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so if we take the relationship between the enrollment which has gone down in the last 10 years and then the actual population decreasing i don't see the justification of why we need to increase the cost i mean i'm not saying to get rid of anything and by no means but it doesn't seem like it follows through with the actual um the graph that's been put before us meanwhile it bill brings up that yes it does show that about it's been consistent about 12 000 units but in the next three four five six years the amount of housing that you have in your your own report shows it going down to almost 50 houses so the report itself is a little bit misleading showing that you have a negative single-family and multi-family amount of housing that's going to be built the capacity is 935. we have 634 or some of that like to be to be fulfilled in the next 10 years but at the same time our in time the enrollment is going it's saying that it's going up um but the population of the county keeps going down and the state's population keeps going down so there's got to be some inverse relationship between that as well um i i hear the example of what you folks are talking about with the the t4s but how many of those t4s and the relationship needs to be with how there's a new building and new construction and that's how the relationship for the fee gets charged to the builder and so yeah there might be this and i think it's a great opportunity to have the new four-year-olds but are those relate is that direct um reaction from new building and new multi-family or is it as you said um is it existing folks that are already there so sure there might be some more folks that need coming in or younger kids but it needs to be a reasonable relationship between that and building i thank you guys for your time and i know it's a tough decision but thank you and kitty thoma the other thing i wanted to mention is julie does an excellent job too hi i'm katie toma and i'm the executive director for chico builders association and i want to thank you for the grace that you extended to us um by extending this for two weeks i'm new to the position and um don't haven't wrapped my head around all your protocols so thank you for that we we really appreciate that um i'm hoping that by now you all did get a copy of the letter that we sent if you didn't i have copies and so my my rule right here is i'm going to read to you what we sent you so thank you for honoring our request okay at the last board meeting we stated an increase in fees could actually price some folks out of the dream of home ownership mr lando challenged me on that and said he wanted to see some evidence of that of which we did provide that's already been alluded to that in fact a an increase of a thousand dollars would price out 91 households as a result of that one of the things that bill did i believe it was bill didn't mention is that mortgage rates are increasing significantly um as you've probably watched and also the cost of materials so that 91 number is probably very conservative question for clarification on that sure mrs toma um so what does that mean 91 people want to buy a house say a police officer or a teacher moves into town what what what what is this so according to the national home builders association if you increase in chico if you increase the price by a of a home in chico by a thousand dollars you are you are disenfranchising or not allowing 91 households to purchase a home based on the median income so if you look at the chart um so the median income is of of a new home the is 341 000 um 847 and then you you goes on and then the number of households um that shouldn't have a dollar sign in front of it um so those that can afford it is 17 788 those that can't but the 91 would be priced out by the thousand dollar increase does that make sense okay um and then the other thing we wanted to challenge was the um in the letter that was really important and this was also brought up were the number of units that would actually be built over the next 10 years and if you looked at the graph that we supplied that that you know the average building in the last 20 years has been has been an average of 490 units and so when we use that number we project that the number of units built over by 2029 would be 4860 using your student enrollment at 642 using the 1400 square foot that the actual square footage cost is 4.49 not the 6.99 that the consultant came up with also the excess capacity currently you have an excess capacity of 935 students that wasn't discussed in the calculations and you have a projected student enrollment of 642 over the next 10 years so we're wondering where the correlation is between the impact of new construction 30 seconds okay making me nervous um the the impact um of new construction um that you already have the x am i losing my train of thought but you already have the excess capacity now and with a projected enrollment of 642 students over the next 10 years we don't see where the impact will be um so before you go sure um i just want to clarify that my question was not about whether this is going to raise the housing prices and it will people will get 5 000 yeah my question was do we have any evidence that school districts actually taking these fees has an actual impact on whether developers choose to build or not like do we have a case study in which a group did take the fee and the number of houses building bill went down or they didn't and the number of houses built increased okay i don't know i don't know the answer to that but i can tell you that the increase by of a thousand does eliminate 91 households which is really significant i'm very aware of it yeah yeah so any other questions welcome back okay thank you well thank you i just have a couple of things to add regarding the information provided by the chico builders association um kelly pointed out to me that the enrollment numbers that they're seeing from several years ago [Music] would you say [Music] here um but the year that they started 1999 through now have decreased but they we have had a significant growth in charter schools in our district over that period of time and the charter school students are not added to the district's enrollment however we do provide school facilities for a majority of them so there is a little bit of a difference there um question on that who are the ones that we do provide facilities for versus the ones that we don't and do we get paid for that or not we do not get paid in the form of rent no um we have forest ranch charter school nord charter school chico country day inspire school of arts and sciences and sherwood montessori for sure school and they're housed in chapman and who are the ones that don't benefit from chico facilities the only ones that we don't we're not responsible for providing facilities for are those that are not chartered by chico unified and right now that would be core they're part of our bond but they're they are not a they're approved by you county office event blue oak is also one of ours yes and achieve one of ours the list is growing so that does represent a significant number of students that aren't shown in those enrollment data from this team and the second thing i wanted to point out chris is correct that not all four-year-olds that come to us as tk students are generated from new development but some are not all but some are yes um i also wanted to point out the um the priced out table that is in the letter is from data from 2021 and i looked up the data from 2022 for chico and that number of priced out residents is down to 47 instead of 91 and then at the table where they were talking about [Music] lynn and her folks not projecting as much development as there actually is going to be the math i believe the math in the table doesn't adequately address it because if you say there's going to be 4 860 units built you also have to calculate how many students would be generated at that higher number so the 642 number would increase as well they both have to go up more development means we're going to generate more students from that development and that's the only comments that i i have on the letter thank you for bringing it and thank you for speaking tonight i have a comment on our approved master plan which is we we're in phase four but phase five is our next cycle and that includes rosedale little chico creek chapman parkview fairview and citrus those are a number of our schools in the lowest income areas and yet they're next to where a huge amount of construction is expected little chico creek is already anticipated to be significantly impacted by the construction in that area so those are the schools that are sitting there waiting for their turn in the master plan yes yeah thank you there was a some comments about how we have capacity existing for 900 such extra students but i know that when we're looking at our demographics and our master plan we calculate capacity in a couple different ways so do we know whether that number is the uh in my head i call them the comfortable number or the sardines in a can number i don't know that answer to that question and i'm not sure if linda's if it was the target capacity or the maximum capacity that was utilized for the study let me see if i can look that up i believe it was the capacity based on state loading standards which is um probably not quite sardine but closer to sardines yeah yeah it's based on the um the state loading standards so the max thank you you may have covered this but i remember last year governor newsome was announcing some odd billion dollars that we were going to spend statewide on um tk expansion and i think you did kind of mention it but can you talk more about that money where it is now and when it's going to get to us sure i can tell you what i know about that i am i'm a member of the cash organization coalition for adequate school housing and we have a conference every winter and at our latest conference in february i learned that the mechanism that the state is going to implement to fund projects for school districts in california to implement transitional kindergarten will be based on free and reduced lunch count for those districts so what i was told is that every district that applies will get one funded project for one school and then the state will go back to the top of the list and the top of the list being the most needy schools with the with the highest free and reduced lunch count and all of their projects will get funded and they'll move to the next district and all of their projects will get funded and they'll move to the next and all of those projects will get funded now we do know because we learned recently that the state has a surplus of funds we've all been reading about it in the paper so we are hopeful that our district will get funded for more than one project but two weeks ago this board approved resolution to apply for uh our project that we already completed at emma wilson where we added three new uh kindergarten classrooms that up that qualify for that funding so that's the project that we're applying for and then our second project will be mcmanus elementary school which you know we're in design for right now but as far as i know right now our district is only going to be funded for one project this is a question for anybody who can answer it because i missed the council meeting last night did the city take their full share of what they were allotted in terms of raising their fees i'm just curious if there's ever a jurisdiction or agency that that chooses to take less than the max and i haven't heard of one you mentioned to me uh over the phone a couple of weeks ago that there was a time when we didn't actually you can clarify this comment there was a time when we didn't so much collect these fees right looking at the historical data over the last couple of weeks there's been two periods of time where the district didn't suspend the fees but suspended an increase of fees for a short period of time most recently i believe was just after the campfire i believe the developers came forward and requested that we delay the implementation and we did so i believe it was a six month delay julie wasn't there also a period of time that we did not collect any commercial fees we only did residential yes for a four year period we didn't increase the collection of commercial i don't know about other districts or other agencies but that's what i know about chico unified are you trying to get a lot of conversation about the fees right that were there because a massive amount of fees going through and so they were talking kind of about the same thing and um there was some debate about pushing aside the commercial fees and doing you know different meeting for that and at the end of the day they passed them all but the biggest is did they were the commercial ones but the one thing for me that stood out was um the homeless advocates that were there and they're always they're talking about affordable housing and a big chunk of what's in development is for affordable housing and so my question is the impact on affordable housing in addition to the impact to the 47 or 91 homes that people are going to be priced out of what is this going to do for the affordable housing community when they're not going to be able to then again be able to afford the rent and afford the housing and now we're again back on this whole hamster wheel with the homeless community and they can't find housing they can't find housing it just seems to me that needs to be part of the conversation too so thank you so i'm going to close the public hearing and then move back to the board in terms of our decision about adopting the resolution 1577-22 which at this point addresses increasing the level one school fees just to the point that have been validated by the state and by our own study correct okay so so i also wanted to get clarification so when i believe you were talking about the gap you're talking about the gap between what our costs are to actually do the new construction and how much impact the fee increase affects that correct correct the difference between the impact and what we're allowed to collect okay i think i just want to make sure because that wasn't laid out so does anyone else have questions or clarifications that they want i have a question that i don't i mean i i tuned in on my way back over here so i heard some of the public comment but i missed the presentation read through the presentation we met yesterday so i've gotten a lot of questions answered already i just wanted to ask because i think this question got asked last time and i don't know if it got answered completely or correctly but is it possible to approve a a certain percent increase whatever it may be whether it's the full 17.4 percent or some some some iteration of in between um and or uh the real question i'm asking right now sorry is um to phase it in over the next two years so do part of the increase this year and then push the the second half of that increase or the additional part of that increase to next year it's certainly at the discretion of the board okay thank you what is the next opportunity we have to increase the fees if we want to two years and that's based on what state cycle state law it's even years the state allocation board reviews and adjusts every two years they did in february so if we didn't increase tonight we could in one year for example you can raise the fee from its current rate to the approved rate by the sab at any point in the next two years if that's what you choose to do but not over i like that's jacqueline jacqueline and and also of course julie um we have exhausted one of our bonds completely correct and the other one we only have one draw that's correct there's one draw left on measure e and what size of that draw is left i think it's between 30 and 40 million okay and [Music] mcmanus took a serve you sierra view are next and they're all major projects yes i'm trying to remember what our estimate was for mcmanus 40 million 40 million oh there's a difference right there one school and again as i know the the schools that are are expected to start in 26 are some of our schools in the most low-income areas with the greatest need [Music] so waiting for emotion i'm calling for a motion okay madam president yes i move approval of resolution number 1577-22 as presented okay emotions been made i'll need a second all right then is there another motion to be made sure i'm going to try something out here currently the allotted it increases 71 cents right i would like to uh move that we raise the um fee collection by 50 cents over the next year instead with the option to come back and look at it again next year and see if that's what effect that has had what's that no it doesn't if you're going underneath it doesn't have to be two years we can go up to the ceiling at any time yeah mine either but she she just clarified a second ago so i think that would give us um again i'm still curious to see what the real world outcomes are when these fees change um and i'm very cognizant having uh recently purchased a home in chico myself of how very nickel and dimey it is to get housing here i mean on the other hand because i completely understand that you know our responsibility as school board is to how does it get so i'd like to find a way to split the difference is what i'm saying um and i think that aiming at 50 cents for now it's a good place to start the negotiation at least is what i'm trying to say so motion is uh 50 cents immediately with an option to to come back and look at it in a year and i think um you should maybe clarify that that's 50 cents per residential square foot and then what you would like to do for the motion on the commercial good point thank you yes um my motion is for a increase of 50 cents per square foot on the residential and to leave the commercial at the highest allocated level as recommended the 12-10 increase okay we have a motion do we have a second i'm in a second um so that we can discuss this this concept okay so we have a motion and a second the motion is to increase the fee by 50 cents and come back in a year to assess the implications uh and to keep the commercial fee at 12 cents all right discussion i need help with math please i did the spine yesterday i had a number in my head and now i can't figure out how i did the math yesterday because it's been it's been a long week um can somebody help me that can do the math right now and not make me think more um what percent increase that is because that's how i i'm working in not real sense that's funny um i'm not working in since i'm working in percentages that's how my brain is it thinks a little bit better so um sorry for the pun that was bad that's a 12 increase thank you i knew you'd have it so um here's i guess i'll just kind of lay out my my thoughts on the table everybody's made really great arguments for doing the full fee increase for not doing the full fee increase we're doing no increase i think that i think that there's a lot at stake for our school district and our facilities especially looking at the master plan as it's laid out now and knowing that our bond measures are dwindling rapidly soon but also looking at our community as a whole as i have done quite a bit since i've joined the school board is is we don't work in isolation and um you know on that note these fee increases that are being proposed the city council will also impact our school district because we have to pay those fees to the city so that is also a reality that we have to kind of you know still juggle as far as all the numbers go so there's a lot of moving parts here it's a lot of variables that that cause a lot of uncertainties and i think that uncertainties have been the the season for the last two years and so it's hard to say yeah let's do a 17.4 increase without really understanding how things are going to kind of continue to settle out when it comes to our affordable housing shortage in this community when it comes to our families who are being priced out of housing in this community when we talk about those 91 or 40 something i'm sorry i didn't catch the number um 47.

you know folks or families are or we'll just call them a unit those those people who can't afford homes with that thousand dollar increase um those aren't the those aren't the part of our population that are are you know really well off that's that's our those are our borderline folks those are the people who are maybe make enough to possibly buy a house like that's we're talking about the bottom of the the bracket here you know those folks above that they'll buy their houses they'll move from the bay area whatever i'm starting to ramble point being that 17.4 percent increase is very uncomfortable to me um what else is uncomfortable is the concept of taking funding or not not having funding for our schools to to have those facilities to house our students and and good facilities that that we can be proud of and that our students will flourish in um so it's a really hard place and i think that a compromise at least at this time is reasonable so that we it's kind of still the wait and see as we sort of come out of this really weird uncertain period of time that we've been in since the campfire essentially um so i um i i guess coming into this i am in support of you know a middle of the road compromise 12 is still a little high to me um on average i'm not doing math again but it hasn't been any more than 8.9 in the last six years so you know that that seems like a pretty decent ceiling to me is is right around what the most or maybe even just a little bit more considering inflation and you know looming and more fees coming down on us and also costs of materials going up like we still have to play the game along with everybody else um so that's where i'm at as far as discussion goes i'm sorry i'm glad i made it back on time okay so we have a motion a second they've both been presented does anyone else have anything to contribute um oh did you were you about to say something what oh okay um i i i i was going to amend see if i could amend the main motion um to a uh fee increase instead of the 12.

um so um yeah an amending yeah it's well ten percent increase is a little bit easier for me it's i um and i'm still not saying it out loud because i don't want to get it wrong um yeah so ten percent increase would be right forty forty point one cents yeah jacqueline you wanna settle them down thinking off real quick so uh ten percent increase would put the rate at 449 per square foot um is it at all appropriate to hear from our hold on just as a point of procedure we've got a an amendment so it would need a second on the floor and i'm um i mean i'm fine with the amendment so if we want to consider it friendly then sure it's a friendly event yeah okay okay so i think we're still negotiation at this point so we're not but yeah we're not in discussion with the audience this is just the board now making that decision so the difference in the percentage increase versus the actual cost per square foot was 41 is that what you said a 10 increase would be 4.49 no she didn't say you did 10 10 increase not 12.

oh okay okay 449 10 increase okay so everybody's clear all right so that was in the form of an amendment yeah which he accepted okay so the amendment now provides an increase where's the chart instead of 78 cents per square foot it would be what the increase wasn't 78 that was the original that has not been approved per square foot yeah at 71. so for clarification the original proposal to max out at the state allocation board is 71 cents oh 71. the original proposal from mr lando was to increase that 50 cents the amendment by ms dalby said let's increase it 10 percent which would put it at 449 which is actually a 41 cent increase 41 instead of 50 based on what yes mr lando had proposed versus 71 is the maximum we could do is there any other need for clarification all right so i'm going to call for a vote uh we can do roll call pardon vote on the amendment uh yes which he had accepted is friendly so the motion in front of us is to increase the the fees only by 10 percent so they would go to 41 cents per square foot and come back in a year to look at the ramifications so that's 30 cents from what was the 71 cents that was in the original recommendation down to 41 cents yes okay i'm clear okay roll call vote robinson no orlando i uh hmm delay don't be delvie aye tennis name okay so two two and i'll say i so it passes three to two that way nobody's happy yeah was it henry calhoun who said a good compromise leaves everybody unhappy yeah apologies to everybody i love being the least liked person in the room all right julie we're back to you good evening thank you for having me here tonight so the next thing i'd like to speak with you about is bit approval for new walk-in cooler freezer for our corporation yard because of the dollar amount of this equipment that's why i'm bringing it forward instead of the director of nutrition we did put the project out for bid with specifications for the new freezer and cooler box we got one bitter from myers restaurant supply in the amount of four hundred eighty eight thousand two hundred thirty dollars and eighty seven cents four hundred eighty eight 000 in what 231.87 which is actually lower than what we had estimated it to be it is very large and it is it will be adjacent to the bakery it will store frozen food and cold food for the entire district it's just a big um like padded room basically with a big air conditioner unit blowing into it basically right yes and it will have a large roll-up door so forklifts can drive in and out and make the nutrition services um duties much more efficient is the building already there yeah this is just for the cooling unit correct we will have a project coming forward for the concrete slab that needs to be poured it's in design so uh that will be coming to you in the future and what pot of money is this coming from this is coming from nutrition services uh fund 13 budget none of it is is any of the um the rescue package monies or anything like that there's a very small pot of money that is specifically allocated to the nutrition program related to cobin relief but we're talking about 50 000 of the 488 000 becoming from that but it has to be spent on your nutrition services program so no general fund dollars would be towards this project um and none of the coveted relief dollars that have already come forward to the board would be reallocated for this project thank you isn't it true that the number of meals served by our nutrition services has dramatically increased dramatically yes it has and that's a good thing yep kids are their tummy's full i just want a key for the high heat days because i like big fats and i would we'll just add the logistical placement of this we'll put it right next to the bakery right now our current walk-ins are are in our warehouse and so they have to um oftentimes push parts and whatnot across the way to get over to the bakery the other piece to this is our current walk-ins are not really forklift ready if you will and so what's happening is when new because you have to rotate inventory when new shipments are coming in you have to pull everything out of the existing freezer put the new inventory in the back and then replace your current inventory in the front so oftentimes unfortunately our staff is having touch the same box two three four times in order to adequately rotate so with this larger walk-in we'll be able to do forklifted pallets that will be drivable within the space so it'll be much more efficient for our staff in getting food rotated and get it onto our trucks to get delivered to their sites in the morning yes next question um what's going to happen with the are we going to continue to use the existing walk-in we're actually going to remove the existing walk-in from the warehouse and reutilize that space thank you you might have said that already i apologize if so i didn't thank you for asking so kids now get a breakfast they get a second breakfast if they got to school too close to time to go to breakfast they get lunch and if they're in the after school program they get another meal about three o'clock and don't forget we have a summer feeding program as well yes um did you do an energy cost savings um did you look at like what this will save in energy costs by replacing this we did not study that um that is a good question in general newer equipment is much more efficient and the coolers and freezers that they currently have are very old and i would imagine too on top of that just being in the warehouse itself probably takes on another layer of having to work harder to keep it cool yes yeah because it's not a conditioned space right exactly i'll be curious but it's not a requirement for my vote but always get to know those too because when we're talking about how much a project's gonna cost you know it's also going to save some money and somewhere else probably so you know it's good to know what the bottom line is all right more discussion or can i have a motion i'll move uh approval of the the bid there's no comments from the public sorry thank you for that all right good see okay we have a motion second a second um you know thomas this path says you don't get to go sleep in it or anything like that [Laughter] all right um i'm just trying to make julie a little bit happier with me now i know she's upset all right so um vote robinson i land away kaiser ryan tennessee all right 5-0 good i'll be the one taking a nap in there thank you okay so we moved now to human resources and mr hanlon okay so i'm bringing to you resolution 1579-22 which is recognition of our teachers and certificated staff appreciation week i do want to point out i don't know what i was thinking i put the dates on here may 8th through the early may 4th through the 8th it should have been may 2nd through the 6th um i think i put it forth because that's today and then i counted five more days which obviously is not correct so there needs to be a correction on that for may 2nd through 8th third may 2nd through 6th because this whole week is uh certificated staff appreciation week okay so you want to have it may 2nd through may 6th 6th okay and i will comment that there are already schools where it's written on the wall clearly i did not read the wall i apologize so um would you like me to read it through into the record sure whereas a strong effective system of free public school education for all children and youth is essential to our democratic system of government and whereas the united states has made considerable progress in the social technological and scientific fields due to our system of free and universal public education and whereas much of this progress can be attributed to the qualified and dedicated teachers and certificated staff entrusted with the educational development of our children to their full potential and whereas teachers and certificated staff should be accorded high public esteem reflecting the value the community places on public education and whereas the chico unified school district is keenly aware of the importance and impact of teachers and all certificated staff on children and whereas it is appropriate that teachers and certificated staff be recognized for this dedication and commitment to educating students therefore be it resolved that may 2nd through 6th 2022 we proclaimed teacher and certificated staff appreciation week in the chico unified school district and urge all citizens to pay tribute to our public school teachers and staff furthermore the teachers and staff in the chica unified school district should be thanked every day for their dedication professionalism and for the services they provide to our students i move adoption of that resolution we do have public comment oh yeah okay if you want to open the public comment um public comment is open hi everyone uh so definitely a pro teacher advocate my mom's an elementary school teacher my brother's a high school teacher here so um recognizing teachers is a big deal in my life do it every day and uh recognizing the teachers of when my kids were going through school was a big deal for me too um and the one comment i'm just going to make is to and believe me we've got fabulous teachers in this community i will over that um i just want to make sure as we're entering the season and what we've gone through this past year as a matter of fact um that we're not going to recognize teachers who are bringing political their own personal preferences into the classroom um i'm hearing about it all the time from my parent groups that i go to and especially now we've got this roe v wade going on we've got elections coming up and um it really needs to be just re-emphasized reinforced that there's no vaccine awareness there's no you know i'm going to vote for this candidate because they're anti-trump whatever it is black lives matter having kids march to you know this is how we do things and we're going to you know march with their hands up blm et cetera i hear it all the time i just really want to make sure that we don't recognize bad behaviors i grew up i grew up i was a career human resources professional for 20 years and i did performance management so i want to make sure again that we're valuing the good behaviors and we're paying appropriately and that we're again not reinforcing the bad behaviors i hate to bring that into this resolution but the resolution was a little bit odd too with the way it was worded fully support fully recognize um the teachers in the community one really quick antidote i had my kids in a private christian school in the bay area and private christian school i came to my son's third grade class one day she had open class for the kids to come in and my son always needed extra help i walk in she's got the radio on with rush limbaugh and i went that's a problem now i have to think to myself do i say something right here my son's here that'll embarrass him do i walk right over to the principal's office that might be a problem my daughter is up for the lead in the play you've got to go through these mental gyrations right go home have a conversation with the parent my dad my mom needs to become needs to be part of the conversation go back to the principal have that conversation and the next year she's not there she's not teaching and so i wasn't obviously the only one so it's on both sides can't bring up god can't bring in somebody to the classroom to talk about christianity can't come bring in the doctor that's going to talk about why it's important to get vaccinated to go see grandma none of that has any place gun control none of that has any place in this in this community anywhere on the public school those k through 12 i'll talk about the elementary school those kids need to come in here and not expect to have that happen and then have parents have to go around and look for it and kind of be spies so but the rest of the teachers fabulous job thank you all all right no other public comment all right i'm gonna close public comment we have a resolution um made and seconded right we had a second i don't think we have a second yet okay okay i thought we already had a second okay thank you so um any further discussion yeah all right um i just want to re-emphasize that this does in fact say all teachers and that there's all teachers do their best to help kids learn and grow and i am not going to be party to second guessing what is right in the classroom and what is not unless i'm right there with him the whole time um i just want to thank our teachers for their service full stop end of story it's a hard job some days it's an impossible job um and we are profoundly grateful that you are here i was ready to make an amendment that we just keep it till the 8th or you know all year long because teachers have a hard job and really all anybody that's working with kids has a hard job um it's a very important job and it does tend to be a very thankless job and recognizing one week out of the year is is nice it's nice it's good it makes us feel good like we're you know giving everybody a pat on the back but it's it's never enough there's never enough to show how truly valuable our educators are to our students all educators because students will learn valuable lessons from all of the the people that they learn from however that may translate any further discussion all right then the last boat was uh unanimous so we can do it that way all those in favor aye aye hi yeah it was matt what did you vote okay all right so okay it passes five to zero and we move on to mr hanlon again okay so um we're also bringing to you at the same time the classified employee appreciation week resolution 15 80 22.

now that's on may 15 through the 21st i got those dates right and um the reason we're bringing both of them to you at the same time is we as a district want to celebrate nutrition um does some goodies that go out to the sites and this way we can we can uh recognize that the board has um recognized them in you know in for for that future date and the 15th has actually already started and they and our next meeting is until the 18th so we thought we'd just do them together and uh be ready to go when we we celebrate district wide tyson i think with uh what missed all these comments was is that it does take everybody on the school site right for the kids to get the best possible education and in some cases it's a teacher in some cases it's an age in some cases it's the principal bus driver it can be anyone yes so that was a good segue did we have any public comment on this uh we do i don't know if um was it with the prior one or did you want both okay oh okay open public comment obviously i'm very grateful for this administrative staff here they're fantastic bar none last night at city council they had a um debbie preston's contract was on and i said you can take debbie preston erica smith and kayla restart the county do all y'all's job and you don't even have to show up for work so i'm here to recognize miss kayla erica smith so what they got a few goodies for her and mr mr hamlin there's i think there's a typo on this one too at the bottom it says march at the very bottom they're march 15th through 21st but not a big deal this is this is this is on you this isn't for you so it does say march oh man let's do it both march and may so anyways yes i've got her some of my favorite goodies um my epsom salts with lavender relaxation and some wonderful flowers oh there thank you and something just got knocked off diana's going to get [Laughter] our standards are dropping what what level standard is that are we tk i think that's a tk standard all right uh may i have a resolution or a motion excuse me emotion yeah i'll move the adoption of resolution 1580-22 i'll second that okay we have a motion i would like to offer a friendly amendment that we changed that date to may yes accepted all right so uh we can have a just a voice vote can i make a comment oh so ditto to what i said and thank you for recognizing me segway but also just to reiterate the job that our office staff has to go through because making those schedules is not easy taking those phone calls is not easy being the public face of the school is not easy and i know that there's some people that that that do get forgotten that are completely pivotal to a smooth day are our attendance clerks and office managers yeah so um all of our classified staff are very important our classified staff that are face to face with students all day very very important um but also you know those that keep the things the most the things in motion are are um i just feel like we should just give them an extra shout out ellie uh yes um kelly yesterday uh you uh shared a memo on uh csea's uh was it the abc yeah it's called the ace program there we go and chico unified was one of 10 in the state that has been awarded this by cs csea our classified union and um we get the opportunity this is going to be great and the board is all welcome and encouraged to participate as well to shadow classified employees in their work you can pick whichever of many different positions you can ride with the bus driver you can serve food you can work as an aide in a classroom can help with the custodial crew there's many many different opportunities depending on your interest and they are doing a big pr campaign they will be up here and videoing some of it taking lots of pictures and sharing that with other districts so we're privileged to be a part of that how do we how do we make contact or who do we make contact with if we're interested at this point we're still trying to set the dates with the csea representative so if you are interested let me know and then as soon as we have the dates confirmed i'll share that and i'll share that out anyway okay thank you okay so um all right voice vote for resolution 1580-22 hi hi all right five to nothing and jim's gonna fix this small error okay so now um is there a board member that wants to request to agendize an item okay seeing none we will be moving to closed session and after a closed session if there's any decisions made there will be an announcement all right thank you all you

hello chris cooper here superintendent of clearwater schools with a brief video update i haven't done one of these in quite some time and quite honestly it's been nice to not have covet and need to put out a whole bunch of updates and just kind of have some regular things happening but we do have a few things i'd like to make you aware of first of all this has been teacher appreciation week staff appreciation week and i just want to publicly let everybody know how much i appreciate our staff and how honored i am to be able to to work with the great people we have in usd 264. we did have some some extreme challenges earlier in the year with coven and then once that was over we had normal challenges so we have had our share of things to overcome and i really appreciate everybody coming together working as a family and working to do what's best for kids as our district mission statement says usd 264 is one team one family one district where all students reach their full potential and are well equipped to be successful so that's really what we want to do we want to continue to come together as a community as a staff and do what's best for kids so i do appreciate all the work our staff has done if you're a parent grandpa parent neighbor community member and you feel led to i'd encourage you to send an email text anything to our staff and just let them know also how much you appreciate the work that they do for the students in our schools and for our community so greatly appreciated we do want to finish strong uh continue to come together we have lots of activities going on graduations of course but lots of spring activities are we have some really successful teams this spring in our sports and uh all kinds of different activities everything from the success our music performing groups had at contests to to the ball field so lots of good stuff going on one thing i did want to mention is our kindergarten enrollment we've had kindergarten roundup we've done some outreach but we still believe there might be some kinder kindergarten kiddos out there that we are not aware of so if you know of a neighbor relative friend that will have a kindergartner for next year we would encourage you to ask them to call the school office make sure we have them on our roster and that we're ready to go when they show up in the fall the number to our elementary school office is 620-584-2081 that's 620-584-2081 one other change that you should have received an email about that we have coming for next year is that not every student will receive paid lunches so for the last two years because of some coveted relief funds from the federal government all schools have had free lunches for all kids we're going to go back to the way it was three years ago where we'll have a form to fill out to receive free or reduced lunches i would encourage all folks to do that that think they might be in that ballpark there's some other benefits to our school also when you fill out that form and but then everyone else will um be on a paid lunch so just wanted people to be prepared for that we will send out more information about that as enrollment comes next fall as i said lots of great things going on in our district lots of activities it's a busy time of year it's kind of a whirlwind i encourage everybody to celebrate this time to continue to come together as a community as a family and i just want to say finishing my second year of school here i'm very thankful to be in clearwater and it's a privilege to serve this community that's all i have for today this mr cooper signing off have fun work hard and be your best self

[Music] so where's [Music] buddy uh [Music] under god justice for all [Music] uh [Music] necessary [Music] in the world is [Music] center organizations holak you you did save a child's life so thank you [Applause] kenny marion i wish i could give you a phone congratulations you're welcome to say a few words you probably already knew your mom take a picture and then do one more week you know you you wake up every day as an educator you know your day is never going to be like the day before i would have um experience that day it was very scary i'm very grateful that my actions brought a child home i only did my job and i did it the way that i only hope my children's teachers and educators would act so thank you very much for the acknowledgment um i didn't need it but i i am grateful because i do understand um thank you [Applause] yeah we could have roll roll call please mr abba drabo absolutely yes mr awad yes miss basford yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carries okay we're next going to um move to recognition and award presentations uh miss rigosa for the pbsis as a district coordinator [Music] good evening everyone thank you for the opportunity to showcase yet another wonderful and talented uh pbsis team and school uh 17.

[Music] i would like to call this meeting of the eastern township board of education to order pursuant to the open public meetings act adequate public notice has been given by the secretary of the evesham township board of education in the following manner posting written notice on the official bulletin board at the eve township board of education office emailing written notice to the burlington county times and the courier post and filing written notice with the municipal clerk of eastern township may i have a roll call please mrs cappello here mrs everhart here mr fizzicaro here mr catherine here ms snow mr lancelata here miss lee here mr megan here we have a quorum thank you at this time i'll ask for a motion to go into executive session and a motion to approve items 2.1 through 2.4 whereas in njsa 104-12 allows for a public body to go into closed session during a public meeting and whereas the board of education of eve shame township has deemed it necessary to go into a closed session to discuss certain matters which are exempted from the public and whereas the regular meeting of the board of education will reconvene at the end of the following closed session at approximately 7 pm now therefore be it resolved that the board of education will go into closed session for the following reasons as outlined in njsa 104-12 do i have a motion motion by mrs capello do i have a second second by mr lancelata roll call please mrs capalo yes mrs everhart yes mr fizzy caro yes mr canton yes mr lanzalada yes miss lee yes mr meagan yes motion carries all right thank you we'll see you all at approximately 7 p.m [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] hmm do so [Music] so do [Music] foreign [Music] do [Music] foreign [Music] do [Music] foreign [Music] hmm [Music] foreign [Music] i would like to resume this meeting of the eevsham township board of education would everyone who is able please rise for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance thank you all right and now for miss lee to read the mission statement the mission of the eve sham township school district is to promote excellence in an environment that engages students in meaningful learning experiences in partnership with students dedicated staff families and community the district provides a strong educational foundation that will empower our students to achieve their unique potential embrace self-directed lifelong learning develop the skills necessary for appropriate risk taking and responsible decision making respect themselves and others problem solve individually and collaboratively and become contributing members of a diverse global society thank you miss lee at this point in time we're going to move into presentations so dr smith the floor is yours all right final budget presentation this is actually the third time we're showing the presentation we show a preliminary in february a tentative in march and then the final here in may so i'm going to go a little quick through these first slides because it's actually the third time we're going through this the earlier presentations are on our website under the budget tab this one will be as well so again just enrollment the way i would sum up these slides is at this point as we stand here our state funding has dropped 46 percent while our student enrollment has dropped 19 percent i don't want to get to uh there's some new info is what i'm what i'm working towards mr shinty if you want i don't know if you have any new on these slides here that you want to speak to yeah good evening this is a new slide from the previous presentation the adjustments we've made to the budget since the tentative budget presentation back in march a few minor adjustments we made we increased our miscellaneous revenue by 137 500 on the revenue side and then on the appropriations side we had an increase to staffing an increase to energy costs gasoline natural gas electric increase to employee benefits and a small increase of student activity account okay so on this slide again this is you know slide updated from the last presentation the numbers that change would be the row the staffing row the first row by the number on the previous side it went up the employee benefits went up by the amount on the previous slide the other district cost again went up by the amount on the previous slide and then two-thirds way down the clubs and activity row went up by the eight thousand dollars from the previous slide adjustments thank you mr shinty so this slide was from last two presentations as well let me move over these quick these are all carryovers from the last two presentations transportation changes and again these are all on our website third time through okay this slide so i wanted to speak a little bit more about this slide tonight just a little bit but the there's fewer positions we always do share a bit more about uh what those positions are fortunately we have um eight retirements and vacancies eight fewer positions which means that no one in those positions is losing a job six of those are elementary classroom teacher positions and those savings are through class size increases of one student in several different grades so if a grade was 24 it goes to 25 never more than that these increases keep us exactly on average when compared to surrounding districts so um you know whereas in the past our district was able to have lower than average class sizes last year we raised class size again just a bit this year again just a bit so now we're on par with surrounding districts and that's how again we get to balance our budget the other two positions one is a related services position and the other is a the intervention specialist position currently at mms which is vacant due to dr morris becoming the special services supervisor we did not fill that position that she formerly occupied we do not intend to and what will happen is the remaining intervention specialist position will become a shared position between demacy and martin middle school the services provided continue so you know with those with a a reduction like that um even that person is split we still are able to continue to help students uh this slide only new pieces i just added the testimony in there link below to um we had board president lee orion board vice president anish kanthan and myself and a parent kelly wilke the four of us testified at new jersey budget committee hearings and i've shared those testimonies with the community in our updates but they give a nice little sort of one-page story of where we're at and and the challenges we face okay this one so we talked about full-day kindergarten being a district goal at our last regular meeting and i did say i would share the how and the when we're going to achieve that so that the answer to that question is it's going to be a ballot question in november 2023 for implementation starting in september and i'll speak to the whys behind that but on this slide i just want to point out what that looks like in terms of numbers so the question will be based on the annual recurring costs not on one-time costs we will find ways to um cover the one-time costs for bathrooms furniture and materials but the annual recurring costs um the two main components of that is the lost full-day kindergarten tuition revenue which we have as a cost neutral it's set at cost neutral to our district and then the additional 685 000 is for the additional uh teachers and paraprofessionals we would need to provide fully kindergarten for all without tuition so the whys um so we'll go through these it's bearish programs and additional cuts so if we were to try to go back if i go back to this slide if we were to try to find 1 million 720 29 essentially thousand dollars in recurring annual costs we were to try to find that in our budget currently a teacher with benefits step one roughly 75 000 so 10 teachers 750 000 20 teachers would be a million and a half so we're talking more than 20 teachers more than 20 additional teaching positions would have to be cut to to make the savings for full day kindergarten that would mean programs that would mean additional supports for kids and it would put us in a position where we would be choosing we would be making choices to benefit some at the expense of others and that is a very tough place to be which so far we have avoided and we've gotten all the way to year five of the seven year s2 sequence of state funding reduction that we've been going through the budget we're looking at tonight is for year five next year's year five of that seven year reduction sequence so we know we have more cuts next year we're losing another million in state aid plus there are positions which we are currently paying for via ester money and we have the property sale roughly 600 000 from the sale of the property in this year's budget which together are about another million so the million in state aid loss plus another million in costs that we are currently covering through sur plus uh property would mean um i mean we're looking at roughly another two million in cuts next year um and to throw on top of that 1.7 million to pay for full decay out of our general budget would be catastrophic so it does spare programming additional cuts second it enables community participation so you know part of why we're here talking about this great topic is because um of the community participation we've seen so far so there were there have been parents who got a facebook full ak group started who reached out to us as a district and we've met and talked with them and they've come to board meetings and it's a really positive topic we thank the advocacy that they've shown and continue to show in terms of even getting the conversation going at higher levels beyond our district and it bodes well i think for the kind of community conversations we can have as we work towards passing a ballot question thirdly having the balance so and we talked a lot as a board in the finance committee and the district administration about uh this and having the ballot question in november 2023 versus earlier has the additional benefit of knowing that we have another million in state of reduction next year on top of the end of the ester money and the 600 000 in this year's budget that's covered by the sale of the property means that we do have regardless a full day kindergarten we have tough a tough road ahead with many tough choices and one thing we've also seen on the road we've traveled so far is that that road changes so these are projections you know so an additional cost can can um come about either through this the state changing the amount of aid that they've projected to give us is one one thing we've seen change another thing we saw change was health insurance costs another thing we saw change is inflation and energy costs and all those things combined to note for us to know that we may have tough choices ahead so tough in fact that there could be items that we would that would be very worthy to include in a ballot question with full day kindergarten okay and to leave that possibility open and available for us if it comes to that is only possible by using november 2023 we feel confident that by that point although that will still be in year six of the seven year s2 tunnel that seventh year is projected to only be roughly a three hundred thousand dollar reduction in state aid which is a lot less than if that is actually the the least amount of state of reduction of all seven years of course it comes in the seventh year so by that point the cupboard is is a lot more bare but we do project that um by that point we'll have um we'll be seeing you know we'll be almost out of the tunnel and if we can safely do the ballot question knowing that we wouldn't be leaving anything out at that point but were we to do it this coming november there are definitely a lot of question marks beyond that date as far as our budget is concerned so be much more prudent to use the november 2023 date this slide new also so and just this is a little look back at history and i think this slide tells a really powerful story about the um the prudence and the stewardship of taxpayer dollars in our district since 2011 right so if you look at this basically um what it shows is the amount of available bank cap that was generated each year and then how much was used and you can see that there were amounts that expired so basically cap that could have been used but wasn't why wasn't it because it wasn't deemed to be needed at the time okay so that was in other words keeping taxes at where they were felt to be needed to to run an effective school district right and we and we have been so at this point though what that means is that there was essentially money left on the table again being prudent with taxpayer dollars because it wasn't needed at the time but now essentially it is needed it is needed for full decay so the quote unquote loss tax levy revenue over that time span was almost 3 million dollars which is far greater than what we anticipate our ballot question to be so had our district on because the district can go to a two percent cap each time had our district gone to that two percent cap in each of those years we would have we would already have a budget that could afford full-day kindergarten okay so in other words the fact that we're needing it now and we didn't look for it then shows that when it's purposeful when it's important when it benefits kids in a way that needs to happen that we ask and that's that's that i think that's a really powerful um kind of concept for us to think about as we think about this ballot question what's next so may 26th regular meeting the district goals there are three number one most important full-day kindergarten for all will be on the agenda for approval after that and that that goal will show the steps um between now and uh november 2023 and beyond but one of those steps will be that we will form a full-day kindergarten ballot question committee which will have various stakeholders i know there are people interested in this topic and to help with the communication about it the needs the cost the benefits across our town and district community and as i read it i think in my mind we know we've heard from people who have said that when they were looking to move and they were considering moving to eve shame to marlton one of the considerations in their mind was fully kindergarten you know they were looking they were saying i could go to medford i could go to mount laurel i could go to some surrounding towns that don't have tuition based k and it was a factor somewhere in that decision right so on that basis again it's qualitative data because it's it's statements from from folks who live here but there's a real real statements based on that it can be considered that free fold ak would be a factor that would impact home values in our town and resale values you know as people are looking to move and so for a cost we project the cost to the average home in our town for this ballot question would be 45 to 50 a year just to just to put that out there 45 to 50 a year for the average home how much more back in terms of additional home value would residents of eastern have for their properties that's one of the benefits that would be included in the communication and so it's very very exciting and my kids came through the district they're ones in college and almost about to be in college now so it's not like uh you know i'm i'm so excited for all of the the families in our town that are here now and that will be here in years to come that we're all talking about this um it's been a great effort so far from our board our district staff from our community members who've contributed to the conversation and i think it bodes really well and increases the excitement of those conversations yet to come as we walk together as a community towards this brighter future for all of our kindergarten kids and beyond since we know this will benefit them every year of their educational journey into adulthood there we go whoops a little delay on that okay um on this slide this is the revenue side of our budget and um since the ten of the budget the only number that changed would be in the third row the other local sources um the the amount on that number went up by 137 so that the tax levy so for the 2223 budget the we're allowed to raise our budget by the two percent of the tax levy um also for any enrollment adjustments health health care cost adjustments and bank cap those three items we had we had nothing it was they were all zero so our budget went up that the tax levy went up by the two percent that we were allowed to raise it there was no other adjustments so when calculating the tax rate it since we're on a split year and the taxes are on the calendar year the first half of the calendar year is uh the tax rate is based on the budget we're working on now and then the second half of the calendar year is the the proposed budget for next year for the 22-23 year so with the the average uh rate of the average home excuse me the average home assessed value i'll get it out for 22 is going up a little bit it's up to 272 266 dollars so the um average homeowner who has a house that's valued at that their tax increase uh will be 29 and 18 cents so this is actually the calculation how it's calculated the first column is is um is the current budget we're working in so it's half of that tax levy the second column is the proposed budget and it's the tax levy is half of that for for the 22 uh calendar year you add those two numbers up then you have the ratables they went up a little bit this year which is always a good thing so that that helps control the uh the tax levy increase and then you take uh the new uh tax levy rate minus the uh tax level rate for calendar year 21.

good afternoon everyone uh it is four o'clock now is the time set for the regular board meeting of the arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind we're going to start with 1.01 call to order meeting call to order sue k can you take the roll call certainly president david nigro president brittany buchanan president linda bove lynn davison president mike gordon president dean howard kelsey p v chance president aaron wonders present and suite connective present thank you uh we move on to 1.02 call to the public call to the public on agendize items um we have the summaries of the emails from sue k yes we just have one call to the public comment from elizabeth brousse in regards to supporting having a mechanism in place for formal complaints and grievances and to have some guarantee that they will be heard and discussed and in support of an ombudsman position thank you sue k yeah and again as we did last time all of the comments in their entirety are posted on the website and will be on the website for several weeks for the public to review next up a 1.03 information item superintendent's report superintendent reichman good afternoon president nigro members of the asdb board of directors assistant superintendent rex assistant superintendent cooper and the asdb community welcome to our may 5th 2022 board meeting it also happens to be cinco de mayo right so perhaps some of you plan to have some margaritas after the board meeting this afternoon i want to remind the board members of the asdb mission our mission says that we are committed to excellence and innovation in education of our students in providing leadership services and in collaboration with parents school districts and the community and also with our partner state agencies as we consider our mission how do we want to go about fulfilling that mission and providing the best education and the best support possible to our students the obvious answer is we must have highly qualified professional staff we must be able to recruit and attract and retain highly qualified professional staff how do we recruit and retain highly qualified professional staff we have to have good systems in place that provide the adequate support to those professional staff members and systems that support a positive culture within the agency so how do we create those good systems how do we support a positive culture we have to have highly qualified and competent leaders here within the agency we have to be able to attract and retain highly qualified leaders so that they are able to focus on our systems and then they can problem solve and innovate and improve our systems with systems improving then we can provide better support to our professional staff and as a result our professional staff can provide better educational support to all of our deaf hard of hearing blind visually impaired and deaf-blind students how do we attract and retain those highly qualified leaders we and my job is to support them my job is to make their work environment as safe as possible my job is to empower them and obviously i make agency level decisions but a lot of those daily programmatic decisions are up to those leaders to make systems change and system improvements happen because of their leadership i can't do it alone we have to have a team of highly qualified and dedicated and passionate leaders we need that within our agency your job as the board of directors includes four components established policy that gives us rules and regulations to follow set the direction for the agency and we are doing that with a strategic plan be an ambassador for the agency let everyone know about the work that we are doing and finally support our leaders without your support our leaders are not able to problem solve they are not going to be able to create that systemic change that we need in order to provide the best possible education and supports for our students that said i want to mention two leaders who are leaving the agency first i want to talk about principal creasy as you are aware principal creasy has been with us at asdb for a total of seven years she started one year before i did she was the new principal of the arizona school for the blind on the tucson campus at the end of her second year we asked her to take on as an in an interim position the principal of the arizona school for the deaf because the principal of the arizona school for the deaf had a contract that was not renewed principal creasy agreed to take on that additional school so she took responsibility for the entirety of tucson campus the following year we did an extensive search for a new principal for the deaf school but we were not able to find a qualified candidate at that time i asked principal creasy to become the permanent principal for both schools on the tucson campus since that time principal crecy has done everything that we have asked of her she has provided good strong leadership on the tucson campus and so i just wanted to say thank you principal creasy for all of your work for your dedication to the tucson campus over these past seven years i will miss you the second person i want to mention is assistant superintendent dr kristen rex dr rex will also be leaving the agency she started four months before i did she as a new assistant superintendent had myself as a new superintendent and we had a lot of learning to do right kristen we didn't know much to be honest we became partners collaborators we learned together those first three years were really that learning curve of learning what we didn't know and after that initial three years we understood the things that we didn't know and we were able to start addressing all of those gaps in the system or those systemic challenges that we were facing at asdb so i have worked with assistant superintendent rex for almost six years and with her leaving i feel like i'm going through a divorce honestly i am going to miss her support her energy her creativity her can-do attitude we will figure this out in her heart and her passion so thank you dr rex i will miss you so much speaking of the future we have already posted both positions and we are actively recruiting we are getting applicants already and we are moving along fairly quickly i will let assistant superintendent rex talk about the principal position and i will talk about the assistant superintendent position that position is currently open and we are recruiting we are getting applicants the posting will close on may 22nd we will be screening that week and selecting candidates to interview the following week on may 31st to june 3rd we will be conducting interviews i'm hoping by the first or second week of june we will be able to make an offer to a selected candidate the reason that we are moving so quickly is because with the new school year starting that second or third week of july we have absolutely no time to waste we must have a new assistant superintendent selected particularly assistant superintendent of instruction so i am moving very quickly if you happen to know of any qualified candidates for that position please reach out to them please network for us and recruit for us to let you know i just found out today um that news is out nationwide there is someone from ceasd contacting me to ask if there are actually two vacant positions and i responded that indeed there were so any help that you can offer within your network to assist in recruiting would be very appreciated and that concludes my report this is linda bove can we talk about that later about those two potential candidates that i am aware of is that okay can we have a private conversation later about that and this is stuff annette yes we can talk about that later okay thank you are there any questions for superintendent rickman on her report this is pv chance i don't have a question but i do have a comment i want to make sure that as board members we recognize principal creasy's work and her dedication to continuing to assist on tucson campus and running those programs i can only imagine how much of a challenge that was for her to face with so many different aspects particularly going through kovid and i was disappointed to receive the news of her resignation please know that we do appreciate all of your effort and your contribution to the agency and you are leaving big shoes to phil dr rex as a board member i am really bummed to lose you too i think that losing you is significant to the agency i understand the principal has already accepted another job but my understanding is that you have not is that correct so there's still time to change your mind that being said please know you have my support i would like to see you stay however whatever decision you make um same as i said with principal creasy i wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors and i sincerely hope to see our paths cross again sooner than later appreciate it thank you any other comments for superintendent rickman superintendent uh there will be a board member involved in each of the job searches is that correct yes um has that board member been selected yet for the principal um yes do i can give that in my report or do you want me to do that okay you can tell me now that's fine mr mike gordon has um offered to help with the principal search down on the tucson campus okay and the one for the assistant for your position if this is annette i have asked sue k connectful and pb jams to be a part of that process okay great thank you are there any other questions for the superintendent this is linda beau i do have a question for principal search can there be a deaf person involved in that search is that something to um consider having a deaf person on that panel whether it be a board member or another member of staff involved in that process so just putting that out there to keep in mind there is deaf deaf representation there's all sorts of representation but there's deaf representation on the screening committee good and also the interview committee so both phases that the staff work through have great representation i hope thank you this is uk um and i may be jumping the gun this might be more directed at kristin than it is um for annette um are you looking to fill a principle for each of the schools or a principal and a vice principal to cover both of the schools at this point i'm looking for a principal whether we need an assistant or a dean of students i think that would be dependent on the candidate that is selected to try to make sure that we have representation and support but no i haven't asked shayna for money for another position at this point in time there this is pv chance and i would like to make one final remark i have to say that after the last board meeting we did receive a lot of emails with positive comments a few of the community members and regarding several people including jay and shayna and some other staff members wanting to make sure that we recognized uh superintendent reichman's comments there were a lot of positive comments and support from the community so i wanted to make sure that we as a board recognized that the positives significantly outweigh the negative or the negative comments that we received okay thank you and if there are no other comments we can move on to 1.04 information item assistant superintendent of curriculum and instructional report dr rex good afternoon president nigro and board members you have received my report but i would like to add the following information from the birth to five area elp is celebrating they have received the results from azip's annual 2020 audit which documents asdb staff for providing services to families not only were they found in compliance the entire staff received 100 percent compliance and this data was measured during the pandemic which was a lot of moving parts and factors i don't know if we've ever had a hundred percent compliance but kendra and i could not find it so i'm gonna say a hundred percent compliance for the first time this is significant because the team had been responding to a previous data breach and basically they developed a google drive to prevent future issues of personally identifiable information and ensure that the team was collecting data and keeping it in one place so they could all have access many thanks to laura hocknell and manuela giacomo's tenacity in this development but also to the supervising teachers lisa ring melissa hole tracy mossberger and laura for supporting their teams ensuring the services that we provide families are compliant with idea part c i also want to give an update on the asdb tucson principal search i sent out an email looking for interested people to participate in either the screening or potentially interviewing for a new principal over 16 staff members threw their name in the hat some were more interested in one or the other but there was definitely interest which i found very um encouraging so we went through and we tried to make sure that we had the best representation of all the different people that would benefit from having a principal and we created a screening committee i believe our closing date is on the 15th friday and the screening committee will be meeting the 16th to receive all of the applicants and start the screening process soon as we have applicants to send to the interview committee we will work on interviews the 25th through 27th from those interviews the committee will be asked to submit one or possibly two names for a second round of interviews the second round of interviews goes direct to annette reichman and myself and we ask additional questions that dig a little deeper into their experiences the curriculum their understanding of teaching our students what our students specific needs are when they're learning and then hopefully our goal is to have a name to bring to you for the july board meeting on a final note i want to thank the board as well as superintendent reichman for allowing me the opportunity to serve the students of arizona since 2016 i came to asdb and i have learned how students access their learning the types of equipment that our kids need to access learning how important it is to ensure that access is available but i think most importantly what i take away from this are the people i met and the stories and the ways that our teachers have created creatively created an environment for kids to grow and all of the stories that i will probably take away with me some of them are funny some of them are sad but but most of them give me hope and i'm very proud to say that i was a part of the restructuring and the support of bringing equity to the statewide programs helping elp as they start to transition and take on birth to five adding the preschool and our two schools have worked so diligently and hard to have continuous improvement and with the lea status they are developing ways to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to learn and so i see that we have done some great things and i have an expectation that they will continue because you have a lot of the right people in the right seats to do the job we just have to give them give them what they need and then get out of their ways remove those barriers so thank you very much thank you dr rex are there any questions for dr rex this is pv james and still not too late to change your mind miss linda beau i do have a quick question off the top of your head um how many applicants do you think you've received for the principal position just if you have a ballpark number i'm sorry we have both internal applicants as well as external cap applicants around five that i reviewed so far five there may be more altogether five yeah at this point in time five okay thank you uh dr x we're the uh the braille tests all finally received or they are they still a little bit late they're all finished okay i know the large print were delayed a couple of days but not that's weeks congratulations all right any other questions for dr rex okay now we can move on to 1.05 information item assistant superintendent of agency operations and support services uh ms cooper good afternoon board president nigro superintendent reichmann assistant superintendent rex members of the board and the asdb community each of the directors have provided to you their departmental reports there is no additional information that has come forth since those reports were provided to you last week other than we are gearing up for the year end where we are having our teams provide operational and support service resources to the educational team since the school year is actually fastly approaching to end in addition to that the team is also working on processes with the state's general accounting office to close the fiscal year as well as responding to the sunset auditors more specifically related to three areas that my group is more focused on that would include the conflicts of interest the master facilities plan as well as helping look at the itinerant program fee for service structure additionally we're also working on building the 2023 budget as the new fiscal year begins on july 1st and the agency's budget submission package is due to the state's office of strategic planning and budget on or before september 1st during the boardwork study session that was held on april 14th we reviewed quite a bit of information we reviewed and discussed the budget for personnel and operations there was a tremendous amount of information that was shared during that session which believe it or not lasted almost over three hours and that was just the beginning of doing a deep dive into the data but i do hope that all of you feel as if you got a better understanding of the agency's resources which again consists of our people our technology the facilities and our finances i did mention during the session that as board members we do need your support and commitment as we continue to strategize and roll out changes to maximize our resources while at the same time meeting the agency's mission and our vision i do look forward to possibly having more work study sessions with each of you where we're focusing on maybe one particular area and reviewing how we can realign restructure or identify opportunities to reallocate our resources again that would be in alignment with pillar four of our strategic plan which is effective resource management last but not least i also wanted to take the opportunity to give another update on the compensation structure analysis that the team and i have been working on since i know staff are very much so interested in what to possibly expect with the upcoming new school year and how this could impact their possible personal finances i know i've mentioned on several occasions to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness as well as to try to maintain and recruit and retain the staff members we're looking at proposing at the july 7th board meeting a request to increase the hourly rates for our instructional assistance our tech 8 interveners in addition to those position titles we're also proposing to increase the hourly rates for staff that are grade 9 and below as well as addressing the pay gap with the transportation staff the team and i continue to look at all of the other areas and position classifications within the agency but as i mentioned this is our first year that we're taking on this more in-depth analysis and looking at all of the various pay schedules within the agency and trying to make sure that we have a consistent method on how we're identifying the compensation structure as i've indicated before though our fiscal resources are limited we don't have deep pockets and so we're not going to be able to address all position classifications our first year we do expect this to last probably another two another year or two before we're able to address all of the agency's position classifications in the agency and so again we're trying to make sure that we're prioritizing those and looking at how we can possibly impact those compensation changes in the near future other than that that concludes my assistant superintendent report and i'm open to answer any questions or comments that each of you may have this is sukay in regards to the deep dive on the salary classifications are you working with adoa at maybe looking at re-classing those positions into a higher grade levels both yes we are yes our hr office is working with adoa in addition to that i didn't really talk about it in addition to the compensation we are looking at regrading positions as well awesome thank you are there any other questions for ms cooper okay thank you miss cooper we can move on to 2.01 action item approval of the consent agenda consistent with board policy to include items 3.02 5.01 6.01 7.03 and 7.04 uh would anyone like to remove anything from the consent agenda [Applause] [Music] question is it supposed to be 7.03 or 7.05 um let's take a look here oh oh there's an error there you're right um yeah i know you're right thank you aaron there's an error there so let's see um it should you're right 703 is a discussion item and possible action item uh 705 is the consent agenda item so let's do this then um i will move to let's see can we add items inside we can remove them i think it's just a typo here because it's correct here oh is it correct on the agenda correctly oh okay it's just in the board okay well if it's correct on the on that then everyone's had no proper notice of it so we're okay thank you um so i will move that we adopt the consent agenda as noted in the agenda uh 3.02 5.01 at 6.01 7.04 and 7.05 i second all all in favor aye aye any opposed okay uh that carries we can go to 3.01 information item presentation on language and literacy development dr rex thank you president nigro i'm going to ask that rose oh sorry rose rose isn't here um tina schartzer and trisha waldale if they can come down to the front row so i can if there's any questions at the end they would be the best to answer them current research on dual language and literacy development highlights the importance and multiple benefits of dual language literacy the national association of the deaf position statement reads asl and the english bilingual education recognizes the intimate relationships between language development cognitive development and social emotional development as such asl and english bilingual education fosters positive self-esteem confidence resilience and identity factors necessary for lifelong learning and success rose andrea cola and tina schartzer curriculum resource specialists bring with them 60 plus years of classroom teaching experience passion for accessibility and student academic excellence to the table their primary goal is to support teachers with materials and training to provide balanced bilingual literacy instruction among their projects one is the implementation of the bilingual grammar curriculum at the two school sites as the assistant principal at pdsd trisha waddell oversees the implementation of the bgc instruction trisha brings with her a wealth of knowledge and expertise regarding bilingual education and instruction she and tina are here to answer any questions rose and tina created a short video to provide you a brief glimpse into the work they have been doing to support balanced dual language and literacy instruction that we will be sharing with you now good evening superintendent reitman asdb board members and community thank you for giving us an opportunity to share our work with you we will present a short summary of the projects we have been working on to supporting the development of asl and english literacy for our deaf and hard of hearing students across the agency we will briefly touch upon the agency's efforts in the following three areas one our goals in direct support of asdb's strategic plan two creating accessible materials to support the national geographic's reach for reading language arts curriculum specifically video text and dual language instructional materials and three the implementation of the bilingual grammar curriculum asl and english grammar lessons and bedrock vocabulary in the strategic plan the second pillar states outstanding student success the overarching goal is ensuring outstanding student development through early language acquisition and skill development social and emotional learning and high academic achievement for all learners note the specific objectives 2.2.8 develop a data tracking system for language acquisition in asl and 2.2.9 provide opportunities for students to acquire two languages asl and english to this end we understand that an instructional curriculum to support academic instruction for both asl and english is vital there are a few published materials for dual language instruction with young deaf or hard of hearing students available we explored the establishment of a comprehensive program to support language acquisition of both asl and spoken english the majority of children have complete and natural access to spoken language in their environment these children are ready to continue their learning at school the standard ela curriculum is designed to meet the needs of the learners the majority of deaf and hard of hearing children come from families that do not sign or sign minimally they have limited access to language in their environment these children experience significant gaps in language vocabulary incidental knowledge and social emotional skills the standard ela curriculum is inaccessible teachers spend planning time to modify or create accessible materials in 2010 through 2014 a group of asdb teachers created accessible asl versions of the ela curriculum moving into english and integrated dual language instructional strategies the results were promising these five students received this dual language instruction model from kindergarten through fourth grade the students varied in regards to primary language used in the home their loss and academic readiness by third and fourth grade in the year 2013-2014 all five students scored either at approaches or meets the standard in the arizona's instrument to measure standards aims test assessment reading subtest the moving into english accessible materials and dual language approach demonstrated strong promise students examine the parallels in word learning also known as phonology between asl and english students examine and compare the phonology of asl signs hand shape location and movement students examine and compare the phonics of english words first letter and word families guided reading comprehension skills teachers guide students as they interact with asl and english reading materials simultaneously to develop and strengthen targeted literacy skills research demonstrates the many benefits of dual language support for our students bilinguals developed meta-linguistic awareness earlier bilingualism leads to cognitive benefits in multiple areas bilinguals have larger vocabularies and stronger grammar and complex language skills fluency in asl supports the development of english a systematic approach to connecting both languages helps develop literacy skills in both asl and english bilingual children achieve normal language milestones bilingual grammar curriculum bgc the bilingual grammar curriculum is a comprehensive approach to teaching grammar so that students internalize the elements and use them independently to improve expressive asl and english abilities teachers support students meta-linguistic ability to guide them in looking at grammar skills first in asl and then applying what they have learned to english the bilingual grammar curriculum uses a developmental approach and is therefore not a grade level guide each lesson begins with the asl grammar structure students demonstrate mastery of the objective in asl before transferring the concept to english in closing we want to convey our profound appreciation hands waiting to the 75 plus staff and signing community members who enthusiastically contributed their time to work with us in the creation of our video tech take a look at the diversity of signing styles and signers wow i i have to say that i've watched this video three times and i could watch it again i have tina and trisha here if you have any additional questions or comments or just anything they'd love to hear your feedback thank you are there any questions this is linda bove hello for tina i do want to let you know that i went to one of two conferences recently myself i was able to witness what you have to offer and i met a gentleman who oh what was his name mister oh no i forgot todd yes todd todd um who is just amazing and he explained a lot more about this bgc approach and i just want to express my profound support for what you are doing i love that the choice of what you're offering having our students learn asl first and bridge to english it makes so much sense and i've seen a few different videos of our kiddos when they're really little two three four um having that strong language foundation so thank you superintendent reikmann and dr rex for choosing and implementing that curriculum and i can foresee this being very successful and i have a great deal of confidence in all of your work thank you very much thank you phoebe this is pv jams i do have a few questions you are doing formal assessments for english reading comprehension is that correct and trisha is saying um that does depend we give district and state level testing if that's what you mean this is pv are you doing asl formal assessments as well trisha's saying the asl assessments are still in the works there isn't anything that is formal and standardized so within the curriculum um bgc is still fairly new it's really the only curriculum for asl that's focused on bilingual instruction so we do have benchmarks and baseline so we start in the fall doing an assessment in asl and english to get a baseline and then in the spring we're looking at benchmarks areas of improvement needs for support etc so as far as district or state level we do not unfortunately have standardized tests for asl soon but we do hope to find one soon tina's saying yes we are in the process of identifying a standardized asl assessment for the agency mrs pv how much classroom time is dedicated to um instructing in proper english and how much time is dedicated to asl instruction this is trisha so since the summer the odd developed and those benchmarks and we are still practicing on how to measure language abilities so for some students they are able to sign very fluently and they are ready to start learning english as well and they're making greater progress if we have students who are delayed in both languages we start with asl first because it is more accessible to them once we get them a solid foundation and asl we can start bridging to english if they already have an english foundation then we'll start bridging to asl again with the goal being that they're fluent in both languages but we can't forget about that social language we do talk about formal language and zone of proximal development but we also need to make sure that students have appropriate social language so that they're able to acquire academic knowledge as well and tina's saying academically we are very slowly developing our our text available on video text specifically so looking at asl language grammar and culture rose and i are the only two people who are able to dedicate resources to that and with so many k through second grade readers it's really difficult to get all of that into asl on video we need to really enumerate the asl grammar and the english grammar so if we've got a book talking about the perfect pizza there's role shifting in that which is an asl grammatical feature and that is something that we are identifying and developing and it's a lot of work but again there are only two of us working on that ideally we need more people if you want to see um the general education curriculum in comparison there are a lot of names contributing to a single text it's a lot it's a lot of work and this is trisha i want to add that literacy group that we talked about over the summer we got some feedback and talked to a lot of the staff and they feel like they need more more training so they know about bgc they've had training on it but they need more and they need to know how to identify when and where to integrate which of the features of the curriculum and they need a lot more guidance so we are working on providing better training over the summer and tina's saying rose you're on the phone right did you want to add anything or maybe rose is not on the phone my mistake no no it seems rose is not on the phone okay and this is pv thank you i really appreciate that additional information i currently have a child going to ptsd so i have started asking more questions about the educational approach and i do agree with what you're saying about emphasizing social skills and social language that is very important however i do have one concern with that social instruction is for those kids that don't have that asl grammar developed yet that is they're going to pass on the or carry on those bad habits if they don't know appropriate grammar and if they're not given that formal instruction so does that instruction also include the five parameters of asl dana's saying yes we start at the kindergarten level with the parameters and okay we have asl phenology for example which we start teaching very young we have videos um that demonstrate and identify the parameters of each sign what's the hand shape the location so we've got a lot of fun activities that they do in those videos to learn asl phonology it's okay and first they start with handshape and location and then as they advance through their instruction they learn more features just like with english they learn letters first and then they start learning sight words so there are a lot of parallels in that trisha is saying just a reminder as far as social language is concerned um about 10 percent of deaf children are born to parents who can sign so having that incidental learning that access to language from birth is very rare for our deaf kids so we get a lot of kids who are three or maybe eight or maybe in high school and they have little to no language sometimes and that's significantly impacting their cognitive development and it could cause some shifts in in their brain and so we need to expose them to as much language as possible they're only in school 20 of the time and we really need to work hard to pull up that language yes we need we need that academic instruction and that academic language but they're going to get a lot more of their language development socially so we need all of that integrated very quickly and let them learn what the difference is between social language and formal language so that they have a strong foundation okay thank you this is pv thank you i appreciate it and again partly why i'm asking is um about the time dedicated to formal asl instruction because there's a lot of formal english instruction that relies on social learning rather than formal instruction so i'm wondering if there's a plan to expand that or implement additional strategies so like with the asl specialist positions or others who are specialized in asl dedicating one-on-one time to teaching asl practicing those skills just like you know speech therapy or language language therapy and this is tina for um there are not a lot of asl resources available for instruction most of those are what we are developing and it is a long and slow process so we are still working on that trisha did you want to add this is trisha i can't really speak for tucson campus i can only speak for pdsd we do have two asl specialists one who is focused heavily on providing iup based services and the other who is looking at other things like how to support teachers implementing bgc and how to support curriculum and that kind of thing and really vgc is a framework so we can't just download everything ready made and use it it is still a project and we have to develop more materials so we have one asl specialist who's doing a lot more push-in and who's working with students in the classroom and trying to get um asl immersion um and so some of those kids that do have that social language that's great but we need to clean that up like the grammar features that you were talking about so we've got two asl specialists and about 250 students and that does not add up this is pv i do agree and i would like to see expansion of that asl position specialist position if possible on both campuses and i would also strongly encourage the board to support that need to what you have demonstrated to expand your program and evaluation process this isn't just our kindergartners through third fourth grade you really need to see this go into middle school and any incoming students should have that asl evaluation to determine what gaps in language they have as far as their asl and receive formal instruction to fill in those gaps and again compare where they're at with um their english as well and i'm pretty sure that gallaudet has done research studies and um if we can improve their asl academic skills that gap significantly reduces in terms of their use of excuse me if their asl grammar is improved then that has a positive impact on their english as well so again i want to indicate the importance in within deaf education asl was recognized a long time ago back in the mid 60s and deaf education has been playing catch-up gallaudet educational research only started back in the early 90s into mid 2000's at least and so there's just not a lot of time there hasn't been a lot of time dedicated to that research so i'd like to encourage you and the board to really provide the additional resources necessary to continue that work for language acquisition because i do feel that asl improvement will also apply to our kids learning english and spoken language as well this is tina yes having good technology to support asl development in the classroom as well would really help us mrs tricia i do appreciate your support of comments we absolutely do need support at the agency level at the board level to really push this forward for the benefit of our students we can do it we just need the right resources i strongly believe that our teachers and our students are capable we are deaf adults and here we are i believe that we can have more successful folks in the future if we have the right supports in place this is pv one last question and then i will yield the floor to linda are you talking to gallaudet research center about what resources you can borrow from them or use to evaluate students perhaps could develop help them develop their resources as well create collaboration um you know i hope that you're not invent reinventing the wheel of some things that gallaudet has already created it has been if just a few months we've been reaching out and partnering with other schools for the deaf a lot of deaf schools across the country develop resources internally and we are trying to create a centralized database so with videos and resources of native signers and we can exchange what we have for what they have gallaudet does have a lot of different articles and a lot of information that we use we tweak some of it to to help us but we haven't actually reached out to them to talk about research opportunities but we can definitely do that and tina's saying at the clerk center there are a variety of deaf adults in a committee that is developing resources and we are doing the same thing we across the country everybody is working to make those resources trisha saying regarding the state at so gallaudet is at the national level and then at the state level there are different standards there are different curriculum expectations um components of curriculum that is approved or not so that does vary state to state and so we can't all completely rely on gallaudet as our primary source because they are not necessarily developing curriculum that would meet our state standards but whatever we develop has to has to meet our state standards and as well as our student needs thank you linda hi this is linda speaking um so a little bit about what pv said he had mentioned the claire center and i do know they have a workshop they have training which i have taken in the past there are two or three wonderful instructors there and they're focusing on literacy skills for the younger kiddos and resources for bilingual education by modality education so i'm sure you might know who i'm talking about at gallaudet but they have a lot of resources and a lot of videos that i came across power points so there's a lot of different things i think that we can yield here and modify to fit our needs at asdb so i would encourage you to take a look they have two or three wonderful deaf leaders in that center at the claire center that you look at and this is trisha we have been involved with some monthly meetings and in that we've seen a lot of great information and through that we were able to connect with different leaders all over the nation and we will continue to collaborate with gallaudet claire center as well this is pv i guess i lied i am sorry i do have one final question are there any plans are there any assessments that we need to add or modify for deafblind students or those close vision students i know that cdhl population is continuing to grow and i want to make sure that they also have this access this is trisha i would agree we just noticed the same rising numbers and we do want to make sure that our videos are clear that our backgrounds are not visually distracting and so that they are very clear on video and we're trying to advocate for pro tactile as well and this will make sure that these students have an additional accessibility to their surroundings to what let's say facial expressions are on the video that they don't have access to and that is in addition to the curriculum that we're working on now and this is tina we do in our deafblind program have some people that have contacted us and have asked us for resources and so we do have a relationship there this is trisha and our goal is that all of our students have the appropriate access and no child is left behind and so we want to make sure that that is met across the board mrs pb thank you i definitely would like to connect you with the acdh they have a deaf-blind specialist within the organization and i think they're fantastic but thank you so much again this is trish this is tina you are welcome to come come to our office at any time we'll show you around show you the resources that we have thank you are there any other questions no thank you very much for that presentation next up is 3.03 action item approval of new district agreements dr rex i'm borrowing a packet here sorry we have in um for your approval region three and with desert sky community school we have one addition at this point in time thank you dr rex um we have uh i move that we uh adopt or move forward or adopt the agreement as proposed i second all in favor aye aye aye aye aye aye excuse me president i have a question for a point of clarification sure this is pb james would you mind explaining the history of how that contract was established please the contract with the school district with the charter school that you can yes how did that come up um just i'm wondering um where or how that process started and what their needs are i believe that started with jay johnson they reached out to jay and they may have acquired a student a lot of times we acquire school districts throughout the year as students move so they might have needed a need had a need on one side or the other and so once they find that they have a need and they have to provide accessibility they reach out and then we start working on a an agreement okay that's great news i think that that really um demonstrates the um shining star that is our itinerant services that there is that outreach they're reaching out to us and i you know the more schools that contract with us and provide our services i think that's wonderful i think they're it would be good to maybe even put in a report the increase of districts that have come on board in the last couple years we we are definitely bringing on more districts and larger districts than ever before this is pv i do agree yes i would like to see that data i think that we need to celebrate each of those victories including contracts like this one so hopefully we continue to approve these contracts and demonstrate that we have a shining reputation as a school for the deaf that can that can provide services statewide uh thank you pv uh we were in the middle of the of the vote um and i believe oh tour okay i'm sorry we do do should we go ahead and vote i apologize dr president nigro excuse me should we vote now or and should i make my comment afterwards i'm sorry um you you can make your the comment uh now if you like that's that's okay okay um i i have a question for dr rex about um these contracts with school districts so people in power can um i'm sorry one moment for the interpreter okay so this is linda asking a question for you dr rex if we have more school districts that sign contracts to provide for us to provide services for their students as the agency grows or the itinerant services grow that could potentially be a challenge i would imagine as far as staffing is concerned and ensuring that we have qualified staff to provide those services um hopefully that's more clear for the interpreters it is a current challenge it is it is we are always seeking a lot of times we get last minute notice that districts want to join us and that's because their recruiting and retention efforts for hi or vi staff have been unsuccessful the need for interpreters is always changing for our students the needs are always and it's very fluid so yes we are always in need of highly qualified staff members and it is a challenge okay um we were in the middle if everyone can say i again that's voting yes um are there any opposed uh not opposed they will abstain and and um there's one abstention all right so that passes thank you and the next step is 4.01 information item finance report kim pitrich please thank you good afternoon board president nigro excuse me i'm sorry ms butch we can't hear you good afternoon board president nigro superintendent reichman assistant superintendent rex assistant superintendent cooper members of the board and the asdb community our most recent finance committee meeting was held on last thursday april 28th with board members aaron wonders mike gordon and pv jantz also in attendance for superintendent regman and assistant superintendent cooper during the meeting we reviewed and discussed in detail the march 22nd march 2022 and 2021 budget to actual comparison reports the available cash balance student count student-teacher ratios full-time equivalence and the grant revenue and expenditures the april reports are not available at this time just an update on business services we are actively recruiting for the purchasing supervisor position and assistant controller positions the budget and grant supervisor position was filled in april and the budget team is preparing for the year-end closing process and starting the budget process for budget fiscal year twenty twenty three provided to each of you is the same financial data that was provided to the financial committee in a more condensed summarized version on page two you can see the student count report for april 1st 2022 compared to april 1st 2021 the stone the total student count for 2022 is 2186 students 24 students fewer than the 2021 count of the site-based student count has decreased by 11 while the preschool count has decreased by 16.

a little bit about sue she is one of the winniest volleyball coaches in the state of connecticut uh she is also our boys volleyball coach as well so the girls alone she has over 500 wins in the boys participated in eight state uh tournaments for the girls four of those were state championships three uh she participated in three for the boys uh two were state championships one was a runner-up as well um she's earned multiple head um coach of the year awards throughout her her career so so far she's been inducted into the connecticut women's hall of fame which i'll get to she also has close to 60 athletes over her years that have played or are playing in college volleyball so that's just a testament to their love of the sport and their continuation of it the greatest thing about sue as well is not only is our kids successful on the court but they're successful in the classroom because her volleyball teams tend to rank fairly high with overall gpas so that's a testament to her as a teacher and a coach so congratulate justin well respected throughout the state of connecticut uh with all of our volleyball coaches and this past year sue on behalf of the board of education i'd like to award you this recognition for the introduction to the connecticut women's volleyball hall of fame [Applause] you know people that know me know that i'm never what i would say is what i said when i got this award at the state level is um you know i mean 30 i mean i coached eight years before here so over 30 years of coaching you know those these accolades that i get are just a testament to the players i've had the coaches i've had um the parents who have supported the program the administration who supported us um you know it's it's never a one-person show when you you know when you get these awards it's there's a lot of people that lift you up and i've had a lot of people have lifted me up over the years so i really do appreciate this thank you [Applause] thank you [Applause] before we get into the showcase uh are there any members of the audience that wishes to address the board is there are none i think they're all people there's a lot of people here that's quiet you can't afford good stuff so high school showcase sure thank you so this is sort of the culmination of the showcases this year we started with elementary middle and high school and this is our attempt to showcase for you the common thread through the curriculum from kindergarten through 12th grade and what i really hope you come away with tonight after this third session is to really see the process and how this process goes from teachers sitting down and really puzzling over a list of standards a volume of standards and unpacking them and parsing them and collaborating to see what they mean and uh having a common understanding of what exactly needs to be taught to students and the level of complexity that goes into that to make it come alive for the students that we have here in cheshire public schools so i will now turn it over to dr reed and her team who have prepared a lovely presentation for you this evening so welcome to our high school uh showcase presentation highlighting the curriculum writing institute i would like to welcome tonight we have lisa bernabe the nap department chair leslie pair the business department chair terry morneau business teacher and mike kelly business teacher we considered also sharing having the world language department share we actually could have every department chair but we'd be here until about midnight tonight um so we really focused on the business and math experience because they were very connected and related to one another and we thought it was a good example to share out for the importance of the cwi um before i hand it over i just want to say we had about 17 to 20 high school teachers participate last summer we hope to have more this summer and the general consensus was that um the importance of this it was probably the best professional development the teachers experienced they said and the importance they saw was that the curriculum was really a living document that continually needs to be enhanced and improved upon in order to increase student learning so having said that i will hand it over to lisa bernabe to begin our presentation thank you good evening i'm lisa vernavi i'm the math department chair at cheshire high school um i would love for you to join into my presentation tonight so that we can all engage in what the students felt and experienced as they went through a performance task so if you'd be willing and your technology to join in um you could go to joinpd.com and enter this code of course the one night being good i left my cult fallen to get excited about it it'll just ask you to log in with google in the audience feel free to join in as well so while you're doing that i just want to thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight to tell you about my experience at the curriculum writing institute last summer it was truly beneficial experience that has significantly impacted my planning this year my instruction and my student achievement we were provided with outstanding professional development we are surrounded by this energy of enthusiastic colleagues and even in late june it was still such an energizing experience to be part of we never knew what marlene was going to bring in next for us um we have these long pockets of time to work collaboratively and develop high quality performance tasks and scaffolding that we could have never done during the busyness of the regular school year so when we left the curriculum uh writing institute i was so eager we hadn't even had a day off for summer yet and i couldn't wait to get back and start my first day of teaching because i knew these tasks were coming so let's take you in that's the extension and talk about what we did last summer cheshire k-12 so last summer the math department we had three teams of teachers who worked on algebra 1 geometry and algebra 2.

f2p clubs to having a mindfulness committee for the first time ever to having an ambassador from hope for the first time ever yeah adrian and so much more that we did i'm so honored to be here um representing the student representing the student voice and making sure that they're always heard although i'm a representative of all the students across the district i can't be here without acknowledging my roots as a syrian american i'm so proud to be representing some students across the country who are definitely going to be watching this video on the whatsapp video that my mom makes so hi guys um i wouldn't be here today without acknowledging all of them and of course my mom and grandma who are here today you guys can stand up let me get a round of applause for them um thank you for making me who i am today and just allowing me to experience everything that i got to with these past few years or this past year in specific um as i get closer to graduation it makes me think back onto the memories that i've made and we'd be here for a long time if i shared them all but i just want to thank all of you for making those memories with me and just inspiring me to become a friend of yours and just continue to be working with you i'm excited to say that i'm going to be going to harvey mudd college so i'll be staying pretty close and if you ever want me to come down i'll always be back uh who knows maybe i'll be sitting at the dice again as a board member in a few years i'm just kidding um i just want to thank you all for inspiring me and not just myself but inspiring the students across the district and just making sure their voices are heard that really is what i'm proud to be here for and i never thought i'd experience all that i got to with some adults that just really made my year and i i want to thank each and every one of you so thank you and now i think we're going to be honored thank you well abdullah don't let go of that dream i i hope to see you up in that diocese as a board member someday soon right yeah thank you thank you uh and one more thing as a token of my appreciation and again my syrian roots i want to bring you all some gifts that i'll bring out right now thank you well i i i want to acknowledge uh abdullah i think we've had uh quite a few leaders who are part of a uhsd especially being uh on the dice right there i've never seen somebody who is very active and not only in the community but also leading all of you guys i think he put a lot of pressure on all of you to step up and set the bar high so i want to take this opportunity thank uh mom and grandma who are here because that shows what a job well done you've done with him and i was very proud because he was having a conversation with one of our council members at the steemapalooza and he shared his dream of wanting to go back to syria and help rebuild the country because as you all know it's a war-torn country but that really shows your character so thank you very much and uh we're going to miss you but i'm sure that you're going to have a lot more to do in the future we're going to hear a lot more from you so thank you abdullah all right well i know it's seven o'clock but i can't i can't wait to introduce you guys and take a picture with you guys before i go to my next meeting so uh 7.2 let's go to the next item which is auhsd student ambassador recognition the board of trustees honors the district student ambassadors ambassadors for their service and important contribution to the district during the year 2021-2022 year the ambassadors serve as official spokespersons for all district students at special ceremonies events and functions the student leaders are also deeply embedded in the district's governance structure and actively provide the student voice whenever possible and right now i'd like to invite ron hoshi to come in and introduce the the rest of the ambassadors so that they could actually not only introduce themselves talk about where you're going to college but i want to take this because i'm going to run out but i want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you i think every single event that i've been to you guys were there with smiles welcoming all of us and i can't tell you how many times i've heard from our community of how well you represent auhsd and what good character you bring and a role models that you are for many of our students who are looking up to you so thank you for carrying the auhsd banner and also having that service oriented mindset because i i think i've mentioned before where cynthia made that comment uh when she came to one of our events to say like i said you know you're from loire and you're at anaheim and she said no this is my community too so having that mindset and coming up and serving the entire district hats off to all of you guys and thank you very much for your service so mr ron hoshi come on up not only are these students magnificent leaders but i just have to add that they truly demonstrated what servant leadership is and um if you saw them at all the things that they were serving at so without further ado here we go from from anaheim high school we have sebastian mata [Applause] well good evening board district cabinet and to my mom and dad watching from home my name is sebastian mata and i've been the student ambassador at anaheim high school this past year i want to thank the anaheim union high school district for this amazing opportunity to serve our students and to serve my students from leading rsap summits in my school to serving on the opening school's district-wide schools task force this position has allowed me to give back to my school and community and countless ways i want to thank all the staff at anaheim high school for supporting this year thank you mr galleros mrs conrad mrs cuellar mr clark mr hernandez prophet carderon mrs ortiz miss garcia mr nahera and last but not least mr tenorio for supporting me and for supporting all of our students every day at anaheim i will be continuing my education pursuing a bachelor's degree in finance at cal state fullerton so i'll be down the street to everyone who is here tonight i know a lot of people already live but to everyone who is here tonight and who's watching from home counselors administrators social workers coaches and teachers thank you for all that you do every day and continue changing the world through unlimited [Applause] come on over here i think i've interacted more with sebastian doing the great work i'm going to turn this over to abdullah all right next up we have catherine crota from cambridge virtual academy [Applause] well hello everyone good afternoon my name is catherine carota and i am from cambridge virtual academy um it has been an honor serving my school site as the ambassador and i could just proudly say that i have gained and learned so much this past year at the beginning of the year i was a really shy introverted student and i loads i load public speaking and although i'm quite introverted still i could say i have you know become very much better at speaking i am now able to stand in front of you guys with more confidence than i was before and i am very grateful for all the all the connections i was able to make this year i was able to meet a lot of great people and i was able to learn a lot to serve my school and to learn how to deliver the student voice properly i'm able to continue my journey at cal state fullerton this year and i will definitely take a lot of the lessons i've learned from all of you guys individually and all of my peers that i stand with today so thank you so much congratulations next up we have eunice kim from cypress high school [Applause] and it's all all right good evening my name is eunice kim and i have proudly represented cypress high school this year um it's truly been an honor serving as an ambassador this year from leading cypress's first school-wide summit to giving a speech at the ai summit to representing many korean americans across our district thank you to the cypress family and the greater auhsd community i've gained so much this is not an exhaustive list but crucial time management skills professionalism um a second family and i'll definitely be carrying these games as i attend harvard college in the fall to study biology and public policy so thank you for your time and dedication to student voice it's truly been an honor and you have not seen the last of me [Applause] all right next up uh from gilbert high school we have mari mesa good evening everyone my name is marie meza and i'm from gilbert high school a few months ago at the beginning of this program i introduced myself to you and i told you all what this role and this program meant to me these past few months this program has given me much more than i ever expected i made a group of friends that easily became a family i went to various events that showed just how much our district truly comes together as a community i want to thank the administrative team at my school site mr lara miss pittman dr slim and i also want to give a special thanks to the one person who gave me this role mr john deshane he has not only become my person to go to whenever i need something he's my asb director and he easily became a father figure as well i also want to thank oh i also want to thank mr hoshi and the advisory team for the ambassador program they have helped me through a lot of struggles this year they know what i'm talking about in the next few weeks my senior will be coming to an end and i will be i will be graduating coming august i will be attending uci to major in biology [Applause] that will also successfully make me the first person in my family to attend a four-year university so i will be a first-generation student [Applause] i can say that i'm truly nervous in my future endeavors but i'm also excited and prepared for it all so thank you [Applause] okay [Applause] all right uh next up i'm so honored to invite adrian barrios who is actually making history as being the first ambassador from hope school i'm a i'm adrian from hope i'm the ambassador this year i like working on my team and i will be back next year and i will be back next year [Applause] and miss barrios is in the crowd by the way so can we get a round of applause for miss bars for helping all right next up we have esmeralda ferraguino from catella high school [Applause] good evening everyone my name is esmeralda faragrino and i am currently serving as a catilla high school student ambassador standing here today is a truly a bittersweet moment as my year is coming to an end just a few weeks from today i will be walking on stage at handel stadium graduating first of all i want to thank the amazing student ambassador sitting here today for making this position one of the most memorable things that i've participated in they have truly helped me throughout the entire year making new memories every day and learning from every single one of them a special thank you to abdullah who truly guided us throughout this entire journey believe it or not i actually kind of do like him even though i tell him that i don't he's been a good leader he's been an amazing friend so thank you abdullah and most importantly to my mom and dad uh hi mom if you're watching this i did it with this being said i am beyond excited to announce that i will be continuing my education at cal state fullerton to pursue a biology and psychology degree what i want to do with the rest of my life i will figure it out along the way as i am a true believer that everything happens for a reason and that we will end up where we belong once again thank you for this amazing opportunity it's been a pleasure being the student ambassador thank you [Applause] she's an amazing advocate she was actually the all right from kennedy high school alvaro uribe [Applause] hello hello hello good afternoon evening to everyone in the audience thank you to you guys um so as abdul mentioned my name is alvaro uribe and i am the current ambassador over at kennedy high school so the ambassador program a program that i first thought would help me grow my talent solely in the educational leadership aspect not saying that that's about a i think you guys do amazing but um upon entering the ambassador program i found that it helped me realize so many un unexplored talents of mine such as graphic arts so in the ambassador program i co-created the official hcc ambassador logo i created an aohsc ambassador brochure um student report magazine and thank you cards that hopefully you guys will all see very soon they're still in the works and conversation um i also even created a step and repeat for our banquet and all of these things helped me really get immersed in graphic arts which i never even thought i would before joining the ambassador program and what i'm getting at here is well will i continue to pursue graphic arts in college no but but but what i'm trying to get at is the ahc ambassador program allowed me to explore things that i never thought i would and in doing so it fostered and unlimited me and unlimited me that is beyond ecstatic announced my full ride commitment to brown university as a biochemistry major i am so excited to attend brown which is an ivy that prides itself in its open curriculum and what that open curriculum means to me is it will allow me to continue to explore my my interests without limits and in doing so i am confident and i know that i will be able to continue hsc's mission of ex exploring and unlimited me through all that they have to offer thank you yes [Music] all right it's my pleasure to invite cynthia felix from lawera high school [Applause] good evening community my name is cynthia felix i am the student ambassador for laura high school and i'm humbled to be standing right here in front of you my high school care may be ending but this is just the beginning of my career in public service and leadership as i have committed to chapman on a full ride and my major thank you and a major a double major in engineering and political science as well as a minor in education three years ago when i first moved from the united states i had not imagined i would be here pursuing a career of my interest and being inspired by such amazing leaders like you i want to thank my mother for being my best supporter and i am just so grateful for being part of such a loving and resilient community i also want to acknowledge rocky patel who unfortunately had to leave to receive some scholarships at her at his magnolia awards site and he just wanted to say thank you as he he had one of the best experiences here in the autisd he will be attending ucla on a full ride in biology [Applause] and we just want to say thank you for being such a loving community i am speechless so i hope you have a beautiful evening [Applause] again a all right also from oxford academy we have souveni [Applause] good evening thank you so much i just want to say uh previously this year i never imagined myself being in this kind of position um if you don't know me i think abdul knows me i'm i'm from oxford's i'm a nerd i i'm just a super tech guy i like spend my whole time in robotics so when i joined i i really my first time i was here um we came here to get funding from robotics when we went to world so that was one thing why i joined is that i wanted to advocate for students and like things like vapa and i think that's what i did i went to a lot of events i got to meet so many people i realized i'm not on the little this bubble in cyprus and it was amazing meeting so many new people connecting with um all of you you guys too and mr clone back there it was so fun and especially my team uh it was amazing getting to know each and one of you um all the times we hanged out and all the times we worked together to accomplish so many things um it was great and uh thank you to my mom back there she's probably recording me um and my dad for driving me around so much so i couldn't have done it without you guys and i just want to say i'm going to uc berkeley for electrical engineering computer science um so this thing has really made me think through uh what i want to do in my future and i i've seen my teachers and how much impact they made and how much you impact you guys made on future and i think that's one thing i want to continue on so i hope to come back i hope to see everyone again i hope to still be part of this community [Applause] so yeah all right representing representing savannah high school we have daniel bloom [Applause] all right so good evening my name is daniel bulum and throughout this past year i have had the pleasure of serving savannah high school as student ambassador i remember eight months ago when i spoke to you all and now i speak to you all again talking about this once in a lifetime opportunity for me personally i was most inspired by connecting with all of our feeder elementary schools and learning about all of the different communities that anaheim that calls anaheim home thank you to my savannah family and a special thank you to my own family to my rcp advisor mr kim and to my successor join us today for your endless support no matter the hardships i faced throughout this past year as i move on in life i plan to attend ucla with goals of becoming a speech-language pathologist and an emphasis on multilingualism and foreign language perhaps i'll even break into education and give back to the community that raised me through unlimited you thank you [Applause] so all right and last but definitely not least from western high school we have nicholas din [Applause] hello everyone my name is nicholas den and i'm a proud student at western high school being an ambassador is not is an opportunity like no other um before you all today before meeting mr hoshi mrs brown ms vasquez and my fellow ambassadors i would have never imagined speaking in front of the board the cabinet and other dignitaries today for me being an ambassador was a role i took on my junior year and extended to my senior year when i first got announced as being a student ambassador and having the opportunity to represent my student body at western was one of the best experiences i ever had as someone who was initially nervous and scared of what high school might look like i'm proud to say that i had one of my best memories in high school and it was because of my friends my teachers staff and faculty which have installed within me confidence to pursue my goals as for my future plans i plan on studying at the university of southern california at the annenberg school for journalism and communications with that being said i hope to one day work in news and media and pursue my goals because with this program although i was initially nervous of getting into that field i feel much confident that i have such supportive family and team behind me knowing that i can succeed thank you [Applause] all right thank you to my entire team and we are going to do a group picture with everyone should we do that yeah all right let's do one big picture with all the [Applause] that they've put in ambassadors of them have taken the lead so thank you very much on behalf of the board for doing this ron and jennifer thank you very much yeah thank you i'd like to give a huge shout out to mr hoshi and mrs brown uh we also have miss vazquez who couldn't be here yeah so thank you for all your leadership and support good things [Music] [Applause] one more [Applause] and one final shout out to the person who is taking that last picture uh that's actually going to be our next student representative to the board of trustees so omkar khatir would you like to stand up real quick and just wave to everyone you'll be seeing a lot more of him next year [Applause] well everybody's getting getting up here i know all the board members wanted to say something really quick every year we say wow what a great group of ambassadors and it's not a cliche because we really honestly we really honestly mean it this year you guys you have raised the bar so high your predecessors will have a really really hard time kind of catching up with you every single one of you has made yourself known um not just you know being friendly and not just greeting you have gone over and above and beyond anything that ambassadors in the past i'm sorry ambassador any ambassadors in the past that are listening but honestly we have heard so many stories and and people are coming up to us when al jabar said in the community that you have made a difference we mean it those words are not flipped you have made an amazing impact on your school sites and in this auhsd community and you will be really sorely missed so those of you who promise to come back please do we love you so much we love you so much thank you [Applause] so as you can see mr jabara stepped out so i'm stepping in for a few minutes so just i want to thank you ambassadors for all the work you have provided to the district and to your fellow students throughout this past year i know everywhere i went there were many ambassadors there always greeting me by name handshake and asking what they can do for me so i appreciate that and i know the new ambassadors for next year you're going to be doing same thing as they are doing and maybe even better so the bar is up there for you to to reach up and grab and run with it so congratulations to you ambassadors and your future where you're going to be going next year so we're all behind you so next item is 7.3 culinary arts programs the board of trustees will recognize the culinary arts students and teachers from anaheim cypress gilbert catella savannah and western high schools throughout the 21 22 year the culinary arts students prepared and served delicious meals for the board of trustees prior to each board meeting the following teachers and students will be recognized for their culinary art talents and i think why is um why don't why doesn't the board come out here i'll go over the podium and read yeah and uh let's see who's here i know gilbert is here okay first off was anaheim high school robert police is the teacher he's not here okay we'll give just a minute for the people to to leave and then we'll go in after after anaheim okay how about catella high school stacy isabel teacher nope okay how about hyper cypress high school elena karapolis nope she's the teacher okay how about savannah high school bob mousswani is the teacher no how about i don't know about gilbert high school anybody here from gilbert high school come come on forward we have jason jasmine teacher [Applause] hi so in the group i'm not sure they're all here tonight i don't think so but we have hobart castillo christopher cervantes devorah estrada sami hussain justin lopez and michelle munoz i think you're probably in that group okay what's your name alex asensio and caleb i'm sorry come on out front all right [Applause] and also western high school anybody here from western high school that would be cory mead is the teacher no okay thank job all you long we have dined phenomenally all year and it's been all we probably should have stayed up there what do we have basketball i put it in basketball yes 7.4 that's the next one then on the back side of page four 7.4 1.4 next is 7.4 western high school division four southern section cif boys basketball champions come on up [Applause] the western high school boys basketball team won the first cif basketball championship in school history the team has also won back back-to-back orange league championships the team is coached by joseph ihara and mark harrison the school community was awesome in the support of the team and showed up to cheer them on all the way past santa barbara to dos pueblos in the championship game after a slow start the team was 4-8 at one point they went on to win 15 of their next 16 games and route to the championship that's amazing the team was not seated in the top 16 going into the playoffs and beat higher seeded teams in every round culminating in a 16 point margin against a number two seed in the championship game there were six four-year seniors on the team led by back-to-back orange league mvp and back-to-back all cif player ahmed amore jameson jam lamson lamberson was excuse me yeah they were selected to the all orange league team and an all-cif selection he was also the scholar athlete of the year at western high school sophomore keith davis and junior alex burns also gained all orange league status for the season congratulations [Applause] yes absolutely coaches [Applause] it's it's an absolute pleasure to represent western high school and bring these young men to the board they had a phenomenal season they are outstanding young men we're working on academics daily but some of them have done out some of them done some great things some of them are works in progress but it's what we do and every one of these kids has been at western since they were freshmen we haven't had any transfers we don't get anybody coming in to try and you know we don't go out and recruit we just raise the kids that we got and we teach them and they they trusted myself and coach ihara with what we brought them and that's why we won because of their trust in their coaches and their belief in each other and this truly truly was a family of young men that got on a journey and just wasn't going to be stopped and it was something that you never imagined as a coach winning staff championship coaching that's not why i coach and that's not why coach ahara coached but it's one of the greatest rewards and i'm just very proud of these young men and proud of what they accomplished and thank you to everyone that supported us along the way here they are champions they finally started seeing the benefit of what what we were drilling every day and sometimes it's hard to see the forest through the trees and we did the same drills every day yes linzo we did the same drills every day he complained about it one time at some point it just kind of clicked in and became habits and once they started to say hey we we see it working they believed in it and we said all through the playoffs nobody else believed in us but us and that was kind of our rallying cry in pregame was no one that no one believes we're going to win but you guys do so let's go take care of it and that's that was just the part of the major part of the accomplishment [Applause] just uh members of the board and the cabinet thank you and i see so many of my former bosses here and i sort of freaked out but i just want to piggyback on what coach harrison said and these are all boys that are part of anaheim that went to dale that went to orangeview that weren't brought in from the outside and there is nothing like seeing a group of young men coming together and believing in a common cause and then seeing our community going and like coach harrison said that the championships are great but the relationships and to see the growth and we always told them you know the cif championship banner in the pio dome is sweet and it'll be there forever and it could never be taken away just like their education and to see the whole community come and it was one of the best things and the community has already come together and bought them all their championship rings and uh we got those coming together but truly this is the anaheim spirit of a bunch of kids local here that go home that are all went to dale all went to you know orangeview and it was one of the truly most magnificent just greatest things to see and uh we feel blessed to be a part of it so thank you very much wow [Applause] you never give up you all look so great you did a great job yes [Applause] all right fantastic love it they look so sharp what an amazing story i love that okay next up uh reports 8.1 student representatives report all right last last one the last report yes all right good evening everyone um i'm gonna finish up with my last school report uh it's a little bit longer but i'm just gonna finish everything you know everything that i've been meaning to say you know um as of last friday every single high school in the anaheim union district has held an rsvp summit for the first time ever so i'm making history as always and we're not stopping there so hopefully we'll be able to expand to junior high school soon but there's more coming so just look forward to that rsvps are now working for the third summit to showcase the changes that they've made by students for students that's coming soon uh seniors are sharing a lot of their lasts prom was just across the board uh held last month graduation and grad night are being planned in the works right now uh there was a commitment week at cyprus high school and a college signing day at magnolia to honor our seniors and where they're going for college and the senior capstone projects were held at western lower and savannah to showcase all that our seniors are doing as our sports wrap up we have a lot of great news that i'm sure you guys just heard um also alongside that oxford academy tennis and volleyball are both league champions and tennis is still pushing through cif um i actually wrote this in my notes but um i think it was mr o'neil that said this western's was back-to-back orange league mvp and cif champion and won the honor of being selected on the all-county third team uh congratula western has a lot more actually so congratulations to our western seniors laisha santillian for the women's athlete of the year and kimberly campos for getting scholar athlete of the year michael horta aviles was named the all-county first cif wrestling team uh and western and magnolia were co-league champions in tennis uh also as a part of our ambassador team rahi patel uh was singles number one and will be representing the orange league as the singh as the number one singles league player at the cif individuals and also not not sure if this is considered a sport but lower students beat the staff in a student v staff swimathon so there's that as well and also from lower senior daniella g run was the top swimmer from the southern section so pretty impressive back to some academic stuff students are studying hard for finals aps ib classes and many more from kennedy high school the band performed at the first ever la palma city festival of nations also at kennedy they held sorry there's a flag um also at kennedy uh they held uh every 15-minute showcase that showcased the dangers of drunk driving uh that had a really huge impact on the students on april 7th at western they had a career fair during fourth period and lunch with over 50 different organizations coming to western to share different opportunities and spread awareness to students the western's ilab team who is currently working with a ceo to produce and sell a physical game has already established a prototype for their product and it was actually showcased at steemapalooza where they got to open it up to the public to try out their game uh so it's great to see western students working with real life ceos and creating their own products a huge announcement that i'm uh sure we're going to hear more later of and we've already heard of is that anaheim high school is named a democracy school as of april 12 and they have become the 17th democracy school for auhsd which is an honor that came for the work from our staff administration and students to create civil discourse all across that level at anaheim high school catella was named with a california state green ribbon award and with a special shout out to the ap environmental science teacher miss lujan at cypress freshman students created a project educating future freshmen on the ins and outs of high schools with do's and don'ts common high school slang like you know i was talking to some seventh graders and they didn't know what a junior or senior was and i was like i didn't i don't think i knew that either so it's really good to see that um and also some advice for their high school career lawyer held their saxon egg summit exit interviews where all seniors reflected on the five c's pretty cool and how they were able to apply them to their daily lives also at lower they held a soapbox speech competition finals on april 9th and another member of our ambassador group cynthia felix was awarded the anaheim secondary teachers association scholarship for one thousand dollars so congratulations to her um and that's all for my report and i just want to say thank you everyone for this opportunity i'm gonna miss writing up these reports and heckling them to get them to get more information but i'm really glad i got to do this and thank you all so much abdullah i think this experience of writing these reports is just the beginning of your life for the next few years writing reports i hope to write more reports in the future so i'd like to add to that that i said to you one night you will be so successful in life and i think everything that you do and attempt to do will be part of your success it's been a joy to have known you as limited as it has been and to know that your mother and your grandmother are here oh my goodness oh what a joy thank you thank you it's hard when they leaved and go away to school but you're going to make my mom cry again she's been crying all day so we have kleenex i want to thank you for your gift to us thank you [Applause] i just came in time i got to go back again but the meeting's a mess but anyways but i just came in time glad to be here to again congratulate you i know we're going to see big and better things from you abdullah so i'm honored to know you so thank you all right so i'm going to move on to our student speakers 8.2 i have a few and i'm going to first call on so just to basically let you know any anaheim union high school district student in the audience who wishes to speak to the board of trustees may do so at this time students wishing to address the board of trustees should complete a student speaker request form available on the information table at the back of the room and submitted to the executive assistant prior to the meeting students wishing to speak at this time limited to three minutes board members cannot immediately respond to student comments as stated on the speaker request form students may also choose to speak during the public comment section of the agenda instead of this time however they may only speak once per topic during the meeting all right so i'm uh going to go ahead and call jade is it oil come on up jade and i think [Applause] oxford academy hello steam trustees thank you very much for letting me speak today i'm going to be talking about um one of the things you're going to be talking about later which is lgbtq plus rights um i'm from oxford academy i am the current president of the school's qsa and um i just want to say that it is fantastic what you guys are doing here um i know that a lot of schools currently in this country are being very close-minded about what they're allowing their students to talk about and what they are allowing their students to know and i think that it is great that you guys are going to be talking here today about real issues that students are facing and will make them feel better at in the school environment and i just wanted to spotlight one of my teachers back at school she her name is miss vascular she um is a great uh history teacher she talked about the lgbtq books rights um during the 60s and things like that which is something you don't see every day and it made me feel seen and i know a lot of other people that i know also felt seen and i think it's so important to have a safe space at schools and i think it is fantastic that you guys are going to be pushing for that so thank you very much thank you jake appreciate you thank you all right our next speaker is mariana eliar oh that's you that i'm sorry good evening boys um so i'm speaking today for a student who is currently in um gilbert's gsa which is our gay straight alliance or rainbow gladiators as we all know it um adrian unfortunately could not make it today due to another commitment but um agent wanted the ultimate providing lgbtq plus recreation recognized days events and resources throughout our district would be extremely beneficial to our queer youth providing these opportunities for the community for the lgbtq plus community in the district is paramount and making us feel comfortable in our own skin and welcomed in a community especially if we don't feel that comfort in our own homes growing up adrian experienced that if you don't have the confidence and happiness within yourself it's easy to let yourself be pushed around i agent has been fortunate enough to be provided with supportive resources by being part of the gilbert rainbow gladiators the more resources that the district can provide and the people we meet through those resources the easier it is for us to build that confidence along with adrian i am also part of gsa um i want to recognize miss mawson who as in gay class we call her momsen and that is because she is truly a mom to us to a lot of us we don't have parents that accepted us for who we are um i fortunately did but i know a lot of the students in my class did not and they truly do have this period to learn about their community um thankfully mrs mallison has reached out to the lgbtq plus center and thanks to them we receive mental health help so we do take therapy once a week every wednesday we have a trauma enforced yoga and this is something that we're also providing to students that are not only in gsa but students that we know are part of our community and haven't quite come out yet um to everyone else so this is a time that we allow them to kind of speak to people who are in their community so thank you again for providing that help for us great work stephanie camacho van dykes i'm not a student oh you're not a student okay i this came out as a student okay all right no i think i have one right here uh augustine huey [Applause] [Music] hello thank you and good evening to the board um standing with me i have nolan oshiro who is also supposed to be on the list but i will be speaking on behalf of both of us we are both representatives from cyprus's gsa i am currently a senior attending cyprus and i have been president of gsa so today i will be speaking on behalf of the lgbt community and lgbt students at cypress high school and the auhd school district and i have just been so honored to be a part of this school district and to see how quickly and how far we've come in our progress in making sure the lgbt community feels safe and accepted in our schools and within our community and especially coming back from the pandemic our school district has just been putting so much effort into giving back to the community and to making sure that we all feel safe and welcome and as an lgbt student attending cyprus it just makes me makes me feel so comforted to know that we are giving a safe place back to these students who may not come from such great communities or who may not feel welcome at home and that we are doing so much more to try and help move forward to make our community feel safer and when we vote on these changes that we are going to be representing not just ourselves but future generations of students like freshmen and incoming middle schoolers who will be wanting to find a safe place where they can feel safe to be them and to be themselves and we'll be normalizing and educating others who may not be as familiar on these topics and we will be providing a safe space for them and they deserve to feel protected and to have the right to be as they are and this will propel us forward as not only a very progressive school district but will also pave the way forth for other school districts to follow in our paths thank you have a good evening thank you we have uh is it nolan or noah oshiro oh both of you okay all right perfect all right so that's we're done with our student speakers do we have any other student speakers who who i didn't call upon all right thank you very much all to all the students who came out and advocated i really appreciate that um i'm going to 8.3 reports of association offices present from the district's employee associate will be invited to address the board of trustees and i'm going to start with our teachers association esther that's you grant [Laughter] i got such a cheer last time well i i before you start congratulations on your statewide who award from all the work that you've done and appreciate that you're taking the lead uh not only here but also outside of the district so thank you to be honest too the the award was given in honor of the work that's being done in conjunction with this district around community schools and the model that we're setting so uh because of my position in the union i received the award but it has to do with everyone in this room all of the teachers the parents the community groups that are coming together to do this and uh you know i was happy to accept it very quickly before i give my report i just wanted to say just to recognize it was only a year ago that magnolia student ivan ayala stood up here and came out publicly for the first time and talked about how a gsa was a safe spot on our campuses but aside from that half hour a week it was often a struggle to be who he was on his campus and to see what the district is moving forward with to expand the areas on a campus that people will feel safe across classrooms across activity areas what whatever space people are in what we are moving forward to do is is going to encourage that feeling of safety and belonging across our campuses and as an association we greatly appreciate the district standing up for that for our students and for our members the who some of which are in the same position and don't always feel um as welcome as everybody else who is an employee in the district um so back to my uh report good evening board of trustees cabinet and attendees here in the room and online um well here we are at the end of last year our folks thought they had just finished the most challenging year of their careers and then this year happened [Laughter] during this teacher appreciation week i want to thank all of our educators in auhsd and all of the staff who support us as we serve our students and their families this year we have risen to the challenge of addressing needs of students that none of us envisioned while building relationships with our students that will serve us all moving forward i would also recognize i'd like to recognize a few asta members tonight this week kristen goosens of catella jennifer hung of hope and susan larson of lexington were recognized at our county who awards dinner for their service to our members in asta working in the anaheim union high school district additionally yesterday asta had a well attended social hour celebrating our members during teacher appreciation week and i also wanted to recognize the team of teachers who went to philadelphia last weekend for the network for public education conference this annual meeting has become an event attended by a joint team funded by asta and auhsd in support of public education as the foundation of american democracy it was a productive weekend of presentations networking and brainstorming between teachers administrators community activists parents and religious leaders we look forward to doing that again next year this brings us to the main point of my report last week at the green ribbon ceremony held at catella superintendent matsuda mentioned a quote from rachel carson in the book silent spring about coming environmental disaster it's worth repeating the quote is we now stand where two roads diverge but unlike the rhodes in robert frost's familiar poem they are not equally fair the road we have the road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy a smooth super highway on which we progress with great speed but at the end lies disaster the other road the other fork in the road the one less traveled by offers our last our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of our earth over the past two weeks i've thought about how that quote fits public education in general and our district in particular we as a district and we as an association of educators are committed to the road less traveled in education the super highway is full of standardized tests privatization union busting and the continued silencing of community voices that have been excluded throughout the history of public education we stand down the road less traveled with a belief in community schools ethnic studies student voice and preparing our children to be active citizens engaged in the improvement of their communities our commitment to this road less traveled is the path is the path to a vibrant and thriving democracy this road will not be easy it will not be easy to take and it's going to take more than just intention to get there a second quote tonight concerns how we make it down the road less travel progress travels at the speed of trust is a quote from one of my first trainings on community schools if we are contin to continue down the road and build the civically engaged democracy we must all individually and collectively as leaders continue to build trust in this room and on this dais we all have built relationships within the district over several years out at the sites we have hired several hundred educators and support staff since the beginning of the pandemic they are surviving and oftentimes thriving but they have not had the ability to develop the trust among their colleagues and the district necessary to fulfill the promise of community schools ethnic studies student empowerment and a civically engaged student population we must move forward together in the shared model of collaborative leadership to ensure our students parents community partners educators and staff are moving together quickly down that road with a shared vision and understanding of what is at stake and what reward lies at the end of the road that concludes my report thank you very much grant congratulations again all right do we have anybody else yep come on down amanda amanda good evening i'm here on behalf of ulta just a couple of things i'm first on behalf of all the administrators we'd like to celebrate our teachers and wish them a happy teacher appreciation week we know that everyone is working very hard in the classrooms and just want to think thank you for those efforts i also would like to welcome all the new administrators that were appointed this evening welcome to your new roles and we know that you will be great in what you're doing i just want to say how excited um we were to host um in person um our steamapalooza our district wide open house this year it was really so wonderful to see all of our sites to come together to showcase uh students their amazing work and really bring our drivers to life it really was such a wonderful event and just really want to again thank um publicly mr manuel colon and jackie counts for their vision in that and um and you know what has how that has grown over the years and we hope to continue that for years to come next year we are launching at all of our campuses a capstone showcase at our junior highs and high schools and so our sites are very busy working on that development on both the administrative teams and their site leadership teams and so we're just really excited to be able to share with the community that structure that showcases our student growth voice and purpose and again bringing our drivers to life here in anaheim union this monday night we're really proud to recognize um our axa region 17 administrators of the year um at their annual dinner so we will be i'm honoring jennifer brown jennifer sai dr nancy nien and our partners north orange county rop and dr jennifer goldstein from cal state fullerton we're just very proud of these individuals and have all of these people being recognized at this event we're getting very excited about graduation um our site and our district administrative teams are working to make sure that we ensure a memorable day for our students and their families um and just really excited to to just close this year out with uh with that event uh lastly our teams are busy preparing for our summer programs we have lots to offer this summer we have a wide variety of enrichment programs like our arts academy our aim internships kind set our summer language academy and we also have a wide variety of credit recovery and acceleration programs and so just want to thank the team of people putting that together here at the district level so carlos hernandez amy quan diana fujimoto really working with our sites to to make sure we have a lot of opportunity for our students to stay engaged in school and again at the at the end of a challenging year we're just really looking forward to summer and a chance to rest and rejuvenate again ahead of the 22-23 school year and just you know really great things planned for next year and um and really just excited to get that going throughout the summer and into next year thank you guys and see you next time thank you amanda next is karina bradford apga hi good evening everyone i'm karina bradford i am our counselor on special assignment i'm here on behalf of corey kretz and natalie saldivar i am honored to support all of our counselors in our district and i get to work alongside with the most passionate and dedicated people that i know these stories that we've been sharing out throughout the school year are the stories behind the data the heartbeat behind the pledge the importance of the five c's and the implementation of cpsf these stories have taken us only to the shore of the ocean that our counselors navigate every single day i want to say thank you to our board for happening having open ears to these stories and to our counselors who have taken us on this expedited tour in this very important work our last two schools for the school year are anaheim high school and sycamore junior high school [Applause] hello my name is monica pineda i'm lead counselor at sycamore junior high and i'm joined here with mario morales and angela medina awesome counselors from sycamore and mario will be sharing a story in a little bit but i think miss cuellar is going to come up and introduce her team good evening my name is amy cuellar and i am the lead counselor at anaheim high school i have some of my teammates here with me we have aurora ambry she's our 12th grade counselor we have sabrina ramirez she's our 11th grade counselor and we have chao nishimura our 10th grade counselor but we're going to start our stories with sycamore junior high so i drew the short stick i'm just kidding i'm just kidding i'm happy to be here good evening board members and district leadership um before i continue i want to just give a little thanks to mr colon in my previous life he was one of many people who nudged me to become a school counselor and here i am so thank you all right this has been a challenging year for many students for various reasons however we continue to work tirelessly to support our students in need at sycamore the counseling center is like our second home and our students have become part of our family as a counseling team we support them we advocate for them we listen to them but most importantly we care about our students as counselors we are fortunate to have meaningful conversations with their students regarding topics that are often too difficult for them to address with their own families and or peers i recall one student in particular who came to the counseling center because they were feeling anxious and became emotional well in class this student was obviously dealing with some personal struggles and after speaking for a while the student became comfortable and disclosed that they were struggling with telling their family about their gender identity the student had not been able to tell anyone about their personal struggle and felt a real sense of relief that i was able to provide a safe space to share their story with me i was honored that the student was able to speak their truth with me after our conversation i connected the students to mental health resources and i'm happy to share that is doing really well the student has not been able to disclose their gender identity with their family however is more confident and has told some of their closest friends at times i struggle and i'm sure we all struggle whether or not we're making a difference in the lives of our students because sometimes the things that they're struggling with are beyond our control however i we choose to focus on the things that i am able to help them with and for this particular student they needed someone to show acceptance and kindness they needed to feel seen and heard they needed to they needed someone to talk to without being judged and i was happy to be that person a few days after initial conversation i found a note on my desk that read thank you for your understanding thank you for understanding me and for being there to support me when my family can't although this has been a challenging school year i am reminded of how important our work is when i think about the numerous students that i encounter on a daily basis and how crucial it is for me to be able to support their emotional well-being every student has a story and at sycamore we're doing our best to ensure that the stories are heard thank you good evening everyone again my name is aurora ambrese and i'm the 12th grade counselor this year at anaheim among the nearly 3 000 students at anaheim high school we have so many stories just like mario shared so many struggles and challenges but the student i wanted to share with you today is a student whose success has definitely not come easy to her this student is an intelligent driven and involved young lady who has faced tremendous struggles especially since the start of the pandemic she is a student that despite her academic abilities did not perform well during the distance learning due to many personal obstacles her mother felt very ill and lost her job so shortly after their living situation drastically changed this young lady was forced to work full time and help pay for the family's expenses needless to say school became second in line of priorities we definitely had a lot of work to do beginning this school year i would like to say that i was able to single-handedly help this student succeed but i would be lying it has been through a meaningful collaboration between our counseling office and our teachers to discuss how to provide necessary educational opportunities for the student our work with our community schools coordinator when the student needed things like food and rental assistance not to mention the collaboration with agencies like anaheim's project say that has been a consistent support for the student in her journey we have all worked tirelessly to support her through these difficult times and now we begin to see the fruits of our labor this young lady has now been accepted to cal poly pomona and is looking forward to continuing her education this is only one of many success stories that we all have at anaheim high school and we just like to say we appreciate so much the support from the staff and community for helping our most at risk students this is truly a testament that it takes a village to support our students in achieving their true potential so thank you all right thank you again for sharing the stories and please we all love hearing those uh accomplishments so thank you keep it coming thank you so mr jabbar president may i have a point of personal privilege today sure so um i just want to give a shout out to all of our counselors but in particular sycamore i made a connection with the counselor and the social worker in my other capacity i am a behavior interventionist with the anaheim elementary school district and i reached out because we both have students in both districts these students are struggling and i made the connection and i started to tell the story of our student in anaheim elementary counselor knew exactly who i was talking about before talking about before i had even mentioned a name we we collaborated and we got on a zoom call on friday and there were 12 people on the call and they were a majority from sycamore and another school because the counselor knew where the student was going and contacted at the last minute the counselor from another school it was heartwarming and it was overwhelming at the same time the students are struggling but to know that they connect with so many resources and each other projects say the social workers teachers the administration the amount of time spent on this one child um it was really amazing i am so proud to be a trustee of this district i know how hard you work and i just really want to thank you and honor you we may we may succeed with these students and we may not we don't know but you give it all your all please take back my gratitude and the board's gratitude we know how difficult it's been and we thank you so much thank you [Applause] thank you uh justin randall for sharing that that's very touching thank you uh all right so we're going to go to the next item which is 8.4 parent teacher student association ptsa members anybody i don't see anyone coming in so we'll start with our public comments again opportunities for public comments occur at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for items not on the agenda persons wishing to address the board of trustees should complete a speaker request form available on the information table in the back of the room and submit it to the executive assistant prior to the meeting each speaker is limited to a maximum of five minutes each topic and item submitted a total of 20 minutes board members cannot immediately respond to public comments as stated on the speaker request form our first speaker is stephanie camacho van dyke good evening in the words of the late harvey milk hope will never be silent my name is stephanie camacho van dijk and i'm the director of advocacy and education at the lgbtq center oc for the past 10 years i've had the privilege to work closely with the gsa's the student leaders and teacher advisors in this district we know lgbtq students spend the majority of their time in school their experiences in the classroom in the halls at lunch and participating in extracurricular activities which can have a critical impact on their overall health and well-being the majority of lgbtq students however still experience negative and even hostile school environments as we have seen in the news across the country there's a significant amount of discriminatory and hateful legislation directed towards lgbtq students which has been introduced and passed this moment is not time to be silent when many others many young people are at risk on the other hand for some lgbtq students schools offer inclusive and supportive spaces that enable them to realize their full potential this resolution has been a long time coming for the board of trustees to adopt the enhancing supports and resources for lgbtq plus students resolution it would be a significant step in addressing the needs of anaheim union's lgbtq students i encourage you to please continue supporting being visible in your support for these students as well as the teacher advisors who do so much work every day every week doing events like picnics marches at long beach pride and having gatherings for students to just be themselves and meet other peers and to also continue fostering inclusive learning environments for all students in this district thank you so much thank you and i'm going to hand over my gavel to mr o'neal okay thank you all right next speaker is uh berican barry keane i think i said it right all right it's kind of hard for teachers to be on a time limit but i'll do i'll do my best um so good evening auhsd board of trustees and esteemed auhsd administrators and superintendent matsuda i've been at this podium before mostly providing an update to what we are doing at school sites across the district to support our lgbtq plus youth i've come to you with stories of marching picnics movie nights and safe spaces over the years and yes it's been years i didn't wear glasses before i think when i came up here but now i have to so many things have changed we've grown our gsas to include a district gsa advisory board we now have an asta lgbtq caucus and we have many teachers stepping up to the plate to support our lgbtq youth as teachers and specifically for those of us that belong to the lgbtq plus community we've stepped out of our own comfort zones to support our students and unfortunately sometimes doing the right thing can be difficult and it's met with adversity i've heard things like why would we take kids to that event when talking about taking kids to the pride parade when referring to the many years are still we're referring to the many years our students have marched in the pride parade i've heard things like why would i call that student by any other name other than the name that's on the roll sheet why would i use any other pronoun than the one that's on the roll sheet one of my favorites and it's been a while was why would we give up our prized battle of the sexes event not understanding why that could cause problems for students that have to choose sitting on a pink side or a blue side there has over the years been a lot of support from our district we've gotten support individually from different people um we've had board members march with us in the pride parade we've had administration march with us in the pride parade but there has been something missing in our fight to support all of our students in the auhsd and that is a clearly stated non-wavering statement of support from the auhsd administration and board of trustees so i contacted dr fred to tell him that our gsa advisory board wanted to put together a plan for supporting our students and specifically our trans youth and what i was told was that this was already in the works so this was great right this was fabulous i was floored and so what i was introduced to is the resolution that you're going to be asking to adopt tonight by providing specific resolutions for pride week of may 16th to the 20th 2022 june 2022 is pride month october 2022 is lgbtq history month october 11th as national coming out day and november 20th as transgender day of remembrance you will be supporting all students in the auhsd and also by encouraging all schools in our district to provide lessons that highlight the many contributions of folks in the lgbtq plus community you will set the auhsd far ahead in protecting the rights of our lgbtq plus students and also letting your lgbtq plus staff and faculty know that we are supported as well we are not asking for this resolution because it is a nice thing to do we are asking you to adopt this resolution because it is needed i can speak for a gsa advisory committee when i say we must continue to support our lgbtq plus students and we will but imagine how much more powerful our work becomes when we have the clear support from our district administration and our board i would like you to think i would like to thank you in advance for your support of the i told you timers are not good for teachers um i would like to thank you in advance for your support of this resolution that openly states that you support all students in the auhsd and that you are willing to show them that they all matter and that we will continue to protect them and provide them with the support they in many cases desperately need and i brought you something to see and some of you have seen this and some of you haven't so in 2016 we had a very small contingency at the long beach pride parade and we were awarded the stonewall award we were probably a contingency of maybe 20 people and the stonewall award is given for those battles won by the lgbtq plus community and those yet to fight and this hangs in my classroom and it's my reminder that there are still battles to fight for our lgbtq plus youth so that's why i'm here tonight and thank you for listening [Applause] okay next speaker is i think it's shunan zeimer shannon ziemer shannon ziemer well i got it close actually really hard to read i caught that as i was trying to write it but thank you all for letting me speak good evening trustees and cabinet i am here tonight once again as an arts advocate for our school district i am always so proud of what our district does and what it accomplishes it's really fun to be here on a night of celebration like this hearing so many amazing stories from this district i've come before you for a lot of years now and if you remember several years ago i was asking for a full-time vapitosa and the nevappa coordinator which we got so i want to thank you for brian belski and i think you all can see how amazing the benefits of having him have been for our district so i want to say thank you i work with districts around the county on arts education initiatives and i always like to hold ours up is such a good example and i'm really proud to come from this district arts right now are the answer to so many of the challenges that our districts are facing coming out of covid staying in covid and um i'm here tonight to ask you i handed out a paper that i hopefully you'll see or i had a paper that um to pass a resolution yes thank you and i so that's a draft obviously to be edited at your pleasure but to pass a resolution in support of the arts and music in schools an initiative that's hopefully it's pretty shoe-in to qualify for the ballot we gathered over a million signatures many were collected in this district by our arts boosters organizations and it the signatures are now turned in and getting verified by the counties around the state so it should qualify for the ballot in november and i would love it if our district would pass a resolution so i'm asking you agenda is that for a future meeting so that we can be part of the supporting crew supporting this initiative if you don't know much about it i'll just tell you it gives us an extra one percent of funding directed to the arts it allows us to have a steady stream of funding so we can plan long term and make some beneficial changes to our district to add to these amazing programs that we have it comes without a tax increase because our state has had a very good bonus year of revenue income and so pta is really proud to say one of the initiatives that we've always pressed for is universal tk and that's going to be funded now ahead of schedule so when we're seeing these wonderful programs come up arts advocates said hey what about us and so we put together an initiative and so i'm really hopeful that it'll allow districts around the state it could it'll be a game changer and this year we have the expanded learning opportunity funding so we're doing the summer academies and things that you heard about and know about and so this is like a rate a great time to lead into a steady stream of funding for arts across the district um throughout the years so we can not just have not that those programs aren't amazing but have constant amazing programs like that not just over this year and this summer and so it's an exciting time to be an arts advocate because so many years i was here saying hey can we get this or please don't cut us too much and now it's like hey what can we dream of doing with this funding if we get it it would be so amazing and so um it's it's really wonderful i want to also add i work in another hat different hat now as a community at the community resource center in the buena park community resource center as a case manager and i am constantly referring anaheim and boynton park clients to the website that your district keeps and to the work that adela cruz does and referring students to reach out to those community schools to attach themselves to resources and it is life-saving literally and so just thinking of clients it makes me get upset but i just want to say thank you for the efforts you put into the community schools and for helping our under-resourced students thank you thank you shannon i had a question yeah china did you say that the california state pta is not only recognizing this but sponsoring this no that was a different i also am the um create california's arts ambassador to orange county and i work with the orange county department of ed and arts oc and so i have a lot of hats so it was through create california that helped put that together all right thank you for the clarification and this speaker is uh juana reyes because my english is not good more when it's more yes okay [Music] super excited to thank you she is a parent from sycamore junior high este she is here to express her gratefulness because the department for mental health will be open and especially now after the pandemic she is very thankful for this she just wants to call your attention to how important these resources are for our students because we sometimes don't know what's going on in our teenage minds and this new innovation is very important muchas gracias porto marin and she is just extremely thankful for your attention and directing this attention towards the mental health aspect and she just saw that the entire sycamore time team is here even though they didn't agree to come together they're just sticking here and thanking you agradesco taminga los padres voluntarios quemos estado aqui esta noche and to finalize she's she just wants to say thank you to the parents for supporting and you especially now and hopefully we can see you soon in another positive note right thank you thank you cynthia miss felix translator yes thank you for stepping up thank you excellent job next speaker is marita bermudez home took my mask off right here good evening everybody or good night already because it's late um i'm actually very moved today there was so much positive energy i don't think i have ever experienced that much positive energy being in this space today while you were announcing the the new assistance principles everybody that got the promotions i'm dr adela cruz i was so so happy when i heard that news that you know she was becoming a director and everything that comes along with that because mental health is super important and you've recognized that so thank you so much thank you all of you for all the hard work that you've done and for listening to our families listening to our students helping them out because i know we are saving lives with that sorry i always get emotional with that um because um as i've spoken before it's something personal to me and um in a couple years i'll see my child graduate i'm hopeful that she's gonna graduate being you know very well from here because of the program's support i saw miss maggie sebastian here earlier today and my heart just gets filled when i see her because she has been an amazing amazing support not only to her but to our family and so that really speaks of the level of commitment that our team here at anaheim union has for our kids and it's just an amazing team and um seeing all the students here the the student ambassadors you know cynthia right now to just translate an interpreter for miss wanna you know that's just super amazing i'm i'm just excited to see them go and to you know venture out to the world because anaheim union high school has prepared them and you know seeing all the recognitions that we've gotten here for all the students the fact that you guys are supporting the lgbtq plus i wasn't going to speak on that but i overheard i think it was a teacher with her students and i asked them what are you speaking on and they're like oh the lgbtq i'm like oh okay well i'll say a couple words again that just speaks to the diversity and the inclusion that we're having here in this district um i know sometimes we're not aligned to certain things that you know that um that happen here in the district but i do know that we are moving forward we are moving forward together and i'm super excited to hear about the community schools i'm even losing sleep over it because i'm super excited of what you know those grants can bring because i'm seeing it at sycamore i'm seeing it in anaheim and i do appreciate that we're having a forum for the parents at sycamore junior high to help with the process of electing i'm sorry choosing a new principle that really that really speaks to the fact that you know the cute immunity is being part of this process and that we are being part of everything that's happened here so i think today is just um celebration again i'm just moved and of everything that i'm hearing and all the the great things my child will be going to anaheim high school i am super excited super hopeful of the great things that are coming and i'm just looking forward to the great work and thank you so much thank you all of you who are sitting here and everybody who's been part of meetings steering committees task force that take their time you know to be part of the positive change and everything that is happening i'm very proud to be a parent here and to send my child to anaheim union high school district thank you so much [Applause] next speaker is the thing rosalia pescador miss pescador there she is hi everyone my name is rosa isella pescador i'm here to speak on mental health and how thankful i am that we now have this for every school and being a parent volunteer and having gone through this disorder as you can say right um i am very very thankful that we have this for our um for our students and our our educators um i do believe mental health awareness is important issue for our educators who are who are often the first line of defense for our students education professionals have recognized the impact that students mental health has on learning and achievement and they realize that there's a great deal that can be done to help students with mental health issues teachers and students should be provided with ways to recognize signs of developing mental health problems and there should be opportunities around the awareness and management of mental health crisis including the risk of suicidal or self-harm self-harm i believe that talking about mental health we can promote greater acceptance and understanding it which will in turn increase help seeking behavior mental health education in schools is extremely necessary as it can positively impact the lives of our children and youth i do believe that because teens and students spend most of the of their day at school it just makes sense to have mental health awareness and education become part of the curriculum when the when we empower students with knowledge and encourage because we will empower students with knowledge and encourage students to seek help students will be able to get the help they need so i am very very um you know happy to have this in our schools it will help a lot of students um as well as parents um into seeking the the the right um help for everyone in the family so i i thank you guys and you know thank everyone for making this possible our last speaker is max lopez hi everybody how's it going my name is max lopez i'm a research assistant for children's cause orange county in tustin we're a partner organization with oco which the two women who just spoke are a part of i want to begin by thanking you all for creating a dedicated department within the district to address the health needs the mental health needs within the district very fitting on mental health awareness month uh data collected from the cdc shows that there was a 70 increase in high school students who feel a persistent feeling of sadness or hopelessness between 2009 and 2021 and data collected locally shares a similar spike so this is a really great first step and i would also like to thank dr cruz specifically for coordinating the universal mental health screenings with the children's mental health access collaborative it's been really helpful to understand the needs of the community and to understand how we could better address those needs and with that i would encourage the board to join children's cause as well as our partner organizations and asking orange county healthcare agency to approve the current proposal to extend support for children's mental health collaborative that starts on june 1st of this year it would increase our ability to understand the mental health needs in the community and hopefully help those students and families out once again thank you all for acknowledging the mental health crisis and for the time to speak today thank you thank you [Applause] okay moving on to items of business uh item 10.1 resolution number 2021-22-e-25 enhancing supports and resources for lgbtq plus students and this is a resolution so it's a roll call vote we have a motion and a second i'd like to speak to this motion yes um as an ally for my entire life of the gay community i am so proud to speak for this resolution i think that this gives hope to students i think this giving them a safe space giving them permission to seek help and to seek you know friendly spaces of someone to speak to you know we talked we're talking about mental health tonight and we know that there are higher percentage of lgbtq plus students who commit suicide and i'm really i'm really proud of our district this isn't just being progressive but this is just this is the right thing to do this is the right thing to do and i'm so proud to um support this i had a really fun activity to do last month i was in in a show with the orange county gay men's choir the show wasn't a typical show that they usually do this was a performance of called unbreakable and it highlighted a historical highlight of the gay community gay and lesbian community and it gave a historical kind of like time vignettes of really what's happened even as back as the 18th 1800s and one of the lines in the show that i i was given was to talk about in 1998 a gay college student was tortured and murdered we all remember matthew shepard and part of the ending of the show was talking about what we what the gay community needs to do and what allies need to do is to keep moving forward and there's more work to do and this is the work that we need to do this is how we move forward together um and again like i said i'm so proud and privileged to be a trustee so that we can move forward together and help enhance the diversity and inclusion as we all say all students this is part of the all so thank you and i hope all of you support this resolution okay thank you well i reflect back 60 years ago with family members in this situation and how it just was not spoken about it was just you just sort of swept it underneath the carpet and so nobody really knew what was going on until years later when uh when uh this subject as you want to call it as uh this is all-inclusive i became more out in the public so i would like to read the the resolution and this is whereas the anaheim union high school district prides itself on its diversity and inclusiveness providing safe and welcoming spaces for students regardless of race ethnicity national origin language disability status gender expression or identity and sexual orientation and whereas the district has adopted an ethnic studies requirement focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of race ethnicity class gender sexuality and language which to their sharing of ideas information opinions and emotions provides a framework to allow the deconstruction of established systems and their effects on people of color marginalized and disenfranchised groups empowering students to address injustice injustices they negatively affect them and their community and whereas as many as 10.3 percent of california students in middle and high school identify as lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer questioning intersex a sexual gender non-conforming gender fluid and gender non-binary lgbtqia plus and whereas youth identifying as lgbtq i plus q i a plus are over representative in the populations of youth experiencing homelessness youth who are the victims of bullying and discrimination including among other things someone trying to convince them to change their sexuality or gender identity and youth who have attempted or died as a result of suicide and whereas every school district including ours must continue to do more to ensure our lgbtq youth have the supports and resources they need to achieve academically and feel socially emotionally mentally and physically safe at school and whereas among other supports the district has developed a memorandum of understanding with the lgbtq center orange county to ensure that all lgbtqia plus youth and students in the district have access to community resources education and social services through various available programs and now their verb therefore be it resolved that the board of trustees then how many high school district celebrates may 16th through the 20th as a uhsd pride week june 2022 as lgbtqia plus pride month october 20 2022 as lgbt uh history month october 11th is national coming out day and november 20th as transgender day of remembrance to honor the many achievements and contributions of the lgbtqia plus community and be it for the resolve that the board of trustees encourages all schools to incorporate lessons on the lgbtqia plus community in instruction and hold other commemorative activities in honor of auhd pride week in may and lgbtq history month in october 2022 as well as during the above mentioned commitment commemoration days the forward-going resolution was passed and now we need to take a vote i'll take the vote uh i didn't get to say uh on this one but i just wanted to concur with all my colleagues i know cash the tail end of anne-marie and then brian o'neill but i think it's very important that we stand up as a district and i think we had many speakers who mentioned how auhsd has taken the lead and i firmly believe that we are setting the uh bar high for all other districts to do what they need to do so i i concur and let me call for the vote um so it's a roll call i'll start off with uh i would like to speak to this if i may be sure last month i spoke about change and how in my lifetime that i've experienced so much change from telephone operators to you call anywhere all over the world and this represents change that i'm experiencing in my own life i happen to have grown up in the san francisco bay area and san francisco was a very popular place for gay people to live and they had their own community such as it was 60 years ago and you mentioned 60 years ago and i was a young adult and i knew some of these people because of my life just connecting with them in my in education and business and i knew how they felt because they shared it with me and when i was in college my two brothers each had a child and my one niece kathy was named after me she's a lobbyist in sacramento and my nephew is a uh born in the bay area and he is a nurse anesthetist and has had a long time companion and they're now 61 and 62.

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okay thank you good evening so we are called this um board of trustees meeting upper valley school district back to uh open session at 701 uh with that we'll move on to reports student representatives granite hills high school ella houseman you're up first good to see you guys back in person hello good evening board members superintendent nelson and attendees my name is ella houseman your 2021-2022 granite hills gc president our prom this year was a success we had carnival rides such as a spinning ride a swing ride carousel and a mere fun house plenty of food drinks and banker music on the dance floor oh we also have the good buses do you know you know we will also have a second prompt for special needs it will include a dj and a variety of pastries made by our very own bakery the theme will be star wars another dance coming up will be hosted by our athletes which is sadie hawkins dance where girls ask boys senior awards are next tuesday and the students will have the opportunity to sign with their future college senior sunset for our seniors is on thursday and it will be granite's very first senior sunset luau and the juniors will be able to say aloha hello and aloha goodbye to all their amazing beloved seniors hawaiian barbecue will be the choice of entry for the evening grad night at disney california adventure is also coming right around the corner on the 20th of this month last week we hosted our first gym pep rally of the year it was delightful to see the amount of participation and school spirit our cougars showed this week happens to be teacher appreciation week and asb took some of it into our own hands and gave out pens lifesavers and some special shout outs on cougar news it's also mental mental health awareness month and posters are making an appearance around campus to spread awareness spring sports are officially over with our boys tennis team winning all league our mighty cougar football team is on their off season practices right now and players are coming back even better after continuing to maintain fitness and practices cheer tryouts are going to be held soon for the football season as well prompting a success a second prom is in the making sadie's hopkins dance is near the senior sunset as a luau with tasty food grad night is so close a gym pep rally filled with roaring cougars our football team is in full swing and teachers are appreciated as well as mental health awareness month being recognized thank you for your time bruno gray leads the way [Applause] thank you good job up next is apple valley high daniel oriana [Music] good evening steam board members it is my pleasure to bring you news from apple valley high school the school year is slowing down but apple valley high school continues working hard to finish strong here are the events from april and may the school's boys tennis team finished their season as singles and double champions for the mojave river league with three players receiving all-league honors apple valley high school was awarded the sportsmanship sportsmanships award from the citrus belt area athletic directors association we congratulate our sun devil athletes parents coaches and athletic director for being recognized for their hard work we had our junior senior prom april 23rd for the first time in two years we are able we are glad that we were able to bring back this memorable event for our students the sunderland band and color guard perform at the angel stadium in anaheim on april 27th we are so proud of them we are hosting our senior awards tonight this wednesday may 11th to recognize our seniors for all of their hard work and commitment during their high school career lastly we competed in the skillsusa state competition and appleby high school earned 11 gold medals being declared state champions for their respective categories we congratulate our students and cd cde coordinators for this great achievement and we are so excited to see them move on to skills usa nationals in atlanta this summer we know that they will continue to succeed and represent appleby high school to the nation as always i thank you for your attention and remember sendable pride is contagious thank you daniel califor uh california school employees association csea you have a report tonight anybody here no and i believe a buddha you're up or you're up i'm sorry oh they made me come up here by myself good evening superintendent nelson board members assistant superintendent and audience members as we approach the end of the school year before we breathe a huge cyber leaf and launch into summer break it is fitting to take a moment or two to reflect on how far we have come and where we are headed as an avodah team we do and will continue to focus on what matters most our teachers our students and our community in ways large and small are a buddha team continues to make positive differences last board meeting i had the pleasure of introducing the exec board team this board meeting i would like to recognize our rep council committee member and committee members we would not be able to function without them and without their help sorry their help and we deeply value their efforts and commitment i would like to first introduce to you our rep council there's some rep councils over there they work at the school level to help our teachers as best they can i would like to also introduce our committee chairs we have our sped committee led by amanda and i had the pleasure of attending one of their committee members and it was very informational i'm really excited with the work they're doing to help the sped teachers we have our grievance chair which committee which she is not here tonight and dustin appreciates the grievance committee we have our pac committee which we're putting back together we're still looking for our chair and our members for our pac committee because we recognize that school board elections are coming up as well and we want to be there to help out our negotiations team which you met earlier we have our grant and scholarship committee which holly is not here and holly blagg is our committee lead for that and they're able to give out grants to the teachers to help them with projects in their classroom and now they're awarding i believe it is 10 students with scholarships for next year as well then we have our organizing committee which is led by christine wallace and they are the ones that are out there in the community as well and we greatly appreciate that they do our community clean up days our apple valley trunk or treat the christmas tree lighting we had the international children's day and handed out books for that we handed out water and granola bars and some snacks at the track meet and coming up we have our blood drive so i'd really like to recognize them as well we have our elections committee which we've talked jessica kuiper into leading that this year and we do have elections going on right now for vice president and then we also have our state council representative which is janet amby and she does a lot of work at the higher level to help out with the state council and so forth but i think that they deserve a round of applause because they really work hard in helping our community and members and thank you and have a good evening thank you you did good by yourself there yeah okay moving right along we'll read out the clerk of the board she'll report on any action taken in closed session until dennis if you can um read out what we do the board of trustees approve the following appointed sharon heitmann as principal setting bull academy range 14 column one on the certificate of management salary schedule 210 base duty days effective july 1st sharon would you please stand up [Applause] she came to our community from tehachapi a lot of good stuff coming out of town conference with labor negotiator on a motion by chris seconded by maria the board approved the following approve the memorandum of understanding with the california school employees association cse chapter 828 dated april 5th 2022 regarding increase of hours did not approve the memorandum of understanding with the california school employees all right we did it 4-0 vote acting like biden conference with labor negotiator on a motion by maria seconded by rick approved the memorandum of understanding with the california school employees association csea chapter number 828 dave dated april 5th 2022 regarding classification study instructional family job description on a vote 4-0 that's it that's it okay thank you dennis all right item five adoption of agenda the board may approve the agenda as is or add or pull any items from consent calendar for discussion or actions do i have a motion to approve i'll second second all right motion by maria second by dennis bender all in favor aye aye any opposition uh hearing them that'll be the motion to approve uh items discussion items local control accountability plan presentation this will be from uh saucer assistant superintendent educational services thank you yes okay so this is an update on the lcap process that we try to bring around this time as we get closer to the june board meetings where the in two subsequent meetings we have both the public hearing and then proposed adoption of the ocap and so just a kind of an update and highlights but just a quick reminder that all of this the work that's done is um under the umbrella of our larger mission and um an important document it it helps guide our decision making when it comes to hiring developing professional learning and all of these lcap goals and so just a moment to pause and and remember this oh i thought i was give me a moment i'll share this screen there it is thank you for those of you following along at home i do have acronym bingo for you it's just a fun game we play anytime we have school things going on uh it's in your packets and so if you follow along closely i promise you'll get all of these and um i'll try to not use any acronyms for the un the unprepared some plans just a quick reminder that plans that are already in place this year this has been the year of plans from the both the state and federal government from the federal government you approved our sr3 plan which is federal funds lots of those funds flowing to things large projects like our hva system upgrade audio video system upgrades across the school system and some intervention positions that were tied there there was also the educator effectiveness block grant that had to do with some staff training professional development position that was added for the next three years and really a focus on what staff identified as needs and focus on student outcomes we had the now finishing expanded learning opportunity grant the elog which were one-time funds that we used to both have summer school last year after school and before school programs this year and summer school this coming year they have extended those funds slightly so we will use the carryover funds to continue such activities at the upper grades and finally you had the um a three completion improvement grant which is one-time funds designed to help students improve their a through g completion rate a quick look at those funds for apple value unified that's just over a million dollars again it's one time fund so you don't want to do anything with that that has an ongoing cost but we will use that in the following manner uh just some data from our february presentation about a through g but we're going to do three things one we'll take a close look at transcripts for students to determine where where do we lose them on that pathway through a through g where are they not making it and a careful analysis of that we'll continue to do avid teacher training and those strategies and of course extra classes for students to get access to the classes if they need them to either retake them or build the capacity for them to approach those classes for the first time and be successful the plans that are still pending approval in addition to the lcap there's the universal transitional kindergarten plan our state has a sort of a cascading addition of birth dates to expand the transitional kindergarten into essentially a full grade level and so we'll have a we need to submit a plan to be able to serve those four-year-olds in that manner and so that's in in the works that will come to you as a summary and go to the cde when requested the expanded learning opportunities program not grant which is an ongoing expanded learning grant for tk through six it is a sort of limited in its scope uh does require an extended school day where offered to make a total day of nine hours for tk through six but it's not mandatory it's just we must offer a nine hour day for those who want it so staffing that will be we have some creative ideas actually we're looking to expand our high school student worker program possibly to get some you know mixed grade experience involved like we do with our avid tutors and of course we had our increased concentration grant funds a 15 addition to the concentration amount that was specifically designed for site supports utk remember is going to be to serve those four-year-olds by birthday by eventually they'll be anyone who turns four by september first of that year will be eligible that will cascade over the next four years it does require us also to allow tk students access to after school programs which of course we would do we will be serving these students as we do now but we they may be moving from a preschool experience to a tk experience and so we'll be adjusting those programs accordingly there are some class size caps and requirements for aids so all that's in our plan mr schulenberg talked about this when he talked about facilities because it does have a facilities impact and we will be adding about nine new teachers for next year we'll be training and recruiting both teachers and peer educators and that summary will be coming your way the increased concentration grant dollars those were taken to our district advisory committee and principals and and other groups and we came up with an addition of quite a number of custodians if not full positions added hours into certain positions and in fact multiple positions at all school sites we added proctors crossing guards campus securities in some places and we'll be adding more as we can recruit them and put them in place we did add registered nurses at the school sites um behavior intervention technicians we added elementary counselors that will be coming on board next year so every site will have at least one and then we'll be no longer a shared counselor between any two school sites we're adding a therapist to high desert premier academy uh in addition to the one at apple valley high school and one at granite hills high school and added the assistant principal at granny hills high school on assignment so those are all added through the lcap increase concentration which is ongoing funding the other things we've done since we last talked about el cap in february is we did have our student advisories it was wonderful to have kids here get them talking about what they believe their school should be like we asked them questions like what would you what should your teacher know or where do you wish your teacher knew rather if you could create the perfect school what would be there and it was just a great experience for those we had fourth through eighth grade and then we did get to work with some high school students as well we did have another district advisory committee on april 4th we worked with leadership to do some planning and actually just finished a health and wellness convening for two days at the selpa with dr ron powell and a team from our district from hesperia silver valley and snow line to be working specifically on mental health the student voice sessions were just amazing you can imagine the student voice sort of lands in four main categories they want engagement it doesn't matter what age they are it doesn't matter kind of um you know what part of the school culture they come from they want to be engaged and do things that are interesting and fun the feedback was really incredible they want people to care about them and have an honest relationship the kinds of things you remember about your best teachers and then they all always say lunch it doesn't matter what something comes up about lunch every time um and i get that right they're just always that's a topic of interest um and then they talked about feeling safe various things about school safety and gave us great ideas for that all of which have been able to add like i said we've added proctors in campus security partially because of their call the elop program also kind of came about through public input like i said it focuses on tk sixth it will be actually for us will be presented along with the lcap i mentioned the nine hour day and the parents that we asked really talked about things like they they want fun engaging activities for kids that maybe aren't offered during the school day they ask for transportation to be offered if possible and we'll have to work out to what degree we can do that they said things like tutoring and extra help as you can imagine the after school programs as they're currently constituted look a lot like this right like that that has been what after school has been about because it is a time when we don't have the same constraints that we have during the school day from the point of view of a demand to cover certain content from the state we have the freedom to do the things that students say i would come if we did art i would come if we had music and so on so those will be the things we're looking to add next year the lcap goals are these these are incredibly short summaries of the goals that i know you know well but it comes down to those five categories being all in service of meeting the needs of the students as indicated in our mission academic behavioral and social emotional health and so to serve that end we want to maintain and continue staff training what may shift is the topics um to continue to build our engaging programs including a absolute industry area-leading college and career readiness program as you heard from the students the the success at skillsusa argues for that to strengthen our multi-tiered systems of support for students when they have need we have an entire goal around our families and community and rebuilding and building those relationships and english language development so our plan right now is to increase the number of staff training topics uh a flyer will go out in the days to come for staff training that will be this summer we're looking forward to having a full summer of offerings again where we can bring people together in rooms where we don't have to do this virtually it's going to be wonderful we're going to continue to expand things like our avid support as you know next year first from the point of view of college readiness all students must complete the fafsa the current junior class next year senior class will be pushing to get them to all complete that or wait and sign a waiver saying they would like not to our multi-tiered systems of support will have a major focus that was the top priority that came out of our work over the last two days building classroom management structures and strengthening our mtss systems we'll be having trainings over the summer on that and all school year um our parent offerings will continue through the family centers adult ed and things like our love and logic parenting classes and finally even this summer we'll have learning for our english language development program bringing in quality teaching for english learners the qtel program's absolutely fantastic so our next steps will be a lengthy and exhaustive a full lcap for you to review in june it will be presented for a public hearing on june 2nd for a time to hear from folks and their thoughts about this lcap again remember this is year two of a three year plan so we're simply continuing the goals we have there's been no call to change them but rather to strengthen them with those additional dollars and then board action on june 9th some will submit it to the county superintendent of schools and then that el cap division and i go back and forth over language hopefully minor all summer and then final approval must have happened in september so that they can release our budget so i'll pause there any questions for pat yes go ahead maria you know yeah um my first question has to do with the energy completion improvement that you have and the first thing that you stated was that there will be transcript analysis and other other data review to determine the root cause do you have a timeline as to when the first transcript analysis has to occur so that you can catch that student who is at the verge of failing early enough so that they can begin to have some success to be able to graduate and meet the energy requirement because what i i tend to see is we begin to have the see the transcript issue when there's a discipline issue and i would like to know if there is a place that you tell all of the principles at the high school level when they need to begin to look at the transfer is it when they're coming to 11th grade and they're ending 11th grade that you have the conversation so that the parents are aware that this meeting has to occur and i asked that question because when i was principal in this district i was told that i needed to see all of my students transcripts so that i can have a conversation with them about the direction they're going yeah so two answers to that question one actually transcript analysis in writ small is is constantly occurring because the counselors do that um and we i shouldn't i should have mentioned that as by virtue of the lcap we've added counseling positions they're already in place it won't be new this year but the high school counseling ratios are about three hundred and twenty to one whereas um trene you might know this better number better but i think statewide it's more like eight hundred to one and so by virtue of that smaller number the kind of work you're talking about can occur because here's the thing about a through g completion because english is all years it's the first semester of freshman year that actually we have to start looking right um and the hope then is to catch students there and offer them to retake it's the difficulty is convincing students who get a d they've passed it to still retake it because the d isn't good enough for a g so that's constant the bigger transcript analysis we actually conducted this years ago using the riverside county office of ed and they're still doing this work this is a deep dive into even a previous class a look backwards to see when did we lose them and what did we do and what didn't work and what did and so um a little deeper analysis to determine what activities are effective does not stop the continued um i mean you should you you can imagine you should see the counseling entries right for that first student that maybe gets a low grade in an a3g course remember that in our system freshmen that by virtue of just being in our system they're on an a3g track it really isn't another track it's not until later down the road where they start making decisions about maybe not another foreign language or maybe not a third science or maybe not you know and making sure those decisions are informed and that parents know thank you this actually this may be a question for a future meeting but really it would be great if we could you know share with everyone the difference of what our students are going to receive between preschool and then as we transition over to actual tk what curriculum might look like different how the classroom might be a little different the number of students who are in there but that way you actually see the value of bringing tk yeah and i can answer that briefly by saying that at the moment where we have students who qualify for either program the chief difference is the length of day so preschool is very short it's a three-hour program and any parent who's with very rare exceptions has this child who qualifies by birthday right now for tk they choose tk parents will still be allowed to choose preschool so our preschool program will remain and serve the three-year-olds and any four-year-old who wants it we anticipate very few four-year-olds who qualify for tk choosing not to go to tk just because the length of day typically matches their other siblings that's the primary difference thank you anything else yes i do um you did say and i and i really appreciated that you stated that the students had a voice and the students said what their choices what they were thinking would it be possible for us to hear some of those things that these students said so that we can better represent them that's our job to represent these students so that we can hear what they're really asking of us to be able to guide us in in how we serve them absolutely i actually have um collated all those responses and they're ready to share i'll share them with you thank you anything further for mr schlosser thank you pat you have a further uh presentation no thank you moving right along uh public comments kylie do we have any people who want to speak tonight we do we have a total of two okay thank you uh first up is uh tracy uh is it miss skyrio okay you're up i apologize i am a teacher and i speak very well in front of kids not adults i'll just pretend that we're like like your kids okay i'll picture that [Music] as long as it doesn't follow me perfect thank you all right nice to see you all again my name is tracy i don't know if any of you recognize me probably not you see a million people but i have been here once before during that time you were dealing with a lot code mandates mass mandates the particular meeting i was here was the meeting that was packed full of parents that were here for the mass mandate so i was probably a very small p in a large group but i am back now that that is history for the most part and now it is time i feel to focus on some other things that we need to deal with when you think of a high school in apple valley the one that comes to mind is apple valley high school i mean it's named after the town it's kind of like naming your child after a parent it kind of reminds me of an older sister she's older she was born first granite hills is like the younger sibling but feels like a stepchild they have to borrow everything the stadium concession stands locker rooms etc we're 23 years old i think it's about time we no longer have to borrow these things from our older sibling we have a population of hopefully that's exact about to be 1800 next year and growing this is more than enough to fill the stands our sports programs are getting more and more athletic and competitive by the years but newton t bass isn't just apple valley high school's field but it is in their room we shouldn't have to go to our older sister's room in order to use something that's ours when we talk to other people about something happening there you'll get a response of oh that's apple valley high school stadium instead of explaining you just say sure that one we've heard this has been in the works for some time now koben may have paused some of the progress but it's time to start running with it now the alumni parents students and community member members think that it's time that granite gets something that they can call their own they no longer should feel like they were borrowing their home field no longer feel like they are not able to use the locker room or have to walk by and be reminded by apple valley high school players that this is not their field please take the time to take care of the younger sibling let them feel wanted and appreciated by not adding it to the 2024 ballot for a bond but by getting it built now hisperial high school did it in 2020 2026.

tonight we're going to recognize school 16 top cap readers program so let's take a look at what that means oh and before i begin um i just want to wish all the educators former and current happy teacher appreciation week month year career everything in between thank you you are all greatly appreciated at school 17 all grade bands have a differentiated approach um to motivate and incentivize students in order to achieve their literacy goals let's take a look at what that means at kin in kindergarten and first grade the goal is to get three golden tickets and in order to achieve that golden ticket students have to read four books and parents have to sign off on it now the really cool part about this is that um staff had the ability or they had the advantage to display those goals being met however they wanted for their classroom for their grade band so we have some first graders reading make smart cookies while others swimming to success displaying fish to get their goals up on the board in second grade we see that their goal was to read 25 or more books on the my on electronic reading platform and so again we see the differentiated way or the the creative ways in which the staff at school 17 displayed the school's success some kids were reaching for the stars and landed many stars of achievement while others were planting seeds of growth and their flowers all along the way kids were also incentivized with the my on reading program by receiving key chains just to help them reach their goal and in a moment we'll see what those goals look like what those uh what those merits look like now for third and fifth grade students had to reach all three accelerated reading goals and they needed to learn to earn all their points have average of 85 percent or higher on quizzes and read within their zone of a proximal development right not only were they able to display their goals on their boards but they were also able to keep track of it electronically on their accelerated reader uh reader uh platform for the older kids this was particularly incentivizing because it showed them where they were and it it just it was really really cool for them to be able to do that on their own so once they reach once the top cats reach their goals what are they what are they aiming for right let's take a look at what they did goals were met every marking period so every marking paired kids that achieve those goals had access to different activity days they included making gingerbread houses doing scratch art having game dates and they also had one of my favorites that was they made bookmarks to keep track of where they were reading as a district we have the district-wide movie licensing and school 17 definitely took this and ran with it and so one of the events was that kids got to participate in the movie event most recently the the last marking period showed top cap bingo and let's take a look at what that is and what kids earned this pre this past marking period you worked super super hard and read over 25 books okay [Music] and first grade you read 15 books books so everybody give yourselves a round of applause [Applause] what else does reading all those books do for you who knows raise your hand what does it she said do what else does reading all those books do [Music] get you smarter one more what does reading all those [Music] to be a better reader the most perfect answers were given today so because of all your hard work and because of all your reading you get to enjoy the day with us and what a day they had they had an amazing time together played bingo celebrating their success what we see next is the top cap book vending machine this is the most exciting piece for for i think for all of us as you'll see in a moment dr kropanek and the literacy coaches christian missoula and nicole perchala along with school 17 administration got together and thought of yet another creative way to incentivize and to promote literacy in at school 17.

the difference is uh 0.0107 um so the so that gives you the average home the average home assessed value of 272 266 would have an increase of 29.18 so not everybody's house is on the average so we put together this slide that shows you houses that are assessed above that number and houses that are assessed below it so if wherever your house is assessed if you go across you can see what your actual increase would be so if your home was assessed at 200 000 your increase would be 21.43 cents for the year if your house was assessed at 360 000 your increase would be 38.58 thank you mr ashinti so any questions from the board mr lanzada here thank you very much uh dr smith i appreciate it i have a few questions for you several questions um you said that there is going to be eight teachers that are going to be losing their jobs this year six i believe you said there were classroom teachers one related art and then one intervention specialist uh i i would i appreciate um you bringing that up thank you uh eight positions being eliminated no no one losing their job from president i apologize um so you then said that losing these teachers are going to put us on par with class sizes in neighboring districts if you're a student in this school district or if you're a teacher in the school district what does that look like what change is that going to make yeah so i'm walking over here too all right give you the numbers so what that looks like specifically is first grade increasing from 22 to 23 students third grade increasing from 24 to 25 students and fifth grade increasing from 25 to 26 students so three grades going up by one student each kindergarten grade two and grade four staying the same my next question the intervention specialist he said that there that that intervention specialist would be going to different schools basically splitting their job uh will there be any uh will there be any lack in teaching or is it will it be any um i'm trying to figure the way i say will students lose any curriculum due to this cut so i appreciate you uh with that question because it is it's one of those situations where so if we have two people doing fulfilling a role and we go down to one person fulfilling that role it means we're continuing to provide the services those intervention services and these are kids who are struggling academically but we can't we won't be able to reach the same number of kids if that makes sense because we only have one pair of hands one heart one one mind and one pair of hands working on that than we did the year prior right right you know before dr morris was a supervisor she was a intervention specialist mms dms is an intervention specialist next year we'll only have one so and that's that's a position that should opportunity present we will again we look at all these positions as can we add it back and we have done that so you know like i think of the guidance counselor position here at the macy right during covid we had a retirement and we were we've been trying to eliminate positions through retirements along the way so we we eliminated that through retirement then we added it back to the macy to bring them back to their their their normal counselor staffing but we did it through esther money if that makes sense so eventually we'll have to add that position that's one of those positions that eventually will have to get built back into the budget um the challenges as we move along making so many cuts there's going to be moments where you know we learn what we truly need sometimes when we live without it you know and sometimes we have to be without it for a little bit maybe maybe for longer but to truly know we project we talk we think but then but then you know out of the 40 positions we cut last year if you came back you know and this might be one that comes back we would love to see it back we don't want to have to do any of these steps you know um but somehow we have to balance the budget and that's i i i completely understand about the the budget my my question though is you said that these structures these are struggling students that need this intervention and then unfortunately not not all of them are going to be able to get that intervention how many kids are we talking about so well one thing i will say is a lot of times too when we shift something around so like we have other roles like teaching assistants that will um be able to supplement that that absence so it's hard to say right now how many fewer students because we're looking at ways of kind of adapting supports um that are more economical for our district in terms of like like a teaching assistant position is more economical than an intervention specialist if that makes sense um and uh just knowing that behind those wheels we're always look we want to maximize the mileage of what we can do for kids all the time so thank you very much dr smith appreciate i do have one other question and this might be looking very far in the future but what happens in 2023 if the budget question does not pass for full day kindergarten so you get the prize for asking that question first um so of course we we go we want to go from an operational mindset of it's going to pass you know it's going to pass because and and i just i mentioned one of the sort of values of it right so we know and and actually i would say that the community members who've shared information about the value of full-day kindergarten i probably put the best voice to um the benefits to students of this so a lot of things are going to um be in the way in the four column you know but if it came down to it right if it came down to um at this point we would need to look at alternatives of how to how to make it happen because we know it's very important right it that the timeline of of how it would come about would get longer because it wouldn't happen through the to the ballot question november 2023 which gives additional motivation to uh to getting behind that ballot question so we would have to look at all the most i could say right now is we'd have to look at alternatives it's almost it's almost too hard to project exactly what it would look like like the reason we're taking this route is because it's currently the only route possible to make it happen um like the intervention specialist position we were just talking about imagine if we were talking about 23 or 24 other positions that we're getting cut to make full day kindergarten happen out of our regular budget and how difficult that that conversation would be that's a that's a reality that would happen if we did it now what the reality will look like once we get through the s2 sequence so the last year of the s2 sequence is 20 24 25.

these are offset by an increase in co-op students of three and birth to three students of four the future reports will include the student count for fbc and desert voices in 2022 we had 49 preschool students at fbc and three at desert voices compared to there were 59 preschool students and two at desert voices for the birth to three program we currently have 109 students in 2022 compared to 133 students in 2021 this is a reduction of 24 students as of april 1st we have 506.79 fte which includes 8.5 fte at fbc we currently employ 738 staff however many of them are part-time there are currently 105 vacancies across the agency which includes 30 teachers 19 instructional assistants 13 interpreters 10 bus drivers and 33 various other positions page 4 starts the financial comparison data the collected revenue for budget fiscal year 2022 is 24.5 million 11 percent higher than the budget fiscal year 2021 revenues of 22 million the primary increase is in federal funds and prop 301 funds received however we are still waiting for reimbursements of 550 000 from the rsa vr grants the obligated expenditures are 41.5 million per budget fiscal year 2022 compared to 43.5 million in budget fiscal year 2021 a reduction of 2 million the reductions are in payroll food equipment offset by increases in professional and outside services travel and transfers out the 1.3 million increase in professional and outside services includes contractual agreements with as a result of becoming a local education agency for transportation and related services in addition there was an increase in the contractual prices for the services maintained at fbc page seven of the report shows the budget to actual expenditures as well as the remaining budget balance by object class by fund and by program we have currently expended 68 percent of our budget compared to 74 expended at this time in 2022 page 8 has the actual program expenditures by object class and by fund type page 9 has the expenditures by operational area and by object class and by fund in 2021 the instructional and student support services accounted for 66 of total expenses while they account for 64 in 2022 the decrease is mostly in the cost of payroll overall the cost for each operational area has remained fairly consistent however the expense categories have changed especially in transportation and food services on page 10 the chart shows the expenditures by appropriated and non-appropriated funds you can see the largest expenses in the appropriated funds are in personnel costs accounting for 76 of the expenditures the largest expense in the non-appropriated funds is the professional announcer outside services which accounts for 42 percent page 12 has the budget status report for all sources it's important to know that the revenue exceeds the expenditures for budget fiscal year 2022 by 2.5 million while we were operating at a deficit of 1.3 million in the budget fiscal year 2022 actual revenues were 41.1 million compared to 39.2 million in 2021.

and tonight i'm going to take you through an experience that all of our algebra 2 students have now had during this past school year we're going to do a performance task on quadratic functions which happens to be a critical unit in our high school curriculum we started by taking a deep dive into the common core state standards and as marlene was talking about that's quite comprehensive you'll notice there's about three pages of standards on quadratic functions at the high school level that we had to dive into that we had to unwrap and identify the depth and rigor that the students needed to be assessed in our performance task we need to be able to come up with a comprehensive real world scenario in which students could graph interpret and solve quadratic equations not only using multiple representations but also multiple methods so out of that comprehensive list of uh standards we were able to come up with six big ideas and two essential questions that we wanted all students to be able to answer so we designed a task to focus on these key standards and these two essential questions ultimately we wanted all students to be able to efficiently solve graph interpret quadratic equations based on the form three different forms of quadratic equations that they're given so here we go congratulations you've just been hired as an intern for our new minor league baseball franchise the cheshire reds the owners are ready to make a major investment in building a new stadium here in town but you need to put together a business plan you need to determine um how long it's going to take in order to become profitable and here's your job number one you need to find a home run hitter to boost ticket sales you need to determine the best selling price of cheshire chickens family meals to maximize profit and you need to determine how we can launch t-shirts into the stands to bring in additional income so all of our students were faced with these three tasks at hand they had some constraints that they had to work with in terms of develop developing their business plan it's a 1.5 million dollar investment and a 30 game home season and in terms of figuring out our home run hitter they had to take in some constraints of the fields we had to look at the dimensions of left field center field right field and they had to take into consideration that there was a 10 foot high fence i'm going to share these with you as well because we're going to have a question coming up that you're going to need that information for so task one students had to decide who should they should draft as a homeland player they were given three different players lefty lopez who hits consistently to left field so keep in mind the depth of the fence and their equation was given the flight of their ball was given in standard form homer jackson tends to hit the center field his equation was given what we call intercept form and rocket clementine hits to right field and that equation was given in vertex form so students were given this information know the dimensions of the field know that there's a 10 foot fence they are now left to go and figure out who they should draft as the home run hitter there's a lot of information for them to synthesize here and a lot of different approaches some students dug in algebraically some decided to make graphs i'm going to give you a little scaffolding here and provide you with a diagram of what was going on so here's your first chance to interact if you go to the presentation on your phone take a look at your graph who do you think it was that hit the home run so the graph in red is lefty lopez the graph in blue homer jackson and c rocket clementine uh or homer no i'm an english major all right well let's take a look so we have uh two for me and four for c so let's go back here uh did lefty lopez hit a home run no no no he didn't hit it far enough right he didn't even get to the fence he didn't even get to this at least without a bounce oh never mind here's homer jackson did homer jackson no home run he hit the fence he got a double he hit the fence he hit the fence yup so it went long enough but it wasn't high enough at the moment when it would have passed the fence so great great distractor right and therefore it was good old rocket clementine you know where i got these names from right i'm assuming it was roberto c reggie for b probably yeah so um so yes it turns out to be rocket clementine so after students are able to figure it out it actually took a little longer than it just took right here right they weren't given this necessarily given the scaffold oh the picture makes it easy yeah so they were asked to sketch by hand the graph of rocket clementine's law and according to the standards one of the standards is identify the key features of the graph so on that graph students had to find the domain the range where the function was increasing decreasing find the vertex the x-intercepts and the y-intercept and then interpret it also from the standards in terms of the real-world context of the problem so they had to understand the mathematics behind it being able to put it in terms of context so that was task one task two concession sales sales so we gave them this table which lists the price of a family meal how many meals we could sell at that price and what our profit would be the students had to create a scatter plot of this data use technology to get a regression quadratic equation for it and then use it to find the maximum profit of the meals now again a little scaffolding for you oh the other part of this problem is they had to solve a system of a linear and quadratic equation to find the break-even point so not only did we need to find maximum profit we needed to know how what price to sell the meals at so we could break even nice connections with business uh all the way through so here's your next one what price of the family meal will result in the maximum profit so does anybody want to take a guess okay can i ask a question yes what are the parameters i mean i know what parameters are these don't is that the price of a meal yes so it represents the price of the family meal and the um the profit that we would make if we sold the meals at that price so when i'm asking for that maximum profit what we're actually looking for is this point here the highest point on the graph which is called the vertex so if we were to sell meals for twenty three dollars okay 23 is dollars that's the unit exactly so if we were to sell for twenty three dollars we'd make eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars which would be the maximum profit gotcha okay and what's the negative 50.

and about 35 years ago they called me and asked me if they could come down to visit in anaheim and the purpose was they wanted me to know that they were gay and i said you've always been good people i know you'll continue to be good people you are loved and it's hard for you because i understand in some of the family that it hasn't been well accepted and they think you're crazy but it's not something you choose to do in life and um all i can say is that through my life experience i never could have imagined this kind of change it would never have happened when i was your age and this is to me one of the benefits of being a human being and being on this planet and enjoying and trying to be a good person so i'm grateful for it quite frankly i wish that it had been done years and years ago thank you smith remind me did we have a motion okay we have a motion in a second and uh there's a role called ward trustee piercy aye jessie randall trejo aye trustee smith aye trustee o'neill aye and i vote eye motion passes unanimously thank you you're welcome all right so we're going to 10.2 which is a resolution 20 21-2022-hr-08 classified school employee week we have a motion and a second and this is a roll call vote i will have trustee piercy aye trustee randall trejo proud to vote aye trustee smith aye trustee o'neill and i probably vote arya as well and motion passes unanimously you probably vote proudly oh i said proudly i'm sorry i'm sorry it's been a long night for me running from meeting to meetings sorry proudly all right so we're going to educational and csca members you need to know i proudly vote for this all right so educational services um 10.3 school sponsored student organization this is an action item it's removed second i have a motion and a second and our student uh ambassador gets to vote as well could i also add um here i'm so glad that we have raising student voice and participation from savannah high school so it's good to see that on the uh agenda so thank you awesome well thank you i just wanted to point out truth to the 310 3.2 the magla mode i just think our students are incredible and they're just it's another opportunity for our students to really uh show diversity and inclusion with this club and i'm so proud of them for thinking outside the box on this one thank you i have a motion and a second all in favor aye any opposed motion passes unanimously 10.4 revised board policy 8900 uh 5145.3 nondiscrimination harassment first reading this is an information item any questions or concerns seeing none moving to 10.5 revised board policies 76-10 physical education activity first and final reading action item the move second i have a motion in a second all in favor aye aye any opposed motion passes unanimously 10.6 board policy 91 300 and 91 300 ar parent and family engagement first and final reading action item second i have a motion in a second any questions seeing none all in favor aye aye any opposed motion passes unanimously 10.7 parent and family engagement policies ball junior high school anaheim high school and savannah high school action item second i have a motion in a second any questions just maybe uh explain because it was one of our questions why they're separate yeah i i'm assuming that's because they're it's by federal law we need to have three different policies or policies for each of the schools although we have a district policy correct all right perfect thank you very much and all in favor aye any opposed motion passes unanimously okay 10.8 agreement enabling technologies corp of florida action item second i have a motion and a second any questions seeing none the likelihood that we're going to get this uh this funds from microsoft the likelihood mr greenman says yes we have yes all right good all right all right um we have a motion in a second all in favor aye aye any oppose motion passes unanimously 10.9 public hearing disclosure of collective bargaining agreement with csea it's an information item and a public hearing so i'm going to open public hearing seeing nobody rushing to speak i close public hearing and then i go to the second item 10.10 adoption of the 2021-2022 collective bargaining agreement with csca that's pending notification by unit members of csea uh provided their ratification perfect second all right i have a motion and a second all in favor aye aye aye any opposed motion passes unanimously and 10.11 declaration of need for fully qualified educators action item second i have a motion in a second any questions seeing none all in favor aye aye any opposed motion passes unanimously okay superintendent's office superintendent contract in compensation no move second i have a motion and a second and this one for discussion mr jabbar um going back to a year ago probably a year ago this month um at that time mr matsuda's salary was according to the information we had he was 15th down in the county and that's just orange county and at that time we felt that he should be brought up but it was our feeling that uh we're not trying to um make him or i should pay any superintendent at the top of the scale but we want him or her to be paid uh appropriately for what they're doing for our district as best as we can and at that time we gave him a six percent raise that six percent raise uh today he was at 15th now he's all the way up to 12th summit 16th so he actually shot 16th he actually right now is 16th in ranking in the in the county we had brought him up to 15th but because other people in the county have come up he has dropped down some as i said not trying to pay the superintendent the highest in the in the area but i think we need to make uh uh provide him a reasonable um increase showing uh our feeling of his worth and with that said i am recommending that we give him another six percent raise which would bring him up to 12th in the district 12th in the county excuse me amongst his peers he is not being overcompensated in fact if we disregard the top five districts he was inc this increase would still bring him in at 44 000 under the top superintendent in the county and i think it's very fair to increase it and bring our superintendent up to a more more in line with his peers okay um mister i have a motion well i have a question okay sure on what you're um you're saying it brings him up to the 12th now you're using that number but just for the benefit of those listening out of how many school districts uh out of 30 uh let's see 16 17 18 19 20 28 26 27 28 school districts yeah so that that shows it's basically right in the middle yes okay so that's why i'm saying yeah you're using that number but not showing where thank you for that that's a good point yeah okay so i have a motion on the flow so i was just going to say i remember our discussion and we were going to bring it back so let me let me ask a question when we have a motion on the floor we probably need a second announcement we have a motion to talk about it uh okay perfect all right so uh so i i agree with uh my colleague and we were gonna bring this back a couple months ago and we a year ago a couple months and we never we never did um i i like what you're saying uh to compensate and show you know we would i think i would like to do more um but we have to you know be considerate of the budget and we have to be considerate of of you know all of the things that are coming before us um i uh thank you for your analysis um because that just to me solidifies i think where um he should have been a long time ago we're a huge district and we have huge uh responsibilities where some other districts you know that have less schools um are and their superintendents are being compensated in that in a to me egregious matter you've served us well we have given you glowing reports year after year after year each and every one of us can speak to at least 10 qualifiers of how we are an excellent district and they're not small things it's uh changing our students are speaking as and qualifying quantifying our district i'm hearing it in our celebrations of success for rop those students are speaking to our district initiatives um of course our ambassadors are doing it eloquently so um we are a progressive changing game changer i think in the county the county looks to us um to um to make these changes and and the last couple of years uh during the pandemic uh we were so far away and ahead and i know our teachers felt that strain but we were far and away ahead because we were positioned to it it's hard to say to say this like um kind of flip it but we were positioned to you know to get through a pandemic i mean what district can say something like that um my colleagues across the county were struggling um and they struggled with their teachers they struggled with their classified employees they struggled struggled with their parents and we did not have that we struggled with everyone with the pandemic but we did not have all of that tremendous strain my colleagues did so on that um alone uh on the qualifiers that i know each and every one of us can speak to i think six percent is um ind is due to our superintendent i would like to give more but to be responsible six percent so thank you for that mr jabbar if i may um once we get there after everyone has an opportunity to comment um if we can clarify the motion i did want to just draw two attention this is compensation and benefits so i just want to make sure that everyone is aware of what the comprehensive discussion is about and then make sure we're clear about the motion that we make at the end right so uh i think the benefits are already uh prescribed in the contract yes and so the six percent would be based upon his salary okay all right so um kathy um well actually i should have started from there so i think you already spoke right here uh anna first i i'll speak after no i think anna okay go ahead i don't have anything additional to say i think uh i'm in agreement with what uh mr o'neal has you know uh offered and uh we are a very big district and i think that mike is doing a great job he works hard i know that he puts a lot of time in and a lot of thought and we are making all kinds of inroads in the educational community because of what we are doing and it has you know it starts with him and all his ideas he's got him left and right so [Laughter] you know let's reward him and i'm in favor of the the rays not a lot of words i mean i i think it's just i agree with him and everybody else so kathy change one of the things that i've been so concerned over the years because the trend had been to get rid of career technology wood shop metal etc and that was a reality when i came on this board and i am so grateful through rop and through our superintendent that that is now becoming a real reality that we face that not all kids are going to go to college and want to go to college but would love many other pathways that we're trying to give them that experience but to capsulate my feeling is that i've said to my husband numerous times over the last two plus years this with this covet and the mental health and the reports we get on fridays and the report that the superintendent gives us my comment has been that if the public knew what education was taxed with today i can't think of a better word not tax but confronted with with mental health and the effect on every entity within our system i i i just say very bluntly they'd throw up and i know from the reality of what our superintendent has done his care his love for the people in this district having taught here in this district and i quite frankly think that everybody ought to be given a million dollars because nobody understands what everybody else is going through in their work life and it swaps over to your your physical life and then your family life and your physical life and i don't know how this is ever going to be resolved because of this covid but i think that mike has deserved and earned everything that we offer him and with great gratitude i say openly to people i love everyone that mike works with he has got a glossary of wonderful human beings working with him who are have integrity honesty and i'm just grateful so and speaking to that um thank you for letting me speak one more time i'm speaking to the integrity and honesty humility um michael matsuda when he accepted the position of superintendent i want people to know usually when you go to you know interview for a job salary is there stated you know what it's going to be it's expected he did not get that salary he accepted the job at a lower rate because he wanted to work here he wanted to do this job and he has not asked for raises so i just want anybody out there who you know may have qualms about this or thoughts about it just know that you have a superintendent who is humble and he is gracious and um is doing this job with his heart so all right one everybody has said i got little left to say but no i i think i can add more um i want to emphasize that fact anne marie thank you for bringing that up in terms of when he actually took the job he was brought in at the the bottom level or the lowest pay that we could pay and i i know just comparing that to many of our feeder districts who have very small number of students compared to our district and and those superintendents sorry to say we're getting paid more than a anaheim union high school district superintendent mike mitsuda but the work that he has done in terms of changing the course of anaheim union high school district and actually taking in not only statewide recognition but also national recognition and the key is for me every single grant opportunity that we've had and we've applied for uh he has masterminded it and he's actually gone behind those dollars to the point where we've not only been successful we've seen the fruits of labor in terms of our district you know doing work with those grant funding so besides everything that each and every board member said i think we have a treasure i i would love to give more uh but i i see that we have a a consensus from the board just by conversation so i will go ahead and uh we could vote that or not vote on that table and ask for more but that's you know i okay so here's here's my here's my uh rationale for it uh i think he is he is uh excelled in what we as a district would like to see our district be and i will modify that and i will probably i will add another one percent for it i i'm proposing that we give a seven percent increase and i think that's in line with you know i was just trying to do the calculation based on what was on this paper that you have done it you know i i hope i got the numbers right but i think that will put him a little bit above the median and i and i i think that's it's uh it's warranted uh with the work that the leadership that he has done even through the pandemic when all the other districts were i shouldn't say that when all these other districts were having challenges i think we built a great relationship with not only our union uh but also parents to the point where navigating that and being successful enough to open up our schools back again all that makes a big difference and i'm not the one to and i'm very frugal with taxpayer money but at the same time we got to take a look at the future of making sure that if and when the superintendent leaves we need a a compensation which shows other attractive candidates internal or external who are willing to look at it and say that look you know what it's a great district but maybe that pay is not good for me and not attract those great candidates so i want to be in a position to put our district at that level and that's why i'm proposing a seven percent um well then what you have to do is ask for a second i'm asking for if there's no second then this table yeah and maybe so that's up to the board yes so i i'll propose that we do a seven percent you have to ask for a second well i'll ask for a second i'll second that okay now my six percent is up correct is that right parliamentarian well that's why if you have emotion on the table what i would generally expect would be a motion to amend the motion by increasing an additional seven and that's why the amendment and then if that fails we it would go back to the original that's what i because that's why i was trying to figure out we have a discussion motion on the table and then mr o'neal proposed six percent i believe he actually moved six percent okay he he moved six percent and did we get a second for the six percent yes for the six percent for the six percent okay so we have a second for the six percent now i'm going to amend that uh to include seven percent or modified to seven percent so now i'm asking for a second i have a second so that's now the priest that's the amendment if that passes then you have to actually right so that's the amendment so we're voting on the amendment now right so the amendment is to make it seven percent so i'll call for a vote all in favor aye aye aye aye okay so like five zero five zero it is so we have and now a motion with the amended amended motion of seven percent so we the motion of the table right now is to propose a seven percent increase for compensation for uh the superintendent wait a minute i thought we just voted no we did vote on it we voted on the amendment now we have the most actual motion on the table which basically is this amended seven percent motion okay so we have to vote on the same thing twice we have to vote to have an amendment right yes okay so now the six percent is off and gone correct okay exactly right so we have a motion on the table we have a second all in favor all right okay motion and i vote i motion passes unanimously and that's a seven percent increase for compensation expect more work [Laughter] yeah sort of yeah very well said [Laughter] all right mike we expect you to be 24 hours in on call and not like you're not right now but okay all right so 10.13 we're going employment agreement for assistant superintendents and district council second we have a motion in a second uh all in favor aye aye any opposed promotion passes unanimously 10.14 trustee monthly compensation we have a motion and a second any discussion seeing none all in favor aye aye any opposed okay motion passes unanimously we're at consent calendar now any items to be pulled yes 11 11 y and 11 12.

[Applause] there's more to clap for 5.7 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment effective july 1st 2022 joe carmona controller effective excuse me 5.8 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment effective july 1st aaron chow principal magnolia high school [Music] 5.9 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following transfers effective july 1st 2022.

we went ahead moving to the future um in 2006 after 22 years of waiting at the very worst the 2024 bond can be used to pay back the school district for building the stadium waiting two years for a bond to be placed on the ballot puts us at least three to four more years for waiting they shouldn't have to wait any longer as we all know sports and engagement student engagement strengthen the student school relationships thank you for your time [Applause] thank you for your comments tracy up next is christina glenn good evening i'm a little bit shorter than tracy um good evening i am a teacher at mariana academy and i have been at marianna for five years and i absolutely love our school i love our students it's an amazing place to be and it's because of this love for our students that i'm speaking to you tonight um years before i came to apple valley unified school district the decision was made for our campus to become a k-3 campus instead of an elementary i know there was a reason for this change i wasn't around at that time so i'm just now seeing the effects of it rather than the original reason um for the past five years i've seen our elementary students being exposed to language violence other behavior that comes with middle school students but that they really shouldn't have to be around there are different safety concerns with combining students at different times simply because of our limited facilities and on the other hand it's really really unfair to our middle school students that they are shoved to the back of an elementary school campus in portables that i think are about as old as i am that are placed side by side with maybe two teachers to switch between classes we have no gym we have no science lab no you know locker room to change out for pe and yet once they leave our campus they're expected to go on to apple valley and succeed along with students from the other schools that had a true middle school experience we often are disheartened when we hear from the teachers at apple valley high school that they can identify our kids right away because of their lack of just knowledge of different things you know not knowing how to open a combination lock or not being able to make it across campus within a passing period because that's something they've never had to do it's just really striking to me that especially in this time of really being concerned about equity for all students how is it fair that within one school district we have students who have an amazing middle school facility and experience multiple teachers the best things that they could ask for while others don't um it just it's unfair and it it shouldn't be dictated because our kids live on the wrong side of town um i know that this is not going to be an issue that's easily resolved i know there's no simple solution i'm well aware of that um i know that boundaries and numbers and budget of course are are always ongoing issues however i implore you to begin the process of pro of problem solving this now rather than continuing to kick the ball down the road as it feels like it has been for many years because if you begin the process now of trying to find a solution then we can have a plan in place when there is maybe a bond available or different things like that so that we'll be able to hit the ground running rather than waiting you know for the cart before the horse so um i'm just asking for all of you to give that consideration that we can do better for our students and um we we love our students our middle school teachers do everything that we can for them but we're just limited and all of our students deserve everything we can give them to aid in their success especially those ones who come from lesser means so if you guys would take this into consideration i would appreciate it thank you [Applause] thank you for your comments christina thank you all right uh trenay you have any um comments tonight you know i do um i i actually will work a little bit with mariana staff just to give some history of why that originated the way it did um i obviously was not superintendent but i was in the district at the time and it was based on some parent requests having to do with smaller campuses and that type of thing so if there is a need to do some problem solving we absolutely will work on that um during um karen saber's presentation there were some very appropriate staff things scrolling across the screens having to do with staff appreciation and there was a thought exchange that was sent out to staff across the district um asking them to share positive comments about interactions with staff in the district and so we have those we will continue to compile them they'll be located on our website but um we're thrilled that it's teacher appreciation week and staff appreciation week for us next week and then um classified the following week but we we kind of pull everybody together next week um to do it as a an entire apple valley unified school district family um last week we were notified by um the state of california that we received two pivotal practices um awards one at six sycamore rocks um for their application having to do with maintaining a sense of belonging during the pandemic practices these are considered pivotal practices because they happened during closure but they are things they will continue and so theirs included taking and connecting families back to the school even though they were on distance learning through drive-through events um very successful drive-through events that they are not going to get rid of because we're back in person because they had more families that participated didn't have to necessarily get out of their car and could participate online art fairs and different things that just engaged thousands over the course of the year the district also received a pivotal practice regarding social emotional well-being um having to do with our connection back to our families in the service of nutrition services um one-to-one technology and connected connectivity um all the things that families needed were supplied and if we found out about a situation um that we didn't have knowledge of we went out and took care of it including people delivering food when we now knew that they couldn't get to one of our delivery spots so those were small numbers across the state that received those pivotal practices and um you'll see the banner be attached to our website um because we get to celebrate that last week i was able to attend art attack at rancho verde elementary school it's an annual thing they missed it for two years because of covid but they didn't miss a beat and kids were having a wonderful time for two days we had international day of the child with over 800 people checking in on this property in manning park which when i walked out i said i think we need to expand and it was the first one we've done so mariana torres and the family center group along with avuta and assistance league and just a variety of people that from the community came out to serve our families and offer information books performances from granite hills high school some really incredible things little kids walking away with bikes because they had been donated and that was the best that night i was able to attend granite hills great academy showcase student-led student productions and really incredible things happening there last night there was picnic at mariana academy i don't really believe those were all your families because there were way too many people there the dirt lot across the street was filled but again people being able to come together is absolutely um has been missed over the last two years and it's great to see these things going on again and then after mariana we had dlac here at the district office the district english language advisory committee and we have several families that have committed their time um and energy to support our english learners in this district and um not only do they go through an agenda but at the end last night was the culmination of the year and those that have volunteered their time were provided certificates um longevity awards are going on throughout the district some of the board members have been able to attend those i gave a 40-year pin well it's not a pin a 40-year apple out to somebody yesterday at desert knolls and i just i think of that as the incredible time that that person is spent in this district four years in this district not other places yeah yeah so um and that was an office person it was pretty incredible did you do that to you mr bender i did it yeah i thought i thought i gave you your what 40 how many years 40 42.