally written was targeted at that first dollar amount and now we've made some adjustments in summary i want you to know that the lcap supplement that was part of this board item that must be turned into the state once it doesn't require board approval it will come to you for full approval as part of the lcap in june again but it does ask some questions about engagement know that in apple valley we are always in an lcap cycle so we met with our community partners on january 25th we'll meet again in march we've met with student groups we've conducted surveys all that information continues to inform these decisions the additional funds must be used in accordance with the current lcap and they are the other thing the funds must be used for the increased concentration grant funds is they must be used for personnel at school sites and so that's um in order to support students when we met in january we were told um it must be used at uh school sites that are greater than 55 of the unduplicated pupil count of english learners foster youth and students of poverty at that time we believe there were 12 of our 13 schools that qualified subsequent to that presentation we've confirmed with calpads our data administrator that now all of our schools qualify which makes this plan much easier to write so the plan that you had days really moments after it was posted to the public website and posted for you which and we do have the ability to amend this plan ongoing we are able to amend it so now to include sitting bull which is just great because it means all the things that we're doing we can do across the system and it also required an update on our sr3 projects those were federal one-time federal coronavized relief dollars a quick update on that that is again there's a lot lengthy update for you in the report but things like the hvac upgrades and some of the other large facility upgrades those projects are just getting started they went through a lengthy process of gathering information contract building bids and vendors uh applying for those bids and then finally an awarding process and so those those actually are going to get started in some of their preliminary phases this month so there's not a lot of report to report on some of the big projects because they just take some time to get rolling remember this is a multi we have many years to spend this we have until for some of these sr funds i believe to the end of 23 24 at least thank you some of the short-term things we did are working use the esser funds to increase the number of substitutes available to add to our ability to provide cover 19 testing to get our students and staff back to work quickly and so some of those things that we put into the plan we were able to do immediately and they were used to great effect in general the kinds of things that the community came up with for students at the school sites um was to they really mentioned a need for increased help in behavior management of students so we're going to add to the proctors campus security some technicians along that area that takes time they're constantly recruiting and bringing in folks for those positions but that we can now use this funding to add to those positions at school sites all school sites um and at an additional counseling staff position at least one uh we we can use this funding to pay for the increase in the registered nurses assigned to sites by seven more adding custodial support at every site and then at high desert premiere academy the addition of a therapist much like what we did at apple valley high school in granite hills high school some of the metrics that are presented to you i just want to make sure you understand that we are in a strange data position some things we have data for grad rate a through g completion etc and again if you're following along this i've i'm going to skip some slides some things are in progress we know some of what's going as far as the data we can see for example what the suspension rate is as of today but we don't know what the annual rate will be for this year yet finally some of the data we just don't have yet the state has not given us the manner in which they're going to calculate things like chronic absenteeism so grad rates over time a quick snapshot at this just i wanted to wanted you to see what was presented to the district advisory committee and just kind of looking over time that far right bar for these different student groups in orange represents last year's class of 2021.
i'm appalled at the notion that i'll have to explain to my kids why i allowed them to be abused for political purposes it's obvious that this district has other motivations in mind and our their education is just simply obviously not priority number one the pandemic is over this virus is now endemic and we need to live with it if masks do not become optional soon my family is moving um there are 40 other states in this union my kids can live a normal life and oswego illinois is not worth it state representative batnick is next [Applause] state representative patnik if you'd like to come up members of board in regards to the district policy 7165 regarding student masking and the district safety plan i questioned the district's legal opinion as the temporary restraining order deemed null and void many more rules and emergency changes beyond the governor's executive orders district emails from july through august specify the district accounting for updated isb idph guidance and per the tro on page 11 quote idph did not mandate the covet 19 vaccine nor did it issue emergency rules pertaining to vaccines or masks the governor did and then is be promulgated its emergency rules to carry out the governor's orders end quote thus the isb idph guidance was created based on and to support the executive orders which are now null and void as a result of as as a result of judge grisha avoiding the updated definitions policy 7165 in many parts of the district safety plan are in violation of the idph act and our due process rights in the event my legal understanding is incorrect i still question the wisdom of the board reverting to a safety plan that does not account for updates in the cover 19 pandemic specific to masks i know you mentioned earlier that that's to be done shortly however medical experts finally began stating in december what many of us have known long ago is that cloth masks are little more than facial decorations and begin recommending higher quality masks like n95s the kind the bite administration is now distributing but the problem with those masks is the cdc also states on their website n95 masks are not designed fitted nor recommended for children and have ever been broadly tested on children to determine efficacy therefore there is nothing children are approved to wear on their faces to statistically significantly lower the chances of infection from covid19 or any other airborne virus if you'd like to see any additional studies i emailed the board on saturday with a link to the brownstone institute listing about 150 comparative studies and articles on ineffectiveness and harms of masking but finally i am appalled at the district utilizing an inequitable exclusionary and divisive policy for those not named on the temporary restraining order you created voted on and deployed an inequitable opportunity and outcome for students without the choice to wear a mask versus those on the tro you are excluding students from class and from learning for close contact tracing yet those on the tro suffer no such fate the tro didn't create this situation you did by reverting to and implementing the safety plan fortunately you also have the choice and the power to reverse this harmful choice even before february 28th and i pray that you do so with utmost haste i'm happy to discuss anything further with you at your convenience and thank you for your time [Applause] david piazza will be next david piazza uh thanks for letting me speak as the uh board had said i'm state representative mark badnik this is a wonderful board meeting for me to to come to um the i'm sorry the woman who spoke first what was your name yes laila uh leila you directed something about towards the state and that's why i'm here i'm kind of here to i think a lot of what i've said and i hate the math thing too to talk but a lot of the anger that's directed towards the school board a lot of a lot of a lot of the anger that's been directed towards the school boards really should be directed towards the state and that's why i'm here so hey ladies and gentlemen please let him speak look you want to talk about your frustration my wife is a is a special ed teacher i have five kids i have two in school my oldest daughter is a speech pathologist you want to know what it's like being an elected state official representing 109 000 people and not having one hearing for two years about the upsides the downsides any of the mitigations when you're going to do significant mitigations to the state an equal amount of heavy transparency is required and we haven't had that and we're asking the board to do things it's not just the epidemiology of it there's issues with mental health that we've talked about there's issues with esl learning there's special ed issues there's all kinds of issues they don't have the ability as a board every school district in the state does not have the ability of a board to call in all those people but for two years i have not had the ability to do that at the state level i have not had the ability as a state rep to to hash this out and to come up with the plan so in in august completely agree you know they were put into situation because we didn't codify any of this under the law this went to the courts so now we're dealing with this because of what happened what happened with the courts right there they're being put in a position to make a decision on something that i feel that we should have had to put a vote on i'm telling you that i would have had the ability i would have had the desire to put an ability on to to put a vote on any of the mitigations i want that because the state has the ability to call in enough of the experts to call in everybody not just the epidemiologist what you're calling everybody upside down side of everything i want to do that that said we're in the situation that we are in now and i'm pleased to hear that the board is going to review their plan they were forced to put a plan in on their own that should have been done at the state level i'm glad they're putting in a plan this is different as you mentioned this is different than it was at the beginning when you when you when you put the plan in place in august there's vaccines we we know more about n95's ability even even to get those sorts of things there the omicron hasn't been as dangerous as some of some of the other variants have been that said i would hope that we do an expedited review of your current plan i applaud the board for having a plan i think one of the i think one of the hardest jobs in politics thank you sir representative bandnick we appreciate you being here today we are sticking to the three-minute work you got it thank you very much stay around for a while for anybody who wants to talk to me joanne johnson is next joanne johnson 19 years in this school district five children first graduating class of oe second graduating class of oe i got one more to go please listen to this carefully everybody isaiah chapter 49 verse 25 but thus saith the lord even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered for i will contend with them the contendeth with thee and i will save thy children god gave us our freedom it was reaffirmed by our founding fathers and the constitution of the united states it was not given to governor j.b prisker anthony fauci isbe any teachers union any school board nor the school administration we will all have our judgment day that we cannot get away from i believe 100 percent you are making a horrible mistake and the fact that you said right off the bat without hearing anybody's words not our children who act absolutely said it best i'm going to cut my speech in half because they already covered it for you to say that you're not going to vote tonight completely tells us what we mean this is all political i did not sign my rights over to anybody to determine my child's medical treatments a pcr test is a medical procedure a a mask is a medical device n95 mass just read the back of it it'll tell you how effective it is with coronavirus it is not effective at all mrs simonton i just want to get it on the record just in case nobody heard it she said that we cannot serve anybody up there because she said so and it is going to happen during the week when the board members do not have an office at the district so i will be standing at the front there and i will lay down each person's letter of intent from me to file a claim against your surety bonds for breaking your own you swore an oath to uphold the constitution the constitution of illinois as well as to serve these children it has been proven that you're hurting our children david piazza will speak next sean keener will come up ma'am can i ask that you take your seat [Applause] ma'am can i ask that you take your seat [Applause] [Music] can i ask you to take your seat thank you you let mrs marino know i expected her not to show up because she is a coward and couldn't even face us david piazza is next sean keener and after that tom and jackson the ninja good evening my name is sean keener and i'm a forensic science teacher at oswego high school i am in my 20th year at oswego high school and have been a part of many changes in the district i would like to speak about what i have experienced in my classes in our hallways and speaking to many students and several staff throughout this past year and most recently the past few weeks as a veteran teacher in oswego i've had the opportunity and privilege to teach coach and mentor many generations of students this past year i have observed a significant decrease in student participation and even larger decrease in student motivation a noticeable increase in student frustration and more mental health and anxiety issues than ever before yes the pandemic has a major impact on that however many students have mentioned to me that they feel wearing a mask in school that they connect cannot connect with friends teachers counselors and other students when wearing this expressionless eerily quiet distant looks make up the majority of students i have in class while similar comments have been stated by teachers i have spoken to this concerns me deeply that this is affecting our youth more than we know my son attends a local school where mask mandates have become optional and he has been chosen not to wear his and his comment commented that he and his friends appears are much happier more productive and overall feel back to normal if you walk down the hallways at ohs you will see dozens or even more students with masks below their noses and some under their chins although our deans and staff try do try and get them to put them on correctly it is just too many to manage it has also caused some tension among students and staff as many are tired of being told and honestly tired of wearing them all day this is not a recent occurrence either and yet we have not seen a large increase in coveted cases covet is not going away anytime soon it is another virus that we will have to adjust to and continue to manage as we move forward but effective education quality mental health and happiness of our students and staff is also a forefront for you to consider some things to consider is the ability of our students to get the vaccine with a booster and having 93 percent of one of our most vulnerable groups those age 65 and older being vaccinated in kennel county also data shows that omicron is much less severe than infection from prior variants despite its transmissibility the last point i would hope you would consider is the questionable effectiveness of cloth masks in its most recent update the cdc stated that cloth masks provide the least amount of protection from the virus most students that i see in the classes and in the hallways have a form of a cloth mask a data table from the wall street journal titled why cloth masks might not be enough as omicron spreads shows that a cloth mask provides 20 minutes of potential protection from a person not infected and 27 minutes of potential protection from a person wearing a cloth mask who is infected this potential protection is only true if the mask is worn correctly every minute of the school day seeing a student smile is more powerful now than ever and i truly believe it can create an uplifting environment thank you so much so in conclusion i'm asking the school board to reconsider making it an optional [Applause] tom and jackson will be next and kevin johnson kevin johnson may come up so go ahead uh my name is tom nanegay and right here are two children that decided to not wear a mask on monday at thompson junior high the first two days they were sent home with unexcused absences the third and fourth day they were in school suspension these kids chose that they did not want to wear a mask it is a personal right and this is jackson uh jackson's uh letter that he wrote and sent to the board and i knew they probably wouldn't get them to get to them all but here is his letter the reason i don't want to wear a mask as an american citizen i have my rights to kindly say no to a mask the mask is ruining the way i learn the mask makes it hard to hear from certain distance i have a hard time because of my adhd it gets me distracted by twisting the strings on my finger if the mask is too tight it can get uncomfortable and it can hurt at gym we have to wear one and if you get sweaty it can cause acne many masks are thin material that might not even work and when you put the mask on it can leave a hole at the top and bottom that is letting the germs to get in all of the same germs on you will stay on the mask and give you a higher chance of getting coveted this is why we should have a choice if we want to wear a mask or not other school districts have the option to wear it or not why can't we america is a free country meaning the citizens should have the choice to wear a mask or not this is why america should have a chance to kindly say no mr batnick i know you just mentioned oswego and they're in the choices that they're making and the things they're doing but i ask you what about yorkville what about whedon what about batavia what about saint charles what about elgin they chose to protect our kids thank you kevin johnson will speak next i have a hard time reading that name i think it's steve schindler okay you may come up who's speaking now kevin okay my name is kevin johnson i speak to you i want you to hear where i come from i'm an executive of a fortune 300 company who's ch i just want you to know where i'm coming from i'm a president or a senior vice president of nac and a fortune 300 company our company has chosen not to wear masks due to legalities around them so i want you to pay attention to that but more importantly i think the kids have spoken the adults have spoken i'm more afraid of what's going to happen after this because it's going to end at some point but the what i'm hearing between the adults that are very passionate about their children in this room today a lot of similarities but we're concentrated on the differences i'm responsible for 3 000 plus people every day i deal with mental health issues every day and a lot of it's from the pandemic a lot of it's from how their children are behaving so i want you to hear this and i wish i could make this for all of you that are here i love you all i have my opinions i love your children the board you have a important job to do the police have an important job to do but you guys we're together in this the masks do not work i got more evidence than i'd care to share other states have gone about doing the right thing do the right thing and then we can start repairing the relationships that we've killed with this pandemic so many friends so many people i respect have been torn by this pandemic that's more important to fix than talking about trivial mass that don't work and we all know that come on it doesn't make any sense whatsoever let's get together and discover how we're going to get through this how are we going to show that love to one another that's important none of this is important right now to me none of it it's torn up my family my daughter is scared the death of taking her mask off because she doesn't understand the facts i try to educate my children on facts what the hell is wrong with this education system that doesn't deal in facts so just to end know that i love you all every single one of you i don't give a about your opinions everybody's allowed to have their own i love you because you're people i love you because you're passionate about your children the fact you're here let's decide what we're going to do to get along that's all i ask steve schindler will speak next and layla irizarry may come up i almost don't want to follow the johnsons all right i am going to finish for joanne if the following action does not stop within 24 hours of this notice i will move forward and file a claim against your bond and bobby dufkis principal assures agency a marsh and mclennan agency number one immediately cease the enforcement of the illegal executive order 2021-18 eo 18 or any subsequent order to come which requires school districts to make the use of mass for students and teachers mandatory who occupy their buildings number two immediately cc enforcement of the illegal executive order 2021-22 or eo22 or any subsequent order to come which requires persons who are both unvaccinated from covid19 and work in illinois schools to provide weekly negative results of an approved coven 19 test in order to occupy school buildings number three immediately cease the enforcement of the illegal executive order 2021-24 or e024 or any subsequent order to come which requires that school districts refuse students and teachers admittance to their buildings for specified periods of time if the student or teacher is a close contact of a confirmed or probable coven 19 case and number four stop coercing all forms of coven 19 propaganda concerning how dangerous this is to our parents and our grandparents to our children we've all seen you be served it was all handed out you now have your 24 hours notice layla will speak next and tim you hughnan may come up jim h leila will be speaking next and jim hughnin i'm not sure i'm saying that right can come up next good evening my name is layla and i am a sixth grader at chauber junior high i'm a gifted honorable student band member and student athlete i've been an sd 308 student since kindergarten today i'm here to talk to the board about my experience at school this week and how it has affected my mental health i've spent three days in iss for not wearing a mask this week i've had a lack of education most teachers have not sent work for me even after being asked to by email i have missed one one-time class opportunities in some classes i have not been a part of group projects i am not being kept informed about what i'm missing i've been given random busy work that does not match my subjects for example worksheets about states i've also experienced intimidation by staff i saw a teacher sternly grab another student in iss by the shoulder i've been pulled out of iss to have conversations with my principals off in my principal's office i've and i've been alone and they're left in there waiting for her to talk to me for at least one class period smoked i've spoken to i've been spoken to with stern scolding type voices followed by apologies only to be spoken the same way later many students support me but are scared to be treated like i have been some too some students have been unkind have been unkind and have unkind things to say they've been mocking me calling me miss no mask this week has been hard on my mental health i've been alone while isolated anxious when pulled into my principal's office sad to hear about how my little sisters are being treated in iss i'm fed up and confused about why i'm being unreasonably disciplined compared to my friends and family in nearby districts thank you for listening to a very small portion of my story i'm pleading with you to please make a change and let me make my a fair choice for my tim will body next and joshua monk munch may come up good evening school board members my name is jim huginnon i'm a 20-year plus member of this school district and we recognize you as being victims in this pandemic also but following suit of a criminal governor issuing a emergency orders are a violation of our federally protected constitutional rights you are aiding and abetting a felon he will be arrested for crimes against humanity and he will be prosecuted okay so now that you've been warned of what's going on in your refusal to vote tonight we the people are formally servicing you a notice of termination for violation of oath of office we the people of oswego school district 308 are representing our best interest in particular the best interest of our students that have been silenced violated infringed upon abused and provided dishonest information regarding the unlawful and unhealthy mask mandates through the ordering of forced compliance you have instilled fear in our students and been detrimental to their health and happiness this is because of the decisions made by this board regarding the instituting and enforcing of oswego school district policy 7165 students use of mask during a pandemic we the people of school district 308 fully assert our god-given unalienable rights the constitution of the united states the constitution of the state of illinois the laws of the state of illinois as we terminate you from our elected governor body for violating the oath of office you affirmed to uphold failure to comply with the notice is given and the demand stated by we the people including the following federal and state rights infringements in the federal and state criminal offenses committed by the instituting of oswego school district policy 7165 we the people of the school district 308 officially and undeniably as the governing tax body order school board members to cease and desist all activities regarding your respective board positions effective 210 22 at 10 pm we the people lay claim that the following federal constitutional protected rights and laws have been breached broken and infringed upon by the instituting and enforcing of school district policy 7165 first amendment right to assemble freedom of speech right to religious freedom 18 usc 242 deprivation of rights under color of law 18 usc 241 conspiracy against rights 18 usc 245 federally protected activities 18 usc 1001 false statement of entries 18 usc 247 obstruction of person and free exercise of religious beliefs usc section 514 fictitious obligations usc 52 century rights act discrimination in a public place u.s title section 12101 unlawful to deny entry to person with a disability we the people are aware that pursuing action on the following federal statutes is lawful and appropriate course of action for securing justice 42 usc 1983 civil action thank you sir joshua will be next michaela humilty will be next sir can i ask you to please mr hugin and you're using other people's time now please thank you joshua hmm i call a recess for 10 minutes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh c um you should [Music] oh stop putting politics before kids testing so i would like i would like to remind everyone testing testing i would like to remind everyone of our policy 8 colon 30 the school district expects mutual respect civility and orderly conduct among all individuals on school property or at a school event no person on school property or at a school event shall including visitors students or employees perform any of the following item 11 impede delay disrupt or otherwise interfere with any school activity or function item number 16 engage in any conduct that interferes with disrupts or adversely affects a district or school thank you i want to i'm just saying we want to hear from as many of you all as possible and so the least amount of the least amount of interruptions will allow us to hear from as many of you as possible so please i'm asking that you give everyone the opportunity to be heard that came here to be heard because we really want to hear what you have to say and so what we what we what will happen is we hope that we will continue in the in the in the manner in which is civil and respectful and so as long as we're going in that direction we'll continue to hear um those who came to to speak and if we have to recess again we will adjourn our meeting for the night thank you joshua will speak next and michaela you mean humidity may come up good evening ladies and gentlemen of the board i appreciate the opportunity to address you and to address all the residents of oswego today my name is josh mench i'm a father of three young kids two of whom are in are in one of your elementary schools i've got a first grader who's never for a single solitary day of her school life but in a classroom without a mass i've got a third grader who when she meets a new friend at the beginning of the school year has to meet them bond with them connect with them form a friendship with them based on seeing three inches of the other kid's face from the bridge of the nose to the top of the eyebrows how do you do that how do you do that even as an adult but much less as a little kid i want to stress from the outside this isn't an issue that's about left versus right or conservative versus liberal or democrat versus republican it isn't about politics or ideology it's about basic human decency and frankly at this point it's about fear and it's about facts and this district this state and even this board are wildly behind the evolving science and data on these topics many of the 500 largest school districts in our nation never even had mass mandates and of those that did more than 60 have dropped those mandates since october just in the last week democratic governors in new jersey delaware connecticut oregon have all lifted mass mandates in schools or set a firm deadline for doing so in the coming weeks and increasingly public health experts are speaking out too dr wen public health professor at george washington university and a leading cnn medical analyst said last month quote close masks are little more than facial decorations end quote when it comes to omicron and we know exclusively that's what our kids are wearing in schools facial decorations she wrote an op-ed earlier this week dr wen and she said circumstances have changed cases are falling rapidly quote masking in schools can now move from a government-imposed mandate to an individual decision end quote dr gianna noble an emergency physician at the university of california at san francisco said and i quote in the same op-ed washington post four days ago if we want to preserve trust and respect for public health we need to pivot when the data tells us that we should she called for an end to mass mandates she said quote to say that masking doesn't have any harm to children goes against decades of child development research so if the board wants to actually follow the science moving forward and i suggest you do it before february 28th you can't hide behind metrics anymore that dr sparlin admitted earlier you adopted months and months and months and months ago when we didn't even know what omicron was we didn't even know it existed we thought it was a villain from a transformers movie but now we do know about it and we should start acting like it it's endemic we all know that and it's time to learn to live with it the harm posed to developing kids by continued mask wearing at this stage of the pandemic especially far outweighs any of the de minimis benefits of masking kids and i finish with this i think it's fitting that we're having this board meeting in the performing arts center of one of our local high schools because at this point masks on kids in schools it's just that it's performance it's public health theater and it's time you close the curtain on mass mandates now thank you michaela will speak next michaela and nathan brown can come up hello i would like to say thank you to our board of education for allowing me to speak tonight my name is michaela hamidi and i'm a junior at ohs this is cassie larusso bree king and kaylee la chapelle i would like to speak tonight on the events that have unfolded this week at oswego high school due to the temporary restraining order that judge griscow put in place i would like to say thank you for denying me the right to go to class on monday i would like to say thank you for denying me the right to use the bathroom without an escort i would like to say thank you for denying me and my fellow peers the right to use the vending machines when we are hungry for denying us the right to use a drinking fountain and denying us the right to go to our lockers thank you for not allowing us to leave a room we were placed in but we are not in trouble right i would like to say thank you to the teacher who was monitoring us stating we were incompetent and stupid for wanting to stand up for ourselves and our rights thank you for putting us in a room with kids who are actually being punished but we were not in trouble right thank you for teaching us that we need to believe in ourselves and we need to stand up for ourselves but when we do we get denied the right to our education i would most of all like to say thank you for denying us the right to sign into our classes online even though we were being held in a room by your staff for not wearing a piece of fabric on our faces a piece of fabric that is proven to not stop the spread of cobin 19 virus a piece of fabric that studies have proven is actually harming our bodies in the long run science daily released an article from a study conducted at swansea university that stated scientists have uncovered potentially dangerous chemical pollutants that are released from disposable face masks the research reveals high level of pollutants including lead antimony and copper within the silicone base and plastic fiber fibers of common disposable face masks yet we are still being forced to wear these masks all day every day right we are being forced to wear a piece of fabric that is causing children to have panic panic attacks because it spikes anxiety due to the feeling of being restrained and not being able to breathe governor jb pritzker released a statement saying that on february 28th the mass mandate will be lifted from everywhere but schools so it is up to you to make the choice as our board of education we beg of you to lift the mandate and give us the right to choose these are our bodies mash to be our choice as of now we are one of the only districts around that are still enforcing the mandate over 200 schools are now masked optional yet we still are not so for all of this thank you thank you for forcing us to not have a choice thank you for teaching us that standing up for ourselves gets us punished thank you for denying us the right to our education thank you [Applause] [Music] after this next speaker we will be at 60 minutes and we have 15 left okay sorry okay nathan will be next elsa clawson can come up hi there i'm nathan brown i have three children two at trauber and one at south berry and hard my phone's not you ever have a hard time turning your phone onto their mask on it's the absolute worst um hey so look first of all i want to thank the teachers all right the school board has put you in a terrible position i know you're all working hard and most of you are are twitter with a smile some of them are losing their patience i'm sure like the young lady was just saying sir can you talking to mike yeah you bet sorry it's a little weird said you want to talk to the people too all right so listen anyway the board has put the teachers in a terrible spot right um look call for a vote tonight you know amend the policy it's very simple you don't need you've heard all of it amend the policy tonight find the courage to stand up against the mandate now listen i wrote that before dr mourinho decided not to show up tonight okay i don't care still have the vote it doesn't matter you have a quorum make it happen tonight february 28th is too late listen all right this is not about masks it's not about masks this is about choice a family's choice on what they feel is best for themselves countless americans have fought and died defending our freedom to choose it's the ability to choose that makes us inherently american and who are you to strip that away i'm not a doctor or scientist man i'm just a dad i'm a coach the fact that my second grader cannot see her teacher's face or friends faces on a regular basis she has meltdowns because she has sensory issues about wearing the damn thing on her face and then my son's face he turns bright red when running up and down the basketball court gasping for breath it's gotta end it's gotta end now hey unfortunately you know you find yourself here in this position it's a very difficult position likely one you did not expect to find yourself in but but you know listen this is supposed to be about protecting others however i'm fine i'm sitting here and i'm feeling like it's it's something about control it's not about protecting others it has to be about control it's the only thing that makes sense look i'm sure you are all very very intelligent people so i don't have to waste your time talking about the science the science that clearly says that masses aren't working the science that says that in public places on february 28th we can remove the mass but not in schools not for the least vulnerable that makes no sense we can't that makes no sense guys but look like i said i don't have to waste your time because you guys are a very intelligent people but i have to ask what is about control is it about money is it about blind loyalty to a party it's about a union or even a beautiful corrupt politician named jb pritzker the fact is this is no longer about the medical science this is strictly an exercise in political science thank you very much elsa claussen is next and dina whittle may come up my name is elsa claussen and i'm a senior at oswego east high school since the fall i have complied with the executive order which requires all individuals under the age of two and who can medically tolerate a face covering to wear a face covering when in indoor public places while i don't agree with it i never protested or caused a disturbance but when a ruling by sagamon county judge raylene grishow on the temporary restraining order that would prohibit enforcement on face mask vaccination and kova testing mandates came out i was thrilled thinking that i no longer had to wear a mask when i walked into school on tuesday and wednesday without a mask i was punished with an in-school suspension then i was confused the masks were inconsistently enforced during the executive order so why was the staff enforcing it because of a simple board policy if i'm sitting in a classroom it is required that the mask covers my nose and mouth but at the indoor homecoming dance for juniors and seniors almost no students were wearing the mask at all at basketball games almost our entire student section wears it below their nose or even lower none of this is in force i wonder why all this is okay but if i don't have it at least wrapped around my chin i'm somehow a germ and i will make everyone sick the science shows the inconsistencies too as of february 4th 2022 the cdc proved that cloth and surgical mass are far less effective in stopping the spread of covet 19.
And career connected learning is one of the ways in which we are working to change that. Of the students who graduate who do pursue post-secondary education after high school, fewer than half complete a diploma program on time. And then, a final statistic to share with you is that as more employers require those post-secondary credentials for entry-level jobs, it's just 25% of our Indiana students that secure a post-secondary credential in the 4 years following high school, and only 33% are uh securing that credential within 6 years. So, um we we do have these state influences that are coming to us and that we have known about for quite a while that uh lead us to want to have this career connected learning initiative. There were also regional influences that I want to make sure that we remember it well. You all recall that we um adopted the Ready Schools core principles back when we accepted the $500,000 Ready Schools grant, and we've been working ever since then uh to make sure that we are meeting these principles that have been outlined by the Indiana Department of Education that we are in.
so it's about a 10 000 difference when you get back when you get back to us on that can you is that loaded with the benefits that a hundred thousands so and the reverse of that is the benefits on the back side coming up right because yes i don't think the low number is loaded with the benefits on the back side out i think that's your difference that makes sense all right that i think that may be i'll go back a little bit it's not a big deal it's a good time there's another point bob i'd like to make just we we we're saying and we want to be sensitive to our staff this reduction of a fifth grade teacher it's actually the reduction of an fte it just would come from the fifth grade section it doesn't mean that teacher is going to be reduced there's puts there's takes there's retirements there's resignations every year we've gone through this we haven't actually had to lay off a teacher with a reduction in a certain grade level so i want to be sensitive to our fifth grade teachers um we've got a lot of great people there and i don't want them to hear this meeting and get nervous with somebody saying you know you're going to be laid off you're the last one in first one out kind of thing we want to be sensitive to that yeah the other thing i will just add on the para educators is those youngest grades are hit pretty hard with what's been going on in covet right it is great to have as extra arms and legs as they're in the classroom getting acclimated to their first experiences in school so to us as a board this was very positively received so i don't think you're getting pushback from this i think you're just getting let's just make sure i'm at that i'm with you no i'm not taking you're not taking this pushback so um so and the outplacement we talked about is the one additional suit and that was 124 000.
then the next item is dodd's firewall control system at 650 000. then god's hvac of 120 000 yeah that's the unit replacements of 200 000 then we have doolittle hvac 100 000 unit vents uh 50 000 for dodge roof design 50 000 for doolittle's window line then we have 50 000 at highland for the parking improvements design money 50 000 for the right lane edition design money uh then the exterior lighting improvements at highland of 310 000. and then the last item is the generator 220. thank you and now we move to 23-24 yes which one i just wanted to show up two years all right so now 23 24. that's not what you want to run down yes please all right as we're looking at it just notice you know the next four years range from 6.8 million to a high of a little over 8 million okay so we've got maintenance garage you know beginning of some of the work that needs to be done there the mechanical tunnel improvements at cheshire high school and that was always planned for year two we didn't move that then we've got the high school office reconfiguration that's that's just some design fee 25 000.
i got a motion for vice president trump have a motion do i have a second second the motion vice president fund second by uh board member no public comments at this time board president all right um back to uh members of the board any comments with regard to uh board vice president you know uh thank you mr president uh cesar chavez is a part of alan rock history uh part you know also a great leader of the labor movement of which uh you know representing uh the you know the largest constituency of our families which is those of the working class though you know when he started the uh united farm workers you know san jose was a lot more agricultural than it is today you know the shift from the valley of you know valley of hearts to light to silicon valley uh but you know it goes to say that uh you know you know you know what what he stood for was a you know fair deal for the working person that honest days were uh should uh merits uh and honest days pay and that workers are entitled to basic rights you know where you know they are not supposed to be subject to exploitation or abuse from uh from their employer you know and you know given the you know the the history of all that he did for for those who lived in the east side of san jose and beyond uh it is fitting that our district uh you know continues to honor those contributions i certainly remember uh in fourth grade the united farm workers came to my classroom and you know talked to us about the great boycott and why it was necessary you know the fact that pesticide use was harmful to to those who work the fields to pick the produce to you know bring it to market so that you know we can put it on our dinner table and uh you know those uh and at the time you know um many being vineyards were not responsive to that and the only way to get get industry regulation and uh improve the condition of workers was to uh organize a boycott of great so i definitely uh believe that labor must be honored and that we you know we need to honor the uh the contributions uh which of you know of which we are still working on to this day uh in regards to labor uh be recognized uh as something that you know that works hand in glove with our uh our goal of preparing our students for a uh prosperous and productive future so i ordered to yes go on this resolution for the comments from the board uh board member yes i didn't yet but i was so maybe you guys i saw your hand uh linda trusty chavez had her hand up okay board member isn't your first okay cesar chavez uh that raises a lot of important questions about american obsession to prefer legendary truth when anointing national heroes he did make a lot of contributions to history good and bad and it is very well documented and on video archives that he was racist especially against mexicans he would call them white backs as well as he would call the immigration on the workers he would call the immigration and go to the front lines on the border of mexico and texas and they were have a lot of heated fighting there uh i grew up in that era seeing what the ufw did with workers who were the best and the biceps are the ones who were undocumented were working in the fields in a contract to come and work in the fields for yes cheap labor but at the same time um the working conditions weren't the best and the good part is is he did rip that out tonight that they need breaks better working conditions and better pay that was the good part the bad part was that they were going to do whatever that it was necessary to make sure that they got rid of the workers and that's where they would call in ice and as well as intimidate the women and the men and women of my husband were working on the fields and they all came and they were gonna be at this 16 year old kid who was a foreman at the time so a lot of history is there there's a lot of good and bad that he did but because there was so much questionable behavior to me he's not a hero to me he was a thug and so was his uh union members the ones who did that there were some that were being treated fairly there were some that weren't they treated women awful they would call them out they would cuss them out and i know a few they worked for says that shot us at the time and all the things were going on there there was a lot of machismo and that had no part in an organization then nor does it now and i know people excuse it because i asked one of the ladies who belonged to that organization um and she said but look that's the only hero we got and to look up to us and no it doesn't matter if he's hispanic the thing is we need good role models and i think that this man in the end was not a good role model and the way his life spiraled and i urge everybody to look it up and see what his life was like after when he moved from delano and he moved over there to mexico that's all thank you board member thank you president quintero as a daughter of immigrants and farm workers uh my father who worked in the watermelon season probably one of the heaviest uh fruits if there is another one i don't think in 120 degree weathers sometimes with no bathroom breaks or lunch breaks i honor cesar chavez's work um i'm sure we all have areas of growth i didn't get to meet him personally myself but i honor all that he did his leadership um i do have a personal relationship with the lotus again i know that we all have areas of growth and i'm so glad the lotus was there to you know show up as a strong kid and be that counterpart to start this work with him um and in regards to san jose and the history you know knowing that he uh lived in our school district um for many years and a lot of the organizing a lot of the work that had an impact a positive impact on many people's lives during that time at work directly and now that are continuing to have positive impacts on children such as myself that i'm able to you know go to college i was able to go to college i'm able to have a career and i'm able to pass it on to my children i just you know see his work as just continuing um the fruits of his labor uh so um i honor chavez and i look forward to supporting this resolution thank you for the comments from members of the board see none then i'll go ahead and i'll close off with some comments i'm uh supportive of the resolution and i think that uh the work that's the chavez did warrants recognition things like as basic things as being charged for water access to bathrooms um uh individuals going out there and picking food for everybody else at the same time while their ears are being chewed off by rodents were things that were just normal and acceptable and were not for the efforts of those who stood up and fought and pushed back these would still be the circumstances that those who are out there day in day out working to bring you the food that you eat will still be living to this day and so i am appreciative of the work that was done by those folks and um and in under the leadership of cesar chavez uh to bring and raise awareness to the pipe of those folks who are out there working um and suffering to bring you the food that you eat every day so with that said i'll go ahead and i'll move forward uh and uh call you as i see you uh board remember hold on we have a motion in a second correct one motion by vice president second by second by board number challenge no i'm just kidding no thank you bye bye all right so uh i'll call you this emotion board member hi board member uh chavez no board member vice president board vice president min hi for remember all right um item 7.07 approved california department of education amendment 2 local agreement for child development services i dual immersion preschools atlanta one another two do i have a motion to approve promotion motion by foreign is there any comments from the public no public comment at this time um dr bauer do we have a very brief comments uh to elaborate on what's uh being brought onto for the for the for the public yeah this is uh the grand amount this is something that we also went through in our own el capita months before the state is adjusting the amount of the preschool grant we think together so they're going from 631 000 and something as described in the board agenda on the staff analysis to 768 thousand dollars great always good to see the increase in all right um do we have uh so i got a motion in a second um i'll call you as i see you uh unless search for the comment from the board scene none then 49 motion passes item 7.04 we have a local control accountability plan timeline 157.08 oh sorry about that 7.08 um do we have somebody to present on the timeline to provide a brief executive summary uh board president if i may i wanted to call sandra garcia and if it's okay with the board she can give a brief con uh comment around item 708 709 and 710 if that's okay with the board that way there's only one time that she comes to the to the mic great yeah let's all wrap them up into one and then we'll take them on individually um yeah are they all information only no the other two one of them is for action these two are for information so we'll take the one for action uh right go for it good evening uh board president quintero superintendent and dr bauer and board members in the community um yes so this evening we have several items the first one is information only every year we are asked to update the local control accountability plan and i have submitted the timeline for the process that we will follow this year um and that's the timeline that you see in front of you um the do you want me to continue with the other items or do you want to vote on that one first it's for information only so uh you can go with all three of them okay um so the sarc um is for approval the the search are the school accountability report cards and those are required by federal law due to the federal funds that we receive and there's information on the school accountability report cards on the items that are found on the williams act there are items on student progress there are items on the school facilities um it's basically all of the information on the schools in the school district and it's a again it's a requirement under federal law and these have to be approved by the school board on an annual basis and if you want to go over 710 we'll go back and take action afterwards okay that's 7 10 um 7-eleven is um i actually have a presentation for 7-eleven if you'd like me to do that now uh no you're going to start and then you update on the annual okay sorry about that maybe i'm i'm off you went through 17 already oh i'm sorry 708 was the timeline 709 and it's like 7 10.
um we graduate slight decline overall with some volatility among some of the subgroups a noticeable decline in foster youth last year that group remember as far as the number of seniors is very small so even four or five students not graduating and leaving us because of their either their placement or something changed with their lives they count for us as a non-graph and so we had we lost students last year that we were just unable to find in the system so that was a decline for us notice english learner grad rate our graduation rate up and nearly equal with all students um a through g completion is another metric that's in our lcap it's an important one to watch our all student rate did go down slightly for last year's senior class and again some volatility and drop in the foster youth rate um and so this is something that there's actually an a3 improvement grant coming the templates not yet been posted but we will have a an allocation to be working to get students over this bar by finding out what is the barrier seniors who pass two ap exams another thing to watch so um for us the number of students is very is low for number of students taking and passing an ap exam anytime during their high school experience this is looking at last year's seniors against this year before and the year before that and again the english learners for example we typically have students who take and pass the spanish language ap exam and do quite well but last year was difficult to get students motivated to take these exams cte pathway completion this one's interesting this is not commonly an area where we see decline we've had great growth in this area but again with last year being sort of a different year enrollment wise student choices were mitigated by the fact that they weren't coming to school in person to do some of these hands-on cte classes until pretty late in the school year and so the completion the completers is down to just 28 suspension rates this is a moment in time at the end of last semester just kind of looking overall the i looked at the 1819 rate because 1920 even though it says 4.7 percent it's a little bit of a misnomer because remember 1920 was abbreviated there was no student suspended after march 13th not 2020.
if this is the case and the goal in school is to keep everyone safe why are these masks allowed i'll answer that because it is too difficult to enforce and pass out n95 masks to everyone in school that seems to be a common trend at the school when rules are too difficult to enforce they are either changed or ignored look at what happened to social distancing and contact tracing they are practiced to a far lesser extent than it was originally if at all if you think my ideas are too extreme or radical because they don't conform you can thank the staff at oswego east high school for teaching me how to think critically and independently my college prep stats class taught me how to interpret data and recognize how and when stats can be skewed or biased my psychology class taught me about the solomon ash experiment that showed that 76 percent of people conform to group pressure even when they know it's incorrect my ap government and politics class taught me that our country was founded out of necessary rebellion by a group of average men who were fed up with arbitrary and tyrannical laws my ap us history class taught me to follow martin luther king jr's footsteps and protest peacefully and respectfully while frustrated i did my best to treat staff with complete respect even after being placed in isi and lastly programs such as slip howell and track and field have put me in positions of leadership and taught me how to speak up for myself and for what i believe is right i am here not only to represent my concerns but also a large percentage of the students at oswego east high school who are silenced or cancelled for their beliefs i have always respected all opinions and would never ridicule a student or staff member for their choices including continuing to wear a mask if they were optional all we are asking is to have the choice is to leave the choice of masking up to individuals students and staff please make sc308 mask optional thank you dana riddle will speak next and taylor and jackson may come up hi i'm deana riddle um from plano just want to say that um i have spoke to three cardiologists and i keep hearing that you guys are all about the safety of the children but i tend to think differently um what the we all know the masks don't work first of all um you know make it make sense the cardiologists say that what happens is you are not breathing normally like you're supposed to breathe so you're not getting the oxygen to your extremities into your organs and it does long-term damage to these children and yourself and what i do see um everywhere i go is it's you know the people like you up here who you are afraid the kids are not afraid you're afraid so what i say nutritionally is if you're that afraid then start exercising lose some weight do all the things you're supposed to do eat right you know and and yeah instead of taking it out on the kids and i say unmask the kids that's all taylor and jackson are next and cynthia rook may come up hi my name is taylor schumann i go to thompson junior high i'm in sixth grade and wearing a mask is not easy you go to every class you have to wear a mask and you like when you stop doing it just because you want to make a difference you get all these looks me and my friend walk past hallway to go to a room where we were placed and talked to several times waiting to they wanted to change our mind but they could try multiple times but we have our rights and we're not going to change our rights and so like i said we got so many looks and most of those were from teachers and one of the assistant principals that they looked that they were disgusted at us one of my favorite teachers was even threatened with his job if he was taught if he talked to us so i have my rights and you got you can try to change it but it will not be changed cynthia rock will speak next or oh sorry i'm sorry um so we sorry we have to go in a room for eight hours a day and if we don't have any work we just sit there doing nothing but if we want to go to the bathroom we have to go to an all genders bathroom you might as well put a cat litter in there for that and we can't get our own lunch when we eat lunch with our mess down and i just don't think that's fair thank you cynthia rock will speak next and kelly gillen gillenwater can come up hi my name is cynthia rook and i'm a parent of two children in sd 308.
So, this is a slide to show you our very specific career connected learning initiative. It's written out here for you to remind us that we have a career connected learning initiative in this district so that every student will learn about themselves and learn about career opportunities as they're planning for whatever education or training they may pursue beyond high school. And this is a preschool through adult pathway system that's going to provide a more relevant and personalized um education system for them uh relates to their interests and career options. So, the last time I was here to give an update to our team, I think it was May. And um since then we have quite a team in place across our high schools. And our team is listed out here. We have of course our administrative staff at both the district level. Thank you for for this position, and then of course the building levels as well with our principals and assistant principals.
so um and we also know speaking here at the table since we're all talking that could change we might have two come in yeah and we have another hundred thousand we have three come in we have another hundred thousand this is what we had we had a year like that if i remember just so we all know like we're all in the public knows that we're you guys are projecting this this could change this if i if i were to expand on that this is the hardest part of budgeting in the schools is calling what you're going to have on our place students it's their bit one kid could change the entire equation right and it's hard for all of us especially if you happen to have a big influx in any one given year and over the past several years you know between the two boards we've agreed to put you you set a baseline and then if there's overage we're going to agree to cover that so we're still operating under that same yeah we agreed that it would be better not for us to put the contingency because there's more of a base for the town to carry the contingency which i think is a smart move and the other thing um you know we all have our own context in our small communities here in the same region uh my regional colleagues when i've talked to them as they're putting their budgets together they're having significant upticks like we did a few years ago in their special education budget so we're in a fortunate place in comparison to some of the neighboring districts just to let you know that yeah i hope it stays that way um this is the situation with the esser grants so we had about between the esser and the art besser grants the schools got about 1.2 million dollars allocated to them can you explain what that is for everybody so the uh the uh sr stands for what uh elementary and secondary schools education uh relief recovery relief excuse me recovering and it's the it's the federal uh recovery funds and they came in two ways so it was the esser and then the arp s was the second wave we spent a lot of time as a board of going through how to use those funds i know the town is actually going through that same process um the lesson we so so if you can see we broke it down on how we spent the 1.2 million in the yellow and it came with a some one-time spending you know these were things that you you know things we needed uh on some professional development to help do remote learning for example um to some equipment like chromebooks and they were just one-time events they'd have no long-term repercussions financially to us as a district other than we got really helped where we needed it the interesting part is the ongoing we we launched some programs on the back of the arp esser funding uh including a social studies instructional coach at the middle middle school starting at the middle school starting at the middle school this year um you can see i'm not going to go through all of them but a social worker math tutor instructional coach for science uh a technology integrator this helps you know the using technology in the classroom and summer school which we had never really had summer school except for special education now we have a summer school for all kids and it's needed right because it's a chance to catch up and a little bit of occupational therapy the problem with them is that once you start the program you have to deal with it in the long run or you have to stop it right so of course once we start summer school we'd like to continue summer school so we took a long hard look at how would we how long would we fund each of the items so that we didn't have a cliff on every uh you know we're going to fund it for two years and then we got a million dollar cliff that we have to deal with so we you can see we phased them out over the years and the if the orange was what we would have to put in the budget and as you can see the the bottom line on the chart that meant this year was 130 000 impact of the budget is mostly the social studies instructional coach a little bit of the technology integrator i couldn't figure out how to do that graphically but it was we partly funded that um and uh and next year it would be 265k in the following year 176k we can move those around a little bit partially funding things as we as we deal with it but um right now that's what the plan is and so the the 130 that you see in this year's budget is that first roll off the we do have we do recognize that this has an impact in the following years right so as we've been taught this may be our investment money for each of the next couple of years our primary driver of above status quo so we do know that's ahead of us so uh but this is i wanted to lay this out for you on what's really going on and why there's this thing called our fester it's how you start with a grant and then you you know move it into the regular budget over time so i do like that you broke it out and call it an investment as opposed to status quo because in reality you did take that s or money and make investments correct that's kind of outside of the budget process outside of the approval process and the vote and the referendum process you added staff that wasn't necessarily approved based on the grant that now kind of has to be continuously we have we have to ask for it as an investment right because from where for where we said is if we don't get it approved it is an investment that we're dealing with right you'd end up having to figure out how to stop something that would be that's a good thing for our district but it's uh it is an investment we agree with you we have a big jump the biggest of the jumps is in 23 24 and on the town side that's concerning because that's also when we start paying principal on the new school but offsetting that or will there be something do we know yet offsetting that with the savings from combining two schools to one when we first did the projection back in 2018 we were thinking i think the number was 200 000 if my memory serves me right have we been able to look at that at all to to see uh to quantify that or is i know that things are so fluid sure great question marsha obviously things are fluid we want to make sure and and no one when we were putting this all together and planning for that in terms of personnel we're thinking about the pandemic and the extreme needs of the students however big savings is around that 200 000 and i think that's a conservative estimate we've asked tech on their engineers to to take a look at the energy savings compared to what we budget now versus when we're in the new school and i think i think we're around there so um that that number is still relatively true so we're gonna keep uh working that but if you're talking the energy savings is it also factored in we have to heat the building still so pipes don't freeze and everything else or is it just considered a shutdown or is that all no i think they could they considered that i know can work directly with it but that was a consideration because you can't just get rid of center school you've got to keep it at 50 degrees or whatever it is exactly if you're not using it so i give you this i suspect when we get back to getting together again this will be an important piece of our discussion as you as you internalize this there is room for us to move the things around on the funding from the grant versus the funding in the school so if the if the right answer was do a little more this year spread you know maybe take you know fund some more in the budget this year so you don't have a big hit hit the following year that's perfectly in the range of you know what we might be able to do we're you know so i think this is this is what we have filed right now and uh but we've moved it around twice already so my first glance at your budget was that's this is the main talking point of this whole budget this is the main project pretty much falls in line with everything that i expected i don't know about the rest of the my team here but it fell in line pretty much what x but your salaries are salaries and we expected gas and oil to go up we expected all you this is the one point here that for us is difficult and i'll explain it wise it was brought in in between budgets so there's a lot of positions that were added that weren't in the last referendum now we have them if we go with this we have them in this one and not only we have them in this one we carry them now through the next three correct and that's the piece i think that we're going to have to discuss a little bit more and see what we can do in my opinion i'm only one member but my opinion so we kind of expected that so that's um so so now these i'm we'll quickly go through these because i touched on them and let me let john so that i'm not doing all the talking change it up for you so i'll be very brief because because we've actually had questions and hit the details in the earlier charts so just briefly on new specifically on new investments that are not part of an arbester investment conversation the math intervention is at huckleberry again pandemic driven needs of students math achievement down we want to make sure we're giving our students a certified teacher who is expert in mathematics and instruction with students who need intervention rather than two para educators who we've been using in the past and just to be frank the paraeducator positions have been difficult to fill difficult to keep folks many of our para educators who start in those positions are needed in um to meet ieps for students with special needs who need a para and so that becomes the primary need because you can't not fund that and so the regular ed suffers in that regard in terms of intervention so the we can we can recruit and retain an expert interventionist much more than we can hold on to a paraprofessional position uh to transition for the principal secretaries our three k-8 uh principal secretaries work 11 months we want to move them to 12 months for family engagement as bob talked about a little bit earlier there's a lot of hiring in the summer that goes on uh so there's a lot of scheduling and that kind of a thing general overall organization uh whether it's crisis plan updates uh different mandates and expectations and reports from the state that are demanded by the end of the summer the secretaries play a key role not only in our climate culture but obviously supporting the principle to get the job done over the summer as we all know education continues to get more and more complex and complicated and schools don't shut down like in the old days for this for the summer it is a active place all summer long transition of the athletic director bob talked about that again it's very similar you can't have someone off in july and then have activity going on all of july with coaches and students and then starting that first week of august physicals and again engaging with families engaging with students all the things that need to happen to have a top-notch program something that we are very proud of that we haven't talked about tonight is an achievement and the support that you all gave us and the community gave us is this year we have gymnastics for our girls for the first time for a winter sport we have boys volleyball which is a rare sport from ciac that high schools have we have it now in our first year they'll be starting this spring and we're going to fully fund hockey which many schools don't do so we have a complement of all ciac sports now which is really fantastic so we're really appreciative john i have one quick question bob maybe you can open this one was the region but was the reason uh budget driven when we went from a full-time uh um athletic trainer it was two it was a budget we reduced it to to help with the budget because jen i mean and that really was a hit because it was so beneficial yeah to have a full-time yeah and it was you probably were still on the board when we did that because it was one of those years we had a big cut and yeah we were looking for places to cut and it was a savings i think it might have happened during one of those years with the special education budget was extremely high and we had five things i think it was the year that my last year on the board talking about last minute uh special ed if you remember bob in november we had 12 health outsource students yeah we have 1.2 million dollar exposure in november in november we got but we had 12 go yeah big hit that year i think that that's what drove you off the board that was my last point briefly on the art and the music again another budget hit a few years ago we had a full-time art and a full-time music teacher at center school but the way we were able to creatively work the schedule with the unnecessary budget reduction we reduced those positions down to 0.7 what that has done has created turnover in those positions because as soon as there's a full-time position in another district a teacher who's part-time moves on to the full-time position and we put a lot in professional development into our staff and it's good money after bad we don't want that to happen so we want to keep our people the other thing is with fifth grade coming into candlewood lake two years from now we need to be ready because we're gonna we have to have those 1.0 positions so we want to build our capacity meet the enrollment for the coming year and be ready for candlewood lake when everybody comes together and then the last one is the hockey which we've talked about so i don't think we need to say it can the girls um play on the boys teams or is that not true so for like boys hockey can girls participate in that sport um i believe they can um i haven't had a situation where they've asked uh recently but yes they can we did have one we did we have one gal who played on the uh in mike's mike's senior year she played she played that and there are hockey tara is not a cic sanctioned sport for young ladies however there are schools that pull together co-op teams that do play each other but it is not officially a ciac sport just because there isn't anything in fact our team is a co-op team yeah it's with where brookfield uh uh bethel and danbury called bbd okay so then we have two other slides and bob you go to the next one this is a slide there's a lot of other things we're doing besides our new investments that are achieved through our base budget um and we continue to work through our base budget so i'm not going to read through all of these because we've been at this an hour already but really the focus here curriculum instruction assessment professional development those are really the keys here you'll see some investment in science you'll also see um investment in starting to take a look at new curricular tools to make sure we're matching our uh curricular needs and our student needs so that's really the highlight here and i'll leave it at that i don't think i need to read through all of those for you and then the next slide is again out of the base budget is technology based our one-to-one uh digital environment uh making sure we have the platforms and supports we need for our students and for infrastructure and also we want to upgrade our website for a more user-friendly interactive opportunity and eric's doing a lot of wonderful things with our techs on that and also integrating that with our new technology integrator you know instructional coach that we have that helps all of our teachers with integrating technology so we're not we're not always asking for money we're trying to do a lot with what we've got we've got a lot going on so look that's the last of the presentation charts i just leave you with a chart that kind of ties into your book um the budget is as we said 3.8 percent year-to-year increase made up of the status quo enrollment related things the esser grant and investments i wanted to put on the last page just how that showed up in the line items because as you're looking at your your budget you might ask questions like why is you know why are salaries up more than bob showed you at two and a half percent well the reason is that some of the investments we have roll into the different line items so we are at your disposal to answer any questions that you might have on how things work in the detail budgets that are in your book and uh and i will pause and ask if there's any questions excellent presentation thank you thank you i appreciate your work and um the starting point in the last few years that you've given to the board of selectmen i think is fair and very well thought out and it's well appreciated i will i will give thanks to the administration and all the board members who have participated we actually have every one of our board members is looking at the budget throwing questions in i hope you found that q a document like we did last year useful we find that extraordinarily useful to share and you know hear what each of us are asking so we like to make sure that we're as open and transparent as we can in everything we do so anyone from our side questions i think we're good from our side thank you i just want to say thanks again everybody for all the hard work that you put in especially over the last two years and it hopefully fingers crossed we can move forward and have brighter days ahead especially as we open the new school the q a has been fantastic i looked at the one from from last budget cycle and that was helpful early on glenn pointed it out to me with john early on and then it's just it's been a fantastic very useful presentation so thank you thank you thank you um uh if you uh first elect my car if select a woman car i ought to do this right um if you have questions i know you're under the big tightest deadline in terms of what you need to do with the budget if you have questions you know you know you can call me or ken or john in the next days because i know those deadlines are coming and for the board of finance partners we have a meeting on the 8th if you have detailed questions throw them at us right if we can get them by the beginning of the month it will give ken a chance to staff them outright and we can use our time in the eighth very productive way so agree well thank you all thank you everyone thank you uh and with that the board of education meeting without uh objection is adjourned for the finance meeting is also adjourned all right thank you all have a good evening great night everyone happy birthday board of finance and and border selectmen i've got some budget books for you and there's cupcakes cupcakes there's cupcakes [Music]
the greenhouse replacement design 50 000. if you want to move some of these as we're going along and i just let you know i guess so that greenhouse i mean i just i just want like yeah what's the demolition cost i mean that's an 800 000 project less than six point eight million dollar asking just like getting it at nine years six million what's the 50 grand for though right design design just design i mean yeah we'd have to do geotech the way it was built it's it's just it's a difficult situation and in order to do it correct like based on what curriculum needs are it's yes it just seems like a lot of money for such a it's like smaller than this clap that's very important right now right i mean it's like a great house it's like half the size of this room absolutely awesome you have to go through a non-handicap accessible hallway to get there which presents its first problem and then when you do get there down these steps there is a small outer room that's a half circle in shape and it's it's really small you could probably fit a couple of eight foot tables in there you couldn't fit three eight foot tables yes the greenhouse is smaller that's probably you know an eight foot table and a half an eight foot table you can fit in there and all of it is structurally compromised to say the least do you think we could demo it for 50 grand and seal off that wall or we could just wait for a big storm in the spring yeah i mean i just think like it's just starting dollar investment that we can not like just get rid of that entirely um but these are not convinced right now i don't want to get rid of it i do well if i move it into year six yeah it comes out of your five-year plan we don't forget about it yeah and you could demo it for 50 000.
yeah that's the one that i have the um presentation on uh go for it okay so let me share my screen oops i'm sorry wrong one wrong one okay so one of the new requirements um it's a one-time requirement this year for this year's lcap is for districts to present a mid-year update to the 2021-2022 elf cap and budget overview for parents um this is done um this is done this needs to be done by february 28th and has to include narrative responses on the lcap supplement and a progress check on where we are in relation to the lcap metrics and actions identified in the 2021-2022 elf cap so this slide as required in the update this budget overview for parents chart shows how the funding in these areas changed from budget adoption to now due to additional concentration dollars as well as one-time federal and state grants such as the expanded learning opportunity grant the educator effectiveness grant the educator and the expanded learning opportunity program grant and then the esser 3 grant so this is a supplement that we were asked to do this year uh to the um annual update for the 2020-2021 lcap and it's five uh narrative responses um and you did have that in your board packet um the narrative responses that i um will submit this is just an overview of each of the five responses so the first section requires a description of how and when we engaged or how we plan to engage our educational partners on the use of funds provided through the budget act of 2021 that were not included in the 2021-2022 lcap so some of the funds that we that were part of the budget act were the expanded learning opportunity grant the sr-3 educator effectiveness block grant expanded learning opportunities program and pre-k planning and implementation and at different times over the past several months probably the year we've brought some of these to to you to give you information on and the public information on them and also approve various plans but these weren't originally included in the lcat arusd continues to involve educational partners in the development of new programs and you know these are some of the ways that we have involved our educational partners input sessions uh survey data from our client climate surveys listening sessions targeted surveys and ad-hoc committees this next section use of additional concentration funding requires a description of how we have used or planned to use the additional concentration grant add-on funding we received to increase the number of staff providing direct services to students for schools with under duplicated pupil percentage percentage greater than 55 percent and these are some of the ways that we have provided direct services uh to some of the highest needs in in our district a vice principal position at one of our largest middle schools the increase in contract for lvn services for our students with medical needs that require these services their district funded independent studies program which we had to provide this year and then securing school site custodial subs and overtime costs for additional custodial services required by coveted protocols this next section requires a description of how and when we engaged our educational partners on the use of one-time federal funds received that are intended to support recovery from copit19 pandemic and the impacts of distance learning on pupils so you know over the past year um we have we have done a lot of um engagement with our educational partners um and these are some of the ways that we have engaged them in some of the one-time federal funds that we have received we did gather information at our uh all cap input sessions last spring the input sessions related to the e-log grant the expanded learning opportunity the sr3 information and listening sessions which was in two parts the first part was the safe return to school plan the second part was the expenditure plan panorama surveys fall and spring and then other targeted surveys to gather additional information this fourth narrative uh requires a description of how the lea is implementing the federal american rescue plan act and the federal elementary and secondary school emergency relief which is known as esser the expenditure plan and then the successes and challenges experienced during implementation so i when i um presented on the sr3 plans you know we shared the plan for maintaining a consistent administrative staff at all schools to ensure the continuity of learning and also the need for the custodial staff with all of the new and additional requirements um for coveted safety we've also put into the sr3 plan and been able to implement some of these the expansion of the counseling services at all district elementary schools pending provided targeted intervention support increase in behavior support services across the district and then the extension of instructional support through the summer months now some of the challenges we have faced are the same that have been faced by other districts across the state in the country and those are all due to the recurring covid challenges and capacity staff capacity with within our own district and also with our contracted vendors and the last narrative is uh requires a description of how our district is using its fiscal resources um received for 2021 2022 school year in a manner that is consistent with the plans um and actions and services aligned that are aligned with our 2021-2022 l cap um so since the adoption of the lcap we have enhanced services with some esser funds and we've created a social emotional learning department based on expanded need in this area and there have been some minor adjustments and we do plan to have other adjustments um just due to staff shortages and based on the current needs of our district but whatever um additional funding and um one-time funding that we've received they do align with our um board adopted lcap sorry about this i just need to make sure that i share everything i need to share so some of the mid-year updates um that i have to provide are um just how are we doing in terms of implementation how are the metrics looking are we spending the money so the first part i just want to show you is that when we um when we write the lcap there's always baseline data that we have and then um there's end of your an end of your goal where we want to be and this year as i said the state has asked us to provide a mid-year update and that's this middle part here and that's what i'm going to be sharing with you this evening is where are we on in terms of metrics and then expenditures and implementation so goal one is the provider rigorous and innovative and well-rounded instructional program and this is where we are in terms of some of the metrics in our lcap we gather these are the metrics that we are measuring ourselves on at the end of the year and so in terms of pd records and surveys we've been able to offer our 39 of our teachers and certificated staff have been able to participate in professional development opportunities and 46.3 percent of responding teachers believe that pbs supported um their implementation of tier one instruction uh we have not had s back um since the 2018-19 school year um but at this time of the year we do have some benchmark data from from fastbridge assessments um showing that you know our students overall are at 35 percent um in english language arts about on or above grade level in mathematics 35.2 and then for our special needs students we have um in reading language arts 39 are on or above and 38 in math on or above and then at our dual language schools we um do benchmark testing with a program called ice station uh 32 percent of grade two students are scoring proficient or advanced on that assessment and then um for student devices is another metric our inventory reflects that we have one-to-one device to student ratio our kindergarten observation form um this is this determines kindergarten readiness and you know this is showing that about 14 of students that entered kindergarten there were fully ready for kindergarten 36 were partially ready and 50 were not ready um in terms of uh state aligned um instructional materials 100 of students have the materials they need 93 of our teachers are fully credentialed credentialed and the the others are on waivers insurance and emergency permits and foster youth support log this is in progress um at this time in terms of implementation we um we this is where we are in terms of funding that has been spent and you know we we are on track um to um meet the expenditure goals that we had to the actions some of the challenges have been um not being able to offer some of the teacher pds that we typically do or um participation just all do again you know to covet and and um people just being really taxed and over um just not being able to participate at this time same with extended learning opportunities that we have planned but you know it's still mid-year so we still feel that we are going to be able to implement many of these um these um actions that we have in the lcap um for foster youth we did have a halftime counselor vacancy um and we just recently were able to fill that position so that's another reason why um we have some funding that hasn't been spent in title one so the second goal el al capital two is that english learners will develop skills to make annual growth in core subject areas and show progress on the english language assessment the metrics for our english learners are the elpac growth metrics the reclassification rates students meeting pathway to civil by literacy rates participation rate in el professional development by a staff and then progress on the annual spec and we already know that we have not taken those tests we are due to take them again in may but in terms of growth metrics we we don't have um the data from the spec but we do have the fast fridge assessment data the mid-year is showing that our els 50 of them met or exceeded standards on this assessment i'm sorry and 47 in math um els have met or exceeded the standard uh today we have reclassified 136 students and we had we don't have information on the pathway to sell by literacy yet because this happens in the spring so at this time we don't have that information but we do have uh 33 of uh teachers uh participated in eld specific professional development um 95 responded favorably and 82 have incorporated their learning in the in their instruction this is all based on surveys in terms of um the the expenditures um a lot of the um spending has not happened yet again the pd is is a challenge but the support staff for lpec testing we've just recently started that process so um there will be no problem spending that that money before the alcap update at the end of the year el capital 3 is the provide an inclusive and caring community where students and families feel safe welcome and supported utilizing a multi-tiered system of support metrics for this include monthly daily daily attendance reports suspension expulsion data school climate program implementation and then information from the climate surveys for family student and staff so our daily current attendance is 93.42 at this time of year we've had .07 percent of students suspended um one time at least one time this year um which is probably the lowest we've ever had which is great um 85 percent of our schools are currently implementing a school climate program and then in terms of our surveys 91 of parents believe our schools are safe and 95 percent of parents feel a strong sense of belonging at school for students a 68 of elementary and middle school students believe our schools are safe 77 percent of elementary and 61 percent of middle school students feel a strong sense of belonging and then for staff 77 of staff uh believe our schools are safe and 81 feel a strong sense of belonging and this is based on the fall survey data we'll be taking another um survey in the spring more metrics for goal three uh rate of chronic absenteeism the facilities inspection tool middle school dropout rate fapa student surveys and student logs for our scl department at this time we do have 41 percent rate of chronic absenteeism for our facilities inspection um our fit tool uh 73 of our schools have an overall rating of good or exemplary and 27 percent of fare our middle school dropout rate is less than one percent um we are in progress with the data collection for vapa student surveys so we don't have data on that yet and then for our um newly formed sel department we have provided support for approximately 700 students to date our school counselors they have also supported wellness checks for 569 students to date and over 16 percent of overall 16 of our enrolled students have been supported by our school counseling staff and in this area we have not seen any challenges with um implementing any of our actions uh today um definitely a a goal that we um are working um uh very um to i mean we've been able to implement everything that's in this action so far uh el capital four foster relationships with stakeholders to promote a positive and collaborative environment that is focused on student achievement and this has to do with our parent engagement efforts the metrics are the attendance records for back to school open house and other participation events attendance records for school site council meetings attendance records for dak and d lac meetings attendance sheets for parent university uh fall so far and then for district led events so um overall we have we had an average of 37 parent attendance at back to school night these were held virtually our school every school has a functioning school site council and they all have a minimum of five meetings scheduled for this school year our dac committee has 60 percent attendance rate so far and our p lot committee has 48 attendance rate and um 220 parents attended uh our virtual parent university and we don't have any information to date on the uh district-led events because we haven't really been able to to have any this year um in terms of the actions and the budget [Music] assigned to these actions there have been some challenges you know because we're not really having the types of events and in-person events where we used to have lots and lots of families and you know parents show up to um we have been doing things virtually um but we have we we have had some challenges with this area uh parent university you know usually is a really huge event and in person definitely um more budget allotted than on virtual we have had several community liaison vacancies that we continue to feel um at this time we still have three so um trying to fill those positions and then we do have a contracted halftime vietnamese translator but we do continue to have a vacancy for the full-time translator check in in that area and we continue to look for that one to be filled so those are some of the challenges we see for goal for so in closing um you know the the continuing impacts of kova 19 pandemic including the challenges of hiring staff implementing health and safety protocols um you know it's presented many challenges the first half of the school year but despite these challenges we're committed to implementing the lcap to provide the necessary services to our students we definitely want to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of all the employees the support of our parents and the resilience of our students to continue our reach for excellence that's what i have all right thank you for that presentation i'll go ahead and take uh comments from the public we have and he comes from the public here so please raise your hand yes we do have a public comment uh we have one speaker first speak our only speaker is miss lisa as you say you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board my name is telsa gonzalez i am the proud mother of two students in an umbral school district i just want to say thank you miss garcia for the wonderful work and the job um doing this presentation and for your honesty and transparency on what having the challenges and also what has worked right as a mother i understand that a safety aware kids are our priority and i could see and their mental health is it is as well and i could see that when we see presentations like this that talk about what are we doing to help our students not only academically mentally and social emotionally so thank you once again ms garcia for the wonderful job thank you to all the teachers and staff that are ready and leading this i am proud um today to say that my kids are unbroken this is the kind of conversations we need to have with our parents right so for them to know that um our per our kids and our students are well taken care of so once again thank you and thank you for all the stuff that is doing the jobs behind and um and for everything that you're providing for our students thank you mr at this time we have no more public comment all right i'll come back to the board any questions or comments from the board or vice president no uh first of all i want to thank sandra for putting together that presentation you know i want to note that uh it you know i'm this represents a snapshot of the state of our district and you know i wanted to emphasize it's a snapshot uh the last two years have been very challenging and uh you know even though uh you know there's always room to improve but i think that what sander presented is uh you know shows that uh we have been able to hold our own uh in the most challenging of times in that you know it reflects the efforts of our teachers efforts of our parents to keep uh keep educating uh in uh trying circumstances we've made great strides in ensuring that our kids are connected you know one-to-one on devices uh i know that uh you know even in as we're meeting online uh technology isn't perfect and we've had disruptions and certainly if there's been disruptions in board meetings there's certainly disruptions on the online classrooms during during that year of distance learning and also as our kids came back uh after after isolating at home for so long it's a challenge to interact with other kids interact with adults uh learning uh learning how to [Music] be sociable group settings also and uh lastly um lord knows uh you know how much trauma that has occurred in you know uh you know among the among our families as they've faced uh economic uncertainty and uh you know you can you know uh whether it's keeping food on the table but also the uh mental health struggles of uh you know juggling uh chug you know juggling the duties of the household in the midst of a pandemic so uh you know i want to reassure this community that uh you know we've pulled through i know you know i know that you know of course there's room for improvement but we've held off the worst effects education wise uh you know of the pandemic that we've been living through for uh you know into our third year and that you know uh i hopefully as the uh health situation received you know we we can get our kids back on track get our families back on track and uh you know and you know have our schools again be in position to uh to make further not just academic games but social gains and also to uh provide the uh the extracurriculars that make public education worthwhile so thank you very much uh sandra remember just want to um also thank sandra for um you know getting all this done considering the pandemic considering the virtual meetings and shifting so quickly i know as a parent i was you know able to attend the meetings where we would all gather in a cafeteria and you know group up and use uh different colors and markers and put things up and to shift from that you know to like still getting it done um thank you for doing it uh so successfully and ensuring that we're you know still keeping up with the marks and or even uh doing better and then also i want to thank the parents for you know logging in virtually or shifting also with us and still participating um considering all those things like uh trustee fan mentioned you know trying to take care of home and homework and dinner and multitask while they're in meetings at the same time and things like that so um you know thank you to everyone um thank you for the wonderful reports on all three items um and este president quintero i'm also wondering are we i know she did all three of them and so any questions on any of the three um but are we also are you considering a motion for um the item that um this is animals for information only we have to go back to 7.09 okay and um accountability report card action on that uh further comments from the board with regard to the item here which is 710.
and so the year to date right now is that 3.3 percent of our students have experienced at least one day of suspension that's at the middle of the year i can't tell you if that means 6.6 by the end of the year but we can assume it will rise and so on for the other subgroups of course stakeholder surveys went out we saw a great participation from students almost 8 000 students participated in the youth truth survey more families participated this year as well and staff participation was good so we have some data there that i'll briefly look at but it is exhaustive and we'll be going through this data and and principles all have it for their sites in general our findings are this this is a difficult year for students this difficult year for everyone and that shows in the data the general well-being and connection to schools is is down i spent some time with the youth truth survey organization to get a sense of where we landed with other schools because at first it looked as though we were an outlier that this data was low for us but not as well not as low in other places in california what she told me is that the california aggregate data is for a 10-year average made a total difference in the way we read this and we'll see some overall trends in a moment um so the we're going to look at engagement the overarching area of engagement they're asked several sub-questions for students they're asked certain questions about their connection to school or their engagement with school families were asked questions about that as were staff here's how you look at this chart just briefly elementary school students 90 of them said they were engaged and that was up actually a little bit from when they answered this question in april however for us that's still low when you compare against that 10-year aggregate elementary school students are usually engaged and ours reported slightly lower than the state average um families show low feel a low sense of engagement and it's down from april which is interesting because in april they were not in school full-time it was a hybrid model remember and now they're in school full-time but the engagement is reported as lower um and staff although in the blue it's more positive it's in the higher quartile i'm slightly down so you can kind of see how these report out none of this is surprising in the sense where we had lots of absences we had students quarantined or isolated staff quarantined or isolated this was taken in november high school data you'll see has no comparative because high school did not participate last year for relationships students families and staff to ask several questions along around the area of relationships again all this reported to the dac those folks who are here are part of the deaf or i've seen this already um also although some at first the numbers look good high percentage of positive responses to relationship it's still low and declining it's very alarming to feel like a sense of that there isn't a strong relationship or a sense of a strong relationship at school it's not surprising that it decreases across the grade levels that's nationally common we saw that in the gallup poll data if you remember that here's what's looking like across the country though um youth truth kind of took a look at this they don't have fall data to add to this chart yet but they saw it peak early in the pandemic and it's falling everywhere all relationship measures are declining and it's of incredible importance that's why the push to have more folks at school that's why the positions being added are things like therapists and counselors and folks that can be there for students and of course being there consistently will help a time finally a quick look at our english learner data this is a lot of numbers i'm going to just summarize and say this on the left is san bernardino county and the percentages of the various elpac levels on the right is apple valley unified and essentially for us we are beating the county our students are outperforming our english learners are growing quickly they're redesignating as as english proficient and they're um exiting the program we have um we have we found 54 students last year who qualified even though they did not publish clear criteria because we had no test results this year we have 146 students of about 1200 who look like they're on track to redesignate so that's just a quick snapshot of the data the full data report is there for you for all metrics so in closing this has been tough um i acknowledge and i'll tell you that the slide this is a template plan you know this this process has been difficult but the plan you have to increase to use those concentration grant funds is in keeping with the lcap as it's been requested by our community and we have the ability to adjust that going forward because these are ongoing funds these are not one-time funds and i'll pause there for questions uh pat i got a question um why do you think that the [Music] students in apple valley feel less safe in schools than that than the state average i think that state average for 10 years i think if we were comparing ourselves to that even in april we beat it like crazy but since it's an aggregate number i don't think it's actually a good comparison for us this year once we what i want to do is when we start to see this data and get a comparison to other schools this year i'll bring that back because i don't think we can say that with confidence we can say that students are feeling less connected or less engaged than students over a 10-year average but that's that 10 years includes years prior to this that we're quite different even our students in april we scored in the top 63 to 69 depending on the measure percent of all schools in the state in april we declined and what i'm hearing from the survey folks is all schools are showing the same decline this fall as soon as i get some better data that's comparative i'll bring it back and then the issue with teachers discussing home life if a student has an issue at home i saw the chart had dropped that there wasn't the teachers aren't in this is engaged anymore with discussing problems is that because maybe they're a little bit gun shy that they even engage discussing things because of accusations or do you see any correlation to that i don't i think the correlation seems to be more along the lines of um it takes time consistency and presence to build those relationships and it's one thing that our system hasn't had the benefit of in the same way that normal you normally in a in the school year it has you follow like the classes day-to-day shift really until this week they shift it momentously and the teachers even being out because of either quarantine or isolation that so i think that's a factor that we have to consider great thank you is there any other questions uh yes of course you know i would ask i would have been disappointed if i didn't get any okay my question i have quite a few so i'm going to go to the charts because you know me i'm in numbers i follow the numbers when you go to the charts on graduation rates it shows um quite a few students ethnic groups were making some growth they had some growth but there were some that didn't make the kind of growth that we will expect them to have so the question that i have is how aggressive are we as a district to go after those groups of students who are have actually checked out to find ways to get them back in to engage them back into the educational process because just having you know i'm going to take an example you know the um when you look at the um foster youth they made such growth in 2020 but when it came to 2021 they dropped drastically for the a to g graduation rate and so that is a challenge because there are children out there you know i i don't like to look at numbers i look at numbers and apply to people so when you say 20 you are saying that 20 of real breathing human beings are the people you have been able to capture so the question is what did you do with the 80 because to get a whole 100 percent there's a eighty percent missing somewhere and we need to be able to hunt those eighty percent and bring them back into the fall yeah so that they may graduate so we have a lot of students who are now graduating based on the numbers that i'm looking at here and it's i'm just curious about did we drop the ball or did we just say okay when they return we will help them but then their age they're aging out during the they have they will reach the age of 18 and we won't chase them after after that we need to be able to find ways to bring those kids in so that we will be at least at the 90 something percentile you know so that's my first question i'll come for another one we need to find a second parent in the home to help those people this so far i i think the question is how aggressive and so um i i can characterize that by what happened this week for example we had um administrators who were kind of substitute administrators now freed from being at school sites this week who made 35 home visits knocking on doors checking in with families finding out what the barrier to connecting to school was so it's that kind of outreach that i think they're going to have to do because think about this the class of 2021 if they were on not on track for a 230 unit diploma regular board required diploma ab104 allowed them to have a 130 unit option any student we could find and wrap our arms around we made a graduate anyone who's not on this chart is because we couldn't find them we're looking and the foster youth as you know change placement they'll leave the county and we won't know and so that's what's going on with the foster numbers okay the next question a to g completion we all know that a to g is the pathway to going to a a cal state or csu system educational system when you have students who are not meeting the awg requirement we are also saying they were not going to be able to go to a california state university or university of california system and i'm just wondering if if we if we let them not think about that because there's a victor valley college here or if we push them to say that option is there let's help you even if it means helping you with getting a scholarship to go you know so i'm looking at the numbers and the numbers are just not adding up and i'm struggling with it so tell me why we are not able to get the number of students to be able to attempt the energy and complete them i have two questions on that do you have teachers who are equipped to get those children to that level of passing the energy or do you have students who are have checked out and refused to go through the aog process have they been given the the tools that they need at the with a counselor when the counselor sees the child is the counselor saying you know what i think you can do the abg i'm ready to hold your hand as we go or is it just go on and and let's see how where it falls so that's my challenge i'll take that in three parts okay take as many parts as you want um are the teachers equipped um we focus on a to g and we look at the class of 21 and we think of that as a kind of a measure of what they did as seniors but you know as well as anyone in the system it's a multi-year project right one grade of d freshman english d in freshman english that doesn't get repaired or retaken means they're done they're out that's just an example class could be any of those 16 required courses for the a3g so are teachers equipped yes they do have the ability to meet the needs of the students but we definitely have an issue our there are students checking out on the second part of your question um there is some of that especially right now because there is um you know if they do get a grade that is not passing with you see that's a c or better then it's sometimes difficult to convince them to retake the class because they've already passed it they're on track to graduate so they don't necessarily need it for graduation and then there's so there's always that conversation as a high school principal we had that conversation constantly there's places where there's pockets of success you follow avid programs are great at this they're able to get you know those students focused but those are by choice right those students choose and elect to have those programs and they commit at the beginning typically in seventh grade and say i'm going to college so you bring up counselors we did as you know we've lowered the counseling ratio quite a bit recently so we do have more input counselors having more time with students however this won't change in one year so i believe we're going to start to see this come back but this year's even this year's been tough on this grades are low student grades are low the principals are reporting this students are struggling to stay motivated and so we definitely have that as an issue but we have the ability to either give them the class again give them different opportunities to retake expanding summer school has helped immensely and so it's and this is not purely an apple valley problem like as you look across regionally this is this is a difficult number to move but you're right it must move the requirement for students to fill out the fafsa will start to help that i think because they'll start to think about college a little bit more so as you know the current junior class is required for by the end of their year next year to either opt out or to fill out the fafsa and so we'll be helping them do that my final question is on cte pathway those students who are not college ready and they want to learn to be they want to learn the tools about being an electrician or they want to know how to be a plumber or they want to learn how to be a carpenter those programs are not technically offered at both high schools at the same level right correct so if a student wants to do let's say wood shop when i was a teacher in apple valley junior high this campus here we had woodshop i don't know where else they offered those but a child who wants to do that has already been squeezed out by virtue of where their school location is okay so at some point as a district we need to start looking at okay my this child wants to do ffa but he is all whatever it is animal thing um but he's at granite health how do we make sure that he can get that being a student at granite hills we are squeezing kids away out of a program because of location because of geography so as a district we need to start looking at how do we make sure that what is here is also here for that student so that they can all be successful at the same time i speak on behalf of all the children my children no longer go to this school a district but my children were also squeezed out when they were here and that's 20 something years ago and i go with that as my my marker i make sure that no other person's child yes without so we need to be able to find ways to bring all kids to the table that's my question find a way to get it okay let me try um i had i had wood shop at this school i remember it i was a student here and i think i got in trouble because of a sander but um we currently do not replicate every cte program at every site that's true however we do allow transfers for students who indicate that they want a program that's not offered at their school of residence so we just went to the transfer window just closed students wanted to go to grant hills high school because there was a program there they felt better match their needs we allowed them to go students want to go to alberta high school now they want to go down by high school because they want to do a program that exists at both schools that's not a reason to transfer but if they do if there's room in the program and they have the need and this year we were able to approve all transfers for unique programs so it doesn't answer every question that you ask but it does allow for that opportunity because you're right certain things that uh really kind of meet the needs of certain students some of the programs we have are not easy to replicate everywhere just because of the cost of infrastructure ffa is a good example the agriculture program kind of fits where it fits you know but same goes with granny hills the scada program the the mechatronics the dance part of the great academy and some of the other parts are great they're not easy to replicate everywhere and so we do have some uniqueness but that doesn't we do allow movement thank you i said mr president all right thank you pat all right moving on to public comments kylie do we have any uh requests to speak cards we do we have a total of three okay by just reminding everyone that um we re limit it to three minutes to speak on uh and if there's 20 minutes per topic and so with that first up is june [Music] sorry i'm short hopefully i can see i forgot my classes okay where's the time i'm sorry i thought it was up give me a second try again here there you go okay the science is in and has been for a year now connecticut israel delaware florida etc and just recently the exhaustive john hopkins study on all the coven measures these masks are harming our kids this week surgeon general has is now announcing that our kids are in a mental health crisis there are only 14 states in the u.s that mask their students out of those 14 i had four down but one more drop today nevada four out of them all democratic states are now dropping their student mass mandates and going against finance policies the cdc but the cdc just a couple of days ago reinstated its guidance on masking our kids continuing to play politics and ignore the science it took the cdc one year before they told us it was safe to be outside without a mass even though they knew it was safe when they announced it was safe i remember fauci saying yeah we've known that for a long time but we all pretty much knew that it was safe because they allowed the black lives matter protests and lots of doctors signed off saying it was safe i remember that time pulling up to the school and seeing our tennis players outside in triple degree weather 20 plus feet away from anyone practicing their tennis and being massed up every time i saw that i was infuriated and wanted to call the cops to report child abuse because that's what it was but you know we let it happen well we aren't going to wait another year for the cdc to catch up to the science or newsom a governor who doesn't follow his own rules on masking aka super bowl and i can ak quite a few other things in there too but makes our kids mess up for seven hours a day our kids have suffered enough they have been given the most restrictive coven measures while being the least vulnerable population for this disease because the people in power are not standing up for our kids our kids are now going to start standing up for themselves along with their parents taking back their rights taking off their mass and showing their smiles i will be sending all of you a couple copy of their student legal rights for those students who choose don't mask in summary forcible removal of them from the classroom violates california law you cannot force them into independent study and the state of emergency powers do not allow children to be excluded from school for refusing to wear a mask all students should be free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and retaliation if any teacher administrator or district employee harasses mistreats abuses or does anything illegal to any of these students who choose to unmask the let them breathe lawyers will be notified and legal action may be taken we're done thank you [Applause] thank you june next up is uh is it nikoi nicole sir yes all right yeah dear god i just want to say thank you for allowing me to be here and speak tonight because our freedoms come from you lord um i just want to pray for the school board members in the cabinet and the lawyers lord that are in charge of these children for this district lord that you just give them the courage to do what's right not what's easy and um largest uh just be with all the children of this district lord and all the surrounding districts that you just guide them and just be with them and in all these times right now especially with all this um just darkness going around and again we just thank you lord in jesus name amen um my name's nick liborov teacher aspiring high school i live down the street though i got two boys twins um kindergartner age now so i'm talking um [Music] i just want to encourage mine's more of a comment for um my sister she lives up north she's a school board member herself tonight heard me she's in closed session right now and there they'll be um passing a resolution and i just wanted to encourage you guys and ladies um do the same thing here as soon as you can i'm just going to pull it up and just read the ears you know the whereas whereas whereas a whole bunch of them but i wanted to say um whereas the roseville joint unified school district regardless of vaccination status uh personnel and parent choice with respect to whether or not children staff and teachers should wear face mask coverings when at school commencing when the state indoor mask mandating is lifted february 15th so starting february 15th they believe they have four votes tonight that they are actively next monday is a hundred percent choice all the max the mass mandates are gone so i just wanted to encourage you that people are fighting other districts there's a thousand of them so i just ask you to reach out she's willing to work there with reopen california and all that that it is possible you just gotta put your neck out on the line a little bit she's a single mom of three kids the lawyers told her hey you're looking at six months of jail thousand dollar fine you know those little things there and the school board said come and get us so i just want to give you that encouragement there a little bit and hope that um that you get the courage there for choice and whereas again they're going to provide in 95s they're not getting rid of it they're going to be right there in every classroom available to every student who wants one and i just encourage you to do the same as well remember there's the letter of the law and there's a spirit of the law there too so thank you thank you [Applause] nikolai what's what district was that you mentioned you were roseville joint high hector garcia great thank you very much for letting us speak today just want to thank you very much for all the information that was disseminated and continue to keep doing that too for our community so we know what's going on in our schools uh thank you for the ones that shared about the masking i agree with that too it should be total choice but i wanted to just touch on something about uh the building projects that was uh as you were speaking is this that the bass stadium when you do think about building a new stadium to give a facelift to an iconic place that not only the high desert knows but the entire state of california knows look at football games social activities that happen in our community that so much of apple valley high school participates in to to further our community to help out in different ways and it's such a beautiful stadium but it does need a facelift with that all-weather track the the football field all of those different things so don't don't don't let it go off to the wayside because i'm so many people cherish that place our community does and so does uh anyone in the in the state of california dealing with anything that has to do with that stadium because they all know it um i was a high school uh football player wrestler all of these different places back in the 90s and even then it was just known about apple valley high school due to the iconic place of what it is so let's continue to keep that legacy alive when you think about rebuilding or building new things let's continue on our legacy up in the high desert thank you thank you hector all right uh is that it kylie in the cards okay thank you everyone who uh spoke tonight this evening uh moving on right along here uh superintendent comments i absolutely agree that we're at a point in this pandemic that there needs to be a change to the guidance i monitor it on a daily basis i looked today before i walked into the room there signals that there's going to be a change but i fear that some of the change is going to have to do with vaccination and so i want to just publicly state that one of the next fights has to do with the statement that there's across the state people are making recommendations about the number of um people that have to be vaccinated within a system in order to remove the masks and i i don't believe that that's a necessity as a school district we get to see our own data most districts hired people to do that um we track our own and so i told the board president that i would update the board regarding our number our coveted numbers having to do a staff because that's the most consistent that i can give as data sets when we returned from the winter break the first week we were back we had over 100 positive staff cases in a system where we have approximately 1700 full-time employees that's a staggering number it was almost the same it was about half of what we had the first semester the surge has come and gone in apple valley school district and we know that because our current numbers are a sixth of that in a week's time a month later so we we know that we have staff on campus we have campuses that have not had to um swap substitutes this week um and so we are pushing for people to come look at our own data come see what we have not what others are doing and so as we move forward if you start seeing signals that they're going to require um because the vaccination thing is still on the table for the state and and as i said at a meeting earlier i don't believe it it should be a mandate it is a choice um it doesn't change the outcome as we've seen with the um omicron it vaccination status doesn't change who gets it so i just i encourage people to continue to push on this this topic but on top of that we have to have a change in order to not be out of compliance with osha because we are an employer so i i just i have to give the facts out and i understand the desire to have it end i would like it to end as well um in the district in the past month there's some things that i'd like to highlight for the board feed america is a network of the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization working to connect people food and end hunger apple valley unified school district's family center applied as you're aware we have a food pantry but we applied to be a distribution center this included a visit from the company as well as an inspection we are now the only school district in the region that have been approved and are a distribution center for feed america in our region this means 19 cents per pound for any food product that we purchase from them in order to provide to our families we serve families every friday through volunteerism families that are utilizing the food bank are also working in the food bank we will be working on a golden bell application for csba next year having to do with this it is replicable across the state it just needs somebody to have energy behind it um so i wanted to update on that black history month is going strong within the district and miss williams who got up in front of the board at a recent board meeting met with mrs smith in the educational services department looked at what mrs smith was doing for a lessons that she was providing to school sites as samples and materials and added some things along the way it is also school counselor week ella mentioned it that the counselors are on top of it getting all of the seniors ready for graduation we also added priscilla avia this week at sitting bowl you hired her at the board meeting a month ago and she was released and able to start at sitting bull yesterday on monday monday tuesday monday was a holiday tuesday um i was out there with her yesterday in front and she was greeting kids and she was exhausted the night before because it's a huge campus but she was eager to get to know every staff member and student we also received cte round seven um funding over seven hundred thousand for career technical education for our district that's part of the consortium but the seven hundred thousand is specifically allocated to alpha valley or to apple valley unified school district equipment student support all kinds of things we can utilize for that funding and then pat did mention that we did have dozens of home visits this past week and we will continue to do those home visits so you'll see those on the cwa report it is a variety of things kids that aren't engaged on independent study kids that have multiple attendance issues and the goal is to get them back and connected we also are looking at at home addresses and validating the addresses people are utilizing because we know that there's a lot of people when we start doing searches that don't actually live where they indicate they do so that they can attend one of the schools within the district that they desire school start times was mentioned as well as a reminder the only thing that removes a school start time from changing in this district is a rural designation i don't know of a location um in the high desert other than some areas in victorville that would not be considered rural in the concept of student walk distances lack of sidewalks street lights because it's dark for them when they're starting school but i went to the town of apple valley's council meeting on tuesday night and i asked for support for a resolution or a letter of support indicating that our community is considered rural that we have by vote a maximum of two homes per acre and they are willing to support this endeavor i don't know that it will work at the state level but i'm willing to put that together as well as a resolution that i will bring to the march board meeting indicating that we are designating ourselves as a district rural as well and we will send those on up and hopefully not have to change start times because overwhelmingly our families do not want to have that change it is a change to every school site within the system okay that's all i have thank you thanks board member comments maria um i'm going to start by thanking the student of speakers today they gave us a snapshot of the great things that are happening at their schools and i truly appreciate the courage that they they present when they are coming to present to us i don't see any nerves with the students thank you to all of the schools that are making such huge progress in terms of making a school a home for those children for seven hours and 11 minutes regarding the masked mandate we'll just wait and see what happens on february 15th but the most important thing is that we need to keep in mind that because like the superintendent said we are also an employing agency and we follow the guidelines of the other agency not just what the governor says in terms of what the governor says our goal is to keep our children safe and so whatever happens we are going to keep our children as number one priority um when it comes to that so let's see what happens after february 15th and then we'll go from there i thank you so much for coming out today and sharing your positions chris yeah i'll keep it short tonight i just want to give a shout out and congratulations to apple valley senior jacob kleinsmith he was announced yesterday that he won the mojave water agency's waterwise essay contest so congratulations to him and to our entire district keep going you guys are doing some fantastic things out of every one of our school sites and uh keep it up thank you dennis first of all i'd like to say uh thank you for former students that are here tonight as concerned parents this is a great form of democracy and uh we're really hurting our kids here in california they're gonna write books about this five years from now and they keep moving the goal post um the guidelines are a joke i mean it just it's just terrible what's happening and uh hopefully we'll get out of this if we if we were doing this stuff making kids run up and down a basketball court with mask on that's something you do in a prison camp this is ridiculous but anyway hopefully we'll get through it but believe me we've done some harm um we had us this meeting tonight so there's a lot of you that follow the times of the board meeting so from now on we're going to be meeting at 5 00 p.m here and then the regular meeting starts at six for those that come to these meetings regularly we just changed it around tonight because we had some scheduling issues with some of the board members so and we're going to continue to do them in person throughout that this this issue with the time change this is going to be very disruptive to the district on many many fronts this is going to be just as bad as this masking were worse because what's going to happen is such as elementary schools some of them start at 9 00 pm now and because of the time change because of the buses and and the routes we have to do that may start at seven so that's going to really affect the after-school programs the town of apple valley even has at our our districts our different schools because when it goes past a certain hour there has to be certain insurances and it's just it's just a mess so really we need to get the word out and put pressure that this is a rural area we're 73 square miles 73 square miles i mean the district goes all the way out middle pass road way up into the highlands as well you know that's not rural i don't know what it is so it and it is and if we have to really uh beat the drum on this and we're going to as a as a board pass more resolutions and and hammer it away that this is a rural area this this this cannot stand this is going to be very disruptive so with that again thank you you know for showing up again i know june you're like um the heavy hitter with this it's okay i get i get messages i get facebook posts i got some tonight you know somebody posted a picture from june dennis and rick aren't wearing a mask the night at the meeting so it gets out there quick but you know that's just how we feel so i'm holding my breath though we're holding it we're okay okay i got a text from my wife where's your mascot right so uh thank you you know you're preaching to the choir here you know whether it's the superintendent or the board members or whatever we're all on the same page here we're really trying to to do what's right in apple valley so i know with that we'll move on uh to uh public hearing we have none of this meeting special meetings none so we have discussion items um approve the recommendation an administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately on expulsion case 15 20 21 22.