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but i don't have to do that because i have these wonderful people behind me who are going to speak to their individual experiences and i also have letters that you'll have access to to read about just the diversity of student experiences in the program so alejandra is going to talk about her experiences first so welcome alejandra hello my name is alejandra montenegro i am a chico high school senior and i'm also part of the college connection class of 2022 prior to joining the program i had no real set path for myself after graduating high school and i was also very fearful for my future after high school i was someone who had a lot of ambition i had good grades and i was a good student i just didn't know where to put the ambition into for my future i felt like i had no real guide in my life and when i heard about college connection i thought it was the perfect way for me to begin that transition into the next phase of my life with the help of college connection instructors and just some of the people that i've grown to know in college connection i feel that i have truly grown in my from the person i once was last year i think that one of the major things that have been different for me is the amount of time that i actually do get to spend with the people that are teaching me i felt that in high school i always had to accommodate for something i'd be very early in the day to speak with them or stay after school hours or even sacrifice my own time for eating just to have a few extra moments to get clarity on something but in college i realized just how different that was i actually had time to get to know my instructors in their own time in a time that was also good for myself and i've developed deep and meaningful relationships with many of my instructors so far that have really helped me grow as a person i feel that i am now at a place where i can grow on my own as well prior to this i felt like i always had had a routine and that i had to have everything in my life completely the same i was terrified of changing anything and now i feel that i'm able to make changes in my life because i have learned that change is sometimes necessary and also wonderful for yourself i have now decided on something in my life i choose psychology and one day i hope to be a psychologist to help people and maybe one day that will change and as i've learned that is okay and i think that i'm just very excited for what's going to come next in my life and no longer as fearful as i once was i would like to say thank you to everyone here who is in support of college connection and in turn supportive young people such as myself who want to advance into that next part of their lives a little bit earlier and i would give it to the next speaker here ethan [Applause] hello there board my name is ethan welke currently a chico high senior within the program and uh before i really decided to be in college connections i a little i had a little bit of experience beforehand with my sister also being a part of the program and really understanding how she went through it really helped me decide how i wanted to go through it she didn't really know as much as i did when it came to what i wanted to do because as a high schooler i first took engineering at chica high the first level under mike bergaman and that really ignited my passion for that topic last year i finished the capstone of that course and i didn't really have much to go off of then i was looking at the course roster and i was like none of these really strike me as something that i find igniting my passion once again so i was like let me go ahead and look at college connections which was very beneficial to me seeing just how sheer amount of courses there were that i could not only take for my future but also just passion courses that i could see being just knowledgeable to me instead with that i've come to gain even more skills than i didn't know i would gain my communication skills have skyrocketed significantly because in high school i was just like my friend group and me and that was the main course in communication with not and with my professors now i have such a wide variety of people to interact with i feel more able to communicate my thoughts and communicate my passion towards certain topics very better this helps both in the academic self and in my personal life with being able to communicate my feelings also to them with that it also became a source of me preparing myself i never knew how overwhelmed i would be by just classes being able to see a course roster or the roster of courses i could take was sheerly overwhelming but the tools that allowed me from butte college and also miss ellsmore herself allowed me to navigate that really well and now i've set my path for the next two years at bu and also will i transfer due to those resources so that overall has made me very appreciative of where i stand with how it is and being able to still go back to high school as a normal student i'm still participating in skillsusa club at chica high i'm actually the parliamentarian and that's also something that i get to experience my engineering side more and more and so it's just not even a takeaway it's just building what i find high school to be enjoyable even further i'd like to thank you all for being able to listen to us tonight and be in support for college connections and with that i will like to pass it on to clara hello all my name is clara welke i am the aforementioned sister of ethan i graduated from chico high in 2019 uh before i graduated and got into college connections i had a little dip into the college experience while also attending high school in my sophomore year i took a dual enrollment course in english and took english too it was one of the best things i decided to do at the behest of my mother it was such a freeing and great experience to interact with people that were able to support me outside of what uh high school could um so then that influenced when i heard about the college connections program and i joined with great enthusiasm as i was totally prepared um so that college connections prepared me to transfer chico state where i currently am attending um it also set me on my career path because miss ellsmore uh encouraged me to get a job as a math tutor there and that inspired my passion for teaching which i am now on the road to be a math educations major i should be able to be graduating this upcoming semester and then get my credential after that um i also am part of the project math at chico state uh also uh because ms ellsmore introduced me to it i am currently in a classroom learning from the one of the best teachers in our district i first did some experience with mr morales at chico high and now i am doing mine with mr preston at mars junior high school and it's been one of the greatest experiences i have learning pedagogy and having those teachers to support and influence how i will be able to teach future students and i want to thank you all for letting this program continue and for letting me be part of it and for my brother to be a part of it and the future generations as well thank you [Applause] were very impressive and it's okay that she's your sister you know very impressive uh testimonials thank you so much uh does anyone have a question uh miss ellsmore thank you for continuing with this i uh how many students apply each year um for the college connection i think there's an enrollment limit correct so there there's so many programs and there's been so much disruption and upheaval generally we have one section of college connection and i've seen the biggest kind of flux recently with the implementation of the block scheduling and just kind of post coded students are really hanging on for that what they envisioned to be a traditional senior year and so prior to kova students had three solid years of high school to feel comfortable to become acclimated and feel confident enough to look at another program so next year we're going to be serving 25 students and so again the numbers change every year and are in flux but these are students that really are all students are a pleasure to work with but i am always astounded at the growth that i see in these students these students are employees at view college they're tutoring their peers they're making choices about what the best college is for them academically financially they're making class choices they're using transfer counseling so it's a program that's been in chico unified since carol mitchell was the teacher who piloted the program in chico unified um it's the program started with mike rockline in paradise and that was region one and so i know that we'll weather kind of the disruptions we've been facing and continue to be a place where students can grow and develop well i thank you for your support and i'm grateful that some of you have decided to go into teaching not that not going into teaching is a bad thing but having the kind of educators that i know you all are whether it's educating within your social group or at the next college that you choose to attend um i i honor you for what you've done and for what you're going to contribute thank you madam president okay i follow up to a question she asked earlier so how many students were involved before kovid came along so um prior to covid the section was approximately 35 students to 30.

so that's one of the biggest areas outside of that the reality is dental just isn't what it used to be in terms of insurance insurance in general has changed over the countless years but dental particularly in terms of it's really a discount program and not a full insurance program in the bigger picture but that will be our hmo and then we'll have total dental administrators which is the exact same plan that we have now for our dental hmo pardon me our ppo was the delta dental i think i might have misspoke and this is our hmo in terms of total dental administrators and the rates are comparable and if i didn't note this earlier what i do want to say though is the fact that our ancillary voluntary products outside of that basic life are all employee paid plans unlike the healthcare medical plans through uhc and umr where the district does play a portion of those but we'll see some benefits as we go further along to where that buying power did matter in the bigger picture where there are some savings so the next item is our vsp and we currently have vsp right now through principle however it's the plan design is slightly different so we will see an improvement in this plan and with that the rates are a little bit higher but with something that's nice for individuals that do have glasses um the frame allowance is going to be upped by fifty dollars um so that's a plus as well as you can get frames every 12 months versus every 24 months um which is nice i commented at one of our road shows that um well i wear glasses but i wear contacts during the day but i unfortunately have to succumb to reading glasses um so you know you get to go to zeni or a lot of the other different plan products that you have and it's nice because you can get those for fairly inexpensive these days too which is a plus a lot different than what it used to be where you had to go to your eye doctor or pearl vision or a couple standalone stores where now that you can probably get them online just about anywhere the other plus is that we're going to see an increase in the contacts allowance for those that were contacts you're going to see an additional 20 benefit than what you'd seen in the past metlife so there we are moving to metlife for all of the items that i mentioned earlier as i said basic life is district paid so i don't have that on here but supplemental life with a d and d is listed on here and really in terms of supplemental life insurance in this instance the biggest outstanding items is that the guaranteed issue amount for employees is a hundred and fifty thousand dollars which is nice and if you don't know what guaranteed issued or gi means is that you can get insurance for up to that amount without providing what they call an eoi evidence of insurability which for some of us who know when we want to increase our insurance we have to fill out long surveys about your health your history and then they tell you whether or not they'll be willing to cover you or not so that's a plus that there's an increased amount what employees can get if they want for themselves in addition to that they can get up to five times their annual salary not to exceed five hundred thousand and then the spouse or partner benefit is actually an increase in terms of a gi of thirty thousand um as opposed to what it was before in terms of the short-term disability um something that's great was initially metlife came with a less benefited plan we negotiated worked with them with our kairos vendor and they were able to mirror our exact plan that we have currently with our short-term disability which was a plus you may or may not remember when i did this presentation last year we had moved in terms of sudden life to our current short-term disability with principal and now to met life and the reason for that is we were seeing a lot of issues with teachers particularly those that had been on short-term disability related to pregnancies and the payout and some questioning in terms of the elimination period and dates so it was great to see that metlife worked with us and they're mirroring our plan to have those added benefits so our employees can continue with that this year or going into next year pardon me accident insurance um again not different than what we have now with the only exception of 50 wellness screening benefit each year so if our employees do their wellness screening every year they can get a 50 gift card um to use for whatever they want so that's just a nice little plus if they purchase into this so and this does carry and you know injury if a lot of people uh in regards to what they recognize when they hear accident insurance usually is athletic commercials um so this is very similar to that hospital indemnity this is actually brand new we have never offered this during my tenure here at the district um so if employees opt in for this product they can then get benefits that include hospital admissions or i see pardon me icu admissions and you could see how much that benefit is per day and a maximum of the days that that has so that helps carry whatever insurance plan they opt to take this could help supplement that especially if there are an employee who knows there might be something that's coming up or other dynamics of their family history that would be beneficial to them so the next item that we have is critical illness this is something that we offer currently um and really the difference here is that unlike our current plan employees can use this up to three times in a plan year if there were some things that happened to them that falls within those categories of what's defined in those lists in relation to that and i'm not going into the details of class because obviously they differ based on your age your spouse all those dynamics so it'd be very different for every single individual that we have and then the last item is currently we offer two additional ancillary products that kairos does not and that's guardian with cancer and bankers with whole life insurance so we will continue that on separate continuing with those two vendors so our employees can continue because of the fact that we have a number of them that are in there um just over i think 120 and one um and about 150 in the other so i do have to acknowledge i would be remiss not to our benefits manager ms isabel magado as well as our benefits admin assistant miss valerie enrique have been working really hard i think i know a lot of us know and the board members particularly all of you that this is human resources busiest time of year as we're hiring we're transitioning we're posting positions so implementing a whole new insurance system on top of it um has been busy uh but we've been doing a great job and i have to give kudos to them because i've been pulled away for certain things although i've been heavily involved in each part of it um sometimes up to seven hour meetings every week in this process because we want to make sure we have all of it correct but they've really been doing the the follow up and meeting with our employees and we've done already at this point as i flip through we've done road shows we've done webinars we've got another webinar tomorrow we sent out an email yesterday in regards to a link to a video as a recorded webinar we'll be sending out another additional video to talk about what this process looks like when they go through this and register online and what that's going to look like so the department has been crazy busy working with our employees we've gotten some questions we've had good attendance we're answering questions and then as more people view the videos or the webinars hopefully more questions will come in and then we'll be able to answer and help and assist those but the one that i initiated last week for one of the road shows we probably had about 30 participate so i thought that was a really good number and then yesterday and today we probably had another 25 to 30 participate between the two so after that i'll entertain any questions mrs martens i just want to thank you i know i asked for this to come back and i just want to thank you this is a lot of detail and i really enjoyed making sure that we're doing right by our employees and i know you've put a lot of effort into this and your whole team has so thank please thank them for me because this is awesome thank you thank you board member wilson insurance isn't always a fun topic but important topic that's all i was gonna say is i really appreciate it um most most companies other the employees will get a book a little booklet and they sent on their way to sign up so you guys really went out of your way so i appreciate everybody that asked for it and did it and made it possible and helped them to understand and benefits are huge and mistakes can be made and changing costs can be surprising especially when you're going down during the workday you may not be ready to hear all the information and processes so having the online options and recordings and speaking it here i appreciate you guys and 420 was your road show so you probably did you do that all day or did your team members so i was fortunate um president kaylar vice president anderson i was very fortunate that the team took that over so um there's been a lot that's been going on just a variety of things throughout the district and so i initiated them i modeled it and then there are such great individuals that they took it over and went from there so it's important that they know that too well done yes very well done mrs martins and i know you're tired and and we just appreciate you so much you have brought so much um wisdom to our hr department and having your benefit background was huge in this process so uh yes we are very grateful for you and all we can do from every point of standpoint is encourage our employees to attend and watch the webinars and obviously there they can watch them later too that's how i understand it so find that time to watch them and educate themselves as well you know we're offering it so we hope that they take us up on this fabulous offer so absolutely thank you president kayla yes the most important thing and if we have individuals watching is that because it's a true open enrollment everybody has to participate and if they do not participate then they will not be eligible for insurance so everybody must participate this year in following years um it'll be open enrollment but only necessary if you're going to change plans drop or add right the first year you have to pick everything that you want and then after that you can either keep what you'd like or make the changes so this this june period of time is going to be huge right it starts yes open enrollment for us actually starts next week okay um we want to make sure that we're able to hit all of our employees because we have a number of 10-month employees and certainly don't want to get too close to the end of may as dr foley's mentioned it's the 90 days of may right um so sometimes it gets lost and everything else so we thought if we which we did we rushed to make sure to get everything ready and prepared so we were able to do it starting next week into the first week of may oh excellent wonderful so they'll have time absolutely so no excuses um it's easy for us to say that but president kaler members of the board i'd like to stress again one of the things that mom and her team have done is in this decisions every every time we can err on the side of making it right for the employee the most the most most coverage the least amount the most time whatever we can do those have been the the in favor of the employee has been the decision that has been made so that is something that i feel really good about the outcome of this entire process definitely thank you okay we are going to move on to some action items um for this uh seven i'm sorry 8.1 our capital outlay budget uh we've gone over this several times now board and we are doing our tentative approval tonight so that our summer projects will not be delayed so if there's any questions that you may have feel free but i think we've all seen this multiple times now and are good with it so i move that the governing board approved the tentative 2023 capital outlay budget as outlined in the attachment second all those in favor aye aye motion carries five zero moving on to our this is always fun we love to do this any chance we get so this is for our classified employees work agreements i move that the governing board approves the issuance of classified employee work agreements for the 2022-2023 school year and please note that their pay has been increased by seven percent second sorry we all want to second this and third it and fourth it all those in favor aye aye motion carries five zero and again we yeah this is this is good for us and good for our staff and our district and we are grateful i just can i follow up yes please go ahead um i did read over every name like i did the uh certified staff for classified and i just want to thank every employee who is going to sign their contract preemptively thank you because i know it's always a hard decision on where to go and especially this one a little more hard because i've i'm seeing the pay increase elsewhere and we're trying our best and i just i appreciate every one of you who decides to stay with higley thank you yes all right 8.3 this is our salary schedules and rate adjustments i move that the governing board approves the adjustments of the salary schedules and base rates as presented in the attached excel spreadsheet effective for the new fiscal year july 1 2022.

um i just wanted to have a brief uh disclosure on this item the company in class today that is the subject of this item i wanted to disclose that i do have a working relationship with them through my day job i'm not very familiar with their work but i do send them data on a regular basis in fact i'm currently troubleshooting some issues with our data going to them um but you know just in the interest of disclosure i wanted to put that out there before anderson hi trustee pope aye trustee kelly aye trustee lee hi and just in the interest of fairness i will sing and it has been approved okay information items um ag completion improvement grant plan do i have a emotional list and these are just items of information it's really just to put it out there we needed to make sure it was agendas for the avg part of the the process for the grant and then second one the upward bound we just i just to be honest want to make it where this is a part of the trio grant and i want to just make sure that you guys saw that we were taking some of our students or actually our students couldn't attend it's not necessarily our field trip but i just thought it was worthy of you guys seeing that we do offer this great opportunity for our students through which was perfect timing through the trio and ets and we didn't plan that but so um okay so moving on to business items uh business item a resolution number 22 21-22 resolution calling for general district election second account do we not have another discussion number upward bound for you this is okay um so business item a do i have a motion second what's the motion and we have a second yes okay um guys make a brief comment just so that the board of communities where so our district sits within two two counties and annually or annually when election cycles come up we must certify the board saying that we have seats that are up so this item business item a is the uh district calling for the general district election for sac county for the three seats that we have on the 2022 cycle and then b which you'll consider next is the placer county um pump at the second thing so just some people where it's just calling for the election okay so is there any discussion on this item okay should you just call for this comment oh sorry thank you people commented okay do we have general consent yes okay so that is approved moving on to business item b resolution number 23 21-22 essentially the same thing for placer county and we're a second second okay and what what scott said is just to get on the ballot so do we have any public comment i it appears i do have one um it's a phone number so the person with the 415 area code please unmute your mic hello hello can you hear me yes well actually there was some type of glitch and i wanted to make something comment on artists that were not on the intended okay is it still open uh yes we're being flexible on that because we we recognized there was a glitch so we will go back to that could you please identify yourself my name is connor okay thank you i just wanted to make a quick comment um it's probably you can work with uh back to school they're having their um open house back to school night and day i think it's like clubs and i think they're very late in the school year to do something like that and normally events like that take place in the fall so in the future i would hope that it would take place earlier in the school year preferably before december so that is my comment at this time when i decided not on the agenda okay thank you very much okay going back to business item b um did we have any discussion on that no okay do we have general consent yes okay approved moving on to business item c diversity in elementary curriculum uh it's a information discussion item do i have any motion ingredients to the floor okay and a second second okay so mr jordan all right good evening if i can't i'm gonna take a 15 second bird walk here although i knew mr jackson was retiring it sunk in for some reason when you guys mentioned that i just want to say mr jackson steve i've always had um your insights your opinions everything just the way you handled yourself so thank you you have the best laugh in the history so thank you i appreciate you doing that so tonight we're going to start talking about uh diversity and the curriculum this is a huge topic obviously they could go on for hours and hours so think of this as the beginning and the last slide you're going to see the last part of my presentation is where do you want to go next on this journey so tonight i've narrowed it down to diversity in the elementary school curriculum and specifically that curriculum that we adopt and specifically social studies so if uh could you please thank you all right and i'm going to be the first to admit i cannot match colors to save my life but this is not color coordinated all right so uh diversity in the uh elementary school curriculum specifically social studies so all the social studies curriculum at the elementary level is developed useful actually at the k-12 level it's developed using the guidance of the fair act that came out in 2011 and that stands for the fair accurate inclusive and respectful act and what this did uh did and we're going to talk a little bit more about this is put the guidelines for what is diversity what does it mean within the curriculum what needs to be covered by the curriculum uh what is it that teachers can and cannot do within that topic in the curriculum and what are the uh responsibilities of school boards when they adopt uh curriculums so just to give you a quick idea of what the process is for adopting curriculum at the elementary action at the middle school level as well the state vets all the curriculums then they give you a choice and then you go as a district out of those choices the state says you can pick from and you pilot a few and then out of those that's what you pick so in our case uh we adopted our social studies curriculum in may of 2019 and again that's uh materials that have already been vetted by the state to make sure they met in this case the fair act so what is diversity uh in terms of the fair act how is it in this law how is it defined and i'm going to read this word for word i know i know you all can read but i want to make sure that that i don't skip anything accidentally so under the fair act diversity is defined as instruction and social sciences shall include the early history of california and a study of the role and contributions of both men and women native americans african-americans mexican-americans asian-americans pacific islanders european americans lesbian gay bisexual and transgender americans persons with disabilities and members of the other ethnic and cultural groups to the economic political and social development of california and the united states of america with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society so they've defined in the longest sentence known to the english language they've defined what diversity is in the curriculum and this will be not only a social studies curriculum in all the curriculums that we adopt and i added the coloring and the underlying that's not part of the law that's that was my emphasis then under the fair act the direction it gives to a teacher so a teacher shall not give instruction and a school district shall not sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias on the basis of race or ethnicity gender religion disability nationality sexual orientation or because of a characteristic listed in section 220. so they're giving guidance to the teacher and now they're going to give guidance to the state board and local boards the state board and any governing board shall not adopt any textbooks or other instructional materials for use in the public schools that contain any matter reflecting adversely upon persons on the basis of race or ethnicity gender religion disability nationality sexual orientation or because of a characteristic again listed in section 220.

there's always attrition students apply in their junior year and then they go through an intake process they have an interview and then you spend time with them trying to provide students and families information about building a class schedule and so then usually there's some attrition over summer students have a little panic oh my gosh i'm not ready for this i want to go back to the high school and they can do that this is a voluntary independent study program and so generally the class is somewhere between 35 to 30 each year and what's your normal like a weekly schedule like for you so a weekly schedule for us is the students each fall and spring semester they're taking 9 to 11 college units and then we have we're a hybrid program so we have one face-to-face class in the morning and that's at butte college on the main campus that's the purpose of having that class early in the morning is so students will have the greatest array of college classes to take during a school day so that they can still continue to participate in extracurriculars at their high schools or outside of a traditional school day and then i have office hours and i'm meeting with students outside of that class period and then the students complete the rest of their other three high school senior courses through independent study so they have face time so we can work as a cohort work together and join together with paradise college connection students and oroville college connection students to broaden our experience bring in college guest speakers and resources and then also allow them flexibility and access to college courses and then that opportunity with independent study to begin to develop their time management skills so you're kind of looking over their shoulder a little bit yeah yeah accountability everybody needs it caitlin i have question a couple questions but first it's always nice to see past students come up and to be able to say hi so that's fun i always remember them as middle schoolers so it's really fun to see those you know adulthood type things coming up my question about the program is first of all i'm curious if the instructors know who are college connection students in their classes typically or if it's forthcoming information so there is a process what happens is the students enter and are in their classes for approximately the first four to five weeks of the semester so they can establish themselves as a student our students generally come in like they've come from a gym right they've come from an academic gym they're used to being in school they're used to doing homework they're used to getting it done butte college community colleges are one of the most diverse college campuses that exist and so there are re-entry students and there are working parents and so our students come in they hit the ground running and they also have support and then approximately five weeks into the semester our support staff at u college will notify every instructor of the college connection students enrolled in their courses with a brief description of the program the name of their advisor contact information of their advisor and encouragement to let us know how we can support the students and the faculty member and have having the student be successful i'm also located at butte college campus i've been there since 2007 so i have relationships with a lot of faculty and staff and it's wonderful when they walk by and say hey you know i've got this student can you give me some background on them or how can we you know get them to be successful or can you encourage them to come to office hours so it's a good relationship in that sense so that for those first few weeks they don't know so if i was a college instructor and ethan was in my class i wouldn't necessarily be able to be like oh yeah that's actually a high school student that's so cool um and then are there limitations on the types of classes that they can take or is kind of the whole catalog at their disposal so the district of view college have agreed nine units during the regular term minimum state education code says 11 units maximum 12 units is full time and then at butte college there are some limitations students a lot of students come in and say they're interested in nursing or medical careers they need to have graduated from high school completed the prerequisites and apply and be accepted to the nursing program so they cannot take any nursing specific classes but thanks to assist.org there are a lot of there's a lot of information so oftentimes we guide the students into prerequisite courses science and math they have to have the appropriate prerequisite knowledge but i have students who are in college physics who are in math which is calculus calculus 2 based on what they've accomplished in high school so some of their high school coursework can serve as prerequisite and they have a few limitations but not a large amount of limitations i have one more question i promise and i'm done so you've already mentioned about how many students are in the program each year but i don't know if i heard maybe i just missed it um about how many apply so i'm curious about like what is the the demand for getting into the program versus how many actually get to be in the program so the demand is different every year and most recently the application pool again covered numbers it's been smaller it's been around 50 prior to covid it was you know mid 60s to 70s are applying and would you say that there's a higher percentage of those who would who who would be good candidates that don't get into the program because it's limited to that you know 30 to 35 range so the practice has been to screen students and gpa is one factor college graduation requirements is one factor and then two teacher recommendations is another factor and then student application statement and essay and parent statement so try to evaluate the student holistically and we purposely accept students in each gpa range 2.0 to 4.0 so 2.0 to 2.5 2.5 to 2.99 so there are students being accepted from each gpa range and the students really one of the most important factors is that they have and they show and they display a level of willingness to communicate and maturity because they are in a more independent environment and so any time that we're approaching kind of a limit of how many students we can take that's a great time to implement kind of a probationary acceptance and not put a student on a waitlist but bring them in make sure they have classes make sure they're on board they know about the program they know about the goals they know why they're there and what it's about because again there is attrition generally from when they're accepted in february to when the program begins in august so we've got ways to kind of flex and accommodate at this point in time there are no students who are qualified who are being left behind thank you all right so anyone else this did you no okay this is a information only so we don't need to take any action i do want to let you all know that was a very appreciative presentation thank you so much all right so we do have a discussion action next that's a.g completion improvement grant and miss tina clean hello good evening good to see everybody that was enjoyable to follow it was really great this is good news coming our way chico unified has secured six hundred thirty five thousand five hundred twenty eight dollars in grant funding from the california department of education strictly going toward a to g completion it's called the ag completion grant and it actually is a two part so tonight is just uh per statute is to let you know about it let you know that we drafted a plan to go to the state as required and i will be back at the next meeting for the approval so that's again per statute on that but the money will be going toward opening up uh 33 sections between our two high schools in the um in the the eight period day or the eighth period block scheduling that will be um coming up next year between the two schools so it will greatly increase uh opportunities for students to take those a to g courses and some intervention courses so they can be able to complete those classes so it's pretty exciting uh one of the questions i had and i think that i thought this was a genius move is are we going to also have advisors or counselors to help these students who might [Music] not really see the connection between a to g and a college option so the way i understand it is they do complete plans every student completes a plan with their counselor and with us all moving at both high schools moving this direction and knowing this increase is there it will i am hopeful and i i know mr shepard can help and yeah the administrators make sure that the students know about these opportunities okay john did you want to add something so the students when they come in actually starts their eighth grade eighth grade year in january and february they start to look at the different plans and decide which courses are would fit their schedule with eight periods there's much more availability and sometimes kids now or kids will be able to either take a cte pathway and a through g or both which is remarkable yeah okay like i said a stroke of genius so you'll come back uh well what's the action tonight then for us if you have to come back it went under discussion action because i understand they go together but um it'll be back for action action okay the next meeting yes all right any other questions all right thank you so much thank you so um we're moving to business services transportation update and i do have a speaker card so there will be a speaker on this as well good evening board district staff i just wanted to take a second before i get into this presentation which i have no idea how to operate this thing i just wanted to uh thank you guys for all that you've done for us um outside of the fleet uh i wanted to thank the board and the district staff and especially john carver for uh improving our facility uh the office space is new now the we have a new break room we have new bathrooms it's just fabulous and i wanted to thank you guys especially john carver as he said he'd give me ten dollars for every time i said his name oh oh there you go so the school bus replacement plan okay you need help with uh you're doing okay it's sort of flipping though okay let's start off with the pass all right the fleet back in 2016 looked like this as you can see we had 1985 buses 1990 buses we had a fleet of 16 type 1 buses which is a large general led buses and we had 23 of the smaller type 2 wheelchair and ambulatory specialist student buses it was pretty tired back in 2016.

any questions comments or concerns go ahead no okay all those in favor aye aye motion carries five zero okay moving on to 9.1 is there anything that my uh board would like to see in a future presentation or work study president yes um i know we're going to be going over our strategic plan and and update information i was just wondering when we do that could we also i want to make more work i know you guys have a lot going on but can we also hit on the areas that the goals we previously had and that they were how they were completed and a lot of that is also driven by dr tree i this board has had a goal and vision of our professional development and it took us a long time to find the right person as our professional development director and coordinator and all the professional development you've done and then the care that you're putting into this adoption for our staff to make sure they're supported and um so that's only one portion but there's so much from that initial strategic plan and goals that we've talked about that even the previous board had a vision that you guys have made a reality and so if we can when you do your update if we can just touch on you guys wanted this professional development was a priority look at this is what we've done you don't have to list it we joked about it in our board retreat a little bit some of our status reports are are the dr chris street report because he has done so much in a particular week on supporting our teachers and the professional development and i think we went from no professional development to i just like i said the whole status report's full of it and it's so appreciative and and i don't know if any of our teachers don't feel supported please come forward and and talk to somebody because everything that we're seeing i just don't see how that's possible so um just when we do our update can you blind a little bit and touch on what we are doing we we were going to do professional development update in june so do you want it to you want both i was just using that as an example of okay that was part of our initial strategy okay um there's so many things that we had for goals and strategic plans that have now come to fruition yes professional development was only a piece of that i was just using that as an example i don't i don't want you to do a lot of work but you guys can check mark and just do brief updates when we do our strategic plan um update like this is the old one look at check here this is we have dr chris treat you guys read everything he does you know another one was our science you know our textbooks and look here check this this is what we're doing so if you can just provide that when you do our update president caleb maurice i'm thinking something similar to what we did in our retreat a few weeks ago where we hit each one of those goals and we'll do a quick summary of the progress made toward it i will be happy to provide that update for the for the general public thank you because i think it's important you guys do so much work but you don't talk about it there's so much that goes behind the scenes um miss martin's miss richards i mean everything we were talking about that you guys have done behind the scenes um i think that we just need a little moment to to be able to show that and show everything you've done without creating a lot of work please no problem thank you anything else all righty we are going to go into a work study now at this time are we staying in this room are we going to our educational conference room um educational services conference room and we will be adjourning in there so thank you and good night that that meeting is continued to be open public so if you want to join us you are more than welcome you

this is going to uh this is going to further define uh what needs to happen in the curriculum and what is included in our curriculum and i'm doing this as the the baseline the background and then i'm going to show you some examples of our curriculum and if i can get you more to help me click the thank you once we get there we're about two slides away appreciate it okay when adopting instructional materials for use in schools governing boards shall include only instructional materials which in their determination accurately portray the cultural and racial diversity of our society including the contributions of both men and women in all types of roles including professional vocational and executive roles the role and contributions of native americans african-americans mexican-americans americans asian-americans pacific islanders european americans lesbian gay bisexual and transgender americans persons with disabilities and members of other ethnic and cultural groups to the total development of california and the united states the role and contributions of the entrepreneur and the labor and the total development of california in the united states so they're fur they're kind of expanding on their previous definition and then this is back to this local school board what is it under this act that you're responsible for so the governing board shall not adopt or aid not be a governing board shall not adopt any instructor materials for the use in the schools that is in its determination contained any matter reflecting adversely upon persons on the basis of race or ethnicity gender religion disability nationality sexual orientation occupation or because of a characteristic listed in section 220 and then it's going to go on again and you'll see they're they're slowly expanding now they're talking about occupations that wasn't in the other parts of this and i'm almost just showing you our actual curriculum here with me i see the shot clock's not going down so i still have three so this comes out of the frameworks so we deal with the standards and the frameworks and right out of that and i'm not going to read this one but if you could please lauren if you could click oops i gotta click first there you go doctrine or propaganda contrary to law jump ahead there if you could could you click the green i think that is thank you so this is one of the the links i put in there so that parents or whoever can go and see the actual frameworks of what it talks about this is a super long document we don't have time to go through this now but i want to give that as a reference for you to look at this is what the curriculum is based on are these frameworks oh i can't click anymore there we go okay so it's part of the adoption in any adoption and then this one as well we actually put the curriculum in the annex building which is well here but specifically in the next building right up there where uh the curriculum instruction office is so anyone can come in and view it we probably had eight to ten families come in and do this uh the curriculum uh studies weekly which is the social studies curriculum um and they some spent you know hour or two hours going through it looking through it in addition uh mr lair uh mrs lawson myself we went through every single one of the study's weekly uh pages they're like little newspapers we went through every every one um which was a lot 52 times 6.

so the present let's see what we're looking at now if you look at the type 1 buses this is what our replacement's like now we have a total of 14 buses since we have more dependable buses we're able to lower the amount of buses that we have which makes it easier on our mechanics to maintain we run currently seven generated routes we plan on doing nine general red house routes pretty soon and so we can get a couple more drivers as you can see the fleet age has now dropped down to an average of about 2011 with an average of 123 000 miles so we've made vast improvements in the type 1 buses the type 2 buses you can see we went from 23 total in 2016 to 21 total now with 17 routes we only have 12 older buses that are uh beyond the year of 2012.

okay so now here we go that the parent brochure again could you click the uh cd elementary social studies and again here's just another resource for you to look at i'm not going to go through it right now and then there's a little survey they'd like you to take at the top to give them feedback this is from the cde all right if you could be back please thank you that's a good team all right so now finally two some examples so what does this actually look like how does this fair act actually look within the true curriculum so studies weekly instead of a textbook it's a think of like the old scholastic reader it's like three or four pages a week and then it has the topics for the week that you would go through and it's full of graphics and pictures and that kind of stuff so in the kindergarten level uh how you're going to see the fair actor trade is mostly in pictures in their graphics and i'm going to show you examples because kindergartners obviously they're not they're not reading much yet could you could you type on the kindergarten please ah could you tap on that week four i'm walking over there like you can see that the very top one there you go all right so this is week four um so you're going to see in the pictures they're going to talk about or excuse me they're going to show kids of different racial backgrounds ethnicities so on and so forth and you're going to see their topics are everyone is important and they're going to talk in this week's unit about we need to value everyone everyone's important every opinion is important could you go to the next there's a little arrow on the side of that next there you go so they're going to talk about what is fairness equality we need we need to be kind to everyone they're very inclusive we need to be kind to everyone when you look at the pictures you're going to see there's a student with down syndrome they're trying to look at the pictures in the graphics and cover all the different areas that they talked about in their definition if you could click in the next little arrow and you'll see even in the graphics uh whereas before to be honest it used to be all caucasian kids uh you're seeing it a little bit different now clear is going to see ben franklin i don't know why so you can see here there's more they're going to show families they're going to show different configurations of families sometimes it's uh two dads or two moms uh there's they're going to show it and grab and pictures again and graphics can you click again thank you and then obviously the teacher and then the kids and so next one this is week 14.

you can see we still need some work in that area now the future what we have right now is we have five more buses on order we have wheelchair buses all of them uh one electric bus and the other four are diesel and this will give us only seven older buses left at the end of the cycle now this is how we got from where we were to where we are now we've spent as a district 4.5 million dollars on vehicles of that we received 2.2 million dollars in grant money and we've used 1.2 million dollars in ester money so out of the districts um the general fund we've only had to spend 1.1 million dollars on a purchase of 4.5 million dollars in buses so we're doing everything we can jacqueline and i have discussed we're looking at trying to start a replacement cycle where we can replace a one bus gear and go forward with that so that we don't run into this problem again uh previous to me starting here we didn't have a replacement program so we've made some some serious steps forward um and we're going to continue to do that were there any questions i i was going to ask you and it was a couple of slides back but you were going pretty fast there was a classification i didn't know what the 1v meant this is the uh this slide because we have type twos and type ones we have the type ones are the general led buses the large okay buses we'll look at see you there on c in the capacity yeah right the v stands for variable seating what we do in the old days what we do is we buy a bus and it was uh configured in a certain path so that we couldn't adjust it now we buy variable uh seating buses so we buy like a 45 passenger bus and we can take out three or four sets of seats and make it a 40 passenger bus and two wheelchairs which is a lot more flexible for us yeah okay good excuse me bob thank you i know that our our problem with transporting students to after-school sports and things has been an issue probably more because drivers than buses where are we with that currently we have one guy who's testing tomorrow who'll be certified and then we have another lady who's going to be being certified on april 3rd or may 3rd so we've lost a couple of drivers over this last year due to different reasons but we're still able to provide two buses for the uh after school programs one for chico high one for pv we're hoping to be able to go back to two again really soon ah that was yeah it's we're very blessed let me tell you because a lot of school districts have not been able to do any but for almost the whole school year we've been able to at least provide one bus for per high school to perform transportation for all the uh one of the um things that we talked about two years ago maybe three when when i was riding one of the electric buses in one of the demonstrations was the um the range uh which was one of the reasons why we didn't anticipate putting the electric buses into the fleet for like football going to lassen um has that improved are are we at all limited because of the range of our electric we figured out a way to get about 120 230 miles each day on the electric buses and we charge them in between an opportunity to charge we pick up like 50 60 miles we've also applied for a grant to purchase which is called a fast charger this charger will charge the bus to 80 in about an hour and a half oh my gosh the problem with the fast charge is they cost about fifty thousand dollars so yeah so right now we've applied for a grant to receive one we're also in the process of uh pg e uh doing some work to provide more power to the artist right now we're just tapped out of power so we found a grant to provide more power to the yard and then there's another grant to buy some slower chargers so we're trying to get as much grant money into the process as possible but yeah the electric buses we can get fast chargers it it changes the game yeah it really does but it goes from a four-hour needed five hour meeting to get the charge back up to an hour hour and a half i was driving by the courtyard the other day and the buses were all gone yeah and we went oh my gosh somebody stole all our school buses and then on the way back from my destination realized oh they're resurfacing right we reserved the parking lot with uh it's called technically gorilla snot it's an overs glue we just put it down on the yard and it uh it's a dust suppressant it keeps the dust from going it's really really a good product at that that just the visual of not having any buses there versus how many we have was striking and i i love the idea of the replacement schedule um yeah because some of our kiddos you know if it weren't for our transportation being provided to them they wouldn't make it to school on a regular basis i agree completely so thank you mr antobaros for your support yes ma'am um so so um speaking on the electric bus situation is there um any kind of goal or objective with how many electric buses we would like to have going into the future as long as the infrastructure gets put into place right the infrastructure we've designed so far is for an additional six electric buses we currently are in the process of applying for another grant to receive two more large electric buses um so we'll have the ability to to to grant in four more provided that the technology continues to improve uh our first electric bus the the technology was not very good and the range was not as good as the newer buses so as we've gone in the years the the technology has improved and the range has continued to increase and then my follow-up question is um how do you all determine who has to drive the old buses oh well john carver decides that it's 40 bucks i just hope that it gets spread around a little bit so nobody really feels like they're they're missing out no we do our best we can to be fair there was one other thing i wanted to bring to the board's attention there's a bill working its way through the legislation right now is sb 878 and the bill basically says that all auditions are going to be mandated to provide free transportation to all students going to their school of residence with with that live further than a mile for secondary and more than half a mile for primary school there's also a mechanism to provide funding for generative transportation this is the the paperwork on if you guys want to take some time and look at it it's still a ways off of further gonna make this mandatory but i just want to make sure everybody's aware that it's possible coming yes oh good eileen yes i read the bulletin and an overview of that legislation and i thought at the time my goodness is anybody asked if we have enough drivers to i was um concerned about several aspects of it so have been following the updates on where that legislation is so i i appreciate you continuing to monitor and bring it to our attention because it could be significant yes ma'am the original draft for the the year implementation was 2020 22-23 but they've kicked it back to 27-28 so there is some time but again the positives of this is they're going to provide funding for the general ed so that would be helpful also but chica unified is no different than in the other district up and down the state we too are struggling to find drivers so to your point mr robinson it's not only a chica unified struggle it is a struggle up and down the state but we do have an in-district um trainer now and that has tremendously helped and bob's been influential in getting those groups of new hires through um getting them trained up so we can get drivers and kids to school yeah we've been able to stay in front of the the curve so it's a national thing really yeah across the country there's a shortage of school bus drivers yeah but we've been fortunate and blessed to be able to see in front of that okay were there any other questions well we have two guest speakers our speaker cards and so they may have a question so if you'll kind of hang the first one i have is richard roth thank you i didn't have a chance to be in like the college connected program but if there's a program that does open up that's similar i i would definitely be interested in applying um on the board of directors of the children's education fund which owns property owned by uh rented by another non-profit the chico community children's center and we're in the process of installing solar panels on our buildings and i just wanted to reach out i was involved i think in that very first bus demonstration when it came i got to ride the first electric bus and so we've been talking about installing a power wall or something on our facility so that the daycare center could continue services in case of emergency or power outage and because of my experience i thought my we might be able to expand the programs for our low income child care facility with a bus and use that bus then as a backup power source in case of emergency and then i it leads me to think perhaps there's some ways in which there might be some partnerships or collaborations between the school district and our facility i just wanted to make folks aware of that and that were interested in that kind of thing and just to say hello and all right so i don't think we have a response at this point right yeah yeah we need some more details on on what that collaboration may look like but we can certainly entertain the conversation okay all right if the second person is dennis yes yeah uh he isn't able to make it today oh okay thank you then thank you all right so that was informational pardon no he's not he's not able to make it okay so um thank you for that and appreciate the presentation and i don't know dennis if you're gonna don uh carver i mean john if you're going to pass out ten dollar bills i could mention your name too okay so we're moving to the public hearing and discussion in action about the adoption of resolution number 1577-22 increasing the level one school fees and we have maria good evening we've also have lynn goober on our the line she's going to be assisting us with this matter in case there's any questions she is the district's consultant who prepared the developer fee study so as you guys may know in february of 2022 the developer fee cap raised throughout the state currently chico unified is at level one according to the study prepared by ms lynn gruber's firm it shows that we are in compliance with the local requirements in order to stay within our level 1 fees we are proposing to raise fees to what has been raised or increased for both residential and commercial construction we propose and recommend that the board moves forward with the action items a and b listed on the board agenda is there any questions or clarifications that we may provide anyone go ahead matt um i reached out to some members of the building community today um and learned that they've actually had some leadership changes in their organization um the local chico building building association and that may be why they didn't have a presence on the agenda in terms of public comment and so forth um i you know as you all know i'm pretty new to this and would like to hear what that community has to say before we move on this um so i think there is a representative here tonight that wasn't able to get a speaker card in because they weren't notified before it's katie tomah who's the head of chamber of commerce and and also i guess wearing two hats i gather so anyway that's my that's my statement at this point in time i'd like for the building community the developers and so forth to have an opportunity to give us their reasons um why they think this is a good idea or not yes go ahead um excuse me jacqueline are these uh raises that they're suggesting are they already baked into our assumptions about uh budget and whatnot for coming years so the current increase we don't have budget in for next year at this point because we didn't know we don't want to take the assumption the board will automatically approve that right so that the state board allocation um approved in february and then that gives us the ability to continue with our study that actually over justifies what the state cap is but we can only charge what the cap is from the state board and then at that point if the resolution is approved this evening then it would take into effect 60 days from today is when the rate would actually increase these rates can only change every two years so lynn do you have any comments you'd like to add we can't hear you sorry we cannot hear you lynn one moment please would you please try again oh man lynn do you have the ability to call in um while we wait and ask another question yeah um do you have specific numbers about the amount of the increase yes thank you we do just can't find those in the yeah so the residential development increased from 71 cents a square foot so it would increase to 4.79 commercial increased by 12 cents a square foot so the new price would increase to 78 cents per square foot so these fees while lynn is troubleshooting these fees are used to mitigate the cost of construction for new classrooms directly affected by the developments lynn can you try again on your zoom please yes can you hear me now perfect yeah oh you can okay i'll hang up okay great all right um i would just like to point out for the board's knowledge that the actual impact per square foot if the district was able to levy what it actually the actual impact of each new home would be 6.99 6.99 per square foot the state allocation board the uh in the level 1 fee is 4.79 square feet um per square foot so you're already only able to levy 4.79 per square foot which is a two dollar and twenty cent um twenty two dollars and twenty cents less than what we um justified in the report and that's uh the function of the california laws so and this is you know again the district's one-time ability to collect for new facilities for when new construction is going in to construct those facilities for these children so that's the only thing i'd like to point out and i'm available for questions all right uh eileen just under discretion and comment having been through uh you know many of these bi-annual yes bi-annual increases over the years and also listening to our demographers talking about the impact of housing that's already in the pipeline it was it was not a settling report and and things are moving faster now than they were three years ago and as i said we have never charged what the actual impact is and we are also at the end of um the the um the bond that was passed that we have utilized fully now in order to upgrade and expand our classrooms and programs we are looking at the increases that our tk and pre-k classroom editions are going to add we have never had a significant um protestation shall we say since the developers and others in the community realize that without a vibrant school district that can accommodate the kids that the people that buy their homes um add to it's it's not a good thing for anyone um and so i am for many reasons in favor of this increase approval and um no considering our you know our past history we do a really good job of taking care of the fees that are collected we we expand and maintain at a level that provides safe and attractive facilities for our kids and so i'm definitely in favor of approving this tonight delaying is going to put us into the territory where we we don't know even after the june budget um which has some trailers with construction and things in it um it just in my opinion it would be irresponsible to wait and not approve this tonight i have a question and hopefully our consultant can answer this in section b it talks about 78 cents per square foot of accessible space for new residential construction used exclusively for the housing of senior citizens so i was just wondering why that was a separate it's the same amount of money i just wasn't sure why it was taken as a separate statement so based upon code um senior citizen housing that again is deed restricted to only how senior citizens so we know that children will not be coming out of that housing okay it's considered more of a commercial impact oh my gosh always more on the employee side that would be assisting those seniors oh thank you that really clarifies i appreciate that sure yeah okay the other thing i'm not sure if if the public hearing has been actually officially open but this does need to be a public injury yeah we will open the public hearing as soon as the board has finished their clarifying questions but yes absolutely thank you okay will we talk during the public hearing sorry also will will we basically i'd like miss tom would have an opportunity to speak that would be like okay yes thank you okay so does anyone have a a specific question before we go to public i feel like i have questions um i don't know if i'm wrapping my head fully around this whole concept so we so the school district levies fees for any kind of new construction within within the school district and it's at a certain rate and it sounds pretty low for residential right now and it sounds like a very significant increase that is being proposed my concern is for residential um commercial didn't sound as 71 cents no no it's 71 cents per square foot bringing the rate to 4.79 so my misunderstanding was going from seventy something cents to four dollars and something since i think is what i misheard okay okay so so anyway moving along from that like i understand the purpose and the need to be able to afford to expand our facilities in order to bring in more students but my concern is the and this is maybe a consultant thing too is is that um balance that we have to make sure that as a community and this is not just as a school district that we're not driving the cost of housing up by by doing this fee increase because that will negatively impact our whole community as well as our school district as far as affordable housing goes so that's my concern is is that we would actually be impacting affordable housing availability in the community lin do you have a response it's certain it certainly is a weight and balance approach what i will say is the increase is based on the increase in the cost of construction again the state allocation board increases it every two years and this year was a healthy increase because the increase in construction has been so significant so you are seeing a higher than normal increase in the level one fee that the state allocation board approved [Music] you know i i think it's a balancing act between being able to provide the school facilities for these children to be able to get the best education possible as well as being supportive of new housing in the district and i i did want to add that it is by square foot so you're smaller more affordable housing won't increase it costs won't increase as much your larger square footage homes will see a bigger impact is density factored into that too i mean an apartment complex will bring in a lot more probable school children but it's not necessarily square footage-wise um that that much more significantly bigger than that makes sense yeah that makes sense there can be a family with four kids and a two bedroom apartment or three bedroom apartment it does not it's just a flat square foot price and i would just what we do take into consideration lynn can you repeat what you said sure what we do take into consideration is the student generation rates from all those different housing types so if you look at page eight on the report um you can see that the student generation rate um is considered for single-family dwelling single-family attached and multi-family units so the the student generation is consideration considered for all residential types but the actual fee that is imposed is the same for each residential type per square foot and i would just remind the board that this is the district's one opportunity to assess this fee so there is that fine line of acknowledging you know fair housing prices but at the same time when these housing communities or apartment complexes are built the probability of getting chica unified kids is very strong and this is our one opportunity to be able to get fees and revenue to help mitigate the construction that we know is actually going up at a much larger pace from a cost perspective than this 71 cents per square foot yeah but you don't mean tonight is our only opportunity you mean this agenda item if we were to bring it back that would the opportunity would still be available yes if it was tabled this evening to a future um meeting then we could make that decision in a future meeting the board could and then it would be 60 days after that if approved it would actually go into implementation that's one of our time frameworks it's 60 days does implementation um only impact future groundbreaking or would it would it be applied to current construction it's not applied to current construction and lynn police craft if i'm wrong but it is my understanding it is applied at the moment that a homeowner or developer goes to pull a permit she's correct she's agreeing yes so part of the polling the permit process is coming into the district office to pay those fees so if let's say the board approves it tonight if someone comes in next week they'll pay the reduced fee because that new fee wouldn't be implemented for another 60 days so there is a window and sometimes we do this we see this every other year a spike in permits being pulled with that window in order to save the contractor a little bit of money matt i have some research in front of me that just breaking out the 71 cents per foot increase over the course of a 1800 square foot home which is a nice size would it equal 1 278 increase to that home just to put things in perspective on top of what's already there which i assume i mean the the total amount what's the total what did the total amount come to the total amount is 4.79 would be the new total amount so 479 times 1800.

go ahead please thank you and they're going to go through again and we'll kind of click through these quick now there we go very it's just full of pictures and that's where you're going to get it and then this next part right yeah this is just all the standards that it covers what the teacher needs to know not for the kid this isn't part of the kid packet all right if you could you go back to that previous thank you can you hit grade five please so obviously by fifth grade kids are reading more uh and so there's going to be more uh depictions of this or examples of this in the actual writing portions and in this this grade level they're going to do it in what we call short biographies so if you could click the arrow thing there you go one more time there we go um mr burrito could you read the pontiac so they'll have these little can i step over here all right no they're gonna yeah what i've done they're going to have these little things here so in this case it's pontiac and they're going to talk about uh their role if you could click on that and touch it but i know that's not going to work keep going through we're going to go to add keep going keep going stop backwards there we go remote so crispus atticus he's going to talk about the role in the revolution and how he was fighting for freedom he was an african-american and they're gonna talk about their role and how important it was in the revolution uh and so on and so forth and i know you can't read that but you have a link to it to get to it so you kind of get the idea they're gonna have these throughout and they're gonna have those for all different uh groups within that definition as you go through the different uh um weeks of the study weekly all right if we go back to the main we go perfect okay so this obviously this is brief we can have a college course on this and go for hours this is the beginning look i look at social studies i know are there any questions on the social studies curriculum or diversity as it relates to that and then i'd like to get guidance for next month uh what is it that you want next i want to make sure i'm addressing the question but i want to make sure i know what the question is that i need to present if that makes sense can you share with us mr jordan um about how much time in each instructional day um approximately is spent on social studies i mean it's very in-depth what we've seen but how much time is devoted each day in elementary school classrooms it's going to vary and i don't know if it's going to be day to day there may be a bigger chunk of time our main focus in the beginning of the day is going to be you know math and reading um and so this isn't going to have us you know hours like that does but they're going to have a chunk of time to get through these each week and sometimes that may be maybe we do it monday wednesday friday some teachers may do a little bit every day so i may do it two or three days a week to get it to fit in where if there's a math test and something else it's going to take more time they may need a little time for that does that make sense so i can't tell you like every day in every class from 11 to 11 30 they're doing this i can't i can't tell you that um my question my next question is as a kind of a follow-up because it's really easy to show diversity in social studies you know because of the fair act and just the curriculum framework that's been adopted um but i'm i'm curious of how these social studies weeklies are being used because i'm aware of classrooms where these are literally just passed out on a friday and the students look at it for maybe 10-15 minutes there's no direct instruction around it um so it is their consistency in using of the very diverse lessons that are provided with a program they go really in depth how how often are those being utilized so for if we were to go through that teacher section which i didn't go because you can't see it first of all uh and it's long there's a little teaching section for each one of those so for example for christmas atticus there's a whole section of here's how to teach about this little biography and then he's actually in a couple of the little quizzes that they have and a couple of the other little things so as the teachers going along they actually have a built-in lesson plan for each one of those sections if you want to call it that so in that case they would have an example okay not an example here's a lesson plan for this part so here's what you you can pull out here's what you would do with this particular biography and then in the next little section whatever ben franklin whatever it is here's what you would do with this so it's very uniform in terms of the lesson plans are right there they're built in and that way honestly that's that gives everybody the same information which can be good and if you're a teacher you may say that kind of hinders my ability to be creative so there's good and bad to that i don't want to make it sound like it's perfect but that's how this particular curriculum works and do the students take the assessments uh for each week and do we have access to that data i i can check into that you're talking about the little quizzes yes there's quizzes on each article quizzes on the weekly you know overall that week it's an assessment so if we're really rigorously using it we would have that data from the assessments as well let me find out to be i don't have access to that it's not an aries or anything like that where i could pull that up but i can find out thank you yeah because that would that would kind of move away from just giving it out and never even talking about it if there was accountability of those scores available as well sure i had similar very similar questions was asking is the variation between okay this is great curriculum and is it being used so um how how do we build that accountability into the process to make sure that there is some consistency across the use of the curriculum um and i don't really answer that luckily you're an expert on that kind of thing and not me so just throwing that question out there that you know what can we do to not you know we don't want to come down on people like you know why aren't you doing this curriculum but just making it easy for us to see that there is some consistency and i like the idea of having the data of the quizzes um i would think that you know it wouldn't mean to be 100 for each class but you know just making sure that it's not being handed out at three o'clock on friday and saying here here's some reading materials for the weekend which you know that never sees the live day of the backpack so um yeah the other component i want to add was mr jordan is sharing our social studies and the fair act does apply to all curriculum so as we come back with adoptions for ela for math you're going to see those components throughout so i well i i agree i think there's staff teachers out there that will love the freedom to say hey i want to do more social studies or whatever i think that's out there but i didn't want to lose sight of this is not the only way that we address diversity within our day um there and it's it's throughout when we start seeing the new map adoption and the new ela adoption it's definitely more apparent than the previous stuff just to point that out this is not going to be a popular question but i'm going to ask it anyway how did we get from social studies to why somebody has two representation it's it's seeing images of different things and even uh talking about it but it's not teaching of know that does that mean realizing that those family units do exist correct and and that's and then it's it doesn't mean it is correct there's yeah there's not to my knowledge there's not an article or something about that but they're depicting in pictures so if a kid is sitting in class and that is their their life story then they feel like okay well that's what i understand right i wouldn't classify it as social studies no the fair act is about all curriculum so maybe i wasn't clear if their act is about all curriculum i'm just picking social studies because it's freshly adopted even though the fair app came out like 2011 it takes publishers a while to catch up i mean it takes years and sorry that was my point is going to be consistent throughout our curriculum as we go forward it's not specifically teaching but it certainly is law that you can't not there's certain groups you can't go against so that that's the point but it's not social studies was just the example and we wanted to get a starting point so we can show that there are things happening can we get better obviously everyone can get better at what we're doing but this was our first one that really i think we adopted that actually had to comply with it yeah right yeah right before so i think math is our next one that we have coming up on right so we'll you'll see that but it won't be math teaching about family structure it will be examples within the images or the word problems or whatever will be representative of all based on the graph i think that that structure that's behind all the curriculum is about you know just making sure that we're having representation from all walks of life right so that not necessarily we're not teaching about maybe we're not even teaching about the family unit in social studies but the representation there is is in the picture so that it's normalized so that it is representative of the act of when you're in the social studies curriculum and you're depicting a family you're not automatically assuming that it's a male female parents um 2.5 children you're you're you're showing a family another time you're showing a different family and just like all families in our community have different makeups these families will have different makeup sometimes soon that's fine i understand that and a good example in that kindergarten one that we showed in the beginning it talks about equality which in kindergarten be nice to everybody and then the pictures on that page if there's all different colors and male female and a kid with down syndrome and just be nice to everyone that's what it's trying to get to it's not going to say look in this picture this kid has two dads or whatever or whatever and you also see the student students with disabilities i mean there's yeah there's different students so there's different representations it's not just one thing and so i think the idea behind the fair act is if a student could look at a picture let's say and identify that ah that looks like me that's that's good versus it all being a similar okay you know mr jordan given us so much of their day does revolve around english language arts and math um you ask what are what we would like to review next possibly one of those core subjects and how diversity is is reflected in the curriculum there might be helpful for some of our constituents who have raised the the question of concern around this topic um and i would further i'm sorry steve actually we never asked for comments on this so before we get too far into discussions i think that's where i was going with it too is also the educational piece of when we go to adopt you might not see the same representation in the curriculum that we adopted previously but when we come to the new one you'll understand why the the approved materials are what they what they are and so you'll you'll notice it because like our ela curriculum while there is some diversity within it it's not the same as is what we see here and it will be good to get a hand on the pulse of what is in our classrooms right now by looking at what are we currently doing and and then we'll be able to see as a board the shift and in the future adoptions based on the options they have available to us and what sorry i'm going to commercial here one thing i i i would really advise and i over the years i probably i know it worked for somebody longer i come in and spend some time looking through the materials um i know board members in the past i've i've given them stacks on delray i'm looking at you i know i've given you stacks of them and you're like well really i'm like here here's the whole spectrum go for it so i would advise either come in or we'll get samples when we get to that point because that is another big decision that you guys all all make and you should be extremely well informed and feel comfortable with what it what it's representing yeah just to speak to that i came in for the science curriculum and it was very fascinating i kind of wish i was back in high school so that i could take some of those classes but uh yeah you know really good ideas okay before we continue the discussion do we have any public comments no we do have qualcomm right in the right one please first hi um my name is james anderson parent of a student in elementary uh within the district uh first i want to thank dr lee your point about how much of this is being provided to the students is it just an afterthought i'm so glad you made that comment because i i think this is very important and the way that the district and the board is addressing uh diversity and how to represent that i just love it i'm a big fan of it it's positive it's helping people understand that there's more than just one kind of person in the world so so i really appreciate it and i appreciate the direction the board is going thank you thank you very much okay any other public comments before we get back to the discussion okay so only because i'm a i'm a task person and i'm a journalist too so what we would look for bringing back what's interesting is looking at our ela and map ela one time map later just some direction to see and maybe what it is is we can bring the overviews of some of the curriculum we have and then get that going we can see how big of a presentation that be and then kind of guide it out for you math might be the next one to look at because math is on the next horizon for us to adopt but i'm i'm open for any of that just seems logical because i think we could start piloting next year and are we talking about elementary we're talking about middle high school what what i think a variety of examples i would personally prefer to stick with elementary for now kind of go through elementary and then okay but i don't know i'm i can be flexible in this one of the things that i'm interested in is the differentiation between having diversity in our curriculum and having curriculum about diversity so i think that's probably going to come in at the high school level more so than at the elementary but i'm definitely interested in seeing those two aspects so there's a clear understanding that we have diversity in all of our subjects we're talking about you know great mathematicians who were from abf or whatever and we're also teaching what is diversity so two different things and i don't know if we are teaching what is diversity but i'd be interested in seeing what you do in that arena at the high school level there isn't like a semester course called diversity but ethnic studies is going to be in that realm so that so if we pause that for a minute look at the elementary as you say and then that is coming up epic studies will come up because by 20 20 it's like two years we have to adopt a course of study for high school students so there will be four graduates since the law that there will be a requirement to take ethnic studies courses so that will be coming because we want your input through that so by that are you saying that we don't actually have anything in that not a specific specific if you're if you're not like a specific course necessarily but just within the existing courses are we talking about diversity itself as opposed to presenting a diverse curriculum do you understand what i'm saying are we talking about diversity yes is there a purchased curriculum on called diversity or something like that no if i'm under i'm not sure i'm understanding the question correctly but there's not a course yeah i mean are we teaching about the topic of diversity as opposed to teaching a diverse um spectrum uh in a particular like you're teaching about math are you talking about the contributions of a diverse you know people throughout history that's one aspect but if you're in english and are we talking about what is diversity right and and teaching about does anybody understand the difference that i'm trying to make at the point that i'm going to make here i i guess then come up with ethnic studies but is there something similar to that being taught that's not necessarily a specific curriculum but part of other curriculums the curriculum is right so there isn't i couldn't go to a class and say on the second week of november we're going to have this lesson on diversity if that's what you're is that what you mean but i can say it's dead it's coming up in the high school classes yeah right conversations absolutely yeah teachers do it on their own they bring it into their own classroom as you can you know what it brings into the curriculum yeah i think they'll it will formalize more when we get the requirement for that accepted course but now i would say it's more informal throughout but like you mentioned kelly about uh math you know i know i see in like in middle school and high school classified with contributions from people from all i mean and i know that's not it but they would obviously at that point talk about the diversity as it really said but but like identifying and you know discussing debating that might come up in some english classes but i i can't put my finger on a specific one that would say yes this happens every i mean i guess defining what is diversity what is equity what is equality and having a course of study about that topic as opposed to having diverse examples of mathematicians you know two different things right and so i i i beat this day first move on one of the things i appreciate the fair act is it does define diversity because i think that means different things to different people and the word equality does too when we saw the definition for equality in that kindergarten i'm not pointing there that's me but when we see equality it said be nice to everybody i don't think that's the first thing that comes to mind when i think of the definition of equality but to a kindergartner that makes perfect sense yes correct because there is a lag on our video we do have a public comment now okay so it's a call-in listener again it's the phone number starting with 415.

eight thousand six hundred twenty two dollars yeah on a new home but again the context of this is this money is the only source that we get to add to our ability to actually improve our schools expand our schools in we know that we're going to have a new set of students because of the change in the law about traditional i mean excuse me transitional kindergarten and um so in additional to any future students we may have with these developments we will have more students or we predict to have more students with our current developments right because of the tradition change in the world tk in addition in our experience and in numbers we're seeing in construction and in construction projects our escalation is far higher than 71 cents a square foot compared to what we were paying a year ago so it's in my opinion its economy is scales all right so we need to open this up uh to a public hearing uh and we can do that right now and so then somebody in the audience would like to make a comment you're welcome i think it is it's still three minutes yeah okay three minutes katie okay so i apologize for not understanding the protocol i thought much like the city council you show up you fill out a speaker card so otherwise we would have had a letter and you would have had a speaker card by noon today so i apologize for that um i am the executive director of the chico builders association no longer affiliated with the chamber so this is my my one gig so um like i said my name is katie toma and i am the executive director of the chico builders association and i'm here tonight to express our opposition to the significant increase in developer fees as noted in the agenda the school district hired an outside consultant to conduct a justification study the development community would have appreciated the opportunity to have reviewed the justification study since the increase is so significant and we have a lot of questions is there actually is there an actual need to build additional schools if so is that need expected to require a build is enrollment up is the district not collecting enough in fees to seek additional funding currently inspire school is conduct conducting their own capital campaign to raise funds for their new campus on bruce road and we're wondering did the consultant take that into consideration how much does the school district need to support a bond to build a school the proposed increases are much greater than inflation so we are questioning the justification for the increase what this increase means in dollars as as um board member tennis talked about was the 71 cents um to the 18 for on an 1800 square foot home is almost 1300 which is a 17.5 percent increase with the increase in cost of land and building materials this cre increase in fees could price folks out of the dream of home ownership the building and development community have enjoyed a good relationship with chico unified over the years we've supported school bonds volunteers and donated to various causes we would have appreciated some notice that you had hired a consultant to review the fees and would have hoped that you would have given us the courtesy of sharing the outcome of the consultant's justification study prior to tonight's meeting we are asking for an opportunity to review the study prior to you making a decision tonight on the fees and if you're not open to delaying your vote tonight we are respectfully requesting that you phase the fees the fee increase in thank you unless you have any questions for me can you explain what you mean by phase the fee and so if so it's two years so maybe you would you would only collect you know a portion of the fees the first year and then you would increase the fees on the second year no you can't you only can increase the fees every two years okay it's not like you can keep on going what i'm saying is that so if you okay i understood there was a delay though with in the covid cycle two years ago that there was a kind of a delay okay no we did this we did a study two springs ago in the spring of 2020 and raised fees came to the board in may of 2020 with implementation in july of 2020.

please send you your phone hello hello hello hello yes we're here to hear you again i'm going to thank to thank mr jordan for the presentation however i'm um i'm disappointed in the fact that the people that were portraying the presentation are the same people i saw growing up and that's been quite a while ago and i think that california can do much better um basically it doesn't say anything about the black queen that california's names after it doesn't say anything about even just within the state of california the contributions um that people of african descent have made i mean you're the city of folsom was founded and it was owned by a black man and i i can go on and on and on but i'm not going to do that um you know there's something in your home that was created by an african-american this is the filament and the monitor if it's your heating and ventilation or air conditioning the rotary blade and the lawn mower or the refrigerator trucks we see on the street every day when we're driving there is something in your home that was created by the african-american and the emphasis i say american because not only african-americans people of color has been left out i didn't experience any of this from dudley elementary school i would like to know in terms of all of your schools do you have a picture of the president vice president the latino team finisher as well as a picture of senator dianne feinstein i mean are we telling the children about the contributions of people of all colors i know about irish and their labor giving us supplies important lakes in lake michigan i know about the actual accusers who built the panama canal a lot of them died i know about the asians who built the variable victims a lot of these died and they would stroll over there and continue building but i feel my question has not been answered parts of it has been addressed but overall i am trying to say that it's just american history it's not so much just african american history or asian american history i didn't see anything um doing latino heritage month i didn't see um i apologize latino hispanic month i didn't see anything about native americans i don't think kids understand the importance of them being cold breakers and world war ii and how that was crucial uh to the united states and europe winning that war so i am just saying that in today's terms i'm not looking back to 200 years i'm talking about in contemporary times and i do know that people of color especially if you look at ken burns and the pbs series people of color are left out and i'll just say this um even women i mean most people don't even know that the original astronauts trained by nasa were women and it was john glenn who persuaded nasa to use men and that's very important in addition to the movie hidden figures where the african-american women did calculations without computers to project how long and resistance to get to the moon and john clinton relied on one of those women's calculations to bring them back from orbit and another movie i will say last week that i think kids should see is october sky because it's about kids who grew up in the coal mining area and their teachers did not want them to not inspire them to go on your column you can go work in the columbine line with your father but they had two really good teachers whom they came across and it was four boys who had some ambition and one of the four boys went on to become one of the most pronounced engineers in nasa so i am talking about contemporary issues and just exposing your children to all of these people to all of them in society and if you don't have a picture of congresswoman matui senator alex padilla dianne feinstein the vice president and the president they will give you one for free and thank you very much but this is an ongoing subject but thank you for putting it on me agenda finally and lastly does the elementary school updated their weekly um electronic mailer and they did put some some things in there about people of color but it wasn't there before so thank you and i hope this is an ongoing issue because i'm just talking about american and general thank you very much thank you okay so as far as planning what to discuss next elementary so let me ask this question how how big would the english and math compose be would it be better to space them out into individual meetings or do them both at once i i guess so depending like let's let's take english what would you want me to bring in uh pieces that were written by different diverse authors would you want me to bring in you know pictures like that at kindergarten level what would you want me to bring in to present specifically samples of how the curriculum aligns with fair act um and i mean basically like what you did today with social studies that was very useful for me because you crosswalked it like the act and why we're doing it so people understood it better in that case can we pick one and i i do think mr jordan essentially covered the fact i think we could come back and give a brief slide to refresh new people we haven't seen it so we don't have to do and then that would give us a little more time so it's not and i'm not disrespecting the beginnings i think that foundation was important but it might help if we can try and then we can always try just one this time and then maybe if that's the case we could look at science and ela next together whatever but at least that gives us some direction to do it well i think the the one that's interesting is with us coming up to an adoption very near i i really think it's timely that you all community knows what we're doing in the process because it's amazing a lot of people don't no we'd love to have more people active eight to ten was probably the most people we came to look at the curriculum and we were excited about that because it means people are wanting to see it and be honest some liked it some didn't like it yeah you know because they want to see it for themselves and that that that's that's the process in addition to moving on to a new subject it would be nice to get a follow-up on some of dr lee's questions which i guess just one question about the data for the quizzes just to know if that exists and if it doesn't then maybe we can talk about next steps and we can put that all into one present if that works we can start with that and roll into that just let it know can we go with english yeah yeah absolutely if you have a preference let's let's let's go back what are you trying to get is to answer your questions i don't sleep for the next week okay english samples of elementary english curriculum as it as it uh in regards to the fair act similar to what we did tonight correct correct okay okay and maybe pick a different class level than second and fifth this time okay oh my god okay any further discussion on this you know what mr burton i truly appreciated this yeah and really looking for more community input on the next conversation so i mean uh it was nice to have mrs comments but i would definitely like to end your sir to have more that was very useful and it was good to mention that the public can look at the curriculum at the curriculum instruction office because i don't know if everybody knows that right and i think you have to see the experience and then we also have online and most of them are online versions so we can publicize those as well as we have on our website but we can like what i showed you tonight those are right off their that's public uh access so we can point them to the way these are the ones we're looking at and then awesome awesome thank you very much okay moving on to item d board bylaw 9220 governing board elections do i have emotions um i'm going to approve the um the new resolution with one minor correction um where it says nest instead of next which i believe okay so we have a second um just an introduction this is um the ongoing discussion of the board member annual residency verification uh language and before we go into the discussion do we have any public comments on this issue okay so hoping for discussion um you said that the correction that you wanted it already been made yeah it's just a typo it says nest instead of next that's all okay any other discussion on this maybe okay um so should we call for a vote should we do roll call though sure okay trustee anderson aye trustee pope aye justin kelly aye trustee lee have seen and shared both side so approved okay moving on to business item e resolution 24 21-22 resolution continuing board of trustees authority to hold virtual meetings pursuant to ab361 um do i have a motion on this side and as a brief overview this is the ab361 authorization um i believe we put it on the agenda because dr lee was thinking that for our workshops it might be good to have that option to to allow that flexibility [Music] [Laughter] okay so um before we enter into the discussion do we have any public comments on this issue hi i'm james anderson uh i'm just wondering if there's and obviously you can't answer this or respond to this but if there's any way to make this a permanent fixture of the the board's capabilities to hold meetings virtually and have virtual attendance and it just seems like it'd be a lot easier to have a permanent resolution i'm ignorant to a lot of the laws so actually because it is an item on our agenda we actually can respond [Music] my understanding and please feel free to park me in the likelihood that i'm wrong um is that this is basically in response to the cobit pandemic and essentially we would have to renew it every 30 days i think it is yeah so yes and that's part of it it's an emergency authorization however we are planning to continue the streaming and public comments uh through zoom because frankly i find those to be very helpful okay so and we were advised that we could literally do that so essentially this is unlimiting board member behavior but we're able to keep that provision open thank you for coming right now that's perfect thank you thank you okay any other public comments okay discussion on this issue so is there any discussion well i'm we're basically trying to renew the ability to work to attend meetings virtually um and since dr we don't have to do this every month right um this was asked to be put on the agenda because um for in terms of doing the uh the workshops and things the flexibility might be nice to have for some of us with health risks the increased time and contact time that would be an accommodation for them i just think it's it's much more valuable to be there in person to the entire district ourselves that's my opinion and so frankly i can i can see arguments on both sides on this i i do think that we are more productive in person but at the same time this is a serious concern and you know having gone through coping myself is not something that i take like so i don't know why we connect workshops with copic though it's the increased contact time in parks and you should say so it's probably less of a chance to get covered from a workshop than there is from a board meeting because there's just us there which is why we've continually extended the the virtual the ability to do virtual because we don't want to put people's health at least if we don't have to but can i ask the union leaders that are here a quick question um are your what are your meetings are they virtual do you have some virtual do you have everybody has to be present what is your program uh for the for the rep meetings we have them in person we don't even stream anymore so if a member wants to attend they're welcome to but they would have to attend in person thank you in some ways i think it defeats our purpose i kind of agree with i agree with both sides of this nancy i i understand and i feel like gosh the minute dr lee started showing up to meetings in person it really changed the dynamic and i really appreciate that however we do have a new um variant that is trending ba2 and we don't know enough about it yet to know where it's going to go so if we extend this each month then it gives us the flexibility but we're not accepting it for regular foreign it does leave it open for all meetings right it does become a collective agreement with the group if you guys mean to me that that's what trust that's what i was about if you say hey if this would help on these meetings then to me if it's the trust that you guys are are all starting to build i think you know with all the president here you know the other thing would be is if if this doesn't pass i would work with any of you to make sure you feel comfortable in the room i mean we could we could really come back to this room and be spread away i'm just saying we can accommodate we can still meet virtually as long as we [Music] and be by yourself and we have discussed that the obstacle i'm just the obstacle of that is it does still allow the public to come in and be in that room so if it's a health thing that is part of it just like this i don't know if anyone's ever shown up at hotels or homes but there is a possibility i mean so if it's a health risk thing that that's the only thing i just want to put that out there that if it's concerned i wouldn't want just any i mean anybody could come come on in no but if there is you can put a sign up on the door that says i mean it's part of the package but you shouldn't have to risk your life you're not risking your life your eyes go to school every day and if you are a person who is you know of higher risk for whatever reason you are risking your life and yes the teachers are risking their lives every day they're shootings there are some illnesses but it's just something that we can do to help prevent an illness i just think that it's good for us to have that flexibility i mean i i don't think we're ever going to agree on this i understand what you're saying the dynamics are a thousand times better when we're all in the room together being able to look at you and know that you're looking at me i'm looking at you and i'm not looking at a screen where i have no idea if she sees you know my facial expressions or not it makes a difference i and i don't know what the right answer is to this if there was a legitimate reason why i would be with you okay um as though we point out we need to be better about not talking over each other so thanks just work on that um i do have a question about this um dr lee what is it about the workshop that um you feel makes a higher risk than the board meetings board meetings are once a month we're being required to come in more than once a month to attend these workshops and they're for lengthy time periods um so that is the concern just the equity in that for for people uh for all of us um and and the risk that we're taking needlessly with all of our health it is also a smaller room but we could come closer without this mr lara said you could always have our workshops in a larger room keep the doors open open have the fans on um would be an option and if um somebody chooses to do so if somebody chooses to do so they could stay in the hammocks in a different room yeah um and highly unlikely that a public person would come to that particular room as opposed to a board room before so we're looking for compliance with coming to a room instead of uh being remote from any location that's what it sounds like we're really focusing no no that's just an option topic that would be allowed because that address is what would be posted on the agenda as opposed to someone's personal address which we clearly don't want but if ad361 was adopted then the address would not be needed to be posted correct that is the differentiation if we cut if we pass this resolution you can meet virtually without posting your address and if you don't pass it then you would have to post your address of where you're going to be for that meeting so it could be starbucks i'm just saying they could be in the address as long as that's posted and you're there should we call for the vote please okay let's call for vote um trustee anderson there was a motion to bring it to the floor oh [Music] or you have to have what the function is um i'll move to a group okay and do i have a second second okay so trustee anderson no trustee pope i don't know i think it's very important that we all especially during workshops and we collaborate it's very important that we're all together but i don't want to be the person that says oh you know we all got to come somebody get sick you know i don't want to be that person either but it is very important that we're all together we do so much better exactly so can we table this for another month and i know we have a workshop on saturday we do have a motion on the floor so if we want to i mean there is emotion so if we want to pause that motion uh we have a slightly from nine of them but i don't know if the board will need that much time or not i don't [Music] so i don't know if there's other questions around it but we probably should finalize that before we we talk and then unless there's other questions ms pogba you might have anybody asked a question um right in the middle of your home yeah so i don't procedurally procedurally okay so procedurally oh so you're waiting for me sorry could the motion be withdrawn um president bruno or is that not acceptable the motion can definitely be uh yes it could be okay since i made the motion because you know the time was explained to me a little bit [Laughter] you guys originally said last month nine to noon okay um and then the idea right now is posted for room five um so that is a portable building uh they would have we could do you know there's actually these tables and these chairs so we can put every person at their own chair space it out there is there's good ventilation there's two windows on each side there's a door um so just i'm just trying to describe the room and i know you've all been in affordable before um actually it would be i think this hunter will be joining us mr jordan might be uh joining us so it's not just the six of us just so that just gives you a little little idea and obviously the public is welcome so i can't say that 45 people wouldn't come historically saturday morning also going to be on the zoo absolutely absolutely yes actually have you ever been to any of the workshops i've been present at every workshop [Music] yeah in person is what i meant because i think if you actually went you would see what we're talking about i've been present in every workshop on yeah but zoomed in but if you were there in person it's totally different i think you would understand what we're talking about when we say that it's important to be in the room and be with each other as board members it's a bonding experience and it builds the board i think we just have different understandings of presence and bonding maybe and i can appreciate that thank you trustee can i add to my previous comment um i just wanted to say i mean we our our meetings are in person now but if we had a member who was on our site committee who had a health concern we would offer that link to the person to join virtually i mean we don't have to post addresses but i do believe it would be their personal choice whether to join in person and maybe that morning they want to join a person and maybe that morning they would prefer to join online and post their address i mean really the motion makes it available to all of you to make a personal choice on your health and safety and that's what we want for our teachers and staff is to make choices on our personal health and safety not that we have the choice to not come to school every day and be in a portable with 30 kids but um i mean if it's possible and that individual wants to make that choice that day and post their address that's on them as a personal choice so i i would add that if my member had a concern i would make it available to have a link so i've never heard there's a health concern there's a health issue well a concern about catching a virus could be a health concern that's i would add that copy out to my previous video thank you i appreciate that i like to make a motion at the table of this item and just plan it in person as we're planning for saturday okay still go ahead with you and i wouldn't also say if the constraints because i i mean i know we all have families and if something has changed we don't have to go all the way until noon kind of thing so if we realize we get in there and it's like hey i gotta be out of here by 11 or i'm thinking i'm stuck now to eat my point i think we would all agree we would end the session if we're at a point where everyone's collaborating work together i i think the work that we're planning to do is pretty important and i think that we should all be a board meeting should all be present if we can accommodate that i know typically it's just a quorum and then you move forward but i think identifying belief statements things like that is critical that everyone at that table has has a voice and i would secondly say that if anyone is would like more assurances or comforts or whatever i we will do everything we can to make people feel as comfortable as it's possible and we so i just i want to put that up thank you i would also like to say that when the variant and i'm not sure if the concern dr lee is covered or if it's other viruses but if they're the virus the next narrative comes and it's as terrible as the others then let's bring it back and we can have another discussion we always can put this on the agenda and discuss it again um as far as making accommodations within the room if a trustee would like to have more physical space around them can can things be rearranged very easily these tables are on rollers and um okay thank you everyone moving on to board superintendent reports first i'd like to comment on the um ceremony for rex fortune rex fortune is an amazing man and i didn't even realize how amazing he was when he first brought this up to get into his history and really find out what he's all about is incredible he did a lot for center um in his days here for 15 years he was here and he brought senator from its infancy really into the big suburban district that it is today it was about half the size it is today when he came and he forged forward with the programs and grants that got us to where we are today a lot of grants that came into the district and i'm thrilled to death that we could name a school for him and that he's still allowed to appreciate it that's really what makes the difference i think is why honor somebody after they're gone they don't even know you've done it but to see him standing there and realize that he's being acknowledged for what he's contributed to the kids for his lifetime is amazing and he truly has given his life to kids and he has his own schools i don't know if you guys realize that or not but the rex fortune schools that he's developed on his own that he runs so i'm looking forward to the day that the the elementary school is built we can walk through it and see all the wonderful things that it brings forward to those children 850 i think is the number of children could be up to the hands yeah so that's a fantastic it's going to be great and mr putnam i thank you and all of your men and women who have worked hard on that and i look forward to seeing it go as it progresses every step of the way it'll be awesome thank you and slare you as well have done a great job leadership has been outstanding so and carolina you put in a lot of reviews i don't want to make you out so thank you the ceremony was fantastic very well attended by the upper um people from roseville we're excited yeah scott you know who was there do you want to spell out their names sure i have never did by name well we had uh russell's to the counselor member scott albor we had a representative from placer county district two and foster and then also bonnie gore from um district two so this school is in actually excuse me i might be mixing up but her school is actually not in that school's not in her district however our district does cover a lot of her things and also superintendent marvelina mohica from placer county so it's a nice nice turnout to support yeah and then rex sporky had some of the kids from his school come in to watch the ceremony and it was just a really nice morning for everybody i really enjoyed it um mr jackson when is your last day you're not going to retire [Laughter] other than that just hang in there because the end of the year is going faster than we realized it's right on us slowly out trust you thank you um i apologize it's going to be over my time limit just a warning no no no so i attended the spinelli ninth annual st baldrick's event that was hosted by mrs luigi the students staff and family student family and staff raised almost 10 000 for childhood cancer so congratulations to mrs luigi and spinelli mr lair and i did tour spinelli and um north country at spinelli miss opera introduced us to sunshine sunshine is a baby chick that hatched earlier in the week there was a family within spinelli that donated eggs and the children got to watch and come and rotate the see the chicks hatch and it was so fun um exciting to see them and they were so engaged and it was the highlight of the morning other than going to a north country where stem was in full swing the students were engaged and busy with their picasso art um there was students that were learning the fundamentals of engineering and design and computer science and then we stepped out back and saw that beautiful playground once again which is a beauty so a lot of fun going on with north country we took a detour to antelope high school where miss kerry green and her students were playing baseball and i just you know just wanted to mentor because it was organized and they practiced and there's going to be many events again with the big buddies in different schools around the community i must say that the center high school the show recognition was very impactful very emotional and mr kiwi did a very good job um on the lighter note i want to congratulations and said the center high school drama department on their rendition of rumor which i s it was so funny i laughed so hard and my husband said we have to go to more center events because i'm having a really good time so kudos yeah kudos um drama department um i did attend the top 10 dinner for center high school and congratulations to those students um thank you to ms buller who created the event and did an amazing job the pluto's fantastic one of my favorite events to attend um i too went to the rex fortune groundbreaking ceremony and as nancy said it was a great turnout i'm not going to talk about that because i'm sure you will mr laird but i personally want to thank cara and angela for their success on the event um it was beautiful we had people also comment that this is the best open or grand opening groundbreaking ceremony that they had been to so that says a lot i want to thank the center high school band for attending administration and staff there was a lot that attended so thank you for taking your time out of your day to come and a special thank you to kevin coons and the team and his team of the maintenance and operations department for setting up and digging down the tables chairs and canopies and then lastly so i guess it wasn't so long but lastly i had an employee ask a question about our legal fees and why it seems so high this year so a couple things i'm not going to elaborate too much on it but i wanted to talk about this for a little bit um and i got to thank miss coronado because i wouldn't have been able to talk about that without her help but legal um nickel fees are categorized as follows you have facilities and contracts you have negotiation general advice complaints personnel which include special education all legal fees are are funded out of the general are paid out of the general fund and posted to lisa's department which is the business department so the legal fees aren't charged to a certain site or department it's all it's all other general fund under races races department now if you look at this year compared to the last two years 1920 2021 of course there was not much activity because it was the kovid years but if you look before 2019 we are still kind of low in the low range with our legal fees even though for um with our the acquisition of the land for rex fortune which we haven't had that for 18 years we're still a little bit on the low side with our legal fees so if anybody has any questions i do what i didn't set up an appointment with mrs coronado or not legal please but anything in general with the business department and she will explain everything um she's just a very wealth of information so thank you miss coronado and i hope this answers the question for the person that asked and that's my time thank you very much trustee kelly thank you so much so it's been a busy month um yes we attended a wonderful play we had the um dedication for mr bishop we attended the groundbreaking ceremony um there's something else between this um and the show and partner top ten and that was very well uh very well orchestrated very interesting the students gave great speeches um it was a really wonderful event and um you know everyone's already spoken about everything but i just did all of the events were fantastic and yes we need to start going more ahead because that was the best play and uh and one of the main characters was actually in the top ten so that made it even better because we had a little association there right it was nice looking forward to purple cord coming up soon and like uh trustee anderson said thank you is in our very close view so right over there horizon can make some more comments sure thank you as um as our union representative stated you know field trips are in full swing and i tell you the board loves field trips yes okay so happy arab american heritage month to everyone to those in observance of the spring holidays happy ramadan happy passover happy vaisakhi happy honeymoon jayanti happy theravada new year happy easter and happy earth day many things happening this spring all at once around this month of april this year and thank you to our school site administrators for ensuring that our muslim students faculty and staff and observance of ramadan through may 1st this year who may be fasting are receiving the appropriate accommodations this is much appreciated by our community members thank you to our constituents for raising important questions about diversity equity and inclusion in our souls i also find this to be very important and i'm very appreciative of the things you brought forward i also want to thank community members that express to me concerns about some of the contradictions that they see in our board governance policies i have been asked multiple times why some of the same members have occupied seats on this governing board for decades and so i researched the issue and so far the answer i found that makes the most sense is that our board bylaws do not provide for term limits which means the same folks can occupy these trustee positions for decades on end i agree with you all that there's no reason why our school board should not be aligned with the principles of effective governance that are central to our representative and constitutional democracy and by that i mean term limits for our governing board members in my research of this topic i discovered that the elected officials in virtually every level of state county and local government in our area have term limits including sacramento city council roseville city council sacramento board county board of supervisors placer county board of supervisors as well as state government agencies including the california state senate and assembly term limits are a common and proven good governance practice term limits help limit corruption term limits are are vital to ensuring that new people and underrepresented groups can participate in governments term limits provide a continuous refresh of energy ideas opinions and skills to abort in my research of this topic i discovered that term limits have been enacted in a number of california school districts because people are waking up and realizing that term limits are necessary for equitable and effective school governance i note that the move toward term limits has an established process that is outlined in the election and ed codes and so this proposed action cannot be willingly enacted by a board without voter consideration which is something i really do appreciate because it involves the voices of the community members all of them this is why this evening i will submit to president bruno and superintendent blair a draft resolution requesting the counties of sacramento and placer place a measure on the november 8 2022 ballot to put the question of term limits for our board before the voters so that the voters can decide if our community values and desires to establish term amendment limits season for our governing school board based on the request of our constituents for more effective governance leadership and accountability i am requesting that the term limit resolution that i will submit to president bruno and superintendent blair be considered for action at our main meeting in hopes that it will be as slickly approved as amending our bylaws to impose annual eligibility verifications upon our members which was approved by the board majority to me term limits represent a stronger and more promising step towards public accountability greater inclusion and transparency that we have not yet taken as a board as with board bylaw 9220 i'm hopeful that district district legal counsel can be consulted to review this graph term limit resolution so that it can be revised with their input and tomorrow i'll also forward a digital file of the draft to both of you to expedite that review so that we can hopefully take action on this draft term limit resolution at our main board meeting with that my next virtual open office hours are monday may 2nd from 4 to 5.

what i can say from my years of experience on the board is we've only done this a couple of times and it's always based on information that's produced you know it's deep and i've never had the construction industry say yes this is a good idea they always say no sure this one is really a significant increase and as was mentioned by your facilities person the cost of materials is way up and also the cost of land so it's just compounding so it's burden the increase is burdened by the homeowner not necessarily develop it's passed through to the person is purchasing the home so they're the ones that are going to bear the burden of it yes go ahead so we had a very similar conversation about this two years ago and what i really love to see if you know of any is there any um empirical evidence about the rate of home building or the affordability of home building or home purchases being actually impacted by these kind of fees like do we actually see evidence that fewer people get into homes because of increase in state fees i don't know the answer to that but i can certainly find out for you and i would be open to delaying uh the vote for one meeting at least until we can so we can actually look at that and see if there's something there i think it's really a compounding factor with the price of materials and the cost of land i hear you it's just one more you were asking though at large about how did we know we were going to have increased student demand and our demographers are we've been using them for years and they're pretty clear that the increase is definitive my family alone has got three babies i mean you know they're i call it the coveted litter so we had four of those yeah there you go we have four common babies they don't live here though okay caitlyn were you trying to ask a question um i don't have a question no but i i i think i'll wait until we're in uh okay you know voting to have my comments all right anybody for the opportunity yes thank you anybody else from the public that would like to make a comment or ask a question okay come on marie all right i close public hearing and i do want to make one comment to the speaker now that the public hearing has been closed is i'm 30 days prior to the public hearing tonight we actually have to put a notification in the newspaper i'm stating that we do have a public hearing coming up in 30 days at least 30 days with the justification study that study has been available to the public at the district office for at least the last 10 days so the justification study itself is not new to our constituencies of chico as of last thursday when the agenda was posted so that's a statement that you it was made noticed yeah statement to the we didn't know justification study was coming yes okay marie lynn is there anything else you'd like to add no i don't think so unless there are specific questions for me okay is there any additional questions or any other clarifications that we may provide eileen well i'm i'm thinking because again i i have a significant past history on this process um and all of the factors that have contributed to this board's voting yes in um levying the fee at the level that we were authorized under the the level one um nothing has changed our our demographers are um offering us evidence as they have in the past or didn't in the years when there was not a projection for increase i too have heard in meetings with the construction industry the impact of building costs fees land costs it's it's one of the things that has been there for a significant number of years what's changed in my opinion is the move by the state to mandate that we expand our student population but we don't have the um the budget to do that to make sure that the facilities are there um and and so i i don't have any hesitation at all considering the growth rate of the community the you know what's reported with our real realtors that you know we're not having trouble selling homes in chico and so i i don't have any hesitation at all in in taking action on this item now marie could i ask you what's the normal amount of time to either build a new school or get an addition added it depends on the project and it depends where we are with programming design dsa etc but at the minimum if we're building if we're adding two classrooms four classrooms to a site at the minimum it would be 18 months so depending on the magnitude of the project 18 months to three years yeah marigold was a three and a half year project okay yeah no i i'm sorry tom go ahead well i just want to put on the public record because i um miss tomorrow spoke about uh us bringing an outside agency i just want to make sure we understand that we do that every year with an outside agency because it would be inappropriate for us to decide on our own to you know increase the amount of money we bring in so that's nothing nefarious going on there just a check on us actually um one of the things too that i don't think has been mentioned is that um [Music] just the developer fees we quite often have to take what we're getting and hold it for two or three years until we get enough in the pot in order to be able to start the construction that we need so it's it's not like this is um [Music] is something that that isn't significant because we know where the need is we know when it's coming even with the increase it may be a few years before enough is collected to be able to start the construction if i'm right am i correct in how that works as far as we have to build up a a balance reserve and in addition these these these fees are strictly earmarked for growth um that these developments have brought to the district that's a good clarification okay kaitlyn um i think that you maybe have mentioned the number but um and that it was lower maybe lin's at it that it's lower than state-wide how does the proposed number and i'm just focusing on residential because that's really like the kind of the key factor um how does it compare to the region um and or the state level so where we're proposing versus it's still lower than like the average over the state but how does it kind of match up with the region lynn um i would like your help with this answer and also if you can point that we have charged level one for years and have never charged over the level one and what that means and how we'd have the ability to charge more thank you you have two new board members who haven't gone through this process so sure sure so the level one fee is set by the state the 479 is set by the state as the maximum that a school district can charge under this code so 479 any school district in the state that charges level one as long as they're able to justify the 4.07 cents can ken levy the 4.79 that's for a unified school district so if you have a union school district elementary in a high school district then they have a fee sharing agreement and between the two it's 4.79 so if you approve the 4.79 that's the maximum you can charge as a level 1.

you can access that zoom link on the board website and any and all members of the community continue to be welcome to drop in anytime during 4 to 5 pm first mondays i look forward to connecting with you keep the great ideas coming and in between that be safe and be well and this is the um draft of that resolution and i will send you a um digital copy of it as well there's one for you and one for um for superintendent thank you um what's going on this month that's been mentioned first of all to mr jackson i want to say thank you very much um when my family came to the district we were enrolled at dudley and um i'm not sure for the principal there when we first enrolled but very quickly thereafter uh you're the principal and i just really appreciate all of your contributions to this district thank you very much but uh you know unlike some others i'm gonna i'm gonna agree that you deserve this um so one of the things that we did this month that i really enjoyed was the dedication ceremony to mr bishop and the play has has been mentioned um i locked so hard at that point it was so much fun and the dedication was quite moving and and very powerful and then as we were waiting um one of my kids friends was actually in the casper place so we ended up giving them right home and as we were waiting for them to be ready i was in the lobby of the theater and i noticed a little dedication plaque for the theater um signed by the board including trustee anderson you know she really has been doing this for a while and you know i appreciate your experience um thank you the the top 10 dinner was also really powerful a lot of laughs a lot of fun i was really struck by how supportive those students were of each other they really had bonded so much and what i found interesting is the shared experience of doing school virtually actually created a different sort of bond there and they really seemed to have done pretty well and now granted about all students did it's really nice to see people making the best of the situation um unfortunately i i missed the groundbreaking ceremony i wanted to be there for that i had uh previous plans but i heard really good things about the crew that was transported to musical instruments they did a good job so um [Music] i'm looking forward to the court ceremony coming up i that had actually slipped my mind so thank you for the reminder um and one other thing i wanted to mention um to the unions i really appreciate the the relationship that this district has with its unions um at my day job we just went through a period with a strike of two unions um and it's so much more pleasant for everybody involved to be able to work together better and i appreciate the healthier dynamic here and so thank you to everybody involved in making that work and um that will wrap up my my report super fun aware by having me go last i guess i i everyone said a lot so i just want to echo the events that we've had this month have been fantastic the tours getting around and seeing the schools and the students is what it's all about it's incredible um you know i think over cobin we as we were in our own offices doing things it's so nice for us at the district to be out and be able to see kids that know why we're doing what we're doing every day and i'll tell you it's been reaffirming you know i just keep showing up at schools but i'm just gonna walk around just to see the kids so um anyway and then the groundbreaking i do want to give kudos to carol i did walk in there and i i'm not good at these things at all i don't know what i'm doing and within you know 10 minutes here i'll have 20 different things printed out of what we can do and you know carol hit it out of the home run on that so thank you carol for doing that um you know carol was there putting up tents putting up everything so i appreciate that effort uh to go above and beyond to make that happen and we did it mark rossen with cpm who's one of our project consultants who goes to was going to a second groundbreaking the same day so i tell you that because he attended multiple said to me and carol it's the best groundbreaking he's ever attended and mark's been in the business a while so i was on cloud nine um and then also just like i said the end of the year activities i'm looking forward to um graduations purple court top ten was fantastic this year we always provide the students the opportunity if they want to give a speech and i think all 10 of them gave speeches and they were very well thought out sometimes it's um they really work through it so i'm sure there was some behind the scenes that helped that happen so i appreciate the work that the school did to make that happen and then two more quick things one is as we celebrate the groundbreaking one thing that we had talked about years back was as we move into roseville expanded district is looking into public relations marketing for the district so that's something i just want to put on the board's mind publicly that we will be coming back with some stuff i know that's going on and i talked about it the other day again that we need to make sure we're marketing to make sure we capture our share of students there so to be continued on that and then finally um i don't know if she's watching or not but she always she texts me and says hey the audio is not working julia offer i just want to thank her for her years of service today she is on the agenda to be up for retirement i'm very happy for her sad for our loss but happy for her she's been a great advocate for kids uh and the time she's spent spinelli has been well worth it and then mr jackson you know steve also being on the list he's not very good at golf but he's actually much better than others that might play golf or might not play golf but i i wish i you know steve and i have been through a lot over the years from when he was at mcclellan to center high school to dudley and uh actually we started as coaches together for instructional coaches and it's always a positive attitude and always what can we do for kids and i've always appreciate that steve so thank you for years of service but i'm gonna still try and beat you on the golf course we don't get out enough but when we do uh i usually spend my time in the bushes so anyway with that i just i'm really looking forward to the end of the year uh activities and we will uh we'll be in december before we know it in your experience what does it cost for us to put something on the ballot i would need a double check i don't know yeah i don't remember what did you get it uh it's not very high thousands let's discuss that at another time if you're still there we're going to miss you i didn't realize you were retiring but thank you so much and that concludes my report all right moving on to advanced planning we have the board workshop coming up this saturday uh 9 a.m to approximately noon and we have regular meeting wednesday may 18th at 6 pm requested a gen diagnosis oh i i do have um a comment on the equity workshop on the 20th century um i read the sample handout from csca with the edits by dr lisa thank you for doing that however i believe that the policy should be more of a statement or a broad statement of our beliefs and values as opposed to a roadmap of a policy or a roadmap of actions and procedures as i read the um the handout the implementations directly involve curriculum and instruction along with human resources and if this is the will of the board to use this document then i would suggest postponing this the 23rd for the workshop so the person i think was dr lee put this on the agenda so they could speak to these individuals to see what they've already implemented what their goals are and how they are approaching these goals as opposed to assuming that there's nothing done and then maybe use language like continue with or follow with instead of all these you know dot dot dot dot it just seems so negative and harsh as opposed to a positive thing um so that's what i would suggest is to maybe postpone have a communication because we can't really make actions and procedures if we don't know what's already been done or what is being done we can't assume that nothing's being done does that make sense point of clarification i i did not place that item on the agenda uh that came from our superintendent um and our governance workshops where the consultant pointed out that we're one of the few districts that do not have an equity policy so that's where that originated from and uh their sample policy is from csva and the policy that we're looking at with the edits to it are just to really sharpen what is our vision because as a board it is our charge to set the vision for this district and that's why boards have been asked to come up with equity policies from my understanding and that's what i said yes um to create a broad statement of our values and beliefs but not implement actions or procedures at this time until we talk to the individuals that have to see what they've already done or what they're doing to get to this point and i apologize i thought it was you let me i just wanted to say two little things um i i think that there are two different components of the equity policy there's an equity statement which is what you're talking about as far as an overall statement or vision and then there's an equity policy so i think we can have those discussions this saturday whether or not things are already being done in the district defining what what the policy is is not saying that it's not being done it's just saying this is what we'd like it to be and then if they're already in alignment with that that's great well you should talk to the individuals at hand first before you start setting up actions and procedures yeah so i admit i have not read the document yet and so i can't really speak to that but i think that having the meeting and just talking about what is it that we want as a board and that may result in yes going back to the schools and saying hey what are you doing this is what we have in mind yeah i mean and saying this is what we have in mind does this sound like it aligns with what you're doing is this something that we can implement it doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to set a policy and say okay here's the policy deal with it um i think that it's just an open the beginning of the conversation from my perspective um i think we should focus on the general policy and what the vision is but not get bogged down into the implementation because frankly that's his it's good to focus on the general goals and what we want without getting into that on saturday and then we can discuss this stuff and for for my two cents you you could then with an agenda you could sort that doesn't mean you have to or you don't have to do anything on saturday but it may be determined i don't know if you spoke or mistell you said that but then the outcome might be well then we need more information um so i i mean i don't i don't think that because having a meeting it means we're gonna have to have we'll we'll leave that day of policy we may not leave with the policy you guys might be wait we need to think about this and and the other thing is i would suggest whatever we create then we bring it back to a regular meeting for consideration so then public on a regular schedule meaning we'll get an opportunity to see it does that make sense because if it's a board policy really we're developing the policy as a group i mean the board is and then once you get common language you're going to want to bring that back to your reading of that officially that's true and for our next regular meeting um i'd like to see agenda as an action item on the term resolution the term on this resolution that i submitted this evening okay so regarding saturday you we do we still want to move forward with that then yeah okay another future agenda item for next month's meeting uh it was brought to our attention last month that we do not have a central policy which i just kind of assumed that we did and that was a bad assumption so i would like to have a discussion um around that i found a policy from another similarly sized board that i've sent to superintendent where and i'd like to have that item on the agenda is the board in california can you clarify that yes it is okay thank you i was specifically looking at california boards and i was in my initial search i i found a policy that was well written but it was for a seven person board which changes things so i started looking for five person books yes i don't recall it off the top of my head it wasn't a big bay area but i don't want to say their own um any other future dead items okay um we don't need to continue close session so do i have a motion to adjourn submit [Music] thank you everybody you

the state also has a level 2 level 3 school fees and under those they're calculated in a it's a different calculation a different mathematical calculation and those are to to increase the fee that you can charge thereby getting closer to what the actual cost of construction is when they were first approved by law it was anticipated that level two pay approximately fifty percent of the construction and that the state would kick in the other 50 well if you've been around schools very long you know that the school that the state is not kicking in 50 and and the school fees are much less than 50 as well so what we used to have is a as a three-legged stool we used to call it with pretty even legs now we have two short legs meaning developer fees and the state contribution and then the long leg is like a general obligation bond that the district has to go out and get approval for and has to pay more of the construction costs that probably should have been paid by the new development so and and as was said chico has only gone after the level one school fees and those are set by the state allocation board and they represent significantly less less than what is actually needed to keep the facilities um put new new facilities in for the growth for those new students so i think ms delby for comparison purposes no one in the entire state can charge more than 479 per square foot so as long as the unified school district has a justification study that says they can charge at least that amount or higher then we would be comparable with every other unified school district we wouldn't be greater than because we can't charge more than 479 per square foot under the level one is anyone aware of a time when we did not collect these fees in chico unified or have we always collected them for time immemorial we have gone through periods where we didn't um i i mean it it seemed like it wasn't a very common event that we did it but again it can only be every two years and the last time that we did this somebody from the construction area showed up and said this is terrible why could you i mean it's 71 cents so it's a pretty low level increase when you consider that you can't touch it again for two years regardless of of your needs we have always collected the fees on residential i do believe there is a period when we did not collect them on the commercial side yeah yeah and since it seems like we're actually talking about this not doing a pro forma i want to clarify we could choose a to collect a fee but not collect the entire 479 right we could as a board choose some lower number yes okay thank you so we have some some rooms we actually want to talk about this are we in the realm of emotions at this point yeah we could for sure i move that we delay this for a meeting or two to give the contractor community an opportunity since they're the ones who really you know build the stuff for us for our community and their voice is important i think we should give them an opportunity to be heard fully so i'd move that we just delay this for a meeting or two it's not going to hurt anything if we do it will create a 60-day delay of anything happening with whatever we decide that's just the reality of the law but our next board meeting would be when okay so um so i think i think you need to put an actual date in there i move that we take this item up at our next meeting which would be the workshop okay so we have a motion do we have a second i will second that all right so we have a motion and a second uh any discussion of this yes if you don't mind um you said that this would make a 60-day delay i want to clarify it wouldn't there's already going to be a 60-day delay this just increases that delay by our two weeks yes yes i'm sorry i'm sort of misled that one okay um i'm interested and this is maybe just a comment for katie to hear um i'm interested in in hearing not just talking like you're talking points about why this is a bad idea but more of an engagement like a conversation i would like this to be more of a conversation about why it's good for the school district and good for the community for us to do this and and just at least come to some kind of understanding of the purpose and the reason um you know for one example being that as the district has to build facilities for students that we already know we're going to be getting with the with the required tk program those building materials costs are on us also you know so they're that's a shared that's a shared inflation right there it's not just affecting the construction community outside of the district it's also affecting facilities within the district so um being part of an organization that does do advocacy and and does attend other meetings and you know has a board and talks to the folks on what our talking points are just um and then on the other side of that being on on this board i just feel like it would be valuable to engage and show good faith in collaboration as as you know as a good neighbor you know type of act in a sense so um that's why i think that this this delay might be a good idea i also know that it is hard to stay on top of every single agenda item from every single commission and committee and board in this area um and you know things fall through the cracks and so you know even though it was posted legally as it as it should have been it's not like everybody's always paying attention to what's on the school board agenda items so um i wanted to recognize that what it's um well i i spend yeah some some do more than others how's that so i just do want to jump in there and say um we have enjoyed very good relationships with our local contractors they do a lot of work for us in our schools that's been a priority of the board to make sure that you know we do use our local builders and they have also been really good partners in helping us with our cte programs um and you know when we have been trying to get kids in and placed so that they can learn the skills they've been you know excellent to work with that there as well so i think that that's where i'm coming from is just maintaining that relationship and just demonstrating that we want to continue that that collaborative peace among our um our community for sure and not just look like we're plowing this through because we won't we feel like it anything okay i have we have a motion in a second any other discussion eileen i have a question um what was was there anything different this year because i i know that people have noticed in our construction and in that industry they've noticed this before i mean it it isn't like this is a surprise did we do anything different that for some reason they didn't respond or show up or comment or write a letter or you know our process has been the same lin's worked with the with chica unified for many years um nothing's different this year i think it's just we're all very aware of inflationary factors and we're all very aware of how much housing costs um are and so i think that's probably been heightened in our community but from chica unified's perspective our process has stayed the same as prior years if we had done something different that somehow rather kept this information from being disclosed to the industry i'd feel really bad and i would support a delay so that we made sure that they were aware but the awareness level has never been a problem so i'm gonna that's the only reason i'm gonna vote no other than i i know how important um these fees are and with what we know is coming um i know how important it is for it to be collected in the spot where we can collect it until we have enough to be able to do what we need to do to provide housing for our incoming students i would just note that this was passed by the state on february 23rd so it's been six weeks that it's been well known in the industry because nobody can go above this unless they've gone through some kind of special motion but it is the standard and it's statutory so yeah it literally this is the process the state did it six over six weeks ago every single [Music] unified school district is going to go through the same process every single one i think i kind of just want to respond that nothing nothing feels as it once did nothing feels well nothing feels as it once did these days i've missed countless deadlines in the last five months because life just feels so overwhelming with all the the just what we're coming out of and i wouldn't i wouldn't look to the past to say well this is why we've always done it you know what makes it different this year well things are just different so i think that we need to respect that in a sense and then you know also i think that in a more rural communities and you know even though we're classified as semi-suburban we are still somewhat of a rural county um folks tend to feel forgotten at the state level so just because the state senator did it doesn't mean that that you know more rural communities are as in tune or on board with what it is that the state is doing at the state level that's just my piece go ahead another reason i think two weeks might be good is i'm also curious about whether every unified school district uh asks for or applies the the maximum amount are there any districts that don't incriminate just so we can have some basis for comparison i thought i thought you just asked a question i know no am i i think would you like us to is that a statement you'd like that information later would you like us to speak on that no if you have some information regarding that now i would certainly love i just kind of expected it would be something we need to look into but if you've got it by all means lynn i can't speak for all of the unified school districts within the state because we're we we don't work for all of them however what i can tell you is all of our clients that are um moving forward with a free justification study at this point are adopting the maximum level one increases that they can justify we do have a i would say two school districts who cannot justify the full level one um so they have adopted something less than the four dollars and seventy nine cents just because we cannot justify the full amount but they are moving forward with um the full amount that they can justify and you know we've had some that have already been adopted and we have of course some that are in process because it takes time to do these reports so i can't speak for every unified school district but the ones that we're working with are adopting the full rate eileen no the the question was basically that i had what was answered except that just to point out that the justification is the issue because unified districts all of our the impacts are all different so just because chico unified can justify it we meet the criteria doesn't mean that an another school district 100 miles from here has the same circumstances that allows them to justify it they may not and so if they can't justify it legally then they don't get to increase the fee to the maximum they only can increase to what they can legally justify and the criteria for justification are what we're following um so comparing us it's comparing apples and oranges is not a good a good strategy in addition some school districts may not be as proactive or not have the need or the knowledge that the that this is available i also would note that there are a number of school districts that have faced um pretty significant decline in their enrollment and that is not what we are showing and that's not what our demographer is projecting either so the issue the i mean besides the the new mandate of who can come which has expanded uh by dropping the age level um quite a bit okay are there any other comments or questions all right then let's go ahead and take a vote the motion that we had introduced was to delay this discussion action to two weeks from today and so roll call vote please robinson i did you say i yes ma'am okay i'm approving waiting two weeks and okay having any questions that anyone has answered i just all right okay all right just mix it up lando eye all right uh kaiser nay dolby a tennis eye okay four to one all right so we'll have this in two weeks and um discussion action yes okay so with that we move to the charter school measure k projects request discussion action and maria you're back on and back on so in this in this discussion action item um i'd like to present that the following charter schools have projects that are being brought forward at this point to the board for approval these projects are all funded under measure k under our bond language that 15.34 of our bond funds would go to charter schools the charter schools are as follow chico country day the project electricity to covered lunch area project request 10 500.

next project under chico country day lighting project and this is a retrofit project changing out all balances to ed to led lighting at the middle school this project amount is sixty thousand dollars the next school is core butte they have a solar project for the sum of fifteen thousand dollars marie on in my printout it's at thirty thousand for the chico i'm sorry my notes changed that you're correct that is 30 000.

okay thank you in addition nord country day has a refund of 29 and 48 cents to go back into the measure k pot these were funds that were unused during their cafeteria expansion project north country there's no day on the end oh thank you all right discussion our charter schools have been extremely positive supporters and activists in getting our bonds passed and we've been very faithful about returning their percentage which is based on their student numbers back to them to improvement so the total amount for this would be um and 500 and the refund then coming back correct and there's a refund coming back of 29 and okay any questions any issues okay can have a motion i will move the passage of this item in a second all right so it's been moved and seconded the charter school measure k project's request and we need a roll call vote because of the one negative last time so uh robinson i landed i kaiser eye dolby ai tennis eye all right five zero okay thank you okay so now we're moving to the resolution 1576-22 the application for preschool transitional kindergarten and full-day kindergarten facility grant program marie you still have it i still have four as we mentioned before uh tk and tran or the transitional kindergartner and full day kindergarten is increasing our enrollment and we project will increase our enrollment as the state has extended these services for a wider age group in order to apply for funds to help us create housing for these children excuse me for these children we need to get an approved resolution from the board allowing us to file for applications and grants for these funds currently emma wilson and mcmanus are on the docket to be submitted and we are we would like to continue working on those applications we are asking to add all elementary schools to this resolution in the case that something may change later or there may be opportunities to improve or create housing at other sites in the future through grants any questions all right may i have a motion then i move passage of this item all right a second a second okay we have a motion and a second and this is to approve resolution 1576-22 uh the filing of applications for preschool traditional kindergarten and full-day kindergartener facilities grant all right so all those in favor aye aye aye aye all right uh five to zero thank you oh thank you okay thanks marie i mean you get to walk away [Laughter] okay jacqueline you're on and this is the discussion action of the 20 21 measure e and measure k general obligation bonds audit yes the local firm hmns did a bond audit for us under the scope of their services for us and just like we have with our financial statements every year they come in and annually audit both measure e and measure k expenditures um they submit one report just for ease and i'm happy to say that we had no findings for either of our bond measures which is very exciting so they sample our expenditures make sure that we code them correctly make sure we are in compliance that the expenditures match the ballot language that was approved by the voters of chico they also make sure that we are in compliance as far as our bid process and submitting you know our our architectural plans to dsa and make sure we have the correct permitting and all of that statute as well so it's that's the compliance side as well as the expenditures are in compliance with the ballot language so this evening i'm just asking for the approval of this bond audit and just for reference it has already gone to the bond oversight committee for them to look at as well all right so um are there any questions about this okay can i have a motion then i move approval of the um bond audit 21 final i'll second that all right we have a motion and a second so we can have a vote by my voice all those in favor of approving the general bonds audit signify by saying aye aye all right five for nothing thank you okay so uh we have tree removal at various sites and dusty you finally get to get up here dude there's one little typo in here i just want to clarify uh bid well it says the tree was planted by a volunteer that's a it was a volunteer tree it was a volunteer tree oh that's good that is good [Music] [Laughter] so anyway yeah we're asking the board if we want to remove all these trees and we're just basically asking your permission to approve the removal of these trees dusty can you go through the photos that are on the screen there and help the board understand thank you yeah so so yeah the photos that are on there now that's uh there's three trees at fiesta school and those are actually mature trees that we think are at the end of their life they've got a lot of rot a lot of root rot and you know it's just probably time for us to replace them with something else uh rosedale that is a western red cedar on the left it's obviously done we lost about probably a third of that tree last year and it's it we're getting some more diabetic uh the one in the middle is probably the most important the it's a white alder and it's we consider that a dangerous tree it's it's at its life's end on the right hand see our view that is that is a silver maple it it's declining and if you look at it it doesn't really belong in that spot the trees are starting to grow over it oh left side that is a cottonwood tree that that's the one that was planted by the bird ah by the bird okay it just doesn't belong there if you look at it the pg comes by every year and tops it it's not gonna it's not gonna do anything for us eric help me though okay pleasant valley high school that that was by the new construction we're not sure what happened with that tree if it was um you know it might have had some surface and cars driving over but anyway it's declining it's dying emma wilson yeah that's another tree that really unknown why why it died but it it's it just died yeah we had another one yeah yeah yeah the last one yes we did that was a lesson here um the very last one i'm just going to step over here well i think it is dangerous yes uh they are projecting even just the rest of this week strong winds and rain storms yeah yeah and it's always the goal of eminem and you know the health and the safety of the kids first so yeah you know we if we start seeing trees acting like that we want to take the medicine yeah did you give that bird a ticket the one who planted that other so any other questions when you when you take the trees down do we also do stump grinding we do yeah you probably noticed in front of emma wilson there was a tree that actually split like the one on the right little chica creek tree that stuff's still there but we will get that this round when when we remove the other tree okay yeah yeah all right any other questions or comments okay may i have a motion um i i was just going to say i think that volunteer trees are unwelcome on chico unified and so therefore i move all these you know experiences volunteerism i trust the judgment of our staff and so i move that we remove these trees i'll second that motion and i have a question dusty how long after we've approved something like this um do we get these trees out and and are the removals done by contract work or are we doing this uh we use in-house tree ms wesley um yeah you know everybody we use is local you know within i would say 50 60 miles and uh some of these trees we want to remove immediately because they are uh you know they're somewhat of a hazard so yeah so we'll start i would say the latest uh depends on how busy the tree companies are we're looking at i would say the latest six to eight weeks out yeah uh but but with that said that the dangerous tree will we'll work on getting those out immediately okay okay and um so the the trees get sent to be chipped up i'm assuming yeah most of them i can tell you enough up at old durham wood they use that i believe for cogeneration and talk to ms wesley about holding on to some of that mulch to for the new tree plantings that's good that's a great idea i like that thank you all right so no further comments may i have a motion oh we already did we're ready to vote okay all those in favor of the tree removal at the very school sites that have been demonstrated to be dying or dangerous or both i i i my office was where the student died at chico state thank you thanks dusty okay hey how do you pay that ten buck uh a mention okay all right so we moved to now to jim hanlon resolution 1578-22 elimination of classified services and ordering layoffs okay so this is something we bring to you every so often to eliminate positions i will say this is not a layoff all these positions are unfilled because they're not pitted moving forward so they're either due to lack of work or funding is is is disappearing and i believe those are all due to esser funds so we're gradually phasing out certain positions across the district as as we don't need them anymore so anyway like i said none of these will require layoffs so we're just asking you to eliminate the positions moving forward okay any questions from mr hamlet all right so may i have a motion sure i'll move this item second okay so we have a motion and a second for resolution 1578-22 uh all those in favor are signified by a voice vote aye aye aye okay so all right unanimous okay now we're moving to the adoption of the 2024-2025 student calendar so that's a future date that's a pretty cool date so anyway um this is the time of year when i bring the uh the calendar that is three years out to the board for approval there's really nothing remarkable it's a very common calendar the holidays are observed we have uh as the board directed i believe three years ago now the last day of school is on a friday and then we count backwards 180 days given all the holidays and breaks so we will start on a tuesday and end on a friday during this year so unless you have any questions the calendar was included in the attachment any questions all right i saw it and my wife did not have any objections so i moved the calendar okay and a second i'll second the motion all right so we have a motion and a second for the adoption of the 2024 2025 student calendar all those in favor signify by saying i i i actually had to go look up the holiday and my on my phone okay um so now we have a discussion action the draft letter in response to the governor's 2022-23 proposal for utilization of the third option ada averaging for local control funding and we go to jacqueline that was a mouthful um yes so the last regular board meeting which was on march 9th the board provided direction to administration to draft a letter um to our local legislatures regarding this third option not only to have it available for next year but to have it available in perpetuity or going forward so i did draft a letter on behalf of the board which is the direction i i understood signed by the board president so i'm just looking for feedback this evening on next steps and how you want me to move forward with this letter all right this was brought up by us in response to the issue of the changes in ada helping us leverage lever out yes i am abstained on the vote you may recall last time around as to whether to bring this forward but on thinking about it and and and so forth i i decided that i agree in principle with this um the meat of this letter but there's one paragraph in here that if we could strike it off um then i'd be able to vote yes but i can't put my name on on this this letter if this paragraph remains um which one i'm sorry it's the second paragraph that i sort of highlighted for you all earlier today without taking any position i just kind of shared it by way of information i just disagree with it i don't need to air out our dirty laundry here and and be all open about it but it doesn't affect the substance of the letter it's just kind of um you know background maybe uh put in there i think by ms kruger um he met really quick i just wanted to do a point of order um because i think that we're getting more into discussion than asking questions i'm sorry to interrupt you but definitely carry on when we're we have emotion on the floor thank you um i don't have any more questions of jacqueline about the letter for for right now you can you put the letter on the screen so that everyone is looking at the same thing oh man i can't read it now unfortunately no so um we don't have a motion yet right no madam president you have not called for a motion yet okay nor have we asked for public comment yet okay does we have any public comment on this okay all right so emotion then yeah i'll move the adoption of the letter as written as written okay i'll second that motion okay so we have a motion and a second to adopt this draft letter in response to the governor's 22 23 proposal for the utilization of the third option ada averaging for local control funding formula what that would do is smooth out funding so you wouldn't have dips like this potentially from year to year yeah it would give us a best of three instead of a best of two yeah to pick from in terms of getting the most money for funding from the state and all this really is an advocacy piece just asking for the passage of this legislation at the state senate level anything else that anybody wants yeah so i'll just uh follow up on my earlier comments um and i i like the goal of the letter but um that one paragraph in there i just strongly disagree with it and um and so i can't support this letter as written i'm disappointed we can't take it out since it doesn't really affect the efficacy of the letter or or diminish from our point at all are you ready to call for the vote veteran president all right i'm actually can i yes i'm sorry um so things mister ness you want to i'm trying to figure out exactly what it is it's objectionable here is it the sentence about chico unified placing a strong emphasis on ensuring our students are attending school and receiving a high quality educational program because you feel that we weren't doing so yes that's correct um i also feel that that we did not successfully reopen our schools to in-person instruction um i think we could have done a lot better job we could have been like durham or any number of other school districts that were in fact open i do not consider us to actually have been um properly opened so that's just how i feel nobody here is going to change my opinion about that and so until that paragraph is taken out i can't vote to support this letter all right i'll call for the question then and i guess we should have a voice vote so all those in favor of the draft letter in response to the governor's 2022-23 proposal for utilizing ada averaging for local control funding calculations hi hi hi tennis nay okay four to one passes all right thank you for that so is there any items from the floor oh come on i'm really upset i'm really upset because at our last meeting we talked about parents needing help and we are now eliminating para positions i know they're not filled but we're eliminating them that's ridiculous you guys seriously you guys looked at me and you guys agreed that yes we need help and then you vote to eliminate the positions i don't understand it makes me feel absolutely unheard no question of clarification is that all right um i you're going to ask jim hanlon right um no no my question would be directed to this no then that's an exchange i'm sorry but this was an item on the agenda so yeah it was just wasn't at the time that we discussed the item but i mean i don't know exactly what the rules are in terms of our bylaws but can i actually also ask a question of clarification did did we properly ask for public comment on this item when it came up it wasn't an informational item we actually took action on it it was a resolution jim you have information you like the perfect i do i do so the needs of classrooms change from time to time so in particular classrooms there may be less of a need for additional help in a certain classroom and we constantly add positions in other classrooms that need help so so it's shifting so it's the number of hours and all the and the location so while in this case i believe they were primarily pv there were needs elsewhere in the district where we had positions so you're seeing only when we take it away but if you look over the past several years we have added more positions than we've taken away so esfanine has permitted so so it's kind of slanted when you see only the ones taken away and not the ones that are approved and that would be my question do you know if we are going to have more paras next year than we did this year i would be shocked if we didn't because we're adding five new classrooms next year so um we is will be our intent to hire but we'll it will be at the specific sites that need the paras so it's never stagnant we're shifting constantly depending on the needs of the kids some classes need one aid some have aids that require individual kids to have aids so we're constantly shifting where the needs are so it's it's not a cut and and we have fewer aids than we had you know a year ago i have a follow-up question um so this 2.5 total fte from pv um actually i don't think i did my math right one two three times yeah um is that just cut for the rest of this school year correct yes okay but that doesn't mean it's cut for next school year it may be in a different classroom where the need is greater and i couldn't answer that off the top of my head but we're we're constantly addressing or signing requests for new positions where they're needed at any given time so it's never stagnant because the kids come and go new kids move in um i p driven changes in iep so you're so you have so you've you've determined that there's not a need for 2.5 fte peras at pv high school right now in the particular classrooms that they were assigned to and they may not have been um filled for the entire year i'd have to go and take it take a look but they finally got to the board for for just eliminating the position so sometimes these are these go unfilled for a lengthy amount of time and other positions that require a different amount of time or in a different level of class maybe an rsp to an sdc so those positions are are new or at a different school site so i couldn't i can't talk my head i can't tell you where and when those go but but we constantly are adding positions so these are just the ones that we're eliminating for lack of need or or the pera's there's one that says for funds and i would guess i don't want to guess but i'm i'm going to assume that it's it says categorical so it's probably an esser fund i think it would be helpful especially for our public if if there was a way to make this more transparent or a little bit clearer like where those are coming from and or where they're being reassigned to because their concern is valid i mean we did just have this workshop and we did just talk about the need the increasing need for for aids in the classroom and so if if if this is if this is a proper thing to do and you know we're just going through the motions and just approving this because in the grand scheme of things the pairs are where they're supposed to be in in this this year and then you know the plan for next year is going to follow the students i don't know just it it doesn't and i have to honestly like full transparency completely apologize because this one slipped my radar and so as everybody else was voting i was reading what the classifications were assuming that this was like you know maybe it was a i don't know not to downplay anybody else's job so i'm not going to do that but not directly in the classroom aids you know that we are supposed to be you know in making sure that we're making that room more robust so that was honestly a oversight on my part and i'm i truly apologize for that so i would just add respectfully that i disagree that it was valid because it would be irresponsible on our part if we didn't eliminate positions that were no longer needed um we'd be spending money in areas just for the just for the perspective that we're saving positions when they're not needed because we are adding them in other places where they are needed and i and i totally understand and agree and i'm not i'm not saying that your your decisions were not valid what i'm saying is it would be um helpful to be able to express that to our community and we can i can do that moving forward i mean yeah so when we see like we're cutting para jobs like that's big red that's big red flags unless we can explain the follow-up like no they're just being moved to this these other places where there's a higher need so we can take that funding and actually apply it to kids who need it and can use it right now so i can give some examples of things that happen our positions are driven as you guys know by ieps and you know if we have a student that has an iep that says they have a full-time aide assigned to them but now that student graduates or moves on or no longer needs that then that position is no longer needed but if you notice it's never positions where there are people in them because we need the people we just need them in other places but if a student graduates the student moves on then we we don't need that particular position at that site any longer but we're probably adding two more somewhere else because our special ed needs are growing so i will just say yeah i think it's just the context you know when you're seeing numbers and you're seeing lines go through them it's it's really alarming and so just a little bit of that context is maybe a little bit more helpful and i would i should have been more prepared for this item to ask those questions in the first place and i believe some of our discussions at the last meeting is finding people to apply for the positions that we have open and we still have positions that are open that people have not applied for okay eileen is next no thank you madam president the concerns i had have been expressed by others okay so we can't have a dialogue with you but you had your hand up so if you want to come up and make a statement you may do that i told myself i wasn't going to because i'm so highly emotional from the lcap meeting and the last meeting we had however seeing that on their um yes obviously very shocked and more frustration um but i really hate hearing peras in the classroom are driven by ieps fair statement but i don't feel it's a true statement in our network of parents it's like a little inner circle we have parents practically every i'm my concern is mostly elementary schools but we have students at a lot of campuses and what we hear from parents there are not we hear pera's being taken out of classrooms when kids need them we hear students that have ieps that have a certain amount of inclusion minutes and they're not able to get their full inclusion minutes because even though they're iep driven there's not a parrot in there to help assist the iep effectiveness i guess you can say and i know that there is a shortage of paris like i don't deny that at all but saying positioning at perez is iep driven is not a fair statement if a parent has to email diane to be and inform her even though she should probably know hey my student isn't getting their full inclusion minutes that they're supposed to be getting because there's two paras in a classroom where there's a high number of severely students that have severe needs there's a problem in that i feel that the district has adopted certain phrases as excuses and that's really hard as a parent to hear consistently when we hear district members say something but we as parents know what's happening in the classroom and it's not to say that you guys don't know what's happening in the classroom but when our students are affected we really see what is happening in the classrooms i would really really like that statement of their iep driven to be taken away because i feel it's a falsehood we tell parents we'll honor the iep but then we don't have supported admins we'll honor the iep but then we have to email diane because we need certain needs in the classroom that aren't being met that should be there we'll honor the iep that doesn't happen if i have to stand here consistently to say hey this needs to be addressed this is a problem this is a concern the ieps aren't being honored it's just the statement people say to it's okay no it's not don't tell me what you think i want to hear tell me what i need to hear i would prefer an honest answer over fluff fluff gets you nowhere with me i'll call you out on your fluff and i'm getting i'm sorry i'm shaking highly emotional again didn't want to get up here but i just feel we need to start stop with the fluff parents know what's going on you can't hide things from us we talk to each other we talk to staff we know how teachers feel they don't feel supported both gen ed and sped we know what's going on don't give us fluff i appreciate you being able to get up and say something rather than sit in your chair and shake so thanks all right is there any other items from the floor all right thank you is there an item that a board member would like to agendize okay seeing none this meeting is adjourned don't ever doubt your value in coming you

good morning we're convening the committee on transportation on our 9 30 am agenda here in senate conference room 225 as well as online we have three resolutions up this morning beginning with hcr 29 encouraging the department of transportation to work with stakeholders to develop a holistic management plan that will ensure hana highway is properly maintained and safe for residents and visitors and testifying first this morning on hcr 29 is the department of transportation you with us this morning oh good morning mr mccain chair lead vice chair annoying and honorable members of the senate committee on transportation the department of transportation supports the intent of the measure in the interest of time would like to stand on our written testimony thank you sir thank you very much uh we also have comments from the white public utilities commission support from hana health support from american medical response and one individual i believe that's all the testimony we have on hcr 29 this morning are there any questions all right if not thank you let's move on to the next measure hcr 156 requesting the department of transportation to take all necessary steps to expedite work on the bipolar oa bridge in maili oahu and improve traffic signal support on the waianae coast and urging various entities to work together to immediately open a section of the waianae coast emergency access road system extending paakea road to lualualei naval road for public use on a permanent basis and testifying first on 156 is the department of transportation cheerleading vice chairman and honorable members of the city senate committee on transportation the department of transportation supports the intent of the measure and in the interest of time we would like to stand on a written testimony thank you sir thank you you also have testimony and support from michael rice i believe that's all the testimony we have on this measure any questions right thank you everybody if not let's move on to the final measure on our 9 30 am agenda which is hcr 182 requesting that the city and county of honolulu convenient working group to develop recommendations to improve sidewalk maintenance and testifying first is uh oh one individual and i believe that's all the testimony we have on 182.

all right welcome ladies and gentlemen my name is larry tunforce i'm going to be the moderator for this uh town hall this evening and we're going to start with a pleasure allegiance to the flag so please stand in in the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for uh the president of the board cory burgess is not here this evening but he is on the telephone and he will be participating uh amanda amman who is the clerk of the board who will be running the meeting you might say uh we're going to start with dr carolyn stewart our superintendent who will give us a background on how we got here uh just to again let everybody know this is a done deal this is going to happen um this is not a night to give us 10 reasons where they should spend the money somewhere else it's not a night to sit back and say this was not a good idea the idea has already passed and they're moving forward so tonight is information and opportunity for you to ask questions for you to bring input and we'll start with dr kailan stewart thank you larry it's on i have i would like to give a little timeline for folks who are not aware in 2019 and 20 mr burgess and i had a conversation about we were just talking about good things for the district i had just come on board as the superintendent and one of the things that he talked about was retaining recruiting and retaining teachers and said something about housing and of course we kind of chuckled because we knew that that probably was not going to happen in our lifetimes in 2021 and even since then we have regularly lost employees we've lost some folks that we've recruited to come work for us because they could not find housing and so then they withdrew from their contracts we have lost employees who've been working for us because uh they're the homes that they've been renting have been sold and they have been displaced so in march of 21 i started googling to find out about teacherage because we knew we were going to be getting s or 3 funds and we did not know how many funds how much that would be i was also kind of lamenting and complaining on the at the chamber of commerce government and business affairs committee i'm on that committee and about the fact that we did not have enough housing and that we were losing employees the conversation then was we can either continue to complain about it or we can think about possible solutions so as a result of that and in that at the end of that meeting karen summit who is the chair of that committee after the meeting put together a bridge to bridge task team to help with this process and so from the very beginning there has been a conversation about a partnership a public private partnership and that continues in april last year we learned what our funding was for sr-3 it's 10.3 million dollars over 10.3 million dollars and and we had some rules and regulations we had to follow which i will go over in a minute we had meetings with stakeholders and this the bridge to bridge task team went and looked for various properties to recommend to the board for this for this project the board ended up selecting a property that is undeveloped and there is a photo on the wall on the north side of the room where the property is they wanted this because they wanted to create a neighborhood not take something that had already been designed and try to create a neighborhood from that but to start and create a neighborhood from scratch the district could do this purchase this property from unrestricted capital funds because the price was less than 250 000 and the board could decide to put houses on this property because we're considered a rural district by federal law and the district the district board could say that it's in the best interest of the district to have housing for its employees since january the team has continued to work with us the renderings that you see on the north wall under the photograph to the right and left of the photograph were donated to us by a local architect so that we could go to the city and talk about the zoning issues the the items between the two renderings are simply things that we have looked at in the past uh in all of these discussions none of those are actual things that we're going to do is just that we were continuously looking for various ideas of what we could do with this we did in fact meet with the city on monday to determine what we could do to to move along with this project and we will be applying for multi-family housing zoning for that property right now it is zoned as single-family dwellings so what you see is renderings are just that they're just ideas but it gets us far enough along that we can talk with the city about the zoning for the property and then move forward from there i have this up so that you know we had 13 stakeholder meetings we had a housing task team no the housing task team is that one from the city but we had educators and coaches and parapros we had a team for english language learners we had a stakeholder group special ed homeless transportation technology food service maintenance and custodial and and health and mental health so we had 13 stakeholder groups who met and came up with many many recommendations when we met with this group we had to follow some guidelines sr1 and sr2 funds were emergency funds and so the federal government waived all of the usual typical rules that apply for use of federal funds for grants and they have a lot of rules ordinarily for grant funding but for those two those two funds uh grant funds they just waived all of those so we could pretty much do what we needed to do with those as long as we were addressing things that were a result of the pandemic it had to be related somehow to the pandemic so the sr1 funds were very much used to backfill our budget pay salaries to keep our people employed during the covid the initial part of kovid and you can see over here on on the wall where it says sr2 esser 2 started pretty much this year last year and this year and you can see that of the 4 million dollars that we got from sr2 over uh it's over four million 4.6 and over 4 million of that went to our employees 17 teachers who are employed this year in the district would not be employed this year in our district if it were not for s or 2 funding and that will continue into next year from sr3 funding so you can see that from s or 2 funding almost all of those funds went to teachers and other employees either as salaries and benefits or as a professional development and we managed with some rollover because we didn't use it all to purchase half of a bus and then we had money for the other half of the bus from another fund so we could do it that way sr-3 on the other hand is considered recovery funding and so the federal government put all of those they took away those waivers so there were a number of things that we had to do with these funds so on this graphic that i have on the screen for you the things that are in blue are things that we had to incorporate into our proposal to the arizona department of education so across the top you see learning opportunities and continuity of services a minimum of 20 percent of the esser funds must go sr-3 funds must go for that and that is in the federal regulations the state submitted to the federal government the state's plan for how the funds would be used in the school districts in arizona and part of the state's plan was that after that 20 percent we needed to consider three other areas one is social and emotional well-being one is safety and health and healthy environment and the other one is educator recruitment and retention so when i met with those stakeholder groups what you're seeing here on the screen is exactly what i shared with them the other requirements are on the left hand side we had to have stakeholder involvement therefore we had those stakeholder meetings we have to have equity we have to show that we are spending these dollars equitably across the district we had to have a program or project evaluation built in and that piece has since been withdrawn but at the time it was part of this plan and we built it into our our initial proposal to the arizona department of ed and we do have to have plan updates every six months so the things that are in blue on this uh chart are the things that we had to incorporate into writing this grant i'm going to make the screen a little smaller because i want you to see i want the view a little smaller because i want you to see that when we had the stakeholder meetings we were not just considering what to do with s or three we were also talking about the fact that we can incorporate some things that we need into the proposals for other programs so you'll notice light green columns on the right hand side those light green columns are all federal programs from which we receive dollars in our district those are ongoing programs we apply for them every year we have to write a proposal mrs lot who's sitting over here in the front row is our person who does that and right now she's in charge of about 15 grants so when we were looking at the information from the stakeholders and their uh their wish lists we were also looking at where we could put some of those items in some of these other grant proposals not just in esser but the two dark green columns are what we call soft money these are federal grants but they have a deadline and when the deadline is passed the monies we don't have the money anymore they are soft money finance 101 for superintendents and business managers is you do not use soft money for salaries and benefits or for anything that you cannot sustain with other funding when that funding runs out so that's just kind of a quick glance at all of the things that had to be considered i know you can't read this it's too small the summary for this chart are the charts on the wall over here on the left and i would be happy to provide this this information to any of you it's public information at this point i just didn't prepare enough handouts for folks because it's about six pages and i didn't know how many people we were going to have but i would provide it for anybody who asks the summaries are over here on the wall where you see s or three the three s or three things and you see only three because we wrapped a lot of the social emotional well-being pieces of this grant proposal into the other into other elements so if you just even looking at this without being able to read it you can see the lists of things that fall under each of those categories that we have things in in all of them so you can see that under learning opportunities and continuity of services we have over 2 million dollars in salaries and benefits and we have learning tools learning tools can be lots of things but a lot of it is technology for us and professional development so you can see that 29.49 of this grant is going toward salaries benefits and programs that benefit our teachers and employees we have a whole list of learning tools we have professional development a lot of it and then you can see some things here where we've rolled in some social emotional well-being because we know that both our students and our employees have issues from this 24 months of tough times so we're trying to be very supportive safe and healthy environment this is where we are putting a good bit of money into upgrading the systems in our district so for instance 50 percent of the hvac units in our district are over 20 years old we replace them uh through the state facilities board when they go down but we'd like to get ahead of that process when 50 are that old we know that the state facilities board can't keep up with that and then for educator educator recruitment and retention there's a good bit of money here for our teachers this involves contract signing incentives that we will roll over into next year so for people who worked with us this year signed contracts that's the teachers they had a 2500 signing incentive so in in june right at the beginning of june those teachers who have been with us all year will get that 2500 the same will be in place for next year we have the state is requiring training for dyslexia for our teachers and so we will be using esser funds to pay for some of that and that's for two years it's over two years and then um the benefits that go with those things so that's not mine one other thing i would like to share with you because i know it's questions that will will relate to salaries and benefits i'm going to give you school finance 101 as quickly as i can right here so in arizona there is a funding formula and in its simplest form it is the weighted student count so how many students were enrolled in our schools last year and some students carry some extra weight because they are students who require extra services so for instance some of our special needs students some of our homeless students there are a number of categories that get added so that's called the weighted student count and that is multiplied times a base rate so the legislature says to school districts you get this many dollars per student so you multiply those dollars times the weighted student count and you get the budget for maintenance and operation that is our main budget so you see that bucket of money there for this current year that equals about four a little over 14 well almost 15 million dollars but it is a bucket of money and it is that's all we have we cannot overspend it we cannot change it other than if there are some adjustments made during the year if our enrollment goes up but it's based on the previous year we also get some funding that's called unrestricted capital and once again it's the weighted student count times a base rate so below where it says stu school year you can see that the the base rate for this current year is 4 45 dollars and some change and the base rate for unrestricted capital was 450 and some change per student so that's how we calculate right now the legislature is talking about a two percent increase in base rate for next year they haven't decided on a budget but that's the conversation that's going on right now and so you can see what the amount would be for next year i want you to understand that we have a whole lot of other buckets remember on that other chart where there were the light green columns those are some of these buckets they all have their own budget the only two buckets where we can move money in any given year are these two buckets up here we can move with board approval we can move money from mno to capital and vice versa all of these other buckets of money cannot be moved anywhere else you can use the money in the bucket when the money's gone too bad you're done okay so esser3 is one of these buckets and we can't roll the money into anything else we can only use it for the things that it is intended one of the questions that has been asked is why are we not making competitive salaries well we know how many people we need at any given time to work with our students and drive our buses and those things and that most of that money comes out of this bucket you can only pay salaries for so many people so you can either increase salaries and decrease employees or you can have salaries and more employees somebody recently asked us about well we keep losing teachers to california particularly to needles because it's just down the road it's pretty easy to drive down there here's the difference now i don't know their rate for this year but we met we had a meeting last week and this superintendent for needle school district was here and their per student funding for next year is 15 almost three times what arizona funds for our students so their starting salary for teachers is sixty thousand dollars they pay not insurance not only for their employees but for employees families to the tune of twenty plus thousand dollars a year they can do that because they have the funding so that doesn't mean they don't have to have a budget they have to have a budget just like we do it's just that their bucket is bigger than our bucket so i wanted to share that information because i think that will help people understand a little bit two things one is we don't want to pay salaries and benefits out of soft money when the money is gone in two years it's gone and if i can't sustain positions and salaries from this bucket then it means either employees have to go or salaries have to go back down and we would not ever want to do that to any of our employees we wish we could compete with california and nevada we wish we could it doesn't happen when you don't have the money in the bucket i thank you for listening to the explanations if you have questions for me later in the question and answer i will be happy to do that but for the most part i think you need to hear from the board thank you amanda actually our first uh cory are you still with us yes i am okay mr burgess is um gonna discuss property and project that's his um area that he has so mr burgess thank you for your time uh some of the questions that we have had is where is this property located it is on cali dave ricardo west of val vista and the type of housing we're planning on building at this point is thick built homes finger units with carports we're looking at an architectural design that will give us a neighborhood layout and some of these units will have yard space amenities we're looking at providing is that neighborhood environment ada accessible units at least one unit available for emergency employee situations pet friendly having landscaping appliance included and even some of them moving ready when we were asked who would lead this project bullhead city elementary school district chose to hire a construction project manager to oversee not only this project but some other capital outlay projects that we're working on uh this job has been posted and we're in the final processes of completing that we currently do not have a developer who is building these harms we are still in the uh early stages of this but when we do get to that point federal grants have very strict guidelines for procurement and service for services and materials we will put out service requests for the projects or we may select a developer from the cooperative purchasing contracts our timeline for this project we're looking at may of 2022 to begin our architectural engineering designs by june infrastructure work begins for our utilities and hopefully by july of 2023 our phase one will be remove and ready miss amen back to you awesome thank you mr burgess if you have questions on property and project when it comes to it we'll have mr burgess address those for you next we have tenants ms charlene diaz okay so the biggest question is who is eligible to live in these housing in this housing housing units and it's any employee that is employed by bullhead city school district be it the superintendent the principal uh a paraprofessional custodian bus driver if you're employed by us you are eligible to live at this unit um it can at this point we don't know how many units we're going to be able to um build and so at once we know that we'll be able to have a little more um understanding of of how to choose people to to live in those units whatever um the units will be available to families it could be available to singles if you're if it's a three bedroom and three single people want to live share and live in one unit they can do that um so it's available to any makeup of of people unfortunately the house this particular uni uh housing unit is not available to other school districts it is only bullhead school district and it's not available to other essential workers such as firefighters and police officers they have to be an employee of bull hit school district okay there was a question about how if this is going to be a benefit for teachers and it's going to affect their taxes no it's not it's it is no different than renting a house or an apartment from a a private landlord you're renting a a unit and that's it it's not going to affect any employees taxes and if you have any questions it's pretty simple uh if you have any questions i'll be happy to answer them afterwards okay um i'm up next i have leasing i know leasing's a little bit further out that's actually when we get prepared to get our agreements together what exactly we need to have in those agreements some of the questions that have been brought to us already are what will the rent include our discussion has to include in the rent not only the occup occupancy of the home but a uh one car garage kitchen laundry appliances we're going to include the electricity and gas if applicable water sewer waste disposal and the wi-fi that way it's one whole charge for everything at the same time there's no individual expenses they'll understand exactly what it would be we had asked how we were asked how it will compare to other housing area in the area how will the district pay for the program administration maintenance operation and long term and if there's a profit where does it go and that seems to be a really important question that we have that one asked quite a bit um since it's paid for um ahead of time with the sr3 fundings the expenses utilities the fees for the management firm everything when we have the rent that comes in that will be going in the teacher teacher account that will be used to take care of those expenses so um let's say that i'll just say a toilet breaks um and it needs to be replaced it would be that money that is used to replace that not anything that comes out of our our mno or our unrestricted capital or any other buckets for that matter it would be self-funding at that point when they talked about the cost how much would it be we've done some research there's homes that are if you can find a home for rent in this area they are kind of pricey right now i looked just today and found a home that was just under 1200 square feet for just over twelve hundred dollars a month so the idea with this is that the rents would be similar in projections to district districts across the country and hopefully be 20 roughly this is just a number we're working with um less than what it would cost currently out in um in the in in the just general general public for them to to rent so we're trying to make sure that it is workable for our employees what will this look like with the district as a landlord well we wouldn't technically be the landlord we'd actually hire a property management company and they would service the teachers account in which rents would be deposited we were asked will the renter be charged for repairs that will depend um when we get there there's some lease agreements that we've been looking up with similar to moving into any apartments or any houses that you may rent there's you know if there's a damage you would do an assessment just like you would most places where you you know you kind of do the walk through and you mark all the boxes so this is a sample that i had found when you do the premises and the content stuff like that like you would do in a natural rental of a facility would be things that we were looking at doing um is there a time limit for staying is this temporary or permanent i know that was another big question that was asked um and and this is not to be considered permanent housing for anyone however the board has not deter determined a definition for temporary at this time so the number of units available in phase one will really be a factor for us so if we have five to ten units in phase one we obviously aren't going to keep renewing we want to allow other people who may need that but if you're somebody who's currently in the facility and you still need the facility there's still that need that's something to take into consideration um terms of lease again it would probably be more of just year to year at this point kind of we're looking at july to june like what your teaching contract would be or other employees contract would be it's usually based on a school year i think those were the main ones that i had again i'm leasing so we're working on leasing we're gathering questions um if you have other questions when it's my turn i'm going to gather all those additional questions so as we get these and we get closer to that time it's going to help us determine what we need to include in these leases as well not just us doing research on teachers and finding what we can find it would help us to have what you know and what you can let us know needs to be in there as well next we have funding with mrs annaboyd hello okay uh so i'm going to cover funding overall it was pretty much covered in one of the slides there and then i'll talk about where we go from here in regards to the funding um so we all know that or if we've been paying attention we know that we spent 150 000 to buy the land it was five acres which is uh i guess pretty decent i don't i don't know i don't buy land so but i've heard that was a really good price um we have 2.5 million of the sr3 funding so when we build this that is our budget like that is like cut and dry we are spending only that amount we are not going over that amount unless of course we have donations in kind where we can actually like someone donated the architectural plans if someone wants to donate things and things like that then that's the only time that you're going to see above that so there's not going to be anything extra we are going to stick within those means if we have to cut things or whatever like that and then that goes into um what happens in the future in regards to okay now that we have these built what if we can only build five or ten units all right so i did look at other properties and teacherships that have been built and there's quite a few of them out there where they did them in phases because they didn't have the money or couldn't get the loans uh in order to build um as many as they needed to actually sustain their population and so they did them in phases and used the money and the profit that they would get if you will profit from the rent that was paid in order to eventually build more teachers okay um for property tax it's a it's a school property so as far as i know right now we don't have to pay property tax that's what was given to us is that there is no property tax so we don't have to pay that um let me make sure i have everything okay so a few things on the funding to kind of understand with what's going in there and i did a lot of research and i looked into a lot of other housing developments almost all of them were built with grants and loans or with loans that they had to pay back and so the rent a lot of times had to be substantially higher in order for them to pay back those loans and to be able to maintain the property many different affordable housing units can go as low as 700 and i would definitely want to push for something lower or not lower than some but you get what i'm saying lower than what a lot of other places have been doing because they were doing it because they had a loan to pay back we don't have a loan to pay back so everything every penny that comes in for the rent can be used to sustain the property to uh to uh fix things to do any of those kinds of things and then eventually to build more housing units so that eventually you have enough to to have enough for your population um one of the really good things that i have found with being fully paid that it does allow us to get a place to where the rent is low enough because i know that amanda had said about you know we're not sure how long we would have them in the house but the whole point of it is it's at the first at the beginning when you only have five or ten units it's kind of like emergency you know what i mean mojave high school lost several teachers this year because they couldn't find a place to live like the rent went up or somebody decided they're selling the house that they're renting and they could not find a place so they left and we had to replace those teachers and i think even one of them didn't even get replaced all the other students had to go to different english teachers because we could not find a replacement um and so if the if it is low enough that they can save right that was one one school district i can't remember which one i had the paper no i don't have the paper anyways where that one of the things they found was a lot of people uh could stay well they had like 77 units so they were able to do this a lot better with just 5 or 10 units but people would save and they would be able to put a down payment on a house and i could tell you right now as someone who does rent i cannot save enough to put a down payment on a house because my rent is too high to do that and so a teacher might come into this area they're saving a lot of money uh to to stay here and eventually could put a down payment on the house and that would is what i would hope would be the goal and so everything in this is can be funded simply from that so i just wanted to say that extra little things and then so if you have questions that's me all right in our last area we kind of had some questions that didn't quite fit into each of these little categories so we have other in that category is mrs sobrowski i want to i want to reminisce a little bit when i moved here to town in 74 there were two places for me to rent one was wing foot cottages over behind um swanees where swanees is now it was swanies wasn't there and uh a trailer a single wide trailer down here on coronado boulevard my dad almost didn't let me stay because there was no choice and if i hadn't been so forward and say dad this is what i'm going to do then he probably would have taken me home and we would have looked in a job and i'd been i'll be i would be down in scottsdale somewhere at this time but i am very happy to be here one of the things that happened to me is what could happen using our units i ended up with this the federal government wanting to build houses here because we were so rural and you got to remember back in 74 hancock was was only paved down just so far and the rest of it was was all gravel and that's where i lived so basically i saved enough money to get into what was called a farm home loan which was basically a federal government loan that kept my rent very very low and very reasonable until the school district jacked up my salary to the point where i ended up paying wherever what everybody else was doing so what i'm hoping for this teacher is that given the 20 that we're going to try to keep our housing a little bit lower that that 20 percent can be used to get into your own place and if you have teachers who actually buy their own houses then you have a permanent resident of the area and i think that's what we're looking for because that's real teacher retention is when you get somebody to say and commit to having their family and growing up in bullhead city so that's where i'm at but we had some interesting questions like were there similar projects located and where they what are the pros and cons they are all over some of the more interesting ones come from the east coast they started small they started with 12 units they went to 74 units then they went to a whole bunch more units until they they've actually created their own little neighborhoods so this is possible they are they've been on the indian reservations for forever i can remember applying to chin li when i was first getting into teaching and basically being offered housing on chin li or at shin leaf so i would it was cheap it was cheap um so i'm thinking that that those kind of things can happen the occupancy for the the ones that are currently running i have a 9 85 percent plus number down here but there are a lot of them with waiting lists they actually if they have 77 units they'll have 66 on a waiting list so these are not going to be houses that are just used for one year and abandoned the next time around by the school district because we will be using these over and over and over again to create this atmosphere that will keep our teachers here to make them permanent residents of bullhead city um i think they're very successful i was very disappointed i will say that i couldn't find any hard data on whether it kept people involved but there was a lot of what are called ancillary ancillary data which is data that's just word of mouth type stuff this basically says i'm really happy that i have a house to live in that i can save money or i'm really happy that i have a house that's next to an another teacher so if my kid forgets their lunch i can take care of that um [Music] there's a lot of that ancillary stuff there is no real hard data and i'm not sure exactly how you would actually create that hard data but there is no number that says yep 75 percent of the people stay around for for years the best i could get was that there was one group or one school district that had 77 units for seven for five years they upped it for ten seven years and they've been filled for that whole time people don't move in and out of them it's sort of like a regular housing if you're a real landlord the other question that was interesting is has the district thought of hiring a contra or contractor or hiring a communication person to assist we have one we have one um lance ross in the back of the room is the is the information officer for bullhead city and he does a really good job he's had the stuff online he's had the stuff in the newspaper um the gentleman from the the paper is always here at school board so we have several outlets to the public if the public uses them um twenty percent that yeah this is a good question what breaks do those of us who have lived and worked here for years and not gotten very much pay increase received since we we do not have the housing option i think mrs stewart basically explained that earlier there's some bonuses that you get 200 or 2 500 god what you know as a as a retired teacher i could really think about how about about that much money coming in for just signing up for another year so again these people are taking getting taken care of at the same time [Music] will they receive a housing stipend no they're basically going to be just like the rest of us we pay mortgages or we pay rent or we pay somebody to stay where we're at so that's about it [Music] could we provide the rent assistance no that's considered a gift and we can't give tax funds we can't give those funds out as gifts some of the rest of the questions were interesting somebody actually said how does the public stop this from happening it's not it's not going to happen mr tuneforce told us that at the very beginning of this meeting it's not going to happen this is in the works it's going to happen now what we have to do is a community is to get around this and make it into a community for teachers and for public or public school employees okay i think i'm finished awesome thank you mr toonforce all right you've heard from our board and our superintendent now it's your turn this meeting is being streamed and it's also on zoom so we're going to ask everyone to come up to the microphone if you want to speak raise your hand i'll point to you in a minute and then we'll have you come up to the microphone here's the fun part you're going to have two minutes the board made this decision before we got here i have a timer when it goes off you're done so at that point in time we'll ask you to sit down and let the next person come to the microphone please state your name when you come up only because if you ask a question the board would like to answer it and identify you by name hilda you want to go first hi there i just have a quick question um it's national fair housing is this on yes it is okay it's national fair housing month as we've been told over and over and um i was down in phoenix i just got back ran over here and we had a presentation by the director of the arizona department of housing just about these kinds of things and i asked him specifically about this with the school and he said quote if you take any federal funding you have to abide by every fair housing um requirement and you cannot pick and choose who goes in there so i just wanted to let i made him repeat it twice so i just wanted to let you know please if you need to get a waiver have you talked about this with anybody or or is the director of the housing mistaken about this the information that we have is because it is on school district property and it is teacherage by arizona law teacherage is housing for school district employees with federal funding yes okay double check it absolutely specifically asked him about this situation absolutely and we've had long conversations with we had long conversations with you with our attorneys to make sure now the piece of fair housing that we would absolutely make sure that we abide by is that a percentage of these units would be 88 you know they would be accessible because we have employees that you know we wouldn't want to do that i have another question in my two minutes i spoke with you several months ago and i asked you you didn't know the answer i'm hoping you have the answer now if the tenant doesn't work out in the school district is here for he or she afforded all the same rights as regular tenants that's part of the fair housing are you meaning like if they're if they're okay yeah for whatever reason it doesn't work out do they you have to give them the same kinds of things that you have to give to other tenants regular people have to give to tenants they'd have a they'd have a you know a termination date you know when they would have to move in those kinds of things in terms of the others i'm not sure we haven't addressed that with the attorneys at this point but we would certainly make sure that we did we don't want to do things that are illegal next hi i'm nan nichol i live in port mojave and i just had a question being i was a broker in california the fair housing law were very strict at the time and the last time my license expired was in 1999 and we know a lot of things have happened since then it to me it's a lot stricter and all these things under the fair housing discrimination and renting or buying a home getting a mortgage seeking housing assistance or engaging in other housing related activities if anyone feels that these things have been mishandled they actually have the right to sue so i'm very concerned that we would have a situation and hopefully i'm wrong that someone would say i was discriminated against because of whatever they they just there's all these reasons why they can say they were just can they speak in the microphone sorry and so i'm just worried that uh this might open the door to the lawsuits and things that maybe haven't been considered but maybe with the other ones they've already considered this you have a track record i don't know but i am concerned about that and i'd like to know that you folks feel have a good reason to feel comfortable that's a great question thank you thank you thank you who wants to tackle that question well i don't know that we necessarily have the answer to that because that would be something that would go along with our leasing and making sure that we have it spelled out to where we're not um you know discriminating against anybody for any reason so but that's definitely something that we've got wrote down that we can look into and speak more with the attorney when we look at the verbiage and we look at the things that we're going to do to put in there to make sure that we are following those federal guidelines and not not discriminating amanda i believe that dr stewart has had conversations with at least one school district that has a teacherage where they have have experienced a lot of this stuff a lot of these a lot of them and that they will be able to give her the guidance so that she'll bring it to the board absolutely we actually i had a 45 minute conversation last week with the person in charge of the housing for la unified school district and and as anna said their housing was all funded with loans and low interest loans and those kinds of things and and so you know he talked about the fact that they had some issues with the fair housing that they of course had to do relative to the loans so um and he he'll be available to assist us with any ideas but we'll be looking for anybody who's doing these kinds of things so we don't fall into any of the any of the pitfalls that they might have had we want to make sure that we're avoiding those uh right up front and and [Music] the number of houses that we actually can put say in phase one it's going to determine a whole lot about how that selection process you know our pi our pi in the sky dream is the 20 and and so you know how the board decides um uh that process when there are 20 is very different than if you only have five units but it's also a matter of having that having that property management company because they're going to have to follow some of those some of those guidelines so this those are excellent questions for us to follow up on thank you come on up john you brought up a good or everybody here it's a tough deal to do well i think the young lady on the federal issue brought up a pretty good speaking of the microphone pretty good point i think the young lady brought up a good point excuse me about federal and if the arizona gentleman in real estate doesn't recognize the teacher clause that you've said are we sure that the feds are not going to come in with that with lawsuits and everything else that could be levied against us but if arizona doesn't expect that doesn't recognize it how do we recognize it so it makes sense what i'm asking and you guys have policy and procedures for teachers that don't pay you know they're going to have family problems they're going to be behind on the rent they're not going to pay the rent all kinds of divorces you have policies for that are we picking up the tab when they can't make a payment we eat the taxpayers anyhow some policies like that should be pretty uh pretty stringent okay so adding in some definition some information on policies if there were someone to have a divorce or split or can't pay or something happens okay i got it yeah i can i can also well i can also answer that because uh the practice in any place where this occurs is the rent or the payments are taken right out of their salary before they get their check and that just that just complicates the issues with them now you got kids that don't eat blah blah blah i i think that's kind of a problem i don't think you want to get involved in so that's kind of similar to like insurance like our insurance comes out before we get our paychecks so i already know like that's coming off the top um so i do know like things like that are already built into our contracts like if you do a scholarship if you do river fund if you do mojave high school scholarship tax credit we sign up and so we know what comes out of our paychecks um ahead of time so like i know that i would then be able to go okay that much is is that you brought up good argument we're not paying enough or we're not paying enough salary and now we're going to start to take away because i just think you're going to open it well terrible work environment well to point out realistically one we are trying to make it affordable and i would definitely fight to make it as affordable as possible but uh also if they didn't live with us they would have to live somewhere and they would have to pay rent somewhere so somewhere out there they would have to do that i know i know but arguing the point you start getting them fist fights with your employees because they can't play no because they've got issues you know beyond their control yes and they would get in that with whatever wherever they would be living like like let's be realistic they would have issues with wherever they're paying a lot of money for well it could have been solved prior to yeah and the idea behind is where the money goes would go into there and if there was an issue or like i said a toilet broke or something it would come out of there it wouldn't come out of the taxpayers it would come out of the tetragen account that would be with the property management today we have to look at the future thank you ashley hopefully i'll be able to send them to caroline and actually get the answers this time um because i didn't get them the other day i can't hear you ashley can you speak into the mic please yes of course i can um so she had mentioned that they're going to be having these individuals get their paychecks taken out is that is that have you gone through the legalities of what that's like on being able to take somebody's paycheck for the cost of rent having lived in teacherage in my past no i'm asking you if you of course it's legal through it no i haven't we haven't had a teacher age so we haven't had lawyers yes your and not just your educational lawyers i'm talking about real estate lawyers no not resources haven't gone through any of the legalities for leases or what is going to happen so she says oh well it happens everywhere where but the fact is if a an employee is terminated how are you going to are you going to let them live out that lease no probably not that will be a bored decision okay but how are you going to throw them out of a leased home that would have to be part of what gets developed if you ask that question we're going to have to look into it if you have more questions you i'm just saying so i have my two minutes yeah you might you might get my job yeah um no and i think that i i feel sorry because our our government constantly makes decisions without making getting information first and knowing exactly what they're going to do and how they're going to do it you guys don't even know how much this is actually going to cost cost inflation is going up the roof it's crazy have you even do you know exactly what per unit is going to cost two million and whatever dollars we're going to get whatever we can get with the money we have asking a specific right do you know how each how much each unit is going to cost estimate yes one in a conversation 200 a square foot or slightly over that so whatever it is that we can get for the amount of money we have is what we would do in phases right but your whole spew in the in the beginning was 20 20 units correct that was our dream yeah i mean and that's the phase of through phase four we know we can't do that at this point i just think it's irresponsible thank you very much okay thank you sir i apologize for my appearance i just came from football practice not exactly board appropriate but that's okay so quick questions um so first i'd like to point out these are there is no loan right you're not borrowing funds and because there's no property taxes let's say worst case scenario not a single one of them is rented it still doesn't cost the taxpayers anything correct that's something i think the public needs to be aware of worst case scenario nobody rents them there's no loss there's no taxpayer responsibility we're not on the hook for anything because they're paid for in cash and there's no upkeep right correct so keep that in mind taxpayers that there is no way for this to come back on us as a taxpayer guys guys that's the first thing so that's worst case scenario now my next question is a little more complicated as far as best case scenario best case scenario they're all rented we have phase one two three seven fourteen you know and everything's wonderful and now you have 300 homes i have no idea right at some point you're going to say enough is enough and because we know how real estate works you're going to have quite a bit of money coming in and that money isn't going to building more units and it's more than enough to pay for the maintenance of those units what do we do with the surplus does that mean the rent gets just cheaper and cheaper and cheaper or can that money spill over into some other district it can't it has to stay with the housing development so then i guess i know this is probably 20 years in the future perhaps but when that comes to pass and the school district is flush with money for money that they can't use in their district what do we do with the money yeah that's a fire that's a dream it i bring that up anybody who understands real estate and follows guys like grant cardone follows guys to understand real estate that is a potent you have you as a school district has the greatest advantage ever of at this moment free money from the government and no property taxes it's a given that you're going to get make money it's it's undeniable that the district will be fine because it can't go bad i think the school the employ the taxpayers need to understand that the numbers can't be against you so when it goes well what then i'll sit down and listen to your response one thing one thing i can say is there was one housing district that i had seen that was a teach that had a gym and it had a pool and it had two playgrounds and it was fully fenced with security and it had over a hundred units and almost the entire teacher population lived within that community so i guess that's what we could do it's a dream okay thank you we have a zoom question i have to work with what i have done if the rental payments will be automatically taken out of paychecks will it then be out of pre-tax dollars that is a definite advantage over the employees who have to pay their rent mortgages out of after tax dollars and that's a good question and dr stuart just said it it cannot be it cannot come out pre-taxed it's just like when you when any of us sign up for river fund or any of those things that the taxes are already determined and then the money comes out so it cannot be true it cannot be paid pre-tax other questions right so i know i only have two minutes your name first ava um but i will speak to what would be lost if this is not successful and it would be your initial buy of the land for the 150 which i would like to know what else you could have done with that money because it was part of your unrestricted capital budget which could have gone to the teachers i would also like to know or understand better what you are doing for other staff members they are feeling like the ones who would be getting this housing would be getting more than they are and even if you get to that twenty percent which would off of let's say a twelve hundred dollar rent that brings it down to nine hundred and sixty dollars the twenty five hundred dollar incentive bonus that you spoke to ms swarowski was only instituted for this past school year and i know that because i was a previous employee and i signed on for that because of that bonus now i left the district so i'll be obviously i did not get that but that 2500 bonus is not a mainstay as far as my understanding and so that would not be in place of well we're not going to give you a housing stipend but you get a ha you know you get that bonus at the end and that's also before taxes the 260 dollars that would be that 20 number off of a 1200 rental idea is 2800 plus and that's not before taxes that's like the real deal 2 800 so there's a large discrepancy there and i do think you guys have to consider if you're really gearing this to say yes this is for the retention of teachers you're not paying attention to the staff that is here in your district right now in my opinion and i was one of your educators and i say that from experience and i say that from the heart this project is not retaining the teachers you're about to lose and i would like you to really consider that yeah mr burgess are you still with us still here do you i mean do you want to answer any of these we keep popping i forgot you were there for me i would like to to address the one that was just given from ava okay i understand that we're not able to help every single teacher but just because we can't help everybody doesn't mean we don't help anyone we're doing the most we can with these funds and as mr beck said this is a winning proposition for our district there are a lot of questions that still need to be answered we are working on that but we are absolutely heading in the right direction and mrs browsky had an excellent point when she said earlier we need the community to help us in this program to make it better we have an enormous opportunity here that i never truly believed would be possible but now it is if we get everyone behind this program this could be absolutely phenomenal other questions well i'd like to just one more follow up on that i mean to talk about what we've done for the staff now and i understand that the 2500 is unsustainable maybe maybe for the future and it's currently a signing incentive and the risk compensation we've done but we've also hired 17 teachers 17 positions two years ago we also hired 16 coming into the next we've been able to hire aides and all different people sent to pd's and by curriculum and supplies that we never would have and we have where we've spent what four five and a half million dollars just on salaries and benefits alone not including all the other things that we have done so we have actually we've done a lot for the staff as well and then this is just another added benefit that we can try to help somebody and and i like what mr burgess said where he said we'd like to help somebody like we we just really want to try to help somebody in our district and if that could be one and maybe it's someone who falls on hard times and they need that opportunity to have someone be there for them and have a place for them this is what we need we need them to have that opportunity so we don't lose them like mrs boyd said we we had someone leave that semester we had to divide up those classes i know it's happened at the elementary where classes get fuller teachers you know have to absorb those extra students because somebody had to leave due to housing and then or we have long-term subs teaching our students which is currently what's happening because we it's hard to find those applicants when you they leave mid-year and don't have a place to stay so i know that's difficult teachers teach it on their preps yes yes i i think we saw a hand in the back right would you like me to get to the mic there you go so i came here um really kind of upset by this whole thing when i saw it on facebook but i got to say your presentation answered a lot of my questions i have worked for jobs where my um rent came out be you know taxes were taken out and my rent was taken out um you know you're not always going to make everybody happy a hundred percent of the time so i kind of haven't always disagreed i haven't always agreed with this board but i say this has to go forward if it helps five people if it helps to some woman who ends up in domestic violence and needs a place to go i think that having that available as an emergency place to go and still keep her teaching job i think is a bonus so i'm just going to say go forward and have thank you thank you thank you and what was your name i'm sorry oh i'm brendan hi brenda sir good evening i'm i'm a teacher so i don't think we'll have a problem hearing me your name your name is a couple things you're not very short-winded so i'm going to say your name please my name is bill earnest and i teach right next door at bullhead city middle school fifth grade okay okay um i got a question in reference well a statement first to the gentleman that spoke to about there's no loss the whole goal of doing this is teacher recruitment retention could you please speak into the mic the whole goal of this project is teacher recruitment and retention if the units sit open sure taxpayers aren't anything but we didn't solve a problem either right and it was a waste of time waste money and a waste of effort okay so there is a loss there um you spoke about the teachers living in the apartments till they got the money together to buy home well if they're not making enough money to pay that apartment payment how are they going to afford a home would be my next question okay which seems kind of logical to me we're hurting for money and the third one on this document you shared earlier when i looked at the totals for a home the home building process it came up to three million dollars not 2.4 i'm kind of confused i was looking for clarity on that okay i can answer that one originally we were talking 2.4 and then as we as with anything in a grant and you start looking at okay well this won't work or that won't work and we understood some finances relative to prepping the property and that kind of thing we rolled some other dollars into there so what you have in front of you is and what's over there is what is designated so um anna didn't misspeak on purpose that was the original number so three million dollars is coming out of esters to fund the housing that you're going to build okay instead of 2.4 million which is a 25 increase okay thanks okay and then i can answer about the thing the whole point is to have affordable housing so it would be like i don't want to speak in regards to that but i know i would push for a lot lower than 20 unless of course rent goes significantly down anyway which eventually hopefully the housing market will burst eventually um as it usually does but uh i would definitely want it to be to where they can in fact save and purchase a home eventually and i do think this is possible my husband is disabled he does not work he works at home or basically stays at home takes care of the home we live 100 percent on my teacher salary at mojave high school with a twelve hundred dollar rent all right we still have a car we still are able to buy groceries i can still get health care and all that jazz um i am still able to uh fund my addiction with yarn you know so so the this idea that that it is 100 not a livable wage i would say i mean i have a friend who's a nurse practitioner and his wife is a nurse and they're always broke so i guess the question is is what are you doing with your money maybe it's that 750 car payment you have so there's things that people really need to think about when it comes to whether or not this is affordable or sustainable are you smart with your money or do you have a 400 motorcycle and a 500 car and you have netflix hulu amazon and uh you know we can go on and on and on but as someone with a disabled husband who lives 100 percent a 1200 rent house pays my bills they do not cover my electricity they do not cover my gas uh i have netflix i have hulu and i have amazon prime and i pay 1200 a month in rent on my salary alone so if the rent is lower if the rent is lower and they actually the minimum i think that the teachers get paid here is pretty much what i get paid okay so they might make a little bit more they might make a little bit more or maybe the thing but my point being is if the rent is low enough it is 100 possible like anyone else out here who has probably purchased a home or has done things you have to make sacrifices you have to just make decisions in order to save up to make a down payment on a house but from my experience it is a possible and if we can get the rent as low as we can to where it is understandable it is something that we can use i mean heck if i had a 700 house payment right now that's 500 extra bucks a month that i could have to put for a down payment on a house but i don't because my rent isn't that so i the one thing i would say bill like that i would say to you is i do agree with you and the fact that if it sits empty it's a loss because to me that means we're not helping somebody that means that somehow we miss something and and i do feel that if it if it were to sit empty for some reason that it would be but i don't see that as a problem i i really feel with what we've gone through in in the high school district elementary district and all the districts around us of the teachers that have left due to not being able to find affordable housing we will have a wait list for those we will have a list of renters wanting in as quick as they can because they understand or new teachers coming to the district or or veteran teachers that like she had mentioned earlier there are teachers that have had people their landlords come to them and say by september 2023 we're selling your house sorry we're giving you a year heads up year and a half heads up because the market is just too good and we have to sell our accountant had recommended it and there's nothing you can do about that you just have to continue on so um i hope that we don't sit empty so we can help somebody because i would agree that if it did so empty it would be a loss it would it would feel like a loss at least to me any other questions sir excuse me i've called on him i'm sorry let's go guys my name is james and i am mr chairman members of the board stuart dr stewart and i had a conversation about this at one time when i saw her at an event and uh and i'm in support of it um i think it's it's a it's good that we're thinking of other options to for teacher shortages my question is that if the 2.4 million or now three wasn't used for this project what would it be used for would it be used for teachers salaries to give raises if so how much how long would that last right at some point like you said you've got to replace that here you have something that you don't have to replace that gives some teachers a continuing it's a continuing benefit for teachers maybe not all of them but those who need it um and then let's say you can fund how long if you gave raises let's say three percent raises to your teachers how long would that last for maybe 14 years not even you can't even use it yes so the issue is the money the money stops on september 30 of 2023 and then whatever's left rolls over for one more year but whatever is not spent on september 30th of 2024 is gone so with that with with these these are assets you're going to have these homes that 15 20 years down the road you know they're generally real estate here in bullhead i've been here three years and real estate in this area has gone up considerably during that time sometimes it goes down sometimes it goes up but you're going to have that asset at the end of 20 25 years 30 years that if you need to get rid of it and sell it you're still going to have that pot of money so i don't see a loss here um the other question that i have and i'll wait for the answer in your spreadsheet spreadsheet presentation you mentioned that the sr funds are soft money right so my question is we don't use soft money for salaries because then at the end of that we we have to replace it but it appears that that's what we did and i think that's a question that we need to talk about and that's a great it's a good question so sr2 and sr1 were both emergency funds and when schools were shut down one of the things that fortunately the folks who shut down schools said keep your people employed do what you need to do to keep them employed and so that's how we use those funds and because sr2 is also emergency funds our budgets i talked about the buckets and one thing i didn't emphasize i said it but i didn't emphasize it is that our budget for any given year is based on our student enrollment the prior year so during our enrollment dropped by 350 students so the budget that was originally arranged for this year was based on 300 fewer students than we'd had the year before now the good news is that we've gotten a number of those students back probably about 250 it might not be the same 250 students but we've gotten about 250 students back so our the budget for next year will look better because of that increase in enrollment but to keep our current students so we started this year with almost as many students as the year before last not last year and so we needed the teachers so we could justify saying we can pay for these teachers so we can serve our kids our budget was affected by kovid we can serve these kids keep our class sizes decent but we know that those positions will either need to roll back into our regular budget or or some positions will go away but the beauty of that money and keeping those positions is that we could keep our class sizes a lot smaller and this board agreed to capacity for our classes so that we really could give the best effort to helping our kids they didn't lose education but they did lose opportunities for some education during that 18 months and this lets us have lots more focus per student than we might have otherwise so in that case that it is short-term salaries it's 17 positions next year it will be 18 positions that are funded with this money but at the year after we either absorb those positions back into our regular budget or we figure out something else so and those folks are making the same salaries the rest of our teachers are making it's not like it's less money it's the same salaries no they were existing positions that we got to keep yeah that's an excellent question thank you for asking that those were existing positions so had we not had s or 2 for this year 17 of our current teachers who are working with our children would not be employed by this district classes would be class sizes would be bigger considerably bigger at all grade levels and some things and some things would not be so good in those classrooms so yeah they were existing positions and that was the intent of that money was to keep people employed i will say that sr1 which was a hair over a million dollars kept our bus drivers employed during those three months that we did not have kids in school because our budget got cut for that year the budget had been approved but it was cut so it kept our folks employed so kudos to any of our legislative people for saying this is a this is an ugly situation but let's do everything we can to keep current employees employed and we worked at that excellent question okay we have another zoom question i'm curious about the cost of developing the land is there any water electric sewer etc already set up also would this land project ever be able to be sold in the future jeff record corey yeah mr burgess infrastructure is currently not in place but we are working on that that is in our budget of our entire project as far as selling this in the future i will have to refer that to dr stewart i don't know how i don't know the answer to that i don't really know the answer to that either i suppose at some point if we felt that it was not you know if the board felt that it was not a viable project it could be sold the difficulty then is you've got a pot of money in a bucket that you can't touch can't use it for anything else as far as i know but we would have to look into what would happen if we sold come on up man okay did i understand you to say your name please penny davis did i understand you to say that utilities were included with the rent so that's one of the discussions that we are having is to include it all together so then it's one joint package for them i know that you'd mention mec wanted to reach out and partner and somebody else about possibly wi-fi and so it would be we would try to develop a package who in their right mind wouldn't crank up the air in the summertime well they crank up the heat how are you going to regulate that and take care of it because where i live we don't turn the heat on much i take showers without the heat on all winter because we pay our utilities and we don't use our air conditioning to the max until you know i mean we don't use it to the max so how are you going to do this with rent i mean why would you move out if you're if your utilities cost more than your rent hey who's paying it good question and and that's one thing that was in here it was a suggestion and one of the things we talked about was including it all together so i mean that would be something to look at if if say somebody liked it like an iceberg in their in their house you know how would you regulate it would there be an allotment if you went over 250 then would they pay you know so that's all things that to look at so that just posed more questions just asking that one so who would not turn crank it up or i'm just kidding i hear you i don't we don't turn our air on we leave the heat the doors open as much as we can yes i hear you hey questions sir that's a good question hi my name is carrie and i think this is a really bad idea because i own properties and there is a lot of maintenance and you have to budget for that and you have to have insurances and all that i think you guys are just way out of your realm with what you do um but uh carolyn you mentioned social emotional quickly quickly um can you explain that no i was not talking about curriculum i was talking about that we are we had to build in there think considerations and ways of helping our folks deal with the effects of the pandemic so we're talking about physical health we're talking about emotional health of our kids and so we have our counselors and we have those things so we wanted to make sure that they had the materials that they needed the counselors had the materials they needed we wanted to make sure that our health offices have what they need we want to make sure that our employees have what they need because this has in fact been traumatic for probably all of us i suspect everybody has has experienced some trauma relative to this we're not talking about curriculum and about teaching things here we're talking about providing health services for our students and our employees okay thank you thank you yes sir brian burgess bullet city you said they would not be paying property taxes is that correct it's school district property and school districts do not pay property this is a housing unit it's not a school it's still school but district property as it grows five units 10 units 20 uses like the coach said back there 300 units you're using the services you're using the police you're using the fire that puts that much pressure on all the rest of the homeowners in bullhead city so i think you could rethink that and have a property tax taken out of the rent so as you grow five units it's not going to make a big difference 100 units this will make a big difference for the fire and police and all the other services that your property taxes pay the tax the property taxes here are county taxes they're not city taxes there are no city taxes okay but still but yeah your point is well taken and it would need to be considered but school district property is not school district but it's not a school it's too good school district property but it's going to be housing like my house up in bulkhead and i pay taxes a lot of taxes for somebody not to pay that it could put more pressure on everybody else you might want to consider that that's a good question thank you anyone else yeah i think dr stewart also had some questions some follow up on some earlier things and then we'll get to second questions if people have second questions i think if we go too much further than second questions we might be here really really late so um and we'll try to write down your questions so if you go through a couple of questions really quick like we'll try to like write them down so you get them asked in your two minutes and then we'll take some time to answer if we can so if that helps um i wanted to come back to something miss gary should sent had called yesterday i think it was and had asked some questions i don't remember all of the items that you had miss garish but i know one of them had to do with who's the developer we don't have a developer yet so we have to follow procurement we will have to put those things out for you know requests for uh proposals or bids and that kind of thing and we'll follow all of the procurement so i wasn't trying to avoid your question it's just that we didn't we don't have a developer yet we don't have those folks what we have are those renderings okay they're not blueprints they're simply renderings but i will be happy to send you a small version of those i have those you're welcome to have them and i'm sorry i don't remember the other questions you asked yesterday but we didn't answer them because we don't have answers for them yet so it wasn't trying to avoid your questions it was just that we're not there yet okay so yeah and and when we put out the requests for bids it'll be to local you know local contractors local whatever because we can't we can't legally say we're going to select somebody local but as much as possible this board has said that when possible we want to keep these monies in this community we don't want the money to go to you know if we can avoid sometimes we can't because we're supposed to take the lowest bids and the lowest quotes and those things but we will do everything we can to keep this money circulating in the bullhead city and mohave county community as opposed to going to maricopa or someplace else yep do you want to you want to do your two yeah you do a second round of two minutes you're go go for it okay i have a question because you're um obviously um well i don't know if most of you know i'm on the high school board and um speaking of microphone please i can't hear you say absolutely this is ashley garage are you ready for me burgess um so uh as far as procurement goes we have to send out our um we have to have our three bids right correct and there's a lot of times that we don't get our three bids back we don't we have um several projects that are out months in advance right now because we cannot get even a no bid and that is the requirement your three bids and we're not even getting that right now so i don't know if you've reached out um at least to see if this is going to be a possibility to get your procurements back because at this point um like i said we're months out and i'm sure that you guys have the same problem and i'm sure that you've had the deal with the same things in the past with procurement so um what are you gonna do if you don't get uh any bids back we will be looking for bids i will say though that um the the community task thank you that's an excellent question the community task team that karen summit put together those folks have been involved in some of these meetings and there's every indication that we will not have problems getting uh getting quotes and not have problems getting local quotes so as for procurement like i know being in the high school district like i've had to sit through procurement training where it was multiple hours over multiple days with a uh he had a lot of munchisms his name was mr bunch he he was able to answer a lot of those procurement questions and and if i were to go and seek out information we'll say um three quotes ten thousand dollars for two different football jerseys for home and away because they really do cost that much i could actually call a company and if they don't give me a quote there's a no quote sheet so if they refuse to give me a quote then i can go ahead and write that up obviously when you're looking at giant projects you want some submitted quotes you want to be able to compare quotes and we will do everything we can to receive multiple quotes and as she said we definitely want to keep things here in the community but there are ways that we have to do those things so um i can't just we can't just sit up here and say oh we want to create a new job and give it to so and so like you have to post it you have to interview so the same thing with developers like we'd have to send it out there and we'd have to say hey who would like to bid who would like to be a developer we'd have to interview we'd have to do the things that we have to do to make sure that we follow those procurement rules so we don't get in trouble so those are very important sir give a fault john i'm just going to make a comment that when we started the comment was it's a done deal maybe it's not a done deal and i think we ought to keep an open mind i was in government for 32 years there's no such thing as a done deal and i think you guys know that right come on uh things check look what happened uh two years ago things changed man and all of a sudden here we are with their pants down you got employees you've got to fill four four million dollars if you don't get it again that's a lot of people to absorb in this budget correct so i'm i'm just saying please please keep an open mind because a lot of people brought up some pretty good ideas and uh if it was such a a great deal that you could never lose the real estate i would have bought a lot because you can't ignore me anymore i'm going to ignore you one more time because larry's got a question and he hasn't even been up there yet come on up blair that's all sorry he'll do i never lived that down larry uh larry morse with arq engineering uh been a resident area for 30 some plus years i want to commend you for taking steps to try to to do employee retention which is critical in our area it's very hard to find anybody that's qualified to do anything it's really bad as an employer i know that i had a couple questions one of them was on this is federal money coming in so all the federal procurement including prevailing wage applies for not only the district but the contractors that the district hires okay that's one thing the other thing is recently last two years we've seen materials cost triple they doubled last month not on top of the triple that was i mean we were used to pay 16 a foot for an eight inch sewer line we're now paying forty five dollars a foot material cost only um anything like that a a water valve an eight inch water valve used to cost us six hundred dollars now it's twenty six hundred dollars just for one not installed that's delivered to your site that's about it uh just food for thought thank you thank you i think that's where we we got our dreams crushed when you know the original you know grand scheme was 20 and now we're hoping to push 5-10 and and it's because of things like that it's unfortunate that that that we got hit with that time frame because that's a large increase hildy [Laughter] can you reach a microphone don't let him do so much okay so in the beginning ms stewart said that anyone can go it can be custodian it could be an administrator who makes the decision who picks the people who get it and what are the guidelines or their qualifications you're going to have people submit like their their histories i mean who gets it there actually would submit an application at this point we haven't come up with specific guidelines as far as who's going to be first and who's not in some of the other teachers here in arizona that i've looked at it was first come first serve some of it was a committee was put together and that committee determined who you know so not be the board it would be a committee it would be a committee or it couldn't be property manager so or management firm so it may be them we haven't really because you said also that you thought there'd be like a big waiting list but then again you said that people can stay as long as they want so i don't really see how that turned over as long as we want we just said it wasn't permanent it was temporary but we didn't know how long yet so we did said we did there will also there will be so you know the idea that they're going to save up enough money for down payment in a time frame that you're going to set is probably not real but the other thing i wanted to say was patrick beck's assertion that no taxpayer money i mean we heard very similar things about something called the field house and i believe last fiscal year the taxpayers the school district paid 160 thousand dollars out of their budget to make up for the losses of the field house so there's never anything definite you cannot say the taxpayers will not pay i'm not saying that should be your overrun decision but be careful because you cannot say that thanks all right so amanda i'll try to just give you the questions okay all right um so first things first has the board read the exit surveys of the employees who left last year i don't recall a discussion at any board meeting about you guys actually seeing the 40 plus staff members exit surveys and the reasons why they left and i know for a fact that there was a portion of them that were not due to housing so that's first i also want to ask about the 2500 incentive bonus again that is not given to every educator in the district that was for a certain amount of the teachers certain teachers i believe i don't know if administrators got that i don't know if additional paraprofessionals received a bonus so saying that that would be in place of a housing expense stipend that would also not there would be a discrepancy there there are sites you have six sites in this district and there are multiple problems at every single site and i've gathered a list of those problems because my whole thing as many of you know because of my educator club is to advocate for the educators in this area and they have a lot of burden on them right now and so i want to make sure yes and i'm not saying that this does not have its pros to it and i'm not saying not to help anybody that's not what i'm trying to put across but when you've got five units let's say they're the one bedroom units that's five people how many employees do you have in the elementary district that's a real crooked crooked seesaw there i think that you would be helping five out of 200 to 300 employees so i have to advocate again and i know you said money went to the sites this year but there's still teachers who don't have air conditioning and heat in their classrooms as of april 6.

okay before we call this meeting to work tonight um i invite you to stand and pledge allegiance indivisible with liberty and justice from um i called the meeting in the order at 631 are there any modifications to the agenda i am an action needed item the recommendation to approve the renewal of the food service management company contract the 2022-2023 school year with compass group usa incorporated by through its chartwells division do i have a motion to accept the uh modification to agenda as presented any discussion carol yes yes stephanie yes amy yes thank you uh next is recognition of visitors item that transfer which is the change the effective date in item two from june 26 2022 to may 26 2022.